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Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the Big Ideas podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 3 episodes
The Shortest History of AI
Six ideas to understand artificial intelligence today
Toby Walsh
#2 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Existentialism Is a Humanism
Jean-Paul Sartre
#3 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Myth of Sisyphus
Albert Camus
#4 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Limits to Growth
Donella Meadows
Jorgan Randers
#5 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Histories
Herodotus
#6 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Life, the Universe and Everything
Douglas Adams
#7 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Season
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Helen Garner
#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Picnic
A dream of freedom and the collapse of the Iron Curtain
Matthew Longo
#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
White Russians, Red Peril
Sheila Fitzpatrick
#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Wara Wara Wai
How Indigenous Australians Discovered Captain Cook and what they tell about the coming of the ghost people
Craig Cormick
Darren Rix
#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
A treatise on money
John Maynard Keynes
#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Black Convicts, How Slavery Shaped Australia
How Slavery Shaped Australia
Santilla Chingaipe
#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Jackson Pollock, Gough Whitlam and the Painting that Changed a Nation
Tom McElroy
#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Reading Bin Laden's America, Islam, and the Future of Europe
Zachary Shore
#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Committed
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Age of Seeds
How Plants Hacked Time and Why Our Future Depends on It
Fiona McMillan-Webster
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
A Friendly Hand
Arnold Zable's father
#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
A Season of Death
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Mark Raphael Baker
#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Deep Water, The World in the Ocean
The World in the Ocean
James Bradley
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes
All the President's Men
Bob Woodward
Carl Bernstein
