Book Notes We’ve Done
– Confidence: Overcoming Low Self-Esteem, Insecurity, and Self-Doubt by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic Ph.D. (Book Notes)
– The Charisma Myth by Olivia Fox Cabane (Book Notes)
– Choke: The Science of Performing Under Pressure by Sian Beilock Ph.D. (Book Notes)
More Books
Aggression, Violence and Male-Male Competition
– Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence by Dale Peterson and Richard Wrangham
– Homicide (Foundations of Human Behavior) by Martin Daly and Margo Winston
– War in Human Civilization by Azar Gat
– War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage by Lawrence H. Keeley
Animal Mating and Behavior
– Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation: The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex by Olivia Judson
– Animal Behavior: An Evolutionary Approach, 8th Edition by John Alcock
– Primate Sexuality: Comparative Studies of the Prosimians, Monkeys, Apes, and Human Beings by Alan F. Dixson
– Primate Behavioral Ecology (2nd Edition) by Karen B Strier
Art and Mating
– The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution by Denis Dutton
– Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia
– Venus in Exile: The Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-Century Art by Wendy Steiner
– Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton
– The Biological Origins of Art by Nancy E. Aiken
– Biopoetics: Evolution Explorations in the Arts by Brett Cooke
– Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes From and Why by Ellen Dissanayake
– Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation by E.H. Gombrich
– A Sense of Order: A Study in the Psychology of Decorative Art by E.H. Gombrich
– The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work by Germaine Greer
– The Evolution of Allure: Sexual Selection from the Medici Venus to the Incredible Hulk by George L Hersey
– Monkey Painting by Thierry Lenain
– Beauty: The Value of Values by Frederick Turner
Careers and Work
– Selling the Work Ethic: From Puritan Pulpit to Corporate PR by Sharon Beder
– Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass by Theodore Dalrymple
– Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
– Choosing the Right Pond: Human Behavior and the Quest for Status by Robert H. Frank
– The Winner-Take-All Society: Why the Few at the Top Get So Much More Than the Rest of Us by Robert H. Frank & Philip J. Cook
– Just for the Money? What Really Motivates Us at Work by Adrian Furnham
– Uniforms: Why We Are What We Wear by Paul Fussell
– My Job, My Self: Work and the Creation of the Modern Individual by Al Gini
– The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling by Arlie Hochschild
– The Pyramid Climbers by Vance Oakley Packard
– Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It: the Results-Only Revolution by Cali Ressler & Jody Thompson
– The overworked American: The unexpected decline of leisure by Juliet Schor
– The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism by Richard Sennett
Consumerism, Mating and Status
– Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior by Geoffrey Miller
– The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power by Joel Bakan
– Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There by David Brooks
– The Natural History of the Rich: A Field Guide by Richard Conniff
– Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic by John de Graaf, David Wann & Thomas H. Naylor
– Luxury Fever: Weighing the Cost of Excess by Robert H. Frank
– The Economic Naturalist: In Search of Explanations for Everyday Enigmas by Robert H. Frank
– The Affluent Society by John K. Galbraith
– Snoop: What your Stuff Says About You by Sam Gosling
– Consuming the Romantic Utopia: Love and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism by Eva Illouz
– One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding by Rebecca Mead
– The Waste Makers by Vance Packard
– The Evolutionary Bases of Consumption (Marketing and Consumer Psychology Series) by Gad Saad
– The Paradox of choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz
– Made To Break: Technology and Obsolescence In America by Giles Slade
– The Millionaire Mind by Thomas J. Stanley
– Lead Us Into Temptation by James B. Twitchell
– The Theory of The Leisure Class: An Economic Study In the Evolution of Instiutions by Thorstein Veblen
– Buying In: What We Buy and Who We Are by Rob Walker
