Help - Background - Remarks - Books about Smalltalk
There are introductory texts to Smalltalk that are very low on animism (Smalltalk "objects" that "know" and "understand" and "desire"):
The Art and Science of Smalltalk
Simon Lewis
Prentice Hall 1995
ISBN 0-13-371345-8
Inside Smalltalk
Wilf Lalonde and John Pugh
Both are available in PDF-format (readable by the freely available Acrobat Reader) from Stéphane Ducasse's excellent site with documentation for Smalltalk:
(http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/WebPages/FreeBooks.html)
Both are much worth reading and are good introductions to Smalltalk