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Run Lola Run
Snow Cake
Creativity Today
Design and Layout
Graphic Design School
The Explorer's Eye
The Pig that Wants to be Eaten
Ideas
The Empty Raincoat
Business the Richard Branson Way
Re-imagine
Exercises in Style
A Short History of Nearly Everything
How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci
Oulipo Compendium
POD People
Flash Fiction
Review of How to Change Your Life in 7 Steps
Don't Sweat the Small Stuff
Screw it, Let's do it
Freakonomics
Blink
How to Get Ideas
The Art of Travel
Introducing Chaos
Deep Simplicity
Introducing Quantum Theory
Introducing Fractal Geometry
Review of Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
Nature's Chaos
Zen in the Art of Writing
The Art of Possibility
Experimental Tarvel
The Art of Looking Sideways
The Alchemist
The Power of Now
The monk who sold his Ferrari
Review of Man's Search for Meaning
Review of Einstein's Dreams
Review of The Ultimate Book of Business Thinking
Review of What Do You Care What Other People Think?
Review of The Tipping Point
Review of Who Moved My Cheese?
Review of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Review of Zeno and the Tortoise
Review of Chicken Soup for the Soul
Review of Emergence
Review of Pooh and the Philosophers
Review of Business The Ultimate Resource
Review of Shackleton's Way
Review of Chicken Soup for the Soul at Work
Review of Reckoning with Risk
Review of Field of Dreams
Review of Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway
Review of 101 Philosophy Problems
Review of The Spirited Business
Review of Genius
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Book Reviews

This section features purely personal reviews of books and the occasional DVD that I have enjoyed and found interesting, stimulating and useful in the pursuit of change and improvement.

Many thanks to friends and colleagues who have suggested books.Feel free to let me know the title of your favourite.

The Book List

Review of Business The Ultimate ResourceReview of Field of DreamsReview of The Ultimate Book of Business ThinkingReview of Pooh and the PhilosophersReview of That Attitude BookReview of Chicken Soup for the Soul at WorkReview of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle MaintenanceReview of Who Moved My Cheese?Review of EmergenceReview of Shackleton's WayReview of Zeno and the TortoiseReview of The Tipping PointReview of Chicken Soup for the SoulReview of 101 Philosophy Problems

Review of Reckoning with RiskReview of Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway Review of Genius Review of The Spirited Business Review of What Do You Care What Other People Think? It's Not How Good You Are... Einstein's Dreams Man's Search for Meaning Unshrink Review of Zen Questions The monk who sold his Ferrari The Power of Now The Alchemist  

The Art of Looking Sideways   Experimental Travel The Art of Possibility   Zen in the Art of Writing   Nature's Chaos Introducing Chaos Introducing Fractal Geometry Introducing Quantum Theory Deep Simplicity Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth The Art of Travel Blink How to Get Ideas    

 Freakonomics Screw it, Just do it. Review of How to Change Your Life in 7 Steps Don't Sweat the Small Stuff POD People How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci Review of Exercises in Style Review of Oulipo Compendium Review of Flash Fiction Review of A Short History of Nearly Everything review of Business the Richard Branson Way Review of Re-imagine Review of Creativity Today

 Design and Layout Graphic Design School The Empty Raincoat Ideas The Pig that Wants to be Eaten The Explorer's Eye Ru Lola Run Snow Cake The Diving Bell and the Butterfly                  

Awaiting reading

Reviews for the following books and others I read on impulse will appear soon.
View Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain on Amazon
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain - Betty Edwards
View The Prince on Amazon
The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli
View The Pyramid Principle on Amazon
The Pyramid Principle - Barbara Minto

Management as a Performing ArtManagement as a Performing Art - Peter Vaill

ThinkertoysThinkertoys and Thinkpak- Michael Michalko

The Artist's WayThe Artist’s Way - Julia Cameron

The Myths of InnovationThe Myths of Innovation - Steve Berkun

Everyday MattersEveryday Matters - Dannny Gregory

How to Make a Journal of Your LifeHow to Make a Journal of Your Life - Dan Price

The Creative LicenceThe Creative License - Danny Gregory

Radical SimplicityRadical Simplicity - Dan Price

Ray Bradbury StoriesRay Bradbury Stories - 100 of his most celebrated stories

The Power of Personal StorytellingThe Power of Personal Storytelling - Jack Maguire

The March of Folly - Barbara W. Tuchman

Dr Strangelove’s Game - Thomas A. Bass

BenchmarkingBenchmarking - Bengt Karlof & Svante Ostblom

The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook - Peter Senge

Rumi The MasnaviRumi The Masnave Book 1

The Hero with a Thousand FacesThe Hero with a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell

The Hero with a Thousand FacesThe Renegade Writer - Linda Formichelli and Diana Burrell

End the Struggle and Dance with LifeEnd the Struggle and Dance with Life

The ABC's of Effective FeedbackThe ABC’s of Effective Feedback

The MagusThe Magus - John Fowles

Tales from the TaoTales from the Tao - Solala Towler

PresencePresence - Peter Senge

FasterFaster - James Gleick

On Growth and FormOn Growth and Form - D’arcy Thompson

Buckminster Fuller's UniverseBuckminster Fuller’s Universe

ShambhalaShambhala The Sacred Path of the Warrior - Chogjam Trungpa

Zen and tha Art of Systems AnalysisZen and the Art of Systems Analysis - Patricj McDermott

Wind, Sand and StarsWind. Sand and Stars - Antoine De Saint Exupery

Arctic DreamsArctic Dreams - Barry Lopez

The Letters of Van GoghThe Letters of Van Gogh - Mark Roskill

Meetings with Remarkable MenMeetings with Remarkable Men - George Gurdjieff

The Hand of PoetryThe Hand of Poetry

...and many more.

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