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Peter Attia Books - 36 Must-Reads


Peter Attia

Peter Attia favorite books - 36 recommendations. Peter Attia is a famous scientist and doctor with a revolutionary view on wellness, health, and obesity. His dietary principles help people all over the world accept their bodies, change their food preferences towards a healthier body, the right healthy mindset, proper nutrition, and adequate self-esteem. He is an athlete, researcher, and oncologic surgeon with 20 years of experience who has now left practice to pursue scientific research in the field of autophagy and longevity. Check out the list of Peter Attia book recommendations - 36 favorite reads.
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I Don't Want to Talk about it

When a child's parents tell her they have decided to divorce, the last thing she wants to do is talk about it. Instead, she wants to roar as loud as a lion so she can't hear their painful words, or turn into a fish and hide her tears in...
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On Confidence

I came across [this book] recently and was impressed.
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An Atlas of Atherosclerosis Progression and Regression

You don’t understand atherosclerosis until you’ve studied this book.
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Solve for Happy

In this “powerful personal story woven with a rich analysis of what we all seek” (Sergey Brin, cofounder of Google), Mo Gawdat, Chief Business Officer at Google’s [X], applies his superior logic and problem solving skills to understand how...
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The Puzzle People

"[One of the] biographies of people who have 'built skyscrapers' (my term)."
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Red Notice

'Reads like a classic thriller, with an everyman hero alone and in danger in a hostile foreign city ... but it's all true, and it's a story that needs to be told.' Lee Child'An unburdening, a witness statement and a thriller all at the...
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Black Edge

Nominated for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the YearNominated for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionAmazon Top 5 Business Books of 2017'A prodigious feat of reporting' - Malcolm Gladwell‘Black Edge has the grip of a...
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Shattered

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIt was never supposed to be this close. And of course she was supposed to win. How Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump is the riveting story of a sure thing gone off the rails. For every Comey...
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Charlotte's Web

"Some Pig"! These are the words in Charlotte's web, high in the barn. Her spiderweb tells of her feelings for a little pig named Wilbur, as well as the feelings of a little girl named Fern ... who loves Wilbur, too. Their love has been...
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull

I’d encourage them to read Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach.
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The Puzzle People

Given the tensions and demands of medicine, highly successful physicians and surgeons rarely achieve equal success as prose writers. It is truly extraordinary that a major, international pioneer in the controversial field of transplant...
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King of Hearts

Few of the great stories of medicine are as palpably dramatic as the invention of open-heart surgery, yet, until now, no journalist has ever brought all of the thrilling specifics of this triumph to life.This is the story of the surgeon...
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Becoming Steve Jobs

The #1 New York Times bestselling biography of how Steve Jobs became the most visionary CEO in history. Becoming Steve Jobs breaks down the conventional, one-dimensional view of Steve Jobs that he was half-genius, half-jerk from youth, an...
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Dancing Naked in the Mind Field

Here is a multidimensional playland of ideas from the world's most eccentric Nobel-Prize winning scientist. Kary Mullis is legendary for his invention of PCR, which redefined the world of DNA, genetics, and forensic science. He is also a...
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The Double Helix

The classic personal account of Watson and Crick’s groundbreaking discovery of the structure of DNA, now with an introduction by Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind.By identifying the structure of DNA, the molecule of life, Francis...
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The Transformed Cell: Unlocking the Mysteries of Cancer: Steven A. Rosenberg, John M. Barry

The Transformed Cell: Unlocking the Mysteries of Cancer
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The Talent Code

'Talent. You've either got it or you haven't.' Not true, actually.In The Talent Code, award-winning journalist Daniel Coyle draws on cutting-edge research to reveal that, far from being some abstract mystical power fixed at birth, ability...
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One Bullet Away

If the Marines are ?the few, the proud,” Recon Marines are the fewest and the proudest. Nathaniel Fick's career begins with a hellish summer at Quantico, after his junior year at Dartmouth. He leads a platoon in Afghanistan just after 9/11...
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Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me)

“Entertaining, illuminating and—when you recognize yourself in the stories it tells—mortifying.” —Wall Street Journal“Every page sparkles with sharp insight and keen observation. Mistakes were made—but not in this book!” —Daniel Gilbert,...
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The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide

Psychedelics for spiritual, therapeutic, and problem-solving use • Presents practices for safe and successful psychedelic voyages, including the benefits of having a guide and how to be a guide • Reviews the value of psychedelics for...
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Being Wrong

Being wrong is an inescapable part of being alive. And yet we go through life tacitly assuming (or loudly insisting) that we are right about nearly everything - from our political beliefs to our private memories, from our grasp of...
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Forgive and Remember

On its initial publication, Forgive and Remember emerged as the definitive study of the training and lives of young surgeons. Now with an extensive new preface, epilogue, and appendix by the author, reflecting on the changes that have...
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The Transformed Cell

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"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character

One of the most famous science books of our time, the phenomenal national bestseller that "buzzes with energy, anecdote and life. It almost makes you want to become a physicist" (Science Digest). Richard P. Feynman, winner of the Nobel...
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