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    Exploring the relationship between people and their
    built environment

Sources, experts and ideas that influenced the development
and practice of the Truehome approach

Reading List - Page One

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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.

If you want to know more about the book or its author, just click the title. Most titles are linked to Amazon.com.

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 much more research is done by the scientists and thinkers below.

We encourage you to develop your own understanding of the relationship between human beings and the environment.

Architecture and Environment

The Timeless Way of Building
Christopher Alexander

A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
Christopher Alexander

Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises
Edited by Architecture for Humanity

The Poetics of Space
Gaston Bachelard

Design-Build: Planning Through Development
Jeffrey L Beard, Michael C Loulakis, and Edward C Wundram

Feng Shui Revealed : An Aesthetic, Practical Approach to the Ancient Art of Space Alignment
R D Chin

Places of the Soul : Architecture and Environmental Design as a Healing Art
Christopher Day

Brain Landscape: The Coexistence of Neuroscience and Architecture
John P Eberhard

Evidence-Based Design for Multiple Building Types
D Kirk Hamilton and David H Watkins

Origins of Architectural Pleasure
Grant Hildebrand

Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory
Edited by Neil Leach

House as a Mirror of Self : Exploring the Deeper Meaning of Home
Clare Cooper Marcus

Healing Gardens: Therapeutic Benefits and Design Recommendations
Edited by Clare Cooper Marcus and Marni Barnes

Home: A Short History of an Idea
Witold Rybczynski

A Theory of Architecture
Nikos A Salingaros

Evolutionary Architecture: Nature as a Basis for Design
Eugene Tsui

Doing Anthropology in Consumer Research
Patricia L Sunderland and Rita M Denny

American Shelter: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the American Homes
Lester Walker

Feng Shui Principles for Building and Remodeling: Creating a Space That Meets Your Needs and Promotes Well-Being
Nancilee Wydra and Lenore Baigelman

Biology, Physiology and Eusocial Species

The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
Richard Dawkins

The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins

Ants at Work : How an Insect Society is Organized
Deborah Gordon

The Way of the Cell: Molecules, Organisms and the Order of Life
Franklin M. Harold

Acquiring Genomes: The Theory of the Origins of the Species
Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan

A Primate's Memoir
Robert M Sapolsky

Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
Robert M Sapolsky

The Extended Organism: The Physiology of Animal-Built Structures
J Scott Turner

The Tinkerer's Accomplice: How Design Emerges from Life Itself
J Scott Turner

Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
Edward O Wilson

The Future of Life
Edward O Wilson

Environmental Psychology

Environment and Social Behavior
Irwin Altman

Culture and Environment
Irwin Altman and Martin M Chemers

Place Advantage: Applied Psychology for Interior Architecture
Sally Augustin

Handbook of Environmental Psychology
Edited by Robert B Bechtel and Arza Churchman

Sell Your Home for Top Dollar—FAST! Design Psychology for Redesign and Home Staging
Jeanette Fisher

Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You
Sam Gosling

Some Place Like Home: Using Design Technology to Create Ideal Places
Toby Israel

Environmental Psychology for Design
David Kopec

Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Well-Being
Esther M Sternberg, M.D.

Green Building, Sustainability and Sufficiency

Green$ense for the Home: Rating the Real Payoff from 50 Green Home Projects
Eric Corey Freed and Kevin Daum

Super Natural Home: Improve Your Health, Home, and Planet—One Room at a Time
Beth Greer

Green from the Ground Up: Sustainable, Healthy, and Energy-Efficient Home Construction
David Johnston and Scott Gibson

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Barbara Kingsolver, Steven L Hopp, and Camille Kingsolver

Building Green: A Complete How-To Guide to Alternative Building Methods
Clarke Snell and Tim Callahan

The Soul of Money: Reclaiming the Wealth of Our Inner Resources
Lynne Twist and Teresa Barker

Green Building Products: The GreenSpec Guide to Residential Building Materials
Edited by Alex Wilson and Mark Piepkorn

State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures: From Consumerism to Sustainability
The Worldwatch Institute

Language & Communication Theory

The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion
Joseph Campbell

The Power of Myth
Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers

On Language
Noam Chomsky

Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
Marshall McLuhan

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
Steven Pinker

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