Summer Reading Lists
Summer is right around the corner. Each summer, I put together a reading list. I actually get it from a close friend. And let them dictate my reading for three months. I found this one, from my friend Sky, from the summer of 2002. A transformative summer if there ever was one.
1. The Limits of Growth—Meadows et al
2. Diet for a Small Planet—Lappe
3. Silent Spring—Rachel Carson
4. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence—Pirsig
5. Zen and the Bird of Appetite—Thomas Merton
6. Mind and Nature—Bateson
7. Walden—Thoreau
8. Walden Two—BF Skinner
9. Deep Ecology—Bill Devall, George Sessions
10. The Tragedy of the Commons—Dennis L Soden
Summa Theologica—Thomas Aquinas
Confessions—Rousseau
The Whole Earth Catalog
The Selfish Gene—Richard Dawkins
The Monkey Wrench Gang—Edward Abbey
The Forest People—Coling Turnbull
Toynbees History—essentials of the cyclic nature of historical pattern
The Origin of Consciousness and the Breakdown of the BiCameral Mind—Julian Jaynes…about why tribal societies may have been very unlike what we think
The Territorial Imperitive—Richard J ARdney
News that Stayed News: 10 Years of Coevolutionary Theory—Stewart Brand
Arcosanti: AN Urban Laboratory—Paolo Soleri
A Theory of Good City Form—Kevin Lynch
Consciousness Explained—Daniel Clement Denett
The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of Cities–Richard Sennet
anonemoose said:
Dino,
You have some fun stuff on this list. I think CW should start a virtual book club.
moose
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