Recommended reading for those ready to view the world in a whole new way.

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
by Dan Ariely

Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart
by Ian Ayres

Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists
by Joel Best

Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior
by Ori Brafman

Influence: Science and Practice
by Robert Cialdini

Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apes
by Franz de Waal

The Ape and the Sushi Master
By Franz de Waal

The Logic of Failure: Recognizing and Avoiding Error in Complex Situations
by Ditrich Dorner

A Mind of Its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives
By Cordelia Fine

How We Know What Isn’t So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life
by Thomas Gilovich

What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures
by Malcolm Gladwell

Outliers: The Story of Success
by Malcolm Gladwell

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by Malcolm Gladwell

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell

The Culture of Fear: Why Americans are Afraid of the Wrong Things
By Barry Glassner

Our Kind: Who We Are, Where We Came From, Where We Are Going
by Marvin Harris

Don’t Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking
by Thomas E. Kida

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
By Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner

The Art of Systems Thinking: Essential Skills for Creativity and Problem Solving
by Joseph O’Connor

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
By Steven Pinker

The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
By Peter Senge

The Dance of Change: The Challenges to Sustaining Momentum in Learning Organizations
By Peter Senge

Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
By Michael Shermer

The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule
by Michael Shermer

The Mind of the Market: How Biology and Psychology Shape Our Economic Lives
by Michael Shermer

Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown
by Michael Shermer

The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
by Thomas Sowell

Economic Facts and Fallacies
by Thomas Sowell

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences
by Edward Tenner