Books to look at: "Ten Great Economists: From Marx to Keynes" by Joseph Schumpeter (HB85 .Sch86t) "The principles of science : a treatise on logic and scientific method" by William Stanley Jevons (Q175 J539p) "Liberty, equality, fraternity" by James Fitzjames Stephen (JC571 .St43L) "Essays moral, political, and literary" by David Hume (B1476 .G7) "Geometry and the imagination" by D. Hilbert and S. Cohn-Vussen (QA445 H542aE) "Kant's political writings" by Immanuel Kant (JC181 .K295) "An Essay on the Principles of Morals" by David Hume "Of the Standard of Taste" by David Hume "A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful" by Edmund Burke (BH181 .B8 1968) "An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations" by Adam Smith (HB161 Sm51i, 1937) "The theory of moral sentiments" by Adam Smith (AC7 .S59 1976 v.1) "Leviathan" by Thomas Hobbes (JC153 .H65 1996) "Nicomachean ethics" by Aristotle (B430 A5 C7513 2000) "The genealogy of morals" by Frederich Nietzsche (B3313.Z7 E8 1918) "Critique of judgment" by Immanuel Kant (B2778.E5 B4) --- "The Celestine prophecy : an adventure" by James Redfield (PS3568.E3448 C45 1994) "Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms" by Diane Ravitch (LA216 R28 2000) "Normal accidents : living with high-risk technologies" by Charles Perrow (T54 .P47 1984) "User centered system design : new perspectives on human-computer interaction," edited by Donald A. Norman and Stephen W. Draper (QA76.9.I58 U73 1986) "Literary machines : the report on, and of, Project Xanadu concerning word processing, electronic publishing, hypertext, thinkertoys, tomorrow's intellectual revolution, and certain other topics including knowledge, education and freedom" by Theodor Holm Nelson (Z52.4 N45x, 1990) "Parallel distributed processing : explorations in the microstructure of cognition" by David E. Rumelhart, James L. McClelland, and the PDP Research Group (BF455 .R853 1986) "Things that make us smart : defending human attributes in the age of the machine" by Donald A. Norman (T14 .N67 1993) "Bentham and the ethics of today; with Bentham manuscripts hitherto unpublished" by David Baumgardt (BJ604 .B327b) "The archaic revival : speculations on psychedelic mushrooms, the Amazon, virtual reality, UFOs, evolution, Shamanism, the rebirth of the goddess, and the end of history" by Terence McKenna (BL625 .M35 1991) "The invisible landscape : mind, hallucinogens, and the I Ching" by Dennis J. McKenna and Terence K. McKenna (BF161 .M34) "Food of the Gods" by Terence McKenna "Writing Solid Code: Microsoft's Techniques for Developing Bug-Free C Programs" by Steve Maguire "Pragmatic programming & sensible software" (QA76.6 P685x, 1978) "The Greek and Roman Critics" by G. M. A. Grube (PA3013 G92g) "Hoodwinking the nation" by Julian Simon (GE40 .S55 1999) "Population and development in poor countries : selected essays" by Julian L. Simon (HB884 .S566 1992) "The economics of population growth" by Julian L. Simon (HB871 .S57) "The ultimate resource 2" by Julian L. Simon (HB871 .S573 1996) "The Pocket Guide to TCP/IP Sockets" (QA76.76 A63 D66 2001) "Privacy and social freedom" by Ferdinand David Schoeman (JC596 .S36 1992) "Privacy and human rights : an international and comparative study, with special reference to developments in information technology" James Michael (K3263 .M53 1994) "The public and the private in Aristotle's political philosophy" by Judith A. Swanson (JC596 .S93 1992) "Rights talk : the impoverishment of political discourse" by Mary Ann Glendon (KF4749 .G54 1991) "Reason in human affairs" Herbert A. Simon by (BF441 S55x, 1983) "The open society and its enemies" by Karl Popper (HM24 P817o2) "Introduction to logic and to the methodology of deductive sciences" by Alfred Tarski (QA9 T17eE3) "Logic, semantics, metamathematics : papers from 1923 to 1938" by Alfred Tarski (BC135 .T35 1983) "Frege and Goedel; two fundamental texts in mathematical logic" (QA9 V312f, 1970) "The foundations of science..." by Henri Poincare (Q175 P755f) "Notes of debates in the Federal Convention of 1787, reported by James Madison" (JK141 1966) "Autobiography" by Thomas Jefferson (E332.9 .A8 1959) "Flashbacks, an autobiography" by Timothy Leary (BF109.L43 A38 1983) "A general introduction to psycho-analysis..." by Sigmund Freud (BF173 F895g2) "The interpretation of dreams" by Sigmund Freud (BF1078 F895in) "Dali by Dali" by Salvador Dali (ND813.D3 A33213) "Computer Lib" by Theodor Holm Nelson "Engines of creation" by K. Eric Drexler (T47 .D74 1986) "Copenhagen: a play in two acts" by Michael Frayn (PR6056 R3 C64 2000b) "Mathematical psychics; an essay on the application of mathematics to the moral sciences" by Francis Edgeworth (HB71 Ed37m) "The sciences of the artificial" by Herbert A. Simon (Q175 .S564) "Artificial intelligence : a modern approach" Stuart J. Russell and Peter Norvig (Q335 .R86 1995) "Eccentric Islands" by Bill Holm "Robert Boyle : a free enquiry into the vulgarly received notion of nature" (Q155 .R62 1996) "Philosophical experiments and observations" by Robert Hooke (Q155 H763p) "Object-oriented software construction" by Bertrand Meyer (QA76.64 M493 1997) "The feminine mystique" by Betty Friedan (HQ1420 .F7 1983) "The Tetherballs of Bougainville" by Mark Leyner "I Smell Esther Williams" by Mark Leyner "A theory of justice" by John Rawls (JC578 .R38 1999) "The wretched of the earth" by Frantz Fanon (DT33 F217w) "The souls of Black folk" by W.E.B. DuBois (E185.6 .D797 1994b) "Africa, its geography, people, and products, and Africa, its place in modern history" by W. E. B. Du Bois (DT20 .D78 1977) "The story of my life and work, Booker T. Washington" by Booker T. Washington (E185.97.W1 W276s) "My bondage and my freedom" by Frederick Douglass (E449 D747m) "A call to conscience : the landmark speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." (E185.97.K5 A5 2001) "Where do we go from here: Chaos or community?" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (E185.615 .K585w) "Malcolm X speaks" (BP223.Z8 L5798 1990) "International trade" by F. W. Taussig (HF1007 .T196i) "Mechanical intelligence" (a collection of works) by Alan Turing (Q335.5 .T87 1992) "Papers of John von Neumann on computing and computer theory" (QA76.5 .P3145 1987) "The computer and the brain" by John von Neumann (QA76 V6 2000) "Transfinite numbers : three papers on transfinite numbers from the Mathematische annalen" by Georg Cantor (QA248 C168t) "The art of computer programming" by Donald E. Knuth (QA76.6 .K64 1973) "Stable marriage and its relation to other combinatorial problems : an introduction to the mathematical analysis of algorithms" by Donald E. Knuth (QA164 .K5913 1997) "Passages from the life of a philosopher" by Charles Babbage (QA29 B113b) "Selected writings on computing : a personal perspective" by Edsger W. Dijkstra (QA76.24 .D54 1982) "Essays in computing science" by C.A.R. Hoare (QA76 .H56 1989) "Experiments in plant-hybridisation" by Gregor Mendel (QH423 M522v3E) "Animal liberation" by Peter Singer (HV4708 .S56 1990) "Che Guevara speaks; selected speeches and writings" (F1788 .G77) "Autobiography" by Charles Darwin (QH31.D2 A3 1993) "Principles of neurodynamics; perceptrons and the theory of brain mechanisms" by Frank Rosenblatt (QP376 .R723p) "The logical structure of linguistic theory" by Noam Chomsky (P158 .C5) "The architecture of language" by Noam Chomsky (P158 C483x 2000) "The autobiography of Harry S. Truman" by (E814 .A32x) "A personal odyssey" by Thomas Sowell (E185.97 .S69 2000) "Barbarians inside the gates--and other controversial essays" by Thomas Sowell (E169.12 S667 1999) "A conflict of visions" by Thomas Sowell (HM73 .S68 1987) "The meaning of relativity" by Albert Einstein (QC6 Ei68m5) "The world as I see it" by Albert Einstein (QC71 .Ei68w) "The woman destroyed" by Simone de Beauvoir (PQ2603.E362 F413) "The second sex" by Simone de Beauvoir (HQ1208 .B385s) "The economic consequences of the peace" by John Maynard Keynes (HC57 .K522ec) "Extreme programming explained : embrace change" by Kent Beck (QA76.76 D47 B434 2000) "The awakening" by Kate Chopin (PS1294.C63 A9 1964) "A room of one's own" by Virginia Woolf (PN471 .W883r) "A heartbreaking work of staggering genius" by Dave Eggers (CT275 E37 A3 2000) "To the lighthouse" by Virginia Woolf (PR6045 O72 T6 1927) "Unified theories of cognition" by Allen Newell (BF311 .N496 1990) "Nobel lectures in peace" (JZ5537 P43 1997) "The Columbian orator : containing a variety of original and selected pieces together with rules : calculated to improve youth and others in the ornamental and useful art of eloquence" by Caleb Bingham (PN4200 .B5 1839) "Introduction to algorithms" by Thomas H. Cormen (QA76.6 I5858 2001) "The Chinese language : fact and fantasy" by John DeFrancis (PL1171 .D38 1984) "Radioactive substances" by Marie Curie (QC795 .C823 1971) "Animal machines; the new factory farming industry" by Ruth Harrison (SF71 .H3) "King Solomon's ring; new light on animal ways" by Konrad Lorenz (QL751 .L887k) "Universality in chaos : a reprint selection" compiled and introduced by Predrag Cvitanovic (QC20.5 U54x, 1984) "What is life? The physical aspect of the living cell" by Erwin Schroedinger (QH331 Sch76w) "Adaptation in natural and artificial systems : an introductory analysis with applications to biology, control, and artificial intelligence" by John H. Holland (QH546 .H64 1992) "Higher superstition : the academic left and its quarrels with science" by Paul R. Gross, Norman Levitt (Q175.5 .G757 1994) "A treatise on the family" by Gary S. Becker (HQ518 .B35) "The man who mistook his wife for a hat and other clinical tales" by Oliver Sacks (RC351 .S195 1990) "Cybernetics; or, Control and communication in the animal and the machine" by Norbert Wiener (Q7 Ac8 no.1053) "Computers and intractability : a guide to the theory of NP-completeness" by Michael R. Garey and David S. Johnson (QA76.6 .G35) "The art of happiness : a handbook for living" by the Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler (BQ7935 B774 A78 1998) "Homage to Gaia : the life of an independent scientist" by James Lovelock "Gaia : a new look at life on earth" by James Lovelock (QH313 .L68 1995) "The ages of Gaia : a biography of our living earth" by James Lovelock (QH331 .L688 1995) "The mathematical theory of communication" by Claude Shannon (TK5101 .Sh19m) "Nicomachean ethics" by Aristotle, translated and edited by Roger Crisp (B430 A5 C7513 2000) "On rhetoric : a theory of civic discourse" by Aristotle, newly translated, with introduction, notes, and appendixes by George A. Kennedy (PN173.A7 K46 1991) "The generall historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer isles, together with The true travels, adventures and observations, and A sea grammar" by Captaine John Smith (F229 Sm61g) "The history and present state of Virginia" by Robert Beverley (F229 B467h) "Symbiosis in cell evolution : life and its environment on the early Earth" by Lynn Margulis (QH366.2 .M36) "The chemical evolution of the atmosphere and oceans" by Heinrich D. Holland (QC879.6 .H63 1984) "Who stole feminism? : how women have betrayed women" by Christina Hoff Sommers (HQ1154 .S613 1994) "The ghost in the atom : a discussion of the mysteries of quantum physics" by P.C.W. Davies and J. Brown (QC174.12 .D365 1986) "Quantum mechanics" by Alastair I.M. Rae (QC174.12 .R33 1992) "Freedom in exile : the autobiography of the Dalai Lama" (BQ7935.B777 A3 1990) "The mythical man-month : essays on software engineering" by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. (QA76.6 .B75) "Goedel's incompleteness theorems" by Raymond M. Smullyan (QA9.65 .S69 1992) "The lady or the tiger? : and other logic puzzles, including a mathematical novel that features Goedel's great discovery" by Raymond Smullyan (GV1493 S626 1982) "What is the name of this book? : The riddle of Dracula and other logical puzzles" by Raymond M. Smullyan (GV1493 .S63) "Reflections on Kurt Goedel" by Hao Wang (QA29.G58 W36 1987) "Logic, computers, and sets" by Hao Wang (QA9 .W35 1970) "A mathematician's apology" by G. H. Hardy (QA7 .H3 1967) "Life so far" by Betty Friedan (HQ1413 .F75 A3 2000) "The war against women" by Marilyn French (HQ1154 .F744 1992) "The female eunuch" by Germaine Greer (HQ1206 .G74x) "What is life?" by Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan ; foreword by Niles Eldredge (QH501 M35 2000) "Life and death in Shanghai" by Nien Cheng (DS778.7 .C445 1986) "Computation: finite and infinite machines" by Marvin L. Minsky (QA267 .M667c) "Moving into adolescence : the impact of pubertal change and school context" by Roberta G. Simmons, Dale A. Blyth (HQ796 .S474 1987) "Educated in romance : women, achievement, and college culture" by Dorothy C. Holland & Margaret A. Eisenhart (LC1756 .H65 1990) "Design patterns : elements of reusable object-oriented software" by Erich Gamma ... [et al.] (QA76.64 .D47 1995) "Effective C++ : 50 specific ways to improve your programs and designs" by Scott Meyers (QA76.73 C153 M48 1998) "Refactoring : improving the design of existing code" by Martin Fowler (QA76.76 R42 F69 1999) "Tibet and the Chinese People's Republic," a report to the International Commission of Jurists (DS786 .I498) "Tibet fights for freedom" by Raja Huthessing (DS786 .H975t) "Tibetan Buddhism : an introduction" by Bhikshu Sangharakshita (BQ7604 S264x, 1996) "The Tibetan book of great liberation" by Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz (BL1405 W45, 1971) "Tibetan meditation : theory and practice" by S. K. Ramachandra Rao (BQ7805 .R35) "The Chinese revolution and the Chinese Communist Party" by Mao Tse-tung (DS777.53 .M32c) "Prajnaparamitas" (BQ1912.E5 C66 1973) [Apparently an important Buddhist text -- "Prajnaparamitas Heart Sutra"] "Nonviolence in theory and practice" by Robert L. Holmes (HM278 N67 2001) "Pacifism and the just war : a study in applied philosophy" by Jenny Teichman (BT736.4 .T45 1986) "Reasons for actions: a critique of ultitarian rationality" by Richard Norman (BJ1468.5 .N67 1971b) "Ethics, killing and war" by Richard Norman (U22 .N67 1995) "War and morality" edited by Richard A. Wasserstrom (U22 .W37) "Philosophy and social issues : five studies" by Richard A. Wasserstrom (HN18 .W37) "Maximum security" (QA76.9 A25 M389 2001) "Readings about the social animal" (HM251 A789 1999) "Chung-kuo yu yen wen hua pei ching Han Ying shuang chieh tz`u tien = A Chinese-English dictionary with cultural background information / chu pien Shen Shan-hung" (PL1455 C63x 1998, in the Reference Collection) "Word by word : English/Chinese picture dictionary" by Steven J. Molinsky, Bill Bliss, Jung Pao (PL1455 .M63 1996) "The new emperors : China in the era of Mao and Deng" by Harrison E. Salisbury (DS778.A1 S426 1992) "East and west : China, power, and the future of Asia" by Christopher Patten (DS796 H757 P39 1998) "The clash of civilizations and the remaking of world order" by Samuel P. Huntington (D860 .H86 1996) "Ten days that shook the world" by John Reed (DK265 R251t) "Red star over China" by Edgar Snow (DS775 Sn61r) "Sons of the Yellow Emperor" by Lynn Pan The works of Li Po, the Chinese poet, done into English verse by Shigeyoshi Obata; with an introduction and biographical and critical matter translated from the Chinese. (PL2671 .A25x) "Dream of the red chamber" by Tsao Hsueh-chin. Translated and adapted from the Chinese by Chi-chen Wang. With a preface by Mark Van Doren. (PL2727.S2 H813, 1958a) "The importance of living" by Lin Yutang (BD431 .L42 1996) "Art & physics : parallel visions in space, time, and light" by Leonard Shlain (N70 .S48 1991) [February 12, 2002] "Morality and utility" by Jan Narveson (B1571 .N3) [Referenced in a footnote of Norman's "Reasons for Actions"; "A useful defence of classical utilitarianism interpreted along these lines..."] [February 13, 2002] "Paradigms of artificial intelligence programming : case studies in common LISP" by Peter Norvig (QA76.6 .N687 1992) [Referenced on Peter Norvig's site, http://www.norvig.com/; "One of the best programming books of all time" -- Jamie Hamilton] [February 14, 2002] "Design for a brain" by W. Ross Ashby (QP376 As34d2) [Suggested by my father, especially for the "law of requisite variety," of which he said the idea that a less complicated system cannot simulate a more complicated system reminded him.] "Just and Unjust Wars" by Michael Walzer (U21.2 W345) [Suggested by my father -- a book on war which "people are still talking about," unlike the ones I mentioned to him.] "Buddha" by Karen Armstrong (BQ882 A76 2001) [Suggested by Ed Canade in reply to a request for Buddhism books.] "Philosophies of India" by Heinrich Zimmer (B131 .Z65p) "The Religions of India" by Max Weber (BL2001 .W388r) "The expression of the emotions in man and animals" by Charles Darwin (QP401 D259e) "Ecology of sensing" edited by Friedrich G. Barth, Axel Schmid (QP435 E26 2001) [February 19, 2002] "Propaganda; the formation of men's attitudes" by Jacques Ellul (HM263 .EL59p) [Referenced in a scathing review of Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent" on amazon.com.] "The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation" by Chogyam Trungpa [Suggested by Cky in reply to a request for books on Tibetan Buddhism.] "Common sense" by Thomas Paine, edited with an introduction by Isaac Kramnick (E211 .P1455 1982) [February 21, 2002] "Peopleware : productive projects and teams" by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister (HD31 .D42185 1987) [Referenced in Dan Dunham's blog.] "Influence : science and practice" by Robert B. Cialdini (BF774 .C53 1993) [A book by Cialdini is mentioned on a page including a review of "Peopleware" -- Joel Spolsky.] "Concrete mathematics : a foundation for computer science" by Ronald L. Graham, Donald E. Knuth, Oren Patashnik (QA39.2 .G733 1994) [Referenced in "The Art of Computer Programming: Volume I."] "A discipline of programming" by Edsger W. Dijkstra (QA76.6 .D54) [Referenced in "The Art of Computer Programming: Volume I."] [February 22, 2002] "Divergent paths : economic mobility in the new American labor market" by Annette Bernhardt, Martina Morris, Mark Handcock, and Marc Scott (HD5717.5 U6 D58 2001) [Referenced in a Web page referenced in a Red Rock Eater e-mail. "The promise of upward mobility, a centerpiece of the American dream, which fosters the notion that anyone can get ahead with hard work, may have disappeared with the 20th century" -- Joel Schwartz.] "An introduction to the theory of numbers" by Ivan Niven, Herbert S. Zuckerman (QA241 N56 1980) [From a conversation with Jill Bigley; suggested to her by Cliff Bergman.] [February 23, 2002] "Latin : [a complete course]" by Gavin Betts (PA2094.5 B48 1992) [February 26, 2002] "When war is unjust : being honest in just-war thinking" by John Howard Yoder (B105.W3 Y63 1996) [From Jon Donaghy in response to a request for just war theory books.] [February 28, 2002] "Security engineering : a guide to building dependable distributed systems" by Ross J. Anderson (QA76.9 A25 A54 2001) [Recommended in Slashdot review -- "a must have."] "Applied cryptography : protocols, algorithms, and source code in C" by Bruce Schneier (QA76.9.A25 S352x 1996) "Secrets and lies : digital security in a networked world" by Bruce Schneier (QA76.9 A25 S352 2000) [March 2, 2002] "The humane interface : new directions for designing interactive systems" by Jef Raskin (QA76.9 H85 R37 2000) [Referenced in osOpinion article -- http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16564.html -- referenced on Slashdot.] [March 5, 2002] "Ethics : theory and practice" by Jacques P. Thiroux (BJ1012 .T47 1980) "How to think about weird things : critical thinking for a new age" by Theodore Schick and Lewis Vaughn (BC177 .S32 1995) "The collected writings of Salvador Dali" edited and translated by Haim Finkelstein (N7113 D3 A35 1998) "The secret life of Salvador Dali" by Salvador Dali, translated by Haakon M. Chevalier (ND813.D3 A373 1976) "Dialogue concerning the two chief world systems, Ptolemaic & Copernican" by Galileo Galilei, translated by Stillman Drake. Foreword by Albert Einstein. (QB41 .G133di) "The Principia : mathematical principles of natural philosophy" by Isaac Newton ; a new translation by I. Bernard Cohen and Anne Whitman assisted by Julia Budenz ; preceded by A guide to Newton's Principia by I. Bernard Cohen. (QA803 N413 1999) "A treatise on electricity and magnetism" by James Clerk Maxwell (QC518 M451t3) [March 6, 2002] "Computer related risks" by Peter G. Neumann (QA76.5 .N424 1995) [The author's Web site was referenced by a site referenced by Red Rock Eater.] [March 9, 2002] "Elementary probability theory with stochastic processes" by Kai Lai Chung (QA273 .C5774 1979) "A first course in probability" by Sheldon Ross (QA273 .R83 1988) [Referenced as a good introductory probability textbook in "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach."] "The symbolic species : the co-evolution of language and the brain" by Terrence W. Deacon (QP399 .D43 1997) [Referenced at philosophy club meeting.] [March 14, 2002] "Combinatorial optimization : algorithms and complexity" by Christos H. Papadimitriou, Kenneth Steiglitz (QA402.5 .P37) [Referenced in Cormen's "Introduction to Algorithms" for greedy alg. info.] [March 17, 2002] "Automation of reasoning" edited by Joerg Siekmann and Graham Wrightson (QA76.9 A96 A88x 1983) [Contains a reprint of Knuth's "Simple word problems in universal algebras." Referenced in the footnote of an article "All Questions Answered" referenced by Slashdot.] "Selected papers on analysis of algorithms" by Donald E. Knuth (QA9.58 K65 2000) [March 18, 2002] "Journal of Captain Cook's last voyage" by John Ledyard (G420 L499j) [Referenced in Thomas Jefferson's autobiography.] [March 20, 2002] "From time immemorial : the origins of the Arab-Jewish conflict over Palestine" by Joan Peters (JV8749.P3 P47 1984) "The land and people of Israel" by Gail Hoffman (PZ175 H675L2) [The above two books were recommended by Sharon Nader Sloan, Esq.] [March 22, 2002] "Dynamic programming" by Richard Bellman (QA264 .B417d) "Fundamentals of computer algorithms" by Ellis Horowitz, Sartaj Sahni (QA76.6 .H67) [The above two books were recommended by Prof. Yan-Bin Jia for further information on dynamic programming and greedy algorithms.] [March 23, 2002] "Antony van Leeuwenhoek and his 'Little animals'" by Clifford Dobell (QR31 L519d, 1958) [Collection of van Leeuwenhoek's papers.] [March 25, 2002] "Crystallizing public opinion" by Edward L. Bernays (HM261 B457c) "Propaganda" by Edward L. Bernays (HM263 .B457p) "Public relations" by Edward L. Bernays (HM263 B457pu) [Bernays is mentioned in a Guardian article claiming that people are so manipulated by PR that they can no longer think for themselves.] "Dickens, Dali & others" by George Orwell (PR6029.R8 D5 1963) "The diary of a young girl" by Anne Frank (DS135.N6 F73313 1995) [Orwell's criticism of Gandhi and Anne Frank's diary are mentioned in Walzer's "Just and Unjust Wars."] [March 28, 2002] "Statistics, a new approach" by W. Allen Wallis and Harry V. Roberts (QA286 W158S) [Referenced in Julian Simon's "Hoodwinking the Nation" -- "a landmark in statistics education for decades. One of its central features is instruction in how to avoid pitfalls in statistical thinking, and it lists many common fallacies."] "The counter-revolution of science; studies on the abuse of reason" by Friedrich von Hayek (Q175 H325c) "Mosquitoes, malaria, and man : a history of the hostilities since 1880" by Gordon Harrison (RA644.M2 H37) "Set theory and the continuum problem" by Raymond M. Smullyan and Melvin Fitting (QA248 .S586 1996) "Satan, Cantor, and infinity : and other mind-boggling puzzles" by Raymond Smullyan (QA95 .S5 1992) "Diagonalization and self-reference" by Raymond M. Smullyan (QA9.6 .S67 1994) "Graph theory" by Frank Harary (QA166 .H37) ["A useful compendium of many definitions and results from graph theory..." -- "Introduction to Algorithms" by Thomas Cormen.] [March 30, 2002] "Machine learning" by Tom M. Mitchell (Q325.5 .M58 1997) [Textbook for computer science 474, elements of neural computation.] [April 1, 2002] "Road to serfdom" by Friedrich von Hayek (HD82 H325r, 1969) "The constitution of liberty" by Friedrich von Hayek (JC585 .H325c) [My father recommended the above two for an introduction to Hayek, to be read in the given order.] [April 8, 2002] "Bringing down the Great Wall : writings on science, culture, and democracy in China" by Fang Lizhi (DS779.26 .F3459 1991) [Referenced in Red Rock Eater digest; "valuable inside view of China."] "False dawn : the delusions of global capitalism" by John Gray (HB501 G63x, 1998) [Recommended by Jdia Plum, philosophy club president.] "Mill on liberty : a defence" by John Gray (JC585.M75 G72 1996) [April 9, 2002] "The governing of agriculture" by Bruce L. Gardner (HD1761 .G37x) [Referenced in article by Clifton B. Luttrell.] "Farm commodity programs; an opportunity for change" by D. Gale Johnson (HD1765 1973 .J65) [Referenced in article by Clifton B. Luttrell.] "The fair trade fraud" by James Bovard (HF1455 .B59 1991) "Lost rights : the destruction of American liberty" by James Bovard (JC599.U5 B598 1994) [April 10, 2002] "Agriculture and the environment : searching for greener pastures" edited by Terry L. Anderson and Bruce Yandle (S441 A39 2001) [Recommended by my father in regards to a speech on farm subsidies.] [April 11, 2002] "Pearls in graph theory : a comprehensive introduction" by Nora Hartsfield, Gerhard Ringel (QA166 .H39 1990) ["gentle, engaging"] "Graph theory : an introductory course" by Bela Bollobas (QA166 .B662) ["If you like a challenge, try Bela Bollobas' _Introduction to Graph Theory_..."] "Graphs & digraphs" by Gary Chartrand and Linda Lesniak (QA166 .C4525 1996) [Alex Burstein recommended the above in response to a request for introductory graph theory texts.] "U.S. agriculture : myth, reality and national policy" (HD1761 U49x, 1991) ["Report on a project examinining the effect of perceptions about farming and rural life on U.S. agriculture policy."] "Rural U.S.A. : persistence and change" edited by Thomas R. Ford (HN59 .R87) "Hard tomatoes, hard times" by Jim Hightower (S533 H5x, 1973) ["A report of the Agribusiness Accountability Project on the failure of America's land grant college complex. Research coordinated by Susan DeMarco. Foreword by James Abourezk."] [April 14, 2002] "World hunger : twelve myths" by Frances Moore Lappe and Joseph Collins (HD9000.6 L344x, 1986) [The course text for agronomy 342, World Food Issues, a course I could take to fulfill my diversity requirement.] [April 17, 2002] "A Little Smalltalk" by Timothy Budd (QA76.6 .B835 1987) [In the cage; ask at circulation desk.] "Larch/Smalltalk : a specification language for Smalltalk" by Yoonsik Cheon (ISU 1991 C429) "The design and evaluation of a high performance Smalltalk system" by David M. Ungar (QA76.6 .U52 1987) [In the cage; ask at circulation desk.] [April 22, 2002] "Nutritional epidemiology" by Walter Willett (RA645.N87 W54 1998) [Recommended by Erica Fuchs in regards to the health effects of eating meat.] [April 23, 2002] "In search of wonder; essays on modern science fiction" by Damon Knight (PS374.S35 K743i) [Knight died recently; according to Time, this book is "considered among the most important works of science-fiction criticism."] "Kon-Tiki; across the Pacific by raft" by Thor Heyerdahl, translated by F. H. Lyon (G530 H514k, 1964) [Heyerdahl died recently.] [April 27, 2002] "Essays on freedom and power" by Lord Acton, selected, and with an introduction by Gertrude Himmelfarb. Preface by Herman Finer. (JC571 Ac87e) [Hayek's praise of Lord Acton inspired me to want to read a work representative of Acton's thought; I'm not sure if this is the one.] "Acton in America : the American journal of Sir John Acton, 1853" edited by S. W. Jackman (E166 .A25 1979) [May 4, 2002] "Capitalism and freedom" by Milton Friedman (HB501 .F914c) "The end of racism : principles for a multiracial society" by Dinesh D'Souza (E185.615 .D75 1995) "How to lie with statistics" by Darrel Huff (QA286 .H872h) [Mentioned in my speech communications 212 textbook; I'd heard of it before but lately have been more worried about issues of clarity.] "The three stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" by Philip K. Dick (PS3554.I3 T46 1991) [Spoken highly of by Jill Bigley.] "What if our world is their heaven? : the final conversations of Philip K. Dick" edited by Gwen Lee and Elaine Sauter ; foreword by Tim Powers. (PS3554.I3 Z479 2000) "Nonverbal communication" by Albert Mehrabian (BF637.C45 M43) [Mehrabian's work on immediacy is referenced in "Mediation of Self-Fulfilling Prophecies in Interracial Interaction" in "Readings on the Social Animal."] [May 7, 2002] "All the trouble in the world : the lighter side of overpopulation, famine, ecological disaster, ethnic hatred, plague, and poverty" by P.J. O'Rourke (PN6162 .O73 1994) [I was looking for "Parliament of Whores," recommended in relation to farm subsides by Dave Tepper; the library doesn't have "Whores," but it does have the above, which sounds interesting too.] [May 13, 2002] "Cryptonomicon" by Neal Stephenson (PS3569 T3868 C79 1999) "Alan Turing : the enigma" by Andrew Hodges ; foreword by Douglas Hofstadter (QA29 T8 H63 2000) [May 15, 2002] "Foundations of component-based systems" edited by Gary T. Leavens, Murali Sitaraman (QA76.76 C66 F68 2000) "Predicate calculus and program semantics" by Edsger W. Dijkstra, Carel S. Scholten (QA9.35 .D55 1990) [May 16, 2002] "The structure of typed programming languages" by David A. Schmidt (QA76.7 .S345 1994) [Recommended by Gary Leavens for type checking.] "Diary of a madman and other stories" by Lu Xun, translated by William A. Lyell (PL2754.S5 A25 1990) "Short stories" by Lu Xun (PL2754.S5 A6 1994b) [Apparently in Chinese.] "The true story of Ah Q" by Lu Xun, translated by Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang (PL2754 S58 A6213x 1990) [My Chinese texbook refers to Lu Xun as does "Bringing Down the Great Wall.] "Thoughts on progress, peaceful coexistence and intellectual freedom" by Andrei D. Sakharov (CB427 Sa29p, 1968a) [Fang Lizhi has been called China's Sakharov.] [May 20, 2002] "Beyond the melting pot; the Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians, and Irish of New York City" by Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan (F128.9 G469b2) [Referenced in D'Souza's "The End of Racism."] "Miles to go : a personal history of social policy" by Daniel Patrick Moynihan (HN28 .M69 1996) "The mismeasure of man" by Stephen Jay Gould (BF431 G68 1996) "Leonardo's mountain of clams and the Diet of Worms : essays on natural history" by Stephen Jay Gould (QH81 .G67323 1998) [Stephen Jay Gould died of cancer today at the age of 60.] [May 21, 2002] "Full house : the spread of excellence from Plato to Darwin" by Stephen Jay Gould (QH366.2 G6593 1996) [Spoken highly of by Jean-Luc and Dave Tepper.] "Darwin's dangerous idea : evolution and the meanings of life" by Daniel C. Dennett (QH375 .D45 1995) [I remember Brett Fadem offering to lend it to Rebecca Grundy. The Web page of a Mensa member I discovered by searching for "libertarian musician" on Google spoke highly of it.] "Consciousness explained" by Daniel C. Dennett ; illustrated by Paul Weiner (B105.C477 D45 1991) [Pete of philosophy club mentioned this a few years ago.] "The blind watchmaker : why evidence of evolution reveals a universe without design" by Richard Dawkins (QH366.2 .D37 1996) [May 23, 2002] "The closing of the American mind" by Allan Bloom (E169.1 .B653 1987) "Cultural literacy : what every American needs to know" by E.D. Hirsch, Jr. (LC149 .H57 1987) "The disuniting of America" by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (E184.A1 S34 1992) [The above three are referenced in "The End of Racism" as being critical of multiculturalism.] "Young, black, and male in America : an endangered species" edited by Jewelle Taylor Gibbs (E185.86 .Y68 1988) [Referenced in "The End of Racism"; is 1988 too out-of-date to be useful?] [May 24, 2002] "The lambda calculus : its syntax and semantics" by H.P. Barendregt (QA9.5 .B36 1984) "Lambda calculi : a guide for computer scientists" by Chris Hankin (QA9.5 .H36 1994) [A couple of books referenced by "Essentials of Programming Languages" on the lambda calculus.] [May 24, 2002] "Iowa's plants" by Iowa Association of Naturalists (QK160 I59x, 1994) [Seven volumes; includes section on edible plants.] "Handbook of edible weeds" by James A. Duke (QK98.5.U6 D85 1992) "Guide to wild foods and useful plants" by Christopher Nyerges (QK98.5 A1 N94 1999) "Edible wild plants of eastern and central North America" by Lee Allen Peterson (QK98.5.U6 P47 1985) "The psychology of human-computer interaction" by Stuart K. Card, Thomas P. Moran, Allen Newell (QA76.9.I58 C37 1983) [Referenced by "The Humane Interface."] "The trouble with computers : usefulness, usability, and productivity" by Thomas K. Landauer (QA76.5 .L3226 1995) [Advanced text search, such as Boolean or regexp, inferior to full text search; referenced by "The Humane Interface."] [May 26, 2002] "The Tain; translated [from the Irish epic Tain bo Culailnge] by Thomas Kinsella (PB1423.T3 K5, 1969) [Referenced on Lisa L. Spangenberg's Celtic Studies Resources Web page as "the most readable English translation going of the Irish national epic, and the associated main mythological tales."] "The ancient Celts" by Barry Cunliffe (D70 .C86 1997) [Referenced on Lisa L. Spangenberg's Celtic Studies Resources Web page.] [May 27, 2002] "The demon-haunted world : science as a candle in the dark" by Carl Sagan (Q175 .S215 1995) [May 30, 2002] "Modern Japanese society, 1868-1994" by Ann Waswo (DS881.9 .W383 1996) [According to John Gray's "False Dawn," this book says Japanese policy makers reject the notion that industrialism is tied to individualism, a free labor market, and other characteristics of Western industrialism.] "Japan and the enemies of open political science" by David Williams (H61 .W557 1996) [Gray: "ambitious argument that Japan limits or falsifies much in western social science."] "The bad earth : environmental degradation in China" by Vaclav Smil (GF656 .S65 1984) [June 2, 2002] "The complete works of Robert Burns" edited and introduced by James A. Mackay (PR4300 .F86) [I finished reading Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" today.] [June 5, 2002] "Soul mountain" by Gao Xingjian, translated from the Chinese by Mabel Lee (PL2869 O128 L5613 2000) [Recommended by Peter for both its literary and philosphical qualities.] "Emile : or, On education" by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, introd., translation, and notes by Allan Bloom (LB512 .E5 1979) [June 7, 2002] "C++ object databases" by David Jordan (QA76.9.D3 J67 1998) [Recommended by Mark Pollock of PHENIX in relation to tutorial on Objectivity.] [June 17, 2002] "Gulliver's travels" by Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745), with illustrations reproducing drawings for early editions and photographs of historical scenes together with an introductory biographical sketch of the author and anecdotal captions by Allen Klots, Jr. (PZ7 Sw55g) [June 22, 2002] "The future of life" by Edward O. Wilson (QH75 .W535 2002) [Allison Shaw sent me an excerpt from this book.] "On human nature" by Edward O. Wilson (GN365.9 .W54) [Pulitzer Prize winner.] "The diversity of life" by Edward O. Wilson (QH313 .W55 1992) [July 1, 2002] "Introduction to artificial life" by Christoph Adami (Q335 A3 1998) [Referenced in Avida documentation.] [July 10, 2002] "An introduction to Plato's Republic" by Julia Annas (JC71.P6 A56x) [Recommended by Prof. Kevin de Laplante in reply to a request for book's on Plato's Republic.] [July 14, 2002] "Remembrance of things past" by Marcel Proust, translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin (PQ2631.R63 A72 1981) "300 T`ang poems", translated by Innes Herdan (PL2658.E3 S8 1973) [Chinese and English] [July 22, 2002] "Descartes' error : emotion, reason, and the human brain" by Antonio R. Damasio (QP401 .D2 1994) "How the mind works" by Steven Pinker (QP360.5 .P56 1997) [August 29, 2002] "Data structures and algorithms" by Alfred V. Aho, John E. Hopcroft, Jeffrey D. Ullman (QA76.9.D35 A38 1983) [September 18, 2002] "Dharma Paths" by Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche "How to practice : the way to a meaningful life" by His Holiness the Dalai Lama ; translated and edited by Jeffrey Hopkins (BQ4302 B77 2002) [The above two were recommended by a philosophy professor at the Ames Karma Kagyu Study Group's Clubfest booth.] [September 19, 2002] "Elliptic Curves in Cryptography" (QA76.9 A25 B57 1999) "Introduction to Cryptography" (QA76.9 A25 D443 2002) "Public-Key Cryptography" (QA76.9 S26 1990) "Introduction to Expert Systems" (QA76.76 E95 J33 1999) [The above four are references I scribbled down while wandering through the computer science section of the stacks. I put three stars next to the expert systems book info. It looked very interesting.] [September 22, 2002] "The Great Path of Awakening" by Jamgon Kongtrul [Tim, head of the Ames Karma Kagyu Study Group, highly recommended this book.] [October 1, 2002] "Globalisation and Its Discontents" by Joseph Stiglitz (HF1418.5 .S75 2002) [I just read a review of this book by Tony Smith of the ISU philosophy department.] [October 10, 2002] "The Tin Drum" by Gunter Grass (PT2613 R338 B5513 1962) [Nobel Laureate, 1999] "Baltasar and Blimunda" by Jose Saramago (PQ9281 A66 M4613 1998) [Nobel Laureate, 1998] "Plays, 1" by Dario Fo (PQ4866.O2 A6 1997b) [Nobel Laureate, 1997; this book is one in a series including English translations of "Mistero Buffo" and "Accidental death of an anarchist"] "Poems, new and collected, 1957-1997" by Wisawa Szymborska; translated from the Polish by Stanisaw BaraEczak and Clare Cavanagh [Nobel Laureate, 1996] "Seeing things" by Seamus Heaney (PR6058.E2 S44 1991) [Nobel Laureate, 1995] [October 12, 2002] "Wittgenstein on rules and private language: an elementary exposition" by Saul A. Kripke (B3376.W564 K74 1982b) [We might discuss this in philosophy club.] "Evolutionary Art and Computers" by Stephen Todd and William Latham [Used as the basis for Lparser's mutation algorithm: http://home.wanadoo.nl/laurens.lapre/lparser.htm] "The algorithmic beauty of plants" by Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, Aristid Lindenmayer ; with James S. Hanan (QH491 P77x, 1990) [October 14, 2002] "Longman grammar of spoken and written English" by Douglas Biber (PE1112 L66 1999) [Referenced in talk on lexical bundle analysis.] [October 16, 2002] "Selected works of Ramon Llull (1232-1316)" edited and translated by Anthony Bonner (B765.L82 E5 1985) "Symbolic logic" by John Venn (BC135 .V4 1971) [The above two are referenced in Martin Gardner's "Logic Machines."] "How to solve it" by George Polya (QA11 .P6 1957) [October 17, 2002] "Algorithms" by Robert Sedgewick (QA76.6 .S435 1988) [Sedgewick helped develop the idea of a red-black tree.] [October 19, 2002] "Heuristics : intelligent search strategies for computer problem solving" by Judea Pearl (Q335 .P38 1984) [Referenced in "AI: A Modern Approach": "By far the most comprehensive source on heuristic search algorithms..."] "Probabilistic reasoning in intelligent systems : networks of plausible inference" by Judea Pearl (Q335 .P383 1988) "Causality : models, reasoning, and inference" by Judea Pearl (BD541 P43 2000) [http://bayes.cs.ucla.edu/BOOK-2K/] "TCP/IP illustrated" by W. Richard Stevens (TK5105.55 S74 1994) "Advanced Programming In The UNIX Environment" by W. Richard Stevens "Code Complete" by Steve McConnell "About Face, The Essentials Of User Interface Design" by Alan Cooper [The above three are some Must Haves according to Scott McMahan: http://www.skwc.com/essent/reviews/essbook.html] [October 20, 2002] "The Feynman Lectures on Physics" by Richard Feynman (QC23 .F438f) [For the chapter "Color Vision," recommended by F. S. Hill's "Computer Graphics."] "Reasons and persons" by Derek Parfit (BJ1012 .P39 1987) [According to Steve Shaner, according to Peter Vranas, Parfit is the most important philosopher in ethics since Aristotle.] [October 21, 2002] "A course in mathematical logic" by J. L. Bell and M. Machover (QA9 .B3953) [AIMA: "A highly formal treatment of first-order logic, along with many more advanced topics in logic..."] "Methods of logic" by Willard Van Orman Quine (BC71 .Q5 1974) "Logic for computer science : foundations of automatic theorem proving" by Jean H. Gallier (QA76.9.A96 G35 1986) [In the Parks Cage; ask at circulation desk.] "Logical foundations of artificial intelligence" by Michael R. Genesereth and Nils J. Nilsson (Q335 .G37 1987) [October 24, 2002] "Philosophy of mathematics : selected readings" edited by Paul Benacerraf, Hilary Putnam (QA8.4 .P48 1983) [Recommended by Bell's "A Course in Mathematical Logic": "An excellent anthology of seminal works in the philosophy of mathematics."] "The undecidable; basic papers on undecidable propositions, unsolvable problems and computable functions" by Martin Davis (QA248.5 .D295u) [Recommended by Bell's "A Course in Mathematical Logic": "An anthology of important papers on limitative theorems and recursion theory."] "Foundations of set theory." [By] Abraham A. Fraenkel, Yehoshua Bar-Hillel [and] Azriel Levey. With the collaboration of Dirk van Dalen. (QA9 F841f2) [Recommended by Bell's "A Course in Mathematical Logic": "A comprehensive survey of the foundations of mathematics, and set theory in particular."] "From Frege to Goedel; a source book in mathematical logic, 1879-1931" by Jean Van Heijenoort (QA9 .V312f) [Recommended by Bell's "A Course in Mathematical Logic": "Another excellent anthology containing many of the classic papers in logic and foundations."] "Mathematical logic and the foundation of mathematics; an introductory survey" by G. T. Kneebone (QA9 K733m) [Recommended by Bell's "A Course in Mathematical Logic": "An elementary but scholarly general introduction to and survey of the foundations and philosophy of mathematics."] "Elements of mathematical logic" by G. Kreisel and J. L. Krivine (QA9 K876eE) [Recommended by Bell's "A Course in Mathematical Logic": "The appendices to this work contain a penetrating discussion of the philosophical foundations