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.
TECHNOLOGY & MEDIA
MARSHALL MCLUHAN
LEWIS MUMFORD
PETER DRUCKER
NEIL POSTMAN
Conscientious
Objections
LEARNING & CREATIVITY
JEAN PIAGET
LEV VYGOTSKY
The
Psychology of Art
JEROME BRUNER
JOHN HOLT
FRANK SMITH
Essays
into LiteracyEDWARD de BONO
TIM GALLWEY
The
Inner Game of TennisSHINICHI SUZUKI
Nurtured
by LoveMARIA MONTESSORI
The
Secret of ChildhoodJOHN DEWEY
ARTHUR KOESTLER
SEYMOUR PAPERT
ANTHROPOLOGY & PSYCHOLOGY
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
DEREK BICKERTON
Language
and SpeciesSILVIA SCRIBNER & MIKE COLE
The
Psychology of LiteracyJULIAN JAYNES
The
Origin of Consciouness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
CLIFFORD GEERTZ
The
Interpretation of CulturesMIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI
ROBERT ORNSTEIN & PAUL ERLICH
New
World, New MindCHARLES HAMPTON-TURNER
Maps
of the MindCARL JUNG
Man
and his Symbols
Modern
Woman in Search of a SoulMARVIN MINSKY
Society
of MindANTHONY STEVENS
ArchetypesPHILOSOPHY
PLATO
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Sceptical
Essays
RICHARD TARNAS
The
Passion of the Western MindJACOB BRONOWSKI
Ascent
of ManMARY MIDGLEY
HANNAH ARENDT
The
Human ConditionCOUNT KORZYBSKI
Science
and SanityVANNEVAR BUSH
Science
is not EnoughMARK BOOTH (Ed,)
What
I BelieveLAO-TZU
Te-Tao
ChingSHUNRYU SUZUKI
Zen
Mind, Beginners' MindART & PERCEPTION
KENNETH CLARK
ERNST GOMBRICH
Art
and IllusionRICHARD GREGORY
Eye
and BrainRUDOLF ARNHEIM
Visual
ThinkingDESIGN
CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER
Notes
on a Synthesis of FormMORTON GROSSER
Gossamer
OdysseyVALENTINO BRAITENBERG
VehiclesW. GRAY WALTER
The
Living BrainEDWARD TUFTE
SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS
DAVID GOODSELL
The
Machinery of LifePHILIP MORRISON
The
Ring of TruthNIKO TINBERGEN
The
Animal in its' WorldL.C. EPSTEIN
Relativity
VisualizedERIC DREXLER
Engines
of CreationRICHARD DAWKINS
CARL SAGAN
EWERT
NeuroethologyRICHARD FEYNMAN
The
Character of Physical Law
QEDLEON LEDERMAN
The
God Particle
From
Quarks to CosmosJAMES WATSON
The
Double HelixBENOIST MANDELBROT
Fractal
GeometryPOLITICS & ECONOMICS
DANIEL BOORSTIN
MADISON, et al
The
Federalist PapersRALPH KETCHAM (Ed)
The
Anti-Federalist PapersTOM PAINE
The
Age of Reason
BENJAMIN BARBER
An
Aristocracy of EveryoneLESTER THUROW
The
Zero Sum Society
Economics
Explained
Head
to HeadMIKE DERTUOZOS (Ed)
Made
in AmericaCOMPUTERS
DOUG LENAT
Building
Large Knowledge-Based SystemsJOHN McCARTHY
LISP
1.5 Manual (MIT Press)MARVIN MINSKY
Computation:
Finite and Infinite MachinesNICHOLAS NEGROPONTE
