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The Intelligent Students Guide to Books and Articles on Humanities, Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary, and Unusual Topics
These links will take you to books and articles available for free online at http://library.poly.edu/ and other sites. This is still very much work-in-progress. See Notes on the Intelligent Students Guides for more information. This Guide was last updated on 02-12-12. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). This work is free for personal and classroom use; you may not use this work for commercial purposes. Your fair use and other rights are in no way affected by the above. Professor Joseph Vaisman Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of NYU jvaisman@poly.edu

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From a long list of authors: Select, read, and enjoy the works of Jane Austen, Honore de Balzac, Charles Baudelaire, Charlotte Bronte, Miguel de Cervantes, G. K. Chesterton, Joseph Conrad, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Theodore Dreiser, and much more. http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/meta/authors.html eBooks@Adelaide - Free books, online Library, University of Adelaide, Australia http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/ George Orwells Library Novels, Essays, Articles, Reviews, Poems, also Brave New World by Aldous Leonard Huxley and Songs of Innocence by William Blake http://orwell.ru/library/index_en George Orwell Works in English and Russian http://orwell.ru/ Poetry in Spanish - List of poets http://www.poesia-inter.net/index.htm Poesia in Espanol Spanish poetry

http://www.poesia-inter.net/ The first in a (Honor Harrington universe) series of terrific science fiction books On Basilisk Station David Weber http://www.baenebooks.com/10.1125/Baen/0743435710/0743435710.htm?blurb The first in a (Ring of Fire universe) series of terrific science fiction books 1632 Eric Flint http://www.baenebooks.com/10.1125/Baen/0671578499/0671578499.htm?blurb 1633 David Weber and Eric Flint http://www.baenebooks.com/10.1125/Baen/0743435427/0743435427.htm?blurb An early book in a (Miles Vorkosigan) series of terrific science fiction books Warriors Apprentice Lois McMaster Bujold http://www.baenebooks.com/10.1125/Baen/067172066X/067172066X.htm?blurb Baen Free library - Books http://baen.com/library/books.asp Baen Publishing http://baen.com/default.asp

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================== Multidisciplinary books and articles ===================

M.C. Eschers Legacy A Centennial Celebration Doris Schattschneider and Michele Emmer (Editors) Springer, 2003, ISBn 978-3-540-20100-7 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-3-540-20100-7/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-540-20100-7/contents/ Truth in Science, the Humanities, and Religion Balzan Symposium 2008 M.E.H. Nicolette Mout and Werner Stauffacher (Editors) Springer, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4020-9895-6 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-1-4020-9895-6/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-1-4020-9895-6/contents/ The Second Law of Economics Energy, Entropy, and the Origin of Wealth Reiner Kummel Springer, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4419-9364-9

http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-1-4419-9364-9/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-1-4419-9364-9/contents/ The Innermost Kernel Depth Psychology and Quantum Physics. Wolfgang Paulis Dialogue with C. G. Jung Suzanne Giezer Springer, 2005, ISBN 978-3-540-20856-3 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-3-540-20856-3/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-540-20856-3/contents/ Recasting Reality Wolfgang Paulis Philosophical Ideas and Contemporary science Harald Atmanspacher and Hans Primas (Editors) Springer, 2009, ISBN 978-3-540-85197-4 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-3-540-85197-4/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-540-85197-4/contents/ Neuromarketing Exploring the Brain of the Consumer Leon Zurawicki Springer, 2010, ISBN 978-3-540-77828-8 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-3-540-77828-8/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-540-77828-8/contents/ Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality James M. Nelson Springer, 2009, ISBN 978-0-387-87572-9 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-0-387-87572-9/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-0-387-87572-9/contents/ The Illustrated History of Natural Disasters Jan Kozak and Vladimir Cermak Springer, 2010, ISBN 978-90-481-3324-6 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-90-481-3324-6/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-90-481-3324-6/contents/ The Architect, the Cook and Good Taste Petra Hagen Hodgson and Rolf Toyka (Editors) Springer, 2007, ISBN 978-3-7643-7621-5 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-3-7643-7621-5/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-7643-7621-5/contents/ The Quest for Food A Natural History of Eating Harald Brussow Springer, 2007, ISBN 978-0-387-30344-5 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-0-387-30334-5/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-0-387-30334-5/contents/ Basics of Geomatics

Mario A. Gomarasca Springer, 2009, ISBN 978-1-4020-9013-4 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-1-4020-9013-4/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-1-4020-9013-4/contents/

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On Art and Artists: An Anthology of Diderots Aesthetic Denis Diderot Jean Seznec (Editor), S.D. Glaus Translator) Springer, 2011, ISBN 978-94-007-0061-1 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-94-007-0061-1/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-94-007-0061-1/contents/ Metamagical Themas The music of Frederic Chopin: startling aural patterns that also startle the eye Douglas R. Hofstadter Scientific American, Volume 246, Issue 4 (April 1982) Pages 16-28 http://www.nature.com.databases.poly.edu/scientificamerican/journal/v246/n4/index.html http://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v246/n4/index.html Mysteries of the Rectangle - Essays on Painting Siri Hustvedt Springer, 2005, ISBN 978-1-56898-3 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-1-56898-518-3/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-1-56898-518-3/contents/ An architectural history of metaphors Barie Fez-Barrington AI & Society, Volume 26, Number 1 (February 2011) Pages 103-111 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/0951-5666/26/1/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/0951-5666/26/1/

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Roots of Modern Technology - An Elegant Survey of the Basic Mathematical and Scientific Concepts Siegfried Wendt

Springer, 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-12061-9 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-3-642-12061-9/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-642-12061-9/contents/ Mathematics: Queen and Servant of the Sciences Michael Atiyah Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Volume 137, Number 4 (December 1993) Pages 527-531 http://www.jstor.org.databases.poly.edu/stable/pdfplus/987071.pdf?acceptTC=true http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/987071.pdf?acceptTC=true& Mysteries of the Equilateral Triangle Brian J. McCartin http://www.m-hikari.com/mccartin-2.pdf HIKARI Ltd Publisher of International Scientific Journals and Books http://www.m-hikari.com/index.html Iridescences The Physical Colors of Insects Serge Berthier Springer, 2007, ISBN 978-0-387-3419-4 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-0-387-34119-4/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-0-387-34119-4/contents/ Figuring It Out - Entertaining Encounters with Everyday Math Nuno Grato Springer, 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-04832-6 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-3-642-04832-6/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-642-04832-6/contents/ Number Story from Counting to Cryptography Peter M. Higgins Springer, 2008, ISBN 978-1-84800-000-1 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-1-84800-000-1/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-1-84800-000-1/contents/ Dude, Can You Count? Stories, Challenges, and Adventures in Mathematics Christian Constanda Springer, 2009, ISBN 978-1-84882-538-3 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-1-84882-538-3/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-1-84882-538-3/contents/ The Colours of Infinity The Beauty and Power of Fractals Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon (Editor) Springer, 2011, ISBN 978-1-84996-485-2 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-1-84996-485-2/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-1-84996-485-2/contents/ A Treatise on Probability John Maynard Keynes **** You will need to download your own copy **** http://www.archive.org/details/treatiseonprobab007528mbp

Mathknow Mathematics, Applied Sciences and Real Life Michele Emmer and Alfio Quarteroni (Editors) Springer, 2009, ISBN 978-88-470-1121-2 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-88-470-1121-2/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-88-470-1121-2/contents/ A Passion for Planets Envisioning Other Worlds, From the Pleistocene to the Age of the Telescope William Sheehan Springer, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4419-5970-6 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-1-4419-5970-6/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-1-4419-5970-6/contents/ The Greatest Comets in History Broom Stars and Celestial Scimitars David A. J. Seargent Springer, 2009, ISBN 978-0-387-09512-7 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-0-387-09512-7/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-0-387-09512-7/contents/ Weird Astronomy Tales of Unusual, Bizarre, and Other Hard to Explain Observations David A. J. Seargent Springer, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4419-6423-6 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-1-4419-6423-6/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-1-4419-6423-6/contents/ Galileo Galilei When the World Stood Still Atle Naess Springer, 2005, ISBN 978-3-540-21961-3 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-3-540-21961-3/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-540-21961-3/contents/

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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online http://www.darwin-online.org.uk/ Darwin Correspondence Project http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/

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The Buzz about Bees Biology of a Superorganism

Jurgen Tautz Springer, 2009, ISBN 978-3-540-78727-3 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-3-540-78727-3/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-540-78727-3/contents/ Darwin, Tegetmeier and the bees Pages 65-92 Sarah Davis Studies in History and philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Volume 35, Issue 1 (March 2004) http://www.sciencedirect.com.databases.poly.edu/science/journal/13698486/35/1 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13698486/35/1 Bee-Inspired Protocol Engineering From Nature to Networks Muddassar Farooq Springer, 2009, ISBN 978-3-540-85953-6 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-3-540-85953-6/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-540-85953-6/contents/

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Homo Oeconomicus - The Economic Model of Behaviour and Its Applications in Economics and Other Social Sciences Gebhard Kirchgassner Springer, 2008, ISBN 978-0-387-72797-4 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-0-387-72797-4/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-0-387-72797-4/contents/ If Planning is Everything, Maybe its Nothing Pages 127-153 Aaron Wildavsky Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning Pages 155-169 Horst W. J. Rittel and Melvin M. Webber Policy Sciences, Volume 4, Number 2 (June 1973) http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/0032-2687/4/2/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/0032-2687/4/2/ Science, technology and innovation in a 21st century context Pages 209-213 John H. Marburger III Policy Sciences, Volume 44, Number 3 (September 2011) http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/0032-2687/44/3/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/0032-2687/44/3/ Human dignity in concept and practice Pages 303-319 David J. Mattson and Susan G. Clark Policy Sciences, Volume 44, Number 4 (November 2011) http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/0032-2687/44/4/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/0032-2687/44/4/ Progress in Know-How Its Origins and Limits Pages 101-117

Daniel Sarewitz and Richard R. Nelson Innovations, Volume 3, Number 1 (Winter 2008) http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/itgg.2008.3.1.101 Uneven Rates of Progress in Science, Technology and Know-How http://sites.google.com/site/spruworkshop/ Special Issue: The Empirical and the Formal Tensions in Scientific Knowledge Centaurus An International Journal of the History of Science and Its Cultural Aspects, Volume 50, Issue 3 (August 2008) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.databases.poly.edu/doi/10.1111/cnt.2008.50.issue-3/issuetoc http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cnt.2008.50.issue-3/issuetoc

Towards a Social Ethics of Technology: A Research Prospect Richard Devon Techne: Research in Philosophy and Technology, Volume 8 (Fall 2004) http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/SPT/v8n1/devon.html Converging Technologies and Human Destiny Pages 197-216 William Sims Bainbridge Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Volume 32, Number 3 (2007) http://jmp.oxfordjournals.org.databases.poly.edu/content/32/3.toc http://jmp.oxfordjournals.org/content/32/3.toc Systems Theory and the Ethics of Human Enhancement A Framework for NBIC Convergence Pages 124-149 George Khushf The Coevolution of Human Potential and Converging Technologies Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1013 (May 2004) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.databases.poly.edu/doi/10.1111/nyas.2004.1013.issue-1/issuetoc http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nyas.2004.1013.issue-1/issuetoc Theoretical Principles of Sociology, Volume 1 Macrodynamics Jonathan H. Turner Springer, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4419-6227-0 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-1-4419-6227-0/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-1-4419-6227-0/contents/ Theoretical Principles of Sociology, Volume 2 Microdynamics Jonathan H. Turner Springer, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4419-6224-9 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-1-4419-6224-9/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-1-4419-6224-9/contents/ Special Issue on John Kitsuse, Interpretive Sociology and Pragmatism The American Sociologist, Volume 40, Numbers 1-2 (May 2009) http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/0003-1232/40/1-2/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/0003-1232/40/1-2/ The Evolution of Culture and Sociology Brad Lowell Stone The American Sociologist, Volume 39, Number 1 (March 200) Pages 68-85

http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/0003-1232/39/1/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/0003-1232/39/1/ Special Issue on Conceptual Change Theory Cultural Studies of Science Education, Volume 3, Number 2 (July 2008) http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/1871-1502/3/2/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/1871-1502/3/2/ Neurosociology The Nexus Between Neuroscience and Social Psychology David D. Franks Springer, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4419-5530-2 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-1-4419-5530-2/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-1-4419-5530-2/contents/

Expressive Order Confirming Sentiments in Social Action David R. Heise Springer, 2007, ISBN 978-0-387-38177-0 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-0-387-38177-0/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-0-387-38177-0/contents/ History of Psychology in Autobiography Leendert p. Mos (Editor) Springer, 2009, ISBN 978-0-387-88500-1 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-0-387-88500-1/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-0-387-88500-1/contents/ A New Unified Theory of Psychology Gregg Henriques Springer, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4614-0057-8 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-1-4614-0057-8/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-1-4614-0057-8/contents/ The Psychology of Humor An Integrative Approach Rod Martin Elsevier, 2006, ISBN 978-0-12-372564-6 http://www.sciencedirect.com.databases.poly.edu/science/book/9780123725646 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780123725646 One Professors Attempt to Explain Every Joke Ever Joel Warner Wired, May 2011 http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/04/ff_humorcode/all/1 Benign Violations: Making Immoral Behavior Funny Pages 1141-1149 A. Peter McGraw and Caleb Warren Psychological Science, Volume 21, Number 8 (August 2010) http://pss.sagepub.com.databases.poly.edu/content/21/8/1141.full.pdf+html Creativity Theories and Themes: Research, Development, and Practice Mark Runco

Elsevier, 2006, ISBN 978-0-12-602400-5 http://www.sciencedirect.com.databases.poly.edu/science/book/9780126024005 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780126024005 A theory of human motivation Pages 370-396 A. H. Maslow Psychological Review, Volume 50, Issue 4 (July 1943) http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/rev/50/4/ Justification and the Psychology of Human Reasoning Stephen P. Sitch and Richard E. Nisbett Philosophy of Science, Volume 47, Number 2 (June 1980) Pages 188-202 http://www.jstor.org.databases.poly.edu/stable/pdfplus/187083.pdf?acceptTC=true http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/187083.pdf?acceptTC=true

Authorship and Publication Practices in the Social Sciences: Historical Reflections on Current Practices Muriel J. Bebeau and Verna Monson Science and Engineering Ethics, Volume 17, Number 2 (June 2011) Pages 365-388 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/1353-3452/17/2/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/1353-3452/17/2/ Special Issue: Responsible Data Management Science and Engineering Ethics, Volume 16, Number 4 (December 2010) http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/1353-3452/16/4/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/1353-3452/16/4/ Special issue: Wendell Bell Futures, Volume 43, Issue 6 (August 2011) http://www.sciencedirect.com.databases.poly.edu/science/journal/00163287/43/6 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00163287/43/6 Systems Theory: Irredeemably Holistic and Antithetical to Planning? Poe Yu-ze wan Critical Sociology, Volume 37, Issue 3 (May 2011) http://crs.sagepub.com.databases.poly.edu/content/37/3.toc http://crs.sagepub.com/content/37/3.toc Human Evolution and Human History: A Complete History Paul M. Bingham Evolutionary Anthropology 9(6), 248-257 (2000) http://www.stonybrook.edu/biochem/bingham/pubs.html Pages 351-374

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**** Pages missing **** The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution Charles Percy Snow http://books.google.com/books?id=OyHm4sc6IPoC&pg=PA73&lpg=PA73&dq=the+two+cultures+of+mathematics &source=bl&ots=CGCozRu7A3&sig=d2g6AUDFWCpMnPFOHDQBB7g6DE&hl=en&ei=jd5GTqm4LcLX0QGbuYSmCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&res num=10&ved=0CFgQ6AEwCTgK#v=onepage&q=the%20two%20cultures%20of%20mathematics&f=false The Two Cultures: Shared Problems Ernesto Carafoli, Gian Antonio Danieli, and Guiseppe O. Longo (Editors) Springer, 2009, ISBN 978-88-470-0868-7 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-88-470-0868-7/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-88-470-0868-7/contents/ Fifty years on, CP Snows Two Cultures are united in desperation Robert Whelan The Telegraph, 05 May 2009 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/5273453/Fifty-years-on-CP-Snows-Two-Cultures-are-united-indesperation.html Chapter 1 Rooted in the Absence of Place The Odyssey of Loren Eiseley Pages 1-18 David Lavery Education, Arts, and Morality Creative Journeys Doris B. Wallace (Editor) Springer, 2005, ISBN 978-0-306-48670-8 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-0-306-48670-8/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-0-306-48670-8/contents/

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Atoms of Mind The Ghost in the Machine Materializes W.R. Klemm Springer, 2011, ISBN 978-94-007-1096-2 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-94-007-1096-2/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-94-007-1096-2/contents/ Evolutionary Theory and the Creation Controversy Olivier Rieppel Springer, 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-14895-8 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-3-642-14895-8/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-642-14895-8/contents/

The Future of Life and the Future of Our Civilization Vladimir Burdyuzha (Editor) Springer, 2006, ISBN http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-1-4020-4967-5/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-1-4020-4967-5/contents/ J. B. S. Haldane, Ernst Mayr and the Beanbag Genetics Dispute Veena Rao and Vidyanand Nanjundiah Journal of the History of Biology, Volume 44, Number 2 (May 2011) Pages 233-281 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/0022-5010/44/2/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/0022-5010/44/2/ Botany Illustrated - Introduction to Plants, Major Groups, Flowering Plants Families Second Edition Janice Glimm-Lacy and Peter B. Kaufman Springer, 2006, ISBN 978-0-387-28870-3 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-0-387-28870-3/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-0-387-28870-3/contents/ Chemicals for Life and Living Eichiro Ochiai Springer, 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-20272-8 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-3-642-20272-8/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-642-20272-8/contents/ Meaningful Information The Bridge Between Biology, Brain, and Behavior Anthony Reading Springer, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4614-0157-5 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-1-4614-0157-5/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-1-4614-0157-5/contents/

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================= Thoughts, Ideas, Opinions, and Blogs ===================

Lonely Minds in the Universe Giancarlo Genta Springer, 2007, ISBN 978-0-387-33925-2 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-0-387-33925-2/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-0-387-33925-2/contents/ E.T. Talk - How Will We Communicate with Intelligent Life on Other Worlds? Fernando J. Ballestros Springer, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4419-6088-7 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-1-4419-6088-7/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-1-4419-6088-7/contents/

MARS: A Cosmic Stepping Stone Uncovering Humanitys Cosmic Context Kevin Nolan Springer, 2008, ISBN 978-0-387-34164-4 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-0-387-34164-4/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-0-387-34164-4/contents/ The Language of Design - Theory and Computation Andy Dong Springer, 2009, ISBN 978-1-84882-020-3 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-1-84882-020-3/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-1-84882-020-3/contents/ Analysis and Design of Advice Ivan Jureta Springer, 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-18058-3 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-3-642-18058-3/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-642-18058-3/contents/

Risk and Meaning - Adversaries in Art, Science and Philosophy Nicolas Bouleau Springer, 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-17646-3 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-3-642-17646-3/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-642-17646-3/contents/ Mysteries and Discoveries of Archaeoastronomy - From Giza to Easter Island Giulio Magli Springer, 2009, ISBN 978-0-387-76564-8 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-0-387-76564-8/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-0-387-76564-8/contents/ Adventures in the Bone Trade - The Race to Discover Human Ancestors in Ethiopias Afar Depression Jon Kalb Springer, 2001, ISBN 978-0-387-98742-2 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-0-387-98742-2/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-0-387-98742-2/ Renewable Energy Cannot Sustain a Consumer Society Ted Trainer Springer, 2007, ISBN 978-1-4020-5548-5 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-1-4020-5548-5/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-1-4020-5548-5/contents/ Quantitative Eco-nomics How sustainable are our economies? Peter Bartelemus Springer, 2008, ISBN 978-1-4020-6965-9 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-1-4020-6965-9/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-1-4020-6965-9/contents/ Paradise Regained The Regreening of Earth

Les Johnson, Gregory L. Matloff, and C. Bangs Springer, 2010, ISBN 978-0-387-79985-8 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-0-387-79985-8/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-0-387-79985-8/contents/ What Computational Linguists Can Learn from Psychologists (and Vice Versa) Emiel Krahmer Computational Linguistics, Volume 36, Issue 2 (June 2010) Pages 285-294 http://delivery.acm.org.databases.poly.edu/10.1145/1960000/1950364/coli.2010.36.2.36201.pdf?ip=128.238.33. 43&CFID=33455972&CFTOKEN=51549122&__acm__=1311187884_c1bb12bea7a98d3c92aaeb1a2136633f 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 Pages 335-348 Boris N. Zakhariev The Future of Life and the Future of Our Civilization Vladimir Burdyuzha (Editor) Springer, 2006, ISBN http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-1-4020-4967-5/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-1-4020-4967-5/contents/

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======== Information Technology, Networking, and Computer Science ========

The Seductive Computer Why IT Systems Always Fail Derek Partridge Springer, 2011, ISBN 978-1-84996-497-5 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-1-84996-497-5/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-1-84996-497-5/contents/ On the Way to the Web The Secret History of the Internet and Its Founders Michael A. Banks Springer, 2008, ISBN 978-1-4302-0869-3 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-1-4302-0869-3/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-1-4302-0869-3/contents/ International Handbook of Internet Research Jeremy Hansinger, Lisbeth Klastrup, and Matthew Allen (Editors) Springer, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4020-9788-1 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-1-4020-9788-1/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-1-4020-9788-1/contents/

Digital Decision Making Back to the Future Ray Corrigan Springer, 2007, ISBN 978-1-84628-8 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-1-84628-672-8/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-1-84628-672-8/contents/ The Primacy of Paradox Pages 79-110 John Boardman IT Revolutions First International ICST Conference 2008, Revised Selected Papers Mihaela Ulieru, Peter Palensky, and Rene Doursat (Editors) Springer, 2009, ISBN 978-3-642-03977-5 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-3-642-03977-5/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-642-03977-5/contents/ Pro Data Backup and Recovery Steven Nelson Apress, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4302-2662-8 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-1-4302-2662-8/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-1-4302-2662-8/contents/ Dot-Dash to Dot.Com - How Modern Telecommunications Evolved from the Telegraph to the Internet Andrew Wheen Springer, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4419-6579-6 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-1-4419-6759-6/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-1-4419-6759-6/contents/

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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/Wigner.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.databases.poly.edu/stable/pdfplus/2321982.pdf?acceptTC=true http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/2321982.pdf?acceptTC=true The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in molecular biology Arthur M. Lesk The Mathematical Intelligencer, Volume 22, Number 2 (June 2000) Pages 28-37 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/61m32316t25183x0/fulltext.pdf http://www.springerlink.com/content/61m32316t25183x0/fulltext.pdf Comments on the unreasonable effectiveness of the biological and especially medical sciences

K. M. Anderson, J. E. Harris Medical Hypotheses, Volume 56, Issue 4 (April 2001) Pages 431-433 http://www.sciencedirect.com.databases.poly.edu/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B6WN2-456JRB7-5C1&_cdi=6950&_user=8604396&_pii=S0306987700912283&_origin=search&_zone=rslt_list_item&_coverDate=04 %2F30%2F2001&_sk=999439995&wchp=dGLzVlbzSkWW&md5=c6f89bf88a59fd77d19ebb91ab95b5e8&ie=/sdarticle.pdf Aiming the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics at ecological theory Lev R. Ginsburg, Christopher X.J. Jensen, Jeffrey V. Yule Ecological Modelling, Volume 207, Issues 2-4 (10 October 2007) Pages 356-362 http://www.sciencedirect.com.databases.poly.edu/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B6VBS-4P7FD2J-13&_cdi=5934&_user=8604396&_pii=S0304380007002876&_origin=search&_zone=rslt_list_item&_coverDate=10 %2F10%2F2007&_sk=997929997&wchp=dGLzVlbzSkWW&md5=136d0d954a1639460e634c913ac8c55a&ie=/sdarticle.pdf Progress in marine ecosystem modelling and the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics Thomas R. Anderson Journal of Marine Systems, Volume 81, Issues 1-2 (April 2010) Pages 4-11 http://www.sciencedirect.com.databases.poly.edu/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B6VF5-4Y1NV2M-65&_cdi=6001&_user=8604396&_pii=S0924796309003534&_origin=search&_zone=rslt_list_item&_coverDate=04 %2F30%2F2010&_sk=999189998&wchp=dGLzVlbzSkWW&md5=1858c623945baefdaf95c0d4c87daad8&ie=/sdarticle.pdf

The unreasonable effectiveness of my self-experimentation Seth Roberts Medical Hypotheses, Volume 75, Issue 6 (December 2010) Pages 482-489 http://www.sciencedirect.com.databases.poly.edu/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B6WN2-504TYC0-15&_cdi=6950&_user=8604396&_pii=S0306987710002045&_origin=search&_zone=rslt_list_item&_coverDate=12 %2F31%2F2010&_sk=999249993&wchp=dGLzVlbzSkWW&md5=833d02983bdc5bdb767185ff6f6b1acc&ie=/sdarticle.pdf Chapter 8 Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics: A New Tour Pages 163-189 General Systems Theory A Mathematical Approach Yi Lin Springer, 2002, ISBN 978-0-306-45944-3 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/978-0-306-45944-3/contents/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-0-306-45944-3/contents/ The unreasonable ineffectiveness of mathematics in economics Pages 849-872 K. Vela Velupillai Special Issue on Economics for the Future Cambridge Journal of Economics, Volume 29, Issue 6 (November 2005) http://cje.oxfordjournals.org.databases.poly.edu/content/29/6.toc http://cje.oxfordjournals.org/content/29/6.toc Solving Wigners Mystery: The Reasonable (Though Perhaps Limited) Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences Ivor Grattan-Guinness The Mathematical Intelligencer, Volume 30, Number 3 (September 2008) Pages 7-17 http://www.springerlink.com.databases.poly.edu/content/0343-6993/30/3/

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=================== Notable Magazine Issues ==========================

Special Issue 50 Years Daedalus, Volume 134, Number 4 (Fall 2005) http://www.jstor.org.databases.poly.edu/stable/i20028008 http://www.jstor.org/stable/i20028008 A Half-Century in Space The New Atlantis, Fall 2007 http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/number-18-fall-2007 Creativity Research Journal, Volume 1, Issue 1 (1988) http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hcrj20/1/1 Special issue: Wendell Bell Futures, Volume 43, Issue 6 (August 2011) http://www.sciencedirect.com.databases.poly.edu/science/journal/00163287/43/6 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00163287/43/6

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============================ Fun Stuff ==============================

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/basiclawsofhumanstupidity.htm The Journal of Irreproducible Results http://www.jir.com/favorites.html

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======================== Reference Works ============================

Encyclopedia of Creativity (Second Edition) Mark A. Runco and Steven R. Pritzker (Editors-in-Chief) Elsevier, 2011, ISBN 978-0-12-375038-9 http://www.sciencedirect.com.databases.poly.edu/science/referenceworks/9780123750389 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/referenceworks/9780123750389

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