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The Knowledge
Lewis Dartnell identifies the scientific and technical knowledge that could help a community recover essential systems after a severe civilizational disruption.
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The Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb challenges our confidence in forecasts and asks readers to take rare, high-impact events seriously.
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The Ascent of Man
Jacob Bronowski follows the development of human knowledge to show science as an imaginative and ethical practice, not a collection of facts.