– Understanding Capitalism: Competition, Command, and Change by Samuel Bowles, Richard Edwards & Frank Roosevelt
– The Economy of Prestige: Prizes, Awards, and the Circulation of Cultural Value by James F. English
– Psychology and Consumer Culture: The Struggle for a Good Life in a Materialistic World by Tim Kasser & Allen D. Kanner
– The Consumer Society Reader: An Anthology by Juliet B. Schor & D.B. Holt
Creativity and Mating
– Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament by Kay Redfield Jamison
– Strong Imagination: Madness, Creativity and Human Nature by Daniel Nettle
– Genius: The Natural History of Creativity (Problems in the Behavioural Sciences) by H.J. Eysenck
– Origins of Genius: Darwinian Perspectives on Creativity by Dean Keith Simonton
Darwinian History and Mating Patterns
– A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World (Princeton Economic History of the Western World) by Gregory Clark
– Despotism and Differential Reproduction: A Darwinian View of History by Laura L. Betzig
– Bronze Age Economics: The Beginnings of Political Economies by Timothy Earle
– Genes, Memes and Human History: Darwinian Archaeology and Cultural Evolution by Stephen Shennan
Economics as a Context for Mating
– The Progess Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse by Gregg Easterbrook
– The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good by Robert H. Frank
– Happiness: A Revolution in Economics (Munich Lectures in Economics) by Bruno S. Frey
– Credit Card Nation: The Consequences of America’s Addiction to Credit by Robert D. Manning
– Reinventing the Bazaar: A Natural History of Markets by John McMillan
– The Greatest Inventions of the Last 2,000 Years by John Brockman
– The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life (Revised Edition) by Paul Seabright
– The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics by Michael Shermer
– One World: The Ethics of Globalization (The Terry Lectures) by Peter Singer
Education and Credentials
– Primates in the Classroom: An Evolutionary Perspective on Children’s Education by J. Gary Berhard
– Universities in the Marketplace: The Commericalization of Higher Education by Derek Bok
– How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation (Cultural Front) by Marc Bousquet
– Degree Mills: The Billion-Dollar Industry That Has Sold Over A Million Fake Diplomas by John Bear & Allen Ezell
– The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale , and Princeton by Jerome Karabel
– Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America’s Schools Back to Reality by Charles Murray
– Admission Matters: What Students and Parents Need to Know About Getting Into College by Sally P. Springer, Jon Reider & Marion R. Franck
– Does Education Matter?: Myths About Education and Economic Growth (Penguin Business) by Alison Wolf
– The Higher Learning in America: A Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities By Business Men (Classic Reprint) by Thorstein Veblen
Emotions in Mating
– Emotion: The Science of Sentiment by Dylan Evans
– Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love by Helen Fisher
Evolution: How it Works
– The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
– The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science) by Richard Dawkins
– The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design by Richard Dawkins
– The Ancestor’s Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution by Richard Dawkins
– Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin’s Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives by David Sloan Wilson
– The Cooperative Gene: How Mendel’s Demon Explains the Evolution of Complex Beings by Mark Ridley
– The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution by Sean B. Carroll
– Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea by Carl Zimmer
– Evolution by Mark Ridley
– Evolutionary Biology by Douglas J. Futuyama
– Sexual Conflict: (Monographs in Behavior and Ecology by Goran Arnqvist & Locke Rowe
– Evolutionary Dynamics: Exploring the Equations of Life by Martin A. Nowak
– Why Most things Fail: Evolution, Extinction and Economics by Paul Ormerod
Evolutionary Psychology and Human Mating
– The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature by Geoffrey Miller
– Dangerous Passion: Why Jealousy Is As Necessary As Love And Sex by David M. Buss
– The evolution of desire: Strategies of human mating by David M. Buss
– The murderer next door: Why the mind is designed to kill by David M. Buss
– Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind (4th Edition) by David M. Buss
– Mating intelligence: Sex, relationships, and the mind’s reproductive system by Glen Geher & Geoffrey Miller
– The handbook of evolutionary psychology by David M. Buss
– A mind of her own: The evolutionary psychology of women by Anne Campbell
– Oxford handbook of evolutionary psychology (Oxford Library of Psychology) by Robin Dunbar & Louise Barrett
– The Evolution of Mind: Fundamental Questions and Controversies by Steven W. Gangestad & Jeffry A. Simpson
– Evolutionary psychology: A beginner’s guide by Robin Dunbar, Louise Barrett, & John Lycett
– Foundations of evolutionary psychology by Charles Crawford & Dennis Krebs
– Handbook of the evolution of human sexuality by Michael R. Kauth
– The evolutionary biology of human female sexuality by Randy Thornhill
– A natural history of rape: Biological bases of sexual coercion by Randy Thornhill & Craig T. Palmer
– The handbook of evolutionary psychology by David M. Buss
Female Orgasm: Origins, Functions and Triggers
– The case of the female orgasm: Bias in the science of evolution by Elisabeth A. Lloyd
Food, Diet and Nutrition
– Food fight: The inside story of the food industry, America’s obesity crisis, and what we can do about it by Kelly Brownell & Katherine Battle Horgen
– In praise of slowness: Challenging the cult of speed by Carl Honoré
– Food politics: How the food industry influences nutrition and health (California Studies in Food and Culture) by Marion Nestle
– The omnivore’s dilemma: A natural history of four meals by Michael Pollan
– Fast food nation: The dark side of the all-American meal by Eric Schlosser
– Mindless eating: Why we eat more than we think by Brian Wansink
– Meat-eating and human evolution (Human Evolution Series) by Craig B. Stanford & Henry T. Bunn
Future Developments in Mating and Human Civilization
– The singularity is near: When humans transcend biology by Ray Kurzweil
– What is your dangerous idea?: Today’s Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable by John Brockman
Game Theory, Social Interaction and Mating Strategies
– The origins of virtue by Matt Ridley
– Behavioral game theory: Experiments in strategic interaction (Roundtable Series in Behavioral Economics) by Colin F. Camerer
– Evolution of the social contract by Brian Skyrms
– Evolutionary game theory, natural selection, and Darwinian dynamics by Thomas L. Vincent & Joel S. Brown
Genetic Traits and Behaviors
– Born Together – Reared Apart: The Landmark Minnesota Twin Study by Nancy Segal
– Someone Else’s Twin: The True Story of Babies Switched at Birth by Nancy Segal
– Indivisible by Two: Lives of Extraordinary Twins by Nancy Segal
– Entwined Lives: Twins and What They Tell Us About Human Behavior by Nancy Segal
– Behavioral genetics (5th Ed.) by Robert Plomin,John C. DeFries, Gerald E. McClearn, and Peter McGuffin
– Human Genetics for the Social Sciences (Advanced Psychology Text Series) by Gregory Carey
– Evolutionary Genomics and Proteomics by Mark Pagel & Andrew Pomiankowski
Prehistoric Human Evolution
– The Gap: The Science of What Separates Us From Other Animals by Thomas Suddendorf
– How humans evolved (4th Ed.) by Robert Boyd & Joan B. Silk
– The human story: A new history of mankind’s evolution by Robin Dunbar
– On Fertile Ground: A Natural History of Human Reproduction by Peter T. Ellison
– Primate Psychology (New Ed.) by Dario Maestripieri
Recent Human Evolution
– The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution by Gregory Cochran
– Human Evolutionary Genetics: Origins, Peoples and Disease by Mark A. Jobling , Matthew Hurles, and Chris Tyler-Smith
Human Nature
– The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
– The Triumph of Sociobiology by John Alcock
– The Cultural Animal: Human Nature, Meaning, and Social Life by Roy F. Baumeister
– Human Nature: A Critical Reader by Laura Betzig
– The Origin and Evolution of Cultures (Evolution and Cognition) by Robert Boyd & Peter J. Richerson
– Human Nature After Darwin: A Philosophical Introduction (Philosophy and the Human Situation) by Janet Radcliffe Richards
– Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution by Peter J. Richerson & Robert Boyd
– The Psychological Foundations of Culture by Mark Schaller & Christian S. Crandall
– Defenders of the Truth: The Battle for Science in the Sociobiology Debate and Beyond by Ullica Segerstrale
– Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind by Matthew M. Hurley, Daniel C. Dennett, and Reginald B. Adams Jr.
