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Books to saturate the reader in ideas for making effective films about science subjects, plus books and papers on media studies and emotional learning with deep implications for giant screen films.
A suggested reading list from Academy Award® winning Producer/Director/Writer/Designer
Ben Shedd
Book List

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Conceptual Blockbusting: A Guide to Better Ideas. Second Edition. 
Author: James L. Adams, 
W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 1974, 1976, 1979.


Visual Thinking. 
Author: Rudolf Arnheim.  
University of California Press, Berkeley, 1969.



Film As Art.  
Author: Rudolf Arnheim. 
University of California Press, Berkeley, 1957, 1938.



The Power of the Center. 
Author: Rudolf Arnheim
University of California, Berkeley, CA, 1988



Reinventing the Future: Conversations with the World's Leading Scientists. 
Author: Thomas A. Bass.  
Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Massachusetts, 1994.




Science and Human Values. 
Author: Jacob Bronowski. 
Perennial Library Harpers & Row, New York, 
1956 Revised Edition 1965.


Science - The Endless Frontier. 
Author: Vannevar Bush.  
National Science Foundation, Washington, DC, 1945, 1990.


Informal Science Learning. 
Authors: Valerie Crane, Heather Nicholson, Milton Chen, Stephen Bitgood. 
Research Communications, Ltd., Dedham, Massachusetts, 1994.

Imagined Worlds. 
Author: Freeman Dyson.  
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA 1997


Learning and Teaching the Ways of Knowing. 
Editor: Elliot Eisner.  
The National Society For the Study of Education,
University of Chicago Press, 1988.





Promoting Social and Emotional Learning: Guidelines for Educators. Editors:  Maurice J. Elias, et al.  Association for Supervision and Curriculum development, Alexandria VA 1997
Formative Evaluation for Educational Technologies. Author: Barbara Flagg.  Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc; Boston MA 1990.  ISBN: 0805801278


Frames of Mind. 
Author: Howard Gardner.  
Basic Books, 1985.


The Unschooled Mind. 
Author: Howard Gardner. 
Basic Books, 1991.





Vital Lies, Simple Truths: The psychology of Self-Deception. 
Author: Daniel Goleman.  
Simon & Schuster, New York, 1985.


Emotional Intelligence. 
Author: Daniel Goleman.  
Bantam Books, New York, 1995.



Working with Emotional Intelligence. 
Author: Daniel Goleman.  
Bantam Books, New York, 1998.



The Quark and The Jaguar.  
Author: Murray Gell-Mann.  
W. H. Freeman & Co. 1995.


On Being the Right Size and Other Essays 
by J.B.S. Haldane. Edited by J. M. Smith. Oxford, England: 
Oxford University Press 1985.

Science Matters, Achieving Science Literacy. 
Author: Robert M. Hazen & James Trefil. 
Doubleday, New York, 1990


Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern. 
Author: Douglas Hofstadter.  
Bantam Books, New York, 1985.


Notebooks of the Mind. 
Author: Vera John Steiner, 
Perennial Library, Harpers & Row, New York, 1985

Lucy's Legacy. 
Author: Alison Jolly.  
Harvard University Press, Boston, MA 1999.


Hyperspace : A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps and the Tenth Dimension. 
Author: Michio Kaku.Oxford 
University Press, New York, 1994.



In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life.  
Author: Robert Kegan. 
Harvard University Press, Boston, MA 1994


Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television.  
Author: Jerry Mander.
Quill New York, 1978.

Thinking for a Living. 
Author: Ray Marshall & Marc Tucker.  
Basic Books, New York, 1992.

McLuhan Forward Through the Rearview Mirror - 
Reflections On and By Marshall McLuhan.  
Edited by Paul Benedetti and Nancy DeHart.  
Prentice Hall Canada Inc.  Scarborough, Ontario, 1996.

Voices for Evolution. 
Editor: Molleen Matsumura.  
The National Center for Science Education, Inc., Revised 1995.

The Age of Missing Information.  
Author: Bill McKibben.
Random House New York, 1992.




National Science Education Standards. 
National Research Council.  
National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1996


Innumeracy, Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences. 
Author: John Allen Paulos. Hill and Wang, 
Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, New York, 1988.


Women and Numbers, Lives of Women Mathematicians. 
Author: Teri Perl. 
Wide World Publishing/Tetra, San Carlos, California, 1993.

Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls.
Author: Mary Pipher. 
Ballantine Books, New York, 1995


The Shelter of Each Other: Rebuilding Our Families. 
Author: Mary Pipher. 
Ballantine Books, New York, 1997


Directing The Documentary.  
Author:  Michael Rabiger. 
Focal Press, New York, NY, 3rd edition, 1997



Benchmarks for Science Literacy. 
F. James Rutherford, Project 2061 Director. Oxford University Press, New York, 1993.
Benchmarks for Science Literacy on Disk Version 1.0 for Windows 3.1 or Later.  F. James Rutherford, Project 2061 Director. Oxford University Press, New York, 1993.