of mathematics."] "Problems in the philosophy of mathematics" edited by Imre Lakatos (QA9 In8pr) [Recommended by Bell's "A Course in Mathematical Logic": "A collection of papers on the foundations and philosophy of mathematics delivered at the 1965 London colloquium."] "Thirty years of foundational studies; lectures on the development of mathematical logic and the study of the foundations of mathematics in 1930-1964" by Andrzej Mostowski (B28.F5 A3 v.17) [Recommended by Bell's "A Course in Mathematical Logic": "A wide-ranging survey of the development of mathematical logic from 1930 to the 1960's."] [October 26, 2002] "Matroid theory" by James G. Oxley (QA166.6 .O95 1992) [Recommended by http://members.aol.com/matroids/] "Combinatorial optimization : theory and algorithms" by Bernhard Korte, Jens Vygen (QA402.5 K6665 2000) [Korte has done work on greedoids; works by him are referenced by Cormen's "Introduction to Algorithms"] "The logical structure of the world; pseudoproblems in philosophy" by Rudolf Carnap (BD163 C214L) [Logical Positivism, verifiability] "Meaning and necessity, a study in semantics and modal logic" by Rudolf Carnap (P325 C214m) [Referenced by http://www.xrefer.com/entry/551537 -- "laid the foundations of much subsequent work in the semantics of modal logic"; "criticism of Frege involved a rejection of the traditional category of names"] "Logical foundations of probability" by Rudolf Carnap (QA273 .C26) [Referenced by Gardner's "Logic Machines and Diagrams": "monumental"] [October 27, 2002] "Consistent quantum theory" by Robert B. Griffiths (QC174.12 G752 2002) [I heard about this book from my dad. http://quantum.phys.cmu.edu/CQT/] "Causation, prediction, and search" by Peter Spirtes, Clark Glymour, Richard Scheines (QA276 .S65 1993) [Referenced by Kevin Murphy's "Graphical Models, http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~murphyk/Bayes/bayes.html, for distinguishing correlation from causality.] "Cause and correlation in biology : a user's guide to path analysis, structural equations and causal inference" by Bill Shipley (QH323.5 .S477 2000) [Referenced by Kevin Murphy's "Graphical Models, http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~murphyk/Bayes/bayes.html, for distinguishing correlation from causality.] [October 28, 2002] "Theories of probability; an examination of foundations" by Terrence L. Fine (QA273.4 .F56) [Referenced by Pearl's "Probabilitic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems": "classic literature on the foundations of probability theory."] "Foundations of measurement" by David H. Krantz, L. R. Duncan, P. Suppes, and A. Tversky (QA465 .F68) [Referenced by Pearl's "Probabilitic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems": "classic literature on the foundations of probability theory."] [November 3, 2002] "Judgment under uncertainty : heuristics and biases" edited by Daniel Kahneman, Paul Slovic, Amos Tversky [I assume this contains the article "Judgment under uncertainty"; Professor Mark Wunderlich says this is "a must-read."] "Human inference : strategies and shortcomings of social judgment" by Richard Nisbett, Lee Ross (BF311 .N57) [Pointed out by Wunderlich; referenced by an article by Professor Mike Bishop; also referenced by "An Analysis of Pleasure Vis-a-vis Pain."] "Winning ways, for your mathematical plays" by Elwyn R. Berlekamp, John H. Conway, Richard K. Guy (QA95 B446 1982) [Recommended by Wunderlich for info. on reasoning from a formal perspective.] [November 7, 2002] "Fact, fiction, and forecast" by Nelson Goodman (BC91 .G66 1973) [Describes The Goodman Paradox: "Any prediction whatsoever can be obtained by projecting regularities... 'To say that valid predictions are those based on past regularities, without being able to say which regularities, is thus quite pointless. Regularities are where you find them, and you can find them anywhere,'" as quoted in Skyrm's "Choice and Chance."] "Mysticism and logic : and other essays" by Bertrand Russell (B1649.R93 M9 1921) [Suggested reading in Skyrm's "Choice and Chance," specifically pp. 174-201.] [November 9, 2002] "The algorithmic beauty of sea shells" by Hans Meinhardt, with contributions and images by Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz and Deborah R. Fowler (QL403 .M49 1998) "The algorithmic beauty of seaweeds, sponges, and corals" by Jaap A. Kaandorp, Janet E. Kuebler (QK570.2 .K33 2001) "Oulipo : a primer of potential literature" translated and edited by Warren F. Motte, Jr. (PQ22.O8 O9 1986) [I heard about Oulipo through an article by Martin Gardner. This book was referenced on http://www.nous.org.uk/oulipo.html] "Language on vacation : an olio of orthographical oddities" by Dmitri A. Borgmann (GV1507.W8 B644L) [Referenced by Word Ways, http://wordways.com/ -- "the classic book on [logology]"; Word Ways is referenced by an article by Gardner on the Oulipo.] "Making the alphabet dance : recreational wordplay" by Ross Eckler (GV1507.W8 E226 1996) [Referenced by http://wordways.com/] "Tlooth" by Harry Matthews (PS3563 A8359 T58 1966) [Referenced by Gardner's article "Oulipo": "a picaresque tale of blue, blasphemous, black humor," "filled with quasi-Oulipian wordplay, notably a four-page scene... where the pornography is obscured by continuous spoonerisms of mounting combinatorial complexity."] "Mathematics and plausible reasoning" by George Polya (QA9 P768m) [A continuation of the line of thinking presented in "How to Solve It"; according to "Probabilistic Reasoning" by Pearl, Polya's treatment of probability contains some errors.] [November 11, 2002] "Scientific reasoning : the Bayesian approach" by Colin Howson and Peter Urbach (Q175 .H87 1989) [Recommended as a good source of general info on Bayesianism by http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~ulrich_metschl/Uncertain/sess_2.html] "The foundations of statistics" by Leonard J. Savage (HA29 .S28 1972) ["Still worth reading" -- http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~ulrich_metschl/Uncertain/sess_2.html] "Problems and projects" by Nelson Goodman (B29 .G62) [Discusses more fully some of the objections raised to Nelson's "Fact, Fiction, and Forecast"] [November 12, 2002] "1985 : a historical report (Hongkong 2036) from the Hungarian of ***" by Gyorgy Dalos, English translation by Stuart Hood and Estella Schmid (PH3213.D256 A61713 1983) [Recommended by pookiefly of StrangeTalk, who also recommended "Fahrenheit 451" and Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron."] [November 13, 2002] "The skin senses; proceedings" compiled and edited by Dan R. Kenshalo (QP451 .In8s) [Referenced by "An Analysis of Pleasure Vis-a-vis Pain" for Melzack and Casey's article "Sensory, Motivational, and Central Control Determinants of Pain: A New Conceptual Model."] [November 16, 2002] "The rights and wrongs of abortion" edited by Marshall Cohen, Thomas Nagel, and Thomas Scanlon (HQ767 .C57) [Contains "A Defense of Abortion" by Judith Jarvis Thomson, recommended by icefall on StrangeTalk.] "Foundations of the theory of probability" by Andrei Nikolaevich Kolmogorov, translation edited by Nathan Morrison, with an added bibliography by A.T. Bharucha-Reid (QA273 K834f2) [Early axiomization of probability theory.] "A philosophical essay on probabilities" by Pierre Simon, marquis de Laplace, translated from the 6th French ed. by Frederick Wilson Truscott and Frederick Lincoln Emory (QA273 L315eE) [Defense of his principle of indifference -- that two possibilities are equiprobable if there is no ground for choosing between them.] "Dao de jing : the book of the way" by Laozi, translation and commentary by Moss Roberts (BL1900 L35 R628 2001) [Laozi 570-490 BC] [November 19, 2002] "Chance, love, and logic; philosophical essays" by Charles S. Peirce, edited with an introd. by Morris R. Cohen, with a supplementary essay on The pragmatism of Peirce, by John Dewey. (B945.P43 C5) [Referenced by Frank Ramsey's article "Truth and Probability" as providing the basis for his view that the reasonableness of a belief is closely related to its usefulness; see especially "Illustrations of the Logic of Science."] [November 21, 2002] "The character of physical law" by Richard Feynman (QC28 .F438c) [Recommended by "The Mind's I" for exposition of the following: quantum interference effects are statistical; they become manifest only after a large number of trials.] "The golden bowl" by Henry James (PS2116 .G6 1904) [Referenced in Barbara Haas's class notes for English 554: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~yikes/barbara/five-degrees.html] "The Princess Casamassima" by Henry James (PS2116 .P68 1968) [Referenced in Barbara Haas's class notes for English 554.] "The portrait of a lady" by Henry James (PS2116 .P6 1916) [Referenced in Barbara Haas's class notes for English 554.] "What Maisie knew" by Henry James (PS2116 .W43) [James lived 1843-1916] [November 22, 2002] "Twice-told tales" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, with an introduction by Rosemary Mahoney and notes by Gretchen Short (PS1870 A1 2001) [Highly recommended by Edgar Allan Poe.] "Data mining : practical machine learning tools and techniques with Java implementations" by Ian H. Witten, Eibe Frank (QA76.9 D343 W58 2000) [Referenced by com s 472 decision tree lab tips.] [November 28, 2002] "Simple heuristics that make us smart" by Gerd Gigerenzer, Peter M. Todd, and the ABC Research Group (BD260 .G54 1999) [Referenced by Professor Mike Bishop's article "In Praise of Epistemic Irresponsibility"; Gigerenzer evaluates heuristics' performance for real world situations, not versus models of perfect reasoning.] "New developments in statistics for psychology and the social sciences" edited by A.D. Lovie (HA29 .N4535 1986) "Clinical versus statistical prediction; a theoretical analysis and a review of the evidence" by Paul Meehl (RC467 M47c) [Referenced by Bishop's paper; clinical/expert predictions almost always lose out to statistical predictions, even when the statistical models are based on the same experts' advice/previous predictions.]] "Selected philosophical and methodological papers" by Paul E. Meehl (BF38 .M42 1991) [November 30, 2002] "The scientist speculates: an anthology of partly-baked ideas" associate editor: Alan James Mayne, biology editor: John Maynard Smith (Q171 G594s) [Referenced by de Finetti's article "Foresight: Its Logical Laws, Its Subjective Sources"] "Personality and Assessment" by Walter Mischel (BF698.4 .M682p) [Referenced by Nisbett and Ross's "Human Inference": Personality is not consistent across different situations.] [December 1, 2002] "The structure of appearance" by Nelson Goodman (B829.5 G623s) [December 2, 2002] "The design and analysis of computer algorithms" by Alfred V. Aho, John E. Hopcroft, Jeffrey D. Ullman (QA76.6 .A36) [Referenced by Cormen's "Introduction to Algorithms"; introduces the closed semiring, an algebraic substructure which serves as a general framework for solving path problems in directed graphs.] [December 3, 2002] "Freedom, feminism, and the state : an overview of individualist feminism" edited by Wendy McElroy ; foreword by Lewis Perry (HQ1410 .F73 1982) "XXX : a woman's right to pornography" by Wendy McElroy (HQ471 .M38 1995) "Sexual correctness : the gender-feminist attack on women" by Wendy McElroy (HQ1421 .M364 1996) "Queen Silver : the godless girl" by Wendy McElroy (HX84 S527 M345 2000) [Biography of Queen Silver, who was a friend of the author.] [December 11, 2002] "Expert systems : a software methodology for modern applications" compiled by Peter G. Raeth (QA76.76.E95 E9828 1990) [Contains a reprint of Richard Korf's "Depth-first iterative-deepening: An optimal admissible tree search" -- a.k.a IDA*.] [December 12, 2002] "Fundamentals of interactive computer graphics" by James D. Foley, Andries van Dam (T385 .F63) [Referenced by "The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants," in a discussion of rotation matrices.] [December 26, 2002] "An introduction to probability theory and its applications" by William Feller (QA273 .F336i) [Referenced by Arnold Allen's "Probability, statistics, and queueing theory with computer science applications"; Allen says Feller's is the "finest mathematics book ever written."] [December 30, 2002] "Language myths" edited by Laurie Bauer and Peter Trudgill (P123 L36x 1998) ["A collection of myths and misconceptions about linguistics and language..." from http://www.wmbriggs.com/booksread.html] "Rational choice in an uncertain world : the psychology of judgment and decision making" by Reid Hastie, Robyn M. Dawes (BF447 H37 2001) "Everyday irrationality : how pseudo-scientists, lunatics, and the rest of us systematically fail to think rationally" by Robyn M. Dawes (BF442 .D39 2001) [Includes discussion of clinical vs. statistical prediction.] "Questions about questions : inquiries into the coqnitive bases of surveys" Judith M. Tanur, editor (HN29 .Q47 1992) "House of cards : psychology and psychotherapy built on myth" by Robyn M. Dawes (RC480.5 .D38 1994) "Thinking clearly about psychology : essays in honor of Paul E. Meehl" edited by Dante Cicchetti and William M. Grove (RC467 .T43 1991) [January 4, 2003] "Introduction to automata theory, languages, and computation" by John E. Hopcroft, Jeffrey D. Ullman (QA267 .H56) ["An excellent place to start [studying automata theory] ..." -- "Programming for the Java Virtual Machine."] [January 5, 2003] "Probability and statistics for business decisions; an introduction to managerial economics under uncertainty" by Robert Schlaifer (HD38 Sch36p) ["[A]n elementary but important and stimulating textbook... on statistics written entirely and wholeheartedly from the Bayesian point of view." -- Leonard Savage in "The Foundations of Statistics Reconsidered."] "Theory of probability : a critical introductory treatment" by Bruno de Finetti, translated by Antonio Machi and Adrian Smith (QA273 .D3413 1990) "The foundations of mathematics and other logical essays" by Frank Plumpton Ramsey, edited by R.B. Braithwaite, with a preface by G.E. Moore (QA9 R149f) [January 6, 2003] "Probability and