These books and articles have some bearing on how human beings
relate to their environment, or how that relationship is integral to the evolutionary
process and the societies of man.
Each title is linked to Amazon.com, so if you want to know more about the
book or its author, just click the title.
Much remains unsettled in every scientific discipline whose
study impacts the ideas that inform the theoretical basis for Truehome®. For that
reason, our attempts to understand why our process works remain speculative, and
will remain so until a great deal more research is done by the scientists
and thinkers below.
We encourage you to develop your own understanding of the relationship between humans and the environment.
Architecture and Environment
The Timeless Way of Building
- Christopher Alexander
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
Christopher Alexander
American Shelter: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of American Housing Styles
- Lester Walker
The Poetics of Space
- Gaston Bachelard
Home as a Mirror of Self
- Clare Cooper Marcus
Places of the Soul
- Christopher Day
Home
- Witold Rybczynski
Origins of Architectural Pleasure
- Grant Hildebrand
Rethinking Architecture
- Edited by Neil Leach
Evolutionary Architecture
- Eugene Tsui
Feng Shui Revealed
- R. D. Chin
Feng Shui - Principles for Building and Remodeling
Nancillee Wydra and Lenore Weiss Baigelman
Design Build - Planning through Development
Beard, Loulakis & Wundram
Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises
Kate Stohr & Cameron Sinclair
Doing Anthropology in Consumer Research
Patricia L Sutherland & Rita M Denny
Evidence-Based Design for Multiple Building Types
Kirk Hamilton & David Watkins
A Theory of Architecture
Nikos Salingaros, Ph.D.
Brain Landscape: The Coexistense of Neuroscience and Architecture
John P Eberhard
Healing Gardens: Theraputic Benefits and Design Recommendations
Clare Cooper Marcus & Marni Barnes
Biology, Physiology and Eusocial Species
The Way of the Cell
- Franklin M. Harold
The Selfish Gene
- Richard Dawkins
The Extended Phenotype
- Richard Dawkins
The Extended Organism
- J. Scott Turner
The Tinkerer's Accomplice: How Design Emerges from Life Itself
- J. Scott Turner
Ants at Work
- Deborah Gordon
A Primate's Memoir
- Robert M. Sapolsky
Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers
- Robert M. Sapolsky
Acquiring Genomes
- Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan
The Future of Life
- Edward O. Wilson
Consilience
- Edward O. Wilson
Environmental Psychology
Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You
- Sam Gosling
Some Place Like Home
- Toby Israel
Place Advantage: Applied Psychology for Interior Architecture
- Sally Augustin
Environmental Psychology for Design
- David Alan Kopec
Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Well-being
- Esther M. Sternberg, M.D.
Design Psychology for Redesign and Home Staging
- Jeanette Fisher
Handbook of Environmental Psychology
Edited by Robert B. Bechtel and Arza Churchman
Culture and Environment -
Irwin Altman and Martin M. Chambers
Environment and Social Behavior - Irwin Alman
Green Building, Sustainability & Sufficiency
Green Building Products: The GreenSpec Guide to Residential Building Materials
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Alex Wilson & Mark Piepkorn
Green from the Ground Up
- David Johnston & Scott Gibson
Building Green: A Complete How-to Guide
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Clark Snell & Tim Callahan
Green$ense for the Home: Rating the Real Payoff from 50 Green Home Projects
- Eric Corey Freed & Kevin Daum
Super Natural Home
- Beth Greer
State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures: From Consumerism to Sustainability
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The Worldwatch Institute & Eric Assadourian
The Soul of Money: Reclaiming the Wealth of Our Inner Resources
- Lynn Twist & Teresa Barker
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
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Barbara Kingslover, Camille Kingslover & Steven L. Hopp
Language & Communication Theory
The Blank Slate
- Steven Pinker
On Language
- Noam Chomsky
Understanding Media
- Marshall McLuhan
The Inner Reaches of Outer Space
- Joseph Campbell
The Power of Myth
- Joseph Campbell