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Australian-born social philosopher; author of Empathy (2014), The Good Ancestor (2020) and History for Tomorrow (2024); a founding faculty member of The School of Life.
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On HistoryBook Howard Zinn
Earlier he had written a number of essays about the writing of history, and the book I’ve chosen On History, is a collection of these essays.
Five Books interview: the best books on The Lessons of History
2024-09-27·fivebooks.com ↗
Why History MattersBook John Tosh
What John Tosh has done in his book, Why History Matters, is to take that idea of learning from history much further.
Five Books interview: the best books on The Lessons of History
2024-09-27·fivebooks.com ↗
The Ornament of the WorldBook Maria Rosa Menocal
Yes, so the next book I’ve chosen is The Ornament of The World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain.
Five Books interview: the best books on The Lessons of History
2024-09-27·fivebooks.com ↗
Anarchy in ActionBook Colin Ward
Ward’s writings have really influenced the way I think about politics, society and economics, especially through a book he wrote called Anarchy in Action, which tries to bring out all these examples in the present and in the past of where we’ve managed to cooperate.
Five Books interview: the best books on The Lessons of History
2024-09-27·fivebooks.com ↗
AuroraBook Kim Stanley Robinson
Aurora looks like it’s a book about space, but it’s really a depiction of the dilemmas we face on Earth—about how to survive on the only planet we know that can sustain human life.
Five Books interview: the best books on The Best Books for Long-Term Thinking
2020-07-13·fivebooks.com ↗
Thinking in SystemsBook Donella Meadows
Thinking in Systems raises some really basic questions like how do you create an economic system which is self-regulating and can sustain itself over the long term?
Five Books interview: the best books on The Best Books for Long-Term Thinking
2020-07-13·fivebooks.com ↗
A New RealityBook Jonas Salk & Jonathan Salk
The focus of A New Reality, which he co-wrote with his son Jonathan (and which was published in an updated edition in 2018) is on the most profound shape of the modern social sciences: the S, or sigmoid curve.
Five Books interview: the best books on The Best Books for Long-Term Thinking
2020-07-13·fivebooks.com ↗
WaldenBook Henry David Thoreau
He lived two years there, and a few years later he wrote a book about his experiences called Walden; or, Life in the Woods.
Five Books interview: the best books on The Art of Living
2012-11-30·fivebooks.com ↗
Down and Out in Paris and LondonBook George Orwell
The reason I think that is because in Down and Out in Paris and London he showed that empathy could become an extreme sport and the guideline for the art of living.
Five Books interview: the best books on The Art of Living
2012-11-30·fivebooks.com ↗
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