Thursday, April 17, 2008

Kirby 1983 Reading List of Good Books
(I have marked fiction in red)

  1. The New Yorker Album of Drawings
  2. Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  3. Adams - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
  4. Adams - Effectiveness Training for Women
  5. Alinsky - Rules for Radicals
  6. Amado - Don Flores and Her Two Husbands
  7. Amato & Edwards - Affair
  8. Bach & Deutsch – Pairing
  9. Bach & Wyden - The Intimate Enemy
  10. Bailey - Fit or Fat
  11. Bain, Beatty, and Hunter - Poetry
  12. Bardwick - The Psychology of Women
  13. Barzun - Clio and the Doctors
  14. Barzun - The House of Intellect
  15. Barzun - Science: The Glorious Entertainment
  16. Barzun - Teacher in America
  17. Barzun - God's Country and Mine
  18. Bell - Men of Mathematics
  19. Bennett - How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
  20. Benson - The Relaxation Response
  21. Berne - Sex in Human Loving
  22. Berne - What Do You Say After You Say Hello?
  23. Berry - The Next 10,000 Years
  24. Berry, W_
  25. Blanshard - The Uses of a Liberal Education
  26. Bleich - Readings and Feelings
  27. Biyth - Akenfield
  28. Boeke - The Universe In 40 Steps
  29. Boorstin - The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
  30. Booth - The Knowledge Most Worth Having
  31. Bowles - What Color Is Your Parachute
  32. Box & Draper - Evolutionary Operation
  33. Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451
  34. Brown, Barbara - Stress and the Art of Biofeedback
  35. Butler - The Way of all Flesh
  36. Caine - Widow
  37. Capon - Exit 36
  38. Chase - Tyranny of Words
  39. Churchman - Challenge to Reason
  40. Cirino - Don't Blame the People
  41. Clark - The Life of Bertrand Russell
  42. Clark, K - Civilization
  43. Clarke - Childhood's End
  44. Clavell - Shogun
  45. Cohen - Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences
  46. Cole - The House of Bondage
  47. Collier - Fancies and Goodnights
  48. Collier - His Monkey Wife
  49. Comfort - The Joy of Sex
  50. Commoner - The Closing Circle
  51. Commoner - The Poverty of Power
  52. Conover - Practical Nonparametric Statistics
  53. Cooke - Six Men
  54. Cooper and Cooper - Aerobics for Women
  55. Cooper - The Aerobics Way
  56. Cooper - The New Aerobics
  57. Cornuelle - Demanaging America: The Final Revolution
  58. Cousins - The Anatomy of an Illness
  59. Curtis and Greenslet - The Practical Cogitator
  60. Dahl - Someone Like You
  61. Dahl - Kiss, Kiss
  62. De Vries - The Tents of Wickedness
  63. Dillon - Constructing Texts
  64. Dowling - The Cinderella Complex
  65. Dreyfus - What Computers Can't Do
  66. Durant - The Lessons of History
  67. Edwards - Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
  68. Elbow - Writing without Teachers
  69. Elbow - Writing with Power
  70. Ephron - Crazy Salad
  71. Evans - The Micro Millenium
  72. Feller - Intro to Probability Theory
  73. Feuerstein - Instrumental Enrichment
  74. Fisher & Ury - Getting to Yes
  75. Fitzgerald - Fire in the Lake
  76. Fitzgerald - Rewriting American History New Yorker 1, 3/79
  77. Fleiss - Statistical Methods for Rates and Proportions
  78. Fowles - Daniel Martin
  79. Fowles - The French Lieutenant's Woman
  80. Frankel - The Pleasures of Philosophy
  81. Friday - My Mother/My Self
  82. Friday - My Secret Garden
  83. Friedman & Rosenman - Type A Behavior and Your Heart
  84. Fuchs - Family Matters
  85. Gallwey - The Inner Game of Tennis
