Here is a very incomplete list of books I want to read. Books can be on this list for various reasons and a listing here means only that I think I will learn something by reading the book. The notes here - cobbled from various sources - are intended just for me, so don't worry about it if you can't figure out what I'm talking about. -morgan (morgan@westegg.com) ------------------------------------ Home: A Short History of an Idea (Paperback) by Witold Rybczynski story by robert mckee More recently I've been reading _Mathematical Fallacies and Paradoxes_ by Bryan Bunch. Highly recommended. the design of every day things by donald norman the practice of everyday life - revel - anti-americanism open society & its enemies popper drive yourself sane: using uncommon sense of general semantics I highly recommend that you go out and buy the audio series "The Sound Of Your Voice" by Carol Flemming. scott mccloud - comics The Roads to Modernity : The British, French, and American Enlightenments -- by GERTRUDE HIMMELFARB; alexander hamilton - ron chernow emulation and invention - brook hindle s.e. morison Tower of Babble : How the United Nations Has Fueled Global Chaos -- by DORE GOLD; American Judaism: A History -- by Jonathan D. Sarna; Friedrich A. Hayek, The Counter-Revolution of Science: Studies on the Abuse of Reason, Glencoe, IL: Free Press, 1952. Friedrich A. Hayek, Individualism and Economic Order, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963. capitalism and the historians - hayek (editor) * Business Without Boundaries: An Action Framework for Collaborating Across Time, Distance, Organization, and Culture * Guy Kawasaki's Art of the Start * Bossidy's Execution ------------------------------------- read: the market for liberty Anyone who has read Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon or Aleksandr Solszhenitzyn's The Gulag Archipelago Here is an alternative explanation for the marginalization of Schneewind's _The Invention of Autonomy_. 5. the book by miriam beard ,a history of the businessman is one of the best reads I have had in recent months. section headings include the heritage of antiquity, the patrician city rulers, the monopolists, the individualist, the big business man,. one loes the chapter on merchangs of venice, the dutch business empire, the swordsmen and salesmen in the homeric age, bourgeois and puritan in france, stirrings and stema in europe, the american revolution, blazing a way for the manufacturer. Clayton Cristiansen - Innovator's Dilemma Friedrich A. Hayek, The Counter-Revolution of Science: Studies on the Abuse of Reason, Glencoe, IL: Free Press, 1952. Friedrich A. Hayek, Individualism and Economic Order, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963. socionomics Principles of Internet Marketing by Ward Hanson After all, a best-selling negotiation book warns negotiators of the perils of deadlines. In his 1980 bestseller, You Can Negotiate Anything (reissue ed., Bantam, 1982), Herb Cohen tells the story of his first big business negotiation. Donald E. Knuth, Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About: God and Computers, University of Chicago Press, 2001. Knuth - the art of computer programming AUTHOR Bloom, Harold. TITLE Shakespeare : the invention of the human / Harold Bloom. Ray Oldenberg's book "The Great Good Place". Subtitled "Cafes, Coffee Shops, Community Centers, Beauty Parlors, General Stores, Bars, Hangouts, and How They Get You Through the Day", Oldenberg's book is about mundane "third places" In his classic textbook Corporate Identity: Making Business Strategy Visible Through Design, Wally Olins steve johnson - emergence Mind Wide Open : Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life by Steven Johnson book: clayton cristiansen book (see bricklin blog) - innovator's solution http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1578518520/softwgardeinc/103-3590517-3902209 * Gardner's Changing Minds Fits in with * Bandler's Frogs into Princes * Cialdini's Influence * Gladwell's Tipping Point * Suroweci's Wisdom of Crowds (current read). the dance of anger.- for j Paul Kriwaczek "In Search of Zarathustra", Alfred A. Knopf, NY, 2003 SOCIETY OF MIND by Marvin Minsky (Author) the khazar dictionary, by milorad pavic Robert Nozick has done in his monumental new book, Anarchy, State, Utopia. Mysticism & Anti-semitism WHELAN, James R. Out of the ashes: life, death and transfiguration of democracy in Chile, 1833-1988. Washington, DC., Regnery Gateway, 1989. Freidrich Hayek, a biography - by Alan Ebenstein Local currencies E.F. Schumacher Society FREEDOM EVOLVES By Daniel C. Dennett Viking. 