Related Books
The topic of intellectual synthesis is the subject of many books, as often proponents of the need for such a scholarly endeavor will use a written work to voice their call to the intellectual community:
- Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
- Maps of Time: an Introduction to Big History
- The Human Web by the McNeills
- Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson
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