Books like Sex, Time and Power by Leonard Shlain

Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, Fast and Slow" explains how two distinct mental systems shape our judgments and decisions, offering insights into the biases that influence everyday choices.

Jared Diamond explains how geography, biology, and human ingenuity shaped the world’s unequal societies in his Pulitzer‑winning study of civilization and social evolution.

Jon Ronson's investigative inquiry into psychopathy examines the tools, practitioners, and personalities behind the science—and reveals how the lines between study and madness can blur.

In Tehran, Azar Nafisi secretly hires seven female students each week to read banned Western classics, revealing the personal and political struggles of women under Iran’s revolutionary regime.

Overestimates of violence beg the question: is modern society the most peaceful era? Steven Pinker argues that, through centuries of decline, violence has steadily fallen, revealing humanity’s better angels.

Nicholas Wade examines humanity’s origins through the lens of genetic science, tracing the development of language, early societies, and migrations out of Africa over five millennia.

A groundbreaking investigation into the origins of morality, religion, and politics.

A non‑fiction work that shines a light on the oppression of women in developing countries, offering case studies of survivors and exploring how empowering women drives economic progress.

A classic of feminism, *Backlash* exposes the backlash against women's rights.

Dr. Sharon Moalem explores the biology and history of human sexuality, revealing how evolution, culture and science shape attraction, reproduction, and sexual behavior.

Chesler explores how women’s interpersonal aggression shapes identity and hampers feminist progress, drawing on psychology, anthropology, and decades of interviews.

Laura Kipnis examines how modern women navigate feminism, femininity, and self‑improvement, revealing the internal contradictions that both empower and constrain the female experience.

Colette Dowling challenges the long‑standing myth of female frailty, presenting research that shows women can match or exceed men in physical strength through training, and arguing for bodily empowerment as a key to gender equality.

The Girls Who Went Away traces the untold story of over a million mothers who surrendered children for adoption before Roe v. Wade, revealing the psychological, social, and familial forces that shaped their decisions.

Discover why men often delay calls after a first date and learn practical ways to read signals, build confidence, and approach future relationships with clarity.

As squeamish as India is today about sex, this is also the land where queens once copulated with dead horses at religious ceremonies, where the art of love-making was declared the revelation of the gods and recorded in elaborate detail in the kama sutras and prostitution was a form of sacred offering at temples adorned with erotic sculptures. Using India as a paradigm, Rita Banerji illustrates that sexual morality is not an absolute but a facet of living that undergoes periodic upheavals. She delineates four major periods in Indian history when there were significant shifts in the collective social perception of sex and sexuality, and the associated customs and beliefs. What causes this revision in sexual ethos? Examining a modified version of Nietzsche’s slave versus master morality theory which establishes that the moral overview of any given period is determined by the existent power structure of the period in question, Banerji concludes that the three most burning issues facing the country today—population explosion, AIDS and female genocide—are the manifestations of a collective sexual malfunctioning of society and need to be redressed in the context of an existent social and economic power hierarchy.

A candid, research‑rich guide that challenges women to rethink their expectations for the perfect partner and offers real‑world advice for finding lasting love.

Robert Wright uses evolutionary theory to trace the growing complexity of life and human societies, arguing that cooperation drives progress and that morality has improved over time.