Philosophy · Similar reads
Books like Towards a New Architecture
Towards a New Architecture by Le Corbusier is about modernism, architecture and society, form and function. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Design of Everyday Things
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Donald Norman · Psychology
The Design of Everyday Things began as The Psychology of Everyday Things when first published in 1988, and Donald Norman revised it substantially for a 2013 edition that updated the examples for a digital age.
Read the summary → - The Timeless Way of Building
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Christopher Alexander · Philosophy
Christopher Alexander's The Timeless Way of Building is a strange and ambitious book.
Read the summary → - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert Pirsig · Philosophy
Robert Pirsig's 1974 book is structured as a cross-country motorcycle journey from Minnesota to California, narrated by a father traveling with his young son Chris.
Read the summary → - The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
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The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
Richard Hamming · Science
Richard Hamming's book is based on a course he taught at the Naval Postgraduate School in the late 1980s, after a long career at Bell Labs where he made foundational contributions to information theory and computer science — the Hamming distance, Hamming codes, and various contributions to numerical methods all bear his name.
Read the summary → - 1984
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George Orwell · Philosophy
Nineteen Eighty-Four is George Orwell's 1949 novel about a future England called Airstrip One, governed by the totalitarian Party under the figurehead Big Brother.
Read the summary → - 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari · Philosophy
Where Sapiens traced humanity's past and Homo Deus speculated about its future, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century plants itself in the present.
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