bookshelf

General

  • Godel, Escher, Bach - Douglas Hofstadter
  • The power of myth - Joseph Campbell
  • The act of creation - Arthur Koestler
  • Literary machines - Theodor Holm Nelson
  • The sciences of the artificial - Herbert Simon
  • The social psychology of organizing - Karl Weick
  • Man's search for meaning - Viktor Frankl
  • Silent spring - Rachel Carson
  • Normal accidents - Charles Perrow
  • The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
  • Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
  • Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell
  • Chaos - James Gleick
  • The fractal geometry of nature - Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Freakonomics - Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner
  • Connections - James Burke
  • Guns, germs and steel: The fates of human societies - Jared Diamond
  • Collapse: How societies choose to fail or succeed - Jared Diamond
  • The black swan - Nicholas Nassim Taleb
  • The wisdom of crowds - James Surowiecki
  • Smart mobs - Howard Rheingold
  • Leadership and the new science - Margaret Wheatley
  • The goal - Eliahu Goldratt
  • The holographic universe - Michael Talbot
  • The mythical man-month - Fred Brooks
  • The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual by Christopher Locke, et al
  • Here comes everybody - Clay Shirky

Science

  • Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman! - Richard Feynman
  • The structure of scientific revolutions - Thomas Kuhn
  • The medusa and the snail - Lewis Thomas
  • The selfish gene - Richard Dawkins
  • The blind watchmaker - Richard Dawkins
  • Darwin's dangerous idea - Daniel Dennett
  • Consilience - E O Wilson
  • Cosmos - Carl Sagan
  • A brief history of time - Stephen Hawking
  • A short history of nearly everything - Bill Bryson

Mind/Cognition

  • The man who mistook his wife for a hat - Oliver Sacks
  • An anthropologist from Mars
  • The man who tasted shapes - Richard Cytowic
  • Brain rules - John Medina
  • Phantoms in the brain - Vilayanur Ramachandran
  • Frames of mind - Howard Gardner
  • The society of mind - Marvin Minsky
  • Emotional intelligence - Daniel Goleman
  • How the mind works - Steven Pinker
  • The stuff of thought - Steven Pinker
  • Understanding computers and cognition - Terry Winograd & Fernando Flores
  • Mindstorms - Seymour Papert
  • Computer power and human reason - Joseph Weizenbaum
  • A whole new mind - Daniel Pink

Language

  • Metaphors we live by - George Lakoff and Mark Johnston
  • Women, fire and dangerous things - George Lakof
  • Language, Thought and Reality - Benjamin Whorf
  • Speech Acts - John Searle

Behaviour & Personality

  • Games people play - Eric Berne
  • I'm OK - you're OK - Thomas Harris

Education

  • Deschooling society - Ivan Illich
  • Multiple intelligences - Howard Gardner
  • Turning learning right side up - Russell Ackoff & Daniel Greenberg
  • Disrupting class - Clayton Christensen

Systems

  • Systems thinking - C West Churchman
  • General systems theory - Ludwig von Bertalanffy
  • Ackoff's best - His classic writings on management - Russell Ackoff
  • The fifth discipline - Peter M Senge
  • Vehicles: Experiments in synthetic psychology - Valentino Braitenberg
  • Learning for action - Peter Checkland & John Poulter
  • Systems thinking, systems practice - Peter Checkland
  • An introduction to general systems thinking - Gerald Weinberg

Networks, Complexity, Small Worlds, Emergence

  • Nexus - Mark Buchanan
  • Linked - Albert-László Barabási
  • Sync - Steven Strogatz
  • Six Degrees: - Duncan J. Watts
  • Small Worlds - Duncan J. Watts
  • For the intellectually adventurous: A new kind of science by Stephen Wolfram; website:http://www.wolframscience.com/
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  • Smart Mobs - Howard Rheingold
  • The Tipping Point - Malcomn Gladwell
  • The Social Life of Information - John Seely Brown, Paul Duguid
  • The Laws of the Web - Bernardo A. Huberman
  • Small Pieces Loosely Joined - David Weinberger
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  • Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software by Steven Johnson
  • COMPLEXITY: THE EMERGING SCIENCE AT THE EDGE OF ORDER AND CHAOS by Mitchell M. Waldrop
  • Ubiquity: Why Catastrophes Happen by Mark Buchanan
  • Complexity : Life at the Edge of Chaos by Roger Lewin
  • The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture by Mark C. Taylor
  • The Emergence of Everything: How the World Became Complex by Harold Morowitz
  • Critical Mass - How One Thing Leads to Another by Philip Ball
  • Swarm Intelligence by Russell Eberhart, Yuhui Shui and James Kennedy
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  • Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems: An Introductory Analysis with Applications to Biology, Control, and Artificial Intelligence by John H. Holland, 1992
  • Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity by John H. Holland, 1993
  • Emergence: From Chaos to Order (Helix Books) by John H. Holland, 1996
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  • The Origins of Order- Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution by Stuart Kauffman
  • At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity by Stuart Kauffman 
  • Investigations by Stuart Kauffman
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  • The Complexity of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod
  • Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry and Engineering by Steven H. Strogatz

