Science & Technology
Books that expand how we understand systems, design, science, and the built world.
Books
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A Brief History of Time
Make room for a question that does not become smaller when you understand a little more.
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Braiding Sweetgrass
The living world is already sustaining ordinary life in ways that are easy to use without noticing.
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The Design of Everyday Things
by Don Norman
An object can make a reasonable action feel like a personal mistake.
Rebecca Skloot
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Scientific progress can be real without making the human terms of that progress simple.
Donella H. Meadows
Thinking in Systems
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Thinking in Systems
Why do sensible actions, repeated in good faith, sometimes create outcomes no one chose?