 | Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $15.00 Learn why some societies are successful and others arent - hint: the natural environment matters immensely. An amazing accumulation of information.
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 | The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology by Robert Wright
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $2.95 Learn about how evolution creates human behavioral predispositions. The best way to reach "human nature"
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 | Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science by Alan Sokal
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $5.08 Learn about a great threat to scientific understanding: the forces of irrationalist and relativist thinking known as postmodernism.
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 | God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist by Victor J. Stenger
Buy new: $16.30 / Used from: $9.44 The more we learn about the natural world, the most we see it was probably not designed. This book nicely brings together the evidence.
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 | The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design by Richard Dawkins
Buy new: $13.72 / Used from: $8.95 Evolution is the central tenet to modern biology. Learn with this book how life on earth only makes sense when seen through the lens of darwinian evolution. It gives you a new set of eyes.
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 | Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time by Michael Shermer
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $5.02 This world is full of people searching for truth - with a stunningly small number of people going down the right track. This book catalogues failures in thinking that take people the wrong way.
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 | The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $5.69 Explains the possible nature of reality in easy to understand language.
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 | The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $7.44 Science is the best truth-finder we have, though its conclusions are never ironclad. Learn how science happens with this book.
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 | A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $7.13 This fun book stirs a sense of awe at the natural world. Informative and well-written.
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 | Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $3.51 A controversial book where famed Harvard biologist says that hard sciences will one-day meld together and perhaps even consume the social sciences and humanities.
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