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Elizabeth Sawin, "Multisolving: Creating Systems Change in a Fractured World" (Island Press, 2024)
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Oct 11, 2025 |
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157 Mangrum's Comical Computation (JP)
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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John Horn, "Inside the Competitor's Mindset: How to Predict Their Next Move and Position Yourself for Success" (MIT Press, 2023)
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May 31, 2025 |
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Rebecca Charbonneau, "Mixed Signals: Alien Communication Across the Iron Curtain" (Polity, 2024)
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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Pete Barbrook-Johnson and Alexandra S. Penn, "Systems Mapping: How to Build and Use Causal Models of Systems" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
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Jan 20, 2024 |
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Anthony Hodgson, "Ready for Anything: Designing Resilience for a Transforming World" (Triarchy Press, 2011)
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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A Better Way to Buy Books
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Frank Jacob, "Wallerstein 2.0: Thinking and Applying World-Systems Theory in the 21st Century" (Transcript Publishing, 2022)
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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The Science of Science: A Discussion with Aaron Clauset
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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Robert Falconer, "The Others Within Us: Internal Family Systems, Porous Mind, and Spirit Possession" (Great Mystery Press, 2023)
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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Pamela M. Lee, "Think Tank Aesthetics: Midcentury Modernism, the Cold War, and the Neoliberal Present" (MIT Press, 2020)
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May 16, 2023 |
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Control Through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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David LePoire, "Time Patterns in Big History: Cycles, Fractals, Waves, Transitions, and Singularities" (2020)
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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Bernard D. Geoghegan, "Code: From Information Theory to French Theory" (Duke UP, 2023)
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Feb 25, 2023 |
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Peter Jones and Kristel van Ael, "Design Journeys Through Complex Systems" (Bis Publishers, 2022)
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Jan 29, 2023 |
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Technocracy Now! Part 2: Exploring Technocracy through Cybernetics
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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Xiao Liu, "Information Fantasies: Precarious Mediation in Postsocialist China" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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Frank Uit de Weerd and Marita Fridjhon, "Systems Inspired Leadership" (CRR Global, 2021)
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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David Ehrlichman, "Impact Networks: Creating Connection, Sparking Collaboration, and Catalyzing Systemic Change" (Berrett-Koehler, 2021)
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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Carol Sanford, "Indirect Work: A Regenerative Change Theory for Businesses, Communities, Institutions and Humans" (Interoctave, 2022)
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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Mark Andrejevic, "Automated Media" (Routledge, 2019)
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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Adam Day, "States of Disorder, Ecosystems of Governance: Complexity Theory Applied to UN Statebuilding in the DRC and South Sudan" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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May 25, 2022 |
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Jessica M. Wilson, "Metaphysical Emergence" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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May 20, 2022 |
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Shannon M. Mussett, "Entropic Philosophy: Chaos, Breakdown, and Creation" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
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May 13, 2022 |
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Mark Neocleous, "The Politics of Immunity: Security and the Policing of Bodies" (Verso, 2022)
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May 12, 2022 |
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Lene Andersen, "Metamodernity: Meaning and Hope in a Complex World" (Nordic Bildung, 2019)
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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Florian Jaton, "The Constitution of Algorithms: Ground-Truthing, Programming, Formulating" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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Sean Kelly, "Becoming Gaia: On the Threshold of Planetary Initiation" (Integral Imprint, 2020)
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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Fritjof Capra, "Patterns of Connection: Essential Essays from Five Decades" (High Road Books, 2021)
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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Helga Nowotny, "In AI We Trust: Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms" (Polity, 2021)
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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Thomas Huckle and Tobias Neckel, "Bits and Bugs: A Scientific and Historical Review of Software Failures in Computational Science" (SIAM, 2019)
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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Jeremy Lent, "The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find our Place in the Universe" (New Society, 2021)
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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Gavin Van Horn et al., "Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, 5-Volume Set" (Center for Humans and Nature, 2021)
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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Josep M. Coll, "Buddhist and Taoist Systems Thinking: The Natural Path to Sustainable Transformation" (Routledge, 2021)
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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Bernard Scott, "Cybernetics for the Social Sciences" (Brill, 2021)
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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Paul Milgrom, "Discovering Prices: Auction Design in Markets with Complex Constraints" (Columbia UP, 2017)
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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Alvin E. Roth, "Who Gets What--and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design" (HMH, 2015)
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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Vanilla Beer and Allenna Leonard, "Stafford Beer the Father of Management Cybernetics" (2019)
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Sep 27, 2021 |
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Bruce Clarke, "Gaian Systems: Lynn Margulis, Neocybernetics, and the End of the Anthropocene" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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Magnus Ramage and Karen Shipp, "Systems Thinkers" (Springer, 2020)
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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Raghav Rajagopalan, "Immersive Systemic Knowing: Advancing Systems Thinking Beyond Rational Analysis" (Springer Nature, 2020)