Creativity

  • Thinkertoys - Michael Michalko
  • Cracking Creativity - Michael Michalko
  • Aha! - Jordan Ayan
  • Jump start your brain - Doug Hall
  • A whack on the side of the head - Roger von Oech
  • Broken crayons - Robert Alan Black
  • Think better - Tim Hurson
  • Jack's notebook - Gregg Fraley
  • Understanding comics - Scott McCloud
  • A whole new mind - Daniel Pink
  • Brain boosters for business advantage - Arthur B VanGundy
  • Idea power - Arthur B VanGundy
  • Mindmapping - Joyce Wycoff
  • Use both sides of your brain - Tony Buzan
  • Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  • Creativity - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  • Six thinking hats - Edward de Bono
  • Lateral thinking - Edward de Bono
  • The new drawing on the right side of the brain - Betty Edwards
  • Are your lights on? - Donald Gause & Gerald Weinberg
  • Conceptual blockbusting - James L Adams
  • The care and feeding of ideas - James L Adams
  • The path of least resistance - Robert Fritz
  • Dancing naked in the mind field - Kary Mullis
  • Using your brain -- for a change - Richard Bandler
  • Playful perception - Herbert Leff
  • Thinking visually - Robert McKim
  • Experiences in visual thinking - Robert McKim
  • The back of the napkin - Dan Roam
  • Creativity games for trainers - Robert Epstein
  • First, break all the rules - Marcus Buckingham
  • Out of our minds: Learning to be creative - Ken Robinson
  • 5 minds for the future - Howard Gardner
  • Biomimicry: Innovation inspired by nature - Janine Benyus

Innovation in Business

  • Diffusion of innovations - Everett Rogers
  • The ten faces of innovation -- Tom Kelley
  • The art of innovation - Tom Kelley
  • The creative priority - Jerry Hirshberg
  • Orbiting the giant hairball - Gordon MacKenzie
  • Purple cow - Seth Godin
  • The pursuit of Wow! - Tom Peters
  • Re-imagine! - Tom Peters
  • The circle of innovation - Tom Peters
  • Creativity in business - Michael Ray & Rochelle Myers
  • Positive turbulence - Stanley Gryskiewicz
  • The innovator's dilemma - Clayton Christensen
  • Seeing what's next - Clayton Christensen
  • Harvard business review on innovation - Clayton Christensen (ed)
  • Open innovation - Henry Chesborough
  • Jamming - John Kao
  • If it ain't broke ... break it! - Robert J Kriegel and Louis Patler
  • Imagineering - Michael LeBoeuf
  • The rise of the creative class - Richard Florida
  • Jump start your business brain - Doug Hall
  • The future of management - Gary Hamel
  • Weird ideas that work - Robert Sutton
  • Serious play - Michael Schrage
  • Made to stick - Chip Heath & Dan Heath
  • The opposable mind - Roger Martin
  • The new age of innovation - C K Prahalad & M S Krishnan
  • Blue ocean strategy - W Chan Kim
  • What got you here won't get you there - Marshall Goldsmith
  • Ten rules for strategic innovators - Vijay Govindarajan
  • The game-changer - A G Lafley & Ram Charan
  • Rules for revolutionaries - Guy Kawasaki
  • The venturesome economy - Amar Bhide
  • The myths of innovation - Scott Berkun
  • The Medici effect - Frans Johansson
  • Crossing the chasm - Geoffrey Moore
  • Dealing with Darwin - Geoffrey Moore
  • The long tail - Chris Anderson
  • Cradle to cradle: Remaking the way we make things - William McDonough & Michael Braungart
  • Recreating the corporation - Russell Ackoff

Technology/ Innovation/ Business

  • Fumbling the Future - Douglas Smith
  • Dealers of Lightning - Michael Hiltzik
  • Skunk Works - Ben Rich * Leo Janos
  • The Soul of a New Machine - Tracy Kidder
  • Revolution in the valley - Andy Hertzfeld
  • Where wizards stay up late - Katie Hafner
  • Fire in the valley - Paul Freiberger
  • Founders at work - Jessica Livingston

Design

  • Notes on the synthesis of form - Christopher Alexander
  • A pattern language - Christopher Alexander
  • The design of everyday things - Don Norman
  • Emotional design - Don Norman
  • Life Style - Bruce Mau
  • S,M,L,XL - Rem Koolhaas, Bruce Mau, Hans Werlemann
  • Designing interactions - Bill Moggridge
  • The laws of simplicity - John Maeda
  • The inmates are running the asylum
  • Universal principles of design - William Lidwell et al.
  • The visual display of quantitative information - Edward Tufte
  • The designful company - Marty Neumeier

Media

  • Understanding media - Marshall McLuhan
  • Amusing ourselves to death - Neil Postman

Intellectual Property

  • The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in Connected World - Lawrence Lessig
  • Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity -Lawrence Lessig
  • Copyrights and Copywrongs - Siva Vaidyanathan
  • The Cathedral and the bazaar - Eric Raymond