Sensemaking Collection
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The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
by:
Will Durant
4.15 avg rating β 17,693 ratings 
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Cynefin - Weaving Sense-Making into the Fabric of Our World
by:
Dave Snowden
3.91 avg rating β 156 ratings 
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Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
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Tyson Yunkaporta
4.36 avg rating β 4,536 ratings 8. 
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The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy
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Murray Bookchin
4.17 avg rating β 826 ratings 10. 
Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology
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Gregory Bateson
4.26 avg rating β 1,457 ratings 
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In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life
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Robert Kegan
4.22 avg rating β 598 ratings 
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Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
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Simon Winchester
3.84 avg rating β 1,668 ratings 
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The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self
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Thomas Metzinger
4.10 avg rating β 3,211 ratings 
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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
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James C. Scott
4.21 avg rating β 6,471 ratings 21. 
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
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John Green
4.36 avg rating β 161,122 ratings 22. 
Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship
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Terrence Real
4.24 avg rating β 3,637 ratings 23. 
Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea 4.24 avg rating β 148 ratings
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The Space of the World: Can Human Solidarity Survive Social Media and What If It Can't?
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Nick Couldry
4.33 avg rating β 3 ratings 
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Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest
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Suzanne Simard
4.21 avg rating β 15,850 ratings 27. 
The Mind of Plants: Narratives of Vegetal Intelligence
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John C. Ryan
3.81 avg rating β 42 ratings 28. 
Encounters: Experiences with Nonhuman Intelligences
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D.W. Pasulka
3.94 avg rating β 1,261 ratings 29. 
Primary Perception: Biocommunication with Plants, Living Foods, and Human Cells
by:
Cleve Backster
4.22 avg rating β 59 ratings 30. 
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
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Andrea Wulf
4.32 avg rating β 28,488 ratings 
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Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
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James Bridle
4.17 avg rating β 1,977 ratings 33. 
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
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Priya Parker
3.96 avg rating β 25,939 ratings 34. 
Everyday Habits for Transforming Systems: The Catalytic Power of Radical Engagement
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Adam Kahane
4.50 avg rating β 18 ratings 35. 
Cultivating Communities of Practice: A Guide to Managing Knowledge
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Etienne Wenger
3.85 avg rating β 357 ratings 36. 
Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity
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Etienne Wenger
4.06 avg rating β 354 ratings 37. 
The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence 4.10 avg rating β 224 ratings
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The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Canβt Think the Way We Do
by:
Erik J. Larson
3.95 avg rating β 843 ratings 39. 
Irreducible: Consciousness, Life, Computers, and Human Nature
by:
Federico Faggin
4.03 avg rating β 300 ratings 40. 
We Just Build Hammers: Stories from the Past, Present, and Future of Responsible Tech it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 3 ratings
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The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves
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W. Brian Arthur
3.96 avg rating β 821 ratings 42. 
The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal 4.55 avg rating β 1,538 ratings
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Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
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Nathan Schneider
4.04 avg rating β 23 ratings 44. 
The Listening Society: A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book One
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Hanzi Freinacht
4.51 avg rating β 380 ratings 45. 
βΏ» ζΈδ½ Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
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E. Glen Weyl
3.60 avg rating β 40 ratings 46. 
The Tao of Democracy: Using Co-Intelligence to Create a World That Works for All
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Tom Atlee
3.97 avg rating β 35 ratings 47. 
The Frontlines of Peace: An Insider's Guide to Changing the World 4.20 avg rating β 308 ratings
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The Time Falling Bodies Take To Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture 4.33 avg rating β 174 ratings
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The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
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Joseph Henrich
4.12 avg rating β 3,970 ratings 52. 
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Freedom Is an Endless Meeting: Democracy in American Social Movements 3.93 avg rating β 61 ratings
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Political Activism in the Linguistic Landscape: Or, how to use Public Space as a Medium for Protest
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Philip Seargeant
4.67 avg rating β 3 ratings 55. 
Ctrl Alt Delete: How Politics and the Media Crashed Our Democracy
by:
Tom Baldwin
4.12 avg rating β 48 ratings 56. 
