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• A Fuller Explanation: The Synergetic Geometry of R. Buckminster Fuller (Pueblo, CO: EmergentWorld Press, c2007), by Amy C. Edmondson (page images at Google)
• The Macroscope: A New World Scientific System (1979), by Joel de Rosnay, trans. by Robert Edwards (illustrated HTML with commentary at Principia Cybernetica Web)
• Chaotic Logic: Language, Thought and Reality From the Perspective of Complex Systems Science (prepublication version), by Ben Goertzel (HTML at goertzel.org)
• A Fuller Explanation: The Synergetic Geometry of R. Buckminster Fuller (1987 edition), by Amy C. Edmondson (HTML at pauladaunt.com)
• Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (electronic edition), by R. Buckminster Fuller and E. J. Applewhite (HTML at rwgrayprojects.com)
• From Complexity to Creativity: Computational Models of Evolutionary, Autopoietic and Cognitive Dynamics (prepublication version), by Ben Goertzel (HTML at goertzel.org)

• Artificial Life IX: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2004), ed. by Jordan B. Pollack, Mark Bedau, Phil Husbands, Richard A. Watson, and Takashi Ikegami (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Artificial Life VII: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Artificial Life (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2000), ed. by Mark Bedau, John S. McCaskill, Norman H. Packard, and Steen Rasmussen (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Artificial Life VI: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Artificial Life (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c1998), ed. by Christoph Adami, Richard K. Belew, Hiroaki Kitano, and Charles E. Taylor (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• Artificial Life VII: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Artificial Life (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2000), ed. by Mark Bedau, John S. McCaskill, Norman H. Packard, and Steen Rasmussen (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Artificial Life VI: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Artificial Life (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c1998), ed. by Christoph Adami, Richard K. Belew, Hiroaki Kitano, and Charles E. Taylor (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• Complexity, Global Politics, and National Security (1997), ed. by David S. Alberts and Thomas J. Czerwinski (PDF at dtic.mil)

• Software Engineering Techniques: Report of a Conference Sponsored by the NATO Science Committee, Rome, Italy, 27th to 31st October 1969 (originally published 1970), ed. by J. N. Buxton and Brian Randell (PDF in the UK)
• Software Engineering: Report of a Conference Sponsored by the NATO Science Committee, Garmisch, Germany, 7th to 11th October 1968 (originally published 1969), ed. by Peter Naur and Brian Randell (PDF in the UK)

• A State Connected: Michigan Libraries and the Public Interest in the Information Superhighway (Lansing, MI: Michigan Library Association, 1997), ed. by Joseph J. Mika (page images at HathiTrust)

• Natural Computing and Beyond (proceedings of tsunami-disrupted Winter School Hakodate 2011, and 6th International Workshop on Natural Computing; c2013), ed. by Yasuhiro Suzuki and Toshiyuki Nakagaki (PDF files with commentary at SpringerLink)

• Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems III, ed. by Dennis R. Crabtree, R. J. Hanisch, and Jeannette V. Barnes (HTML in Canada)

• Managing Microcomputers in Large Organizations, by National Research Council Board on Telecommunications and Computer Applications (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Frontiers of Supercomputing II: A National Reassessment (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), ed. by Karyn R. Ames and Alan Brenner (HTML at UC Press)

• Bilingualism and Language Contact (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1970; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1970), ed. by James E. Alatis (PDF at Georgetown)
• Contemporary Perceptions of Language: Interdisciplinary Dimensions (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1982; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1982), ed. by Heidi Byrnes (PDF at Georgetown)

• Report Of The Thirteenth Annual Round Table Meeting On Linguistics And Language Studies (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1963), ed. by Elisabeth Delorme Woodworth and Robert J. Di Pietro (PDF at Georgetown)
• Report of the Fifth Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Teaching (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1954), ed. by Hugo J. Mueller (PDF at Georgetown)

• Research in Machine Translation (8th Georgetown Round Table on Linguistics and Language Studies; Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1957), ed. by Léon Dostert (PDF at Georgetown)
• Linguistic Databases, ed. by John A. Nerbonne (PDF at Stanford)

• International Dimensions of Bilingual Education (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1978; Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1978), ed. by James E. Alatis, contrib. by E. Glyn Lewis, William Francis Mackey, Einar Haugen, Joshua A. Fishman, Shirley Brice Heath, José Andrés Vázquez, Robert L. Cooper, Sarita G. Schotta, Henry Kahane, Renée Kahane, Braj B. Kachru, Muriel Saville-Troike, Maria Medina Swanson, Merrill Swain, Eric P. Hamp, H. H. Stern, Joan Rubin, Yolanda Lastra, Wallace E. Lambert, Christina Bratt Paulston, Bernard Spolsky, Gilbert Ansre, Bonifacio P. Sibayan, Adebisi Afolayan, Beatriz R. Lavandera, John W. Oller, G. Richard Tucker, Gary A. Cziko, Gilbert Narro Garcia, Charles H. Blatchford, Robert Lado, J. Donald Bowen, Robert J. Di Pietro, Mary Finocchiaro, Eduardo Hernandez-Chavez, Heidi C. Dulay, Marina K. Burt, John B. Carroll, Charles A. Ferguson, Roger W. Shuy, Dennis R. Craig, Frederic G. Cassidy, Alan R. Thomas, Nancy C. Dorian, William Leap, and Noel Epstein (PDF at Georgetown)