324 pp. $25.95 Net Words by Nick Usborne Persuasive Online Copywriting by the folk at www.futurenowinc.com http://www.edwardtufte.com/1678659791/tufte/ Book review: The Way of the Superior Man, by David Deida john holt - unschooling how childern learn how children fail buy hayek - use of knowledge in society -Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics and The Politics -Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France Whittaker Chambers, Witness George Gilder, Men and Marriage and Wealth and Poverty -Friedrich A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom and The Constitution of Liberty Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson -Russell Kirk, The Conservative Mind from Burke to Eliot Peter Kreeft, The Unaborted Socrates C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man Madison, Hamilton and Jay, The Federalist Papers Frank S. Meyer, In Defense of Freedom Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago and Warning to the West Richard M. Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences black book of communism Comparative Mythology by Jaan Puhvel writer's guide to character traits “Comedy Writing Secrets” by Helitzer The machiavellian guide to womanizing how to pick up girls without really trying I began by creating self image exercises based on NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) and Timeline Therapy, and doing them all the time. (Read Frogs Into Princes by Bandler and Grinder and The Secret of Creating Your Future By Tad James for more info.) Arguing the World (on neo-cons) Jonathan Rabin Soft City (the David Brooks of England) A Guide to Rational Living by Albert Ellis (Introduction), Melvin Powers Author: Worchel & Cooper Title: Understanding Social Psychology The Machiavellians James Burnham Paul Johnson History of the US Los datos del libro son: WHELAN, James R. Out of the ashes: life, death and transfiguration of democracy in Chile, 1833-1988. Washington, DC., Regnery Gateway, 1989. 1120p. Espero que te sea útil. Muchos cariños Ways of Genius: Investigation of the Sources, Nature and Working of Genius in the Arts and Sciences the uses of variety (alex f.) manfred jonas isolationism in america: 1935-41 aaronson social psychology http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0521422817/qid=1036670370/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/103-9747429-1185462?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 An Experiment in Criticism by C. S. Lewis (Author) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0521008492/qid=1036669767/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/103-9747429-1185462?v=glance&s=books Genius Explained by Michael J. A. Howe (Author) who killed society cleveland amory the pencil betrofsky? Bass credits Burns’ seminal 1978 Leadership "Science in Action" Bruno Latour (alex f) Secret Knowledge : Retracing 6 Centuries of Western Art by David Hockney "related words" Dr David Weeks, author of 'Eccentrics: The Scientific Investigation' (published by Stirling University Press, 1988, L27-50), religion magic Keith Thomas author Amy Jo Kim publisher Peachpit Press ISBN 0-201-87484-9 pages 352 rating 7/10 summary the nuts and bolts of building good community sites reviewer Jon Katz http://slashdot.org/books/01/01/16/2352213.shtml Preppie Handbook She’d lifted her text straight out of Daniel Bell’s classic 1974 study The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism. Capitalism was built on an ethic of work and duty, Bell argued, but it yields a culture of self-involved pleasure that undermines the attitude necessary for disciplined achievement. Richard Rorty, "Private Irony and Liberal Hope" published in a collection called "American Continental Philosophy -- A Reader" ed. Walter Brogan & James Risser. foucault - ethics Of course, it is almost a truism that our culture has fallen far, overcome—as the critic Dwight Macdonald famously warned it would be in his controversial 1960 essay "Masscult and Midcult"—by a debased popular culture. the magic of the state the nervous system by michael taussig humble faith encounterbooks (judaism and the founding fathers in the US) To Pray As A Jew; A Guide to the Prayer Book and and the Synagogue Service by Hayim Halevy Donin, Harper Collins Publishers, 1980). Garrett Hardin's classic paper "The Tragedy of the Commons" is often quoted to demonstrate the impossibility of a real commons. Dick Howard, The Specter of Democracy: What Marx and Marxists Haven't