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Books Stewart Brand recommends

Public list compiled from their own recommendations. Writer and editor; founder of the Whole Earth Catalog and co-founder of the Long Now Foundation.

Compiled by Kaffe from public sources, with a link to each one. Stewart Brand is not affiliated with Kaffe.

  1. Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations by David R. Montgomery: picked from his own library for the Long Now Manual for Civilization source
  2. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius: picked from his own library for the Long Now Manual for Civilization source
  3. The Landmark Thucydides by Robert B. Strassler (ed.): picked from his own library for the Long Now Manual for Civilization source
  4. The Nature of Things by Lucretius: picked from his own library for the Long Now Manual for Civilization source
  5. The Art of the Long View by Peter Schwartz: picked from his own library for the Long Now Manual for Civilization source
  6. Venice, A Maritime Republic by Frederic Chapin Lane: picked from his own library for the Long Now Manual for Civilization source
  7. Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon: picked from his own library for the Long Now Manual for Civilization source
  8. The Gift by Lewis Hyde: picked from his own library for the Long Now Manual for Civilization source
  9. Powers of Ten by Philip Morrison, Phylis Morrison: picked from his own library for the Long Now Manual for Civilization source
  10. The Elements by Theodore Gray: picked from his own library for the Long Now Manual for Civilization source
  11. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon: picked from his own library for the Long Now Manual for Civilization source
  12. Collapse by Jared Diamond: picked from his own library for the Long Now Manual for Civilization source
  13. A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander et al.: picked from his own library for the Long Now Manual for Civilization source
  14. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman: picked from his own library for the Long Now Manual for Civilization source
  15. The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker: picked from his own library for the Long Now Manual for Civilization source
  16. Triumph of the City by Edward Glaeser: picked from his own library for the Long Now Manual for Civilization source
  17. The Causes of War by Geoffrey Blainey: picked from his own library for the Long Now Manual for Civilization source
  18. Military Misfortunes by Eliot A. Cohen, John Gooch: picked from his own library for the Long Now Manual for Civilization source
  19. Turing's Cathedral by George Dyson: picked from his own library for the Long Now Manual for Civilization source
  20. Why the West Rules—for Now by Ian Morris: picked from his own library for the Long Now Manual for Civilization source
  21. The Rise of the West by William H. McNeill: picked from his own library for the Long Now Manual for Civilization source
  22. A History of Civilizations by Fernand Braudel: picked from his own library for the Long Now Manual for Civilization source
  23. The Pattern on the Stone by W. Daniel Hillis: picked from his own library for the Long Now Manual for Civilization source
  24. Imagined Worlds by Freeman Dyson: picked from his own library for the Long Now Manual for Civilization source
  25. The Story of Writing by Andrew Robinson: picked from his own library for the Long Now Manual for Civilization source
  26. Dune by Frank Herbert: picked from his own library for the Long Now Manual for Civilization source
  27. The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks: picked from his own library for the Long Now Manual for Civilization source
  28. Across Realtime by Vernor Vinge: picked from his own library for the Long Now Manual for Civilization source
  29. The Discoverers by Daniel J. Boorstin: picked from his own library for the Long Now Manual for Civilization source
  30. Governing the Commons by Elinor Ostrom: picked from his own library for the Long Now Manual for Civilization source
  31. Thinking in Time by Richard E. Neustadt, Ernest R. May: picked from his own library for the Long Now Manual for Civilization source
  32. Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse: picked from his own library for the Long Now Manual for Civilization source
  33. Gaia by James Lovelock: picked from his own library for the Long Now Manual for Civilization source
  34. The Long Summer by Brian Fagan: picked from his own library for the Long Now Manual for Civilization source
  35. The Eternal Frontier by Tim Flannery: picked from his own library for the Long Now Manual for Civilization source
  36. The Epic of Gilgamesh by Andrew George (trans.): picked from his own library for the Long Now Manual for Civilization source
  37. Beowulf by Seamus Heaney (trans.): picked from his own library for the Long Now Manual for Civilization source
  38. Te-Tao Ching by Lao Tzu, Robert G. Henricks (trans.): picked from his own library for the Long Now Manual for Civilization source
  39. The King and the Corpse by Heinrich Zimmer, Joseph Campbell (ed.): picked from his own library for the Long Now Manual for Civilization source
  40. The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov: picked from his own library for the Long Now Manual for Civilization source

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