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Table of Contents
Science: Ideas & Opinions
Science: View of the World
Information Everywhere
Interesting People, Books, and Articles
Interdisciplinary
How Music Works
History of Western Music
Natural Sciences
Nature
The Two Cultures
Ideas, Opinions, and Surveys
Unreasonable Effectiveness
Pre-Law
Pre-Med
Additional Web Resources
Odds & Ends
Science: Ideas & Opinions
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Causality in the Sciences
Phyllis Mckay Illary, Federica Russo, and Jon Williamson
Oxford University Press, 2011, ISBN 97801995744131
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199574131.001.000
1
Concepts
Anil Ananthaswamy, Douglas Heaven, Richard Webb,
Graham Lawton, Catherine de Lange, Michael Le Page
New Scientist, Volume 224, Issue 2999 (December 13, 2014)
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=n2h&
AN=99911691&site=ehost-live
The Escape of the Mind
Howard Rachlin
Oxford University Press, 2014, ISBN 9780199322350
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199322350.001.000
1
How Nature Works: The Science of Self-Organized Criticality
Per Bak
Springer, 1996, ISBN 978-1-4757-5426-1
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-5426-1
Science in the Looking Glass: What Do Scientists Really Know?
E. Brian Davies
Oxford University Press, 2007, ISBN 9780199219186
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199219186.001.000
1
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Science: View of the World ==============
Handbook of Evolutionary Thinking in the Sciences
Thomas Heams, Philippe Huneman, Guillaume Lecointre,
and Marc Silberstein (Editors)
Springer, 2015, ISBN 978-94-017-9014-7
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9014-7
Principles of Systems Science
George E. Mobus and Michael C. Kalton
Springer, 2015, ISBN 978-1-4349-1920-8
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1920-8
Templets and the explanations of complex patterns
Michael J. Katz
Cambridge University Press, 1986, ISBN 97805115699517
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511569517
Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective
Kenneth O. Stanley and Joel Lehman
Springer, 2015, ISBN 978-3-319-15524-1
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15524-1
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Information Everywhere =================
Beyond Information: The Natural History of Intelligence
Tom Stonier
Springer, 1992, ISBN 978-1-4471-1835-0
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1835-0
The Burden of Knowledge and the ‘Death of the Renaissance
Man’: Is Innovation Getting Harder?
Benjamin F. Jones
National Bureau of Economic Research (May 2005)
http://www.nber.org/papers/w11360
Cognition and biology: perspectives from information theory
Rodrick Wallace
Cognitive Processing, Volume 15, Number 1 (February 2014)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10339-013-0573-1
The Experience of Living in Cities
Stanley Milgram
Science, Volume 167, Number 3924 (13 March 1970)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.167.3924.1461
From Strange Simplicity to Complex Familiarity:
A Treatise on Matter, Information, Life and Thought
Manfred Eigen
Oxford University Press, 2013, ISBN 9780198570219
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198570219.001.000
1
Information and the Internal Structure of the Universe:
An Exploration into Information Physics
Tom Stonier
Springer, 1990, ISBN 978-1-4471-3265-3
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3265-3
Information and Meaning: An Evolutionary Perspective
Tom Stonier
Springer, 1997, ISBN978-1-4471-0977-8
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0977-8
Information and the Nature of Reality:
From Physics to Metaphysics
Paul Davies and Niels Henrik Gregersen (Editors)
Cambridge University Press, 2010, ISBN 9780511778759
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511778759
Information Theory and Life
Gerard Battail
Springer, 2014, ISBN 978-94-007-7040-9
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7040-9
Knowledge Needs and Information Extraction:
Towards an Artificial Intelligence
Nicolas Turenne
Wiley, 2013, ISBN 9781118574560
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118574560
Meaningful Information:
The Bridge Between Biology, Brain, and Behavior
Anthony Reading
Springer, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4614-0158-2
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0158-2
Novelty, Information and Surprise
Gunther Palm
Springer, 2012, ISBN 978-3-642-29075-6
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29075-6
Structural Information Theory: The Simplicity of Visual Form
Emmanuel Leeuwenberg and Peter A. van der Helm
Cambridge University Press, 2013, ISBN 9781139342223
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139342223
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Interesting People, Books, and Articles =====
Noam Chomsky
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky
What Is Special About Language?
