Stewart Brand
Writer; founder of the Whole Earth Catalog
Stewart Brand is the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog and a co-founder of the Long Now Foundation.
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Recommended Books
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A Pattern Language
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Infinite in All Directions

Homo Ludens
Brave New World

Gulliver's Travels

East of Eden
Consider Phlebas

A Short History of Nearly Everything
Finnegans Wake
Books by Stewart Brand

Whole Earth Discipline
Stewart Brand
The Clock of the Long Now
Stewart Brand
How Buildings Learn
Stewart BrandII Cybernetic Frontiers
Stewart BrandThe Media Lab
Stewart BrandThe Last Whole Earth Catalog
Stewart BrandSource & Proof
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“Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization”
“Games are basically what we do.”
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“For me, the best Folio Society books are: AubreyMaturin 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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