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24 alternatives to Butterflies: The Strange Metamorphosis of Fact & Fiction

A deep glimpse into the millennial mind

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Butterflies: The Strange Metamorphosis of Fact & Fiction launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   The Millennial Reincarnations▲62

   An examination of the modern millennial psyche like no other

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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   A brief history of humankind

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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   Black Swan▲80

   The impact of the highly improbable

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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   Dark Matter of the Mind▲67

   The Culturally Articulated Unconscious

   2017 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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   Man V. Nature▲148

   Stories that illuminate the complexity of human behavior

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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   924 Observations: An Alien's Perspective On The 21st Century▲56

   The Andy Warhol soup cans of books? The end may be near.

   2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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   The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us▲63

   Our minds don’t work the way we think they do.

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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   Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming▲69

   How can design inspire us to think about our future?

   2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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   Deep Simplicity▲62

   Chaos, complexity and the emergence of life

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Envisioning Information▲87

    A remarkable range of examples of visual thinkinking

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Metamorphosis▲63

    One of the seminal works of fiction by Franz Kafka

    2016 · amazon.in · its alternatives →

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    Making Ideas Happen▲75

    Overcoming the obstacles between vision and reality

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Inventology▲72

    How we dream up things that change the world

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Cosmopolis▲66

    The hidden agenda of modernity

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human▲63

    A unified theory about why storytelling evolved

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Who thinks, what feels and why it matters

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Freakonomics▲97

    A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Meaningful▲69

    The story of ideas that fly

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Predictably Irrational▲96

    The hidden forces that shape our decisions

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    The Distracted Mind▲72

    Ancient brains in a high-tech world

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    The Wandering Mind▲71

    What the brain does when you're not looking

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind ▲65

    A glimpse inside the minds of highly creative people

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Psychedelic Suburbia▲70

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    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    We Need Diverse Books▲87

    Advocating and supporting non-majority narratives

    2014 · indiegogo.com · its alternatives →

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