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Hunter Gatherers (2021) explores the mismatch between our evolutionary tendencies and our modern environments. It outlines how seemingly innocuous aspects of contemporary living are harming us, and stifling our true nature and potential.

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Heather Heying is an American evolutionary biologist specializing in evolutionary ecology and consciousness. Bret Weinstein is an author, academic, and podcaster. He was formerly a professor of biology at Evergreen State College.

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Vaxxers (2021) follows the race to develop a functional vaccine to curb the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Professor Sarah Gilbert and Dr. Catherine Green, of the University of Oxford, deliver captivating and informative insight into the process of designing, testing, and manufacturing the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in record time. They recount exciting moments of innovation, as well as the hurdles faced along the way.

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Dr. Catherine Green is Associate Professor in Chromosome Dynamics at the University of Oxford’s Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics. Along with Professor Gilbert, Dr. Green also worked on developing the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. Though she is the author of numerous research studies, this is her first book.

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Stealing Fire (2017) explores the controversial and exciting pursuit of altered states of consciousness. From tech entrepreneurs to BASE jumpers, meditators to festival-goers, it takes readers on a whirlwind tour of the revolutionary nonconformists trying to change the way they experience the world.

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Steven Kotler is a New York Times best-selling author who specializes in human performance. He’s been nominated for two Pulitzer Prizes and has appeared in over 100 publications, including the Atlantic and the Harvard Business Review. His other books include The Rise of Superman, Bold, and The Art of Impossible.

Jamie Wheal is the founder of the Flow Genome Project, an international organization that researches human performance. He has given talks at Stanford University, Imperial College London, and the United Nations. Wheal is also the author of Recapture the Rapture.

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William von Hippel is an internationally-renowned professor of psychology based at Australia’s University of Queensland. His writing has been featured in the New York Times, the Economist, Le Monde, and the Australian.

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The Great Influenza (2004) is the authoritative history of the 1918 influenza pandemic, estimated to have killed 5 percent of the world’s total human population. Author John M. Barry examines the scientific, social, and political context of the pandemic, questioning the extent to which human error and willful ignorance worsened the terrible consequences of the disease. Coming right on the heels of World War I, the pandemic changed the course of history in ways too numerous, and impactful, to fully reckon with – until now.

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Dr. Michael Osterholm is a world-renowned epidemiologist. He is the founding director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of Minnesota as well as the McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair in Public Health.

Mar Olshaker is a New York Times bestselling writer of both fiction and non-fiction. His previous work on criminal psychology is the basis for the hit television series Mindhunter.

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John Tierney is an award-winning science journalist and author of Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength. His column “Findings” regularly appears in the New York Times.

Roy Baumeister is a social psychologist at the University of Queensland and fellow at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. His wide-ranging research includes work on identity, belonging, and motivation.

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The Rules of Contagion (2020) takes a scientific and mathematical look at how viruses spread, and how ideas, behavior and popular online content all follow similar patterns. By following the rules of contagion, we can gain insight into the spread of ideas, what causes financial disasters, and how harmful acts like gun violence can also infect a community.

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Adam Kucharski is a trained mathematician and associate professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He is also a TED fellow and winner of the 2012 Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize. He is the author of The Perfect Bet (2012), as well as a contributor to Scientific American, Financial Times, and the Observer.

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Adventures in the Anthropocene (2014) explores how humanity has altered the planet so radically in recent decades that a new geological epoch is said to be coming into being – we’re crossing over from the Holocene to the Anthropocene, or the Age of Man. Author Gaia Vince examines what the changes we’ve made really mean for the world. From disappearing islands to urban slums, from Mekong fishermen to ancient nomadic tribes in Kenya, these blinks tell the story of our new relationship with nature and our hopes for the future.

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Gaia Vince is a science writer, journalist, and broadcaster specializing in the environment. She is a former editor of Nature, one of the most renowned scientific journals in the world. Her work has appeared in newspapers and magazines including the Guardian, the Times, Scientific American, and New Scientist. She also writes about science for radio and television, including the BBC.

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Novacene (2019) presents a startling vision of a near-future Earth in which climate change is threatening our existence and artificial intelligence technology has acquired life. The emergence of this new life-form, which will vastly surpass humanity in its intelligence, will mark the beginning of a new age in the history of Earth – an epoch the author calls the Novacene. Extremely ambitious in scope, Novacene shines a spotlight on our particular moment in history and articulates an extraordinary theory about the purpose of the Cosmos and our place in it.

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James Lovelock, who turned 100 years old while writing this book, is lauded as one of the most important environmental thinkers of our time. He’s most notably known for his work on the Gaia hypothesis which, when it was first formulated in the 1970s, revolutionized how science would come to conceive of the relationship between the earth and its inhabitants. Over the course of his life, Lovelock has authored more than 200 scientific papers, and written many books in which he expands on the concept of Gaia including Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth, The Revenge of Gaia, and The Vanishing Face of Gaia.

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