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Every year, intellectual impresario and Edge [5] editor John Brockman summons some of our greatest thinkers and unleashes them on one provocative question, whether its the single most elegant theory of how the world works [6] or the best way to enhance our cognitive toolkit [7]. This year, he sets out on the most ambitious quest yet, a meta-exploration of thought itself: Thinking: The New Science of Decision-Making, Problem-Solving, and Prediction [8] (public library [9]) collects short essays and lecture adaptations from such celebrated and wide-ranging (though not in gender) minds as Daniel Dennett [10], Jonathan Haidt [11], Dan Gilbert [12], and Timothy Wilson [13], covering subjects as diverse as morality, essentialism, and the adolescent brain.

Thinking [8] is excellent and mind-expanding in its entirety. Complement it with Brockman's This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking [7], one of the best psychology books of 2012.  [14]

—Maria Popova, Brain Pickings