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Stewart Brandbook recommendations

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

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

Stewart Brand on Collapse
"Has some interesting stuff to propose."

Stewart Brand on The Idea of Decline in Western History
Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post.

Stewart Brand on The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post.

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

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

Stewart Brand on The Merck Manual Home Health Handbook
Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Stewart Brand on Thinking, Fast and Slow
Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post.

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

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

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

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

Stewart Brand on The Better Angels of Our Nature
Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post.

Stewart Brand on Adventures of a Bystander
"[The author]'s early memoir."

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

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

Stewart Brand on Finite and Infinite Games
"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 on Learning to Breathe Fire
"Tells the story of how CrossFit came about."

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

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

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

Stewart Brand on Machines of Loving Grace
"Basically spells out the ongoing debate between artificial intelligence and intelligence augmentation – I.A. and A.I."

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

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

Stewart Brand on Homo Ludens
"Games are basically what we do."

Stewart Brand on Scale
"Particularly fantastic."

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

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

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

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

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

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

Stewart Brand on Guns, Germs, and Steel
"The main [book by this author]."

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

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

Stewart Brand on The Art of the Long View
Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post.

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

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

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

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

Stewart Brand on A Short History of Nearly Everything
Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post.

Stewart Brand on A History of the World in 100 Objects
Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Stewart Brand on The Complete Guide to Trail Building and Maintenance
Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Stewart Brand on The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post.

Stewart Brand on Our Bodies, Ourselves
"Wonderful book by women on women’s health."

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

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

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

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