books

Jeff Prideaux (JPRIDEAUX@GEMS.VCU.EDU)
Thu, 20 Jul 1995 08:30:34 -0400


Here are a few books for the PCP book index.

** Barlow, C. (1991) From Gaia to Selfish Genes,
(The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts)
** Bateson, G. (1979) Mind and Nature, a Necessary Unity,
(Bantam Books, Toronto)
** Capra, F. (1982) The Turning Point, (Bantam Books, Toronto)
** Capra, F. (1991) The Tao of Physics, (Shambhala Publications, Boston)
** Gleick, J. (1987) Chaos, making of a new science (Penguin Books, New York)
**** Hofstadter, D. (1979) Godel, Escher, Bach, (Vintage Books, New York)
** Levy, S. (1992) Artificial Life, (Pantheon Books, New York)
*** Lovelock, J. (1989) GAIA, A new look at life on earth,
(Oxford University press, Oxford)
**** Penrose, R. (1994) Shadows of the mind, (Oxford University press, Oxford)
*** Persig, R. (1979) Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance,
(Bantam Books, Toronto)
** Rifkin, J. (1981) Entropy, (Bantam Books, Toronto)
**** Rosen, R. (1991) Life Itself, (Columbia University Press, New York)
*** Waldrop, M. (1992) Complexity (Touchstone Books, New York)

Rating system
**** must read
*** highly recommended
** consider

Jeff Prideaux