There is no particular order to these. Meander through and pick ones that strike your fancy!
Please Help Support My Work
You can buy books directly from the links provided. In addition, you can visit this fine bookseller’s site to buy any of your books and related items. You can click on the links provided, bookmark the sites from these links, and do all of your book shopping from there (without ever using Amazon!). Proceeds help to support this and my other sites.
Better World Books (based in the US, but distribute globally) – They make considerable donations to libraries and literacy projects.
Be aware that book availability changes. I have provided links, below, where the distributors have had particular books listed. If you can’t find a book, please add it to your “wish list.”
A Selection of Papers
- Peter Gray (2019 “The Decline of Play“
- David Hawkins (1965) “Messing About in Science“
- Eve Ottenberg (2018) “US Corporations Are Micromanaging Curricula to Miseducate Students”
A Selection of Books
- New & Recommended
- Of General Interest – Education
- Teaching & Learning
- The Batesons – Books by Nora, Mary Catherine, Gregory, & William
- Patterns & Metapatterns
- Complex Systems & Complex Systems Thinking
- For Insightful Exploration Across Contexts
New & Recommended
Bateson, Nora
Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing Through Other Patterns
Purchase here:
• Better World Books
Return to the Table of Contents
Of General Interest – Education
Postman, Neil, & Weingartner, Charles
Teaching as a Subversive Activity
Purchase here:
• Better World Books
Loewen, James W.
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Purchase here:
• Better World Books
Marshall, J. Dan, Sears, James T., Anderson Allen, Louise, Roberts, Patrick A., & Schubert, William H.
Turning Points in Curriculum: A Contemporary American Memoir
Purchase here:
• Better World Books
Kozol, Jonathan
Savage Inequalities: Children In American Schools
Purchase here:
• Better World Books
Freire, Paulo
Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage
Purchase here:
• Better World Books
Gatto, John Taylor
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
Purchase here:
• Better World Books
Goodman, Paul
Compulsory Mis-education and The Community of Scholars
Purchase here:
• Better World Books
Gruwell, Erin & 150 Teenagers
The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them
Purchase here:
• Better World Books (DVD)
Louv, Richard
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
Purchase here:
• Better World Books
Bloom, Jeffrey W.
Creating a Classroom Community of Young Scientists (2nd ed.)
Purchase here:
• Better World Books
Bloom, Jeffrey W.
Creating a Classroom Community of Young Scientists: A Desktop Companion (1st ed.)
Purchase here:
• Better World Books
Cagliari, P., Castagnetti, M., Giudici, C., Rinaldi, C., Vecchi, V., & Moss, P. (eds.)
Loris Malaguzzi and the schools of Reggio Emilia: A selection of his writings and speeches, 1945-1993
Purchase here:
• Better World Books
Fraser, Susan
Authentic Childhood: Experiencing Reggio Emilia in the Classroom
Purchase here:
• Better World Books
Cowhey, Mary
Black Ants and Buddhists: Thinking Critically and Teaching Differently in the Primary Grades
Purchase here:
• Better World Books
Wien, Carol Anne
Emergent Curriculum in the Primary Classroom: Interpreting the Reggio Emilia Approach in Schools
Purchase here:
• Better World Books •
Return to the Table of Contents
The Batesons
Bateson, Nora
Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing Through Other Patterns
Purchase here:
• Better World Books
Bateson, Gregory (Rodney Donaldson, ed.)
Sacred Unity: Further Steps to an Ecology of Mind
Purchase here:
• Better World Books
Bateson, Gregory
Naven: The Culture of the Iatmul People of New Guinea as Revealed Through a Study of the “Naven” Ceremonial
Purchase here:
• Better World Books
Bateson, Gregory
Perceval’s Narrative: A Patient’s Account of his Psychosis, 1830-1832
Purchase here:
• Better World Books
Bateson, Gregory & Bateson, Mary Catherine
Angels Fear: Towards an Epistemology of the Sacred
Purchase here:
• Better World Books
Ruesch, Jurgen & Bateson, Gregory
Communication: The Social Matrix of Psychiatry
Purchase here:
• Better World Books
Bateson, William & Mendel, Gregor
Mendel’s Principles of Heredity
Purchase here:
• Better World Books
Bateson, William
Materials for the Study of Variation: Treated With Especial Regard to Discontinuity in the Origin of Species
Purchase here:
• Better World Books
Bateson, Beatrice
William Bateson, Naturalist: His Essays and Addresses Together with a Short Account of his Life
Purchase here:
• Better World Books
Bateson, William
The Methods and Scope of Genetics: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered 23 October 1908
Purchase here:
• Better World Books
Bateson, William & Saunders, Edith Rebecca
Experiments Undertaken by W. Bateson and E. R. Saunders (1902)
Purchase here:
• Better World Books
Bateson, Mary Catherine
Peripheral Visions: Learning Along the Way
Purchase here:
• Better World Books
Bateson, Mary Catherine
Willing to Learn: Passages of Personal Discovery
Purchase here:
• Better World Books
Bateson, Mary Catherine
Our Own Metaphor: A Personal Account of a Conference on the Effects of Conscious Purpose on Human Adaptation
Purchase here:
• Better World Books
Bateson, Mary Catherine
Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom
Purchase here:
• Better World Books
Bateson, Patrick
Plasticity, Robustness, Development and Evolution
Purchase here:
• Better World Books
Return to the Table of Contents
Patterns & Metapatterns
Ball, Philip
Branches: Nature’s Patterns – A Tapestry in Three Parts
Purchase here:
• Better World Books
Ball, Philip
Shapes: Nature’s Patterns – A Tapestry in Three Parts
Purchase here:
• Better World Books
Barabási, A.-L.
Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do
Purchase here:
• Better World Books
Bejan, Adrian & Zane, J. Peder
Design in Nature: How the Construct Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organization
Purchase here:
• Better World Books
Carroll, Sean B.
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Dev
Purchase here:
• Better World Books
Forsythe, Adrian
The Architecture of Animals: The Equinox Guide to Wildlife Structures
Purchase here:
• Better World Books
Gould, Stephen Jay
Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time
Purchase here:
• Better World Books
Kappraff, Jay
Connections: The Geometric Bridge Between Art and Science
Purchase here:
• Better World Books
Thompson, D’Arcy W.
On Growth and Form: The Complete Revised Edition
Purchase here:
• Better World Books
Return to the Table of Contents
Complex Systems & Complex Systems Thinking
Harries-Jones, Peter
A Recursive Vision: Ecological Understanding and Gregory Bateson
Purchase here:
• Better World Books
Wilder, Carol & Weakland, John H.
Rigor & Imagination: Essays From the Legacy of Gregory Bateson
Purchase here:
• Better World Books
Return to the Table of Contents
For Insightful Exploration Across Contexts
Weyler, Rex
Greenpeace: How a Group of Journalists, Ecologists and Visionaries Changed the World
Purchase here:
• Better World Books
Giorno, John
Subduing Demons in America: Selected Poems, 1962-2007
Purchase here:
• Better World Books
Buhner, Stephen Harrod
Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm: Beyond the Doors of Perception into the Dreaming of Earth
Purchase here:
• Better World Books
Wohlleben, Peter
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate
Purchase here:
• Better World Books
