Ryan rated Cat's Cradle: 4 stars
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
One of Vonnegut's major works, a young writer decides to interview the children of a scientist primarily responsible for the …
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Ryan rated Weapons of Math Destruction: 4 stars
Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil
A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life — and threaten to …
Ryan rated Permanent record: 5 stars
Permanent record by Esther Cruz Santaella, Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first …
Spillover by David Quammen
This work examines the emergence and causes of new diseases all over the world, describing a process called "spillover" where …
Ryan rated The molecule of more: 4 stars
The molecule of more by Daniel Z. Lieberman
Why are we obsessed with the things we want only to be bored when we get them? Why is addiction …
Ryan rated The disordered mind: 4 stars
The disordered mind by Eric R. Kandel
Eric R. Kandel, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his foundational research into memory storage …
Ryan rated Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain: 4 stars
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind …
Ryan rated The man who mistook his wife for a hat: 4 stars
The man who mistook his wife for a hat by Oliver Sacks
In his most extraordinary book, “one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century” (The New York Times) recounts …
Ryan rated Hallucinations: 4 stars
Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks
Have you ever seen something that wasn't really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone …
Ryan rated On the Move: A Life: 5 stars
On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks
On the Move: A Life is the second autobiography written by Oliver Sacks in 2015.
Ryan rated The river of consciousness: 4 stars
The river of consciousness by Oliver Sacks
"Two weeks before his death, Oliver Sacks outlined the contents of The River of Consciousness, the last book he would …
Ryan rated The Island Of The Colorblind And Cycad Island: 3 stars
The Island Of The Colorblind And Cycad Island by Oliver Sacks
The Island of the Colorblind is a 1997 book by neurologist Oliver Sacks about achromatopsia on the Micronesian atoll of …
Ryan rated The perpetual now: 4 stars
The perpetual now by Michael Lemonick
"In the aftermath of a shattering illness, Lonni Sue Johnson lives in a "perpetual now," where she has almost no …