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Books recommended by Stewart Brand

Stewart Brand recommends 85 books, among them Machines of Loving Grace, Medieval Civilization and Memory of the World.

Category

Industry

85 books

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

Second Foundation

Isaac Asimov

Fiction

Star Maker

Olaf Stapledon

Philosophy

State of the Art

Iain M. Banks

Fiction

The Art of the Long View

Peter Schwartz

Psychology

The Better Angels of Our Nature

Steven Pinker

Economics & politics

The Causes of War

Geoffrey Blainey

History

The Civilization of the Middle Ages

Norman F. Cantor

History

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

Samuel P. Huntington

Philosophy

The Coming Population Crash

Fred Pearce

Economics & politics

The Complete Greek Tragedies

David Grene & Richmond Lattimore

Arts & entertainment

The Complete Guide to Trail Building and Maintenance

Carl Demrow

Science & nature

The Discoverers

Daniel J. Boorstin

Philosophy

The Encyclopedia of Earth

Michael Allaby

History

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Anonymous

History

The Eternal Frontier

Tim Flannery

History

The Future of Life

Edward O. Wilson

Philosophy

The Gift

Lewis Hyde

Arts & entertainment

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Edward Gibbon

History

The Idea of Decline in Western History

Arthur Herman

Philosophy

The Iliad

Homer

Philosophy

The King and the Corpse

Heinrich Zimmer

Spirituality & religion