Here you will find things to stimulate and heal your intellectual self.

This is a collection of books, interviews, and magazine articles. I have developed this list from my own readings over the years. It is in no particular order except that I have started to organize them with a Subject Heading list in mind.

Art Architecture Philosophy

“Visual Thinking” Author: Rudolf Arnheim, The University of California Press pub. 1969, ISBN 0520013786 https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520242265/visual-thinking

“The Mythic Image” Author: Joseph Campbell, M.J. Abadie assistant, Princeton University Press pub. 1974, ISBN 0691018391 pbk., https://archive.org/details/mythicimage00camp

“The Truth in Painting” Author: Jacques Derrida, Geoff Bennington and Ian McLeod translation, The University of Chicago Press pub. 1987, https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo27619982.html

“A Theory of Semiotics” Author: Umberto Eco, Indiana University Press, Bloomington pub. 1978, ISBN 0253202175 https://www.worldcat.org/title/theory-of-semiotics-first-midland-book-ed/oclc/435571514?loc=

Education Ethics

“The Power of Ethics” Author: Susan Liautaud, Simon & Schuster pub. 2021, ISBN13: 9781982132194 https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Power-of-Ethics/Susan-Liautaud/9781982132194

“The Tyranny of Merit” Author: Michael J. Sandel, Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, pub. 2020, ISBN: 9780374289980 https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374289980

“A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future” Author: Daniel H. Pink, Riverhead Books, New York pub. 2006, https://archive.org/details/wholenewmind00dani

“Trying to Reason With Critical Race Theory” The Best of Our Knowlege #1606, Bob Barrett, July 1, 2021, featuring Rosalind Fisher, Professor, University of West Florida, https://www.wamc.org/the-best-of-our-knowledge/2021-07-01/the-best-of-our-knowledge-1606-trying-to-reason-with-critical-race-theory

“Biotechnology and the Challenge of Property: Property Rights in Dead Bodies, Body Parts and Genetic Information”, Author: Remigius N. Nwabueze, Routledge, pub. 2016, ISBN 9781138271449, https://www.worldcat.org/title/982591199

Poetry Fiction Biography

“Wouldn’t Take Nothin for My Journey Now” Author: Maya Angelou, Random House, Toronto, Canada pub. 1993, ISBN 0394223632 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wouldn%27t_Take_Nothing_for_My_Journey_Now

“Against Forgetting: Twentieth Century Poetry of Witness”, Editor: Carolyn Forché, W. W. Norton & Company, New York pub. 1993, ISBN 0393033724 https://www.worldcat.org/title/against-forgetting-twentieth-century-poetry-of-witness/oclc/878670560?loc=

Mathematics Science

“A Brief History of Time” Author: Stephen Hawking, Bantam Books, New York pub. 1998, https://www.worldcat.org/title/brief-history-of-time/oclc/716545887?loc=

“The History of the Calculus and its Conceptual Development” Author: Carl B. Boyer, Dover, New York pub. 1949, ISBN 9780486605098 https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/1021413

“The Great Mental Models Volume 3” Author: Rhiannon Beaubien and Rosie Leizrowice, Farnam Street Media Inc., Ottawa, Canada pub. 2021, ISBN: 978-1-9994490-6-3 https://fs.blog/tgmm/

Technology

“Illusions of Security: Global Surveillance and Democracy in the Post 9/11 World” Author: Maureen Webb, City Lights Books, San Francisco, pub. 2007 https://archive.org/details/illusionsofsecur0000webb

“Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow” Author: Yuval Noah Harari, Harper Collins, pub. 2017, ISBN: 9780062464316 https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=Homo+Deus

“The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power” Author: Shoshana Zuboff, Public Affairs, New York pub. 2019, ISBN-13: 9781610395694 https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/shoshana-zuboff/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/9781610395694/

“Coding Democracy: How Hackers Are Disrupting Power, Surveillance and Authoritarianism” Author: Maureen Webb, MIT Press pub. 2020, ISBN: 9780262043557 https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/coding-democracy

“Digital Dogs” a media literacy series, Author: Amy Jussel, 2021, https://digitaldogsbook.com/

“Civil Rights to Cyber Rights: Broadband and Digital Equality in the Age of Obama” Author: Jabari Simama, Community Technology Publications pub. 2009, ISBN13 9780615296623 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL26817583M/Civil_Rights_to_Cyber_Rights_Broadband_Digital_Equality_in_the_Age_of_Obama

“The Information Society and the Black Community” Editors: John T. Barber and Alice A. Tait, Praeger, Westport, Connecticut pub. 2001, ISBN 0275957241 https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/704119

“Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are” Author: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, Dey Street Books pub. 2017, ISBN13: 9780062390851 https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780062390851

“Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World”, Author: Cal Newport, Portfolio pub. 2019, ISBN 9780525536512 https://www.calnewport.com/books/digital-minimalism/

“Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men” Author: Caroline Criado Perez, Abrams Press pub. 2019, ISBN 9781419729072 https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/invisible-women_9781419729072/

“Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code” Author: Ruha Benjamin, Polity Books pub. 2019, https://academic.oup.com/sf/article-abstract/98/4/1/5681679?redirectedFrom=fulltext

“Seeing infrastructure: race, facial recognition and the politics of data”, Contributors: Nikki Stevens & Os Keyes, published online March 26, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2021.1895252

“Technologies of Speculation: The Limits of Knowledge in a Data-Driven Society”, Author: Sun ha Hong, New York University Press, New York, NY, pub. 2020, ISBN-13: 9781479860234, https://www.worldcat.org/title/technologies-of-speculation-the-limits-of-knowledge-in-a-data-driven-society/oclc/1281818718

“Understanding e-carceration : electronic monitoring, the surveillance state, and the future of mass incarceration”, Author: James William Kilgore, The New Press, New York; London, pub. 2022, https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=isbn%3A1620976145