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Stewart Brand recommends 78 books focused on all. Top picks include A History of Civilizations, The Way Life Works, Finite and Infinite Games. Stewart Brand is a writer from the United States, most recognized for his role as the editor of the Whole Earth Catalog.
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Stewart Brand is a writer from the United States, most recognized for his role as the editor of the Whole Earth Catalog.
Recommended Books
A History of Civilizations
The Way Life Works
Finite and Infinite Games
The Pattern On The Stone
A Pattern Language
Imagined Worlds
Turing's Cathedral
The Map Book
Homo Ludens
The Long Summer
Scale
The Better Angels of Our Nature
Medieval Civilization
Thinking, Fast and Slow
The Art of the Long View
Tao Te Ching
The Coming Population Crash
The Oxford Shakespeare
The Future of Life
Time Travel
The Gift
The Sleepwalkers
What Technology Wants
Powers of Ten
Conceptual Physics
Across Realtime
Thinking in Time
Triumph of the City
Infinite in All Directions
The Eternal Frontier
The Prince
The King and the Corpse
The Landmark Thucydides
Adventures of a Bystander
A History of the World in 100 Objects
Meditations
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Governing the Commons
Beowulf
Why the West Rules--for Now
Brave New World
On the Nature of Things
The Story of Writing
Grand Design
Star Maker
The Singularity Is Near
The Rise of the West
The Western Canon
The Idea of Decline in Western History
Machines of Loving Grace
Guns, Germs, and Steel
The Merck Manual Home Health Handbook
The Past From Above
Collapse
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The Water Will Come
Connectography
The Civilization of the Middle Ages
Learning to Breathe Fire
Our Bodies, Ourselves
The Good Ancestor
The Elements
Memory of the World
Military Misfortunes
One True God
The Causes of War
The Odyssey
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
The Complete Greek Tragedies
The Complete Guide to Trail Building and Maintenance
The Discoverers
The Encyclopedia of Earth
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Iliad
The Landmark Herodotus
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