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Books recommended by Stewart Brand

Stewart Brand recommends 65 books, among them Thinking, Fast and Slow, Meditations and A Pattern Language.

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Industry

65 books

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

Nonfiction

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

Nonfiction

A Pattern Language

Christopher Alexander et al.

Arts & entertainment

Guns, Germs, and Steel

Jared Diamond

History

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Bill Bryson

History

Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu

Self-improvement

The Singularity Is Near

Ray Kurzweil

Technology

A History of Civilizations

Fernand Braudel

Economics & politics

A History of the World in 100 Objects

Neil Macgregor

Arts & entertainment

Adventures of a Bystander

Peter F. Drucker

Biography & memoir

Collapse

Jared Diamond

History

Conceptual Physics

Paul G. Hewitt

Science & nature

Dirt

David R. Montgomery

Science & nature

Elements

Theodore Gray

Science & nature

Finite and Infinite Games

James Carse

Economics & politics

Governing the Commons

Elinor Ostrom

Economics & politics

Homo Ludens

Johan Huizinga

Philosophy

Imagined Worlds

Freeman Dyson

Philosophy

Infinite in All Directions

Freeman J. Dyson

Spirituality & religion

Learning to Breathe Fire

J.C. Herz

Health & fitness

Machines of Loving Grace

John Markoff

Technology

Medieval Civilization

Jacques Le Goff

History

Memory of the World

UNESCO

History

Military Misfortunes

Eliot A. Cohen

History

On the Nature of Things

Lucretius

Philosophy

One True God

Rodney Stark

Spirituality & religion

Our Bodies, Ourselves

Boston Womens Health Book Collective

Health & fitness

Powers of Ten

Philip Morrison & Phylis Morrison

Arts & entertainment

Scale

Geoffrey West

Economics & politics

The Art of the Long View

Peter Schwartz

Psychology