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Book cover of Gender and Our Brains: How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds

Lou Lomas Author Of The Bad Habit Kicker

From Lou's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

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Lou's 3 favorite reads in 2024

Lou Lomas Why Lou loves this book

As a non-male who's worked in a male-dominated industry for most of my working life (software/web development), I've always been fascinated about whether there really is any difference between male & female brains.

The author very deftly dissects the studies and media reports from recent years and makes sense of them with aplomb.

Fascinating stuff!

By Gina Rippon ,

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1 author picked Gender and Our Brains as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

A breakthrough work in neuroscience—and an incisive corrective to a long history of damaging pseudoscience—that finally debunks the myth that there is a hardwired distinction between male and female brains
 
We live in a gendered world, where we are ceaselessly bombarded by messages about sex and gender. On a daily basis, we face deeply ingrained beliefs that sex determines our skills and preferences, from toys and colors to career choice and salaries. But what does this constant gendering mean for our thoughts, decisions and behavior? And what does it mean for our brains?

Drawing on her work as a professor…


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Book cover of Aggressor

Aggressor by FX Holden,

It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.

The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…

Book cover of The Multi-Hyphen Life: Work Less, Create More, and Design a Life That Works for You

Lou Lomas Author Of The Bad Habit Kicker

From Lou's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

Why am I passionate about this?

Author

Lou's 3 favorite reads in 2024

Lou Lomas Why Lou loves this book

As someone who's got lots of interests, and who's working on their own digital solopreneur business, I found this book extraordinarily helpful.

Life in the 21st Century is hard, and this was a book which gave me a lot of ideas and food for thought about how to navigate it.

Emma's writing style is like talking to a friend. If you're looking to start a business in 2025, you could do a lot worse than picking up this book!

By Emma Gannon ,

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3 authors picked The Multi-Hyphen Life as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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If you've been itching to convert your craft into a career, your side-hustle into a start-up, or just want to think about work-life balance in a new way, then The Multi-Hyphen Life is for you.

In The Multi-Hyphen Life, award-winning British author-podcaster Emma Gannon explains that it doesn't matter if you're a part-time PA with a blog, or an accountant who runs an online store in the evenings—whatever your ratio, whatever your mixture, we can all channel our own entrepreneurial spirit to live more fulfilled and financially healthy lives.

Technology allows us to work wherever, whenever, and enables us to…


Book cover of Gender and Our Brains: How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds
Book cover of The Multi-Hyphen Life: Work Less, Create More, and Design a Life That Works for You

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