books recommended by Stewart Brand

Stewart Brand is an American writer, best known as editor of the Whole Earth Catalog. He founded a number of organizations, including The WELL, the Global Business Network, and the Long Now Foundation.

Stewart Brand is an American writer, best known as editor of the Whole Earth Catalog. He founded a number of organizations, including The WELL, the Global Business Network, and the Long Now Foundation.

books recommended by Stewart Brand

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Thinking, Fast and Slow

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

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Dune

Dune

Frank Herbert

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Meditations

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

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Tao Te Ching

Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu

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The Better Angels of Our Nature

The Better Angels of Our Nature

Steven Pinker

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Guns, Germs, and Steel

Guns, Germs, and Steel

Jared Diamond

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Brave New World

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

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The Singularity Is Near

The Singularity Is Near

Ray Kurzweil

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Foundation

Foundation

Isaac Asimov

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Finite and Infinite Games

Finite and Infinite Games

James Carse

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The Odyssey

The Odyssey

Homer

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A Pattern Language

A Pattern Language

Christopher Alexander et al.

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A Short History of Nearly Everything

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Bill Bryson

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The Prince

The Prince

Niccolo Machiavelli

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The Player of Games

The Player of Games

Iain M. Banks

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Consider Phlebas

Consider Phlebas

Iain M. Banks

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The Gift

The Gift

Lewis Hyde

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Excession

Excession

Iain M. Banks

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Look to Windward

Look to Windward

Iain M. Banks

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State of the Art

State of the Art

Iain M. Banks

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The Epic of Gilgamesh

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Anonymous

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The Iliad

The Iliad

Homer

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Triumph of the City

Triumph of the City

Edward Glaeser

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Use of Weapons

Use of Weapons

Iain M. Banks

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What Technology Wants

What Technology Wants

Kevin Kelly

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Collapse

Jared Diamond

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Foundation and Empire

Foundation and Empire

Isaac Asimov

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On the Nature of Things

On the Nature of Things

Lucretius

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Second Foundation

Second Foundation

Isaac Asimov

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The Oxford Shakespeare

The Oxford Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

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Beowulf

Beowulf

Seamus Heaney

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Scale

Scale

Geoffrey West

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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Edward Gibbon

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A History of Civilizations

A History of Civilizations

Fernand Braudel

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A History of the World in 100 Objects

A History of the World in 100 Objects

Neil Macgregor

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Across Realtime

Across Realtime

Vernor Vinge

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Adventures of a Bystander

Adventures of a Bystander

Peter F. Drucker

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Conceptual Physics

Conceptual Physics

Paul G. Hewitt

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Dirt

Dirt

David R. Montgomery

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Elements

Elements

Theodore Gray

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The Revenge of Gaia

The Revenge of Gaia

James Lovelock

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Governing the Commons

Governing the Commons

Elinor Ostrom

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Homo Ludens

Homo Ludens

Johan Huizinga

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Imagined Worlds

Imagined Worlds

Freeman Dyson

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Infinite in All Directions

Infinite in All Directions

Freeman J. Dyson

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Learning to Breathe Fire

Learning to Breathe Fire

J.C. Herz

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Machines of Loving Grace

Machines of Loving Grace

John Markoff

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Medieval Civilization

Medieval Civilization

Jacques Le Goff

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Memory of the World

Memory of the World

UNESCO

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Military Misfortunes

Military Misfortunes

Eliot A. Cohen

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One True God

One True God

Rodney Stark

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Our Bodies, Ourselves

Our Bodies, Ourselves

Boston Womens Health Book Collective

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Powers of Ten

Powers of Ten

Philip Morrison & Phylis Morrison

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Star Maker

Olaf Stapledon

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The Art of the Long View

The Art of the Long View

Peter Schwartz

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The Causes of War

The Causes of War

Geoffrey Blainey

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The Civilization of the Middle Ages

The Civilization of the Middle Ages

Norman F. Cantor

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The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

Samuel P. Huntington

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The Coming Population Crash

The Coming Population Crash

Fred Pearce

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The Complete Greek Tragedies

The Complete Greek Tragedies

David Grene & Richmond Lattimore

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The Complete Guide to Trail Building and Maintenance

The Complete Guide to Trail Building and Maintenance

Carl Demrow

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The Discoverers

The Discoverers

Daniel J. Boorstin

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The Encyclopedia of Earth

The Encyclopedia of Earth

Michael Allaby

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The Eternal Frontier

The Eternal Frontier

Tim Flannery

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The Future of Life

The Future of Life

Edward O. Wilson

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The Idea of Decline in Western History

The Idea of Decline in Western History

Arthur Herman

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The King and the Corpse

The King and the Corpse

Heinrich Zimmer

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The Landmark Herodotus

The Landmark Herodotus

Herodotus

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The Landmark Thucydides

The Landmark Thucydides

Thucydides

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The Long Summer

The Long Summer

Brian Fagan

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The Map Book

The Map Book

Peter Barber

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The Merck Manual Home Health Handbook

The Merck Manual Home Health Handbook

Robert Porter

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The Past From Above

The Past From Above

Charlotte Trumpler

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The Pattern on the Stone

The Pattern on the Stone

William Daniel Hillis

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The Rise of the West

The Rise of the West

William H. Mcneill

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The Sleepwalkers

The Sleepwalkers

Arthur Koestler

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The Story of Writing

The Story of Writing

Andrew Robinson

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The Way Life Works

The Way Life Works

Mahlon Hoagland

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The Western Canon

The Western Canon

Harold Bloom

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Thinking in Time

Thinking in Time

Richard E. Neustadt

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Time Travel

Time Travel

James Gleick

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Turing's Cathedral

Turing's Cathedral

George Dyson

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Venice

Venice

Frederic C. Lane

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Why the West Rules—for Now

Why the West Rules—for Now

Ian Morris

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How Buildings Learn

How Buildings Learn

Stewart Brand

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Whole Earth Discipline

Whole Earth Discipline

Stewart Brand

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The Clock of the Long Now

The Clock of the Long Now

Stewart Brand

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Traditionally, life has been divided into two main parts: a period of learning followed by a period of working. Very soon, this traditional model will become utterly obsolete, and the only way for humans to stay in the game will be to keep learning throughout their lives and to reinvent themselves repeatedly.

Yuval Noah Harari