R.E. Bergquist Colonel, US Air Force (ret.) | Ph.D.

Lists of Lists

For no particular reason, it seems useful to include some lists of recommended readings and/or viewings. Their content will be obvious from the name of the list.

These may change as more is read, or as my mood changes.

what makes us | books | information | design | military | music | movies

What makes us who we are?

an idea noted in The Alcalde, the University of Texas alumni magazine, where the lists were entitled "the ten cultural works that have most influenced your life or opened up new windows on the world"

  1. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961)
    image of the book, Catch 22, by Joseph Heller
  2. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter (1979)
    image of the book, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, by Douglas R. Hofstadter
  3. Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte (1983)
    image of the book, Visual Display of Quantitative Information, by Edward Tufte
  4. The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick (2011)
    image of the book, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood, by James Gleick
  1. Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 by Paul Kennedy (1987)
    image of the book, Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000, by Paul Kennedy
  2. Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall (1999)
    image of the book, Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam, by Fredrik Logevall
  3. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond (2005)
    image of the book, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, by Jared Diamond
  4. The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N by Leo Rosten (1937)
    image of the book, The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N, by Leo Rosten
  1. None of Us are Free by Solomon Burke (2002)
    None of Us are Free, by Solomon Burke
  2. Dr. Strangelove, or, How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb, a movie by Stanley Kubrick (1963)
    Slim Pickens, in Dr. Strangelove

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What Makes US

image of the book, Catch 22, by Joseph Heller

Books

image of the book, The Dream of Reason, by Anthony Gottlieb

Information

image of the book, Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light, by Leonard Schlain

Design

image of the book, Living with Complexity, by Donald Norman

Military

image of the book, Command in War, by Martin van Crevald

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None of Us are Free, by Solomon Burke

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Slim Pickens, in Dr. Strangelove
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