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Stewart Brand is a a visionary.Stewart Brand is an American writer, best known as editor of the Whole Earth Catalog.

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A History of Civilizations
A History of Civilizations

by Fernand Braudel

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The Way Life Works
The Way Life Works

by Mahlon Hoagland

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Finite and Infinite Games
Finite and Infinite Games

by James Carse

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Dune
Dune

by Frank Herbert

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The Pattern On The Stone
The Pattern On The Stone

by Danny Hillis

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A Pattern Language
A Pattern Language

by Christopher Alexander

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Imagined Worlds
Imagined Worlds

by Freeman Dyson

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Turing's Cathedral
Turing's Cathedral

by George Dyson

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The Map Book
The Map Book

by Peter Barber

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Homo Ludens
Homo Ludens

by Johan Huizinga

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Foundation
Foundation

by Isaac Asimov

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Scale
Scale

by Geoffrey West

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Bill MillerBill MillerMarc BenioffMarc BenioffNassim TalebNassim TalebVinod KhoslaVinod Khosla
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Medieval Civilization
Medieval Civilization

by Jacques Le Goff

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The Better Angels of Our Nature
The Better Angels of Our Nature

by Steven Pinker

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The Long Summer
The Long Summer

by Brian Fagan

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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman

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Time Travel
Time Travel

by James Gleick

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Tao Te Ching
Tao Te Ching

by Lao Tzu

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Brian MacKenzieBrian MacKenzieJack DorseyJack DorseyJack MaJack MaJason FerruggiaJason FerruggiaJason NemerJason Nemer+5 more
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The Art of the Long View
The Art of the Long View

by Peter Schwartz

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The Coming Population Crash
The Coming Population Crash

by Fred Pearce

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The Future of Life
The Future of Life

by Edward O. Wilson

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The Oxford Shakespeare
The Oxford Shakespeare

by William Shakespeare

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The Sleepwalkers
The Sleepwalkers

by Christopher Clark

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Powers of Ten
Powers of Ten

by Philip Morrison

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The Gift
The Gift

by Cecelia Ahern

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What Technology Wants
What Technology Wants

by Kevin Kelly

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Jason SilvaJason SilvaMatt RidleyMatt Ridley
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Across Realtime
Across Realtime

by Vernor Vinge

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Conceptual Physics
Conceptual Physics

by Paul G. Hewitt

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Infinite in All Directions
Infinite in All Directions

by Freeman J. Dyson

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Thinking in Time
Thinking in Time

by Richard E. Neustadt

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Triumph of the City
Triumph of the City

by Edward Glaeser

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Adventures of a Bystander
Adventures of a Bystander

by Peter F. Drucker

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A History of the World in 100 Objects
A History of the World in 100 Objects

by Neil MacGregor

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A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Short History of Nearly Everything

by Bill Bryson

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Beowulf
Beowulf

by Seamus Heaney

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Brave New World
Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

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Governing the Commons
Governing the Commons

by Elinor Ostrom

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Meditations
Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

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Adam RobinsonAdam RobinsonAnkur WarikooAnkur WarikooAnna KendrickAnna KendrickArianna HuffingtonArianna HuffingtonAusten AllredAusten Allred+5 more
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The Eternal Frontier
The Eternal Frontier

by Tim Flannery

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The King and the Corpse
The King and the Corpse

by Heinrich Zimmer

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The Landmark Thucydides
The Landmark Thucydides

by Thucydides

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The Prince
The Prince

by Niccolò Machiavelli

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Venice
Venice

by Frederic C. Lane

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Why the West Rules--for Now
Why the West Rules--for Now

by Ian Morris

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Dirt
Dirt

by Stuart Woods

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Grand Design
Grand Design

by Georg Gerster

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On the Nature of Things
On the Nature of Things

by Lucretius

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Star Maker
Star Maker

by Olaf Stapledon

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The Story of Writing
The Story of Writing

by Andrew Robinson

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Collapse
Collapse

by Kurt Schlichter

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Guns, Germs, and Steel
Guns, Germs, and Steel

by Jared Diamond

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Machines of Loving Grace
Machines of Loving Grace

by John Markoff

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Gaia
Gaia

by James Lovelock

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The Idea of Decline in Western History
The Idea of Decline in Western History

by Arthur Herman

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The Past From Above
The Past From Above

by Charlotte Trümpler

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The Rise of the West
The Rise of the West

by William H. McNeill

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The Singularity Is Near
The Singularity Is Near

by Ray Kurzweil

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The Western Canon
The Western Canon

by Harold Bloom

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Learning to Breathe Fire
Learning to Breathe Fire

by J.C. Herz

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Our Bodies, Ourselves
Our Bodies, Ourselves

by Boston Women's Health Book Collective

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The Good Ancestor
The Good Ancestor

by Roman Krznaric

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The Elements
The Elements

by Theodore Gray

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Memory of the World
Memory of the World

by UNESCO

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Military Misfortunes
Military Misfortunes

by Eliot A. Cohen

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One True God
One True God

by Rodney Stark

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The Causes of War
The Causes of War

by Geoffrey Blainey

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The Civilization of the Middle Ages
The Civilization of the Middle Ages

by 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

by Samuel P. Huntington

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The Complete Greek Tragedies
The Complete Greek Tragedies

by David Grene

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The Complete Guide to Trail Building and Maintenance
The Complete Guide to Trail Building and Maintenance

by Carl Demrow

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The Discoverers
The Discoverers

by Daniel J. Boorstin

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The Encyclopedia of Earth
The Encyclopedia of Earth

by Michael Allaby

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The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh

by Anonymous

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The Iliad
The Iliad

by Homer

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The Landmark Herodotus
The Landmark Herodotus

by Herodotus

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The Odyssey
The Odyssey

by Homer

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The Water Will Come
The Water Will Come

by Jeff Goodell

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Connectography
Connectography

by Parag Khanna

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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

by Edward Gibbon

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