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Influential Books

The following list of books have influenced the development of ideas at Cognitive Edge.  Presence on the list is not necessarily endorsement of the ideas contained in each volume!  The links will take you through to Amazon.com.

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Small ImageA General Theory of Love
By: Lewis, Amini & Lannon
Small ImageA Narrative Approach to Organization Studies
By: Barbara Czarniawska
Small ImageA Social Ontology by David Weissman
By: David Weissman
Small ImageA Theology of Liberation
By: Gustavo Gutierrez
Small ImageAesthetics and Material Beauty: Aesthetics Naturalized
By: Jennifer A. Mcmahon
Small ImageAt Home in the Universe
By: Stuart Kauffman
Small ImageBeginning Now
By: John D Davies
Small ImageBeing There: Putting Brain, Body, and the World Together Again by Andy Clark
By: Andy Clark
Small ImageBrain and Culture
By: Wexler & Bruce
Small ImageClausewitz: A Very Short Introduction
By: Michael Howard
Small ImageCognition in the Wild
By: E Hutchins
Small ImageCoherence in Thought and Action
By: P Thagard
Small ImageCollected Poems: 1945-1990 R.S.Thomas
By: R S Thomas
Small ImageComplex Knowledge: Studies in Organizational Epistemology
By: Haridimos Tsoukas
Small ImageComplex Responsive Processes in Organizations by Ralph Stacey
By: Ralph Stacey
Small ImageComplexity and Postmodernism by Paul Cilliers
By: Paul Cilliers
Small ImageCrossing The Chasm
By: Geoffrey A Moore
Small ImageCultural Anthropology: A Contemporary Perspective
By: Keesing & Strathern
Small ImageDynamics in Action by Alicia Juarrero
By: Alicia Juarrero
Small ImageEmergence by Steven Johnson
By: Steven Johnson
Small ImageEmergent Information Technologies and Enabling Policies for Counter-Terrorism by Robert L. Popp (Editor), John Yen (Editor)
By: Robert L. Popp (Editor), John Yen (Editor)
Small ImageExplorations in Information Space: Knowledge, Agents, and Organization
By: Boisot, Macmillan & Kyeong Seok Han
Small ImageFear of Knowledge: Against Relativism and Constructivism
By: Paul Boghossian
Small ImageHarnessing Complexity by Robert Axelrod, Michael D Cohen
By: Robert Axelrod, Michael D Cohen
Small ImageHoly Terror
By: Terry Eagleton
Small ImageHomo Narrans: the Poetics and Anthropology of Oral Literature
By: John D Niles
Small ImageHow Brains Make Up Their Minds
By: Walter J Freeman
Small ImageIgnore Everybody
By: Hugh Macleod
Small ImageImagination and the Meaningful Brain
By: A H Modell
Small ImageIntensive Science and Virtual Philosophy
By: Manuel Delanda
Small ImageKnowledge and Mind: A Philosophical Introduction
By: A Brook
Small ImageKnowledge Assets by Max H. Boisot
By: Max H. Boisot
Small ImageLetters from a Stoic
By: Seneca
Small ImageLongitude
By: Dava Sobel
Small ImageManaging Knowledge: Perspectives on Cooperation and Competition
By: Johan Roos
Small ImageManaging without Leadership: Towards a Theory of Organizational Functioning by Gabriele Lakomski
By: Gabriele Lakomski
Small ImageNatural Ethical Facts: Evolution, Connectionism and Moral Cognition
By: W D Casebeer
Small ImageNaturalizing Epistemology
By: H Kornblith
Small ImageNeither Brain Nor Ghost: A Nondualist Alternative to the Mind-Brain Identity Theory
By: W T Rockwell
Small ImageOxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology
By: Louise Barrett
Small ImagePhilosophy and the Adventure of the Virtual
By: Keith Ansell-Pearson
Small ImagePurity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo
By: Mary Douglas
Small ImageQualitative Complexity: Ecology, Cognitive Processes and the Re-emergence of Structures in Post-humanist Social Theory
By: Smith & Jenks
Small ImageSelf Consciousness: An Alternative Anthropology of Identity
By: Anthony Cohen
Small ImageSense-making Methodology Reader: Selected Writings of Brenda Dervin
By: Brenda Dervin
Small ImageSensemaking in Organizations
By: Karl E. Weick
Small ImageSmall Groups as Complex Systems: Formation, Coordination, Development, and Adaptation
By: Arrow, Mcgrath & Berdahl
Small ImageSocieties of Brains: Neuroscience of Love and Hate
By: Walter J Freeman
Small ImageSources of Power: How People Make Decisions
By: Gary Klein
Small ImageSpirit in the World
By: Karl Rahner
Small ImageStory by Robert McKee
By: Robert McKee
Small ImageStorytelling in Organizations: Facts, Fictions, and Fantasies
By: Yiannis Gabriel
Small ImageStreetlights and Shadows: Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making
By: Gary Klein
Small ImageThe Character of Harms: Operational Challenges in Control
By: Malcolm K. Sparrow
Small ImageThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
By: Mark Haddon
Small ImageThe Emergence of Leadership: Linking Self-organization and Ethics
By: Douglas Griffin
Small ImageThe Exploits of the Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin by Idries Shah
By: Idries Shah
Small ImageThe Heart of Judgment: Practical Wisdom, Neuroscience, and Narrative
By: Leslie Paul Thiele
Small ImageThe Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox: Mending the Gap Between Science and the Humanities
By: Stephen Jay Gould
Small ImageThe Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture
By: Mc Taylor
Small ImageThe Nature of Technology: What it is and How it Evolves
By: Arthur W. Brian
Small ImageThe Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics
By: Eric Beinhocker
Small ImageThe Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged
By: Edward Connery Lathem
Small ImageThe Spell of the Sensuous
By: David Abram
Small ImageThe Symbolic Species by Terrence W. Deacon
By: Terrence W. Deacon
Small ImageThe Tacit Dimension
By: M Polanyi
Small ImageThe Tao Encounters the West: Explorations in Comparative Philosophy
By: Li Chenyang
Small ImageThe War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age by Allucquère Rosanne Stone
By: Allucquère Rosanne Stone
Small ImageThe Way We Think
By: Fauconnier & Turner
Small ImageThe World of Goods
By: DouglaS & Isherwood
Small ImageThinking in Circles: An Essay on Ring Composition
By: Mary Douglas
Small ImageThree Critics of the Enlightenment: Vico, Hamann, Herder
By: Henry Hardy
Small ImageTruth and Predication
By: D Davidson
Small ImageTwo's Company, Three Is Complexity
By: Neil Johnson
Small ImageViroid Life by Keith Ansell Pearson
By: Keith Ansell Pearson
Small ImageWorking Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know
By: Thomas H. Davenport (Author), Laurence Prusak