  86. Gambrill -Behavior Modification: Handbook of Assessment, Etc
  87. Garcia - The Conspiracy - Psych
  88. Gardner - On Moral Fiction
  89. Glasser - Positive Addiction
  90. Goldberg - The Hazards of being Male
  91. Golden - For 2¢ Plain
  92. Gordon - Teacher Effectiveness Training
  93. Gordon - Parent Effectiveness Training
  94. Gordon - Leader Effectiveness Training
  95. Graves - I, Claudius
  96. Gray - The Teacher's Survival Guide
  97. Greer - The Female Eunuch
  98. Griffin - Black Like Me
  99. Guitton - A Students Guide to Intellectual Work
  100. Gwaltney - Drylongso
  101. Halleck, S – The Politics of Therapy
  102. Halleck, S – Therapy is the Handmaiden of Status Quo – Psych Today
  103. Hamilton - Anti-Social Register
  104. Hanks & Belliston - Draw!
  105. Hanks & Belliston - Rapid Viz
  106. Hansen & Jensen - The Little Red Schoolbook
  107. Hare - Applications of Moral Philosophy
  108. Hare - Systems Analysis A Diagnostic Approach
  109. Hare - Freedom and Responsibility
  110. Hare - The Language of Morals
  111. Harris, R - Freedom Spent
  112. Harris, T - I'm OK - You're OK
  113. Hassler - Staggerford
  114. Hassler - Simon's Night
  115. Hassler - Jemmy
  116. Hassler - The Love Hunter
  117. Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter
  118. Hayakawa - Language in Thought and Action
  119. Hays - Statistics
  120. Henry, J - Culture Against Man
  121. Hentoff - Our Children are Dying
  122. Herndon - How to Survive in Your Native Land
  123. Herndon - The Way it Spozed to Be
  124. Hesse - Siddhartha
  125. Hoban - The Lion of Joachin-Boaz and Boaz-Joachin
  126. Hoffman, B - Tyranny of Testing
  127. Holt - How Children Learn
  128. Holt - What Do I Do Monday?
  129. Hopkins - The Numbers Game
  130. Household - Watcher in the Shadows
  131. Houts - The Myth of Measurability
  132. Huff - How to Lie with Statistics
  133. Hughes - High Wind in Jamaica
  134. Hughes - The Shock of the New
  135. Hunt & Hunt - Prime Time
  136. Hutchins - The Great Books-Vol
  137. Ivey - The Nonscience of Teaching-Science Teacher March 68
  138. Jacobson - Nutrition Scoreboard
  139. James, H - The American
  140. James, W - Talks to Teachers
  141. Jastrow - The Enchanted Loom
  142. Jeffery - The Logic of Decision
  143. Johnson and Stolberg - Conditioning
  144. Johnson, V - I'll Quit Tomorrow
  145. Jourard - The Transparent Self
  146. Kaufmann - The Future of the Humanities
  147. Kemeny et al - Intro to Finite Math
  148. Kemeny and Snell - Finite Markov Chains
  149. Kemeny and Snell - Math Models in the Social Sciences
  150. Kerr - The Decline of Pleasure
  151. Kipling - Just So Stories
  152. Kirby - Grading, Testing and Instructional Format
  153. Kirkham - Signal Zero
  154. Klein S & Danzig - How to Be Heard
  155. Kline, M - Why Johnny Can't Read
  156. Koestler - The Ghost in the Machine
  157. Koestler - The Roots of Coincidence
  158. Kohl - 36 Children
  159. Kozol - Free Schools
  160. Kubler-Ross - On Death and Dying
  161. Lakein - How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life
  162. Lance - Getting Strong
  163. Lance - Running for Health and Beauty
  164. Lane - Let the Hurricane Roar
  165. Lanham - Style: An Anti-Textbook
  166. Lappe'- Food First
  167. Lawson - The Fabulous Flight
  168. Levine - The Rights of Students
  169. Lewis, C S - Miracles
  170. Lewis, C S - Christian Reflections
  171. Lewis, C S - An Experiment in Literary Criticism
  172. Lewis, C S - The Abolition of Man
