Further Reading 1

This list supplements the list "Prime Reading". Any list of the most important books must omit many that fill in gaps, provide commentary, background, and followup, that explore the subject in more detail, and that cover subjects that are valuable but less critical. Here is the first set of those books, together with some important papers.

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Basic Skills

A Joan Minninger, Total Recall, New York: Fine Communications, 1997.
A Tony & Robbie Fanning, Get It All Done And Still Be Human, Menlo Park: Open Chain Pub, 1990.
A Sidney J. Parnes, Guide to Creative Action, New York: Scribner, 1977.
A George M. Prince, The Practice of Creativity: A Manual for Dynamic Group Problem Solving, New York: MacMillan Publishing, 1972.
A Eric Berne, Games People Play, New York: Ballantine, 1996.
A Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People, New York: Pocket Books, 1994.

Philosophy and Religion

AWill Durant, The Story of Philosophy, New York: Pocket Books, 1991.
A Karl R. Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery, New York: Routledge, 1992.
A Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality, New York: Free Press, 1985.
Frederick Copleston, A History of Philosophy, New York: Image Books, 1994 (9 vols).

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A Lin Yutang, The Wisdom of Laotse, New York: Modern Library, 1948.
A Confucius, Chichung Huang (Tr.), The Analects of Confucius : Lun Yu, London: Oxford Univ Pr, 1997.
The Texts of Taoism, tr. James Legge, Dover, 1981.

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A The Bhagavad-Gita, tr. Barbara Stoles Miller, New York: Bantam, 1986.
A The Upanishads, tr. Eknath Easwaran, New York: Nilgiri Pr, 1987.
A Deisetz T. Suzuki, An Introduction to Zen Buddhism, New York: Grove Press, 1991.
A Paul Tillich, A History of Christian Thought, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978.
A Elaine Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels, New York: Vintage, 1989.
A Reinhold Niebuhr, The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness, New York: Prentice-Hall, 1974.
A William Barrett, Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy, Anchor, 1962.
Richard M. Hare, A Freedom and Reason, 1963; A The Language of Morals, 1972; both Oxford: Clarendon Press.
A Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Works, New York: AMS Press, 1994.
A Henry David Thoreau, ed. J. Lyndon Shauley, Walden, Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 1989.
A Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Boston: Aequus Inst Pubns, 1997.
A Kisshomaru Ueshiba, tr Kazuaki Tanahashi & Roy Maurer, Aikido, Tokyo: Japan Pubns, 1986.

History, Biography and Futurics

A Xenophon, The Persian Expedition, tr. Rex Warner, New York: Collectors Reprints, 1997.
Will & Ariel Durant, The Story of Civilization, 10 vol., New York: Simon & Schuster, 1972.
A William H. McNeill, Plagues and Peoples, New York: Doubleday, 1977.
A Arnold Pacey, Technology in World Civilization: A Thousand-Year History, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991.
A Joseph A. Taintes, The Collapse of Complex Societies, New York: Cambridge, 1990.
Merry & Serge Bromberger, tr. Elaine V. Halperin, Jean Monnet and the United States of Europe, New York: Coward-McCann, 1969.
A T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, New York: Anchor, 1938, 1991.

Ecology, Arcology and Nanonics

A K. Eric Drexler & Chris Peterson, Unbounding the Future, New York: William Morrow, 1991, 1993.
A Paul & Anne Ehrlich, Healing the Planet, Reading, Addison-Wesley, 1992.
A Donella Meadows, The Global Citizen, Washington, DC: Island Press, 1991.
A Dennis Meadows ed, Alternatives to Growth - 1: A Search for Sustainable Futures, Cambridge: Ballinger, 1977.
A Dennis Meadows & Donella Meadows ed, Toward Global Equilibrium: Collected Papers, Cambridge: Wright-Allen Press, 1973.
A H.S.D. Cole, Christopher Freeman, Marie Jahoda & K.L.R. Pavitt ed, Thinking about the Future: A Critique of The Limits to Growth, London: Chatto & Windus, 1973.
A Lester R. Brown, Building a Sustainable Society, New York: W.W. Norton, 1981.
A Dennis Clark Pirages ed, The Sustainable Society: Implications for Limited Growth, New York: Praeger, 1977.
A Paul Ehrlich, Population/ Resources/ Environment, San Francisco: Freeman, 1972.
A Thomas R. Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population, New York: Norton, 1976.
Garrett J. Hardin ed, A Population, Evolution, and Birth Control, San Francisco: Freeman, 1969; A The Limits of Altruism: An Ecologist's View of Survival, Bloomington: Indiana U. Press, 1975; "The Tragedy of the Commons", Science 162 (Dec 13, 1968): 1243.
AJohn B. Calhoun, Environment and Population, New York: Praeger, 1983; "Population Density and Social Pathology", Sci. Amer. 206(2), Feb 1962, 139.
A Alexander King & Bertrand Schneider, The First Global Revolution, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991.
A Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962, 1994.
A Edgar R. Chasteen, The Case for Compulsory Birth Control, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice- Hall, 1971.

