Stewart Brand

Stewart Brand's Book Recommendations

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Stewart Brand is an American writer, editor, and futurist best known as the creator of the Whole Earth Catalog. His reading spans ecology, technology, architecture, and systems thinking.

88 books recommended 3 books authored

📖 Written by Stewart Brand

Whole Earth Discipline

Whole Earth Discipline

6 mentors
How Buildings Learn

How Buildings Learn

4 mentors
The Clock Of The Long Now

The Clock Of The Long Now

2 mentors

📚 Books Recommended by Stewart Brand 88

The Gift

The Gift

by Lewis Hyde

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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The Way Life Works

The Way Life Works

by Mahlon Hoagland

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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The King and the Corpse

The King and the Corpse

by Heinrich Zimmer

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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The Landmark Thucydides

The Landmark Thucydides

by Thucydides

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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Why the West Rules--for Now

Why the West Rules--for Now

by Ian Morris

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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Dirt

Dirt

by Bill Buford

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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Grand Design

Grand Design

by Georg Gerster

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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Star Maker

Star Maker

by Olaf Stapledon

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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The Story of Writing

The Story of Writing

by Andrew Robinson

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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Collapse

Collapse

by Jared Diamond

"Has some interesting stuff to propose."

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Machines of Loving Grace

Machines of Loving Grace

by John Markoff

"Basically spells out the ongoing debate between artificial intelligence and intelligence augmentation – I.A. and A.I."

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Gaia

Gaia

by James Lovelock

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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The Idea of Decline in Western History

The Idea of Decline in Western History

by Arthur Herman

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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The Merck Manual Home Health Handbook

The Merck Manual Home Health Handbook

by Robert Porter

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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The Past From Above

The Past From Above

by Charlotte Trümpler

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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The Rise of the West

The Rise of the West

by William H. McNeill

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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The Singularity Is Near

The Singularity Is Near

by Ray Kurzweil

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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The Western Canon

The Western Canon

by Harold Bloom

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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Learning to Breathe Fire

Learning to Breathe Fire

by J.C. Herz

"Tells the story of how CrossFit came about."

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Our Bodies, Ourselves

Our Bodies, Ourselves

by Boston Women's Health Book Collective

"Wonderful book by women on women’s health."

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The Good Ancestor

The Good Ancestor

by Roman Krznaric

"A very good book."

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Memory of the World

Memory of the World

by UNESCO

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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Military Misfortunes

Military Misfortunes

by Eliot A. Cohen

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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One True God

One True God

by Rodney Stark

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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The Causes of War

The Causes of War

by Geoffrey Blainey

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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The Discoverers

The Discoverers

by Daniel J. Boorstin

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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The Encyclopedia of Earth

The Encyclopedia of Earth

by Michael Allaby

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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The Iliad

The Iliad

by Homer

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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The Water Will Come

The Water Will Come

by Jeff Goodell

"Do read."

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The Civilization of the Middle Ages

The Civilization of the Middle Ages

by Norman F. Cantor

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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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

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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The Complete Guide to Trail Building and Maintenance

The Complete Guide to Trail Building and Maintenance

by Carl Demrow

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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The Pattern On The Stone

The Pattern On The Stone

by Danny Hillis

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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A Pattern Language

A Pattern Language

by Christopher Alexander

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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Turing's Cathedral

Turing's Cathedral

by George Dyson

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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The Map Book

The Map Book

by Peter Barber

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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Scale

Scale

by Geoffrey West

"Particularly fantastic."

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The Better Angels of Our Nature

The Better Angels of Our Nature

by Steven Pinker

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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The Long Summer

The Long Summer

by Brian Fagan

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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Thinking, Fast and Slow

Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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Time Travel

Time Travel

by James Gleick

"Some of the most cogent thinking about time that I think we’ve seen in a long time."

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Tao Te Ching

Tao Te Ching

by Lao Tzu

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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The Art of the Long View

The Art of the Long View

by Peter Schwartz

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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The Coming Population Crash

The Coming Population Crash

by Fred Pearce

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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The Future of Life

The Future of Life

by Edward O. Wilson

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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The Oxford Shakespeare

The Oxford Shakespeare

by William Shakespeare

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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Powers of Ten

Powers of Ten

by Philip Morrison

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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A History of Civilizations

A History of Civilizations

by Fernand Braudel

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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Across Realtime

Across Realtime

by Vernor Vinge

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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Infinite in All Directions

Infinite in All Directions

by Freeman J. Dyson

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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Thinking in Time

Thinking in Time

by Richard E. Neustadt

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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Triumph of the City

