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• • • Art
      including Aesthetics, Visual Arts, Other
    • Career, Personal Development
    • Creativity, Design, Innovation
    • Crime, Law Enforcement
    • Economics, Finance, Risk
    • Health, Health Care
    • History
    • Humor
    • Law
    • Management
      including Complexity and Systems Thinking, Corporate Responsibility and Ethics, Data, Leadership, Organization and Culture, Productivity, Quality, Strategy, General
    • Marketing
      including Branding and Positioning, Customer Experience, Pricing, Public Relations, Sales, General
    • Nonprofit
    • Post-Truth
    • Psychology, Mind, Spirit
    • Science, Technology, Engineering, Math
    • Writing and Communication
      including Broadcasting, Copywriting, Presentations, Publishing, Storytelling
    • Other
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Art

Aesthetics

• • • Art in the Age of Emergence by Michael J. Pearce
    • The Art of Seeing: An Interpretation of the Aesthetic Encounter by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Rick E. Robinson
    • The Painted Word by Tom Wolfe
    • The Truth About Art: Reclaiming Quality by Patrick Doorly
    • The Way of Beauty: Five Meditations for Spiritual Transformation by François Cheng
    • What Art Is by Arthur C. Danto

Artists

• • • The Jungle That I Am by Nina Alexander
    • Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud by Martin Gayford
    • My Life as a Street Painter in Florence, Italy by Kelly Borsheim
    • A Painter’s Progress: A Portrait of Lucian Freud by David Dawson
    • The Path of Totality: A Memoir/Manifesto by David Schoffman
    • Rodin on Art and Artists. Conversations with Paul Gsell

Drawing and Painting

• • • The Artist’s Complete Guide to Figure Drawing: A Contemporary Perspective on the Classical Tradition by Anthony Ryder
    • Blue and Yellow Don’t Make Green: How to mix the color you want—every time by Michael Wilcox
    • Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter by James Gurney
    • Composition: Understanding Line, Notan, and Color by Arthur Wesley Dow
    • Drawing From Observation by Brian Curtis
    • Drawing Is Thinking by Milton Glaser
    • Drawn to Life: 20 Golden Years of Disney Master Classes by Walt Stanchfield and Don Hahn
    • The Figurative Artist’s Handbook: A Contemporary Guide to Figure Drawing, Painting, and Composition by Robert Zeller
    • Figure Drawing For Artists: Making Every Mark Count by Steve Huston
    • Harley Brown’s Eternal Truths for Every Artist by Harley Brown
    • How I Paint: Secrets of a Sunday Painter by Thomas S. Buechner
    • Lessons in Classical Drawing: Essential Techniques from Inside the Atelier by Juliette Aristides
    • Newberry Color Theory by Michael Newberry
    • Stick Figures: Drawing as a Human Practice by D.B. Dowd

Photography

• • • Art Can Help by Robert Adams
    • Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs of People by Henry Carroll
    • Seeing It: Photography and Commentary by Mark Hopkins

Visual Arts – General

• • • 101 Things to Learn in Art School by Kit White
    • Art and Courage: Stories to Inspire the Artist-Warrior Within by John Paul Thornton
    • The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro
    • Art Is Work by Milton Glaser
    • The Artist’s Model: From Etty to Spencer by Martin Postle and William Vaughan
    • Beyond the Blue: Artwork and Writing from the Prison Arts Collective
    • A Gallery Without Walls: Selling Art in Alternative Venues by Margaret Danielak
    • Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin Kleon
    • The Value of Art by Michael Findlay
    • Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing by Margaret Livingstone
    • Visual Intelligence: Sharpen Your Perception, Change Your Life by Amy E. Herman

Other Arts

• • • 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School by Matthew Frederick
    • 101 Things I Learned in Culinary School by Louis Eguaras
    • 101 Things I Learned in Fashion School by Alfredo Cabrera
    • 101 Things I Learned in Film School by Neil Landau