Government, Law and International Relations

A Edmund Burke, Edmund Burke on Government, Politics, and Society, ed. B.W. Hill, New York: International Publications Service, 1976.
A Sun Tzu, The Art of War, ed. James Clavell, New York: Delacourt, 1983.
A James M. Buchanan, The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy, Ann Arbor: U. Mich. Press, 1962.

Mathematics and Logic

A Bertrand Russell, Principles of Mathematics, New York: W W Norton, 1938, 1996.
A A Alfred North Whitehead & Bertrand Russell, Principia Mathematica, Cambridge: The Univ. Press, 1925, 1962, 1997.
A James R. Newman, The World of Mathematics, Redmond, WA: Microsoft, 1956, 1988.
A Irving M. Copi, Symbolic Logic, New York: Prentice-Hall, 1973, 1979.
A Nuel D. Belnap Jr & Thomas B Steel Jr, The Logic of Questions and Answers, New Haven: Yale U. Press, 1976.
J.W. Addison, Leon Henkin & Alfred Tarski eds, The Theory of Models, Amsterdam: North- Holland, 1965.
A Alfred Tarski, Logic, Semantics, Metamathematics, Indianapolis: Hackett, 1983.
"Nicolas Bourbaki", Elements of Mathematics Series, 10 works, various publishers and dates.

A Algebra I : Chapters 1-3, Springer-Verlag, 1989.

A Algebra II : Chapters 4-7, Springer-Verlag, 1990.

A Topological Vector Spaces : Chapters 1-5, Springer-Verlag, 1987.

A Commutative Algebra : Chapters 1-7, Springer-Verlag, 1989.

A General Topology, Chapters 1-4, Springer-Verlag, 1989.

A General Topology, Chapters 5-10, Springer-Verlag, 1989.

A Lie Groups and Lie Algebras : Chapters 1-3, Springer-Verlag, 1989.

A Functions of a Real Variable, Addison-Wesley, 1987.

A Elements of the History of Mathematics, Springer-Verlag, 1994.
A Alan Gibbons, Algorithmic Graph Theory, Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, 1985.
A Claude Berge, tr. E. Minieka, Graphs and Hypergraphs, New York: Elsevier, 1973.
A D.J.A. Welsh, Matroid Theory, New York: Academic, 1976.
A Arthur T. White, Graphs, Groups and Surfaces, New York: Elsevier, 1973, 1985.
A Brian S. Wherrett, Group Theory for Atoms, Molecules and Solids, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1986.
Kenneth S. Brown, Cohomology of Groups, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1982.
Charles W. Curtis & Irving Reiner, Methods of Representation Theory, New York: Wiley, 1987.

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A Erwin Kreyszig, Differential Geometry, New York: Dover, 1959, 1991.
A William S. Massey, A Basic Course in Algebraic Topology, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1990.
A Michael Arbib, Arrows, Structures, and Functors: The Categorical Imperative, New York: Academic, 1975.
A Nicholas Young, An Introduction to Hilbert Space, New York: Cambridge, 1988.
A.T. Fomenko, tr. D.A. Leites, Differential Topology, New York: Consultant's Bureau, 1987.
C.T.J. Dodson, Categories, Bundles and Spacetime Topology, Boston: Kluwer, 1988.
John Von Neumann & Oskar Morgenstern, Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 1953.
Avner Friedman, Differential Games, Providence: Amer. Math. Soc., 1974.
Anatol Rapoport & Albert Charnock, Prisoner's Dilemma: A Study in Conflict and Cooperation, Ann Arbor: U. Mich. Press, 1965.
Anatol Rapoport, N-Person Game Theory, Ann Arbor: U. Mich. Press, 1970.
Robert M. Axelrod, The Evolution of Cooperation, New York: Basic Books, 1984.
V.N. Bogaevski & A. Povzner, Algebraic Methods in Nonlinear Perturbation Theory, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1991.
Paul Halmos, Measure Theory, New York: Van Nostrand, 1950.
Heinz Bauer, Probability Theory and Elements of Measure Theory, New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1972.
A.L. Edwards, Multiple Regression and the Analysis of Variance and Covariance, San Francisco: Freeman, 1979.
Norman T.J. Bailey, The Elements of Stochastic Processes, New York: Wiley, 1964.
Michael Hennessy, Algebraic Theory of Processes, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988.
Isaac N. Gibra, Probability and Statistical Inference for Scientists and Engineers, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1973.
Jean Walrand, An Introduction to Queueing Networks, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1988.
Toshihide Ibaraki & Naoki Katoh, Resource Allocation Problems: Algorithmic Approaches, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988.
Dan Gusfield & Robert W. Irving, The Stable Marriage Problem: Structure and Algorithms, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1989.