The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley
by:
Marietje Schaake
3.82 avg rating β 299 ratings 57. 
Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back
by:
Ulises A. Mejias
3.90 avg rating β 72 ratings 58. 
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
by:
Brian Merchant
4.15 avg rating β 1,287 ratings 59. 
Understanding Collapse: Ancient History and Modern Myths
by:
Guy D. Middleton
4.04 avg rating β 23 ratings 60. 
Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics in the Age of Crisis
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George Monbiot
4.07 avg rating β 1,963 ratings 61. 
The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present
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Douglas Coupland
3.85 avg rating β 1,184 ratings 62. 
At Work in the Ruins: Finding Our Place in the Time of Science, Climate Change, Pandemics and All the Other Emergencies
by:
Dougald Hine
4.13 avg rating β 187 ratings 63. 
Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions
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Johann Hari
4.26 avg rating β 40,179 ratings 64. 
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
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Robert D. Putnam
3.85 avg rating β 8,661 ratings 65. 
The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
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Greg Grandin
4.28 avg rating β 3,038 ratings 66. 
Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
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Kevin M. Kruse
3.92 avg rating β 2,270 ratings 67. 
An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions
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David Zweig
4.35 avg rating β 108 ratings 68. 
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
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John Ganz
4.08 avg rating β 3,623 ratings 69. 
Healing Collective Trauma: A Process for Integrating Our Intergenerational and Cultural Wounds
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Thomas HΓΌbl
4.19 avg rating β 306 ratings 70. 
The German Trauma: Experiences and Reflections 1938-2001
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Gitta Sereny
4.14 avg rating β 278 ratings 
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Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence
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Amy B. Zegart
3.95 avg rating β 1,365 ratings 74. 
Stop Wasting Research: Maximize the Product Impact of Your Organization's Customer Insights
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Jake Burghardt
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings 75. 
The Peopleβs Republic of Walmart: How the Worldβs Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
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Leigh Phillips
3.90 avg rating β 2,019 ratings 76. 
The Art of More: How Mathematics Created Civilisation
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Michael Brooks
4.07 avg rating β 732 ratings 77. 
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
by:
Stewart Brand
4.35 avg rating β 1,842 ratings 78. 
Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future
by:
Ed Conway
4.51 avg rating β 6,734 ratings 79. 
Why Geology Matters: Decoding the Past, Anticipating the Future
by:
Doug Macdougall
4.13 avg rating β 142 ratings 80. 
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
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David Brooks
4.07 avg rating β 32,980 ratings 81. 
The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't
by:
Julia Galef
4.10 avg rating β 6,536 ratings 82. 
The Listening Life: Embracing Attentiveness in a World of Distraction
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Adam S. McHugh
4.22 avg rating β 1,109 ratings 83. 
The World Is Sound: Nada Brahma: Music and the Landscape of Consciousness 4.18 avg rating β 208 ratings
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Making Futures Work: Integrating Futures Thinking for Design, Innovation, and Strategy
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Phil Balagtas
4.40 avg rating β 5 ratings 
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The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community
by:
Ray Oldenburg
3.86 avg rating β 982 ratings 88. 
The Change Handbook: The Definitive Resource on Today's Best Methods for Engaging Whole Systems
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Peggy Holman
4.15 avg rating β 103 ratings 89. 
Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing through Other Patterns
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Nora Bateson
4.42 avg rating β 137 ratings 90. 
The Age of Heretics: A History of the Radical Thinkers Who Reinvented Corporate Management
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Art Kleiner
4.08 avg rating β 127 ratings 91. 
An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization
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Robert Kegan
3.96 avg rating β 1,335 ratings 92. 
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins 3.97 avg rating β 7,632 ratings
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Undivided: The Quest for Racial Solidarity in an American Church
by:
Hahrie Han
4.18 avg rating β 258 ratings 94. 
Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America
by:
Talia Lavin
4.24 avg rating β 1,747 ratings 95. 
Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat
by:
Derek Beres
4.01 avg rating β 1,436 ratings 96. 
Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics
by:
Elle Reeve
4.18 avg rating β 3,388 ratings