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Top mentioned books

Here are the most frequently recommended books on the Big Ideas podcast:
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#1 Mentioned in 3 episodes

The Shortest History of AI

Six ideas to understand artificial intelligence today
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Toby Walsh
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#2 Mentioned in 2 episodes

Existentialism Is a Humanism

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Jean-Paul Sartre
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#3 Mentioned in 2 episodes

The Myth of Sisyphus

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Albert Camus
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#4 Mentioned in 2 episodes

The Limits to Growth

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Donella Meadows
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Jorgan Randers
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#5 Mentioned in 2 episodes

Histories

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Herodotus
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#6 Mentioned in 2 episodes

Life, the Universe and Everything

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Douglas Adams
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#7 Mentioned in 2 episodes

The Season

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Helen Garner
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#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes

The Picnic

A dream of freedom and the collapse of the Iron Curtain
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Matthew Longo
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#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes

White Russians, Red Peril

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Sheila Fitzpatrick
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#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
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Craig Cormick
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Darren Rix
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#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes

A treatise on money

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John Maynard Keynes
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#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes

Black Convicts, How Slavery Shaped Australia

How Slavery Shaped Australia
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Santilla Chingaipe
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#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes

Jackson Pollock, Gough Whitlam and the Painting that Changed a Nation

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Tom McElroy
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#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes

Reading Bin Laden's America, Islam, and the Future of Europe

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Zachary Shore
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#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes

The Committed

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Viet Thanh Nguyen
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#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes

The Age of Seeds

How Plants Hacked Time and Why Our Future Depends on It
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Fiona McMillan-Webster
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#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes

A Friendly Hand

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Arnold Zable's father
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#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes

A Season of Death

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Mark Raphael Baker
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#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes

Deep Water, The World in the Ocean

The World in the Ocean
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James Bradley
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#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes

All the President's Men

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Bob Woodward
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Carl Bernstein

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