Where does influence and inspiration come from? Often unlikely sources. Here we review books that have influenced Harmeny's R&D efforts and our management practice. As always, our style is "to put Humpty Dumpty Together Again" and to look to common themes and connections across different books.

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Ecology Meets Economics

Review of Ecology the Ascendent Perspective, The Nature of Economies, Nature's Economy, Economics and Evolution and The Laws of the Web Patterns in the Ecology of Information.

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2nd Review: Network/Complexity Books. Fractals --> Chaos --> Complexity --> Are We there Yet???? Reviews of the large spate of popularizations: 80's: Chaos. 90's: Complexity 00's:

3rd Review: Three Wise Men: Ram Charan, Drucker, Collins -- Mgmt as a social science -- Mgmt as a branch of philosophy put into action.

4th Review: Life Itself --

5th Review: A Pierce for all Seasons.

6th Review: ABC of Poetry, XYZ's of Science

What Feynman and Pound had in common in their approaches. Use Feynman's quote of "not being a scientific age" till their are poems of science.

7th Review: Sustaining Sustainability. -- Sustainability books from various perspectives.

8th Review (may be earlier): The Human in the Computer. Reviews Knuth, Graham, Gabrielson, Torvalds, Berners Lee, Stallman's personal memoirs and light it sheds on their computer work.

9th Review: Drucker -- Management Past, Present and Future. Reviews Practice of Management, Essential Executive, 21st century; and Drucker on NonProfits^?. Focus on his philosophical outlook, and focus on the nature of organizations (business, social, religious, nonprofit).

Tenth Review. The Children of EDA. Looks at 10 books that carried Exploratory Data Analysis in different directions.

11th Review: Visualization.

Tufte. and Scientific Visualization books of Felice Frankel.

12th Review. The Dismal Science. Review of 3 books representing the social/organizational, the physics/mathematical and the psyhchological approaches to economics.

Lucky 13th Review: Pythonic 13. The 13 best Python Books, including:. Intro. (Visual Quickstart) Intermediate/Advanced(Dive Into Python). Specialist(Python Scripting for Computational Science; Text Processing in Python), CompSci^?(Zelle's book).

MB note: Look into using amazon web services tied to TWiki.

-- MishtuBanerjee - 15 Apr 2005
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