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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James Ladyman and K. Wiesner, "What Is a Complex System?" (Yale UP, 2020)
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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Martin Reynolds and Sue Holwell, "Systems Approaches to Making Change: A Practical Guide" (Springer, 2020)
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Jul 27, 2021 |
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Warren Mansell, "The Interdisciplinary Handbook of Perceptual Control Theory" (Academic Press, 2020)
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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Tyson Yunkaporta, "Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World" (HarperOne, 2021)
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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Steve Dixon, "Cybernetic-Existentialism: Freedom, Systems, and Being-for-Others in Contemporary Arts and Performance" (Routledge, 2020)
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May 11, 2021 |
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Matthew O. Jackson, "The Human Network: How Your Social Position Determines Your Power, Beliefs, and Behaviors" (Vintage, 2019)
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Apr 19, 2021 |
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Jóse-Rodriguo Córdoba-Pachón, "Managing Creativity: A Systems Thinking Journey" (Routledge, 2018)
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Mar 22, 2021 |
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Ray Ison and Ed Straw, "The Hidden Power of Systems Thinking: Governance in a Climate Emergency" (Routledge, 2020)
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Feb 08, 2021 |
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Hilton L. Root, "Network Origins of the Global Economy: East vs. West in a Complex Systems Perspective" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Jan 18, 2021 |
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Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer, "Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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Nora Bateson. "Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing Through Other Patterns" (Triarchy Press, 2016)
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Dec 16, 2020 |
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Ray Ison, "Systems Practice: How to Act In Situations of Uncertainty and Complexity in a Climate-Change World" (Springer, 2017)
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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Anthony Hodgson, "Systems Thinking for a Turbulent World" (Part 2) (Routledge, 2020)
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Nov 04, 2020 |
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Anthony Hodgson, "Systems Thinking for a Turbulent World: A Search for New Perspectives" (Routledge, 2020)
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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T. Fischer and C.M. Herr, "Design Cybernetics: Navigating the New" (Springer, 2019)
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Aug 20, 2020 |
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Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
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Jun 02, 2020 |
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Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
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Apr 28, 2020 |
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Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
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Mar 30, 2020 |
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Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Feb 25, 2020 |
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K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
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Jan 30, 2020 |
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Safi Bahcall, "Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries" (St. Martins, 2019)
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Jan 21, 2020 |
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Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
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Dec 03, 2019 |
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Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
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Nov 03, 2019 |
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J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
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Oct 24, 2019 |
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Michael E. Kerr, "Bowen Theory’s Secrets: Revealing the Hidden Life of Families" (Norton, 2019)
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Jul 04, 2019 |
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Raul Espejo, "Cybernetics and Systems: Social and Business Decisions" (Routledge, 2019)
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May 10, 2019 |
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Pamela Buckle Henning, "A Guide to Systems Research: Philosophy, Processes, Practice" (Springer, 2017)
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Mar 20, 2019 |
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Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
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Mar 19, 2019 |
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Gary Metcalf, "Social Systems and Design" (Springer Verlag, 2014)
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Feb 04, 2019 |
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George E. Mobus and Michael C. Kalton, "Principles of Systems Science" (Springer Verlag, 2015)
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Jan 02, 2019 |
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McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century" (Verso, 2017)
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Dec 06, 2018 |
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Richard S. Marken, “Doing Research on Purpose: A Control Theory Approach to Experimental Psychology” (New View Publications, 2014)
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Nov 19, 2018 |
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Warren Mansell, “A Transdiagnostic Approach to CBT using Method of Levels Therapy: Distinctive Features” (Routledge, 2012)
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Oct 26, 2018 |
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Peter Harries-Jones, “Upside-Down Gods: Gregory Bateson’s World of Difference” (Fordham UP, 2016)
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Oct 04, 2018 |
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Byron Reese, “The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity” (Simon & Schuster, 2018)
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Oct 04, 2018 |
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Albert Müller, ed., “The Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name: Seven Days With Second-Order Cybernetics” (Fordham UP, 2014)
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Sep 05, 2018 |
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Rob Dekkers, “Applied Systems Theory” (Springer, 2017)
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Aug 01, 2018 |
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Chris Clearfield and András Tilcsik, “Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It” (Penguin, 2018)
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Jul 26, 2018 |
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David Peter Stroh, “Systems Thinking For Social Change” (Chelsea Green, 2015)
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Jul 20, 2018 |
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Kenneth Sayre, “Cybernetics and the Philosophy of Mind” (Routledge, 2015)
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Jun 21, 2018 |
