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Life, Social, Cognitive and Technology Sciences

I don't know where else to keep the list of books that I thought were worth reading, so I'll just maintain it here. (I really appreciate receiving recommendations for other good work on these topics.)

Cognition and the brain

Sacks (85) The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. Simon & Schuster.
Pinker (94) The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language. Harper-Perennial.
Damasio (94) Descarte's Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain. Avon.
Sacks (95) An Anthropologist on Mars. Vintage Books.
Dehaene (97) The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics. Oxford.
Pinker (97) How the Mind Works. W.W. Norton.
Deacon (97) The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain. W.W. Norton.
Gopnik, Meltzoff, Kuhl (99) The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind. Perennial.
Damasio (99) The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness. Harcourt Brace.
Pinker (99) Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language. Harper-Perennial.
Lakoff, Johnson (99) Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought. Basic Books.
Lakoff, Nunez (00) Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being. Basic Books.
Miller (01) The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature. Vintage.
Pinker (02) The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature. Penguin Putnam.
Damasio (03) Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain. Harvest Books.
Baum (04) What is Thought? MIT Press.
Hawkins (04) On Intelligence. Times Books.
Haidt (05) The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom. Basic Books.
de Waal (06) Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved. Princeton.
Kandel (06) In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind. Norton.
Gilbert (06) Stumbling on Happiness. Vintage.
Gigerenzer (07) Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious. Viking.
Pinker (07) The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature. Viking.
Frith (07) Making Up the Mind: How the Brain Creates our Mental World. Blackwell.
Doidge (07) The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science. Penguin.
Linden (07) The Accidental Mind. Belknap.
Ariely (08) Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions. Harper.
Gopnik (09) The Philosophical Baby: What Children's Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life. Farrar, Straus, Giroux.
Boyd (09) The Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction. Belknap.
Dehaene (09) Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of Human Invention. Viking.
Ariely (10) The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home. Harper.
Damasio (10) The Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain. Pantheon.
Ramachandran (11) The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientists Quest for What Makes Us Human. Norton.
Kahneman (11) Thinking Fast and Slow. Doubleday.
Kurzweil (12) How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed. Viking.
Dehaene (14) Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts. Viking.
Godfrey-Smith (16) Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Sigman (17) The Secret Life of the Mind: How Your Brain Thinks, Feels, and Decides. Little, Brown.
Mercier, Sperber (17) The Enigma of Reason. Harvard.

Social science, history, technology

Saul (92) Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West. Penguin.
Fukuyama (92) The End of History and the Last Man. Perennial.
Diamond (99) Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. W.W. Norton.
McClellan, Dorn (99) Science and Technology in World History: An Introduction. Johns Hopkins.
Kurzweil (99) The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence. Penguin.
Wright (00) Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny. Vintage.
Bryson (03) A Short History of Nearly Everything. Broadway.
Barabasi (03) Linked: How Everything is Connected to Everything Else and What it Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life. Plume.
Wright (04) A Short History of Progress. Anansi.
Diamond (05) Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. Viking.
Kurzweil (05) The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology. Penguin.
Beinhocker (06) The Origin of Wealth: The Radical Remaking of Economics and What It Means for Society. Harvard.
Taleb (07) The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. Random House.
Hamel (07) The Future of Management. HBS Press.
Ferguson (08) The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World. Penguin.
Carr (09) The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google. Norton.
Pink (09) Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. Riverhead.
Fried & Hansson (10) Rework. Crown.
Johnson (10) Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation. Riverhead.
Carr (11) The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains. Norton.
Ridley (11) The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves. Harper.
Fukuyama (11) The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Lehrer (12) Imagine: How Creativity Works. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Sherman (12) The Curiosity of School: Education and the Dark Side of Enlightenment. Viking.
Taleb (12) Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder. Random House.
Lanier (13) Who Owns the Future? Simon & Schuster.
Harari (14) Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. McClelland & Stewart.
Piketty (14) Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Belknap.
Fukuyama (14) Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Harari (15) Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow. McClelland & Stewart.
Smil (17) Energy and Civilization: A History. MIT Press.

Evolution and life

Smith (77) The Behavior of Communicating: An Ethological Approach. Harvard.
Gould (89) Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History. Norton.
Kauffman (93) The Origins of Order: Self-organization and Selection in Evolution. Oxford.
Dennett (95) Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life. Simon & Schuster.
Hauser (96) The Evolution of Communication. MIT Press.
Smith, Szathmary (99) The Origins of Life. Oxford.
Tudge (00) The Variety of Life. Oxford.
Grand (00) Creation: Life and How to Make It. Harvard.
Kauffman (00) Investigations. Oxford.
Dawkins (04) The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life. Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
Kirschner, Gerhart (05) The Plausibility of Life. Yale.
Carroll (05) Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo. Norton.
Nowak (06) Evolutionary Dynamics: Exploring the Equations of Life. Belknap.
Wilson (07) Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives. Delta.
Zimmer (08) Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life. Pantheon.
Mukherjee (10) The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. Scribner.
Valiant (13) Probably Approximately Correct: Nature's Algorithms for Learning and Prospering in a Complex World. Basic Books.
Lane (15) The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life. Norton.

Someday I'll figure out where I'm going with all of this ...