University of Arizona (February 7, 2012)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omg4lUwOZII
The Science of Language: Interviews with James McGilvray
Cambridge University Press, 2012, ISBN 9781139061018
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139061018
Chomsky and His Critics
Louise M. Anthony and Norbert Hornstein (Editors)
Wiley, 2003, ISBN 9780470690024
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470690024
Freeman Dyson
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman_Dyson
Heretical Thoughts About Science and Society
Pardee Distinguished Lecture, Boston University (November 1, 2005)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xFLjUt2leM
Murray Gell-Mann
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Gell-Mann
Thinking About the Future: The Big Picture
Pardee Distinguished Lecture, Boston University (September 27, 2005)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ssteMjoaYc
Jane Goodall
Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Goodall
The Roots of a Naturalist:
Now Jane Goodall reveals her longtime fascination with plants
Smithsonian Magazine (March 2013)
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Jane-GoodallReveals-Her-Lifelong-Fascination-With-Plants192136911.html?c=y&story=fullstory
Jane Goodall: A Retrospective
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKyrLFyOi04
Reason for Hope (April 17, 2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3FEWKdIvcA
Daniel Kahneman
Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kahneman
Explorations of the Mind – Intuition: The Marvels and the Flaws
The Graduate Council Lectures, UC Berkeley (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dddFfRaBPqg&feature=relmfu
Steven Pinker
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Pinker
The Stuff of Thought: language as a window into human nature
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S1d3cNge24
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Interdisciplinary ========================
Cybernics: Fusion of human, machine and information systems
Yosiyuki Sankai, Kenji Suzuki, and Yasuhisa Hasegawa (Editors)
Springer, 2014, ISBN 978-4-431-54159-2
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54159-2
Great Inventions that Changed the World
James Wei
Wiley, 2012, ISBN 9781118342749
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118342749
Inventing Intelligence: A Social History of Smart
Paul Michael Privateer
Wiley, 2006, ISBN 9780470754849
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470754849
Risk
Layla Skinns, Michael Scott, and Tony Cox
Cambridge University Press, 2011, ISBN 97805117355950
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511735950
Why Society is a Complex Matter: Meeting Twenty-first Century
Challenges with a New Kind of Science
Philip Ball
Springer, 2012, ISBN 978-3-642-29000-8
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29000-8
New Thinking in Complexity for the Social Sciences and Humanities:
A Generative, Transdisciplinary Approach
Ton Jorg
Springer, 2011, ISBN 978-94-007-1303-1
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1303-1
Global Overshoot: Contemplating the World’s Converging Problems
Doug Cocks
Springer, 2013, ISBN 978-1-4614-6265-1
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6265-1
State Space Grids: Depicting Dynamics Across Development
Tom Hollenstein
Springer, 2013, ISBN 978-1-4614-5007-8
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5007-8
The Nonlinear World: Conceptual Analysis and Phenomenology
Yoshitsugu Oono
Springer, 2013, ISBN 978-4-431-54029-8
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54029-8
Next Generation Knowledge Machines: Design and Architecture
Syed V. Ahamed
Elsevier, 2014, ISBN 978-0-12-416629-5
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780124166295
Evolution and Rationality
Samir Okasha and Ken Binmore (Editors)
Cambridge University Press, 2012, ISBN 9780511792601
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511792601
Evolutionary Psychology in the Business Sciences
Gad Saad (Editior)
Springer, 2011, ISBN 978-3-540-92784-6
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92784-6
The Psychological Science of Money
Erik Bijleveld and Henk Aarts (Editors)
Springer, 2014, ISBN 978-1-4939-0959-9
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0959-9
Truth in Science, the Humanities, and Religion:
Balzan Symposium 2008
M.E.H. Nicolette Mout and Werner Stauffacher (Editors)
Springer, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4020-9896-3
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9896-3
A History of the Work Concept: From Physics to Economics
Agamemnon R. E. Oliveira
Springer, 2014, ISBN 978-94-007-7705-7
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7705-7
The Second Law of Economics:
Energy, Entropy, and the Origin of Wealth
Reiner Kummel
Springer, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4419-9365-6
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9365-6
The Innermost Kernel: Depth Psychology and Quantum Physics.
