30 Nonfiction Books That Are Sure to Make You Smarter

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What You Should Know About Politics But Don't: A Nonpartisan Guide to the Issues (2008) por Jessamyn Conrad
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (1997) por Jared Diamond
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (2012) por Charles Duhigg
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (2006) por Carol S. Dweck
Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders (2016) por Joshua Foer
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (2011) por Joshua Foer
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness (2016) por Peter Godfrey-Smith
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011) por Yuval Noah Harari
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes (1988) por Stephen Hawking
Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011) por Daniel Kahneman
The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind (2014) por Michio Kaku
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (2016) por Ibram X. Kendi
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (2014) por Elizabeth Kolbert
This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession (2006) por Daniel J. Levitin
Think Like a Freak (2014) por Steven D. Levitt
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (2015) por Tim Marshall
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World (2013) por Mark Miodownik
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (2010) por Siddhartha Mukherjee
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (2014) por Randall Munroe
A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra) (2014) por Barbara Oakley
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (2006) por Michael Pollan
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (2013) por Mary Roach
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (1970) por Oliver Sacks
Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error (2010) por Kathryn Schulz
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race (2016) por Margot Lee Shetterly
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don't (2012) por Nate Silver
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (2003) por Lynne Truss
Astrofísica para Gente com Pressa (2017) por Neil deGrasse Tyson
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? (2016) por Frans de Waal
Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat (2012) por Bee Wilson

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