📚 Cybernetics

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Books with cybernetics on their catalogue record, first published between 1948 and 2016, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject cybernetics in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 1,983 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Cybernetics, or control and communication in the animal and the machine	Norbert Wiener	1948	40
The Human Use of Human Beings	Norbert Wiener	1950	26
Design for a brain	William Ross Ashby	1952	12
The Computer and the Brain	John von Neumann	1958	12
An introduction to cybernetics	William Ross Ashby	1956	9
Learning theory and the symbolic processes	Orval Hobart Mowrer	1960	9
An approach to cybernetics	Gordon Pask	1961	8
Advances in Cognitive Science	Manfred Kochen	1988	8
Rise of the machines	Thomas Rid	2016	8
General system theory	Ludwig von Bertalanffy	1968	7
Brain of the firm	Stafford Beer	1972	7
Sentics	Manfred Clynes	1977	7
Advances in sociocybernetics and human development	International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics (14th 2002 Baden-Baden, Germany)	1996	7
Cyberfeminism and artificial life	Sarah Kember	2003	7
Giant brains; or, Machines that think	Edmund Callis Berkeley	1949	6
An introduction to cybernetics	W. Ross Ashby	1961	6
Wörterbuch der Kybernetik	Georg Klaus	1968	6
Cybernetics of Prejudices in the Practice of Psychotherapy	Gianfranco Cecchin	1994	6
Physiological control systems	Michael C. K. Khoo	1999	6
2006 IEEE Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems	IEEE Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems (2006 Bangkok, Thailand)	2006	6
Minds and machines	Wladyslaw Sluckin	1954	5
Cybernetics and management	Stafford Beer	1959	5
Kybernetik in philosophischer Sicht	Georg Klaus	1961	5
Geregelte Verhältnisse	Georg Vrachliotis	2011	5
Cyberpsychology and New Media	Andrew Power	2013	5
Automat und Mensch	Karl Steinbuch	1961	4
Automat und Mensch	Karl Steinbuch	1961	4
Man, memory, and machines	Corinne Jacker	1964	4
Grundbegriffe der Kybernetik	Hans-Joachim Flechtner	1966	4
Phänomen Kunst	Herbert W. Franke	1967	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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