101 Stewart Brand Recommended Books
Stewart Brand is a writer, speaker, and environmentalist, best known for his work on the Whole Earth Catalog. He is a co-founder of The Long Now Foundation and helped start the Revive & Restore project, which works to bring back extinct species. He is also the founder of the Global Business Network, which focuses on futures studies. Stewart Brand is currently dedicated to finding solutions to social and environmental problems.
101 Books recommended by Stewart Brand
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Author :Bill Bryson
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
Adventures of a Bystander
Author :Peter F. Drucker
- Stewart Brand"[The author]'s early memoir." - Stewart Brand [Source]
The Future of Life
Author :Edward O. Wilson
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
Machines of Loving Grace
The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots
Author :John Markoff
- Stewart Brand"Basically spells out the ongoing debate between artificial intelligence and intelligence augmentation – I.A. and A.I." - Stewart Brand [Source]
The Landmark Thucydides
Author :Thucydides
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
The Discoverers
A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself
Author :Daniel J. Boorstin
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
The Idea of Decline in Western History
Author :Arthur Herman
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
One True God
Historical Consequences of Monotheism
Author :Rodney Stark
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
The Prince
Author :Niccolò Machiavelli
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
The Odyssey
Author :Homer
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
The Oxford Shakespeare
The Complete Works
Author :William Shakespeare
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
Time Travel
A History
Author :James Gleick
- Stewart Brand"Some of the most cogent thinking about time that I think we’ve seen in a long time." - Stewart Brand [Source]
The Better Angels of Our Nature
Why Violence Has Declined
Author :Steven Pinker
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
A History of the World in 100 Objects
Author :Neil MacGregor
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
The Past From Above
Aerial Photographs of Archaeological Sites
Author :Charlotte Trümpler
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
The Rise of the West
A History of the Human Community; with a Retrospective Essay
Author :William H. McNeill
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
The Encyclopedia of Earth
A Complete Visual Guide
Author :Michael Allaby
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
The Good Ancestor
How to Think Long-Term in a Short-Term World
Author :Roman Krznaric
- Stewart Brand"A very good book." - Stewart Brand [Source]
The Merck Manual Home Health Handbook
Author :Robert Porter
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
Imagined Worlds
Author :Freeman Dyson
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
Tao Te Ching
Author :Lao Tzu
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
Homo Ludens
A Study of the Play-Element in Culture
Author :Johan Huizinga
- Stewart Brand"Games are basically what we do." - Stewart Brand [Source]
The Complete Greek Tragedies
4 Volumes
Author :David Grene
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
The Way Life Works
The Science Lover's Illustrated Guide to How Life Grows, Develops, Reproduces, and Gets Along
Author :Mahlon Hoagland
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
The Sleepwalkers
A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe
Author :Arthur Koestler
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand mentioned this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast. [Source]
Star Maker
Author :Olaf Stapledon
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
A History of Civilizations
Author :Fernand Braudel
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
Across Realtime
Across Realtime, Book 3
Author :Vernor Vinge
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
The Water Will Come
Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
Author :Jeff Goodell
- Stewart Brand"Do read." - Stewart Brand [Source]
A Pattern Language
Towns, Buildings, Construction
Author :Christopher Alexander
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
Finite and Infinite Games
Author :James Carse
- Stewart Brand"A fundamental interest is gamification – thinking of things in game terms and designing things in gaming terms is one of the profound things that civilization has done for a very long time." - Stewart Brand [Source]
On the Nature of Things
Author :Lucretius
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
The Pattern On The Stone
The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work
Author :Danny Hillis
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
The Art of the Long View
Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World
Author :Peter Schwartz
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
Learning to Breathe Fire
The Rise of CrossFit and the Primal Future of Fitness
Author :J.C. Herz
- Stewart Brand"Tells the story of how CrossFit came about." - Stewart Brand [Source]
Thinking in Time
The Uses of History for Decision-Makers
Author :Richard E. Neustadt
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
Military Misfortunes
The Anatomy of Failure in War
Author :Eliot A. Cohen
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
Medieval Civilization
400-1500
Author :Jacques Le Goff
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
The Complete Guide to Trail Building and Maintenance
Author :Carl Demrow
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
The King and the Corpse
Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil
Author :Heinrich Zimmer
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
The Singularity Is Near
When Humans Transcend Biology
Author :Ray Kurzweil
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Author :Anonymous
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
The Long Summer
How Climate Changed Civilization
Author :Brian Fagan
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
The Landmark Herodotus
The Histories
Author :Herodotus
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
The Coming Population Crash
and Our Planet's Surprising Future
Author :Fred Pearce
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
The Eternal Frontier
An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples
Author :Tim Flannery
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
Memory of the World
The Treasures that Record Our History from 1700 BC to the Present Day
Author :UNESCO
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
Triumph of the City
How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
Author :Edward Glaeser
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
Meditations
Author :Marcus Aurelius
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
The Map Book
Author :Peter Barber
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
Turing's Cathedral
The Origins of the Digital Universe
Author :George Dyson
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
Powers of Ten
About the Relative Size of Things in the Universe
Author :Philip Morrison
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
Author :Samuel P. Huntington
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
The Civilization of the Middle Ages
A Completely Revised and Expanded Edition of Medieval History, the Life and Death of a Civilization
Author :Norman F. Cantor
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
Infinite in All Directions
Author :Freeman J. Dyson
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
The Causes of War
Author :Geoffrey Blainey
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
Connectography
Mapping the Future of Global Civilization
Author :Parag Khanna
- Stewart Brand"About humanity's infrastructure." - Stewart Brand [Source]
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Author :Daniel Kahneman
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
The Western Canon
The Books and School of the Ages
Author :Harold Bloom
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
The Elements
A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe
Author :Theodore Gray
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
The Story of Writing
Alphabets, Hieroglyphs & Pictograms
Author :Andrew Robinson
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
Why the West Rules--for Now
The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
Author :Ian Morris
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
What Technology Wants
Author :Kevin Kelly
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
Grand Design
The Earth from Above
Author :Georg Gerster
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
Brave New World
Author :Aldous Huxley
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
Guns, Germs, and Steel
The Fates of Human Societies
Author :Jared Diamond
- Stewart Brand"The main [book by this author]." - Stewart Brand [Source]
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Author :Edward Gibbon
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
Our Bodies, Ourselves
A Book by and for Women
Author :Boston Women's Health Book Collective
- Stewart Brand"Wonderful book by women on women’s health." - Stewart Brand [Source]
Governing the Commons
The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action
Author :Elinor Ostrom
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
Conceptual Physics
Author :Paul G. Hewitt
- Stewart BrandStewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post. [Source]
FAQs
Q1: What is Stewart Brand and why is he recommending books?
Stewart Brand is an American writer, best known as the creator of the Whole Earth Catalog. He is recommending books based on his personal opinions, research, and expertise.
Q2: What types of books does Stewart Brand recommend?
Stewart Brand recommends books that are related to topics such as technology, nature, history, and culture. He also offers recommendations on books about philosophy, economics, and other topics related to understanding modern society.
Q3: How can I find the books that Stewart Brand recommends?
Stewart Brand publishes his book recommendations on his personal blog and website. He also periodically releases public lists of books that he recommends.
Q4: Are the books recommended by Stewart Brand available to buy online?
Most of the books recommended by Stewart Brand can be purchased online from various book retailers.
Q5: Are the books recommended by Stewart Brand only published in English?
No, some of the books recommended by Stewart Brand are published in other languages, such as French, Spanish, German, and Chinese.
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