He wrote a series of essays collected into the book Zen For Americans.

He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and clinical depression as a result of an evaluation conducted by psychoanalysts, and was treated with ECT on numerous occasions, which he himself talks about in his autobiographical book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

Pirsig ’ s work in his book Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance analyzes the Rhetoric and Dialectic forms of Philosophies and their implications in the context of modern science and lifestyle.

* Zen And Now-Mark Richardson's book contains more Pirsig biographical detail.

Highway 175 was mentioned as the next to last highway ridden in the classic book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig.

* Stillwater, a philosophical panda in the book Zen Shorts

In this capacity, Merton was influenced by the book Zen Catholicism.

This popular view is likely the result of a single book Zen in the Art of Archery ( 1948 ) by the German author Eugen Herrigel.

In his book Three Pillars of Zen, Philip Kapleau says that practitioners in the Rinzai school face in, towards each other with their backs to the wall, and in the Soto school, practitioners face the wall or a curtain.

A book of his teachings, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, is one of the most popular books on Zen and Buddhism in the West.

The title is an apparent play on the title of the book Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel.

With this, the book details two types of personalities: those who are interested mostly in gestalts ( romantic viewpoints, such as Zen, focused on being " In the moment ", and not on rational analysis ), and those who seek to know the details, understand the inner workings, and master the mechanics ( classic viewpoints with application of rational analysis, vis-a-vis motorcycle maintenance ) and so on.

In contrast to this opinion, some of the Zen masters in Loori's book The Art of Just Sitting deride Yasutani's description, giving their own version as the right or correct way to do shikantaza.

* The book Three Pillars of Zen by Philip Kapleau ( ISBN 0-385-26093-8 ) contains several first-person accounts of Rinzai sesshin experiences.

Another key legend regards Dogen Zenji ( 道元禅師 ; 1200 – 1253 ), who brought the Soto Zen sect to Japan: After an extended visit to China for the purpose of studying Zen, on the night before his planned return to Japan, Dogen saw the Bìyán Lù for the first time, and stayed up all night making a handwritten copy of the book.

Michael Abrash is a game programmer and technical writer specializing in optimization and 80x86 assembly language programming, a reputation cemented by his 1990 book Zen of Assembly Language Volume 1: Knowledge.

Related issues were covered in his later book Zen of Graphics Programming.

His second book, Zen of Assembly Language ( 1990 ), focused on writing efficient assembly code for the 16-bit 8086 processor, but was released after the 80486 CPU was already available.

The key point of Zen of Assembly Language was that performance must always be measured, and the book included a measurement tool called the Zen Timer to check if theoretical code optimizations actually worked.

Although already in the book The Zen of Running from 1974 it was recommended to run barefoot and " as undressed as possible " to get " well bathed by sun and air " nude running has never gained wide acceptance.

In the early 20th century William McDougall defended a form of animism in his book Body and Mind: A History and Defence of Animism ( 1911 ).

In 1966, Morita wrote a book called Gakureki Muyō Ron ( 学歴無用論, Never Mind School Records ), where he stresses that school records are not important to success or one's business skills.

Steve Hassan, author of the book Combatting Cult Mind Control, states that he took part in a number of deprogrammings in the late 1970s, and has spoken out against them since 1980.

In his last book Mind at the End of its Tether ( 1945 ) he considered the idea that humanity being replaced by another species might not be a bad idea.

* John Forbes Nash, Jr. ( born 1928 ), American mathematician, 1994 Nobel Economics laureate, subject of the book and film titled A Beautiful Mind

Julian Jaynes ( February 27, 1920 – November 21, 1997 ) was an American psychologist, best known for his book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind ( 1976 ), in which he argued that ancient peoples were not conscious.

A 2007 book titled Reflections on the Dawn of Consciousness: Julian Jaynes's Bicameral Mind Theory Revisited contains several of Jaynes's essays along with chapters by scholars from a variety of disciplines expanding on his ideas.

The research psychologist Gary Marcus's book Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind compares evolutionary kluges with engineering ones like manifold vacuum-powered windshield wipers – when you accelerated or drove uphill, " Your wipers slowed to a crawl, or even stopped working altogether.

The 1981 book Genes, Mind, and Culture: The Coevolutionary Process by Charles J. Lumsden and E. O. Wilson proposed the theory that genes and culture co-evolve, and that the fundamental biological units of culture must correspond to neuronal networks that function as nodes of semantic memory.

In 1986, Minsky published The Society of Mind, a comprehensive book on the theory which, unlike most of his previously published work, was written for a general audience.

The publication of J. B. Rhine's book, New Frontiers of the Mind ( 1937 ) brought the laboratory's findings to the general public.

Transcend: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever, a follow-up to Fantastic Voyage, was released on April 28, 2009 and Kurzweil's latest book, How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed, is scheduled for release on November 13, 2012.

As the author Stephen Law paraphrases in his book " War For the Children's Mind " ( Law ,' Keeping the masses in Line ' p 159 ) " The most theistic prosperous democracy, the U. S., is exceptional, but not in the manner Franklin predicted.

Allan Bloom in his 1987 book The Closing of the American Mind, has disagreed strongly.

According to the book A Beautiful Mind, John Nash ( one of the game's inventors ) advocated 14 × 14 as the optimal size.

* A Beautiful Mind ( book ), about the life of John Forbes Nash, Jr.

Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being ( hereinafter WMCF ) is a book by George Lakoff, a cognitive linguist, and Rafael E. Núñez, a psychologist.

Christopher Evans also edited two anthologies of psychological science fiction / horror stories, Mind at Bay and Mind in Chains, a collection of science writings, Cybernetics: Key Papers, a reference book Psychology: A Dictionary of Mind, Brain and Behaviour, and was a contributing editor to the science magazine Omni.

The book, Training the Samurai Mind: A Bushido Sourcebook, gives an insider's view of the samurai world: " the moral and psychological development of the warrior, the ethical standards they were meant to uphold, their training in both martial arts and strategy, and the enormous role that the traditions of Shintoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism had in influencing samurai ideals.

He further amplified these views in his latest book, The Political Mind.

Bateson revisited the topic in his 1979 book Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity, and other scholars have continued to explore the connection between natural selection and systems theory.

Bloom championed the idea of ' Great Books ' education and became famous for his criticism of contemporary American higher education, with his views being expressed in his bestselling 1987 book, The Closing of the American Mind.

The Closing of the American Mind is a 1987 book by Allan Bloom.