  173. Lewis, C S - The Four Loves
  174. Lewis, C S - Mere Christianity
  175. Lewis, C S - The Screwtape Letters
  176. Lewis, C S - That Hideous Strength
  177. Lewis, C S - Studies in Words
  178. Lewis, C S - The Discarded Image
  179. Lewis, S - Main Street
  180. Liebman - Peace of Mind
  181. Linder - The Harried Leisure Class
  182. Lindgren - Elements of Decision Theory
  183. Loomis - Fun With a Pencil
  184. Loomis - Successful Drawing
  185. Lucas - The Freedom of the Will
  186. Mackler, B - "Win" - Psychology Today, 1971
  187. Macrorie - Uptaught
  188. Mandino - The US in a Nutshell
  189. Masters & Johnson - The Pleasure Bond
  190. May - Love and Will
  191. May - The Courage to Create
  192. Mayer - The Male Mid-Life Crisis
  193. McGee, V - Principles of Statistics
  194. McGinley - Saint-Watching
  195. McGinley - Sixpence in Her Shoe
  196. McGrady - The Kitchen Sink Papers
  197. Mead - How to Get to the Future Before it Gets to You
  198. Mehrens & Ebel - Principles of Ed & Psych Measurement
  199. Melly & Glaves-Smith - A Child of Six Could Do It
  200. Mendenhall Et al - Elementary Survey Sampling
  201. Mercer - The Lethal Label- Psych Today 9-72
  202. Moody - Life After Life
  203. Morehouse & Gross - Total Fitness
  204. Morgan - The Total Woman
  205. Mosteller & Rooke - Sturdy Statistics
  206. Muggeridge - Third Testament
  207. Murray & Karpovich - Weight Training for Athletics
  208. Neier et al - Whistle-Blowing
  209. Naisbitt - Megatrends
  210. Neier – Dossier
  211. Newman - World of Math (Vol 1-4)
  212. Ogilvy - Confessions of an Advertising Man
  213. Opie - The Classic Fairy Tales
  214. Ostrander & Schroeder - Superlearning
  215. Panatti - Breakthrough
  216. Papanek - Design for the Real World
  217. Parmenter - The Awakened Eye
  218. Passmore - The Perfectibility of Man
  219. Paton - Too Late the Phalarope
  220. Pelletier - Mind as Healer, Mind as Slayer
  221. Perkinson - The Possibilities of Error
  222. Peters, R S - Ethics and Education
  223. Phillips - Your God is Too Small
  224. Phillips - Ring of Truth
  225. Phillips - How to Fall Out of Love
  226. Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
  227. Polanyi - The Logic of Liberty
  228. Popham & Baker - Systematic Instruction
  229. Postman & Weingartner - The School Book
  230. Postman & Weingartner - Teaching as a Subversive Activity
  231. Powell - Why Am I Afraid to Tell You Who I Am?
  232. Preston - The Great American Blow-Up
  233. Puzo - The Godfather
  234. Quine, WVO - The Ways of Paradox & Other Essays
  235. Raiffa - Decision Analysis
  236. Rand - Atlas Shrugged
  237. Raucher - The Summer of 42
  238. Reischauer - Toward the 21st Century: Education for a Changing World
  239. Renault - The King Must Die
  240. Roberts - Discrete Mathematical Models
  241. Rodgers - Freaky Friday
  242. Rogers - Becoming Partners
  243. Rogers, C - Encounter Groups
  244. Rogers, C - Freedom to Learn
  245. Rogers, C - On Becoming A Person
  246. Rogers, C - Carl Rogers on Personal Power
  247. Rostand - Cyrano de Bergerac
  248. Rothman - The Angel Inside Went Sour
  249. Rubin - The Rights Of Teachers
  250. Russell - The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell
  251. Russell - The Conquest of Happiness
  252. Ryan (Ed.) - Don't Smile Until Christmas
  253. Salmon, Jeffreys, and Greeno - Stat Explanation and Stat Relevance
  254. Sanders - Classroom Questions-What Kinds
  255. Savage - Uncertainty and Behavior
  256. Schmitt - Measuring Uncertainty
