Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic

Knowing What We Know

The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic

By
Simon Winchester
Simon Winchester
2023 • 432 pages

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37 books

Gifts

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mafo
The Source
City of Light, City of Poison
House of stone
How we got to now
The Grail Bird: Hot on the Trail of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker
The Grand Affair: John Singer Sargent in His World
Zero Night: The Untold Story of World War Two's Greatest Escape: The Untold Story of World War Two's Greatest Escape

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72 books

Nonfiction

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Paul
The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe
Kill The Messengers
God's Bankers
Freedom Regained: The Possibility of Free Will
The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe
The Mismeasure of Man
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

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0 books

Owned

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Anneliis
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Acts of Service
All Systems Red
Build Your House Around My Body
Cleopatra and Frankenstein
Days At The Morisaki Bookshop
Funny You Should Ask

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9 books

Did Not Finish

Helenmelon
Melon
Hamnet
Carrie Soto Is Back
Rouge
Tired as F*ck: Burnout at the Hands of Diet, Self-Help, and Hustle Culture
Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
Anatomy of a Scandal
The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac: Stories

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802 books

Nonfiction

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Laura
The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History
A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
Holy Cow
The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
The Century
Millennium Year By Year: A Chronicle of World History from AD 1000 to the Present Day

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645 books

History

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Laura
From Dawn to Decadence
The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History
A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
The Century
Millennium Year By Year: A Chronicle of World History from AD 1000 to the Present Day
National Geographic Society Atlas of World History
How the Irish Saved Civilization

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149 books

Read 2023

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Laura
The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire
The Empress
The Last Crown
Marmee
Death Becomes the Bride: A Victorian Mortuary Murder Mystery
Theft of an Idol
Queens of the Age of Chivalry: England's Medieval Queens

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17,841 books

My Library

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Nitin Rughoonauth
Fermi Remembered
Goedel's Way: Exploits into an undecidable world
Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize
Debate en torno a la etica del discurso de Apel: Diálogo filosófico Norte-Sur desde América Latina
Love and math : the heart of hidden reality
The Road to Reality
The Large, the Small and the Human Mind

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52 books

Brain Using

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Shannon
The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape
The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
Lies My Teacher Told Me
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans
How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy

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1,164 books

Prn

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Paul Nadeau
Who Is Rich?
The Rules Do Not Apply
Other Russias
The Idiot
Priestdaddy
Revolutionary Road
The Satanic Verses

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51 books

History World

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Spiritomb
Historicizing Fear
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
Salt: A World History
Empires of the Word
Libraries in the Ancient World
Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World

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20 books

Information Science

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Spiritomb
Sorting Things Out
BiblioTech
Library: An Unquiet History
The Book on the Bookshelf
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia
A Brief History of the Book: From Tablet to Tablet

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8 books

Media Studies

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Spiritomb
Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now
The He-Man Effect
Active measures the secret history of disinformation and political warfare
Selling Hate: Marketing the Ku Klux Klan
Performing the News: Identity, Authority, and the Myth of Neutrality
Stop Reading the News: A Manifesto for a Happier, Calmer and Wiser Life
Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed