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Books like Happy City

Happy City by Charles Montgomery is about urban design, well-being, community. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.

  1. Thinking, Fast and Slow
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    Thinking, Fast and Slow

    Daniel Kahneman · Psychology

    Thinking, Fast and Slow is Daniel Kahneman's account of the two cognitive systems that govern human thought.

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  2. Outliers: The Story of Success
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    Outliers: The Story of Success

    Malcolm Gladwell · Psychology

    Outliers is Malcolm Gladwell's argument that exceptional success is less a product of individual genius or drive than it is of hidden advantages, timing, and accumulated opportunity.

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  3. Why We Sleep
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    Why We Sleep

    Matthew Walker · Science

    Why We Sleep is Matthew Walker's attempt to do for sleep what no amount of public health messaging has managed: make people genuinely afraid of what they're losing.

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  4. A Brief History of Time
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    A Brief History of Time

    Stephen Hawking · Science

    A Brief History of Time is Stephen Hawking's attempt to explain the biggest questions in physics — where the universe came from, how it behaves, and where it might be going — to readers with no scientific training.

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  5. A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
    A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution

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    A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution

    Jennifer A. Doudna and Samuel H. Sternberg · Science

    A Crack in Creation is Jennifer Doudna and Samuel Sternberg's account of how CRISPR-Cas9 works, what it can do, and why its possibilities should give everyone pause.

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  6. A Pattern Language
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    A Pattern Language

    Christopher Alexander · Science

    A Pattern Language is an extraordinary attempt to describe, in systematic form, the conditions that make human habitats feel alive.

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