The Science of Discworld II - The Globe by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen is not what you would ordinarily perceive as a book about knowledge management. Yet it offers the keen reader a wealth of background about story and how it has created humans as we are today.
Readers of the Discworld novels will be aware of the fantastic world that sits upon one turtle and four elephants. That certainly helps in reading this book as the authors juxtapose characters from Discworld against our own sciences in order to illustrate points. Story is used as a key to accessing knowledge. If you are unfamiliar with Discworld some of the nuances and humour may be a little difficult to grasp.
Discworld is driven by narrativium; the force of nature which dictates the king will rise to save the day or that the bad guys get eaten by a dragon (catch a cold, trip over etc.) at the precise moment before executing their plan for world domination. It seems our world is driven by the same force. The Globe covers a lot of topics from the stories and lies we tell our children to why William Shakespeare was important (and inevitable) in our development. For the knowledge manager it helps you to understand why we react to truth, lies and stories as we do.
The first book, simply titled The Science Of Discworld, is not necessary reading although it is referred to. It is much more general in its science than its successor.