73 Poems

E. E. Cummings

Four months after Cumming's death in September 1962, his widow, the photographer Marion Morehouse, collected the typescripts of 29 new poems. These poems, as well as uncollected poems published only in periodicals up to that time, make up this anthology.

A Book of Luminous Things

Czeslaw Milosz

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Robert Fulghum

When asked what he does, Robert Fulghum usually replies that he is a philosopher, and explains that what he likes to do is to think about everyday things and then to express what he thinks by writing, speaking or painting. This is a collection of his favourite observations, written over the years, that reveal simple truths about small lives with big meanings

Always We Begin Again

John McQuiston

This contemporary paraphrase of the sixth-century Rule of St Benedict was written by a busy professional who wanted, like most of us, to lead a more balanced life. One brilliant point is to always give something away when you get something new. So when I buy a new shirt, I give an old one to charity. This keeps me from expanding my possessions—although I have greater difficulty doing this with books!

Another World Is Possible IF

Susan George

The informal motto of the "anti-globalization" social movements has been "Another World is Possible."

Appreciative Inquiry Handbook

David L. Cooperrider, Diana Whitney, Jacqueline M. Stavros

The first in a series of AI Workbooks for Leaders of Change

BoBos in Paradise

David Brooks

Bobos in Paradise is an American-focused, but brilliant, breezy, and often hilarious study of the "cultural consequences of the information age".

Care of the Soul

Thomas Moore

Suggesting a new way of thinking about daily life, its problems and its creative opportunities, this book offers a therapeutic programme for bringing the soul and spirituality back into one's life, and helping one to look more deeply into emotional problems and sense sacredness in ordinary things - real friends, satisfying conversation, fulfilling work, and experiences that stay in the memory and touch the heart.

Change the World for a Fiver

We Are What We Do, a project of Community Links

Change the World for a Fiver is part of the We Are What We Do movement which launched in the UK in September 2004. The aim of We Are What We Do is to inspire us all to use our simple, everyday actions to change the world. If enough of us are willing to make some simple changes to our everyday behaviour then we really will start to change the world for the better!

Chaos

James Gleick

This book brings together different work in the new field of physics called the chaos theory, an extension of classical mechanics, in which simple and complex causes are seen to interact.

Complete Poems of Cavafy

Translated by Rae Dalven

Designing and Managing Your Career (Advice from the Harvard Business Review)

Edited by Harry Levinson

Details how to find the right management career and how to tell when you have found it, in a guide containing sections on taking self-inventory, how to handle stress, and how to achieve success.

Emotional Intelligence

Daniel Goleman

There was a time when IQ was considered the leading determinant of success. In this fascinating book, based on brain and behavioural research, Daniel Goleman argues that our IQ- idolising view of intelligence is far too narrow.

Empty Raincoat

Charles Handy

A necessary and important contribution to our understanding of the way we live now.

Faster

James Gleick

Getting Organized

Stephanie Winston

Gives advice on budgets, storage of clothing, books, and records, efficient room layout, house cleaning, and child care.

Getting to Yes

Roger Fisher, William Ury

This landmark book shows practical ways to find out what other people want, and to devise better alternatives that create a "win" for everyone.

Getting Together

Roger Fisher and Scott Brown

Go Hire Yourself An Employer

Richard K. Irish

Handbook for the Soul

Foreword by Marianne Williamson Edited by Richard Carlson & Benjamin Shield

A collection of wisdom from over 30 celebrated spiritual writers

High Tech High Touch:Technology and Our Accelerated Search for Meaning

John Naisbitt

The great irony of the high-tech age is that we've become enslaved to devices that were supposed to give us freedom. That's why in HighTech/High Touch, John Naisbitt decided to revisit a chapter from Megatrends, his 1982 bestseller, in which he discussed the split between high tech and what he dubbed "high touch."

How to Survive the Loss of a Love

Melba Colgrove, Harold H. Bloomfield & Peter McWilliams

The loss of love may be by death or divorce or breakup and may be a lover, a spouse, a child, a parent, or a friend. I find the combination of short powerful poems and brief effective suggestions very helpful whenever I am faced with a loss. I take this book to every workshop that I lead because someone usually needs it. And sometimes the someone is me.

JobShift

William Bridges

The source of Fortune's widely discussed cover story The End of the Job, Job Shift breaks open our traditional work world. For all employees, executives, and entrepreneurs it reveals the new employment realities and uncovers new opportunities.

Keeping Your Personal Journal

George Simons

Leadership: The Inner Side of Greatness

Peter Koestenbaum

Peter Koestenbaum, the preeminent business philosopher, has been a trusted mentor to business leaders worldwide. In this thoroughly revised edition of his classic book he shares his wisdom about the fundamental nature of leadership and shows what it takes to become an exceptional and passionate leader in today's complex world

Learned Optimism

Martin Seligman

Compiles scientific evidence that optimism is vital to overcoming defeat and exhibits how readers can learn the habit of optimism necessary for a successful and happy life.