Career, Personal Development

• • • The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You’ll Ever Need by Daniel H. Pink
    • The Art of Being Indispensable at Work by Bruce Tulgan
    • Choosing Civility: The Twenty-Five Rules of Considerate Conduct by P.M. Forni
    • Congratulations, By the Way: Some Thoughts on Kindness by George Saunders
    • The Decision Makeover: An Intentional Approach to Living the Life You Want by Mike Whitaker
    • Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovative to Work by Whitney Johnson
    • Humans are Underrated: What High Achievers Know that Brilliant Machines Never Will by Geoff Colvin
    • Life is Tremendous by Charlie “Tremendous” Jones
    • People Tools: 54 Strategies for building relationships, creating joy, and embracing prosperity by Alan C. Fox
    • Primary Greatness: The 12 Levers of Success by Stephen R. Covey
    • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
    • Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future by Dorie Clark
    • The Road to Character by David Brooks
    • Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford
    • Strengths Finder 2.0 by Tom Rath
    • Success Build to Last: Creating a Life That Matters by Jerry Porras, Stewart Emery, Mark Thompson
    • What You’re Really Meant to Do: A Roadmap for Reaching Your Unique Potential by Robert Steven Kaplan

Creativity, Design, Innovation

• • • Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life by Rory Sutherland
    • Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide by John Cleese
    • The Deviant’s Advantage: How to Use Fringe Ideas to Create Mass Markets by Watts Wacker and Ryan Mathews
    • Eat, Sleep, Innovate: How to Make Creativity an Everyday Habit Inside Your Organization by Scott D. Anthony, Paul Cobban, Natalie Painchaud, Andy Parker
    • The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton Christensen
    • The Laws of Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life by John Maeda
    • Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture by W. Patrick McCray
    • The Myths of Creativity: The Truth About How Innovative Companies and People Generate Great Ideas by David Burkus
    • The Non-Designer’s Guide to Design Thinking by Kunitake Saso
    • Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono, M.D.
    • A Technique for Producing Ideas by James Webb Young
    • Think Out of the Box by Mike Vance and Diane Deacon

Crime, Law Enforcement

• • • The Crime Fighter: How You Can Make Your Community Crime Free by Jack Maple
    • Fixing Broken Windows: Restoring Order and Reducing Crime in Our Communities by George L. Kelling and Catherine M. Coles
    • An Introduction to Modern Police Firearms by Duke Roberts and Allen P. Bristow
    • Policing Needham: A Story of Suburban Cops by Lisa Brems
    • The Profession: a Memoir of Community, Race, and the Arc of Policing in America by Bill Bratton with Peter Knobler
    • Turnaround: How America’s Top Cop Reversed the Crime Epidemic by William J. Bratton

Economics, Finance, Risk

Economics

• • • 50 Economics Classics: Your shortcut to the most important ideas on capitalism, finance, and the global economy by Tom Butler-Bowden
    • Essays on Hayek edited by Fritz Machlup
    • I, Pencil by Leonard E. Read
    • When More Is Not Better: Overcoming America’s Obsession with Economic Efficiency by Roger L. Martin

Finance

• • • Cash Flow Surge: 101 No-Cost and Low-Cost Fast-Action Strategies to Boost Your Business Cash Flow by Alastair Thomson
    • Debunkery: Seeing Through Wall Street’s Money-Killing Myths by Ken Fisher
    • Financial Intelligence: A Manager’s Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean by Karen Berman and Joe Knight
    • HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business: Think Big, Buy Small, Own Your Own Company by Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
    • How Finance Works: The HBR Guide to Thinking Smart About the Numbers by Mihir A. Desai
    • How to Think About Money by Jonathan Clements
    • The Interpretation of Financial Statements: The Classic 1937 Edition by Benjamin Graham and Spencer B. Meredith
    • The Laws of Wealth: Psychology and the Secret to Investing Success by Daniel Crosby
    • The Little Book of Valuation: How to Value a Company, Pick a Stock, and Profit by Aswath Damodaran
    • The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor by Howard Marks
    • Narrative and Numbers: The Value of Stories in Business by Aswath Damodaran
    • The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness by Morgan Housel
    • Seeing the Big Picture: Business Acumen to Build Your Credibility, Career, and Company by Kevin Cope
    • Small Business Finance and Valuation by Rick Nason and Dan Nordqvist

