Scott Atran

9 books

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004 by Tim Folger, Steven Pinker

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004

Best American Science & Nature Writing #5

Tim Folger, Steven Pinker with Scott Atran (Contributor), Ronald Bailey (Contributor), Phillip M. Boffey (Contributor), Austin Bunn (Contributor), Jennet Conant (Contributor), Daniel C. Dennett (Contributor), Gregg Easterbrook (Contributor), Garrett G. Fagan (Contributor), Jeffrey M. Friedman (Contributor), Atul Gawande (Contributor), Horace Freeland Judson (Contributor), Geoffrey Nunberg (Contributor), Mike O'Connor (Contributor), Peggy Orenstein (Contributor), Virginia Postrel (Contributor), Jonathan Rauch (Contributor), Chet Raymo (Contributor), Ron Rosenbaum (Contributor), Steve Sailer (Contributor), Robert Sapolsky (Contributor), Eric Scigliano (Contributor), Meredith Small (Contributor), Max Tegmark (Contributor), Nicholas Wade

nonfiction essays nature science informative medium-paced

209 pages | first published 2004

Cognitive Foundations of Natural History: Towards an Anthropology of Science by Scott Atran

Cognitive Foundations of Natural History: Towards an Anthropology of Science

Scott Atran

nonfiction religion science informative reflective medium-paced

376 pages | first published 1990

In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion by Scott Atran

In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion

Scott Atran

nonfiction psychology religion science challenging informative slow-paced

348 pages | first published 2002

The Native Mind and the Cultural Construction of Nature by Scott Atran, Douglas L. Medin

The Native Mind and the Cultural Construction of Nature

Scott Atran, Douglas L. Medin

nonfiction science informative reflective medium-paced

333 pages | first published 2008

Talking to the Enemy: Faith, Brotherhood, and the (Un)Making of Terrorists by Scott Atran

Talking to the Enemy: Faith, Brotherhood, and the (Un)Making of Terrorists

Scott Atran

nonfiction politics religion informative slow-paced

576 pages | first published 2010

This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works by Kevin P. Hand, V.S. Ramachandran, James J. O'Donnell, Carl Zimmer, George Dyson, Andrei D. Linde, Jonathan Gottschall, John Brockman, Richard H. Thaler, Armand Marie Leroi, Gino Segrè, Judith Rich Harris, A.C. Grayling, Thomas Metzinger, Aubrey de Grey, Satyajit Das, Sean Carroll, Jennifer Jacquet, Richard Dawkins, David G. Myers, Paul Saffo, Hugo Mercier, Susan Blackmore, Freeman Dyson, Matt Ridley, Robert R. Provine, Martin J. Rees, David Eagleman, Jeremy Bernstein, Frank Wilczek, Max Tegmark, Robert M. Sapolsky, Joel Gold, Mahzarin Banaji, Daniel C. Dennett, Carlo Rovelli, Steven Pinker, Paul J. Steinhardt, Clay Shirky, David M. Buss, Shing-Tung Yau, Dan Sperber, Scott Atran, Anton Zeilinger, Alan Alda, Gerd Gigerenzer, Stewart Brand, Haim Harari, Howard Gardner, Leonard Susskind, Rebecca Goldstein

This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works

Edge Question

Kevin P. Hand, V.S. Ramachandran, James J. O'Donnell, Carl Zimmer, George Dyson, Andrei D. Linde, Jonathan Gottschall, John Brockman, Richard H. Thaler, Armand Marie Leroi, Gino Segrè, Judith Rich Harris, A.C. Grayling, Thomas Metzinger, Aubrey de Grey, Satyajit Das, Sean Carroll, Jennifer Jacquet, Richard Dawkins, David G. Myers, Paul Saffo, Hugo Mercier, Susan Blackmore, Freeman Dyson, Matt Ridley, Robert R. Provine, Martin J. Rees, David Eagleman, Jeremy Bernstein, Frank Wilczek, Max Tegmark, Robert M. Sapolsky, Joel Gold, Mahzarin Banaji, Daniel C. Dennett, Carlo Rovelli, Steven Pinker, Paul J. Steinhardt, Clay Shirky, David M. Buss, Shing-Tung Yau, Dan Sperber, Scott Atran, Anton Zeilinger, Alan Alda, Gerd Gigerenzer, Stewart Brand, Haim Harari, Howard Gardner, Leonard Susskind, Rebecca Goldstein

nonfiction philosophy psychology science challenging informative reflective slow-paced

411 pages | first published 2013

Plants of the Petén Itza' Maya, Volume 38: Plantas de Los Maya Itza' del Petén by Edilberto Ucan Ek', Ximena Lois, Scott Atran

Plants of the Petén Itza' Maya, Volume 38: Plantas de Los Maya Itza' del Petén

Memoirs

Edilberto Ucan Ek', Ximena Lois, Scott Atran

nonfiction science informative reflective medium-paced

248 pages

Talking to the Enemy: Violent Extremism, Sacred Values, and What It Means to Be Human by Scott Atran

Talking to the Enemy: Violent Extremism, Sacred Values, and What It Means to Be Human

Scott Atran

nonfiction politics religion informative reflective slow-paced

558 pages | first published 2010

Values, Empathy, and Fairness Across Social Barriers (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences) by Arcadi Navarro, Oscar Vilarroya, Adolf Tobeña, Scott Atran, Kevin Ochsner

Values, Empathy, and Fairness Across Social Barriers (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences)

Arcadi Navarro, Oscar Vilarroya, Adolf Tobeña, Scott Atran, Kevin Ochsner

informative reflective medium-paced

241 pages | first published 2009
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