measure" by Patrick Billingsley (QA273 .B575) [Further reading for a course by Jeff Rosenthal, using his textbook "A First Look at Rigorous Probability Theory."] "Probability : theory and examples" by Richard Durrett (QA273 .D865 1991) [Further reading for a course by Jeff Rosenthal, using his textbook "A First Look at Rigorous Probability Theory."] "A modern approach to probability theory" by Bert Fristedt, Lawrence Gray (QA273 .F92 1997) [Further reading for a course by Jeff Rosenthal, using his textbook "A First Look at Rigorous Probability Theory."] [January 7, 2003] "An interpretation of Christian ethics" by Reinhold Niebuhr (BJ1251 .N55i) [One of the people whose work John Lewis studied under Jim Lawson.] [January 10, 2003] "Mencius" translated with an introduction by D. C. Lau (B128.M33 E59 1970) [Recommended by http://vassun.vassar.edu/~brvannor/bibliography.html "Although he is less well-known in the West than Confucius, the fourth-century B.C. philosopher Mencius has had an immense influence on Chinese (as well as Korean and Japanese) culture." For corrections see http://faculty.vassar.edu/brvannor/lau.html] "The Analects of Confucius" translated and annotated by Arthur Waley (PL2478 .L8x) [Recommended by http://vassun.vassar.edu/~brvannor/bibliography.html ] "What the Buddha taught" by Walpola Rahula ; with a foreword by Paul Demieville and a collection of illustrative texts translated from the original Pali (BQ4132 .R3313 1974) [Recommended by http://vassun.vassar.edu/~brvannor/bibliography.html "This is about Theravada as opposed to Mahayana Buddhism (the latter being what is most influential in China), but it is one of the clearest and most philosophically accurate introductions to Buddhism of which I am aware."] "Studies in Chinese philosophy and philosophical literature" by A.C. Graham. (B126 .G72 1990) [Recommended by http://vassun.vassar.edu/~brvannor/bibliography.html ] "Two Chinese philosophers: Cheng Ming-tao and Cheng Yi-chuan" by A.C. Graham (B128 .C37 G7) [Recommended by http://vassun.vassar.edu/~brvannor/bibliography.html ] "The ways of Confucianism : investigations in Chinese philosophy" by David S. Nivison ; edited with an introduction by Bryan W. Van Norden (BL1840 .N56 1996) [Recommended by http://vassun.vassar.edu/~brvannor/bibliography.html includes comments on Lau's "Mencius"] [January 14, 2003] "The analogy of religion to the constitution and course of nature : to which are added two brief dissertations, I, On personal identity, II, On the nature of virtue" by Joseph Butler ; with an introduction, notes, conspectus, and ample index, by Howard Malcom (BT1100 B977a) "Free to choose : a personal statement" by Milton and Rose Friedman (HB501 .F72) "Bright promises, dismal performance: an economist's protest" by Milton Friedman (HB171 .F77 1983) "Tyranny of the status quo" by Milton and Rose Friedman (HC106.8 .F74 1984) "There's no such thing as a free lunch" by Milton Friedman (HC106.6 .F77 1975) [January 16, 2003] "Barbara Jordan: a self-portrait" by Barbara Jordan and Shelby Hearon (E840.8.J62 A33) [January 18, 2003] "Genetic algorithms in search, optimization, and machine learning" by David E. Goldberg (QA402.5 G635 1989) [Referenced by John Holland's "Adaptation in natural and artificial systems"] "An American Dilemma" by Gunnar Myrdal (H61 .M996v) [January 22, 2003] "Confucianism in action" edited by David S. Nivison and Arthur F. Wright, with contributions by Wm. Theodore De Bary (BL1840 .N648c) "The life and thought of Chang Hseh-ch'eng, 1738-1801" by David Nivison (DS734.9 C362n) "Ethics in the Confucian tradition : the thought of Mencius and Wang Yang-ming" by Philip J. Ivanhoe (BJ117 .I83 1990) ["[A] clear and accessible discussion of the metaphysical and ethical differences between the early Confucian Mencius and his Neo-Confucian interpreter, Wang Yang- ming." -- http://faculty.vassar.edu/brvannor/apaletter.html] "Confucian moral self cultivation" by Philip J. Ivanhoe (BJ117 .I8 1994) ["[A] brief, informative overview of views on human nature and self-cultivation over more than two millennia of the Confucian tradition." -- http://faculty.vassar.edu/brvannor/apaletter.html ] "Mencius and Aquinas : theories of virtue and conceptions of courage" by Lee H. Yearley (BJ1531 .Y42 1990) ["[W]ell worth the attention of anyone seriously interested in virtue ethics." -- http://faculty.vassar.edu/brvannor/apaletter.html ] [January 27, 2003] "The game of life: college sports and educational values" by James L. Shulman and William G. Bowen (GV351 .S48 2001) [Referenced by article recommended by Jill Bigley. "Intercollegiate sports can have a corrosive effect on educational values, even on elite campuses."] [February 1, 2003] "Beer and circus: how big-time college sports is crippling undergraduate education" by Murray Sperber (GV351 .S63 2000) [Being read by my mother's book club; fits in with "The Game of Life."] [February 5, 2003] "Fundamental ends of life" by Rufus Jones (BD431 J724f) [Jones's "Finding the Trail of Life" had a strong effect on Howard Thurman.] "Spiritual energies in daily life" by Rufus Jones (BV4501 .J724s) "Deep River: reflections on the religious insight of certain Negro spirituals" by Howard Thurman (ML3556 .T426d) "High tech heretic: why computers don't belong in the classroom and other relfections by a computer contrarian" by Clifford Stoll (LB1028.5 .S77 1999) "Silicon snake oil: second thoughts on the information highway" by Clifford Stoll (QA76.9.C66 S88 1996) [February 10, 2003] "Peace is every step: the path of mindfulness in everyday life" by Thich Nhat Hanh (BQ5410 .N46 1992) "Living Buddha, living Christ" by Thich Nhat Hanh (BR128.B8 N43 1995) [The above two books were recommended by missvivacity.] [February 16, 2003] "Apocalypse delayed : the story of Jehovah's Witnesses" by M. James Penton (BX8526 P46x, 1997) "Jehovah's Witnesses : portrait of a contemporary religious movement" by Andrew Holden (BX8526 .H65 2002) "Jehovah's Witnesses in the divine purpose" by Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society (BX8526 .W25) "Year of doom, 1975: the story of Jehovah's Witnesses" by W. C. Stevenson (BX8526 .S76) "Philosophy in mind : the place of philosophy in the study of mind" edited by Michaelis Michael and John O'Leary-Hawthorne (BD418.3 .P445 1994) [For an article by Frank Jackson, "Armchair Metaphysics," (p. 136) that includes the following: "Conceptual analysis in the traditional sense... is constituted by a priori reflection on concepts and possible cases with an aim to elucidating connections between different ways of describing matters. Hence, it might be objected, if we allow that some entailments are a posteriori, to demonstrate an entailment is conspicuously not to demonstrate the importance of conceptual analysis." Referenced in http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/faculty/block/papers/ExplanatoryGap.html] "From metaphysics to ethics: a defence of conceptual analysis" by Frank Jackson (B808.5 J33x, 1998) "Conditionals" by Frank Jackson (BC199.C56 J33 1987) [February 17, 2003] "Pragmatics and empiricism" by Brian Skyrms (B816 .S59 1984) [Contains a proof that if one's beliefs don't obey the axioms of the probability calculus, one is vulnerable to a Dutch book -- a set of bets that will guarantee a loss no matter what the outcome. Referenced by http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/probability-interpret/ ] [February 18, 2003] "The end of life: euthanasia and morality" by James Rachels (R726 .R33 1986) [An article by Rachels on passive vs. active euthanasia appears in Singer's "Applied Ethics."] "Created from animals: the moral implications of Darwinism" by James Rachels (B818 .R32 1990) "The elements of moral philosophy" by James Rachels (BJ1012 .R29 1986) "Can ethics provide answers?: and other essays in moral philosophy" by James Rachels (BJ1012 .R289 1997) [February 21, 2003] "Beyond Good and Evil" by Friedrich Nietzsche (B3313.J43 E5 1949) [Referenced by Schaefer's "Justice or Tyranny?"] "The use and abuse of history" by Friedrich Nietzsche (D16.8 N558u) [Referenced by Schaefer's "Justice or Tyranny?": "Marx's claim that communist society would, in compensation for [abolishing religion, negating philosophy, etc.], liberate every man's potentiality to be creative is refuted by Nietzsche's infinitely profounder reflections on the subject of human excellence and creativity."] [February 26, 2003] "Ethics and language" by Charles Stevenson (BJ43 .St48e) [Referenced by Rachels's "Can Ethics Provide Answers?": "the definitive statement of emotivism" (Rachels p. 38) According to emotivism, like imperatives, ethical statements are not correct or incorrect. Ethical arguments are merely exchanges of propoganda.] "Whose justice? Which rationality" by Alasdair MacIntyre (B105.J87 M33 1988b) [Referenced by Rachels's "Can Ethics Provide Answers?": According to MacIntyre, "[r]ationality is possible only within a historical tradition, which sets standards of inquiry for those working within it." (Rachels p. 23)] [March 2, 2003] "Modern compiler implementation in Java" by Andrew W. Appel (QA76.73 J38 A65 1999) [March 9, 2003] "Lectures on Ethics" by Immanuel Kant (B2794.V63 E54 1963) [Referenced by Rachels's essay "Do Animals Have Rights?" in his "Can Ethics Provide Answers?"] [March 10, 2003] "The realm of rights" by Judith Jarvis Thomson (BJ55 .T46 1990) ["a study of the questions what it is to have a right, and which ones we have" -- http://web.mit.edu/philos/www/thomson.html ] "Principia ethica" by George Edward Moore (BJ37 M783p) [Introduces Moore's naturalistic fallacy] [March 17, 2003] "Utopia" by Thomas More (HX810.5 E54 2001) [Referenced by "Can Ethics Provide Answers?"] "The language of morals" by Richard Mervyn Hare (BJ1025 H216L) [Referenced by "Can Ethics Provide Answers?"] "Freedom and reason" by Richard Mervyn Hare (BJ1012 .H216f) [Referenced by "Can Ethics Provide Answers?"] "Practical ethics" by Peter Singer (BJ1012 .S49) [Referenced by Singer's "Applied Ethics"] [March 20, 2003] "Ethics and the limits of philosophy" by Bernard Williams (BJ1012 .W52 1985b) [Referenced by Thomson's "The Realm of Rights" for "thick ethical concepts," moral judgments entailed by statements of fact: "treachery," "brutality," etc.] "Computers and cognition: why minds are not machines" by James Fetzer (BF311 F423 2001) [Fetzer is the mentor of Colburn, author of "Philosophy and Computer Science"] "Program verification: fundamental issues in computer science" edited by Timothy Colburn, James Fetzer, and Terry Rankin (QA76.76.V47 P76 1993) "Philosophy of science" by James Fetzer (Q175 .F417 1993) "Philosphy and cognitive science" by James Fetzer (BF311 .F435 1991) [March 21, 2003] "Our posthuman future: consequences of the biotechnology revolution" by Francis Fukuyama (TP248.2 F85x 2002) [Referenced by The President's Council on Bioethics's "Human Cloning and Human Dignity: An Ethical Inquiry"] [March 22, 2003] "Classroom assessment: what teachers need to know" by James Popham (LB3051 .P6142 1995) [Recommended by less known evil of StrangeTalk in reply to a request for books concerning writing multiple choice tests.] [March 23, 2003] "Ecce homo: how one becomes what one is" by Friedrich Nietzsche (B3316.N54 A3413 1992) [Autobiographical. Offers critical comments on his earlier works, their inspiration, and explanation of their philosophical content. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche/] "The world as will and idea" by Arthur Schopenhauer (B3138.E5 H3) ["The World as Will and Representation" (1818) captured a 21-year-old Nietzsche's imagination. What the relation of that work to this one (apparently originally published in 1883, 23 years after Schopenhauer's death) is I do not know. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche/] "Centrality and commonality: an essay on Confucian religiousness" by Tu Wei-ming (PL2473.Z7 T8 1989) [zhong yong -- referenced by Ni Peimin's "On Confucius."] [March 26, 2003] "Paradoxes of Rationality and Cooperation: Prisoner's Dilemma and Newcomb's Problem" edited by Richmond Campbel and Lanning Sowden (BC185 P37x, 1985) [Referenced by http://www.magnolia.net/~leonf/paradox/newcomb.html ] "The conscious mind: in search of a fundamental theory" by David Chalmers (BD418.3 .C43 1996) [March 28, 2003] "Spider eaters: a memoir" by Yang Rae (DS778.7 .Y42 1997) [Memoir of the Cultural Revolution from the point of view of a Red Guard. I went to a speech by the author at ISU in spring 2002.] "Children's literature in China: from Lu Xun to Mao Zedong" by March Ann Farquhar (PL2449 F37 1999) [Winner of the 1999 Children's Literature Book Award. "The first history of the vast, yet neglected, field of modern Chinese children's literature, this book introduces the major works and debates in children's literature within the framework of China's revolution and modernization." (Note there appears to have been at least one previous work in the field, written in French, contrary to the preceding.) -- http://www.addall.com/Browse/Detail/0765603446.html ] [March 29, 2003] "Elements of computer music" by F. Richard Moore (MT723 .M6 1990) [Referenced by Jon McCormack's "Grammar Based Music Composition"] "Composing with tape recorders: musique concrete for beginners" by Terence Dwyer (MT41 .D95) [Found while searching for Loy's "Composing with Computers"] "Fundamentals of musical composition" by Arnold Schoenberg (MT40.S33 F8) [Referenced by "A Practical Guide to Musical Composition" http://www.musique.umontreal.ca/personnel/Belkin/bk/ ] "Smalltalk-80: Bits of History, Words of Advice" (QA76.8.S635 S58 1983) [Referenced in discussion on squeak-dev] [April 7, 2003] "Wild swans: three daughters of China" by Jung Chang (DS774 .C3718 1991) [Referenced in review of "Spider Eaters"] [April 13, 2003] "Life of Johnson" by James Boswell (PR3533 .B6 1924) [Boswell (1740 - 1795)'s classic biography of Samuel Johnson.] [April 14, 2003] "Enfranchisement of women and The subjection of women" by Harriet Taylor Mill and John Stuart Mill (HQ1154 .M475 1983) [J. S. Mill's "The subjection of women" is referenced by Janet Radcliffe