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I have withdrawn the two books you can see on Amazon.

More recent articles cover most of the topics better, and the four books below are in preparation.

Many of the chapters first appeared as "Articles" you can find via my Linkedin profile.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/grahamberrisford/recent-activity/articles/

A Systems Thinker’s view of Enterprise Architecture	A Systems Thinker’s view of Description and Reality	A Systems Thinker’s view of Systems Thinkers	A Systems Thinker’s view of Sociology
	How we describe reality, and a philosophical basis for systems thinking.	Comparing and contrasting systems thinkers’ ideas, with new insights.	A logical analysis of social systems thinking and modern social philosophy.
EA history EA method history Zachman’s framework What TOGAF is and is not ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010 EA today Positioning EA today An architecture value stream Architect roles EA and systems thinking Intro to the system thinking triad System theories System theories and EA Service-orientation in EA and BA EA vision and reality EA domain insights Enterprise business architecture Enterprise data architecture	Intro to the system thinking triad Who we are Typology How we describe things How we relate things How we assess truth How we typify things Structural and behavioral views Domain knowledge Domain knowledge Vocabularies and grammars Taxonomic trees Ontological concept graphs Causality Determinism and probability Consciousness and free will Causal analysis Systemology Entity and event modeling The systems thinking triad ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010 Semiotics The problem of universals Semiotic and other triads	Preface Foundations System thinking approaches Bertalanffy’s ideas - GST Systems in general Maturana’s ideas Closed systems thinking Ashby’s ideas - cybernetics Closed system diagrams Forrester’s ideas Meadows’ ideas Senge’s ideas Open systems thinking Event-driven systems Business architecture Abstraction from detail Soft systems thinking ideas Ackoff’s ideas Beer’s ideas Deeper thinking Purpose Hierarchies of knowledge Information Feedback Self-organization Change Complexity System philosophy Abstracting description from reality Abstracting systems from reality The systems thinking triad Semiotic triads Types,instances and things	Foundations Two kinds of system Systems that kill and mutate Two kinds of social system The teleology of systems Messages, memories & money Simple stories, complex entities Maturana’s ideas Social systems thinking Social entities and systems Social systems thinking part I Rules and violations part I Social systems thinking part II Rules and violations part II Socio-cultural thinking Social philosophy The concepts of social justice The politics of sexual equality Impacts on society Complexity Hierarchies of knowledge Complexity “Complexity in the universe” Complex adaptive systems