Favorite Learning Theory/Teaching books

Howdy all,
So, what are your favorite books that impact your teaching/learning?
Bert and I are book freaks, so here are some of ours...
(Keep in mind that the majority of my education work has been in CBT and Intelligent Tutoring Systems rather than stand-up classroom based, although I've been a classroom 'human' instructor for the last 8 years or so).
Overall learning theory:

"Cognitive Science foundations of Instruction" (old, kind of out-dated, but still good)
"E-Learning and the Science of Instruction" (VERY new, outstanding research)

"Designing World Class ELearning" (Roger Schank, who I consider the guru)
"Information Anxiety" (Richard Saul Wurman; nobody can organize information for 'understanding' like he can)
[ he has other good books including "Tell me a Story", about using stories for learning, and if you go back far enough, you'll get to his AI classics]
Just about anything by Donald Norman (The Design of Everyday Things, Things that Make Us Smart) -- mainly for usability, interface and interaction designers, etc. but a lot of what he says can be applied.
We read lots and lots of brain and memory books; I don't have a list handy.
" Flow: the psychology of optimal experience" (there is no frickin' way I can spell this guy's name, but this is the correct book title, and it's still in print, plus there are follow-ons). I used this in my game development days, but comes in VERY handy, especially when designing lab exercises for the classroom, or CBT.
"Digital Game-Based Learning"
There's a lot of older research from the days of Intelligent Tutoring Systems, so I used to read conference papers from those days and they have some of the best research results. Xerox PARC has done a TON of work in learning theory, perhaps more than I've seen just about anywhere else, but you have to really dig now to find their stuff in books.
"Karel++" (an approach to teaching OO -- even to young kids)
I'll try to dig up some more, and I also have references to articles, but I gotta find those...
cheers,
Kathy

Apart from HFJ my son's favorite book is Objects First

"E-Learning and the Science of Instruction" (VERY new, outstanding research)
Authors Ruth Colvin Clark and Richard E. Mayer? I just read Mayer's "Multimedia Learning", also a summary of some research. It really appealed to me in it's straight forward style and direct applicability to practice. I'm even considering giving a seminar/talk on it next year. Will have to order "E-Learning and the Science of Instruction" pronto.

We read lots and lots of brain and memory books; I don't have a list handy.
You mean you forgot them?

[ August 17, 2003: Message edited by: Pauline McNamara ]

One of the books that strongly influenced me is
The Passionate Teacher
by Robert L. Fried.
It's an excellent book on teaching in general. Plus, it gives lots of great recommendations for curriculum development, which is always a challenge in our field where there's always too much to learn.
Of course, part of the book's charm is its title, which sounds like a romance novel.

When I searched for it at amazon.com, I discovered it's now in second edition, and there's another book by the same author called "The Passionate Learner". I'm about to order both.
[ August 17, 2003: Message edited by: Kenneth Kousen ]

"Digital Game-Based Learning"
Just realized that an article I've been schlepping around and not getting to reading is by the same author, Marc Prensky.
The article is a summary of the theory behind their approach, a white paper actually. Now I have more reason to actually read it, will have to move it to the top of the pile.

Here' the link to the site with the paper
http://www.games2train.com/site/html/learning.html
There's a few chapters of the book available at a different address
http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/default.asp
[ August 18, 2003: Message edited by: Pauline McNamara ]