Understood and Why, Columbia University Press, 2002. david crystal - languages (alex f) Paul du Gay, In Praise of Bureaucracy: Weber, Organization, Ethics, London: Sage, 2000. Steven Brint, In an Age of Experts: The Changing Role of Professionals in Politics and Public Life, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. Jack Goody, The Logic of Writing and the Organization of Society, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. R. Keith Sawyer, Creating Conversations: Improvisation in Everyday Discourse, Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2001. bruce bawer: "stealing jesus: how fundamentalism betrays christianity." The best overall guide I've seen to intelligent high-tech PR is a new book called Getting @ttention by Susan Kohl, former PR person for Metricom Ricochet. It costs $19.95. If you buy a few copies for elementary school libraries, those 8-year-olds will be ready to roll. Read Michael Schudson's debunking book, The Good Citizen: A History of American Public Life (Free Press, 1998). He explains, inter alia, that the classical New England town meetings were largely staged events in which social hierarchies were placed on display. In his now-classic study Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, sociologist Barrington Moore $8.60 (See, for example, Andrew Abbott, The System of Professions, University of Chicago Press, 1988.) patrick henry winston - artificial intelligence (the main book in this discipline) David Noble's book "The Religion of Technology". potsville iowa Seymour Martin Lipset published a study in 1959, Some Social Requisites of Democracy Jim Botkin, Smart Business: How Knowledge Communities Can Revolutionize Your Company, New York: Free Press, 1999. Freud, "The Uncanny [unheimlich]" in _The Standard Edition of the Works of Sigmund Freud_, vol. XVII, James Strachey, ed. This leads to a cool book by Anthony Vidler (UCLA architecture prof.), _The Architectural Uncanny_ (MIT Press 1992?). Heidegger, "The Age of the World Picture" and "The Question Concerning Technology". Both in _The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays_ (tr. and ed. William Lovitt; Harper, 1977). The latter also in _Basic Writings_ (David Farrell Krell, ed., Harper, 1993). Also, a book I think you might get a kick out of: The Iron Heel, by Jack London. This is a really interesting Orwellian nightmare he write about the next century as it would unfold in America, with a capitalist oligarchy called "The Iron Heel" coming to power. south from granada: a sojourn in southern spain, by gerald brenan (1957) The Boys on the Bus Random House timothy crouse conquest of cool innis 1951 - centralizing Toward the New Degeneracy by Bruce Benderson recommended by ryan mahoney Barry C. Carter, Infinite Wealth: A New World of Collaboration and Abundance in the Knowledge Era, Butterworth-Heinemann, 1999. Don Cohen and Laurence Prusak, In Good Company: How Social Capital Makes Organizations Work, Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2001. about jesus, the essenes, and the dead sea scrolls. C. C. Barfoot and Theo D'Haen, eds, Tropes of Revolution: Writers' Reaction to Real and Imagined Revolutions 1789-1989, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1991. Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. and James W. Cortada, eds, A Nation Transformed by Information: How Information Has Shaped the United States from Colonial Times to the Present, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. James R. Barker, The Discipline of Teamwork: Participation and Concertive Control, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1999. "what would machiavelli do" by stanley bing "The Subversion of Christianity" by Jacques Ellul Walter Ong in Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word (Ong, 1982), A Subway called Moebius"24 by A. J. Deutsch (nate; argentina) Gillis J. Harp, Positivist Republic: Auguste Comte and the Reconstruction of American Liberalism, 1865-1920, University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995. As a result, some of the most interesting scholars in France today you never hear about at all. One such is a group of intellectuals who go by the rather unwieldy name of Mouvement Anti-Utilitariste dans les Sciences Sociales, or MAUSS, and who have dedicated themselves to a systematic attack on the philosophical underpinnings of economic theory. The group take their inspiration from the great early-20th century French sociologist Marcel Mauss, whose most famous work, The Gift (1925), was perhaps the most