Wolfgang Pauli’s Dialogue with C. G. Jung
Suzanne Giezer
Springer, 2005, ISBN 978-3-540-26986-1
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b138419
Recasting Reality: Wolfgang Pauli’s Philosophical Ideas and
Contemporary Science
Harald Atmanspacher and Hans Primas (Editors)
Springer, 2009, ISBN 978-3-540-85198-1
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85198-1
Laws, Language and Life: Howard Pattee’s classic papers on the
physics of symbols with contemporary commentary
Howard Hunt Pattee and Joanna Raczaszek-Leonardi
Springer, 2012, ISBN 978-94-007-5161-3
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5161-3
Neuromarketing: Exploring the Brain of the Consumer
Leon Zurawicki
Springer, 2010, ISBN 978-3-540-77829-5
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77829-5
The Illustrated History of Natural Disasters
Jan Kozak and Vladimir Cermak
Springer, 2010, ISBN 978-90-481-3325-3
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3325-3
The Architect, the Cook and Good Taste
Petra Hagen Hodgson and Rolf Toyka (Editors)
Springer, 2007, ISBN 978-3-7643-8483-8
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8483-8
The Quest for Food: A Natural History of Eating
Harald Brussow
Springer, 2007, ISBN 978-0-387-45461-0
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/0-387-45461-6
Basics of Geomatics
Mario A. Gomarasca
Springer, 2009, ISBN 978-1-4020-9014-1
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9014-1
The Deductive Spreadsheet
Iliano Cervesato
Springer, 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-37747-1
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37747-1
Resurrecting the Bullet Point: The Return of an Old and Valued Friend
Philip Jaffe
Ubiquity (April 2011)
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1972563
PowerPoint, Communication, and the Knowledge Society
Hubert Knoblauch
Cambridge University Press, 2013, ISBN 9780511979149
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511979149
Processes and Boundaries of the Mind: Extending the Limit Line
Yair Neuman
Springer, 2003, ISBN 978-1-4419-9078-5
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9078-5
The Semantics of Relationships: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Rebecca Green, Carol A Bean, and Sung Hyon Myaeng (Editors)
Springer, 2002, ISBN 978-94-017-0073-3
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0073-3
Celestial Sleuth:
Using Astronomy to Solve Mysteries in Art, History and Literature
Donald W. Olson
Springer, 2014, ISBN 978-1-4614-8403-5
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8403-5
Quo Vadis: Evolution of Modern Navigation – The Rise of Quantum
Techniques
F.G. Major
Springer, 2014, ISBN 978-1-4614-8672-5
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8672-5
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How Music Works ======================
Also see:
Music and Neuroscience in the
Biophysics … section.
For actual music also see:
the Music … section
Why Does Music Move Us?
The Really Big Questions (Radio) Project
http://trbq.org/topics/music/
How Music Works with Howard Goodall
01 Melody
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw9eef99aSI
02 Rhythm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZJPnAer7EM
03 Harmony
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwRHu8T1lCs
04 Bass
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIWEGYDG-Ig
How Music Works
David Byrne
Smithsonian Magazine (October 2012)
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/How-Do-Our-BrainsProcess-Music-169360476.html?c=y&story=fullstory
Doing things with music
Joel W. Krueger
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences,
Volume 10, Number 1 (March 2011)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11097-010-9152-4
The Psychology of Music, Third Edition
Diana Deutsch (Editor)
Elsevier, 2013, ISBN 978-0-12-381460-9
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780123814609
Strong Emotions in Music: Are they an Evolutionary Adaptation?