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Eden Medina, “Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile” (MIT Press, 2011)
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Jun 01, 2018 |
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Richard S. Marken and Timothy A. Carey, “Controlling People” (Australian Academic Press, 2015)
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May 04, 2018 |
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Karl H. Muller et al., “New Horizons for Second-Order Cybernetics” (World Scientific, 2017)
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Apr 13, 2018 |
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Bruce Clarke, “Neocybernetics and Narrative” (University of Minnesota Press, 2014)
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Mar 22, 2018 |
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Anthimos Tsirigotis, “Cybernetics, Warfare, and Discourse” Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
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Mar 06, 2018 |
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Molly Wright Steenson, “Architectural Intelligence: How Designers and Architects Created the Digital Landscape” (MIT Press, 2017)
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Feb 27, 2018 |
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Dmitry Novikov, “Cybernetics: Past to Future” (Springer Verlag, 2016)
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Feb 15, 2018 |
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John Mingers, “Systems Thinking, Critical Realism and Philosophy: A Confluence of Ideas” (Routledge, 2014(
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Jan 22, 2018 |
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Liss C. Werner, “Cybernetics: State of the Art” (Tech Uni of Berlin Press, 2017)
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Jan 09, 2018 |
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Anthony Chaney, “Runaway: Gregory Bateson, the Double Bind, and the Rise of Ecological Consciousness” (UNC Press, 2017)
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Nov 01, 2017 |
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Brian Clegg, “Big Data: How the Information Revolution Is Transforming Our Lives” (Icon Books, 2017)
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Sep 19, 2017 |
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Gualtiero Piccinini, “Physical Computation: A Mechanistic Account” (Oxford UP, 2016)
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Jul 15, 2017 |
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Kees van Deemter, “Computational Models of Referring: A Study in Cognitive Science” (MIT Press, 2016)
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Jun 22, 2017 |
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David Danks, “Unifying the Mind: Cognitive Representations as Graphical Models” (MIT Press, 2014)
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May 15, 2017 |
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Tara H. Abraham, “Rebel Genius: Warren S. McCulloch’s Transdisciplinary Life in Science” (MIT Press, 2016)
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May 11, 2017 |
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Andy Clark, “Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and Embodied Mind” (Oxford UP, 2016)
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Dec 15, 2016 |
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Mary Chayko, “Superconnected: The Internet, Digital Media, and Techno-Social Life” (SAGE, 2016)
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Sep 13, 2016 |
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Ronald R. Kline, “The Cybernetics Moment: Or, Why We Call Our Age the Information Age” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2015)
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Jul 08, 2016 |
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Rebecca Lemov, “Database of Dreams: The Lost Quest to Catalog Humanity” (Yale University Press, 2015)
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Apr 27, 2016 |
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Jeffery Pomerantz, “Metadata” (MIT, 2015)
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Feb 22, 2016 |
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Eric T. Meyer and Ralph Schroeder, “Knowledge Machines: Digital Transformations of the Sciences and Humanities” (MIT Press, 2015)
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Nov 15, 2015 |
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Christopher Vitale, “Networkologies: A Philosophy of Networks for a Hyperconnected Age” (Zero Books, 2014)
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Aug 12, 2015 |
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Margaret Morrison, “Reconstructing Reality: Models, Mathematics, and Simulations” (Oxford UP, 2015)
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Jul 15, 2015 |
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Timothy Jordan, “Information Politics: Liberation and Exploitation in the Digital Society” (Pluto Press, 2015)
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May 05, 2015 |
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Christine L. Borgman, “Big Data, Little Data, No Data: Scholarship in the Networked World” (MIT Press, 2015)
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Apr 20, 2015 |
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Orit Halpern, “Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason since 1945” (Duke UP, 2014)
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Mar 09, 2015 |
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Frank Pasquale, “The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information” (Harvard UP, 2015)
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Dec 24, 2014 |
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Hugh F. Cline, “Information Communication Technology and Social Transformation” (Routledge, 2014)
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Oct 09, 2014 |
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Anne Jaap Jacobson, “Keeping the World in Mind” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
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Aug 15, 2014 |
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Marcin Milkowski, “Explaining the Computational Mind” (MIT Press, 2013)
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Jul 15, 2014 |
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Peter Gardenfors, “The Geometry of Meaning: Semantics Based on Conceptual Spaces” (MIT Press, 2014)
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Jun 09, 2014 |
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Vincent Mosco, “To the Cloud: Big Data in a Turbulent World” (Paradigm Publishers, 2014)
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May 29, 2014 |
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Michael Strevens, “Tychomancy: Inferring Probability from Causal Structure” (Harvard UP, 2013)
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Apr 15, 2014 |
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Hallam Stevens, “Life Out Of Sequence: A Data-Driven History of Bioinformatics” (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
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Jan 31, 2014 |
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Michael Weisberg, “Simulation and Similarity: Using Models to Understand the World” (Oxford UP, 2013)
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Jan 15, 2014 |
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Tadeusz Zawidzki, “Mindshaping: A New Framework for Understanding Human Social Cognition” (MIT Press, 2013)
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Oct 15, 2013 |
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Paul Thagard, “The Cognitive Science of Science: Explanation, Discovery, and Conceptual Change” (MIT Press, 2012)
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May 15, 2012 |
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Susan Schneider, “The Language of Thought: A New Philosophical Direction” (MIT Press, 2011)
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Aug 15, 2011 |