Richards's "Separate Spheres"] [April 15, 2003] "Computability and unsolvability" by Martin Davis (QA351 .D295c) [Referenced by Benjamin Pierce's "Foundational Calculi for Programming Languages"; contains a survey of the results showing that Turing machines, the lambda calculus, etc. describe exactly the same class of functions.] [April 22, 2003] "The culture of fear: why Americans are afraid of the wrong things" by Barry Glassner (HN59 G566x 1999) [Referenced by "Truth about Bowling for Columbine"] [May 5, 2003] "A history and theory of informed consent" by Ruth R. Faden, Tom L. Beauchamp (K3611.I5 F33 1986) "The boom and the bubble: the U.S. in the world economy" by Robert Brenner (HC106.8 B746 2002) [Referenced by Tony Smith in his April 2003 talk to the philosophy club.] [May 6, 2003] "Metaphors we live by" by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson (P106 .L235) [Referenced by Allan's "The way of water"] "Women, fire, and dangerous things: what categories reveal about the mind" by George Lakoff (P37 .L344 1987) [Referenced by Allan's "The way of water"] "The shape of the turtle: myth, art, and cosmos in early China" by Sarah Allan (B126 .A44 1991) [May 10, 2003] "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan (PS3570.A48 J6 1989) [Recommended by Rene.] [May 11, 2003] "The mouth that begs: hunger, cannibalism, and the politics of eating in modern China" by Yue Gang (PL2303 Y83 1999) [Referenced in comments in reply to a Sinosplice.com blog post about Lu Xun's "Diary of a Madman"] [May 12, 2003] "Well-being: its meaning, measurement and moral importance" by James Griffin (BJ1012 .G75 1986b) [Excerpted in philosophy 330 course packet.] "Moral disagreements: classic and contemporary readings" edited by Christopher W. Gowans (BJ1031 .M666 2000) [Excerpted in philosophy 330 course packet.] "Mathematical fallacies and paradoxes" by Bryan H. Bunch (QA9 .B847) [Excerpted in philosophy 330 course packet.] "The structure of scientific revolutions" by Thomas S. Kuhn (Q175 .K95 1970) [Excerpted in philosophy 330 course packet.] "What is this thing called science?" by Alan Francis Chalmers (Q175 C446 1999) [Excerpted in philosophy 330 course packet.] "The nature of morality: an introduction to ethics" by Gilbert Harman (BJ1012 .H317) [Excerpted in philosophy 330 course packet.] "Morality, reason, and truth: new essays on the foundations of ethics" edited by David Copp and David Zimmerman (BJ1012 .M6356 1985) [Excerpted in philosophy 330 course packet.] "Morality and cultural differences" by John W. Cook (BJ52 .C66 1999) [Excerpted in philosophy 330 course packet.] "Moral realism and the foundations of ethics" by David O. Brink (BJ1012 .B676 1989) [Excerpted in philosophy 330 course packet.] "Invulnerability: on securing happiness" by Steven Luper (B187.H3 L86 1996) [By an author whose work is excerpted in philosophy 330 course packet.] "Normative ethics" by Shelly Kagan (BJ1012 .K244 1998) [Excerpted in philosophy 330 course packet.] [May 17, 2003] "The dancing wu li masters: an overview of the new physics" by Gary Zukav (QC173.98 .Z84) [Mentioned by Kate Rasing who heard about it from Kevin de Laplante.] [May 20, 2003] "Siddhartha" by Herman Hesse (PT2617.E85 S52 1976) [May 21, 2003] "A theory of objects" by Martin Abadi and Luca Cardelli (QA76.64 A22 1996) [Referenced in com s 541 Q and A in response to request for further explanation of "Then we can change the value of a field by replacing the method that returns the field's value. The method that sets the field's value does its work by replacing this getter method."] "Object-oriented type systems" by Jens Palsberg and Michael I. Schwartzbach (QA76.64 .P35 1994) [Referenced by com s 541 Q and A. Presents an algorithm for inferring whether an object conforms to a protocol, including the types of the arguments to its selectors, I guess.] [May 23, 2003] "Details of a sunset" by Vladimir Nabokov (PG3476.N3 D4) [cosmicenima of CrazyLife suggested looking at Nabokov's short stories.] "Nabokov's dozen; a collection of thirteen stories" by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (PS3527 A15 A6 1958) "The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov" (PS3527.A15 A6 1995) [Got favorable reviews on Amazon.] "Speak, memory: an autobiography revisted" by Vladimir Nabokov with an introduction by Brian Boyd (PG3476 N3 Z476 1999) "Russian beauty and other stories by Vladimir Nabokov" (PG3476 N3 A6 1973) "Object oriented Perl" by Damian Conway (QA76.64 C639 2000) [Referenced on ll1 mailing list. Conway is "three-time winner of the annual Larry Wall award for Practical Utility."] [May 24, 2003] "Planning extreme programming" by Kent Beck and Martin Fowler (QA76.76 D47 B4335 2001) "Haskell: the craft of functional programming" by Simon Thompson (QA76.62 T43 1999) "Smalltalk-80 : the interactive programming environment" by Adele Goldberg (QA76.8.S635 G638 1984) "Smalltalk-80 : the language and its implementation" by Adele Goldberg and David Robson (QA76.8.S635 G64 1983) [May 25, 2003] "Laws of form" by G. Spencer-Brown (QA9 .B82) [Recommended on the squeak-dev list by Alan Kay. It presents a logical calculus based on distinguishing this and not-this. Kay says Brown's approach to looking at objects is very fruitful.] "Probability and scientific inference" by G. Spencer-Brown (QA273 B813p) "Wine of the dreamers" by John Dann MacDonald (PS3563.A28 W56x 1979) [According to Alan Kay, this book was the basis for the comic leading to the film "Ghost in the Shell," which in turn inspired "The Matrix."] [May 26, 2003] "Larch: languages and tools for formal specification" by James J. Horning and John V. Guttag (QA76.6 .H66 1993) "Larch/Smalltalk: a specification language for Smalltalk" by Yoonsik Cheon (ISU 1991 C429) [May 28, 2003] "The imitative mind: development, evolution, and brain bases" edited by Andrew N. Meltzoff and Wolfgang Prinz (BF357 .I48 2002) [Referenced by the May 24, 2003 Science News; "Imitation is the bud, and empathy and moral sentiments are the ripened fruit, born from years of interaction with other people already recognized to be 'like me.'"] [June 2, 2003] "The beauty of fractals: images of complex dynamical systems" by Heinz-Otto Peitgen and R.H. Richter (QA447 .P45 1986) [Referenced by "The Mandelbrot Set Glossary and Encyclopedia" at http://www.mrob.com/pub/muency/thebeautyoffractals.html for its discussion of methods for approximating the M. set.] "The science of fractal images" edited by Heinz-Otto Peitgen and Dietmar Saupe (QA614.86 .S35 1988) [Referenced by "The Mandelbrot Set Glossary and Encyclopedia" at http://www.mrob.com/pub/muency/inverseiterationmethod.html for its discussion of the inverse-iteration method.] [June 7, 2003] "Mind design: philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence" edited by John Haugeland (Q335.5 .M49) [Haugeland's "Mind design II" is the textbook for philosophy 465.] "The Cambridge companion to Plato" edited by Richard Kraut (B395 .C28 1992) [Recommended by Travis Butler as secondary literature for philosophy 310.] "Compiling with continuations" by Andrew W. Appel (QA76.76.C65 A67 1992) [Recommended on the refactoring mailing list by Buddha Buck: "describes making a compiler and optimizer for a functional programming using lambda-calculus-like intermediate language (actually, based somewhat on Lisp). The provably semantic-preserving transformations introduced in the optimizer are one form of lambda-calculus refactoring"] [June 8, 2003] "Earth report 2000: revisiting the true state of the planet" edited by Ronald Bailey (GE140 .E59 2000) [Mentioned by Steve Skutnik.] "Global warming and other eco-myths: how the environmental movement uses false science to scare us to death" edited by Ronald Bailey (GE195 G58 2002) [Mentioned by Steve Skutnik.] "For your own good: the anti-smoking crusade and the tyranny of public health" by Jacob Sullum (HV5751 .S85 1998) [Sullum is the editor of Reason.] [June 9, 2003] "Introduction to applied mathematics" by Gilbert Strang (QA37.2 .S87 1986) [Referenced on the ll1 mailing list.] [June 12, 2003] "Writing interactive compilers and interpreters" by Peter John Brown (QA76.6 .B773) [Recommended on the cocoa-dev list.] [June 13, 2003] "A history of programming languages" edited by Richard L. Wexelblat (QA76.7 .H56 1978) [Article in a later book in the same series referenced on squeak-dev.] [June 14, 2003] "Ethics and the limits of philosophy" by Bernard Williams (BJ1012 .W52 1985b) [According to a Guardian obituary, this is Williams's greatest work.] [June 16, 2003] "Sketchpad: a man-machine graphical communication system" by I. E. Sutherland (T385 Su84s) [Referenced recently on the squeak-dev mailing list; Alan Kay on Sutherland: "He's the closest we have in our field to Newton, if you look where things were when he started and where knowledge was when he finished -- maybe the [biggest] jump ever..."] "Logical effort: designing fast CMOS circuits" by Ivan Sutherland, Robert Sproull, David Harris (TK7871.99 M44 S88 1999) "Spinoza: his life and philosophy" by Frederick Pollock (B3998 .P7 1966) [Recommended by Durant in his "The Story of Philosophy" as a companion to Spinoza's "Ethics"] "A study of Spinoza" by James Martineau (B3998 .M3 1971 [Recommended by Durant.] [July 10, 2003] "Two-person game theory: the essential ideas" by Anatol Rapoport (QA269 .R182t) [Recommended by Jill] [July 24, 2003] "Introduction to the theory of computation" by Michael Sipser (QA267 S56 1997) [Referenced on http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~emin/source_code/print_self/index.html which has the source code for 3 self-printing programs based on Sipser's proof of the recursion theorem.] [August 11, 2003] "The art of the metaobject protocol" by Gregor Kiczales, Jim des Riveres, and Daniel G. Bobrow (QA76.73.C28 K53 1991) [Referenced on http://www.metaobject.com/Research.html . The name of the company "metaobject" was inspired by this book. Abstract is available at http://www2.parc.com/csl/groups/sda/publications/papers/Kiczales-AMOP/ ] [August 13, 2003] "The UNIX philosophy" by Mike Gancarz (QA76.76.O63 G365 1995) [Referenced on Slashdot.] "The C programming language" by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie (QA76.73.C15 K47) "The practice of programming" by Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike (QA76.6 K48 1999) "The UNIX programming environment" by Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike (QA76.6 .K495 1984) [August 18, 2003] "Moral thinking: its levels, method, and point" by Richard Mervyn Hare (BJ1012 .H3135 1981) [Referenced in Williams's "Ethics and the limits of philosophy"; Hare gives a general criticism of the use of fantastic examples in relation to everyday moral intuitions.] [August 21, 2003] "Computers, pattern, chaos, and beauty : graphics from an unseen world" by Clifford A. Pickover (T385 .P5 1990) [Referenced by http://www.globetrotter.qc.ca/gt/usagers/ymeynard/Mac1Eng.htm ] "Computers and the imagination : visual adventures beyond the edge" by Clifford A. Pickover (QA76 .P465 1991) "The age of spiritual machines : when computers exceed human intelligence" by Ray Kurzweil (Q335 .K88 1999) [Recommended by Arthur] [August 22, 2003] "Object-oriented programming ; an evolutionary approach" by Brad J. Cox (QA76.9.S88 C69 1986) [Referenced by "The Design and Evolution of C++". Cox invented Objective-C.] [August 31, 2003] "Introduction to number theory with computing" by R.B.J.T. Allenby and E.J. Redfern (QA241 A455x, 1989) [Referenced on "Continued Fractions - An Introduction" -- http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/cfINTRO.html . Allenby's book includes an algorithm to find the continued fraction for a given natural number.] "An introduction to the theory of numbers" by G. H. Hardy and E. M. Wright (QA241 .H28 1979) [Referenced on "Continued Fractions - An Introduction": "is a classic but definitely at mathematics undergraduate level. It takes the reader through some of the fundamental results on continued fractions."] "Fibonacci numbers" by Nikolai Nikolaevich Vorob'ev (QA241 .V917f) [Referenced on "Continued Fractions - An Introduction": "This slim classic is a translation from the Russian Chisla fibonachchi, Gostekhteoretizdat (1951). This classic contains many of the fundamental Fibonacci and Golden section results and proofs as well as a chapter on continued fractions and their properties."] "The higher arithmetic : an introduction to the theory of numbers" by Harold Davenport (QA241 .D3 1992) [Referenced on "Continued Fractions - An Introduction"] [September 1, 2003] "The formal semantics of programming languages : an introduction" by Glynn Winskel (QA76.7 .W555 1993) [A recommended book for Cambridge's course on denotational semantics.] "Semantics of programming languages" by R.D. Tennent (QA76.7 .T473 1990) [A recommended book for Cambridge's course on denotational semantics.] [October 11, 2003] "Number theory in science and communication : with applications in cryptography, physics, biology, digital information, and computing by Manfred Rorbert Schroeder (QA241 .S318 1984) [Referenced on the musinum site: http://reglos.de/musinum/] "Fractals, chaos, power laws : minutes from an infinite universe" by Manfred Robert Schroeder (QC174.17.S9 S38 1991) [Referenced on the musinum site: http://reglos.de/musinum/] "Computer speech : recognition, compression, synthesis : with introductions to hearing and signal analysis and a glossary of speech and comuter terms" by Manfred R. Schroeder (TK7895 S65 S37 1999) [Referenced on the musinum site: http://reglos.de/musinum/] "Pragmatism, a new name for some old ways of thinking : popular lectures on philosophy" by William James (B832 J237p) "The meaning of truth, a sequel to "Pragmatism" by William James (B832 J237m) [I read James's "Does 'Consciousness' Exist?" this afternoon.] "The principles of psychology" by William James (BF121 J237p) [According to many, this is still the best book ever written on psychology.] "The categorical imperative; a study in Kant's moral philosophy" by Herbert James Paton (B2799.E8 P3 1948) [Recommended by my philosophy 