Triumph of the City

by Edward Glaeser

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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A History of the World in 100 Objects

A History of the World in 100 Objects

by Neil MacGregor

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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A Short History of Nearly Everything

A Short History of Nearly Everything

by Bill Bryson

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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Brave New World

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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Governing the Commons

Governing the Commons

by Elinor Ostrom

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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Meditations

Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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The Eternal Frontier

The Eternal Frontier

by Tim Flannery

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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Dune (6 books)

Dune (6 books)

by Jonathan Lethem

"Stewart Brand recommended this series on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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Beowulf

Beowulf

by Seamus Heaney

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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The Complete Greek Tragedies

The Complete Greek Tragedies

by David Grene

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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Culture (11 books)

Culture (11 books)

by Steven Weinberg

"Stewart Brand recommended this series on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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Connectography

Connectography

by Parag Khanna

"About humanity's infrastructure."

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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

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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Foundation (7 books)

Foundation (7 books)

by Galen Rowell

"Stewart Brand recommended this series on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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A Bright Future

A Bright Future

by Joshua S. Goldstein, Staffan A. Qvist

"Looks promising. Joshua Goldstein's book, A BRIGHT FUTURE, is excellent."

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Medieval Civilization

Medieval Civilization

by Jacques Le Goff

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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The History of Middle-earth, Part Two

by Christopher Tolkien, J.R.R. Tolkien

"Thread. Because I'm writing, these days, I'm reading for pleasure a book filled with detail about an occasion of great writing. It is Christopher Tolkien's THE HISTORY OF MIDDLE EARTH, Part Two, which chronicles the early stages of his father's crafting of THE LORD OF THE RINGS"

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Vanishing Asia

by Kevin Kelly

"Kevin Kelly's astonishing book is a lifetime work. It's available at Amazon:"

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The Prince

The Prince

by Niccolò Machiavelli

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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Venice

Venice

by Frederic C. Lane

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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The Elements

The Elements

by Theodore Gray

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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Jackpot

Jackpot

by Michael Mechanic

"@matisse_enzer The book is very well researched. Full of news to me."

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World of My Own

World of My Own

by Robin Knox-Johnston

"@jscottshipman @slapout9 The other two books are worth your time too--Knox-Johnston's A WORLD OF MY OWN and THE STRANGE LAST VOYAGE OF DONALD CROWHURST."

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On the Nature of Things

On the Nature of Things

by Lucretius

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst

The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst

by Nicholas Tomalin

"@jscottshipman @slapout9 The other two books are worth your time too--Knox-Johnston's A WORLD OF MY OWN and THE STRANGE LAST VOYAGE OF DONALD CROWHURST."

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The Sleepwalkers

The Sleepwalkers

by Arthur Koestler

"Stewart Brand mentioned this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast."

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The Clock Of The Long Now

The Clock Of The Long Now

by Stewart Brand

""[Brand's] book is the first I know to explicitly explore what long-term thinking really is, or could be. He takes it as a concept and pulls it apart to examine it. That’s a real intellectual shift in the history of long-term thinking.... He’s an amazing, pithy prose stylist.""

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Impro

Impro

by Keith Johnstone

"I was lucky enough to take several classes from the great improv coach, Keith Johnstone. Worth studying is his 1979 seminal book IMPRO: IMPROVISATION AND THE THEATRE."

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What Technology Wants

What Technology Wants

by Kevin Kelly

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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Guns, Germs, and Steel

Guns, Germs, and Steel

by Jared Diamond

"The main [book by this author]."

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Conceptual Physics

Conceptual Physics

by Paul G. Hewitt

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses

by James Joyce, Catherine Flynn

"For me, the best Folio Society books are: Aubrey-Maturin series, Patrick O'Brien (20 books) DUNE, Frank Herbert EAST OF EDEN, John Steinbeck THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY, Michael Chabon GULLIVER'S TRAVELS, Jonathan Swift FINNEGANS WAKE & ULYSSES, James Joyce"

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The Epic of Gilgamesh

The Epic of Gilgamesh

by Anonymous

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

"For me, the best Folio Society books are: Aubrey-Maturin series, Patrick O'Brien (20 books) DUNE, Frank Herbert EAST OF EDEN, John Steinbeck THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY, Michael Chabon GULLIVER'S TRAVELS, Jonathan Swift FINNEGANS WAKE & ULYSSES, James Joyce"

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Adventures of a Bystander

Adventures of a Bystander

by Peter F. Drucker

"[The author]'s early memoir."

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The Landmark Herodotus

The Landmark Herodotus

by Herodotus

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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The Odyssey

The Odyssey

by Homer

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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