Eckart Altenmuller, Reinhard Kopiez and Oliver Grewe
Pages 131-156
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00107-4_5
The Perception of Melodies: Some Thoughts on Listening Style,
Relational Thinking, and Musical Structure
Christiane Neuhaus
Pages 195-215
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00107-4_8
Sound – Perception – Performance
Rolf Bader (Editor)
Springer, 2013, ISBN 978-3-319-00107-4
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00107-4
Music that works: Contributions of biology, neurophysiology,
psychology, sociology, medicine musicology
Roland Haas and Vera Brandes (Editors)
Springer, 2009, ISBN 978-3-211-75121-3
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-75121-3
Living in Worlds of Music: A View of Education and Values
Minette Mans
Springer, 2009, ISBN 978-90-481-2706-1
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2706-1
Metamagical Themas – The music of Frederic Chopin:
startling aural patterns that also startle the eye
Douglas R. Hofstadter
Pages 16-28
Scientific American, Volume 246, Issue 4 (April 1982)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican0482-16
The Visualization of Music: Symmetry and Asymmetry
Roberto Donnini
Pages 435-463
Computers & Mathematics with Applications,
Volume 12, Numbers 1-2, Part B (January-April 1986)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0898-1221(86)90164-1
Cambridge Introductions to Music: Electronic Music
Nick Collins, Margaret Schedel, and Scott Wilson
Cambridge University Press, 2013, ISBN 9780511820540
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511820540
Musical Sound: An Introduction to the Physics of Music
Michael J. Moravcsik
Springer, 2002, ISBN 978-1-4615-0577-8
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0577-8
The Physics and Psychophysics of Music: An Introduction,
Fourth Edition
Juan G. Roederer
Springer, 2008, ISBN 978-0-387-09474-8
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09474-8
The Physics of Music and Color
Leon Gunther
Springer, 2012, ISBN 978-1-4614-0557-3
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0557-3
Music Perception
Mari Riess Jones, Richard R. Fay, and Arthur N. Popper (Editors)
Springer, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4419-6114-3
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6114-3
Acoustics and the Performance of Music:
Manual for Acousticians, Audio Engineers, Musicians,
Architects and Musical Instrument Makers; Fifth Edition
Jurgen Meyer
Springer, 2009, ISBN 978-0-387-09517-2
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09517-2
Music: A Mathematical Offering
Dave Benson
Cambridge University Press, 2007, ISBN 9780511811722
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511811722
Mathematics and Music: A Diderot Mathematical Forum
Gerad Assayag, Hans Georg Feichtinger, and Jose Francisco Rodrigues
(Editors)
Springer, 2002, ISBN 978-3-662-04927-3
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04927-3
Towards a Categorical Theory of Creativity for Music,
Discourse, and Cognition
Moreno Andreatta, Andree Ehresmann,
Rene Guitart, and Guerino Mazzola
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39357-0_2
Mathematics and Computation in Music: 4th International
Conference, MCM 2013
Jason Yust, Jonathan Wild, and John Ashley Burgoyne (Editors)
Springer, 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-39357-0
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39357-0
Algorithmic Composition: Paradigms of Automated Music Generation
Gerhard Nierhaus
Springer, 2009, ISBN 978-3-211-75540-2
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-75540-2
Patterns of Intuition:
Musical Creativity in the Light of Algorithmic Composition
Gerhard Nierhaus (Editor)
Springer, 2015, ISBN 978-94-017-9561-6
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9561-6
Mathematical and Computational Modeling of Tonality:
Theory and Applications
Elaine Chew
Springer, 2014, ISBN 978-1-4614-9475-1
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9475-1
The Languages of Western Tonality
Eytan Agmon
Springer, 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-39587-1
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39587-1
Harmony: A Psychoacoustical Approach
Richard Parncutt
Springer, 1989, ISBN 978-3-642-74831-8
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74831-8
Nonliearities and Synchronization in Musical Acoustics and
Music Psychology
Rolf Bader
Springer, 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-36098-5
