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Whole Earth Discipline

October 15, 2009 – 12:21 am

Stewart Brand is an intellectual magpie, drawing on an incredibly wide variety of sources for his new book Whole Earth Discipline. Fans of Brand will not be surprised at much of the content, as he has written earlier on similar subjects: the scope and scale of climate change, the dynamism of megacities, the controversy and [...]

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Reader of a thousand books

January 17, 2008 – 12:15 am

Inspired by this recount of famous shed-writers, I am putting forth my own favorite hermetic book-lover story: that of Joseph Campbell spending several years in a cabin, reading for nine hours a day. Something about the unlikely combination of dedication and freedom involved in this endeavor has wedged it firmly in place at the top [...]

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A Farewell to Alms: Marginal Revolution book forum links

January 3, 2008 – 11:06 am

In advance of diving in to Gregory Clark’s A Farewell to Alms, I’m stockpiling the links to Marginal Revolution’s excellent book forum:
A Farewell to Alms, pp.1-112
Farewell to Alms, pp.112-192
A Farewell to Alms, through p.272
Farewell to Alms, final session
Plus, all 59 (and counting) references to A Farewell to Alms on MR.

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