This partial list of recommended books was originally compiled in 1993,
and is updated periodically. Arrangement is very roughly by
topic.
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- GOD ACCORDING TO GOD, A physicist
proves we have been wrong about God all along
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Author: Gerald Schroeder,
Ph.D.
- Publisher: Harper
One/Harper Collins 2009; ISBN 978-0061710155
- MIT physicist Gerald Schroeder, author of Genesis and
the Big Bang, offers a view of
God based on re-examining traditional Biblical material, that is
supportive of
science and a rational understanding of the observable world of nature.
(Reviewed in Meru eTORUS #45, May 2009)
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- THE REFLEXIVE UNIVERSE, Evolution
of
Consciousness
- Author: Arthur M. Young.
- Publisher: Anodos
Foundation. Revised edition ©1999; ISBN 1-89216-011-0
- Everything you would ever want to know about the torus
(doughnut shape).
- Cosmology, philosophy and physics. Highly recommended.
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- SYNERGETICS, Volumes 1 & 2
- Author: R. Buckminster
Fuller.
- Publisher: Macmillan Vol.
1: 1975
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ISBN 0-02-541870-X;
Vol. 2: 1979 - ISBN 0-02-541880-7
- Fuller's magnum opus. Cosmology and geometry. Superb;
difficult
to read.
This book now available as a browsable online website. Entrance
page is at:
www.rwgrayprojects.com/synergetics/synergetics.html
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- SEFER YETZIRAH, The Book of
Creation, In
Theory
and Practice
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Author: Aryeh Kaplan
- Publisher: Sam Weiser 1990
ISBN
0-87728-726-0
- Perhaps the only credible translation and discussion
available in
English.
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- THE CIPHER OF GENESIS, The
Original Code
of the
Qabala as Applied to the Scriptures
- Author: Carlo Suares
- Publisher: Shambala 1970
(Eng.)
ISBN
0-87773-141-1
- A unique and insightful presentation; valuable even with
errors
in
details.
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- THE WISDOM IN THE HEBREW ALPHABET,
The Sacred Letters as a Guide to
Jewish Deed
& Thought
- Author: Michael
L. Munk
- Publisher: Artscroll
Mesorah
1983
ISBN 0-89906-194-X
Traditional and authoritative Jewish presentation. Important Appendix.
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- THE BOOK OF LETTERS, A Mystical
Alef-Bet
- Author: Lawrence Kushner
- Publisher: Harper & Row
1975
ISBN
0-06-064900-3
- Introductory primer on the Hebrew alphabet. Beautifully
hand
written.
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- KABBALAH, The Way of the Jewish
Mystic
- Author: Perle Epstein
- Publisher: Shambhala 1988
ISBN
0-87773-438-0
- One of the best introductions to Kabbalah.
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- THE PATH OF THE KABBALAH
- Author: David Sheinkin,
M.D.
- Publisher: Paragon House
1986
ISBN
0-913757-69-1
- An excellent introduction to Kabbalah.
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- THE MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE IN ABRAHAM
ABULAFIA
- Author: Moshe Idel
- Publisher: SUNY Press 1988
ISBN
0-88706-553-8
- Detailed academic treatment of some works of one of the
greatest
kabbalists.
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- THE LIVING TORAH IN HEBREW:
The Five Books of Moses and the
Haftarot/Hebrew
and English in One Volume
- Author: Aryeh Kaplan
- Publisher: Moznaim Pub
Corp;
ISBN:
0940118726
- Hardcover (June 1981)
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- THE ZOHAR: Pritzker Edition, Vol. 1
- Author/Translator: Daniel C. Matt
- Publisher: Stanford
University Press;
ISBN: 0804747474
- Hardcover (October 2003)
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- THE BOOKS OF CONTEMPLATION:
Medieval
Jewish Mystical
Sources
- Author: Mark Verman
- Publisher: State Univ of
New York
Pr;
ISBN:
0791407195
- Hardcover (February 1992) (Suny Series in Judaica: Hermeneutics,
Mysticism,
and Religion)
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- THE BAHIR
- Translator: Aryeh Kaplan
- Publisher: Samuel Weiser;
ISBN:
0877286183
- Paperback - 272 pages (September 1980)
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- THE HANDBOOK OF JEWISH THOUGHT,
Vol. 2
- Author: Aryeh Kaplan.
- Publisher: Moznaim
Publishing
Corporation.
