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The Next Whole Earth Catalog
Random House, 1981
The Next Whole Earth Catalog (Access To Tools)
To review what was relevent to review, in the early 80's, is to go back twenty years in time to examine the past. This catalog of catalogs is extremely interesting to anyone who wants to remember two decades ago, or to anyone who wants to be mesmerised by the written ...
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Original Whole Earth Catalog, Special 30th Anniversary Issue
Whole Earth, 1998
The way it was...
If you weren't there, then this review is for you. The Whole Earth Catalog was not so much a catalog, as a service reviewing stuff, and ideas, and movements in the late sixties and early to mid seventies. You could not be a hippy without a copy of this book, or an ...
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Clock Of The Long Now: Time And Responsibility: The Ideas Behind The World's Slowest Computer
Stewart Brand
Basic Books, 2000
Truly Extraordinary--Core Reading for Future of Earth- Man
I confess to being dumb. Although I know and admire the author, who has spoken at my conference, when the book came out I thought--really dumb, but I mention it because others may have made the same mistake--that it was about building a cute clock in the middle of the ...
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How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
Stewart Brand
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1995
BBC video of HOW BUILDINGS LEARN now online
In 1997 the BBC aired a six-part TV series called, "How Buildings Learn," based on my book. I was the presenter and co-writer, James Runcie produced it, and Brian Eno provided original music.
The series is now available online at Google Videos. Episode 1 is at the ...
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The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at M. I. T.
Stewart Brand
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1988
Future past?
This book was given to me as a gift when I learned that I was admitted to MIT in 1988. Over the years (and more so recently), I often see things that are the end result of the research done during the '80s at the Media Lab and documented in this book. Lego ...
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The Next Whole Earth Catalog: Access to Tools
Stewart Brand
Random House Inc (P), 1981
Seminal in crystallizing a way of conceiving of alternative tools
"The Next Whole Earth Catalog" was seminal in crystallizing a way of conceiving of alternative tools, and providing access to them when it was published in the early 1980s. It's also significant in emblematizing a way of thinking that emerged perhaps with Earth Day in ...
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II cybernetic frontiers
Stewart Brand
Random House, 1974
Fast Forward Retro Vision for the Digital Age
This is one of those books that I've periodically pulled off the shelf again and again over the years. Stewart Brand's journalistic foray into (what was then) pre-Internet, hacker/computer culture shows us the roots/rock/reggae of an earlier generation of programmers ...
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Discipline and Discharge in Arbitration
BNA Books (Bureau of National Affairs), 1998
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Five Past Midnight (Chivers Sound Library)
James Stewart Thayer
Chivers Audio Books, 1998
Just flat-out good, loved it, finally an intelligent hero
I like reading WWII fiction and this book is about as good as it gets. This is not an overly complicated or complex book written on multiple levels, and telling many stories; the writing style is very direct and the plot is reasonably straight-forward.....but none of ...
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