Roman Krznaric
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.
Anarchy in Action by 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.
on fivebooks.com · 27 Sep 2024 · Report
On History by 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.
on fivebooks.com · 27 Sep 2024 · Report
The Ornament of the World by 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.
on fivebooks.com · 27 Sep 2024 · Report
Why History Matters by John Tosh
What John Tosh has done in his book, Why History Matters, is to take that idea of learning from history much further.
on fivebooks.com · 27 Sep 2024 · Report
A New Reality by 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.
on fivebooks.com · 13 Jul 2020 · Report
Aurora by 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.
on fivebooks.com · 13 Jul 2020 · Report
Thinking in Systems by 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?
on fivebooks.com · 13 Jul 2020 · Report
Down and Out in Paris and London by 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.
on fivebooks.com · 30 Nov 2012 · Report
Walden by 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.
on fivebooks.com · 30 Nov 2012 · Report
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