Risk

• • • Agility: How to Navigate the Unknown and Seize Opportunity in a World of Disruption by Leo M. Tilman and General Charles Jacoby
    • Rethinking Risk Management: Critically Examining Old Ideas and New Concepts by Rick Nason
    • Risk: Why We Fear the Things We Shouldn’t—and Put Ourselves in Greater Danger by Dan Gardner
    • Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions by Gerd Gigerenzer
    • Why Can’t You Just Give Me The Number? An Executive’s Guide to Using Probabilistic Thinking to Manage Risk and Make Better Decisions by Patrick Leach

Health

Health, Fitness

• • • Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms of New England and Eastern Canada: A Photographic Guidebook to Finding and Using Key Species by David L. Spahr
    • Clean Gut: The Breakthrough Plan for Eliminating the Root Cause of Disease and Revolutionizing Your Health by Alejandro Junger, MD
    • Forest Bathing: The Japanese Art and Science of Shinrin-Yoku by Qing Li, MD, PhD
    • In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan
    • Mushrooms for Health and Longevity by Ken Babal, CN
    • Strength Training Anatomy by Frédéric Delavier

Health Care System

• • • Affordable Excellence: The Singapore Healthcare Story by William A. Haseltine
    • Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande, M.D.
    • Healthy Competition: What’s Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It by Michael F. Cannon and Michael D. Tanner
    • The Innovator’s Prescription by Clayton Christensen, Jerome H Grossman M.D., and Jason Hwang M.D.
    • The Take-Charge Patient: How You Can Get the Best Medical Care by Martine Ehrenclou
    • Urgent Care: 10 Cures for America’s Ailing Healthcare System by Minda Wilson, J.D.

History

• • • 101 Souls Facing Forward by John M. Crowther
    • The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge edited by Amity Shales and Matthew Denhart
    • The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui
    • Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston
    • A Full Life: Reflections at 90 by Jimmy Carter
    • Mansfield and Dirksen: Bipartisan Giants of the Senate by Marc C. Johnson
    • Simple Sabotage Field Manual by Office of Strategic Services
    • They Called Us Enemy by George Takei

Humor

• • • The ACME Catalog by Charles Carney. Illustrations by Scott Grass
    • Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography by Eric Idle
    • Does It Fart? The Definitive Field Guide to Animal Flatulence by Nick Caruso and Dani Rabaiotti
    • Fart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School, Compiled and Edited by Carl Japikse
    • I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar: A Collection of Egregious Errors, Disconcerting
      Bloopers, and Other Linguistic Slip-Ups by Sharon Eliza Nichols
    • Idiocracy (DVD) starring Luke Wilson, directed by Mike Judge, 84 minutes.
    • The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong by Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull
    • Schottenfreude: German Words for the Human Condition by Ben Schott
    • Stick Man’s Really Bad Day by Steve Mockus

Law

• • • 101 Things I Learned in Law School by Vibeke Norgaard Martin
    • Contracts in the Real World: Stories of Popular Contracts and Why They Matter by Lawrence A. Cunningham
    • Intellectual Property Law: Legal Aspects of Innovation and Competition by Kurt M. Saunders
    • Intellectual Property and the Law of Ideas by Kurt M. Saunders
    • Nolo’s Quick LLC: All You Need to Know About Limited Liability Companies by Anthony Mancuso
    • The Shareholder Value Myth: How putting shareholders first harms investors, corporations, and the public by Lynn Stout

Management

Complexity, Systems Thinking

• • • The Conclusion Trap: Four Steps to Better Decisions by Dan Markovitz
    • The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization by Peter M. Senge
    • It’s Not Complicated: The Art and Science of Complexity in Business by Rick Nason
    • Managing the Unexpected: Assuring High Performance in an Age of Complexity by Karl E. Weick and Kathleen M. Sutcliffe
    • Simple Complexity: a Management Book for the Rest of Us, a Guide to Systems Thinking by William Donaldson
    • Systems Thinking for Business and Management by Umit S. Bititci and Agnessa Spanellis
    • Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by General Stanley McChrystal with Tantum Collins, David Silverman, and Chris Fussell
    • Thinking in Systems by Donella H. Meadows
    • Using Systems Thinking to Solve Real-World Problems by Jamie P. Monat and Thomas F. Gannon

