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
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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
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