• Little Words: Their History, Phonology, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics, and Acquisition (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2007; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c2009), ed. by Ronald P. Leow, Héctor Campos, and Donna Lardiere (PDF at Georgetown)
• Report of the Fourteenth Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Studies (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1963), ed. by Robert J. Di Pietro (PDF at Georgetown)

• Directions for Historical Linguistics: A Symposium (c1968), ed. by Winfred P. Lehmann and Yakov Malkiel (HTML at Texas)

• Language in Use: Cognitive and Discourse Perspectives on Language and Language Learning (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2003; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c2005), ed. by Andrea Tyler, Mari Takada, Yiyoung Kim, and Diana Marinova (PDF at Georgetown)
• Strategic Interaction and Language Acquisition: Theory, Practice, and Research (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1993; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1993), ed. by James E. Alatis, contrib. by Stephen D. Krashen, Catherine Snow, Anna Uhl Chamot, J. Michael O'Malley, Cecily O'Neill, Deryn P. Verity, Shōkō Okazaki, Catherine Doughty, Ruth M. Jackson, Joan Morley, Karin C. Ryding, Suzanne Flynn, Elahe Mir-Djalali, James P. Lantolf, Ahmed Mouakket, Traute Taeschner, Jo Ann Crandall, Ikuo Koike, Louis A. Arena, Irene Thompson, Frederick J. Bosco, William Frawley, Madeline Elizabeth Ehrman, Virginia Mayer, Earl W. Stevick, Christina Kakava, Nadine O'Connor Di Vito, Reinhold Freudenstein, Aoi Tsuda, Josep Maria Artigal, Phyllis J. Dragonas, Marcel Danesi, Frederick H. Jackson, H. Douglas Brown, Dieter Kastovsky, Masaki Oda, Rebecca L. Oxford, Jeanette S. DeCarrico, James R. Nattinger, Anita Wenden, Linda S. Rutledge, and Jill Robbins (PDF at Georgetown)
• Developmental Psycholinguistics: Theory and Applications (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1975; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1975), ed. by Daniel P. Dato (PDF at Georgetown)
• Educational Linguistics, Crosscultural Communication, and Global Interdependence (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1994; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1994), ed. by James E. Alatis (PDF at Georgetown)

• Romantic Systems (2016), ed. by Mark Canuel (illustrated HTML at Romantic Circles)

• Even in Chaos: Education in Times of Emergency (New York: Fordham University Press, and Center for International Humanitarian Coooperation, 2010), ed. by Kevin M. Cahill (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
• The Emperor's Nightingale: Restoring the Integrity of the Corporation in the Age of Shareholder Activism, by Robert A. G. Monks (PDF files at ragm.com)
• Chaotic Logic: Language, Thought and Reality From the Perspective of Complex Systems Science (prepublication version), by Ben Goertzel (HTML at goertzel.org)

• An Introduction to Cybernetics (London: Chapman and Hall, 1957), by W. Ross Ashby (PDF with commentary at Principia Cybernetica Web)
• Cybernetics: or, Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (first edition; New York: J. Wiley and Sons, c1948), by Norbert Wiener (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Phenomenon of Science (1977), by V. F. Turchin, trans. by Brand Frentz (illustrated HTML with commentary at Principia Cybernetica Web)

• The Analysis of Linear Systems (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill, c1963), by Wayne H. Chen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Templates for the Solution of Linear Systems: Building Blocks for Iterative Methods, by Richard Barrett, Michael Berry, Tony Chan, James Demmel, June Donato, Jack Dongarra, Victor Eijkhout, Roldan Pozo, Charles Romine, and Henk Van der Vorst (HTML at netlib.org)

• Urban Operations Research (online edition, 1999), by Richard C. Larson and Amedeo R. Odoni (illustrated HTML at MIT)
• Studies in Process Analysis: Economy-Wide Production Capabilities (Cowles Foundation monograph #18; New York and London: John Wiley and Sons, c1963), ed. by Alan Sussmann Manne and H. Markowitz (PDF at Yale)
• Sharpening the Combat Edge: The Use of Analysis to Reinforce Military Judgment (1995), by Julian J. Ewell and Ira Augustus Hunt (PDF at US Army CMH)
• Optimal Location of Facilities (Wentworth, NH: COMPress, c1979), by Gerard Rushton (PDF at wvu.edu)

• The Macroscope: A New World Scientific System (1979), by Joel de Rosnay, trans. by Robert Edwards (illustrated HTML with commentary at Principia Cybernetica Web)
• Colonialism in Modern America: The Appalachian Case (Boone, NC: Appalachian Consortium Press, c1978), ed. by Helen Matthews Lewis, Linda Johnson, and Donald Askins (PDF at appstate.edu)

• Unsolved Problems in Mathematical Systems and Control Theory (with problem solutions submitted since first publication in 2004), ed. by Vincent Blondel and Alexandre Megretski (PDF files with commentary at Princeton)
• Models of Computation: Exploring the Power of Computing (Creative Commons edition; 2008), by John E. Savage (PDF with commentary at Brown)
• Viral Networks: Connecting Digital Humanities and Medical History (Blacksburg, VA: VT Publishing, 2018), ed. by E. Thomas Ewing and Katherine Randall (multiple formats with commentary at VT Publishing)
• Seamless Object-Oriented Software Architecture (1994), by Kim Waldén and Jean-Marc Nerson (PDF at bon-method.com)

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