Margarida Cardoso-Moreira - Recommended Books

Outside of work my biggest pleasure is to read about politics, history, philosophy, and, of course, science and its history.

Only a minority of the books I read end up being somewhat related to my work, but some of these are on this page.

If you are curious about the rest you can check my Goodreads page.

Biology

Cover of book 'In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind'

Cover of book 'Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind'

Cover of book 'The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer'

Cover of book 'Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior'

Cover of book 'I, Mammal: The Story of What Makes Us Mammals'

Cover of book 'Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?'

Cover of book 'Life's Vital Link: The Astonishing Role of the Placenta'

Cover of book 'Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin'

Cover of book 'The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science'

Cover of book 'Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past'

Cover of book 'The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease'

Cover of book 'The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life'

Cover of book 'A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons'

Cover of book 'Once We All Had Gills: Growing Up Evolutionist in an Evolving World'

Cover of book 'Spillover: Emerging Diseases, Animal Hosts, and the Future of Human Health'

Cover of book 'Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain'

Cover of book 'Homology, Genes, and Evolutionary Innovation'

Cover of book 'The Origin of Species'

Cover of book 'The Origins of Theoretical Population Genetics: With a New Afterword'

Cover of book 'The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology'

Cover of book 'She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity'

Science

Cover of book 'The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality'

Cover of book 'Reality is Not What it Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity'

Cover of book 'Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil'

Cover of book 'Thinking, Fast and Slow'

Cover of book 'The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography'

Cover of book 'Einstein in Berlin'

Cover of book 'The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't'

Cover of book 'Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming'

Cover of book 'Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages'

Cover of book 'The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution'

Cover of book 'How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking'

Cover of book 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales'

Cover of book 'Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error'

Cover of book 'The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist'

Cover of book 'Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray'

History/Politics

Cover of book 'Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017'

Cover of book 'Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin'

Cover of book 'Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln'

Cover of book 'SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome'

Cover of book 'Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945'

Cover of book 'Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America'

Cover of book 'The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation'

Cover of book 'East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity'

Cover of book 'Thinking the Twentieth Century'

Cover of book 'Ill Fares the Land'

Cover of book 'The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914'

Cover of book 'Gorbachev'

Cover of book 'Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom'

Cover of book 'Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS'

Cover of book 'Why?: Explaining the Holocaust'

Cover of book 'The Arabs: A History'

Cover of book 'Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention'

Cover of book 'The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution'

Cover of book 'The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence'

Philosophy

Cover of book 'Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?'

Cover of book 'Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century'

Cover of book 'The Dream of Reason: A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance'

Cover of book 'The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy'

Cover of book 'Causing Death and Saving Lives'

Cover of book 'Choosing Children: Genes, Disability, and Design'

Cover of book 'Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away'

Cover of book 'European Intellectual History from Rousseau to Nietzsche'

Cover of book 'What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets'

Other

Cover of book 'The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires'

Cover of book 'The Story of Art'

Cover of book 'Between the World and Me'

Cover of book 'How to Survive a Plague'

Cover of book 'No Place to Hide'

Cover of book 'Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption'

Cover of book 'The New Odyssey: The Story of Europe's Refugee Crisis'

Cover of book 'Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End'

Cover of book 'We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy'

Cover of book 'In Europe: Travels Through the Twentieth Century'

Cover of book 'The Right Stuff'

Cover of book 'Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis'

Cover of book 'Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed'

Cover of book 'The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between'

Cover of book 'Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World'

Cover of book 'The Swerve: How the World Became Modern'

Cover of book 'Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do'

Cover of book 'Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City'

Cover of book 'Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity'

Fiction

Cover of book 'Brave New World'

Cover of book '1984'

Cover of book 'Pride and Prejudice'

Cover of book ''

Cover of book 'The Trial'

Cover of book 'The Blood of Others'

Cover of book 'Persuasion'

Cover of book 'She Came to Stay'

Cover of book 'Animal Farm'

Cover of book 'The Handmaid's Tale'

Cover of book 'Fahrenheit 451'

Cover of book 'North and South'

Cover of book 'We'

Cover of book 'Seveneves'

Cover of book 'A Canticle for Leibowitz'

Cover of book 'Wolf Hall'

Cover of book 'Bring Up the Bodies'

Cover of book 'The Mirror & the Light'

Cover of book 'The Testaments'

Cover of book 'Rebecca'