230 textbook, Luper's "The Moral Life."] [October 13, 2003] "The principles of mathematics revisited" by Jaakko Hintikka (QA8.4 .H56 1996) [According to Hintikka, Frege's logic contains a fundamental error.] "Frege; philosophy of language" by Michael Dummett (P106 .D84) [Referenced in Hintikka's paper "A Revolution in Logic?" as backing for "Frege accepted the principle of compositionality..."] "Zermelo's axiom of choice : its origins, development, and influence" by Gregory H. Moore (QA248 .M59 1982) [Referenced by Hintikka's paper "A Revolution in Logic?"] [October 17, 2003] "Patterns of culture" by Ruth Benedict (GN400 B43p) [Referenced by Rachels's "The Elements of Moral Philosophy" as one of the classical defenses of cultural relativism.] "Folkways; a study of the sociological importance of usages, manners, customs, mores, and morals" by William Graham Sumner (GT75 Su64f, 1959) [Referenced by Rachels's "The Elements of Moral Philosophy" as one of the classical defenses of cultural relativism.] "The definition of morality" edited with an introduction by G. Wallace and A. D. M. Walker (BJ21 .W34 1970) [Referenced by Rachels's "The Elements of Moral Philosophy" as "a useful collection of recent articles by leading philosophers on the question of what morality is"] "Kant's moral philosophy" by Harry Burrows Acton (B2799.E8 A28) [Referenced by Rachels's "The Elements of Moral Philosophy" as "a good short work on Kant."] [October 20, 2003] "Probability theory : the logic of science" by Edwin Thomspon Jaynes (QA273 J36 2003) [Referenced at http://www.lns.cornell.edu/spr/2002-05/msg0041499.html "It demonstrates that if one wishes to measure plausibility or degree of belief by a real number between 0 and 1, and wishes 0 to represent falsehood and 1 to represent truth, and if one requires that the rules of ordinary logic be obeyed for propositions whose truth or falsehood is known, then consistency and correspondence with common sense pretty much force one to require the plausibilities or degrees of belief to obey the rules of the probability calculus."] [October 21, 2003] "Neurophilosophy : toward a unified science of the mind-brain" by Patricia Smith Churchland (QP360 .C49 1986) [Referenced in my philosophy 465 class.] [October 22, 2003] "Good thinking : the foundations of probability and its applications" Irving John Good (QA273.4 .G66 1983) [Collection of papers by I.J. Good.] "What we can't not know : a guide" by J. Budziszewski (K460 B832x 2003) [Recommended by a fellow philosophy 330 classmate. He said he wants my opinion of it.] [October 24, 2003] "Introduction to probability and statistics from a Bayesian view point" by Dennis Victor Lindley (QA273 .L644i) [Recommended by de Finetti in his "Theory of Probability"; in the econ stacks.] [October 25, 2003] "Handbook of Logic and Language" edited by Johan van Benthem and Alice ter Meulen [Contains Jaakko Hintikka and Gabriel Sandu's article "Game-theoretical Semantics", which contains an extensive survey of GTS; referenced by Hintikka's book "The Principles of Mathematics Revisited"] [October 26, 2003] "Neural networks and analog computation : beyond the Turing limit" by Hava T. Siegelmann (QA76.87 S565 1999) [Referenced by Siegelmann's paper "Neural and Super-Turing Computing" which I read for my philosophy of AI course (465).] "Human problem solving" by Allen Newell and Herbert A. Simon (BF441 .N47) [Referenced by Eisenstadt and Simon's paper "Logic and Thought"] "Structural complexity" by Jose Luis Balcazar, Josep Diaz, Joaquim Gabarro (QA267 B34 1988) [Recommended by Giora Slutzki in response to a request for books discussing Karp and Lipton's 1982 paper "Turing Machines that Take Advice"] [November 10, 2003] "Logic primer" by Colin Allen and Michael Hand (BC108 .A543 1992) [Textbook for philosophy 207.] "Natural logic" by Neil Tennant (BC108 .T46) [Recommended by "Logic Primer" for the student who has mastered it.] "Introduction to axiomatic set theory" by E. J. Lemmon (QA248 L543i) [Lemmon's "Beginning Logic" is also recommended as a follow up text by "Logic Primer."] "Introduction to symbolic logic and its applications" by Rudolf Carnap (BC135 C214eE) "Logic : a very short introduction" by Graham Priest (BC71 P75 2000) "A shorter model theory" by Wilfrid Hodges (QA9.7 .H65 1997) [November 12, 2003] "Lectures on Computation" by Richard Feynman [Referenced in a Slashdot discussion on reversible computing.] [November 15, 2003] "Cybernetics; or, Control and communication in the animal and the machine" by Norbert Wiener (Q7 Ac8 no.1053) [Referenced by Brooks's "Cambrian Intelligence"] "Problems of animal behaviour" by David McFarland (QL751 .M394 1989) [Referenced by Brooks's "Cambrian Intelligence"; experiments concerning complex internal and external feedback loops in determining behavior] "Animal behavior : psychobiology, ethology, and evolution" by David McFarland (QL751 .M393 1985) [Referenced by Brooks's "Cambrian Intelligence"; "an easy introduction to modern ethology."] "The integrated mind" by Michael S. Gazzaniga and Joseph E. Ledoux (QP398 .G39) [Referenced by Brooks's "Cambrian Intelligence"; problems for the validity of introspection; in split brain patients, "the ignorant half prefers to fabricate explanations... rather than admit ignorance."] "The organization of behavior: a neuropsychological theory" by Donald Olding Hebb (BF181 H353o) [Referenced in Margaret Boden's article in Honavar's "Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks," p. 7; "Hebb's account of synaptic modification... is the basis of most of the learning rules used in today's connectionist systems."] "Vision : a computational investigation into the human representation and processing of visual information" by David Marr (QP475 M27 1982) [Referenced in Margaret Boden's article in Honavar's "Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks"; Marr incorporated insights from GOFAI into his connectionist systems] "The philosophy of artificial intelligence" edited by Margaret A. Boden (Q335 .P48 1990) [Contains a reprint of McCulloch and Pitts' article "A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity," which proved that every Turing-computable function can be computed by a fairly simple network of all-or-none threshold units.] [November 18, 2003] "Morals by agreement" by David Gauthier (BJ1012 .G38 1986) [I read an article by Gauthier this morning for philosophy 330. His basic idea seems to be that a society whose members hold the morals they'd accept under rational (self-interested) agreement is more stable than it would be otherwise. Interesting.] [November 19, 2003] "Reflection and semantics in a procedural language" by Brian Cantwell Smith (QA76 P7611 no.272) [Also available at http://www.lcs.mit.edu/publications/specpub.php?id=840 . Referenced in Margaret Boden's article "Escaping from the Chinese Room." This work introduced the notion of reflection in programming languages.] "On the origin of objects" by Brian Cantwell Smith (BD111 .S573 1996) [Referenced on http://cliki.tunes.org/Brian%20C.%20Smith . Apparently, somewhat unreadable.] "Readings in the philosophy of language" edited by Peter Ludlow (P106 .R385 1997) [Contains a translation of Frege's "On Sense and Reference," recommended by Travis Butler in reference to the problem of reference.] "Logic and knowledge: essays, 1901-1950" by Bertrand Russell, edited by Robert Charles Marsh (B1649.R93 L6) [Contains a reprint of Russell's "On Denoting," recommended by Travis Butler in reference to the problem of reference.] [December 5, 2003] "Perspectives on cognitive dissonance" by Robert A. Wicklund, Jack W. Brehm (BF311 .W575 1976) [Referenced on http://tip.psychology.org/festinge.html ] "A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance" by Leon Festinger (BF335 F429t, 1962) [Referenced on http://tip.psychology.org/festinge.html ] "Explorations in cognitive dissonance" by Jack W. Brehm and Arthur R. Cohen (BF335 .B747e) [Referenced on http://tip.psychology.org/festinge.html ] "Cognitive dissonance : progress on a pivotal theory in social psychology" edited by Eddie Harmon-Jones and Judson Mills (BF337.C63 C64 1999) [December 6, 2003] "The logic of provability" by George Boolos (BC199.M6 B65 1993) [Referenced on Connection closed by foreign host.ove/prove.html ] "The mind doesn't work that way : the scope and limits of computational psychology" by Jerry Fodor (BD418.3 .F627 2000) [Referenced by "Does Classicism Explain Universality?" by Steven Phillips .] "The language of thought" by Jerry A. Fodor (BF311 .F56 1975) "The modularity of mind : an essay on faculty psychology" by Jerry A. Fodor (BF311 .F5615 1983) [Referenced by "Does Classicism Explain Universality?" by Steven Phillips .] "Goedel's proof" by Ernest Nagel and James R. Newman (QA9.65 .N34 2001) [Recommended by Jill] [December 11, 2003] "Moral thinking : its levels, method, and point" by R.M. Hare (BJ1012 .H3135 1981) [Recommended by Anthony of philosophy 330 as source for evaluating Kagan's proposal on what makes a successful ethical theory.] "Descartes' error : emotion, reason, and the human brain" by Antonio R. Damasio (QP401 .D2 1994) [Referenced by "Are ethical judgments intrinsically motivational?"] [December 13, 2003] "A profile of mathematical logic" by Howard DeLong (QA9 B37) [One of the "parents" of Hofstadter's "Goedel-Escher-Bach"; referenced by him in the preface to "Goedel's Proof"] "Recursion theory for metamathematics" by Raymond M. Smullyan (QA9.6 .S68 1993) "Who knows? : a study of religious consciousness" by Raymond M. Smullyan (BL50 .S59 2003) "To mock a mocking bird and other logic puzzles : including an amazing adventure in combinatory logic" by Raymond Smullyan (GV1507.P43 S68 1985) "5000 B.C. and other philosophical fantasies" by Raymond Smullyan (B68 .S65 1983) "Alice in puzzle-land : a Carrollian tale for children under eighty" by Raymond M. Smullyan, with an introduction by Martin Gardner (GV1493 .S624) [December 14, 2003] "An introduction to contemporary metaethics" by Alexander Miller (BJ1012 M527) [Recommended by my father] [December 16, 2003] "The limits of morality" by Shelly Kagan (BJ1012 K24x, 1989) [A defense of consequentialism] [December 19, 2003] "The book of numbers" by John H. Conway, Richard K. Guy (QA241 .C6897 1996) [Referenced by MathWorld article on Fermat's Little Theorem -- http://mathworld.wolfram.com/FermatsLittleTheorem.html ] [December 20, 2003] "On numbers and games" by John Horton Conway (QA241 .C69) [Referenced by page referenced by Yogy -- http://www.cs.uidaho.edu/~casey931/conway/games.html ] [December 21, 2003] "Object-oriented programming in Common LISP : a programmer's guide to CLOS" by Sonya E. Keene (QA76.73.C28 K44 1989) [An excellent introduction to both OOP and CLOS, according to "The Art of the Metaobject Protocol"] "Morality, what's in it for me? : a historical introduction to ethics" by William N. Nelson (BJ993 .N45 1991) [Referenced by "Normative Ethics"] "The view from nowhere" by Thomas Nagel (BD220 .N34 1986) [Referenced by "Normative Ethics"] "What does it all mean? : a very short introduction to philosophy" by Thomas Nagel (BD21 .N24 1987) [I liked the title] "Wise choices, apt feelings : a theory of normative judgment" by Allan Gibbard (BJ1012 .G53 1990) [Reference by "Normative Ethics"] "Inequality" by Larry S. Temkin (HM146 .T45 1993) ["A superb discussion of the nature of equality and different methods of measuring" it, according to "Normative Ethics," p. 309] "The theory of morality" by Alan Donagan (BJ1012 .D57) [Referenced by "Normative Ethics"] "I : the philosophy and psychology of personal identity" by Jonathan Glover (BF697 G56x, 1988) "Responsibility" by Jonathan Glover (BJ1451 .G58 1970b) "Living high and letting die : our illusion of innocence" by Peter Unger (BJ1469 .U54 1996) [Referenced by "Normative Ethics"] [December 29, 2003] "The number systems; foundations of algebra and analysis" by Solomon Feferman (QA241 .F4) [December 30, 2003] "Computability, complexity, and languages : fundamentals of theoretical computer science" by Martin D. Davis, Elaine J. Weyuker (QA267 .D38 1983) "The universal computer : the road from Leibniz to Turing" by Martin Davis (QA76.17 D38 2000) [Referenced by Hodge's article on Turing in the Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy -- http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing/ ] "The Universal Turing machine : a half-century survey" edited by Rolf Herken (QA267 U95x, 1988) [Referenced by Hodge's article on Turing in the Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy -- http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing/ "The nature of space and time" by Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose (QC173.59.S65 H4 1996) "Understanding natural language" by Terry Winograd (PE1074.5 .W54) [Referenced by Patrick Hayes's "Naive Physics Manifesto" in Boden's "Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence"] "Reason and analysis" by Brand Blanshard (B824.6 B611r) [Referenced Smullyan's "5000 B.C." as a refutation of logical positivism] "Discrete algorithms and complexity" (QA76.6 .D577 1987) [Referenced by MathWorld's entry on prime factorization algorithms for its description of the Pollard-Strassen method -- http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PrimeFactorizationAlgorithms.html ] [January 2, 2004] "The codebreakers : the story of secret writing" by David Kahn (Z103 .K28 1996) [Referenced by Jill and http://home.ecn.ab.ca/~jsavard/crypto/intro.htm ] "Cryptanalysis; a study of ciphers and their solution" by Helen Fouche Gaines (Z104 G127e2) [Referenced by http://home.ecn.ab.ca/~jsavard/crypto/intro.htm ] "Machine cryptography and modern cryptanalysis" by Cipher A Deavours and Louis Kruh (Z103 D43x, 1985) [Referenced by http://home.ecn.ab.ca/~jsavard/crypto/intro.htm ] "Decrypted secrets : methods and maxims of cryptology" by Friedrich L. Bauer (QA76.9.A25 B38513 1997) [January 5, 2004] "Prisoner's dilemma" by William Poundstone (QA29.V66 P68 1992) "How would you move Mount Fuji? : Microsoft's cult of the puzzle : how the world's smartest companies select