Cybernetics and Information Theory

Edward A. Feigenbaum & Julian Feldman eds, Computers and Thought, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1963.
Herbert A. Simon, Models of Discovery, Boston, D. Reidel, 1977.
Pat Langley et al., Scientific Discovery: Computerized Explorations of the Creative Processes, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1987.
S. Shapiro ed, The Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence, New York: John Wiley, 1987.
Avron Barr & Edward A. Feigenbaum eds, The Handbook of Artificial Intelligence, Los Altos: M. Kaufmann, 1981.
David E. Goldberg, Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization and Machine Learning, Reading: Addison-Wesley, 1989.
Robert E. Shannon, Systems Simulation: The Art and Science, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice- Hall, 1975.
Lawrence E. Widman, Kenneth A. Loparo & Norman R. Nielsen, Artificial Intelligence, Simulation and Modeling, New York: Wiley, 1989.
Bertrand Meyer, Introduction to the Theory of Programming Languages, New York: Prentice-Hall, 1990.
Seymour Ginsburg, The Mathematical Theory of Context-Free Languages, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966.
Jaco de Bakker, Mathematical Theory of Program Correctness, London: Prentice-Hall Intl, 1980.
Jacques Oswald, Diacritical Analysis of Systems, tr. Roy Lisker, New York: Ellis Horwood, 1991.
Richard W. Hamming, Coding and Information Theory, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1980.
Nicholas V. Findler ed, Associative Networks: Representation and Use of Knowledge by Computers, New York: Academic, 1979.
Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1961.
E.R. Caianiello ed, Automata Theory, New York: Academic, 1966, and Parallel Architectures and Neural Networks, Teaneck, NJ: World Scientific, 1990.
John Von Newmann & Arthur W. Burks, Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata, Urbana: U. Ill. Press, 1966.
B.A. Huberman ed, Ecology of Computation, New York: Elsevier, 1988.
Thomas Legendi et al. eds, (Proceedings of Third) International Workshop on Parallel Processing by Cellular Automata and Arrays, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1987, and G. Wolf et al. eds, (Fourth, as above, short name Parcella '88), 1989.
Kaminuma & Matsumoto eds, Biocomputers: The Next Generation from Japan, London: Chapman & Hall, 1991.
David E. Rumerhart & James L. McClelland, Parallel Distributed Processing, 2 vols., Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990.
J.D. Foley et al., Computer Graphics: Principles and Practices, Reading, MA: Addison- Wesley, 1990.

Physics, Cosmology and Electronics

Richard Feynman, Lectures on Physics, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1966; Statistical Mechanics, New York: Addison-Wesley, 1972; QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter, Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 1985.
Archie E. Roy, Orbital Motion, Bristol: A. Hilger, 1982.
Michael P. Ryan Jr. & Lawrence C. Shepley, Homogeneous Relativistic Cosmologies, Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 1975.
F. David Peat, Superstrings and the Search for The Theory of Everything, Chicago: Comtemporary, 1988; Einstein's Moon: Bell's Theorem and the Curious Quest for Quantum Reality, Chicago: Contemporary, 1990.
Charles Nash, Differential Topology and Quantum Field Theory, New York: Academic, 1991.
E.R. Caianiello, Lectures on the Many-Body Problem, 2 vols, New York: Academic, 1964.
Richard D. Mattuck, A Guide to Feynman Diagrams in the Many-Body Problem, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967.
J. Biel & J. Rae, Irreversiblity in the Many-Body Problem, New York: Plenum, 1972.
P.C.W. Davies, The Physics of Time Asymmetry, Berkeley: U. Cal. Press, 1974.
Rainer Feistel & Werner Ebeling, Evolution of Complex Systems: Self-Organization, Entropy and Development, Boston: Kluwer Acad., 1989.
Sybren Ruurds de Groot, Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics, New York: Interscience, 1962.
Bernard H. Lavenda, Thermodynamics of Irreversible Processes, London: Macmillan, 1978.
Selforganization by Nonlinear Irreversible Processes, Proceedings of the Third International Conference, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1985.
J.G. Bednorz & K.A. Müller eds, Earlier and Recent Aspects of Superconductivity, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1990.

