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For the science lovers:

Gender

• Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia Fine. Lecture here.
  
  
• Through the Labyrinth: The Truth About How Women Become Leaders by Alice Eagly and Linda Carli
  
  
• Myths Of Gender: Biological Theories About Women And Men by Anne Fausto-Sterling
  
  
• Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality by Anne Fausto-Sterling
  
  
• A Cross-Cultural Analysis of the Behavior of Women and Men: Implications for the Origins of Sex Differences by Wendy Wood and Alice Eagly
  
  Race
  
  
• The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould

PUA seems to work because like you said about eye contact and indicating interest, it's based on shit that's gets results. I personally like Conversationally Speaking. It's basically "how to not have awkward conversations" and more. It's the good parts of PUA without the creepy endgoal of having sex with a random chick met at a bar.

If you want more from David Foster Wallace on individual consciousness, check out his short story 'Good Old Neon' from the collection Oblivion. Probably my all-time favorite English-language short story.

I know how you feel. I was devastated when the first girlfriend I ever had left me. But my holding on to the anger was keeping me back. I let go of it for myself. And you'll need to do the same thing.

You want to see mercy in action? Read Forgiving the Dead Man Walking by Debbie Morris. She'll teach you amazing things about what forgiveness really is. (And she'll make you cry like a baby in the Orlando International Airport!)

And for the record, the Buddha (probably) never said the thing about the hot coal. But don't sweat it; he gets misquoted a lot.