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36098-5
Guide to Computing for Expressive Music Performance
Alexis Kirke and Eduartdo R. Miranda (Editors)
Springer, 2013, ISBN 978-1-4471-4123-5
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4123-5
From Sounds to Music and Emotions:
9th International Symposium, CMMR 2012
Mitsuko Aramaki, Mathieu Barthet, Richard Kronland-Martinet,
and Sølvi Ystad (Editors)
Springer, 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-41248-6
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41248-6
Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design:
Second International Conference, EvoMUSART 2013
Penousal Machado, James McDermott, and Adrian Carballal (Editors)
Springer, 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-36955-1
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36955-1
Music Recommendation and Discovery:
The Long Tail, Long Fail, and Long Play in the Digital Music Space
Oscar Celma
Springer, 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-13287-2
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13287-2
Music-Inspired Harmony Search Algorithm
Zong Woo Geem (Editor)
Springer, 2009, ISBN 978-3-642-00185-7
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00185-7
Music, Mind, and Brain: The Neuropsychology of Music
Manfred Clynes (Editor)
Springer, 1982, ISBN 978-1-4684-8917-0
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8917-0
An Encyclopedia of Quotations About Music
Nat Shapiro (Editor)
Springer, 1977, ISBN 9781-4615-9627-1
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9627-1
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History of Western Music ================
Oxford History of Western Music
Richard Taruskin
http://www.oxfordwesternmusic.com/page/browsenavigat
ion
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Natural Sciences ========================
Roots of Modern Technology: An Elegant Survey of the
Basic Mathematical and Scientific Concepts
Siegfried Wendt
Springer, 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-12062-6
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12062-6
Iridescences: The Physical Colors of Insects
Serge Berthier
Springer, 2007, ISBN 978-0-387-34120-0
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b106784
The Colours of Infinity – The Beauty and Power of
Fractals
Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon (Editor)
Springer, 2011, ISBN 978-1-84996-486-9
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-486-9
Galileo Galilei: When the World Stood Still
Atle Naess
Springer, 2005, ISBN 978-3-540-27054-6
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b138551
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Nature ===============================
Bee-Inspired Protocol Engineering: From Nature to Networks
Muddassar Farooq
Springer, 2009, ISBN 978-3-540-85954-3
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85954-3
The Buzz about Bees: Biology of a Superorganism
Jurgen Tautz
Springer, 2009, ISBN 978-3-540-78729-7
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78729-7
Cephalopod Cognition
Anne-Sophie Darmaillacq, Ludovic Dickel, and Jennifer Mather
(Editors)
Cambridge University Press, 2014, ISBN 9781139058964
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139058964
Darwin, Tegetmeier and the bees
Sarah Davis
Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical
Sciences, Volume 35, Issue 1 (March 2004)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13698486/35/1
Evolving Animals: The Story of Our Kingdome
Wallace Arthur
Cambridge University Press, 2014, ISBN 9781107279117
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107279117
Giraffe: Biology, Behaviour and Conservation
Anne Innis Dagg
Cambridge University Press, 2014, ISBN 9781139542302
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139542302
An Introduction to Animal Behaviour, Sixth Edition
Aubrey Manning and Marian Stamp Dawkins
Cambridge University Press, 2012, ISBN 9781139030304
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139030304
Rare and Intimate Photos of a Gorilla Family in the Wild
Abigail Tucker
Smithsonian Magazine (November 2012)
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Rare-andIntimate-Photos-of-a-Gorilla-Family-in-the-Wild174962831.html?c=y&story=fullstory
Secrets of the Swift
Michelle Nijhula
Smithsonian Magazine (October 2012)
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/What-isNorth-Americas-Most-Mysterious-Bird-169812416.html
