ISSS Book Club

The Book Club ....

The ISSS Book Club is coordinated by Marty Jacobs. Its purpose is to explore the systems science literature in depth. The members of the Club choose specific books, which they collectively read over several months. The process includes monthly reading assignments of approximately 50-100 pages. Participants have opportunities to both suggest books to read and vote on a selection of books.

The ISSS Book Club typically meets on the third Thursday of every month from 12:30 – 2:00 pm Eastern Time.

List of Books covered in the Book Club

Marty Jacobs compiled the following list of books that have been read and discussed in the Book Club over the past years.

Number: 15

Books by Systems Scientists

Complexity: A Guided Tour

Finding Wholeness Through the Science of Connecting

Free Will

How Many Grapes Went into the Wine: Stafford Beer on the Art and Science of Holistic Management

Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

Seeing: A Field Guide to the Patterns and Processes of Nature, Culture, and Consciousness

Stafford Beer The Father of Management Cybernetics: Big Data Analysis including Cybernetic Glossary

Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Experimental Futures)

Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology

The Embodied Mind, revised edition: Cognitive Science and Human Experience

The Heart of Enterprise

The Hidden Power of Systems Thinking: Governance in a Climate Emergency

The Origins of Humanness in the Biology of Love

The Science of Synthesis: Exploring the Social Implications of General Systems Theory

The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How The World Lost its Mind