Bookshelf

Titles displayed on my bookshelf at home.

All About Love

 bell hooks

Angels Fear: Towards an Epistemology of the Sacred

 Gregory Bateson, Mary Catherine Bateson

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering

 Richard W. Hamming

Art Space Tokyo

 Craig Mod

The Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name: Seven Days with Second-Order Cybernetics

 Heinz von Foerster

Beyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory and Economics

 Marianne A. Ferber, Julie A. Nelson, Rebecca M. Blank, Paula England, Nancy Folbre, Ann L. Jennings, Helen E. Longino, Donald N. McCloskey, Robert M. Solow, Diana Strassmann, Rhonda M. Williams

Brain of the Firm

 Stafford Beer

The Brand Gap

 Marty Neumeier

Combining

 Nora Bateson

Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom

 Mary Catherine Bateson

Composing a Life

 Mary Catherine Bateson

Computer Lib / Dream Machines

 Ted Nelson

Content Audits and Inventories: A Handbook

 Paula Ladenburg Land

Content Design

 Sarah Richards

Content Strategy for Mobile

 Karen McGrane

Content Strategy for the Web

 Kristina Halvorson, Melissa Rach

The Content Strategy Toolkit: Methods, Guidelines, and Templates for Getting Content Right

 Meghan Casey

Conversational Design

 Erika Hall

Dark Matter and Trojan Horses: A Strategic Design Vocabulary

 Dan Hill

Design by Definition

 Elizabeth McGuane

Design Cybernetics: Navigating the New

 Thomas Fischer, Christiane M. Herr, Ranulph Glanville, Liss C. Werner, Hugh Dubberly, Paul Pangaro, Delfina Fantini van Ditmar, Klaus Krippendorff, Ted Krueger, Ute C. Besenecker, Tom Scholte, Ben Sweeting, Michael Hohl, Timothy Jachna, Claudia Westermann, Laurence D. Richards, Wolfgang Jonas

Design for Cognitive Bias

 David Dylan Thomas

Design for Real Life

 Eric Meyer, Sara Wachter-Boettcher

Designing Freedom

 Stafford Beer

Designing Missions

 Dan Hill

Don't Call It That

 Eli Altman

Economics for Humans

 Julie A. Nelson

The Elements of Typographic Style

 Robert Bringhurst

The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web

 Jesse James Garrett

Everyday Information Architecture

 Lisa Maria Marquis

Everything I Know About Life I Learned from Powerpoint

 Russell Davies

Everywhere Being Is Dancing

 Robert Bringhurst

The Field Study Handbook

 Jan Chipchase

Figuring

 Maria Popova

Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters

 Richard Rumelt

The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth

 Monica Sjoo, Barbara Mor

Gregory Bateson: Essays for an Ecology of Ideas

 Frederick Steier, Ranulph Glanville, Peter Harries-Jones, Louis Kauffman, Alfonso Montuori, Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, Kenneth Cissna, Thomas E. Malloy, Douglas Flemons, Bradford Keeney, Thomas Eriksen, Will McWhinney, Mary Catherine Bateson

The Heart of Enterprise

 Stafford Beer

How to Make Sense of Any Mess

 Abby Covert

Human Archipelago

 Teju Cole, Fazal Sheikh

Inclusive Design for a Digital World: Designing with Accessibility in Mind

 Reginé Gilbert

Information Architecture

 Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville, Jorge Arango

Interviewing Users

 Steve Portigal

Just Enough Research

 Erika Hall

Kissa by Kissa: A 1,000 km walk along the Nakasendō

 Craig Mod

Knots

 R.D. Laing

Koya Bound: Eight Days on the Kumano Kodo

 Craig Mod, Dan Rubin

A Legacy for Living Systems: Gregory Bateson as Precursor to Biosemiotics

 Jesper Hoffmeyer

Metaskills

 Marty Neumeier

The Middle East Crisis Factory: Tyranny, Resilience, and Resistance

 Ahmed Gatnash, Iyad El-Baghdadi

Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity

 Gregory Bateson

The Nature of Order: The Phenomenon of Life

 Christopher Alexander

Notes on the Role of Leadership and Language in Regenerating Organizations

 Hugh Dubberly, Paul Pangaro, Peter Esmonde, Michael Geoghegan

Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination and Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives, and Future

 Riane Eisler, Douglas P. Fry

On Bullshit

 Harry G. Frankfurt

Orchestrating Experiences

 Chris Risdon, Patrick Quattlebaum

Org Design for Design Orgs: Building and Managing In-House Design Teams

 Peter Merholz, Kristin Skinner

Our Own Metaphor: A Personal Account of a Conference on the Effects of Conscious Purpose on Human Adaptation

 Mary Catherine Bateson

A Recursive Vision: Ecological Understanding and Gregory Bateson

 Peter Harries-Jones

The Rose That Grew from Concrete

 Tupac Shakur

Sacred Unity: Further Steps to an Ecology of Mind

 Gregory Bateson

The Shape of Design

 Frank Chimero

Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing through other patterns​​

 Nora Bateson

Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology

 Gregory Bateson

A Story as Sharp as a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World

 Robert Bringhurst

Stuck? Diagrams Help

 Abby Covert

Stuff Matters

 Mark Miodownik

Sustainable Data

 Jan Chipchase

Systemantics - How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail

 John Gall

Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

 bell hooks

Things Become Other Things

 Craig Mod

Thinking in Systems: A Primer on Systems Thinking

 Donella H. Meadows

The Timeless Way of Building

 Christopher Alexander

Top Tasks

 Gerry McGovern

The Tree of Meaning: Language, Mind, and Ecology

 Robert Bringhurst

Upside-Down Gods: Gregory Bateson's World of Difference

 Peter Harries-Jones

The Uses of Art

 Sal Randolph

What is Reading For

 Robert Bringhurst

The Will to Change

 bell hooks

With a Daughter's Eye

 Mary Catherine Bateson

Writing for Designers

 Scott Kubie

Writing Is Designing: Words and the User Experience

 Michael J. Metts, Andy Welfle

Your Music and People

 Derek Sivers