Science For All Americans. 
Authors: F. James Rutherford, Andrew Ahlgren (Contributor). 
Oxford University Press, New York, 1987.


The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a candle in the dark. 
Author: Carl Sagan. 
Random House, New York, 1995.



Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors. 
Authors: Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan. 
Ballantine Books, New York, 1992




Remaking Eden: Cloning and Beyond in a Brave New World. 
Author: Lee Silver. 
Avon Books, New York NY. 1997






The Universe Story:  From the Primoridal Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era - A Celebration of the Unfolding of the Cosmos. 
Authors: Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry 
HarperSanFrancisco, HarperCollins Publishers, New York 1992

Envisioning Information. 
Author: Edward R. Tufte. 
Graphics Press, Cheshire, Connecticut, 1990.


Visual Explanations.  
Author: Edward R. Tufte. 
Graphics Press, Cheshire, Connecticut, 1997.



The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. 
Author: Edward R. Tufte. 
Graphics Press, Cheshire, Connecticut, 1992.



Created Self : Reinventing Body, Persona, Spirit.  
Author: Robert J. Weber.  
W. W. Norton New York.  2000


Our Common Future. 
World Commision on Environment and Development. 
Oxford University Press, Oxford & New York. 1987

Nature's Museums : Victorian Science and the Architecture of Display. Author Carla Yanni. 
Johns Hopkins University Press. 2000.

The Green Skyscraper: The Basis for Designing Sustainable Intensive Buildings.  
Author: Ken Yeang. 
International Book Import Service, Inc.


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On Line Reading Resources and Essays.
This section contains several essays and books which are available on line.
William Calvin has a marvelous web site.  I think he writes really stimulating books and articles.  Several of his older books, best sellers when published, are out of print, but Calvin has put them on line, and in very readable form.  [On his web site, William Calvin has written a delightful essay about designing and building more readable web sites, and this web site is based on his ideas.]  
Here are two of Calvin’s books which taught me a lot about how to think about our world:

The Cerebral Symphony, Seashore Reflections on the Structure of Consciousness. 
Author: William H. Calvin. Available on line. Bantam Books, New York, 1989. Out of Print in USA.



The River That Flows Uphill. 
Author: William H. Calvin. Available on line. Sierra Club Books, San Francisco, 1986. Out of Print in USA. 




Daedalus Magazine Issue on Scientific Literacy. Editor: Stephen R. Graubard.  Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Volume 112, Number 2, Spring 1983. (The Back Order page does not show this issue listed, but the Academy had copies when I called to request this important volume.  Every article gives hundreds of new ideas about expanding scientific literacy.)
At the Heart of It All: The Concept of Presence.  Authors: Matthew Lombard and Theresa Ditton, Department of Broadcasting, Telecommunications, & Mass Media, Temple University, 1997.
Why Bother?, Unleashing Creativity.  Essays by Paul B. MacCready, the inventor/designer of the Gossamer Condor airplane. The Lindberg Society Address: Soaring on Gossamer Wings. Remarks at the Lindberg Award Event 1982. Human Powered Flight: Perspectives on Processes and Potentials. 1998 Gardner Lecture at M.I.T. AeroVironment, Inc., Monrovia California, 1982, 1995
Science Museums as Environments for Learning.  Author: Rob Semper. Physics Today magazine, November 1990.
EXPLODING THE FRAME: Seeking a new cinematic language. Working in the giant screen medium. Author: Ben Shedd. SMPTE 135th Conference Paper, 1993-1997 Available On Line.
RECENT PAPERS AND ESSAYS by Ben Shedd on making effective films about science subjects with deep implications for giant screen films. Author Ben Shedd. 1994 -1999 Available On Line.
User-Friendly Handbook for Project Evaluation: Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology Education. Authors: Floraline Stevens, Frances Lawrenz, Laure Sharp, edited by B. Hechtling. Directorate for Education and Human Resources, Division of Research, Evaluation and Dissemination, National Science Foundation, Washington, DC, 1994.  
Interesting Resources.
Link to Books List
This section contains other interesting resources available on line.
The 30th anniversary edition of Shedd Productions, Inc. Academy Award winning documentary THE FLIGHT OF THE GOSSAMER CONDOR is available. Click here to go to www.gossamercondor.com
Bart Prince book Christopher Mead
Genome book Matt Ridley March 2000
Almost Like AWhale book Steve Jones
The Sun Genome Internet Freeman Dyson book
The Builders: Marvels of Engineering.  National Geographic
Six Gestures: Inspired by Bach No. 6 by Patricia Rozema
Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers : An Updated Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping by Robert Sapolsky
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