  257. Schuiz & Rogers - Marriage, The Family & Personal Fulfillment
  258. Scriven - Primary Philosophy
  259. Scriven - The Values of the Academy - Review of Ed Research 40-4:10
  260. Selye - Stress without Distress
  261. Selzer - Mortal Lessons
  262. Servan - Schreiber-The American Challenge
  263. Sherman - It All Depends
  264. Short - The Gospel According to Peanuts
  265. Shulman - Rally Round the Flag, Boys
  266. Shulman - Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen
  267. Siegel, S - Nonparametric Statistics
  268. Sless - Learning and Visual Communication
  269. Slonim - Sampling
  270. Smith, Robert M - Teacher Diagnosis of Educational Difficulties
  271. Smith - Gorky Park
  272. Spencer - The Light in the Piazza
  273. Starvianos - The Promise of the Coming Dark Age
  274. Stevenson - Seven Theories of Human Nature
  275. Strunk and White - The Elements of Style
  276. Suzuki - Nurtured by Love
  277. Thoreau - Walden
  278. Toffler - Future Shock
  279. Townsend - Up the Organization
  280. Tukey - Exploratory Data Analysis
  281. Twain - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
  282. Tyler, L - Intelligence-Some Recurring Issues
  283. Tyler & Wolfe - Critical Issues
  284. USGPO - National Assessment Materials
  285. Vanden Broeck - Less is More: The Art of Voluntary Poverty
  286. Vickey and Fries - Take Care of Yourself
  287. Viscott - The Language of Feelings
  288. Von Lawick-Goodall - My Friends, the Wild Chimpanzees
  289. Von Lawick-Goodall - In the Shadow of Man
  290. Von Neuman - The Computer & the Brain
  291. Wallechinsky - The Book of Predictions
  292. Waltari - The Egyptian
  293. Walters - How to Talk to Practically Anybody About Practically Anything
  294. Warren - All the Kings Men
  295. Watson - The Racial Gap -Psych Today 9-72
  296. Watson - The Double Helix
  297. Wattenburg - The Real America
  298. Waugh - The Loved One
  299. Webb et al - Unobstrusive Measures
  300. Wees - Nobody Can Teach Anyone Anything
  301. Weiss - The Making of Men
  302. Weizenbaum - Computer Power and Human Reason
  303. Weldon - Praxis
  304. Weldon - Puffball
  305. Wellman - The Female
  306. White, E B - Charlotte's Web
  307. White, E B - One Man's Meat
  308. White, E B - The Second Tree From the Corner
  309. White, T H - The Once and Future King
  310. Whitla (Ed.) - Handbook of Measurement & Assessment in Behavioral Science
  311. Wiener, N - God & Golem, Inc
  312. Wiener, N - The Human Use of Human Beings
  313. Wilson - A Teacher is A Person
  314. Wolfe - From Bauhaus to Our House
  315. Zinsser - On Writing Well

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

help for finding books

One of the best ways to find a good book to read is through personal recommendation. My favorite thing is a good piece of either fiction or non-fiction that is very good but not the latest thing. Something that is maybe 2 or 3 years old, old enough to be past the buzz and hot advertising stage, that is sitting on a library shelf just waiting for a reader to find it. There are some web spots that can help. Here are a couple I know about. Please add what you know about in a comment.

Bill

http://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/search
http://www.goodreads.com/

I recently found an Australian magazine "Good Reading" that is available in print and online. They also have a good website:
http://www.goodreadingmagazine.com.au/

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