Tigers of the World:
The Science, Politics, and Conservation of Panthera tigris,
Second Edition
Ronald Tilson and Philip J. Nyhus (Editors)
Elsevier, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8155-1570-8
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780815515708
Trees: Their Natural History, Second Edition
Peter A. Thomas
Cambridge University Press, 2014, ISBN 9781139026567
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139026567
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The Two Cultures =======================
**** Pages missing ****
The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution
Charles Percy Snow
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0521457300
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1107394589
The One Culture
William H. Davenport
Elsevier, 1970, ISBN 978-0-08-016322-2
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780080163222
The Two Cultures: Shared Problems
Ernesto Carafoli, Gian Antonio Danieli, and Guiseppe O. Longo
(Editors)
Springer, 2009, ISBN 978-88-470-0869-4
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-0869-4
Fifty years on, CP Snow’s ‘Two Cultures’ are united in
desperation
Robert Whelan
The Telegraph (05 May 2009)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/5273453/Fifty-yearson-CP-Snows-Two-Cultures-are-united-in-desperation.html
The Three Cultures:
Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and the Humanities in the
21st Century
Jerome Kagan
Cambridge University Press, 2009, ISBN 9780511576638
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511576638
The Third Culture
Kevin Kelly
http://edge.org/conversation/the-third-kelly
The Emerging Third Culture
John Brockman
http://edge.org/conversation/the-emerging
The Expanding Third Culture
John Brockman
http://edge.org/conversation/the-expanding-third
Who’s Afraid of the Third Culture?
Gloria Origgi
http://edge.org/conversation/who-39s-afraid-of-the-3rdculture
The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution
John Brockman
**** Excerpted from the book ****
http://edge.org/conversation/toc
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Ideas, Opinions, and Surveys ==========
Extraterrestrial Altruism: Evolution and Ethics in the Cosmos
Douglas A. Vakoch (Editor)
Springer, 2014, ISBN 978-3-642-37750-1
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37750-1
E.T. Talk - How Will We Communicate with Intelligent Life on Other
Worlds?
Fernando J. Ballestros
Springer, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4419-6089-4
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6089-4
MARS: A Cosmic Stepping Stone – Uncovering Humanity’s Cosmic
Context
Kevin Nolan
Springer, 2008, ISBN 978-0-387-49981-9
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-49981-9
Lonely Minds in the Universe
Giancarlo Genta
Springer, 2007, ISBN 978-0-387-69039-1
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-69039-1
The Language of Design: Theory and Computation
Andy Dong
Springer, 2009, ISBN 978-1-84882-021-0
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-021-0
Analysis and Design of Advice
Ivan Jureta
Springer, 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-18059-0
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18059-0
Agreement Technologies
Sascha Ossowski (Editor)
Springer, 2013, ISBN 978-94-007-5583-3
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5583-3
Risk and Meaning: Adversaries in Art, Science and Philosophy
Nicolas Bouleau
Springer, 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-17647-0
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17647-0
Mysteries and Discoveries of Archaeoastronomy:
From Giza to Easter Island
Giulio Magli
Springer, 2009, ISBN 978-0-387-76566-2
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-76566-2
Adventures in the Bone Trade:
The Race to Discover Human Ancestors in Ethiopia’s Afar Depression
Jon Kalb
Springer, 2001, ISBN 978-0-387-21618-8
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b97349
Renewable Energy Cannot Sustain a Consumer Society
Ted Trainer
Springer, 2007, ISBN 978-1-4020-5549-2
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5549-2
Paradise Regained: The Regreening of Earth
Les Johnson, Gregory L. Matloff, and C. Bangs
Springer, 2010, ISBN 978-0-387-79986-5
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79986-5
What Computational Linguists Can Learn from Psychologists
(and Vice Versa)
Emiel Krahmer
Pages 285-294
Computational Linguistics, Volume 36, Issue 2 (June 2010)