the most creative thinkers" by William Poundstone (HF5549.5.I6 P68 2003) "Tell me a story : a new look at real and artificial memory" by Roger C. Schank (BF431 .S277 1990) [Referenced by Bringsjord's "The Narrational Case Against Church's Thesis"] "Artificial intelligence and literary creativity : inside the mind of BRUTUS, a storytelling machine" by Selmer Bringsjord, David A. Ferrucci (BF408 .B773 2000) "Fluid concepts & creative analogies : computer models of the fundamental mechanisms of thought" by Douglas Hofstadter and the Fluid Analogies Research Group (BF311 .H617 1995) [Referenced by Sousa's review of Bringsjord's book] "What computers still can't do : a critique of artificial reason" by Hubert L. Dreyfus (Q335 .D74 1992) "Brainchildren : essays on designing minds" by Daniel C. Dennett (BD418.3 .D46 1998) [Contains "Two Contrasts: Folk Craft versus Folk Science and Belief versus Opinion," which reviews Hayes's work on naive physics] [January 6, 2004] "Analogy-making as perception : a computer model" by Melanie Mitchell (BF446 .M57 1993) "An introduction to genetic algorithms" by Melanie Mitchell (QH441.2 .M55 1996) "On numbers and games" by John Horton Conway (QA241 .C69 2001) [January 8, 2004] "Living poor; a Peace Corps chronicle" by Moritz Thomsen (HC60.5 .T47) "The mathematical experience" by Philip J. Davis and Reuben Hersh (QA8.4 .D37) [Referenced by Hersh's "What is mathematics, really?"] [January 9, 2004] "Getting what you came for : the smart student's guide to earning a Master's or a Ph.D" by Robert L. Peters (LB2371.4 .P48 1997) [Recommended by Jill] "Emotion, truth, and meaning : in defense of Ayer and Stevenson" by Colin Wilks (BJ1473 W55 2002) [Recommmended by my dad] [January 13, 2003] "Formal theories of the commonsense world" edited by Jerry R. Hobbs and Robert C. Moore (Q360 .F66 1985) [Referenced by Drew McDermott's article "A Critique of Pure Reason"] "Creation : life and how to make it" by Steve Grand (QH324.2 G73 2000) [Referenced in a Slashdot article] [February 3, 2004] "Proofs and refutations : the logic of mathematical discovery" by Imre Lakatos, edited by John Worrall and Elie Zahar (QA8.4 .L34) [Referenced by "What is mathematics, really?"] "Dialogues on mathematics" by Alfred Renyi (QA9 .R4513) [Referenced by "What is mathematics, really?"] "The nature of mathematical knowledge" by Philip Kitcher (QA8.4 .K53 1983) [Referenced by "What is mathematics, really?"] [February 4, 2004] "The conscious universe : parts and wholes in physical reality" by Menas Kafatos, Robert Nadeau (QC6.4 R42 K34 2000) [Mentioned by Jill; Kafatos is dean of computational science at GMU] [February 7, 2004] "Linear optimization and extensions : theory and algorithms" by Shu-Cherng Fang, Sarat Puthenpura (T57.74 .F37 1993) [Referenced by http://mathworld.wolfram.com/FarkassLemma.html ] [February 8, 2004] "Non-standard analysis" by Abraham Robinson (QA299.82 .R6 1974) [Referenced by Hersh's "What is mathematics, really?"; bases calculus on infinitesimals rather than limits, defining an infinitesimal as a number "greater than zero but smaller than all the positive numbers expressible in the formal language" of mathematics] "Introduction to the theory of distributions" by F.G. Friedlander (QA324 .F74 1982) [Hersh discusses functionals (a.k.a. distributions) in the section of his notes on Dirac's Delta function. A functional is a generalization of a function. Using functionals, it is possible to infinitely differentiate any function.] "Introduction to the theory of distributions, based on the lectures given by Laurent Schwartz" by Israel Halperin (QA287.6 H163i) [Schwartz is a co-discoverer of distributions.] "What is mathematics? : an elementary approach to ideas and methods" by Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins (QA37.2 .C69 1996) [February 27, 2004] "Applied Analysis" by Cornelius Lanczos (QA401 .L299a) [Recommended by an Amazon.com reviewer of "Methods of Mathematical Physics"] "Applied nonstandard analysis" by Martin Davis (QA299.82 .D38) "A first course in functional analysis" by Martin Davis (QA320 .D32) "Lectures on modern mathematics" by Martin Davis (QA37 .D34 1967) [February 28, 2004] "Advanced calculus" by Robert Creighton Buck and Ellen Buck (QA303 .B917 1978) [Recommended by Jeremy Alm] "Advanced calculus" by Wilfred Kaplan (QA303.2 K36 2003) [March 3, 2004] "Purely functional data structures" by Chris Okasaki (QA76.9.D35 O35 1998) [Referenced on Slashdot.] "Green, Brown, and probability" by Kai Lai Chung (QA274.75 .C48 1995) [Recommended by my dad] [March 10, 2004] "Natural language understanding" by James Allen (QA76.7 .A44 1995) [Recommended on student-dev by Michael Tsai] [March 17, 2004] "Wabi-sabi for artists, designers, poets & philosophers" by Leonard Koren (BH221 J3 K67 1994) [Recommended by "Extreme Programming Explained"] "Software engineering economics" by Barry W. Boehm (QA76.6 B618) [Recommended by "Extreme Programming Explained"] "The visual display of quantitative information" by Edward R. Tufte (HA31 T837x, 1983) [Recommended by "Extreme Programming Explained"; check Design stacks as general collection copy lost] [March 26, 2004] "An economic theory of democracy" by Anthony Downs (JF1351 .D759e) [Recommended by Dragmire on StrangeTalk] [March 28, 2004] "Discovering QuickTime : an introduction for Windows and Macintosh programmers" by George Towner (TR899 T69x 1999) [Recommended by Vince de Marco of Apple on the cocoa-dev list: http://cocoa.mamasam.com/COCOADEV/2001/09/2/12893.php ] "QuickTime for Java : a developer reference" by Tom Maremaa and William Stewart (TR899 M37x 1999) "QuickTime pro 4" by Judith Stern, Robert Lettieri (TR899 S75x 1999) "Learning Carbon" by Apple Computer, Inc. (QA76.8 M3 L428x 2001) "Learning Cocoa" by Apple Computer, Inc. (QA76.8 M3 L43x 2001) "Inside Macintosh: Macintosh toolbox essentials" (QA76.8.M3 I55 1992) "Carbon programming" by K.J. Bricknell (QA76.8 M3 B69 2002) "Mac OS X programming" by Dan Parks Sydow (QA76.76 O63 S94343 2002) [April 4, 2004] "Illumination and Color in Computer Generated Imagery" by Roy Hall [Referenced on http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/CVonline/LOCAL_COPIES/POYNTON1/ColorFAQ.html ] "Television engineering handbook" (TK6642 .T437 1986) [Referenced on http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/CVonline/LOCAL_COPIES/POYNTON1/ColorFAQ.html ] "Fundamentals of electronic imaging systems : some aspects of image processing" by William F. Schreiber (TA1632 .S33 1991) [Referenced on http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/CVonline/LOCAL_COPIES/POYNTON1/ColorFAQ.html ] [May 30, 2004] "Object-oriented design heuristics" by Arthur J. Riel (QA76.64 .R54 1996) [From Dan Dunham's wish list.] "More exceptional C++ : 40 new engineering puzzles, programming problems, and solutions" by Herb Sutter (QA76.73 C153 S89 2002) [From Dan Dunham's wish list.] "Generative programming : methods, tools, and applications" by Krzysztof Czarnecki and Ulrich W. Eisenecker (QA76.624 C93 2000) [From Dan Dunham's wish list.] "Modern C++ design : generic programming and design patterns applied" by Andrei Alexandrescu (QA76.73 C153 A42 2001) [From Dan Dunham's wish list.] "Effective STL : 50 specific ways to improve your use of the standard template library" by Scott Meyers (QA76.73 C153 M49 2001) [Reading "Effective Java" put me in mind of Meyers excellent "Effective C++" books.] [June 18, 2004] "The C++ Standard Library: A Tutorial and Reference" by Nicolai M. Josuttis (QA76.73 C153 J69 1999) [Referenced in "Effective STL": "An indispensable book."] [July 14, 2004] "Buckminster Fuller's universe : an appreciation" by Lloyd Steven Sieden, foreword by Norman Cousins" (T49.5 .S575 1989) [Recommended by Joannu Ng] [August 7, 2004] "Mushrooms & other fungi of the midcontinental United States" by D.m. Huffman, Lois Tiffany, and G. Knaphus (QK617 .H78 1989) [Referenced by the Web page for Tiffany's mycology course at Lakeside.] [November 27, 2004] "Applied numerical analysis" by Curtis F. Gerald and Patrick O. Wheatley (QA297 .G47 1994) [Recommended in an Amazon review of another numerical analysis text.] "A first course in numerical analysis" by Anthony Ralston (QA297 .R139f) [5 stars on Amazon] "Introduction to numerical analysis" by Francis Begnaud Hildebrand (QA300 H545i2) [5 stars on Amazon] "Scientific computing : an introductory survey" by Michael T. Heath (Q183.9 .H4 2002) [Recommended by Jill.] [January 10, 2004] "Introduction to real analysis" by Robert G. Bartle, Donald R. Sherbert (QA300 .B294 2000) [Recommended by Sacks for math 414] "An introduction to analysis" William R. Wade (QA300 .W25 1995) [Recommended by Sacks for math 414] "Principles of mathematical analysis" by Walter Rudin (QA300 .R8 1976) [Recommended by Sacks for math 414] "Fundamental ideas of analysis" by Michael C. Reed (QA300 .R44 1998) [Recommended by Sacks for math 414] "Mathematical statistics : basic ideas and selected topics" by Peter J. Bickel, Kjell A. Doksum (QA276 B47 2001) [Old version of the textbook for stat 543; on reserve for EE 527] [July 29, 2005] "The Plato cult and other philosophical follies" by David Stove (B29 .S815 1991) [Recommended by Jeremy Alm ] [November 19, 2005] "Conceptual blockbusting: a pleasurable guide to better problem solving" by James L. Adams (BF441 A28 1980) [Recommended by Jon Bentley in "More Programming Pearls"] "The medical detectives" by Berton Roueche [Recommended by Jon Bentley in "More Programming Pearls"] "The AWK programming language" by Alfred V. Aho, Brian W. Kernighan, and Peter J. Weinberger (QA76.73.A95 A35 1988) [Recommended by Jon Bentley in "More Programming Pearls"] [November 29, 2005] "Topics in matrix analysis" by Roger Horn, Charles Johnson (QA188 H664 1991) [December 28, 2005] "Matrix Computations" by Gene Howard Golub and Charles F Van Loan (QA188 G65 1983) [Referenced by "C++ Scientific Computing"] [December 31, 2005] "The CRC Handbook of combinatorial designs", edited by C.J. Colbourn and J.H. Dinitz [Recommended by William Duckworth in his thesis as an excellent reference.] [January 1, 2006] "SVD and signal processing: algorithms, applications, and architecture" edited by E.F. Deprettere (TK5102.5 S94 1988) "SVD and signal processing II: algorithms, analysis, and applications" edited by Richard Vaccaro (TK5102.5 S93 1991) [January 2, 2006] "A course in digital signal processing" by Boaz Porat (TK5102.9 P66 1997) [On reserve for Dogandzic's EE class.] [January 6, 2006] "The grammar of graphics" by Leland Wilkinson (QA276.3 .W55 2005) [From Hadley Wickham's Amazon wishlist.] "Dead reckoning: calculating without instruments" by Ronald W. Doerfler (QA111 .D67 1993) [From Hadley Wickham's Amazon wishlist.] "Playing with infinity" by Rozsa Peter (QA93 .P4713 1976) [Popular book on infinity; referenced by Holt's New Yorker review of "Every and More".] [January 23, 2006] "The elements of statistical learning: data mining, inference, and prediction" by Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, Jerome Friedman (Q325.75 .F75 2001) [Recommended by a review of Vapnik's "Statistical Learning Theory"] "Statistical learning theory" by Vladimir N. Vapnik (Q325.7 V38 1998) [One OY likes.] [February 11, 2006] "Pale Fire" by Vladimir Nabakov (PS3527 A15 P3 1962b) [Recommended on Marginal Revolution.] "The sound and the fury" by William Faulkner (PS3511.A86 S69x 1956) [March 29, 2006] "The asymptotic theory of extreme order statistics" by Janos Galambos (QA274 .G34) [Referenced by J.S. Athreya's paper "On the asymptotics of discrete order statistics".] "Large scale dynamics of interacting particles" by Herbert Spohn (QC174.17.P7 S66 1991) [Referenced S. Sethuraman's "On diffusivity of a tagged particle in asymmetric zero-range dynamics".] [April 21, 2006] "Righteous victims: a history of the Zionist-Arab conflict, 1881-1999" by Benny Morris (DS119.7 M657 1999) [Mentioned on oslo's journal: http://oslo.livejournal.com/74833.html] "Percolation" by Geoffrey Grimmett (QC174.85 P45 G75 1999) [June 17, 2006] "This house has fallen : midnight in Nigeria" by Karl Maier (DT515.842 M35 2000) "Finding George Orwell in Burma" by Emma Larkin (DS527.7 .L37 2005) [July 5, 2006] "Theory of value; an axiomatic analysis of economic equilibrium" by Gerard Debreu (HB221 .D353t) "Statistics as Principled Argument" by Robert P. Abelson (QA276 .A22 1995) [July 10, 2006] "Ten philosophical mistakes" by Mortimer Jerome Adler (B72 .A34 1985) [Referenced on Huemer's argument against Objectivism -- looks awful] [July 24, 2006] "Asymptotics in statistics: some basic concepts" by Lucien Le Cam and Grace Lo Yang (QA276 L336 1990) [Referenced by BDA for its coverage of results relating to convergence of the posterior.] "Practical nonparametric and semiparametric Bayesian statistics" edited by Dipak Dey, Peter Mueller, and Debajyoti Sinha (QA279.5 P73 1998) [Referenced by Chen and Wasserman's paper on rates of convergence] [July 25, 2006] "Lectures on the coupling method" by Torgny Lindvall (QA273.6 .L54 1992) ["should be required reading for all applied probabilists..." -- W.S. Kendall] [July 30, 2006] "Stochastic simulation" by Brian D. Ripley (QA76.9.C65 R57 1987) ["An excellent general book on simulation from a statistical perspective" -- BDA] [August 2, 2006] "Der Untergeher" by Thomas Bernhard (PT2662.E7 U5x 1983) [According to Tyler Cowen, one of the best Austrian novels.] "Wittgenstein's nephew : a friendship" by Thomas Bernhard; translated from the German by Ewald Osers (PT2662.E7 Z4753 1986) [Another of the best Austrian novels, according to Cowen.] "Letters to Russell, Keynes, and Moore" by Ludwig Wittgenstein (B3376.W564 A44 1974) "Wittgenstein's poker : the story of a ten-minute argument between two great philosophers" by David Edmonds and John Eidi (B3376 W564 E37 2001b) [August 16, 2006] "The revolution will not be televised : democracy, the Internet, and the overthrow of everything" by Joe Trippi (JK1764 T75 2004) [Recommended by coliningus] "A mathematician reads the newspaper" by John Allen Paulos (QA93 .P385 1995) [Recommended by coliningus] "We" by Evgney Zamyatin (PG3476 Z34 M913 1991)