Molecular Physics, Chemistry and Biology

Wiley P. Kirk & Mark Reed ed, Nanostructure and Mesoscopic Systems, New York: Academic, 1991.
Joel F. Liebman & Arthur Greenberg eds, Modern Models of Bonding and Delocalization, New York: UCH Pub, 1988.
A. Ledwith & A.M. North ed, Molecular Behavior and the Development of Polymeric Materials, New York: Wiley, 1975.
Jeremy K. Burdett, Molecular Shapes: Theoretical Models of Inorganic Stereochemistry, New York: Wiley, 1980.
George I. Bell & Thomas G. Mann, Computers and DNA, New York: Addison-Wesley, 1990.
R.W. Old, Principles of Gene Manipulation: An Introduction to Genetic Engineering, Oxford: Blackwell Scientific, 1985.
Edward J. Sylvester & Lynn C. Klotz, The Gene Age: Genetic Engineering and the Next Industrial Revolution, New York: Scribner, 1983.

Economics, Management, Society and Cognition

Edwin Burmeister & A. Rodney Dobell, Mathematical Theories of Economic Growth, New York: Macmillan, 1970.
Herbert Cole Coombs, The Return of Scarcity: Strategies for an Economic Future, Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, 1990.
Allen V. Kneese & James L. Sweeney ed, Handbook of Natural Resource & Energy Economics, New York: Elsevier, 1985.
John Blunden, Mineral Resources and their Management, New York: Longman, 1985.
Joseph J. Moder & Salah E. Elmaghraby ed, Handbook of Operations Research, New York: Van Nostrand Reinholt, 1977.
John Clark, Global Simulation Models: A Comparative Study, New York: Wiley, 1975.
Irving Lester Janis, Groupthink: Psychological Studies of Policy Decisions and Disasters, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983.
Edward Osborne Wilson, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Cambridge: Harvard U. Press, 1975.
Noam Chomsky, The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory, New York: Plenum, 1975.
Peter Drucker, Management, New York: Harper & Row, 1973.
Harold Kerzner, Project Management, New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1989.
Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Chicago: U. of Chicago Press, 1970.

Mysteries

Timothy Good, Above Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Cover-Up, New York: W. Morrow, 1988; Alien Liaison: The Ultimate Secret, New York: Little, Brown, 1990.
Pat Delgado & Colin Andrews, Circular Evidence, Grand Rapids: Phanes, 1989; Crop Circles: The Latest Evidence, London: Bloomsbury, 1990.

Science Fiction

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus, New York: Dodd, Mead, 1983.
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, New York: Harper, 1946.
H.G. Wells, The Time Machine / The War of the Worlds, ed. Frank D. McConnell, New York: Oxford U. Press, 1977.
Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon, New York: Dutton, 1970; 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, New York: New American Library, 1969.
Edwin Balmer, When Worlds Collide / After Worlds Collide, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1960.
Robert A. Heinlein, The Past Through Tomorrow, 1987; Stranger in a Strange Land, 1991 (all New York: Ace).
Isaac Asimov, The Foundation Trilogy 1982, Foundation's Edge 1982, Foundation and Earth 1986 (all New York: Ballantine).
Arthur C. Clarke, The Songs of Distant Earth, New York: Ballantine, 1986; More Than One Universe, 1991; Childhood's End, 1989 (both New York: Bantam).
Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles, Garden City: Doubleday, 1958; Classic Stories 1, New York: Bantam, 1990.
Frank Herbert, The Dune Chronicles, New York: Ace, 1982-87, 6 vol.

Dark Visions

A Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West, New York: Oxford Univ Pr, 1926-28, 1991.
Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf, Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1962, esp. p 131 ff on overpopulation and birth control.
Nathanael Greene ed, Fascism: An Anthology, New York: Crowell, 1968.
Herman Kahn, A On Thermonuclear War, Greenwood Publishing, 1961, 1978; A Thinking About the Unthinkable in the 1980s, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984.
A Ervin Staub, The Roots of Evil: The Origins of Genocide and Other Group Violence, New York: Cambridge U. Press, 1989, 1992.
A John C. Burnham, How Superstition Won and Science Lost, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers, 1987.

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