Corporate Responsibility, Ethics

• • • The B Corp Handbook: How to Use Business as a Force for Good by Ryan Honeyman
    • Discover Your True North by Bill George
    • How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything…in Business (and in Life) by Dov Seidman
    • Purposeful Enterprise: Design Your Organization to Change the World by Roger Mader
    • The Responsible Company: What We’ve Learned from Patagonia’s First 40 Years by Yvon Chouinard and Vincent Stanley

Data

• • • Data Driven: Profiting From Your Most Important Business Asset by Thomas C. Redman
    • The Flaw of Averages: Why We Underestimate Risk in the Face of Uncertainty by Sam L. Savage
    • Good Charts Workbook: Tips, Tools, and Exercises for Making Better Data Visualizations by Scott Berinato
    • The Halo Effect and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers by Phil Rosenzweig
    • HBR Guide to Data Analytics Basics for Managers
    • The Tyranny of Metrics by Jerry Z. Muller

Leadership

• • • Authentic Leadership: Rediscovering the Secrets to Creating Lasting Value by Bill George
    • Coach the Person, Not the Problem: A Guide to Using Reflective Inquiry by Marcia Reynolds
    • The Excellence Dividend: Meeting the Tech Tide with Work That Wows and Jobs That Last by Tom Peters
    • Excellence Now: Extreme Humanism by Tom Peters
    • Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
    • Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling by Edgar H. Schein
    • Lead from the Heart: Transformational Leadership for the 21st Century by Mark C. Crowley
    • Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall
    • Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee
    • The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work by Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer
    • The Shaping of an Effective Leader: Eight Formative Principles of Leadership by Gayle D. Beebe
    • Turn the Ship Around: How to Create Leadership at Every Level by L. David Marquet
    • What Keeps Leaders Up at Night: Recognizing and Resolving Your Most Troubling Management Issues by Nicole Lipkin

Organization, Culture

• • • Boundary Spanning in Practice by Kitty Wooley et al.
    • Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool’s Guide to Surviving with Grace by Gordon MacKenzie
    • Organize for Complexity: How to get life back into work to build the high-performance organization by Niels Pflaeging
    • Understanding Organizations Finally! Structuring in Sevens by Henry Mintzberg

Productivity

• • • 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done by Peter Bregman
    • Managing Oneself and What Makes an Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker
    • The ONE Thing by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan
    • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport

Quality

• • • The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande, M.D.
    • The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education by W. Edwards Deming
    • Quality Is Still Free: Making Quality Certain in Uncertain Times by Philip B. Crosby
    • Slack: Getting Past Burnout , Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency by Tom DeMarco
    • The Toyota Way by Jeffrey Liker

Strategy

• • • 2021 Castlin Manifesto: Strategy in Polemy by JP Castlin
    • The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists by Richard P. Rumelt
    • Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points that Challenge Every Company by Andrew S. Grove
    • Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works by A.G. Lafley and Roger L. Martin
    • Stragility: Excelling at Strategic Changes by Ellen R. Auster and Lisa Hillenbrand

Management – General

• • • 101 Things I Learned in Business School by Michael W. Preis
    • The Balance Myth: Rethinking Work-Life Success by Teresa A. Taylor
    • Boards that Lead: When to Change, When to Partner, and When to Stay Out of the Way by Ram Charan, Dennis Carey, Michael Useem
    • The Business Model Book: Design, Build, and Adapt Business Ideas That Thrive by Adam J. Bock and Gerard George
    • Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results by Shane Parrish
    • Confessions of an Accidental Businessman: It Takes a Lifetime to Find Wisdom by James A. Autry
    • Curiosity by Harvard Business Review Press
    • Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan
    • Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t by Jim Collins
    • How to Build a Better Business Plan: A Hands-On Action Guide for Business Owners by Alastair Thomson
    • It Worked For Me: In Life and Leadership by Colin Powell with Tony Koltz
    • The Lost Art of General Management by Rob Waite
    • Management Rewired: Why feedback doesn’t work and other surprising lessons from the latest brain science by Charles S. Jacobs
    • More Human: How the Power of AI Can Transform the Way You Lead by Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter
    • The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t by Robert I. Sutton
    • People Tools For Business: 50 Strategies for Building Success, Creating Wealth, and Finding Happiness by Alan C. Fox
    • The Powell Principles: 24 Lessons From Battle-Proven Leader Colin Powell by Oren Harari
    • The Power of Nice: How to Conquer the Business World With Kindness by Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval
    • The Power of Small: Why Little Things Make All the Difference by Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval
    • Power Questions: Build Relationships, Win New Business, and Influence Others by Andrew Sobel and Jerold Panas
    • Shtick to Business: What the masters of comedy can teach you about breaking rules, being fearless, and building a serious career by Peter McGraw
    • The Soft Edge: Where Great Companies Create Lasting Success by Rich Karlgaard
    • What Management Is: How It Works and Why It’s Everyone’s Business by Joan Magretta
    • Winning by Jack Welch with Suzi Welch

