These books have contributed to my intellectual life.
Books with an asterisk had a major impact on my thinking...
not that I necessarily subscribe to all/any of their theories,
but that it triggered significant re-thinking
of my own ideas.
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James L. Adams |
Conceptual Blockbusting: A Guide To Better Ideas |
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Barry Anderson |
The Complete Thinker |
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Roberto Assagioli |
Psychosynthesis |
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Robert Axelrod |
The Evolution Of Cooperation |
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Bandler & Grinder |
The Structure Of Magic, I |
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John Barth |
Lost In The Funhouse |
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Gregory Bateson |
Steps To An Ecology Of Mind |
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Gregory & Mary Bateson |
Angels Fear: Toward an Epistemology of the Sacred |
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Beier & Valens |
People Reading |
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Morris Berman |
Coming To Our Senses |
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Leonard Bloomfield |
Linguistic Aspects Of Science |
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David Bohm |
Wholeness And The Implicate Order |
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J. S. Bois |
The Art Of Awareness* |
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Crane Brinton |
The Shaping Of Modern Thought* |
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Bill Bryson |
The Mother Tongue: English & How It Got That Way |
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William H. Calvin |
The Cerebral Symphony |
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Fritjof Capra |
The Tao Of Physics |
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Rudolph Carnap |
Foundations Of Logic And Mathematics |
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Stuart Chase |
The Tyranny Of Words |
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Eldridge Cleaver |
Soul On Ice |
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Stephen R. Covey |
Seven Habits of Highly Effective People |
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Ram Dass |
Grist For The Mill |
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Edward de Bono |
Po: A Device For Successful Thinking |
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Daniel C. Dennett |
Consciousness Explained* |
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Ernest Dimnet |
The Art Of Thinking |
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Bertrand du Castel and Timothy M. Jurgensen |
Computer Theology - Intelligent Design of the World Wide Web* |
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Ebert & Sussex |
Interacting Systems In Development* |
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J. C. Eccles |
Facing Reality |
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Paul Feyerabend |
Against Method |
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Rudolf Flesch |
The Art Of Clear Thinking |
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Buckminster Fuller |
Critical Path |
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John W. Gardner |
Self-Renewal: The Individual And The Innovative Society |
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James Gleick |
Chaos: Making A New Science |
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Erving Goffman |
Frame Analysis* |
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S. I. Hayakawa |
Language In Thought And Action |
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Douglas Hofstadter |
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid Le Ton beau de Marot** |
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Julian Jaynes |
The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind* |
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Kenneth Johnson |
General Semantics: An Outline Survey |
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Steven Johnson |
Emergence - The connected lives of ants, brains, cities and software* |
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R. W. J. Keeble |
A Life Full Of Meaning |
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Donald Keys |
Earth At Omega |
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Ken Keyes Jr. |
How To Develop Your Thinking Ability |
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J. Krishnamurti |
You Are The World |
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Koberg & Bagnall |
The Universal Traveler |
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Arthur Koestler |
The Roots Of Coincidence |
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Alfred Korzybski |
Science And Sanity** |
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Peter D. Kramer |
Listening To Prozac* |
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Thomas Kuhn |
The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions* |
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Ray Kurzweil |
The Age of Spiritual Machines* |
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Alan Lakein |
How To Get Control Of Your Time And Your Life |
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Ellen Langer |
Mindfulness |
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Tim Leary |
Changing My Mind, Among Others |
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Irving Lee |
Language Habits In Human Affairs |
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Stanislaw Lem |
The Cyberiad* |
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George Leonard |
The Silent Pulse |
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John C. Lilly |
Programming And Metaprogramming In The Human Biocomputer |
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Maxwell Maltz |
Psycho-Cybernetics* |
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Abraham Maslow |
Religions, Values And Peak-Experiences |
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Terence McKenna |
The Archaic Revival |
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Henry Miller |
all his work* |
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James Grier Miller |
Living Systems |
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Marvin Minsky |
The Society Of Mind* |
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Charles Morris |
Foundations Of The Theory Of Signs |
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A. S. Neil |
Summerhill |
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C. K. Ogden |
Basic English: International Second Language* |
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Robert W. Olsen |
The Art Of Creative Thinking |
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P. D. Ouspensky |
Tertium Organum |
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Heinz Pagels |
Dreams of Reason |
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Steven Pinker |
The Language Instinct |
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Neil Postman |
Teaching As A Subversive Activity |
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Everett Reimer |
School Is Dead: Alternatives In Education |
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Paul Reps |
Zen Flesh, Zen Bones |
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Peter Russell |
The Global Brain |
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Oliver Sacks |
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat |
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Carl Sagan |
The Dragons Of Eden |
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Edward Sapir |
Language |
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Science Service |
Science News - a weekly newsmagazine of Science** |
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Phillip Slater |
Earthwalk |
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Paolo Soleri |
Arcology: The City In The Image Of Man* |
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Shunryu Suzuki |
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind |
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P. Teilhard de Chardin |
The Phenomenon Of Man |
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Lewis Thomas |
The Lives Of A Cell* |
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Alvin Toffler |
The Third Wave* |
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Chogyam Trungpa |
The Myth Of Freedom |
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Chuang Tzu |
Basic Writings |
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Lao Tzu |
Tao Teh Ching |
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Albert Upton, et. al. |
Creative Analysis |
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Ludwig von Bertalanffy |
General System Theory |
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Roger von Oech |
A Whack On The Side Of The Head |
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Alan Watts |
The Book** |
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Paul Watzlawick |
Change* |
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Harry L. Weinberg |
Levels Of Knowing And Existence |
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Benjamin Whorf |
Language, Thought And Reality |
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Robert Anton Wilson |
Right Where You Are Sitting Now* |
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
The Blue And Brown Books |
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Tom Wujec |
Pumping Ions |
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Malcolm X |
The Autobiography Of Malcolm X |
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Gary Zukav |
The Dancing Wu Li Masters |