magnificent refutation of the assumptions behind economic theory ever written. At a time when "the free market" is being rammed down everyone's throat as both a natural and inevitable product of human nature, Mauss' work - which demonstrated not only that most non-Western societies did not work on anything resembling market principles, but that neither do most modern Westerners - is more relevant than ever. While Francophile American scholars seem unable to come up with much of anything to say about the rise of global neoliberalism, the MAUSS group is attacking its very foundations. Miller, Galanter, and Pribram's "Plans and the Structure of Behavior" (1960) delirious new york rem koolhas Love in a Dead Language lee siegel | Recommended: Harvey Sacks, Lectures on Conversation, edited by Gail | Jefferson, Blackwell, 1995. Harvey Sacks was the founder of a strange | subfield of sociology called conversation analysis, which consists | of the microscopic study of ordinary conversations. Sacks discovered | that even quite mundane conversations are extraordinarily complicated | in their inner workings, and this book gathers his lectures on the | subject from the mid-1970's, up until his accidental death in an | auto accident in 1974. He discusses the elaborate protocols by which | people start and end conversations, announce and tell stories, refer | to things, and generally keep the conversational gears turning. His | theories are always based on detailed analyses of particular examples | of conversation, which are presented using a notation invented by Gail | Jefferson. Jefferson started out as Sacks' secretary; Sacks, at the | beginning of his studies, asked her to transcribe some conversations | without realizing the full complexity of the task, and the notation | that Jefferson developed to indicate the features of conversational | interaction that can have functional significance (pauses, overlaps, | emphases, and so on) was eventually adopted by the entire field that | Sacks began. Jefferson also edited the lectures for publication. | They're lectures, not finished papers, and they're not particularly | polished lectures either. You have to hang in there a little while | before you understand what he's doing, and how, and why. You also | have to let go of preconceived ideas about sociological methodology, | especially if you were trained in quantitative methods. Sacks' work | is totally qualitative, and his theories are intended to apply to | every single example of naturally occurring conversation in the world. | Sacks' methods also take getting used to if you've been trained in | the kind of structuralist linguistics that is identified with Chomsky. | Sacks was not interested in specifying a grammar of well-formed | conversations, from which real conversations may diverge. Yet, on | the other hand, neither is he claiming to reconstruct the conscious | intentions of the speakers; rather, he claims to specify a set of | rules and preferences that suffice to reconstruct particular examples | of what people do in conversation, that is, what social actions they | are engaged in. Although not discernably political in his language | or intent, Sacks was recognizably of his time. By defamiliarizing | the ordinary world, he was engaged in the same sort of ontological | rebellion as many more flamboyant, less substantive countercultural | types. He wanted to show that ordinary reality has depths, and | that it is stranger, more complicated, and more fragile than it seems. | Above all he wanted to demonstrate that ordinary reality, far from | being a fixed structure or an externally imposed force, is something | that we assent to -- indeed, that we actively and skillfully create | -- in our every waking moment. Did he mean to imply that we should | turn around and recreate our ordinary reality in some different way? | He left no particular evidence one way or the other. On the one | hand, a real understanding of Sacks' discoveries -- not just grasping | them theoretically, but actually being able to *see* the phenomena | happening in your own interactions with others -- should help deepen | the responsibility that you feel for your own actions, and for your | own contribution to whatever is good or bad in the social phenomena | that you participate in. On the other hand, really seeing those | phenomena should also give you a heightened appreciation for the | complexity of social life as we know it, and the magnitude of the | hubris involved in the utopian scenarios that would replace it. | That's a healthy tension, I think, and one we should all cultivate. henry kamen roland marchand protestantism, marty martin separated brethern, william j. whalen Harvey Sacks, Lectures on Conversation, edited by Gail Jefferson, Blackwell, 1995. david lock (lack?), episcopal church readings in the philosophy of social science. edi, michael martin & lee c. mcintyre. MIT press 1994/6 w.v. quine, pursuit of truth. harvard, 1992 joseph campbell, mythology Caulfield, Jon. City Form and Everyday Life: Toronto's Gentrification and Critical Social Practice. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1994. A short Bibliography on Gentrification: Massey, Douglas S. and Nancy A. Denton. American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1993. Nelson, Kathryn P. Gentrification and Distressed Cities: An Assessment of Trends in Intrametropolitan Migration. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1988. Palen, J. John and Bruce London. Gentrification, Displacement and Neighborhood Revitalization. Albany: State U of New York P, 1984. Perin, Constance. Everything in Its Place: Social Order and Land Use in America. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1977. Smith, Neil and Peter Williams, eds. Gentrification of the City. Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1986. Worthy, William. The Rape of Our Neighborhoods: And How Communities Are Resisting Take-overs by Colleges, Hospitals, Churches, Businesses, and Public Agencies. New York: William Morrow, 1976. AUTHOR Middlekauff, Robert. TITLE The Mathers; three generations of Puritan intellectuals, 1596- 1728. IMPRINT New York, Oxford University Press, 1971. DESCRIPT xii, 440 p. 24 cm. $12.50. BIBLIOG. Includes bibliographical references. SUBJECT Mather, Richard, 1596-1669. Mather, Increase, 1639-1723. Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728. Puritans -- Massachusetts. ISBN 0195013050. lqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqk x LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS x x1 > Main 929.2/M CHECK SHELVES Lodge, Henry Cabot. "The Pilgrims of Plymouth." The Senate of the United States, and Other Essays and Addresses Historical and Literary. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1921. Webster, Daniel. "The Plymouth Oration." The Speeches of Daniel Webster. New York: The Chesterfield Society, 19--. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/puritan/purmain.html Michael Kammen, who traces two major features of American understanding of its place in time: the first, "to historicize the present"; the second, to "depoliticize the past" (Kammen, 704). AUTHOR Rosenfeld, Richard N. TITLE American Aurora : a Democratic-Republican returns : the suppressed history of our nation's beginnings and the heroic newspaper that tried to report it / Richard N. Rosenfeld ; foreword by Edmund S. Morgan. EDITION 1st ed. IMPRINT New York : St. Martin's Press, 1997. DESCRIPT xi, 988 p. : ill., map, music ; 25 cm. NOTE Text written by Richard N. Rosenfeld as if he were the Aurora publisher/editor William Duane, interwoven with excerpts from the Aurora general advertiser (published in Philadelphia) and from other sources. lqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqk x LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS x x1 > Main 071.3/R CHECK SHELVES Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 In-Stock: Ships within 24 hours. Edwin G. Burrows,Mike Wallace / Hardcover / Date The Great Explorers : The European Discovery of America Samuel Eliot Morison / Paperback / Date The European Discovery of America: The Southern Voyages 1492-1616, Vol. 0 Samuel Eliot Morison / Hardcover / Date The Growth of the American Republic, Vol. 1 Samuel Eliot Morison,William E.Leuchtenburg,Henry S. Commager / Paperback / Date The Growth of the American Republic, Vol. 2 Samuel Eliot Morison,William E.Leuchtenburg,Henry S. Commager / Paperback / Date A Concise History of the American Republic Samuel Eliot Morison,William E.Leuchtenburg,Henry S. Commager / Paperback / Date AUTHOR Mazlish, Bruce, 1923- TITLE The riddle of history; the great speculators from Vico to Freud. AUTHOR Mazlish, Bruce, 1923- TITLE James and John Stuart Mill : father and son in the nineteenth century / Bruce Mazlish. Author: Mazlish, Bruce, 1923- ed. Title: The railroad and the space program; an exploration in historical analogy, edited by Bruce Mazlish. Publisher: Cambridge, M. I. T. Press [1965] books by robert (k.?) merton hayden white prof, first guy who said to look at literature historically read: http://eng.hss.cmu.edu/Cultronix/chesher/