1. Beer, S. (1959), Cybernetics and Management, English Universities Press, London; John Wiley, New York, NY, reprinted 1960, 1965, new ed. (with new chapter) 1967, reprinted 1970, 1971, 1973, etc., translated into Spanish, Russian, German, Czech, Polish, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, French and Japanese.
2. Beer, S. (1966), Decision and Control – The Meaning of Operational Research and Management Cybernetics, John Wiley, 1966, reprinted 1967, 1970, 1971, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1988, etc., translated into Spanish, 1994, paperback, ISBN‐0‐471‐94838‐1.
3. Beer, S. (1968), Management Science: The Business Use of Operational Research, Aldous Books, UK and USA, hardcover and paperback, translated into German, French, Swedish, Japanese, Finnish, Dutch and Norwegian.
4. Beer, S. (1972), Brain of the Firm, 1st ed., Allan Lane; the Penguin Press, London; Herder and Herder, USA, translated into German, Italian, Swedish and French, 2nd ed. – much extended, John Wiley, London and New York, 1981, reprinted 1986, 1988, etc., translated into Russian 1994, paperback, ISBN 0‐471‐94839‐X.
5. Beer, S. (1974), Designing Freedom, CBC Learning Systems, Toronto, 1974, and John Wiley, London and New York, NY, 1975; 1993 transferred to House of Anansi, Toronto; 1994, Wiley, paperback, available in audio tape, translated into Spanish, Italian and Japanese, ISBN 0‐471‐95165‐X.