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Books like Whole Earth Discipline
Whole Earth Discipline by Stewart Brand is about environmentalism, nuclear energy, urbanization. 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.
- Enlightenment Now
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Steven Pinker · Science
Enlightenment Now is Steven Pinker's argument that the ideals of the Enlightenment — reason, science, humanism, and progress — have been responsible for a dramatic and continuing improvement in human wellbeing across virtually every measurable dimension, and that these ideals are under threat from counter-Enlightenment movements on both the left and the right.
Read the summary → - Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World
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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World
Hans Rosling · Economics
Hans Rosling spent decades testing audiences of students, professors, journalists, and politicians on basic facts about global development — child mortality rates, literacy, extreme poverty, life expectancy — and found consistently that even well-educated, well-intentioned people performed worse than chance.
Read the summary → - The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
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The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
Matt Ridley · Economics
Matt Ridley's argument in The Rational Optimist is evolutionary in the literal sense: he treats the expansion of human prosperity as the result of a Darwinian process operating at the cultural level, where ideas combine, compete, and recombine to produce innovations that raise living standards.
Read the summary → - A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
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A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
Jennifer A. Doudna and Samuel H. Sternberg · Science
A Crack in Creation is Jennifer Doudna and Samuel Sternberg's account of how CRISPR-Cas9 works, what it can do, and why its possibilities should give everyone pause.
Read the summary → - The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World
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The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World
Amanda Little · Science
The Fate of Food is Amanda Little's reporting on how food production is being reshaped by climate change and by the technologies that farmers, scientists, and food companies are deploying to respond.
Read the summary → - A Brief History of Time
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Stephen Hawking · Science
A Brief History of Time is Stephen Hawking's attempt to explain the biggest questions in physics — where the universe came from, how it behaves, and where it might be going — to readers with no scientific training.
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