{"id":2392,"date":"2012-09-06T15:40:39","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T15:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2392"},"modified":"2025-06-04T20:50:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T20:50:53","slug":"library-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/library-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"Library Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The posts in this blog are &#8211; obviously &#8211; about books that I have read, would like to read or am reading at the moment. There are, clearly a whole host of books that I have read in the past that I won&#8217;t necessarily cover in this blog as individual entries.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Instead, I shall merely a list in this post of books that I would recommend &#8211; it still will not be a complete list, but it should at least contain the recent highlights! I intend to add to this list as and when I get inspiration and, as a rule of thumb, the nearer the top of the list a book appears the more important (not sure how importance is calculated here\ud83e\udd14) I rate it &#8211; but that is not an absolute rule.<\/p>\n<p>In some cases I will create, at a later date, an individual post for some of the books here (and will then delete them from this list).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"library-thumb-grid\" title=\"Anathem\" src=\"https:\/\/www.systemsthink.co.uk\/graphics\/books\/anathem.jpg\" alt=\"Anathem\" height=\"160px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"library-thumb-grid\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.systemsthink.co.uk\/graphics\/books\/snuff.jpg\" alt=\"Snuff\" height=\"160px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"library-thumb-grid\" title=\"Fuzzy Thinking\" src=\"https:\/\/www.systemsthink.co.uk\/graphics\/books\/fuzzythinking.jpg\" alt=\"Fuzzy Thinking\" height=\"160px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"library-thumb-grid\" title=\"The Castle in the Pyrenees\" src=\"https:\/\/www.systemsthink.co.uk\/graphics\/books\/castleinthepyrenees.jpg\" alt=\"The Castle in the Pyrenees\" height=\"160px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"library-thumb-grid\" title=\"I Found my Horn\" src=\"https:\/\/www.systemsthink.co.uk\/graphics\/books\/foundmyhorn.jpg\" alt=\"I Found my Horn\" height=\"160px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"library-thumb-grid\" title=\"Thud\" src=\"https:\/\/www.systemsthink.co.uk\/graphics\/books\/thud.jpg\" alt=\"Thud\" height=\"160px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"library-thumb-grid\" title=\"Sophie\u2019s World\" src=\"https:\/\/www.systemsthink.co.uk\/graphics\/books\/sophiesworld.jpg\" alt=\"Sophie\u2019s World\" height=\"160px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"library-thumb-grid\" title=\"Network Centric Warfare\" src=\"https:\/\/www.systemsthink.co.uk\/graphics\/books\/networkcentric.jpg\" alt=\"Network Centric Warfare\" height=\"160px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"library-thumb-grid\" title=\"The Logic of Failure\" src=\"https:\/\/www.systemsthink.co.uk\/graphics\/books\/logicoffailure.jpg\" alt=\"The Logic of Failure\" height=\"160px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"library-thumb-grid\" title=\"\"Here Comes Everybody\" src=\"https:\/\/www.systemsthink.co.uk\/graphics\/books\/herecomeseverybody.jpg\" alt=\"Here Comes Everybody\" height=\"160px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"library-thumb-grid\" title=\"The Next Common Sense\" src=\"https:\/\/www.systemsthink.co.uk\/graphics\/books\/nextcommonsense.jpg\" alt=\"The Next Common Sense\" height=\"160px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"library-thumb-grid\" title=\"Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams\" src=\"https:\/\/www.systemsthink.co.uk\/graphics\/books\/peopleware.jpg\" alt=\"Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams\" height=\"160px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"library-thumb-grid\" title=\"Science &amp; Sanity\" src=\"https:\/\/www.systemsthink.co.uk\/graphics\/books\/sciencesanity.jpg\" alt= \u201cScience &amp; Sanity\" height=\"160px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"library-thumb-grid\" title=\"Les Miserables\" src=\"https:\/\/www.systemsthink.co.uk\/graphics\/books\/lesmiserables.jpg\" alt= \u201cLes Miserables\" height=\"160px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"library-thumb-grid\" title=\"Crime and Punishment\" src=\"https:\/\/www.systemsthink.co.uk\/graphics\/books\/crimeandpunishment.jpg\" alt= \u201cCrime and Punishment\" height=\"160px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"library-thumb-grid\" title=\"The Glass Bead Game\" src=\"https:\/\/www.systemsthink.co.uk\/graphics\/books\/glassbead.jpg\" alt= \u201cThe Glass Bead Game\" height=\"160px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"library-thumb-grid\" title=\"The Lord of the Rings\" src=\"https:\/\/www.systemsthink.co.uk\/graphics\/books\/lordoftherings.jpg\" alt= \u201cThe Lord of the Rings\" height=\"160px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The posts in this blog are &#8211; obviously &#8211; about books that I have read, would like to read or am reading at the moment. There are, clearly a whole host of books that I have read in the past that I won&#8217;t necessarily cover in this blog as individual entries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-2392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library","tag-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2392"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2603,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392\/revisions\/2603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}