Seeing Like a State
1998 • 445 pages

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31 books

Science

The scientist as rebel
Deep Simplicity
Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field
The beginning of infinity explanations that transform the world
Leonardo's Notebooks
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

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92 books

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The Annotated Turing
A Profile of Mathematical Logic
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
How to Solve it
Fermat's last theorem
What if?
Stuff Matters

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Owned

Cryptonomicon
The Quantum Thief
Invisible Planets: Collected Fiction
Halting State
Terraform: Watch/Worlds/Burn
Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy
Foundation

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Social

Collapse of Complex Societies
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
Seeing Like a State
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