Humor
– Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life by Steve Martin
– The Psychology of Humor: An Integrative Approach by Rod A. Martin
– Laughter: A Scientific Investigation by Robert R. Provine
Intelligence
– Intelligence: A Very Short Introduction by Ian J. Deary
– Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life (A Free Press Paperbacks Book) by Richard J. Herrnstein & Charles Murray
– A Lifetime of Intelligence: Follow-up Studies of the Scottish Mental Surveys of 1932 and 1947 by Ian J. Deary, Lawrence J. Whalley, and John M. Starr
– Intellectual Virtue: Perspectives from Ethics and Epistemology by Michael DePaul & Linda Zagzebski
– Origin of Mind: Evolution of Brain, Cognition, and General Intelligence by David C. Geary
– Mating Intelligence: Sex, Relationships, and the Mind’s Reproductive System by Glenn Geher & Geoffrey Miller
– The g Factor: The Science of Mental Ability (Human Evolution, Behavior, and Intelligence) by Arthur R. Jensen
– IQ and Global Inequality by Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen
– The Evolution of Intelligence by Robert J. Sternberg & James C. Kaufman
Jealous, Infidelity and Cheating
– The Dangerous Passion: Why Jealousy Is as Necessary as Love and Sex by David M. Buss
Language and Verbal Courtship
– The Big Questions in Science by Harriet Swain
– The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (P.S.) by Steven Pinker
– Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language by Robin Dunbar
– The Talking Ape: How Language Evolved (Studies in the Evolution of Language) by Robbins Burling
– Why We Talk: The Evolutionary Origins of Language (Studies in the Evolution of Language) by Jean-Louis Dessalles
– The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative (Rethinking Theory) by Jonathan Gottschall, David Sloan Wilson, E.O. Wilson, and Frederick C. Crews
Life Stages
– The Evolution of Childhood: Relationships, Emotion, Mind by Melvin Konner
– Evolutionary Principles Of Human Adolescence (Lives in Context) by Glenn Weisfeld
Mating Intelligence
– Mating Intelligence: Sex, Relationships, and the Mind’s Reproductive System by Glen Geher & Geoffrey Miller
Media, Pop Culture and Ideology
– The Engineering of Consent by E. L. Bernays & Howard Walden Cutler
– Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky
– A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America by Lizabeth Cohen
– In Praise of Commercial Culture by Tyler Cowen
– The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism by Thomas Frank
– Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today’s Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter by Steven Johnson
– No logo by Naomi Klein
– The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
– Coercion: Why We Listen to What “They” Say by Douglas Rushkoff
– Branded Nation: The Marketing of Megachurch, College Inc., and Museumworld by James B. Twitchell
– Sex in Consumer Culture: The Erotic Content of Media and Marketing (Routledge Communication Series) by Tom Reichert & Jacqueline Lambiase
Mental Health and Illness
– Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us by Robert D. Hare
– This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking by John Brockman
– Strong Imagination: Madness, Creativity and Human Nature by Daniel Nettle
– Maladapting Minds: Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Evolutionary Theory (International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry) by Pieter R. Adriaens & Andreas De Block
Monogamy
– The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People by David P. Barash & Judith Eve Lipton
– Monogamy: Mating Strategies and Partnerships in Birds, Humans and Other Mammals by Ulrich H. Reichard & Christophe Boesch
Moral Psychology, Political Attitudes and Mating
– The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion (Vintage) by Jonathan Haidt
– The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation by Matt Ridley
– Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein
– Moral and Epistemic Virtues by Michael Brady & Duncan Pritchard
– Evolutionary Psychology, Public Policy and Personal Decisions by Charles Crawford
– Evolution and the Capacity for Commitment (Russell Sage Foundation Series on Trust, V. 3) by Randolph M. Nesse
– Human Evolution, Reproduction, and Morality by Lewis Petrinovich
– Darwinian Politics: The Evolutionary Origin of Freedom by Paul H. Rubin
– Human Nature and Public Policy: An Evolutionary Approach by Albert Somit & Steven A. Peterson
– Moral Psychology, The Evolution of Morality: Adaptations and Innateness, Vol. 1 by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
Motherhood and Female Reproduction
– Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species by Sarah Hrdy
Music and Mating
– How Music Works by David Byrne
– This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin
– Guitar Zero: The Science of Becoming Musical at Any Age by Gary Marcus
– The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body by Steven Mithen
– Bird Song: Biological Themes and Variations by C. K. Catchpole & P. J. B. Slater
– The Study of Ethnomusicology: Thirty-one Issues and Concepts, 2nd Edition by Bruno Nettl
Mutation Load and Genetic Fitness
