READING LIST
The following list was prepared by Alan Kay for his students and is presented here for those who want to learn more about the ideas and philosophies that influenced the creation of Squeak.
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TECHNOLOGY & MEDIA
MARSHALL MCLUHAN
Gutenberg Galaxy
Understanding Media
LEWIS MUMFORD
The Myth of the Machine
Technics and Civilization
PETER DRUCKER
Technology, Management, and Society
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
NEIL POSTMAN
Amusing Ourselves to Death
The Disappearance of Childhood
Conscientious Objections
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LEARNING & CREATIVITY
JEAN PIAGET
The Psycology of the Child
To Understand is to Invent
LEV VYGOTSKY
Thought and Language
Mind in Society
The Psychology of Art
JEROME BRUNER
Towards a Theory of Instruction
The Relevance of Education
JOHN HOLT
Instead of Education
Teach Your Own
FRANK SMITH
Essays into Literacy
EDWARD de BONO
Lateral Thinking
Six Thinking Hats
TIM GALLWEY
The Inner Game of Tennis
SHINICHI SUZUKI
Nurtured by Love
MARIA MONTESSORI
The Secret of Childhood
JOHN DEWEY
School and Society
Freedom and Culture
ARTHUR KOESTLER
Act of Creation
The Ghost in the Machine
SEYMOUR PAPERT
Mindstorms
The Childrens' Machine
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ANTHROPOLOGY & PSYCHOLOGY
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
Myths to Live By
The Masks of God
DEREK BICKERTON
Language and Species
SILVIA SCRIBNER & MIKE COLE
The Psychology of Literacy
JULIAN JAYNES
The Origin of Consciouness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
CLIFFORD GEERTZ
The Interpretation of Cultures
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI
Beyond Boredom and Anxiety
Flow
ROBERT ORNSTEIN & PAUL ERLICH
New World, New Mind
CHARLES HAMPTON-TURNER
Maps of the Mind
CARL JUNG
Man and his Symbols
Modern Woman in Search of a Soul
MARVIN MINSKY
Society of Mind
ANTHONY STEVENS
Archetypes
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PHILOSOPHY
PLATO
Timeaus
Republic
BERTRAND RUSSELL
History of Western Philosophy
Human Knowledge, Its' Scope and Limits
Sceptical Essays
RICHARD TARNAS
The Passion of the Western Mind
JACOB BRONOWSKI
Ascent of Man
MARY MIDGLEY
Wisdom, Information & Wonder
Science as Salvation
HANNAH ARENDT
The Human Condition
COUNT KORZYBSKI
Science and Sanity
VANNEVAR BUSH
Science is not Enough
MARK BOOTH (Ed,)
What I Believe
LAO-TZU
Te-Tao Ching
SHUNRYU SUZUKI
Zen Mind, Beginners' Mind
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ART & PERCEPTION
KENNETH CLARK
Civilisation
What is a Masterpiece
ERNST GOMBRICH
Art and Illusion
RICHARD GREGORY
Eye and Brain
RUDOLF ARNHEIM
Visual Thinking
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DESIGN
CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER
Notes on a Synthesis of Form
MORTON GROSSER
Gossamer Odyssey
VALENTINO BRAITENBERG
Vehicles
W. GRAY WALTER
The Living Brain
EDWARD TUFTE
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Envisioning Information
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SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS
DAVID GOODSELL
The Machinery of Life
PHILIP MORRISON
The Ring of Truth
NIKO TINBERGEN
The Animal in its' World
L.C. EPSTEIN
Relativity Visualized
ERIC DREXLER
Engines of Creation
RICHARD DAWKINS
The Blind Watchmaker
The Selfish Gene
CARL SAGAN
Dragons of Eden
Broca's Brain
EWERT
Neuroethology
RICHARD FEYNMAN
The Character of Physical Law
QED
LEON LEDERMAN
The God Particle
From Quarks to Cosmos
JAMES WATSON
The Double Helix
BENOIST MANDELBROT
Fractal Geometry
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POLITICS & ECONOMICS
DANIEL BOORSTIN
An American Primer
The Americans
MADISON, et al
The Federalist Papers
RALPH KETCHAM (Ed)
The Anti-Federalist Papers
TOM PAINE
Common Sense
The Rights of Man
The Age of Reason
BENJAMIN BARBER
An Aristocracy of Everyone
LESTER THUROW
The Zero Sum Society
Economics Explained
Head to Head
MIKE DERTUOZOS (Ed)
Made in America
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COMPUTERS
DOUG LENAT
Building Large Knowledge-Based Systems
JOHN McCARTHY
LISP 1.5 Manual (MIT Press)
MARVIN MINSKY
Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE
The Architecture Machine
Soft Architecture Machines