Preparation for work that may affect the fate of humanity requires not
just technical studies, but a broad, general background in many fields, and
certain basic skills, to provide a social, philosophic, and historical
perspective.
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Basic skills
A Norman
Lewis, How to Read Better and Faster, New York: Crowell, 1958,
1990.
A Rudolf F.
Flesch, How to Write, Speak and Think More Effectively, New York:
Harper, 1960, 1994.
A Mortimer
J. Adler & Charles Van Doren, How to Read a Book, New York: Simon
& Schuster, 1972, 1997.
A William
Strunk & E.B. White, Elements of Style, New York: Macmillan, 1979,
1995.
A Joseph D.
Novak & D. Bob Gowin, Learning How to Learn, New York: Cambridge,
1984.
A Wayne A.
Wickelgren, How to Solve Problems, San Francisco: Freeman, 1974.
A David R.
Beasley, How to Use a Research Library, New York: Oxford, 1988.
A Jean Dane,
How to Use a Law Library, Sweet & Maxwell.
A Robert A.
Day, How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper, Phoenix: Oryx Press,
1988.
The Classics
Read most of the works in the set,
AGreat
Books of the Western World, in order. See document "How to Read the Great Books of the Western World",
which also has additional works by the same authors.
Philosophy and Religion
AThe
Comparative Study Bible, Grand Rapids: Zonderan, 1984.
A Willis
Barnstone, The Other Bible, New York: Harpercollins, 1984.
AAl-Qur'an (Koran), tr. Ahmed Ali,
Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 1984.
A Bertrand
Russell, A History of Western Philosophy, New York: Simon &
Schuster, 1945.
A E.D.
Klemke, R. Hollinger & A.D. Kline eds, Introductory Readings in the
Philosophy of Science, Buffalo: Prometheus, 1988.
A S.I.
Hayakawa, Language in Thought and Action, New York: Harcourt, Brace,
Jovanovich, 1978, 1991.
A A.J. Ayer,
Language, Truth and Logic, New York: Dover, 1952; Foundations of
Empirical Knowledge, New York: St. Martins, 1969.
A Otto Neurath (Ed.), Rudolf Carnap (Ed.), Charles F. W. Morris (Ed.),
International Encyclopedia of Unified Science, Chicago: U. Chicago Press, 1955.
A Paul
Tillich, The Courage to Be, New Haven: Yale U. Press, 1952.
A D.T.
Suzuki, Manual of Zen Buddhism, New York: Grove, 1960.
History, Biography and Futurics
AA Arnold
Toynbee, Study of History, Vol. 1-10 abr. D.C. Somervell, New York:
Oxford, 1947-57.
A Walter
Prescott Webb, The Great Frontier, Austin: U. Tex. Press, 1964.
A Carl
Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln, New York: Harcourt Brace, 1954, 1989.
Bertrand de Jouvenel, The Art of Conjecture, New York: Basic
Books, 1967.
Ecology and Arcology
A Paul &
Anne Ehrlich, The Population Explosion, New York: Simon & Schuster,
1990.
A Donella
Meadows et al., Limits to Growth, New York: Universe Press, 1972,
1977.
A Garrett De
Bell ed, The New Environmental Handbook, San Francisco: Friends of the
Earth, 1980.
A George
Dantzig & Thomas Saaty, Compact City, San Francisco: Freeman,
1973.
A Paolo
Soleri, Arcology: The City in the Image of Man, Cambridge: MIT Press,
1969.
A C.R.
Chapman & D. Morrison, Cosmic Catastrophes, New York: Plenum,
1989.
A E.O.
Wilson ed, Biodiversity, Washington, DC: Nat. Acad. Press, 1988.
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