Oh, I've got love for the category, just been busy and was waiting a day or two to add my second nomination. :)

I'd like to nominate Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, by Atul Gawande.

Amazon description:
In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending

Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot. Doctors, committed to extending life, continue to carry out devastating procedures that in the end extend suffering.

Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession's ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families. Gawande offers examples of freer, more socially fulfilling models for assisting the infirm and dependent elderly, and he explores the varieties of hospice care to demonstrate that a person's last weeks or months may be rich and dignified.
Full of eye-opening research and riveting storytelling, Being Mortal asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end.

The book is 300 pages long, and bit over what I'd like to spend, at $12.99, but it comes highly recommended by my DW and is certainly different than my other nomination. :)

Amazon: $12.99
Audible: 19.83 or 1 credit
Kobo CA: $14.99
Overdrive

I'm going to hold my third ticket to see what else gets nominated. While I like one at least of the others nominated, it's longer and more expensive than I'd like. And I suspect it won't need my help, but we'll see.

My nomination
 

I second this one, and nominate "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman, it has a good price and I've been told it's worth it; from Goodreads:

"In the highly anticipated Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. Kahneman exposes the extraordinary capabilities—and also the faults and biases—of fast thinking, and reveals the pervasive influence of intuitive impressions on our thoughts and behavior. The impact of loss aversion and overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the challenges of properly framing risks at work and at home, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning the next vacation—each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems work together to shape our judgments and decisions."

Amazon link: Thinking fast and slow Kindle
Kobo books: Thinking fast and slow epub 2

Agreed. I have this book as well and would like to read it. Ahhhh too many books. ;);)

I'll third The Clockwork Universe

I would like to nominate The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World by Pedro Domingos.

Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/Master-Algorit.../dp/0465065708
Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0147SEZ...ng=UTF8&btkr=1
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...ster-algorithm

I second Thinking, Fast and Slow and Philosophy of Physics: Space and Time.

I will second Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

Mi third nomination
 

For my last nomination I would like to propose Gödels Proof by Ernest Nagel and James R. Newman, I don't know if it is of any interest here, but this category got me scraping the bottom of the barrel... or my TBR list in this case :)

From Goodreads:

Godels proof at Amazon
Kobo books version

I'm quite taken by the books by Simon Winchester. For this topic, one that I have particularly enjoyed was A Crack in the Edge of the World.
If you're into audio books, this one is read by the author.

And I'd like to second the nomination of Gödels Proof.

I'll second A Crack in the Edge of the World.

Damn! I wish I had a nomination left..The Future of the Mind has been on my reading list for sometime.

You send me both. Michio Kaku is a talented writer with a gift for making difficult scientific concepts accessible. This is the one I really want to read this month. Some of the terms used in the book's blurb are perhaps unfortunate (telekinesis, telepathy, etc.), but this is not a book of woo-woo science, and Kaku is not a woo-woo writer. There are some very strange things going on in laboratories these days. Some very fantastic results are being achieved by linking gray matter and computers, and some remarkable findings are coming to light through the aid of MRI brain scans and other means.

I don't know why I was thinking that you can nominate as many books as you want and still get to second and third three books :o

My fellow MobileReaders please can you add one more vote for The Future of the Mind..:pray: