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Updated: 05 OCT 08

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Readings in Business, Science and Technology that made me think:

  1. Abrahamson, Eric and Freedman, David H. A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder - How Crammed Closets, Cluttered Offices and On-The-Fly Planning Make the World  A Better Place. Little, Brown and Company, 2007.
  2. Alexander, Christopher, Ishikawa, Sara and Silverstein, Murray. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction. Oxford University Press, 1977.
  3. Allen, Thomas J. Managing the Flow of Technology: Technology Transfer and the Dissemination of Technological Information within the R&D Organization. MIT Press, 1984.
  4. Beinhocker, Eric D. Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics. Harvard Business School Press, 2006.
  5. Brockman, John (ed.). Curious Minds : How a Child Becomes a Scientist. Pantheon, 2004.
  6. Brown, John Seely and Duguid, Paul. The Social Life of Information. Harvard Business School Press, 2002.
  7. Burke, James Lee. Connections. St. Martin's Press, 1980.
  8. Castells, Manuel. End of Millennium. Blackwell Publishers, 2000.
  9. Castells, Manuel. The Rise of the Network Society. Blackwell Publishers, 2000.
  10. Castells, Manuel. The Power of Identity: The Information Age - Economy, Society and Culture. Blackwell Publishers, 1997.
  11. Casti, John L. Would-Be Worlds: How Simulation Is Changing the Frontiers of Science. Wiley, John & Sons, Inc., 1998.
  12. Casti, John L. Reality Rules: Picturing the World in Mathematics - the Fundamentals, Vol. 1. Wiley, John & Sons, Inc., 1997.
  13. Casti, John L. Reality Rules: Picturing the World in Mathematics - the Frontier, Vol. 2. Wiley, John & Sons, Inc., 1997.
  14. Casti, John L.. Complexification: Explaining a Paradoxical World Through the Science of Surprise. HarperCollins Publishers, 1995.
  15. Casti, John L. Alternate Realities: Mathematical Models of Nature and Man. Wiley, John & Sons, Inc., 1991.
  16. Christensen, Clayton M. and Raynor, Michael E. The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth. Harvard Business School Press, 2003.
  17. Christensen, Clayton M. The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. Harvard Business School Press, 1997.
  18. Cialdini, Robert B. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion. Quill, 1993.
  19. Coburn, Pip. The Change Function: Why Some Technologies Take Off and Others Crash and Burn. Portfolio Hardcover, 2006.
  20. Cramer, Patrick (ed.). Friedrich Meckseper: Radierungen. 1956-1990. Patrick Cramer Publisher, 1990.
  21. Cross, Robert G. Revenue Management: Hard-Core Tactics for Market Domination. Broadway Books, 1998.
  22. Davis, Stan, and Meyer, Christopher. Blur: The Speed of Change in the Connected Economy. Little Brown & Company, 1999.
  23. Davis, Stan. Future Perfect. Perseus Publishing, 1997.
  24. Davis, Stan. The Monster Under the Bed: How Business Is Mastering the Opportunity of Knowledge for Profit. Touchstone Books, 1995.
  25. Davis, Stan. 2020 Vision. Fireside, 1992.
  26. Dehaene, Stanislas. The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics. Getty Center for Education in the Arts, 1999.
  27. Derman, Emanuel. My Life as a Quant : Reflections on Physics and Finance. Wiley, 2004.
  28. Ericsson,  K. Anders, Charness, Neil, Feltovich, Paul J., Hoffman, Robert R. (eds.). The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
  29. Evans, David S., Haqiu, Andrei and Schmalensee, Richard. Invisible Engines: How Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries. MIT Press, 2006.
  30. Feist, Gregory J.  The Psychology of Science and the Origins of the Scientific Mind. Yale University Press, 2006.
  31. Fonseca, Jose. Complexity & Innovation in Organizations. Routledge, 2001.
  32. Glimcher, Paul W. Decisions, Uncertainty, and the Brain. MIT Press, 2003.
  33. Griffin, Douglas. The Emergence of Leadership: Linking Self-organization and Ethics. Routledge, 2001.
  34. Handy, Charles. Myself and Other More Important Matters. AMACOM, 2008.
  35. Handy, Charles and Bennis, Warren G. The Age of Unreason. Harvard Business School Press, 1998.
  36. Handy, Charles. The Hungry Spirit. Broadway Books, 1998.
  37. Handy, Charles. Beyond Certainty. Harvard Business School Press, 1996.
  38. Handy, Charles. The Age of Paradox. Harvard Business School Press, 1994.
  39. Hawkins, Jeff and Blakeslee, Sandra. On Intelligence. Times Books, 2004.
  40. Heath, Chip and Heath, Dan. Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die. Random House, 2007.
  41. Institute for Information Design, Japan (ed.). Information Design Source Book: Recent Projects. Birkhäuser Basel, 2005.
  42. Jacobson, Robert. Information Design. MIT Press, 2000.
  43. Klein, Gary A. Intuition at Work: Why Developing Your Gut Instincts Will Make You Better at What You Do. Doubleday & Company, Inc., 2002.
  44. Klein, Gary A. Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions. MIT Press, 1999.
  45. Kouzes, James M. and Posner, Barry Z. The Leadership Challenge, 3rd ed. Jossey-Bass, 2002.
  46. Landauer, Thomas K. The Trouble with Computers: Usefulness, Usability, and Productivity. MIT Press, 1996.
  47. Levitt, Steven D. and Dubner, Stephen J. Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. William Morrow, 2005.
  48. Lewis, H.W. Technological Risk. W.W. Norton & Company, 1992.
  49. Livingstone, David N. Putting Science in its Place: Geographies of Scientific Knowledge. University of Chicago Press, 2003.
  50. Lloyd, Seth. Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes On the Cosmos. Knopf, 2006.
  51. Lowy, Alex and Hood, Phil. The Power of the 2 x 2 Matrix : Using 2x2 Thinking to Solve Business Problems and Make Better Decisions.  Jossey-Bass, 2004.
  52. Maccoby, Michael. The Leaders We Need: And What Makes Us Follow. Harvard Business School Press, 2007.
  53. Machlup, Fritz and Mansfield, U. (eds.). The Study of Information: Interdisciplinary Messages. John Wiley & Sons, 1984.
  54. Malone, Thomas W. The Future of Work. Harvard Business School Press, 2004.
  55. Mandelbrot, Benoit and Hudson, Richard L. The (Mis)behavior of Markets. Basic Books, 2004.
  56. Minsky, Marvin L. Society of Mind. Touchstone Books, 1988.
  57. Mithen, Steven. The Prehistory of the Mind: The Cognitive Origins of Art, Religion and Science. Thames & Hudson, 1999.
  58. Nisbett, Richard E. The Geography of Thought. The Free Press, 2003.
  59. Norman, Donald A. Emotional Design: Why We Love (Or Hate) Everyday Things. Basic Books, 2004.
  60. Norman, Donald A. Invisible Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is so Complex, and Information Appliances Are the Solution. MIT Press, 1999
  61. Norman, Donald A. Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine. Perseus Publishing, 1994.
  62. Norman, Donald A. Turn Signals Are the Facial Expressions of Automobiles: Notes of a Technology Watcher. Perseus Publishing, 1993.
  63. Norman, Donald A. The Design of Everyday Things. Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1990.
  64. Nunberg, Geoffrey (ed.). The Future of the Book. University of California Press, 1996.
  65. Pfeffer, Jeffrey and Sutton, Robert I. Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths And Total Nonsense: Profiting From Evidence-Based Management. Harvard Business School Press, 2006.
  66. Pfeffer, Jeffrey and Sutton, Robert I. The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action. Harvard Business School Press, 2000.
  67. Reeves, Byron and Nass, Clifford. The Media Equation : How People Treat Computers, Television, and New Media like Real People and Places. C S L I Publications, 1996.
  68. Rhodes, Neil and Sawday, Jonathan. The Renaissance Computer: Knowledge Technology in the First Age of Print. Routledge, 2000.
  69. Ries, Al and Trout, Jack. The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk. HarperBusiness, 1994.
  70. Rose, Mike. The Mind at Work. Viking, 2004.
  71. Rosenthal, Edward C. The Era of Choice : The Ability to Choose and Its Transformation of Contemporary Life. MIT Press, 2005.
  72. Scott, Eugenie C., et.al. The Morphology of Steve. Annals of Improbable Research. July-August 2004, 24.
  73. Shane, Scott. Dismantling Utopia: How Information Ended the Soviet Union. Ivan R Dee, Inc., 1995.
  74. Shaw, Patricia. Changing Conversations in Organizations: A Complexity Approach to Change. Routledge, 2002.
  75. Sheffi, Yossi. The Resilient Enterprise : Overcoming Vulnerability for Competitive Advantage. MIT Press, 2005.
  76. Sowa, John F. Conceptual Structures: Information Processing in Mind and Machine. Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1984.
  77. Sornette, Didier. Why Stock Markets Crash. Princeton University Press, 2003.
  78. Stacey, Ralph D., Griffin, Douglas, and Shaw, Patricia. Complexity and Management : Fad or Radical Challenge?. Routledge, 2000.
  79. Sternberg, Robert J., and Davidson, Janet E. (eds.). The Nature of Insight. MIT Press, 1996.
  80. Streatfield, Philip J. The Paradox of Control in Organizations. Routledge, 2001.
  81. Taleb, Nassim Nicholas. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. Random House, 2007.
  82. Tenner, Edward. Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences. Random House,  Inc., 1997.
  83. Toffler, Alvin. Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth, and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century. Bantam Books, 1991.
  84. Tufte, Edward R. Beautiful Evidence, Graphics Press, 2006.
  85. Tufte, Edward R. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Graphics Press, 2001.
  86. Tufte, Edward R. Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative. Graphics Press, 1997.
  87. Tufte, Edward R. Envisioning Information. Graphics Press, 1990.
  88. Turchin, Peter. Historical Dynamics: Why States Rise and Fall. Princeton University Press, 2003.
  89. Wilson, David Sloan. Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives. Delacorte Press, 2007.
  90. Wright, Alex. Glut: Mastering Information Through The Ages. Joseph Henry Press , 2007.
  91. Wurman, Richard Saul. Information Anxiety 2. Pearson Education, 2000.
  92. Wurman, Richard Saul. Information Architects. Watson-Guptill Publications, 1997.
  93. Wurman, Richard Saul. Information Anxiety: What to Do when Information Doesn't Tell You What You Need to Know. Bantam Books, Inc., 1990.
  94. Zuboff, Shoshana. In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power. Basic Books, 1989.