book memories

Kirby 1983 Reading List of Good Books (titles in red are fiction)

  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 of the Western World-Vol 1 The Great Conversation

  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 Lives

  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

    1. Postman & Weingartner - The School Book

  229. Postman & Weingartner - Teaching as a Subversive Activity

  230. Powell - Why Am I Afraid to Tell You Who I Am?

  231. Preston - The Great American Blow-Up

  232. Puzo - The Godfather

  233. Quine, WVO - The Ways of Paradox & Other Essays

  234. Raiffa - Decision Analysis

  235. Rand - Atlas Shrugged

  236. Raucher - The Summer of 42

  237. Reischauer - Toward the 21st Century: Education for a Changing World

  238. Renault - The King Must Die

  239. Roberts - Discrete Mathematical Models

  240. Rodgers - Freaky Friday

  241. Rogers - Becoming Partners

  242. Rogers, C - Encounter Groups

  243. Rogers, C - Freedom to Learn

  244. Rogers, C - On Becoming A Person

  245. Rogers, C - Carl Rogers on Personal Power

  246. Rostand - Cyrano de Bergerac

  247. Rothman - The Angel Inside Went Sour

  248. Rubin - The Rights Of Teachers

  249. Russell - The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell

  250. Russell - The Conquest of Happiness

  251. Ryan (Ed.) - Don't Smile Until Christmas

  252. Salmon, Jeffreys, and Greeno - Stat Explanation and Stat Relevance

  253. Sanders - Classroom Questions-What Kinds

  254. Savage - Uncertainty and Behavior

  255. Schmitt - Measuring Uncertainty

  256. Schuiz & Rogers - Marriage, The Family & Personal Fulfillment

  257. Scriven - Primary Philosophy

  258. Scriven - The Values of the Academy - Review of Ed Research 40-4:10

  259. Selye - Stress without Distress

  260. Selzer - Mortal Lessons

  261. Servan - Schreiber-The American Challenge

  262. Sherman - It All Depends

  263. Short - The Gospel According to Peanuts

  264. Shulman - Rally Round the Flag, Boys

    1. Shulman - Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen

  1. Siegel, S - Nonparametric Statistics

  2. Sless - Learning and Visual Communication

  3. Slonim - Sampling

  4. Smith, Robert M - Teacher Diagnosis of Educational Difficulties

  5. Smith - Gorky Park

  6. Spencer - The Light in the Piazza

  7. Starvianos - The Promise of the Coming Dark Age

  8. Stevenson - Seven Theories of Human Nature

  9. Strunk and White - The Elements of Style

  10. Suzuki - Nurtured by Love

  11. Thoreau - Walden

  12. Toffler - Future Shock

  13. Townsend - Up the Organization

  14. Tukey - Exploratory Data Analysis

  15. Twain - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

  16. Tyler, L - Intelligence-Some Recurring Issues

  17. Tyler & Wolfe - Critical Issues

  18. USGPO - National Assessment Materials

  19. Vanden Broeck - Less is More: The Art of Voluntary Poverty

  20. Vickey and Fries - Take Care of Yourself

  21. Viscott - The Language of Feelings

  22. Von Lawick-Goodall - My Friends, the Wild Chimpanzees

  23. Von Lawick-Goodall - In the Shadow of Man

  24. Von Neuman - The Computer & the Brain

  25. Wallechinsky - The Book of Predictions

  26. Waltari - The Egyptian

  27. Walters - How to Talk to Practically Anybody About Practically Anything

  28. Warren - All the Kings Men

  29. Watson - The Racial Gap -Psych Today 9-72

  30. Watson - The Double Helix

  31. Wattenburg - The Real America

  32. Waugh - The Loved One

  33. Webb et al - Unobstrusive Measures

  34. Wees - Nobody Can Teach Anyone Anything

  35. Weiss - The Making of Men

  36. Weizenbaum - Computer Power and Human Reason

  37. Weldon - Praxis

  38. Weldon - Puffball

  39. Wellman - The Female

  40. White, E B - Charlotte's Web

  41. White, E B - One Man's Meat

  42. White, E B - The Second Tree From the Corner

  43. White, T H - The Once and Future King

  44. Whitla (Ed.) - Handbook of Measurement & Assessment in Behavioral Science

  45. Wiener, N - God & Golem, Inc

  46. Wiener, N - The Human Use of Human Beings

  47. Wilson - A Teacher is A Person

  48. Wolfe - From Bauhaus to Our House

  49. Zinsser - On Writing Well