Marketing

Branding, Positioning

• • • Assemblage: The Art and Science of Brand Transformation by Emmanuel Probst
    • Break From the Pack: How to Compete in a Copycat Economy by Oren Harari
    • The Brand Challenge: Adapting Branding to Sectorial Imperatives edited by Kartikeya Kompella
    • Brand Naming: The Complete Guide to Creating a Name for Your Company, Product, or Service by Rob Meyerson
    • Eat Your Greens: Fact-Based Thinking to Improve Your Brand’s Health edited by Wiemer Snijders
    • Effectiveness in Context: A Manual for Brand Building by Les Binet and Peter Field
    • How Brands Grow by Byron Sharp
    • How Not to Plan: 66 Ways to Screw it Up by Les Binet and Sarah Carter
    • In Search of the Obvious: The Antidote for Today’s Marketing Mess by Jack Trout
    • Repositioning: Marketing in an Era of Competition, Change, and Crisis by Jack Trout with Steve Rivkin

Customer Experience

• • • Broken Windows, Broken Business: How the Smallest Remedies Reap the Biggest Rewards by Michael Levine
    • The Experience Economy: Work is Theatre & Every Business is a Stage by B. Joseph Pine II and James H. Gilmore
    • Fans Not Customers: How to Create Growth Companies in a No Growth World by Vernon W. Hill II with Bob Andelman
    • The Kindness Revolution: The Company-Wide Culture Shift that Inspires Phenomenal Customer Service by Ed Horrell
    • One Little Spark! Mickey’s Ten Commandments and The Road to Imagineering by Marty Sklar
    • Outside In: The Power of Putting Customers at the Center of Your Business by Harley Manning and Kerry Bodine
    • The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk
    • Treat Your Customers: Thirty Lessons on Service and Sales That I Learned at my Family’s Dairy Queen Store by Bob Miglani
    • Uncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your Business by Frances Frei and Anne Morriss
    • You Can’t Win a Fight with Your Client and 49 Other Rules for Providing Great Service by Tom Markert

Pricing

• • • The 1% Windfall: How Successful Companies Use Price to Profit and Grow by Rafi Mohammed
    • Hillstrom’s Pricing: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Optimizing Customer Behavior via Prices by Kevin Hillstrom
    • Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage of It) by William Poundstone
    • Winning the Profit Game: Smarter Pricing, Smarter Branding by Robert G. Docters, Michael R. Reopel, Jeanne-Mey Sun and Stephen M. Tanny

Public Relations

• • • The Fall of Advertising and the Rise of PR by Al Ries and Laura Ries
    • Rethinking Reputation: How PR Trumps Marketing and Advertising in the New Media World by Fraser P. Seitel and John Doorley

