Resources and Links Index

Links to Sites:

• Gabrielle Rico's (Writing the Natural Way) Metapatterns and Metaphorms.

• Jeff Bloom's Personal/Professional Site — Metapatterns page.

• The Complementary Nature - an examination of binaries by J. A. Scott Kelso and David A. Engstrøm (from their book with the same name)

• Holarchies by Flemming Funch

• See Dazzling Botanical Imagery through the Ages — from Atlas Obscura

• Eveline Kolijn — Science, art, and fantasy

• 37 Steps — An interesting site by Ela Pekalska and Bob (Robert P.W.) Duin that explores patterns and pattern recognition.

Books:

• Ball, P. (2011). Branches: Nature's patterns: A tapestry in three parts. New York: Oxford University Press.
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• Ball, P. (2011). Flow: Nature's patterns: A tapestry in three parts. New York: Oxford University Press.

• Ball, P. (2011). Shapes: Nature's patterns: A tapestry in three parts. New York: Oxford University Press.

• Barabási, A.-L. (2010). Bursts. New York: Dutton.

• Bateson, G. (1979/2002). Mind and nature: A necessary unity. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

• Bateson, G. (1991). A sacred unity: Further steps to an ecology of mind. New York: Cornelia & Michael Bessie Book/Harper Collins.

• Bateson, G., & Bateson, M. C. (2005, 1987). Angels fear: Towards an epistemology of the sacred. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

• Bejan, A., & Zane, P. J. (2012). Design in nature: How the constructal law governs evolution in biology, physics, technology, and social organizations. New York: Random House.

• Burke, J. (1978). Connections. Boston: Little, Brown & Company.

• Carroll, S. B. (2005). Endless forms most beautiful: The new science of evo devo and the making of the animal kingdom. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.

• Coward, L. A. (1990). Pattern thinking. New York: Praeger.

• Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1990). Flow: The psychology of optimal experience. New York: Harper & Row.

• Gould, S. J. (1987). Time's arrow, Time's cycle: Myth and metaphor in the discovery of geological time. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

• Gregory, W. K. (1965). Our face from fish to man. New York: Capricorn Books.

• Hall, E. T. (1966). The hidden dimension. New York: Doubleday Anchor.

• Harries-Jones, P. (2002). A recursive vision: Ecological understanding and Gregory Bateson. Toronto, Ontario: University of Toronto Press.

• Kappraff, J. (1991). Connections: The geometric bridge between art and science. New York: McGraw-Hill.

• Kelso, J. A. S., & Engstrøm, D. A. (2006). The complementary nature. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

• Koestler, A. (1967). The ghost in the machine. New York: Macmillan.

• Lakoff, G., & Johnson, M. (1980). Metaphors we live by. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

• Margolin, V., & Buchanan, R. (1995). The idea of design: A design issues reader. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

• McHarg, I. L. (1971, 1969). Design with nature. Garden City, NJ: Doubleday & Company.

• du Sautoy, M. (2008). Symmetry: A journey into the patterns of nature. New York: HarperCollins.

• Stevens, P. S. (1974). Patterns in nature. Boston: Little, Brown & Company.

• Thompson, D'A. W. (1992, 1942). On growth and form: The complete revised edition. New York: Dover Publications.

• Volk, T. (1995). Metapatterns: Across space, time, and mind. New York: Columbia University Press.

• Weinberg, G. M. (2001, 1975). An introduction to general systems thinking (Silver Anniversary Edition). New York: Dorset House Publishing.

• Wilbur, K. (1996). A brief history of everything. Boston: Shambhala Publications.

• Wilder, C., & Weakland, J. H. (eds.). (1981). Rigor & imagination: Essays from the legacy of Gregory Bateson. New York: Praeger.

Articles:

• Bateson, M. C. (2005). The double bind: Pathology and creativity. Cybernetics & Human Knowing: A Journal of Second-Order Cybernetics Autopoiesis and Cyber-semiotics, 12(1-2), 11—21.

• Bloom, J. W. (2004). Patterns that connect: Rethinking our approach to learning, teaching, and curriculum. Curriculum and Teaching, 19(1), 5—26.

• Bloom, J. W., & Volk, T. (2007). The use of metapatterns for research into complex systems of teaching, learning, and schooling. Part II: Applications. Complicity: An International Journal of Complexity and Education, 4(1), 45—68.

• Bloom, J. W., & Volk, T. (accepted). Metapatterns for research into complex systems of learning. In Seel, N. M. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning. New York: Springer.

• Flemons, D. (2005). May the pattern be with you. Cybernetics & Human Knowing: A Journal of Second-Order Cybernetics Autopoiesis and Cyber-semiotics, 12(1-2), 91—101.

• Harries-Jones, P. (2005). Gregory Bateson, Herterarchies, and the topology of recursion. Cybernetics & Human Knowing: A Journal of Second-Order Cybernetics Autopoiesis and Cyber-semiotics, 12(1-2), 168—174.

• Kenny, V., & Scarino, L. (2007). Metalogue: "less than one and more than two: Developing a partiality for whole(some)ness." Kybernetes, 36(7-8), 1100—1105.

• Kineman, J. J., & Kumar, K. A. (2007). Primary natural relationship: Bateson, Rosen, and the Vedas. Kybernetes, 36(7-8), 1055-1069.

• Klien, M. (2007). Choreography: A pattern language. Kybernetes, 36(7-8), 1081-1088.

• Luksha, P., & Tkacheve, A. (2007). Batesonian analysis of value hierarchies and the transformation of Russia. Kybernetes, 36(7-8), 949—955.

• Malloy, T. E., St. Clair, C. B., & Grinder, J. (2005). Steps to an ecology of emergence. Cybernetics & Human Knowing: A Journal of Second-Order Cybernetics Autopoiesis and Cyber-semiotics, 12(1-2), 102—119.

• Montuori, A. (2005). Gregory Bateson and the promise of transdisciplinarity. Cybernetics & Human Knowing: A Journal of Second-Order Cybernetics Autopoiesis and Cyber-semiotics, 12(1-2), 147—158.

• Nardone, G., & Portelli, C. (2007). Caught in the middle of a double-bind: The application of non-ordinary logic to therapy. Kybernetes, 36(7-8), 926—931.

• Steier, F., & Jorgenson, J. (2005). Foreward: Patterns that connect patterns that connect. Cybernetics & Human Knowing: A Journal of Second-Order Cybernetics Autopoiesis and Cyber-semiotics, 12(1-2), 5—10.

• Volk, T., Bloom, J. W., & Richards, J. (2007). Toward a science of metapatterns: Building upon Bateson’s foundation. Kybernetes, 36(7-8), 1070—1080.

• Volk, T., & Bloom, J. W. (2007). The use of metapatterns for research into complex systems of teaching, learning, and schooling. Part I: Metapatterns in nature and culture. Complicity: An International Journal of Complexity and Education, 4(1), 25—43.