Bookshelf

Titles displayed on my bookshelf at home.

Angels Fear: Towards an Epistemology of the Sacred

Gregory Bateson, Mary Catherine Bateson

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering

Richard W. Hamming

Balancing Coupling in Software Design: Universal Design Principles for Architecting Modular Software Systems

Vlad Khononov

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

The Biomimicry Resource Handbook

Dr. Dayna Baumeister

Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature

Janine Benyus

Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom

Mary Catherine Bateson

Content Audits and Inventories: A Handbook

Paula Ladenburg Land

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

Meghan Casey

Convivial Toolbox: Generative Research for the Front End of Design

Elizabeth Sanders, Pieter Jan Stappers

Dark Matter and Trojan Horses: A Strategic Design Vocabulary

Dan Hill

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 Data-Intensive Applications

Martin Kleppmann

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

Ethical Know-how: Action, Wisdom, and Cognition

Francisco J. Varela

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

Humberto Maturana: Reflections on Bringing Forth Worlds

Humberto Maturana, Frank Galuszka, Jay S. Efran, Juanita Brown, Amy Lenzo, Flavio Mesquita da Silva, Seiichi Imoto, Raul Espejo, Hugh Gash, Kathleen Forsythe, Pier Luigi Luisi, Jude Lombardi, Larry Richards, Lloyd Fell, Bernhard Poerksen, Bernard Scott, Ray Ison, Mark William Johnson, Frederick Steier, Pille Bunnell

Imagination: A Manifesto

Ruha Benjamin

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

Reginé Gilbert

Information Architecture

Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville, Jorge Arango

The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High-Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity

Alan Cooper

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, Mary Catherine Bateson, Tyrone Cashman, Terrence Deacon, Jeremy Sherman, Julie Hui, Luis Emilio Bruni, Robert E. Ulanowicz, Theresa S. S. Schilhab, Christian Gerlach, Brian Goodwin, Peter Harries-Jones, Donald Favareau, Gregory Mengel, Søren Brier, Deborah Eicher-Catt