Life Choices And Life Changes Through Imagework

Dina Glouberman

Living Strategy: Putting People at the Heart of Corporate Purpose

Lynda Gratton

Living Strategy is Lynda Gratton's attempt to place employees in the context of a business with all its competing attractions. And while it is commonplace among corporations to pay lip service to the need to "put people first", Gratton attempts to demonstrate the benefit to corporations of actually doing so.

Love & Profit

James A. Autry

Loving a Woman in Two Worlds

Robert Bly

In this new collection of poems, the National Book Award-winning poet explores the meaning of mature love in a sustained meditation on faithfulness, on the sustenance of intimacy, and on grief as the door to deep emotion.

Make Your Mark!: Influencing Across Your Organization

Sue Craig

This indispensable guide covers the political strategies any businessperson can use to make things happen in an inflexible organization. The author reveals how to build coalitions, get support for ideas from people who count, choose the right strategy, overcome resistance, and much more.

Making a Life, Making a Living

Mark Albion

'Making a Life, Making a Living' is a wonderful collection of inspirational real-life stories about people who have sought to bring meaning and purpose into their working lives.

Managing Brand Me

Thomas Gad and Anette Rosencreutz

How to build your personal brand

Managing the Human Animal

Nigel Nicholson

In a beautifully written book on executive leadership, Nicholson provides a new perspective.

Maverick

Ricardo Semler

Charles Handy says of this book: "The way Ricardo Semler runs his company is impossible; except that it works, and works splendidly for everyone. I relish this book. It revives my faith in human beings and my hope for businesses everywhere."

Meditations

Jiddu Krishnamurti

This collection of short, inspirational readings on the art of meditation is from one of the world's best-selling spiritual writers. This is the best of Krishnamurti's thought on meditation.

Megatrends: Ten New Directions Transforming Our Lives

John Naisbitt

New Passages: Mapping Your Life Across Time

Gail Sheehy

This book addresses the new dilemmas and demands people of each generation face as they pass beyond middle age.

Nonviolent Communication

Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D.

Nonviolent communication is the lost language of humankind, the language of people who care about one another and long to live in harmony. Using stories, examples and sample dialogues, this text provides everyday solutions to perplexing communication problems.

On Becoming A Person

Carl R. Rogers

I've been told that this book is a classic among books about psychotherapy and I've found that, indeed, it is an interesting read for anyone interested in the inner world of humans - not only for the experts.

One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey

Ken Blanchard

How management can effectively rid themselves of 'monkeys' -- other people's responsibilities that cling to them and prevent them managing efficiently. This book explains in simple-minded if abstract terms how to achieve a balance between supervision and delegation for reduced tension and improved productivity in the work-place.

One Minute Wisdom

Anthony De Mello

In more than two hundred parables and lessons, Anthony de Mello points the way toward new levels of harmony, wisdom and enlightenment. Rooted in the spirit of the gospel, his messages span the mystical traditions of both East and West.

Ordinary People As Monks And Mystics

Marsha Sinetar

n this fine book, Sinetar normalizes the experience of becoming psychologically whole.

Our Inner Conflicts

Karen Horney

One of the most original psychoanalysts after Freud, Karen Horney pioneered such now-familiar concepts as alienation, self-realization, and the idealized image, and she brought to psychoanalysis a new understanding of the importance of culture and environment.

Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life

Gail Sheehy

A new edition of this book which shows the inevitable personality and sexual changes we go through in our 20s, 30s, 40s and beyond. The reader sees how to use each life crisis as an opportunity for creative change.

Pay It Forward

Catherine Ryan Hyde

What if everyone in the world did a good deed for three people, and what if each of those "paid it forward" by doing a good deed for three more, and so on, until the world was a different place. Teacher Reuben St Clair asks his class to do just that and 12-year-old Trevor amazes everyone.

Please Understand Me: 2

D. Kiersey

Ready Aim Fire: Problem Solving

Geof Cox

Geof Cox discusses his approach to problem solving, beginning by giving the reader an insight into their own personal and preferred style in approaching and solving problems.

Reinvented Lives: Women at Sixty: A Celebratration

Elizabeth and Charles Handy

Twenty-eight women, ranging from Anita Roddick and Prue Leith to less well-known names, write their own personal stories which are accompanied by Elizabeth Handy's black and white photographs and an introductory essay by Charles Handy.

Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age

Duncan J. Watts

Combining a historical survey of the field with real-world examples, this book sets out to explain the research being done to create a blueprint of our connected planet, and shows how a multidiciplinary science of networks has come into being.

The 59-Second Employee

Rae Andre and Peter D. Ward

This is your chance to stay one second ahead of any one-minute managers you have to deal with. You can also discover the Tanobway Tribe and other fascinating insights into enjoying life as an employee.

The Age of Unreason

Charles Handy

His lucid, exciting, shocking descriptions...thrust us one giant step closer to understanding the new, “upside-down” competitive realities. (Tom Peters)

The Art of Possibility

Rosamund Stone Zander adn Benjamin Zander

"It's all invented" so choose your story and then much more is possible. That is the message from Roz and Ben Zander as they ask us to imagine the possibilities in transforming both our personal and professional lives.

