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Stewart Brand is an American writer, best known as editor of the Whole Earth Catalog. He founded a number of organizations, including The WELL, the Global Business Network, and the Long Now Foundation.
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Vanishing Asia
Three Volume Set
2022-05-24
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Stewart Brand
2022-05-12T02:04:46.000Z
Kevin Kelly's astonishing book is a lifetime work. It's available at Amazon:      source
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The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst
Nicholas Tomalin - 2017-10-03 (first published in 1970)
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Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst...
Stewart Brand
2021-10-07T21:21:25.000Z
@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.      source
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World of My Own
Robin Knox-Johnston - 2004-01-30 (first published in 1969)
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On Friday 14 June 1968 Suhaili, a tiny ketch, slipped almostunnoticed out of Falmouth harbour steered by the solitary figure at herhelm, Robin Knox-Johnston. Ten and a half months later Suhaili,paintwork peeling and rust streaked, her once white sails weathered andbrown, her self-steering gone, her tiller arm jury rigged to the rudderhead, came rom...
Stewart Brand
2021-10-07T21:21:25.000Z
@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.      source
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The Clock Of The Long Now
Stewart Brand - 2000-04-06 (first published in 1999)
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Using the designing and building of the Clock of the Long Now as a framework, this is a book about the practical use of long time perspective: how to get it, how to use it, how to keep it in and out of sight. Here are the central questions it inspires: How do we make long-term thinking automatic and common instead of difficult and rare? Discipline ...
Stewart Brand
2021-09-27T18:02:04.000Z
"[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."      source
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Impro
Improvisation and the Theatre
Keith Johnstone - 1987-01-07 (first published in 1979)
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First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. ...more...
Stewart Brand
2021-07-26T05:15:37.000Z
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.      source
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Project Hail Mary
A Novel
Andy Weir - 2021-05-04
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Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission--and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's ju...
Stewart Brand
2021-05-17T15:31:36.000Z
The plot of Andy Weir's PROJECT HAIL MARY consists mostly of science problems and their solutions. Joyously. My question is: What is the youngest age of readers that revel in the book? Because they WILL want to become scientists. Anybody got examples?      source
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Second Nature
Scenes from a World Remade
Nathaniel Rich - 2021-03-30
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From the author of Losing Earth, a beautifully told exploration of our post-natural world that points the way to a new mode of ecological writing.We live at a time in which scientists race to reanimate extinct beasts, our most essential ecosystems require monumental engineering projects to survive, chicken breasts grow in test tubes, and multinatio...
Stewart Brand
2021-03-26T02:07:46.000Z
Fine review of Nathaniel Rich's excellent book SECOND NATURE in Science magazine:      source
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Organizing Genius
The Secrets of Creative Collaboration
Warren Bennis - 1998-06-04 (first published in 1997)
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Uncovers the elements of creative collaboration by examining six of the century's most extraordinary groups and distill their successful practices into lessons that virtually any organization can learn and commit to in order to transform its own management into a collaborative and successful group of leaders. Paper. DLC: Organizational effectivenes...
Stewart Brand
2021-03-17T23:52:19.000Z
@davidtlang @kevin2kelly The book you describe needs to be written, David. A good one about scenius *within* organizations is ORGANIZING GENIUS:The Secrets of Creative Collaboration, by Warren Bennis:      source
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Sea of Cortez
A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research
John Steinbeck - 2009-07-08
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The collaboration of two friends-one a novelist, one a novelist, one a marine biologist-produced a volume in which fascinating popular science is woven into a narrative of man's dreams, his ideals, and his accomplishments through the centuries. Sea of Cortez is one of those rare books that are all things to all readers. Actually the record of a bri...