http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/coli.2010.36.2.3620
1
Logic, DNA, and Poetry
Steve Talbott
The New Atlantis (Spring 2005)
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/logic-dna-and-poetry
**** Written in awkward English ****
There are 6 Million Tons of Brain Matter in the World, Why do We Use
it so Unwisely
Boris N. Zakhariev
Pages 335-348
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4968-2_40
The Future of Life and the Future of Our Civilization
Vladimir Burdyuzha (Editor)
Springer, 2006, ISBN 978-1-4020-4968-2
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4968-2
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Unreasonable Effectiveness ==============
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural
Sciences
Eugene Wigner
Communications in Pure and Applied Mathematics,
Volume 13, No 1 (February 1960)
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Wign
er.html
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics
R. W. Hamming
The American Mathematical Monthly,
Volume 87, Number 2 (February 1980) Pages 81-90
http://www.jstor.org/stable/2321982
The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in molecular biology
Arthur M. Lesk
The Mathematical Intelligencer,
Volume 22, Number 2 (June 2000) Pages 28-37
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF03025372
Comments on the unreasonable effectiveness of the biological and
especially medical sciences
K. M. Anderson, J. E. Harris
Pages 431-433
Medical Hypotheses, Volume 56, Issue 4 (April 2001)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1054/mehy.2000.1228
Aiming the “unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics” at ecological
theory
Pages 356-362
Lev R. Ginsburg, Christopher X.J. Jensen, Jeffrey V. Yule
Ecological Modelling, Volume 207, Issues 2-4 (10 October 2007)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2007.05.015
The unreasonable effectiveness of my self-experimentation
Seth Roberts
Pages 482-489
Medical Hypotheses, Volume 75, Issue 6 (December 2010)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mehy.2010.04.030
Chapter 8 Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics: A New Tour
Pages 163-189
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/0-306-46962-6_8
General Systems Theory: A Mathematical Approach
Yi Lin
Springer, 2002, ISBN 978-0-306-45944-3
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b116863
The unreasonable ineffectiveness of mathematics in economics
K. Vela Velupillai
Special Issue on Economics for the Future
Pages 849-872
Cambridge Journal of Economics, Volume 29, Issue 6 (November 2005)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cje/bei084
Solving Wigner’s Mystery: The Reasonable (Though Perhaps Limited)
Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural SciencesIvor GrattanGuinness
The Mathematical Intelligencer,
Volume 30, Number 3 (September 2008) Pages 7-17
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02985373
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data
Alon Halevy, Peter Norvig, and Fernando Pereira Pages 8-12
IEEE Intelligent Systems, Volume 24, Number 2 (March 2009)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MIS.2009.36
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Pre-Law ===============================
Ethics and Law: An introduction
W. Bradley Wendel
Cambridge University Press, 2014, ISBN 9781107337114
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107337114
Five Legal Revolutions Since the 17th Century:
An Analysis of a Global Legal History
Jean-Louis Halperin
Springer, 2014, ISBN 978-3-319-05888-7
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05888-7
A History of Western Public Law: Between Nation and State
Bruno Aguilera-Barchet
Springer, 2015, ISBN 978-3-319-11803-1
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11803-1
Litigating International Law Disputes: Weighing the Balance
Natalie Klein (Editor)
Cambridge University Press, 2014, ISBN 9781139062008
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139062008
Philosophy of Justice
Guttorm Floistad
Springer, 2015, ISBN 978-94-0179175-5
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9175-5
Roman Law and the Origins of the Civil Law Tradition
George Mousourakis
Springer, 2015, ISBN 978-3-319-12268-7
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12268-7
A Short History of Copyright: The Genie of Information
Benedict Atkinson and Brian Fitzgerald
Springer, 2014, ISBN 978-3-319-02075-4
