Seeking recs for awesome books that are between pop-accessibility and full-blown academia, and will still be interesting for someone who pays medium attention to current research.
For reference I liked GEB and Sapiens, but didn't like the Madness of Crowds or Jed McKenna
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i am.... an idiot. i actually wasn't a huge fan of sapiens, I meant to say the Selfish Gene. I get the two books mixed up constantly because they both start with S
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Still too pop for me? Or at least I'm already roughly familiar with the topic so it wasn't like 'oh damn' every page it was like 'oh yeah i heard about that'
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I'm a big fan of *The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life* by and :
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The Language Instinct (Dawkins)
Guns Germs and Steel (Diamond)
The Elegant Universe (Greene)
Steve Jobs (Isaacson)
Come As You Are (Nagoski)
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Thoroughly explains why American cities are the way they are
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