ISBN 0-940118-79-3
- Coll. Trade Cloth - 396p. (December 1993)
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- THE DIGNITY OF DIFFERENCE: How to
Avoid the Clash of Civilizations
- Author:
Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks
- Publisher: Continuum;
ISBN: 0826468500
- Paperback - 156 pages (July 2003)
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- ABRAHAM ISAAC KOOK - LIGHTS OF
PENITENCE, LIGHTS
OF HOLINESS:
The Moral Principles, Essays, Letters
and
Poems
- Translator: Ben Zion Bokser
- Publisher: Paulist Press;
ISBN:
080912159X
;
- Paperback - 415 pages (July 1978)
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- THE INNER MEANING OF THE HEBREW
LETTERS
- Author: Robert M. Haralick
- Publisher: Jason Aronson;
ISBN:
1568213565
- Hardcover - 360 pages (September 1995)
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- THE BOOK OF HEBREW SCRIPT
- Author: Ada Yardeni
- Publisher: British
Library; Bilingual Edition ISBN 1584560878
Hardcover: 355 pages
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- THE TREE OF LIGHT, A Study of the
Menorah
- Author: L. Yarden
- Publisher: Cornell Univ. Press
1971
ISBN
0-8014-0596-3
- The history of the Menorah - The Tree of Light and the Tree
of
Life.
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- ALPHABETIC LABYRINTH: The
Letters in
History and
Imagination
- Author: Johanna Drucker
- Publisher: Thames &
Hudson;
ISBN:
0500280681
- Paperback - 320 pages 1 Pbk Ed edition (March 1999)
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- THE EMPEROR'S NEW MIND, Concerning
Computers,
Minds,
and the Laws of Physics
- Author: Roger Penrose
- Publisher: Vintage
2007 ISBN
0-67-977631-1
- Comprehensive presentation of mind, physics and artificial
intelligence.
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- THE ROAD TO REALITY: A Complete
Guide to the Laws of the Universe
- Author: Roger Penrose
- Publisher: Oxford
University Press, 2002 (2nd ed.)
ISBN
0-19-286198-0
- Penrose's exploration of the connection between mathematics
and the physical world.
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- THE ELEGANT UNIVERSE:
Superstrings,
Hidden Dimensions,
and
the Quest for the Ultimate
Theor
- y
- Author: Brian Greene
- Publisher: Vintage Books;
ISBN:
0375708111
- Paperback - 448 pages (February 29, 2000)
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- WARPED PASSAGES: Unraveling the
Mysteries of the Universe's
Hidden Dimensions
- Author: Lisa Randall
- Publisher: Harper Perennial
2006;
ISBN: 0060531096
- Paperback - 512 pages
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- PROGRAMMING THE UNIVERSE: A
Quantum Computer Scientist Takes On the Cosmos
- Author: Seth Lloyd
- Publisher: Vintage 2007;
ISBN: 1400033861
- Paperback - 256 pages
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- ENDOPHYSICS: The World As an
Interface
- Author: Otto Rossler
- Publisher: World Scientific
Pub
Co;
ISBN: 9810227523
- Library Binding - 200 pages (July 1998)
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- THE END OF TIME: The Next
Revolution in
Physics
- Author: Julian B. Barbour
- Publisher: Oxford Univ
Press 2001;
ISBN: 0195145925
- Paperback - 384 pages
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- TIME'S ARROW & ARCHIMEDES'
POINT:
New Directions
for the Physics of Time
- Author: Huw Price
- Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
(Trade);
ISBN: 0195117980
- Paperback - 320 pages (September 1997)
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- THE FABRIC OF REALITY: The Science
of
Parallel
Universes-And Its Implications
- Author: David Deutsch
- Publisher: Penguin USA
(Paper);
ISBN:
014027541X
- Paperback - 400 pages (August 1998)
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- HYPERSPACE: A Scientific Odyssey
Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps
and
the Tenth Dimension
- Author: Michio Kaku
- Publisher: Anchor Press
1995; ISBN: 0385477058
- Paperback - 384 pages
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- THE SELF-AWARE UNIVERSE: How
Consciousness Creates
the Material World
- Authors: Maggie Goswami, Richard E. Reed, Amit
Goswami
(Contributor),
Fred Alan Wolf
- Publisher: J P Tarcher;
ISBN:
0874777984
- Paperback Reprint edition (March 1995)
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- SUPERSTRINGS: And the Search for
the
Theory of
Everything
- Author: F. David Peat
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill
1989; ISBN:
0809242575
- Paperback - 256 pages
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- PHYSICS AS METAPHOR
- Author: Roger Jones, Ph. D.
- Publisher: Univ. of
Minnesota
1982
ISBN 0-8166-1916-6
- An important perspective on physics and philosophy;
readable and
satisfying.
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- THE HAND: How Its Use Shapes the
Brain,
Language,
and Human Culture
- Author: Frank R. Wilson
- Publisher: Vintage Books;
ISBN:
0679740473
- Paperback - 416 pages (September 1999)
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- HAND AND MIND: What Gestures
Reveal
About Thought
- Author: David McNeill
- Publisher: University of
Chicago
Press; ISBN:
0226561348
- Paperback - 558 pages (December 1995)
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- FROM HAND TO MOUTH: The Origins of
Language
- Author: Michael C. Corballis
- Publisher: Princeton
University Press; ISBN 0691116733
- Paperback - 272 pages (September 2003)
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- GEOMETRY AND THE IMAGINATION
- Authors: David Hilbert, S. Cohn-Vossen
- Publisher: Chelsea Pub Co;
ISBN:
0821819984
- Hardcover Reprint edition (October 1999)
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- THE FOURTH DIMENSION, A Guided
Tour of
the Higher
Universes
- Author: Rudy Rucker
- Publisher: Mariner Books
1985
ISBN 0-395-39388-4 (paperback)
- Readable illustrated introduction to understanding higher
dimensional
geometry.
