ADDITIONAL SOURCES OF INFORMATION

The following is not an exhuastive list of sources. It is intended to provide you with some examples of the kinds of texts that you will need to reference in your outside reading for this course. You can find more sources by searching on the web and in library catalogs for terms such as: system, systems theory, systems thinking, complexity, problem solving, and systems design.

WEBSITES

1. Systems Thinker
2. Systems Thinking: Wikipedia
3. Principia Cybernetica
4. theWay of Systems
5. Gerald Weinberg Website
6. Dancing With Systems (index)
7. International Society for the Systems Sciences

JOURNALS AND MAGAZINES

1. Technology Review
2. Communication theory : a journal of the International Communication Association
3. Journal of Communication
4. Journal of research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology
5. Complex Systems

BOOKS

1. Rapoport, Anatol,
   General system theory : essential concepts & applications
2. Bertalanffy, Ludwig von, 1901-1972.
   General system theory; foundations, development, applications.
3. Checkland, Peter.
   Systems thinking, systems practice
4. Boulding, Kenneth Ewart
   The world as a total system
5. Beer, Stafford.
   Brain of the firm : the managerial cybernetics of organization
6. Ashby, William Ross
   An introduction to cybernetics
7. Wiener, Norbert, 1894-1964
   Cybernetics; or, Control and communication in the animal and the machine.
8. Winograd, Terry.
   Understanding computers and cognition : a new foundation for design
9. Luhmann, Niklas
   Social systems
10. Fuller, R. Buckminster
    Synergetics ; explorations in the geometry of thinking
    
11. Systems Thinking, Second Edition: Managing Chaos and Complexity
    Jamshid Gharajedaghi
12. Thinking in Systems: A Primer
    Donella H. Meadows
13. Observing Complexity: Systems Theory and Postmodernity
    William Rasch
14. Haines, Stephen G.
    Systems Thinking & Learning
15. Churchman, C. West
    The Systems Approach
16. Hanson, Barbara Gail
    General Systems Theory Beginning with Wholes
17. Weinberg, Gerald M. and Daniela
    General Principles of System Design
18. Laslo, Ervin
    The Systems View of the World