Stewart Brand
Stewart Brand is an influential American writer, futurist, and environmentalist, renowned for founding the Whole Earth Catalog and contributing significantly to the early development of the internet and personal computing.
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The Causes of War
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Geoffrey Blainey
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Gaia
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James Lovelock
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Adventures of a Bystander
[The author]'s early memoir. - Stewart Brand
Peter F. Drucker
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The Story of Writing
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Andrew Robinson
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The Western Canon
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Harold Bloom
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Conceptual Physics
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Paul G. Hewitt
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Beowulf
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Seamus Heaney
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What Technology Wants
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Kevin Kelly
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The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
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Samuel P. Huntington
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
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Anonymous
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The Future of Life
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Edward O. Wilson
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Medieval Civilization
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Jacques Le Goff
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The Landmark Thucydides
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Thucydides
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Grand Design
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Georg Gerster
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Infinite in All Directions
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Freeman J. Dyson
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Guns, Germs, and Steel
The main [book by this author]. - Stewart Brand
Jared Diamond
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Military Misfortunes
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Eliot A. Cohen
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Collapse
Has some interesting stuff to propose. - Stewart Brand
Jared Diamond
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
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Daniel Kahneman
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Powers of Ten
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Philip Morrison
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Homo Ludens
Games are basically what we do. - Stewart Brand
Johan Huizinga
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The Map Book
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Peter Barber
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Turing's Cathedral
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George Dyson
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Thinking in Time
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Richard E. Neustadt
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Edward Gibbon
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Time Travel
Some of the most cogent thinking about time that I think we’ve seen in a long time. - Stewart Brand
James Gleick
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The Complete Greek Tragedies
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David Grene
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A History of Civilizations
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Fernand Braudel
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The Odyssey
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Homer
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The Landmark Herodotus
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Herodotus
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A Pattern Language
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Christopher Alexander
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The Way Life Works
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Mahlon Hoagland
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Star Maker
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Olaf Stapledon
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Learning to Breathe Fire
Tells the story of how CrossFit came about. - Stewart Brand
J.C. Herz
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Across Realtime
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Vernor Vinge
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Venice
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Frederic C. Lane
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The King and the Corpse
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Heinrich Zimmer
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Meditations
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Marcus Aurelius
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Finite and Infinite Games
A fundamental interest is gamification – thinking of things in game terms and designing things in gaming terms is one of the profound things that civilization has done for a very long time. - Stewart Brand
James Carse
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Our Bodies, Ourselves
Wonderful book by women on women’s health. - Stewart Brand
Boston Women's Health Book Collective
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The Good Ancestor
A very good book. - Stewart Brand
Roman Krznaric
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The Past From Above
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Charlotte Trümpler
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The Art of the Long View
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Peter Schwartz
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The Long Summer
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Brian Fagan
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The Idea of Decline in Western History
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Arthur Herman
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Why the West Rules--for Now
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Ian Morris
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Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
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The Iliad
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Homer
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The Coming Population Crash
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Fred Pearce
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Scale
Particularly fantastic. - Stewart Brand
Geoffrey West
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Connectography
About humanity's infrastructure. - Stewart Brand
Parag Khanna
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The Gift
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Lewis Hyde
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The Elements
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Theodore Gray
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The Civilization of the Middle Ages
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Norman F. Cantor
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Dirt
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David R. Montgomery
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The Singularity Is Near
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Ray Kurzweil
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On the Nature of Things
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Lucretius
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The Prince
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Niccolò Machiavelli
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The Sleepwalkers
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Arthur Koestler
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One True God
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Rodney Stark
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Machines of Loving Grace
Basically spells out the ongoing debate between artificial intelligence and intelligence augmentation – I.A. and A.I. - Stewart Brand
John Markoff
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The Rise of the West
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William H. McNeill
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The Discoverers
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Daniel J. Boorstin
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The Encyclopedia of Earth
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Michael Allaby
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Governing the Commons
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Elinor Ostrom
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The Pattern On The Stone
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Danny Hillis
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Memory of the World
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UNESCO
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Brave New World
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Aldous Huxley
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The Complete Guide to Trail Building and Maintenance
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Carl Demrow
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The Better Angels of Our Nature
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Steven Pinker
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The Eternal Frontier
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Tim Flannery
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Imagined Worlds
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Freeman Dyson
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The Oxford Shakespeare
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William Shakespeare
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A History of the World in 100 Objects
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Neil MacGregor
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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Bill Bryson
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Triumph of the City
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Edward Glaeser
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The Merck Manual Home Health Handbook
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Robert Porter
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