Sales

• • • No Bull Selling by Hank Trisler
    • To Sell is Human by Daniel H. Pink

Marketing – General

• • • 101 Things I Learned in Advertising School by Tracy Arrington
    • 2030 B2B Trends: Contrarian Ideas for The Next Decade by Peter Weinberg and Jon Lombardo
    • Always Be Testing: The Complete Guide to Google Website Optimizer by Bryan Eisenber and John Quarto-vonTivafar with Lisa T. Davis
    • Asking For Trouble: Understanding What People Think When You Can’t Trust What They Say by Jon Cohen
    • BadMen: How Advertising Went From a Minor Inconvenience to a Major Menace by Bob Hoffman
    • Big Data Marketing: Engage Your Customers More Effectively and Drive Value by Lisa Arthur
    • Bottom-Up Marketing by Al Ries and Jack Trout
    • Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger
    • Content Marketing: Think Like a Publisher—How to Use Content to Market Online and in Social Media by Rebecca Lieb
    • Crushing YouTube: How to Make Money on YouTube and Grow a Channel Fast by Joseph Hogue
    • The Dollarization Discipline: How Smart Companies Create Customer Value… and Profit from It by Jeffrey J. Fox and Richard C. Gregory
    • Duct Tape Marketing by John Jantsch
    • Email Marketing by the Numbers by Chris Baggott
    • Everyone’s a Critic: Winning Customers in a Review-Driven World by Bill Tancer
    • Go Luck Yourself: 40 Ways to Stack the Odds in Your Brand’s Favour by Andy Nairn
    • How to Write an Inspired Creative Brief by Howard Ibach
    • The Impact Equation: Are You Making Things Happen or Just Making Noise? by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith
    • The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More by Chris Anderson
    • Marketing Above the Noise: Achieve Strategic Advantage with Marketing that Matters by Linda J. Popky
    • Marketing and the Bottom Line by Tim Ambler
    • Marketing Insights from A to Z: 80 Concepts Every Manager Needs to Know by Philip Kotler
    • Marketing ROI: The Path to Campaign, Customer, and Corporate Profitability by James D. Lenskold
    • Media Planning from Recency to Engagement by Erwin Ephron
    • My Life in Advertising and Scientific Advertising by Claude C. Hopkins
    • The New Rules of Marketing and PR, Fourth Edition by David Meerman Scott
    • Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
    • The Paradox of Excellence: How Great Performance Can Kill Your Business by David Mosby and Michael Weissman
    • Pyramids Are Tombs by Joe Phelps
    • Restaurant & Bar Marketing: The No Bullshit Guide to Improving Guest Counts by Erik Shellenberger
    • The Rouser Manifesto 2019
    • The Tao of Twitter: Changing Your Life and Business 140 Characters at a Time by Mark W. Schaefer
    • Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers by Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares
    • The Truth about Search Engine Optimization by Rebecca Lieb
    • The Unpublished David Ogilvy: His secrets of management, creativity, and success—from private papers and public fulminations

Nonprofit

• • • The Art of Relevance by Nina Simon
    • The Five Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Organization by Peter Drucker et al
    • Nonprofit Meetings, Minutes & Records: How to Run Your Nonprofit Corporation So You Don’t Run Into Trouble by Anthony Mancusco
    • How to Write Knockout Proposals: What you must know (and say) to win funding every time by Joseph Barbato

Post-Truth

• • • A Consumer’s Guide to Information: How to Avoid Losing Your Mind on the Internet by Katherine Pickering Antonova
    • The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters By Tom Nichols
    • On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt

Psychology, Mind, Spirit

Mind, Spirit

• • • Be Nobody by Lama Marut
    • The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu with Douglas Abrams
    • Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill by Matthieu Ricard
    • Life’s Journeys According to Mister Rogers: Things to Remember Along the Way by Fred Rogers
    • One Year Wiser: 365 Illustrated Meditations by Mike Medaglia
    • The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
    • Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears by Pema Chӧdrӧn
    • The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff

Psychology

• • • Decisionscape: How Thinking Like an Artist Can Improve Our Decision-Making by Elspeth Kirkman
    • The Emotional Intelligence Quick Book by Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves
    • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
    • Freeing Yourself from Anxiety: 4 Simple Steps to Overcome Worry and Create the Life You Want by Tamar E. Chansky, Ph.D.
    • How Full Is Your Bucket? Positive Strategies for Work and Life by Tom Rath and  Donald O. Clifton
    • Learned Optimism by Martin E. P. Seligman
    • The Little Book of Mindfulness: 10 Minutes a Day to Less Stress, More Peace by Patrizia Collard
    • Quiet Influence: The Introvert’s Guide to Making a Difference by Jennifer B. Kahnweiler
    • Real Influence: Persuade Without Pushing and Gain Without Giving In by Mark Goulston, M.D. and John Ullmen
    • The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life by Philip Zimbardo and John Boyd
    • You’re Not That Great by Daniel Crosby

