212 pages : 24 cm Acclaimed one of the "seminal books ... comparable in ultimate importance to ... Galileo or Malthus or Rousseau or Mill", Cybernetics was judged by twenty-seven historians, economists, educators, and philosophers to be one of those books published during the "past four decades," which may have a substantial impact on public thought and action in the years ahead."--Saturday Review Includes bibliographical references and index Part one : original edition -- Newtonian and Bergsonian time -- Groups and statistical mechanics -- Time series, information, and communication -- Feedback and oscillation -- Computing machines and nervous system -- Gestalt and universals -- Cybernetics and psychopathology -- Information, language, and society -- Part two : supplement chapters -- On learning and self -- reproducing machines -- Brain waves and self -- organizing systems commitment to retain 20151208 Self-Renewing 2018