Stewart Brand
2021-02-14T18:20:34.000Z
John Steinbeck and marine biologist Ed Ricketts inspired me to become a biologist via the books CANNERY ROW and THE SEA OF CORTEZ. Here is a lovely 9-minute video about them and restoring their famous research boat "Western Flyer."      source
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Renaissance Man of Cannery Row
The Life and Letters of Edward F. Ricketts (Alabama Fire Ant)
Edward F. Ricketts - 2003-06-23 (first published in 2002)
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This portrait of one of John Steinbeck's closest friends illuminates the life and work of a figure central to the development of scientific and literary thought in the 20th century.Marine biologist Edward F. Ricketts is perhaps best known as the inspiration for John Steinbeck's most empathic literary characters Doc in Cannery Row, Slim in Of Mice a...
Stewart Brand
2021-02-14T18:20:34.000Z
John Steinbeck and marine biologist Ed Ricketts inspired me to become a biologist via the books CANNERY ROW and THE SEA OF CORTEZ. Here is a lovely 9-minute video about them and restoring their famous research boat "Western Flyer."      source
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
The Human Planet by George Steinmetz
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
The Half-Acre Homestead by Lloyd Kahn
Dune by Frank Herbert
Novacene by James Lovelock
Wilding by Isabella Tree
The Water Will Come by Jeff Goodell
Scale by Geoffrey West
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan
The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Foundation and Empire by Isaac-Asimov
Foundation by Isaac-Asimov
Time Travel by James Gleick
Machines of Loving Grace by John Markoff
Beowulf by J. Lesslie Hall
Rust by Jonathan Waldman
Governing the Commons by Elinor Ostrom
Epic of Gilgamesh by Morris Jastrow
Learning to Breathe Fire by J. C. Herz
The Iliad by Homer
The History Manifesto by Jo Guldi
Homo Ludens by Johan Huizinga
A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil Macgregor
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse
Turing's Cathedral by George Dyson
Memory of the World by Unesco
The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker
Dirt by David R. Montgomery
Triumph of the City by Edward Glaeser
Why the West Rules--for Now by Ian Morris
Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women'S Health Book Collective
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington
The Coming Population Crash by Fred Pearce
Collapse by Jared Diamond
Look to Windward by Iain M. Banks
The Merck Manual Home Health Handbook by Robert Porter
Elements by Theodore Gray
The Encyclopedia of Earth by Michael Allaby
Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks
Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon
The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks
The Idea of Decline in Western History by Arthur Herman
The Nature of Things by Lucretius
The Odyssey of Homer by Homer
The Story of Writing by Andrew Robinson
The Shock of the Old by David Edgerton
The Singularity Is Near by Ray Kurzweil
Military Misfortunes by Eliot A. Cohen
The Map Book by Peter Barber
The State of the Art by Iain M. Banks
The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
The Past From Above by Charlotte Trümpler
The Long Summer by Brian Fagan
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Infinite in All Directions by Freeman J. Dyson
The Histories by Herodotus
One True God by Rodney Stark
The Future of Life by Edward O. Wilson
The Eternal Frontier by Tim Flannery
With a Daughter's Eye by Mary Catherine Bateson
Conceptual Physics by J. K
Red Power, 2nd Ed by Troy R. Johnson
The Way Life Works by Mahlon Hoagland
The Pattern On The Stone by Danny Hillis
The Landmark Thucydides by Thucydides
The Complete Guide to Trail Building and Maintenance by Carl Demrow
Excession by Iain M. Banks
Imagined Worlds by Freeman Dyson
The Art of the Long View by Peter Schwartz
The Western Canon by Harold Bloom
A History of Civilizations by Fernand Braudel
The Civilization of the Middle Ages by Norman F. Cantor
The Rise of the West by William H. McNeill
Medieval Civilization 400 - 1500 by Jacques le Goff
Powers of Ten by Philip Morrison
The Causes of War by Geoffrey Blainey
Thinking in Time by Richard E. Neustadt
Across Realtime by Vernor Vinge
The Discoverers by Daniel J. Boorstin
The Gift by Lewis Hyde
A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander
Grand design by Georg Gerster
Venice, A Maritime Republic by Frederic Chapin Lane
The King and the Corpse by Heinrich Zimmer
The Complete Greek Tragedies by Sophocles
Gaia by James Lovelock
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