Science, Technology, Engineering, Math

• • • 101 Things I Learned in Engineering School by John Kuprenas
    • Chance: A Guide to Gambling, Love, The Stock Market, and Just About Everything Else by Amir D. Aczel
    • Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences by John Allen Paulos
    • Statistical Questions from the Classroom by J. Michael Shaughnessy and Beth Chance
    • Water 4.0: The Past, Present, and Future of the World’s Most Vital Resource by David Sedlak

Writing and Communication

Broadcasting

• • • Every Life a Story: Natalie Jacobson Reporting by Natalie Jacobson
    • WBCN and the American Revolution: How a Radio Station Defined Politics, Counterculture, and Rock and Roll
      by Bill Lichtenstein
    • WCVB-TV Boston: How We Built the Greatest Television Station in America by Robert M. Bennett

Copywriting

• • • Copywriting Is… 30-or-So Thoughts on Thinking Like a Copywriter by Andrew Boulton
    • Copywriting Made Simple: How to Write Powerful and Persuasive Copy that Sells by Tom Albrighton
    • Making Ads Pay: Timeless Tips for Successful Copywriting by John Caples

Presentations, Storytelling

• • • The Articulate Executive in Action by Granville N. Toogood
    • Don’t Sell Me, Tell Me: How to use storytelling to connect with the hearts and wallets of a hungry audience by Greg Koorhan
    • Life’s a Pitch: The Essential Guide to Presentations by Terry Ward
    • On Speaking Well: How to Give a Speech with Style, Substance, and Clarity by Peggy Noonan
    • Pitch Perfect: How to Say It Right the First Time, Every Time by Bill McGowan
    • Story Mythos: A Movie Guide to Better Business Stories by Shane Meeker
    • TED Talks Storytelling: 23 Storytelling Techniques from the Best TED Talks by Akash Karia

Publishing

• • • The Insider’s Guide to Book Publishing Success by by Eric Kampmann and Margot Atwell
    • An Insider’s Guide to Publishing by David Comfort

Writing – General

• • • 100 Words Almost Everyone Confuses and Misuses by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries
    • The Elements of Eloquence: Secrets of the Perfect Turn of Phrase by Mark Forsyth
    • Elmore Leonard’s 10 Rules of Writing
    • Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content by Ann Handley
    • Federal Plain Language Guidelines
    • Get to the Point: Painless advice for writing memos, letters, and e-mails your colleagues and clients will understand by Elizabeth Danziger
    • How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times by Roy Peter Clark
    • Lapsing Into a Comma: A Curmudgeon’s Guide to the Many Things That Can Go Wrong in Print—and How to Avoid Them by Bill Walsh
    • The Little Book of Confusables: Simple spelling and usage tips to help smart people avoid stupid mistakes by Sarah Townsend
    • On Writing Well: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William Zinsser
    • Words that Work by Frank Luntz

Other

• • • The 3rd Way: Building Inclusive Capitalism through Employee Ownership by Upendra Chivukula and Veny W. Musum
    • Aloha from Lavaland, directed by Phillips Payson and Susan Marie Snyder, 55 minutes
    • Building a WordPress Blog People Want to Read by Scott McNulty
    • Crowdsourcing by Daren C. Brabham
    • Einstein’s Dreams by Alan P. Lightman
    • Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder by David Weinberger
    • Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality by Jacob Tomsky
    • The Higher Education Bubble by Glenn Harlan Reynolds
    • Mayhem at Midnight by Toby Price
    • Planner Pet Peeves: Straight talk for meetings industry suppliers by Shawna Suckow
    • Supplier Pet Peeves: Straight talk for meetings industry planners by Shawna Suckow
    • The Quick and Easy Guide to Mind Map by Thomas C. Randall
    • Think India: The Rise of the World’s Next Great Power and What It Means for Every American by Vinay Rai and William L. Simon

These groupings are intended to make the list easier to read. My categories do not necessarily match the publishers’ categories.