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Alan Kay book recommendationS

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History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

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Human Knowledge, Its Scope and Limits by Bertrand Russell

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​The Ghost in the Machine by Arthur Koestler

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​The Interpretation of Cultures by Clifford Geertz

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Act of Creation by Arthur Koestler​

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The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine

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Common Sense by Thomas Paine

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The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine

  1. Archetypes by Anthony Stevens
  2. An Aristocracy of Everyone by Benjamin Barber
  3. Fractal Geometry by Benoit Mandelbrot
  4. Sceptical Essays by Bertrand Russell
  5. Man and his Symbols by Carl Jung
  6. Modern Woman in Search of a Soul by Carl Jung
  7. Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan
  8. Broca's Brain by Carl Sagan
  9. Maps of the Mind by Charles Hampton-Turner
  10. Notes on a Synthesis of Form by Christopher Alexander
  11. Science and Sanity by Count Korzybski
  12. An American Primer by Daniel Boorstin
  13. The Americans by Daniel Boorstin
  14. The Machinery of Life by David Goodsell
  15. Language and Species by Derek Bickerton
  16. Building Large Knowledge-Based Systems by Doug Lenat
  17. Lateral Thinking by Edward De Bono
  18. Six Thinking Hats by Edward De Bono
  19. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte
  20. Envisioning Information by Edward Tufte
  21. Engines of Creation by Eric Drexler
  22. Art and Illusion by Ernst Gombrich
  23. Neuroethology by Ewert
  24. Essays into Literacy by Frank Smith
  25. The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt
  26. Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski
  27. The Double Helix by James Watson
  28. The Psycology of the Child by Jean Piaget
  29. To Understand is to Invent by Jean Piaget
  30. Towards a Theory of Instruction by Jerome Bruner
  31. The Relevance of Education by Jerome Bruner
  32. School and Society by John Dewey
  33. Freedom and Culture by John Dewey
  34. Instead of Education by John Holt
  35. Teach Your Own by John Holt
  36. LISP 1.5 Manual (MIT Press) by John Mccarthy
  37. Myths to Live By by Joseph Campbell
  38. The Masks of God by Joseph Campbell
  39. The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
  40. Civilisation by Kenneth Clark
  41. What is a Masterpiece by Kenneth Clark
  42. Relativity Visualized by L.C. Epstein
  43. Te-Tao Ching by Lao-Tzu
  44. The God Particle by Leon Lederman
  45. From Quarks to Cosmos by Leon Lederman
  46. The Zero Sum Society by Lester Thurow
  47. Economics Explained by Lester Thurow
  48. Head to Head by Lester Thurow
  49. Thought and Language by Lev Vygotsky
  50. Mind in Society by Lev Vygotsky
  51. The Psychology of Art by Lev Vygotsky
  52. The Myth of the Machine by Lewis Mumford
  53. Technics and Civilization by Lewis Mumford
  54. The Federalist Papers by Madison, Et Al
  55. The Secret of Childhood by Maria Montessori
  56. What I Believe by Mark Booth (Ed)
  57. Gutenberg Galaxy by Marshall Mcluhan
  58. Understanding Media by Marshall Mcluhan
  59. Society of Mind by Marvin Minsky
  60. Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines by Marvin Minsky
  61. Wisdom, Information & Wonder by Mary Midgley
  62. Science as Salvation by Mary Midgley
  63. Beyond Boredom and Anxiety by Mihaly Csikszentmihaly
  64. Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  65. Made in America by Mike Dertuozos (Ed)
  66. Gossamer Odyssey by Morton Grosser
  67. Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
  68. The Disappearance of Childhood by Neil Postman
  69. Conscientious Objections by Neil Postman
  70. The Architecture Machine by Nicholas Negroponte
  71. Soft Architecture Machines by Nicholas Negroponte
  72. The Animal in Its World by Niko Tinbergen
  73. Technology, Management,and Society by Peter Drucker
  74. Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Peter Drucker
  75. The Ring of Truth by Philip Morrison
  76. Timeaus by Plato
  77. Republic by Plato
  78. The Anti-Federalist Papers by Ralph Ketcham (Ed)
  79. The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
  80. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
  81. The Character of Physical Law by Richard Feynman
  82. QED by Richard Feynman
  83. Eye and Brain by Richard Gregory
  84. The Passion of the Western Mind by Richard Tarnas
  85. New World, New Mind by Robert Ornstein & Paul Erlich
  86. Visual Thinking by Rudolf Arnheim
  87. Mindstorms by Seymour Papert
  88. The Childrens' Machine by Seymour Papert
  89. Nurtured by Love by Shinichi Suzuki
  90. Zen Mind, Beginners' Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
  91. The Psychology of Literacy by Silvia Scribner & Mike Cole
  92. The Inner Game of Tennis by Tim Gallwey
  93. Vehicles by Valentino Braitenberg
  94. Science is not Enough by Vannevar Bush
  95. The Living Brain by W. Gray Walter
  96. Molecular Biology Of The Gene by Jim Watson
  97. Mythology by Edith Hamilton
  98. Computation: Finite And Infinite Machines by Marvin Minsky
  99. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne.
  100. The Organ-Builder by François Bédos de Celles

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