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02075-4
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Pre-Med ==============================
Ethics in Medicine
Shabih H. Zaidi
Springer, 2014, ISBN 978-3-319-01044-1
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01044-1
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Additional Web Resources ===============
E-books
http://s-f-walker.org.uk/ebooks-index.html
Home Page of Stephen F. Walker
http://s-f-walker.org.uk/
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Odds & Ends ===========================
Atlas of Structural Geology
Soumyajit Mukherjee
Elsevier, 2015, ISBN 978-0-12-420152-1
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780124201521
General Systems Theory (Chapter 1)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118579435.ch1
Model-Based Systems Engineering:
Fundamentals and Methods
Patrice Micouin
Wiley, 2014, ISBN 9781118579435
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118579435
Systemic Yoyos: An Intuition and Playground for General
Systems Research (Chapter 3)
Yi Lin, Yi Dongyun, and Zaiwu Gong
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119036821.ch3
Contemporary Issues in Systems Science and Engineering
Mengchu Zhou, Han-Xiong Li, and Margot Weijhen (Editors)
Wiley, 2015, ISBN 9781119036821
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119036821
Systems Engineering Principles and Practice, Second Edition
Alexander Kossiakoff, William N. Sweet, Samuel J. Seymour,
and Steven M. Biemer
Wiley, 2011, ISBN 9781118001028
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118001028
A Theoretical Point of View of Reality, Perception,
and Language
Josue Antonio Mescolarde-Selva and
Josep-Lluis Uso-Domenech
Complexity,
Volume 20, Number 1 (September-October 2014)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cplx.21493
Myth, Language, and Complex Ideologies
Josue Antonio Mescolarde-Selva and
Josep-Lluis Uso-Domenech
Complexity,
Volume 20, Number 2 (November-December 2014)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cplx.21506
Nonconscious Social Information Processing
Pawel Lewicki
Elsevier, 1986, ISBN 978-0-12-446120-8
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780124461208
The Illusory Freedom: The intellectual origins and social
consequences of the sexual ‘revolution’
Graham Heath
Elsevier, 1978, ISBN 978-0-433-14010-8
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780433140108
Lost in the Freudian Forest or A Tragedy of Good Intentions
G. Singer and M. Wallace
Elsevier, 1977, ISBN 978-0-08-022241-7
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780080222417
Happiness in Marriage
Margaret Sanger
Elsevier, 1969, ISBN 978-0-08-018731-0
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780080187310
Ideal Marriage: Its Physiology and Technique
Th. H. van de Velde
Elsevier, 1926, ISBN 978-1-4831-6695-7
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9781483166957
Special Issue – 50 Years
Daedalus, Volume 134, Number 4 (Fall 2005)
http://www.jstor.org/stable/i20028008
A Half-Century in Space
The New Atlantis, Fall 2007
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/number-18-fall2007
Creativity Research Journal, Volume 1, Issue 1 (1988)
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hcrj20/1/1
Wendell Bell (special issue)
Futures, Volume 43, Issue 6 (August 2011)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00163287/43/6
The Fun Theory Sequence
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky,
Research Fellow – Singularity Institute for Artificial
Intelligence
http://lesswrong.com/lw/xy/the_fun_theory_sequence/
LessWrong Blog
http://lesswrong.com/about/
The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity by Carlo M. Cipolla
http://www.searchlores.org/realicra/basiclawsofhumanstupidit
y.htm
The Journal of Irreproducible Results
http://www.jir.com/favorites.html
The Small-World Problem
Stanley Milgram
Psychology Today, Volume 1, Number 1 (May 1967)
http://snap.stanford.edu/class/cs224wreadings/milgram67smallworld.pdf
Index of /class/cs224w-readings
http://snap.stanford.edu/class/cs224w-readings/
CS224W: Social and Information Network Analysis
http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224w/index.html
Stanford Network Analysis Project
http://snap.stanford.edu/
Humans & Automation Seminar
http://web.mit.edu/16.459/
Home Page of Steven Lehar
http://cns-alumni.bu.edu/~slehar/
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