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- Stewart Brand's Suggested Books about Long Term Thinking
- Books in Print By Long Now Board Members
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Stewart Brand's Suggested Books
- In Ruins : A Journey Through History, Art, and Literature
- Released: 02003
- "Ruins past evoke ruins future."
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- Finite and Infinite Games
- Released: 01994
- "In the infinite game, to play is to win."
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- The Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World
- Released: 01991
- "Scenarios engage and free the future."
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- The Myth of the Eternal Return
- Released: 01991
- "Humanity's love of timelessness."
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- Guns, Germs, and Steel
- Released: 01999
- "Biogeography made agriculture, made civilization."
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- The Civilization of the Middle Ages
- Released: 01993
- "Surviving a dark age."
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- The Discoverers
- Released: 01985
- "How ideas drove history."
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- Revolutions in Time
- Released: 01983
- "How clocks synchronized civilization."
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- The Idea of Decline in Western Civilization
- Released: 01997
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- Thinking in Time
- Released: 01988
- "Applying history well."
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- Built to Last
- Released: 01994
- "Organizing for longevity."
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- The Evolution of Cooperation
- Released: 01985
- "Time builds trust."
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- Governing the Commons
- Released: 01991
- "Untragic common sense."
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- Holy Fire
- Released: 01997
- "Long life changes life."
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- Infinite in All Directions
- Released: 01985
- "Sophisticated optimism."
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- The Age of Spiritual Machines
- Released: 01999
- "Beyond Moore's Law."
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- Deep Time: How Humanity Communicates Across Millennia
- Released: 01999
- "Communication and responsibility over millennia."
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- The Future of Life
- Released: 02003
- "The true state of the natural world."
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- Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
- Released: 02000
- "The sinews of sustainability."
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- The Holocene: An Environmental History
- Released: 01998
- Environmental change over 10,000 years."
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- Constant Battles: The Myth of the Peaceful, Noble Savage
- Released: 02003
- "Humans always over-populate and always slaughter."
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- Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and Economics
- Released: 01995
- "Complexity goes its own way."
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- The Clock Of The Long Now: Time and Responsibility
- Released: 01999
- "Time and responsibility."
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Books in print by our board members
- The Clock Of The Long Now: Time and Responsibility
- Released: 01999
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- Das Ticken des langen Jetzt (German Edition)
- Released: 02000
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- How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
- Released: 01994
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- The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at MIT
- Released: 01987
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- The Pattern on the Stone : The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work
- Released: 01998
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- The Connection Machine
- Released: 01989
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- Release 2.1: A design for living in the digital age
- Released: 01998
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- Release 2.0: A design for living in the digital age
- Released: 01997
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- A Year (with Swollen Appendices) No Longer Available.
- Released: 01996
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- New Rules for the New Economy
- Released: 01998
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- Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and Economics
- Released: 01995
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- Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson
- Released: 01999
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- Hidden Cities : The Discovery and Loss of Ancient North American Civilization
- Released: 01996
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- Presidio Gateways : Views of a National Landmark at San Francisco's Golden Gate
- Released: 01995
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- Cartographia Extraordiaire
- Released: 02005
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- When Good Companies Do Bad Things : Responsibility and Risk in an Age of Globalization
- Released: 01999
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- The Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World, Long Boom
- Released: 01999
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Other books recommended by LongNow
- Longplayer
- Released: 02003
- This is a beautiful book with vinyl LP of and about Jem Finer's Longplayer project.
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- The Future of the Past
- Released: 02003
- Stille brings to life the personalities of preservationists, scholars, opportunists, looters and other key players in the world of conservation and preservation.
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- Into the Future (VHS)
- Released: 01997
- This is an excellent documentary film on the loss of digital data in modern times.
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- The Complete Pyramids
- Released: 01997
- "The most durable signal through time."
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- Lost Civilizations
- Released: 01995
- "Greatness falls, time after time."
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- The Creators
- Released: 01993
- "Art, invention, and science through history."
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