– Eros and Evolution: A Natural Philosophy of Sex (Helix Books) by Richard E. Michod
– Mendel’s demon: Gene justice and the complexity of life by Mark Ridley
Personality Traits and Mating
– Personality: What Makes You the Way You Are by Daniel Nettle
– Biology of Personality and Individual Differences by Turhan Canli
– The Personality Puzzle (Fourth Edition) by David C. Funder
– Handbook of Personality, Third Edition: Theory and Research by Oliver P. John, Richard W. Robins, and Lawrence A. Pervin
– Personality Traits (2nd Ed.) by Gerald Matthews, Ian J. Deary, and Martha C. Whiteman
– The Evolution of Personality and Individual Differences by David M. Buss & Patricia H. Hawley
Philosophy and Mating
– The Will to Power by Nietzsche, F. (Trans. by Walter Kaufmann and R.J. Hollingdale)
Pick Up Artists
– The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists by Neil Strauss
Physical Attractiveness
– Skin: A Natural History by Nina G. Jablonski
– Beauty Junkies: Inside Our $15 Billion Obsession With Cosmetic Surgery by Alex Kuczynski
– Bodywatching: A Field Guide to the Human Species by Desmond Morris
– Hope in a Jar: The Making of America’s Beauty Culture by Kathy Peiss
– In Your Face: The new science of human attraction by David Perrett
– Facial Attractiveness: Evolutionary, Cognitive, and Social Perspectives (Advances in Visual Cognition, V. 1) by Gillian Rhodes & Leslie A. Zebrowitz
Physical Fitness, Health and Exercise
– Ultimate Fitness: The Quest for Truth about Health and Exercise by Gina Kolata
– Evolution in Health and Disease (2nd Ed.) by Stephen C. Stearns & Jacob C. Koella
Polyamory
– Swinging for Beginners: An Introduction to the Lifestyle by Kaye Bellemeade
– Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality by Christopher Ryan & Cacilda Jethá
– The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships & Other Adventures by Dossie Easton
Promiscuity
– Promiscuity: An Evolutionary History of Sperm Competition by Tim Birkhead
Religion, Evolution and Mating
– Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society by David Sloan Wilson
Sex Differences
– The Essential Difference: Male And Female Brains And The Truth About Autism by Simon Baron-Cohen
– Biology at Work: Rethinking Sexual Equality (Rutgers Series on Human Evolution) by Kingsley R. Browne
– Sex, Power, Conflict: Evolutionary and Feminist Perspectives by David M. Buss & Neil M. Malamuth
– Sex Differences: Summarizing More than a Century of Scientific Research by Lee Ellis
– Male, Female: The Evolution of Human Sex Differences by David C. Geary
– Sex Differences: Developmental and Evolutionary Strategies by Linda Mealey
Sex Workers
– Stripped: Inside the Lives of Exotic Dancers by Bernadette C. Barton
– Lapdancer by Juliana Beasley
Sexual Selection
– The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin
Skill Building and Practical Intelligence
– The Instinct of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts by Thorstein Veblen
Signalling Theory
– The Handicap Principle: A Missing Piece of Darwin’s Puzzle by Amotz Zahavi & Avishag Zahavi
– Principles of Animal Communication, Second Edition by Jack W. Bradbury & Sandra L. Vehrencamp
– The Design of Animal Communication (Bradford Books) by Marc D. Hauser & Mark Konishi
– Animal Signals (Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution) by John Maynard-Smith & David Harper
– Communication Games: The Semiotic Foundation of Culture by Eduardo Neiva
– The Evolution of Animal Communication: Reliability and Deception in Signaling Systems by William A. Searcy & Stephen Nowicki
Social and Emotional Intelligence
– Social Intelligence: From Brain to Culture by Nathan Emery, Nicola Clayton, and Christopher Frith
Social Psychology Relevant to Mating
– Influence: Science and Practice (5th Edition) by Robert Cialdini
– First Impressions by Nalini Ambady & John J. Skowronski
– Social Cognition: From Brains to Culture by Susan Fiske & Shelley E. Taylor
– Evolution and Social Psychology (Frontiers of Social Psychology) by Mark Schaller, Jeffry A. Simpson, and Douglas T. Kenrick
Status, Power, Prestige and Fame
– Status Anxiety by Alain De Botton
– Richistan: A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich by Robert L. Frank
– Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making by David Rothkopf
– The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki
– Missing the Revolution: Darwinism for Social Scientists by Jerome H. Barkow
– Meritocracy and Economic Inequality by Kenneth Arrow, Samuel Bowles, and Steven N. Durlauf
– Hierarchy in the Forest: The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior by Christopher Boehm
– The Economy of Prestige: Prizes, Awards, and the Circulation of Cultural Value by James F. English
What Women Want
– Why Women Have Sex: Women Reveal the Truth About Their Sex Lives, from Adventure to Revenge (and Everything in Between) by Cindy M. Meston & David M. Buss
– Woman: An intimate geography by Natalie Angier
– A Mind of Her Own: The Evolutionary Psychology of Women by Anne Campbell
– The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued by Ann Crittenden
– Warrior Lovers: Erotic Fiction, Evolution and Female Sexuality by Catherine Symons & Donald Symons
Where to Live
– The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World by Eric Weiner