The Art of Quartet Playing

David Blum

The Guarneri Quartet in Conversation with David Blum

The Complete Essays

Michel de Montaigne

Nobody in Western civilization had ever tried to do what Montaigne set out to do. In a vivid, contemporary style he moves swiftly from thought to thought, often digressing from an idea only to return, having caught up with it elsewhere. In these essays, Montaigne lays out for his contemporaries and for us his plan for how a man might wisely live and wisely die - as he sets out to discover himself.

The Dhammapada

Edited by John Ross Carter, Mahinda Palihawadana

The Dhammapada is one of the most popular texts in the Buddhist Pali canon. It recalls the utterances of the Buddha himself, and is seen as an essential guide to those who wish to follow him on the path towards enlightenment. This book presents the first comprehensive edition of the Dhammapada, allowing readers a unique appreciation of the verses of the text as well as of the impact that the text has had within the Buddhist heritage through the centuries.

The Discovery of Slowness

Sten Nadolny

This extraordinary novel builds on the life of the polar explorer Sir John Franklin, who moved and thought as slowly as the ice he voyaged through. Nadolny raises the question of how each of us might choose to move and to think at our own pace in a world moving ever faster around us.

The Heart Aroused

David Whyte

This is a volume which brings together poetry and corporate issues - business with a philosophical flair. The author uses writing from an international collection of poets to help workers put their daily tasks into a more human perspective, encouraging a happier and more productive workforce.

The Hungry Spirit

Charles Handy

The Hungry Spirit, by esteemed British business guru Charles Handy, is an extraordinarily eloquent and original treatise on the discomfort that many feel as a result of the overriding quest for corporate profit and personal advancement. Offering a carefully considered and compelling alternative vision, the book challenges the status quo on everything from capitalism and organization to goal-setting and morality.

The Invitation

Oriah Mountain Dreamer

The poem is a challenge to us and in this accessible and inspiring book Oriah Mountain Dreamer tells us how to meet that challenge

The Leadership Moment

Michael Useem

A study of leadership in action focuses on nine real-life accounts of leaders who faced a moment of crisis and what they did to succeed or fail.

The Leadership Moment

Michael Useem

A study of leadership in action focuses on nine real-life accounts of leaders who faced a moment of crisis and what they did to succeed or fail.

The Man Who Planted Trees

Jean Giono

The Mind of the CEO

Jeffrey Garten

Who are the men and women who have made it to the very top of the business world? How did they get where they are? How do they run their giant corporations? What do they think about their roles in the global market? To find out, Jeffrey Garten has talked one-to-one with over thirty of the world's most powerful business leaders - from Sir John Browne of BP-Amoco, Michael Dell of Dell Computer Corporation and Martin Sorrell of WPP to Hiroshi Okuda of Toyota. His interviews tap into the mindset of these corporate titans to give us a fascinating picture of the global economy

The New Alchemists

Charles Handy

Charles Handy is just about the only modern management thinker worth reading. His books are wise, entertaining and always contain a strong dose of common sense.

The Person-Centred Approach: A passionate presence

Peggy Natiello

The Seasons of a Man's Life

Daniel Levinson

Reveals a definite developmental pattern of specific, age-linked phases subsequently shown to affect the lives of all men, shaping behavior and governing emotional states and attitudes.

The Seven Laws of Money

Michael Phillips

In addition to being the best book on money that I know, this is also where I learned about the Taoist concept of the Seven Laws which I have converted into the Seven Learnings that is the basis for much of my work now.

Transcultural Leadership: Empowering the Diverse Workforce (Managing Cultural Differences)

George F. Simons, Carmen Vazquez Colin, Philip R. Harris

Supervisors, project managers and CEOs should find this book useful as it deals with an emerging global reality - culturally diverse people of both genders in the workplace.

Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes

William Bridges

With new material by the author, a 25th-anniversary edition of the classic and practical guide to dealing with life's difficult and painful changes. Whether it is chosen or thrust upon you, change brings both opportunities and turmoil. Since first published 25 years ago, Transitions has helped hundreds of thousands of readers cope with these issues by providing an elegantly simple yet profoundly insightful roadmap of the transition process.

Tuesdays with Morrie

Mitch Albom

Two Gentlemen of Verona

William Shakespeare

Two Gentlemen of Verona is Shakespeare having fun with language and with love. The play contains my favourite Shakespearean line: "Oh how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day, that now shows all the beauty of the sun and by and by a cloud takes all away."

What Colour Is Your Parachute?

Richard N. Bolles

A practical manual for job-hunter and career-changers

Why Men Are The Way They Are

Warren Farrell, Ph.D.

Considers aspects of male-female relationships in America today to determine the motivations behind male behavior

Wishcraft

Barbara Sher with Annie Gottlieb

How to get what you really want