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- CHAOS, Making a New Science
- Author: James Gleick
- Publisher: Penguin (2008)
ISBN 0143113453 Paperback
- One of the best (readable) introductions to Fractals and
Chaos
theory.
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- MATHEMATICS, THE SCIENCE OF
PATTERNS: The Search for Order in Life, Mind, and the Universe
- Author: Keith Devlin
- Publisher: Scientific
American Library (1997) ISBN 0716760223
- Paperback: 216 pages
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- A PASSION FOR MATHEMATICS:
Numbers, Puzzles, Madness, Religion, and the Quest for Reality
- Author: Clifford A. Pickover
- Publisher: Wiley;
ISBN: 0471690988
- Paperback: 408 pages (2005)
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- THE GOLDEN RATIO: The Story of
Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
- Author: Mario Livio
- Publisher: Broadway
ISBN 0767908163
- Paperback - 294 pages (2003)
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- AN IMAGINARY TALE: The Story of
"i" [the square root of minus one]
- Author: Paul J. Nahin
- Publisher: Princeton Univ
Pr;
ISBN: 0691127980
- Paperback: 288 pages (January 15, 2007)
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- TRIGONOMETRIC DELIGHTS
- Author: Eli Maor
- Publisher: Princeton Univ
Pr;
ISBN: 0691095418
- Paperback - 256 pages (2002)
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- e: The Story of a Number
- Author: Eli Maor
- Publisher: Princeton Univ
Pr;
ISBN:
0691058547
- Paperback - 232 pages (April 1998)
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- THE MYSTERY OF THE ALEPH:
Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity
- Author: Amir D. Aczel
- Publisher: Washington
Square Press; ISBN 0743422996
- Paperback - 272 pages (2001)
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- A HISTORY OF PI
- Author: Petr Beckmann
- Publisher: St. Martin's
Press;
ISBN:
0312381859
- Paperback - 200 pages 19 edition (August 1976)
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- GÖDEL, ESCHER, BACH: An
Eternal
Golden Braid
- Author: Douglas R.
Hofstadter
- Publisher: Basic Books;
ISBN:
0465026567
- Paperback - 777 pages 20th anniv edition (January 1999)
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- DELTA: A Paradox Logic (Series on
Knots
and Everything,
Vol 16)
- Author: Nathaniel
Hellerstein
- Publisher: World Scientific
Pub
Co;
ISBN: 9810232438
- Hardcover (March 1998)
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- DIAMOND: A Paradox Logic (Series
on
Knots and
Everything).
- Author: Nathaniel
Hellerstein
- Publisher: World Scientific
Pub.
Co.;
ISBN:
9810228503
- Hard Cover (January 1997)
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- SENSITIVE CHAOS, The Creation of
Flowing
Forms
in Water and Air
- Author: Theodor Schwenk
- Publisher: Steiner Press
1990 (revised)
ISBN 1855840553
Paperback: 288 pages
- One of the best presentations of dynamic forms in nature
available.
Many
illustrations.
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- MIRACLES OF MIND: Exploring
Nonlocal
Consciousness
and Spiritual Healing
- Authors: Russell Targ, Jane Katra
- Publisher: New World
Library;
ISBN:
1577310977
- Paperback - 352 pages 2 edition (June 1999)
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- CATASTROPHE: An Investigation into
the
Origins
of the Modern World
- Author: David Keys
- Publisher: The Ballantine
Publishing
Group
ISBN 0-345-40876-4
- Hardcover - 343 pages (1999)
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- ISAAC NEWTON: The Last Sorcerer
- Author: Michael White
- Publisher: Perseus Press (Helix Books); ISBN: 073820143X
- Paperback - 416 pages (April 1999)
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- SERPENT IN THE SKY, The High
Wisdom of
Ancient
Egypt
- Author: John Anthony West
- Publisher: Quest Books (1993)
ISBN 0835606910
Paperback: 266 pages
- Coherent, open, inclusive, but not kooky, presentation of
Egyptian
teachings.
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- THE CODE BOOK: The Science of
Secrecy
from
Ancient
Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
- Author: Simon Singh
- Publisher: Anchor Books;
ISBN:
0385495323
- Paperback - 410 pages (August 29, 2000)
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- CRACKING THE BIBLE CODE
- Author: Jeffrey Satinover
- Publisher: William Morrow
&
Co;
ISBN: 068815994X
- Paperback - 368 pages Reprint edition (June 1998)
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