This page will very soon be replaced with a compilation of resources
This is essentially a list of the key books that I have read over the last few years that have helped shape the way I think today. I have asterisked the ones I think most important/useful.
STORY
* Bettelheim, B, The uses of Enchantment – The meaning and importance of Fairy Tales
* Bonnet, J. Stealing fire from the gods – A dynamic new story model for writers and filmmakers
* Booker, C. The seven basic plots – Why we all tell stories
* Denning, S. The Springboard – How storytelling ignites action in knowledge-era organisations
Denning, S. Squirrel Inc. – A fable of leadership through storytelling.
Denning, S. The leaders guide to storytelling – Mastering the art and discipline of business narrative.
Frazer, J. The Golden Bough – A history of myth and religion, Macmillan & Co LTD 1922
Howarth, K. Oral History – A handbook
* McKee, R. Story – Substance, structure, style, and the principles of screenwriting.
Myss, C. Sacred contacts – Awaking your divine potential.
* Westwood, J. and Simpson, J. The lore of the land – a guide to England’s legends, Penguin 2005
COMMUNITY
Barabasi, A.L. Linked – How everything is connected to everything else and what it means for business, science and everyday life. Plume printing 2003.
Buchanan, M. Small world – uncovering nature’s hidden networks, Phoenix 2002
Capra, F. The hidden connections, Flamingo 2002
O’Donohue, J. Eternal Echoes – Exploring our hunger to belong.
* Pretty, J. Agri-Culture – Reconnecting People, Land and Nature
* Watts, D.J. Six Degrees – The science of a connected age. Vintage 2004
* Surowiecki, J. The Wisdom of crowds – why the many are smarter than the few. Abacus 2004
COGNITIVE
* Berreby, D. Us and Them – Understanding your tribal mind.
Bowker, J The Sacred Neuron – Extraordinary new discoveries linking science and religion.
Brockman, J. Curious Minds – How a child becomes a scientist.
* Capra, F. The web of life – a new synthesis of mind and matter HarperCollinsPublishers 1996
* Fine, C. A mind of its own – how your brain distorts and deceives, Icon Books 2007
Gladwell, M Blink – The power of thinking without thinking.
Hyde, M. and McGuiness, M. Jung for beginners, The Bath Press, 1992.
Johnson, S. Mind wide open, Penguin 2004.
Koch, R. The Power Laws – The science of success
* Levitt, S.D. and Dubner, S.J. Freakonomics – A rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything. Penguin 2005
McTaggart, L. The Field, HarperCollinsPublishers 2001
* Minski, M. The society of mind
* Pert, C.B. Molecules of Emotion – Why you feel the way you feel, Simon and Schuster 1997.
* Pinker, S. The stuff of thought – language as a window into human nature, Penguin 2007
Pinker, S. How the mind works, Penguin 1997
* Pinker, S. The blank Slate, Penguin 2002
Pinker, S. The language instinct, Penguin 1994
Sale, K. Human Scale, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan 1980.
* Wilber, K. A brief history of everything
* Wilber, K. The eye of spirit – an integral vision for a world gone slightly mad 1997
COMPLEXITY
Abrams, D. The spell of the sensuous
Axelrod, R. and Cohen, M.D. Harnessing complexity – Organisational implications of a scientific frontier.
Buchanan, M. Ubiquity – The science of history … or why the world is simpler than we think. Phoenix 2000
* Gladwell, M. The tipping point – How little things can make a big difference.
Gleick, J. Chaos
* Johnson, S. emergence
Kauffman, S. At home in the universe – the search for laws of complexity, Penguin 1995
Lewin, R. Complexity – Life at the edge of chaos – the major new theory that unifies all sciences.
* McIntosh, A. Soil and Soul – people versus corporate power, Aurum Press 2001
Morowitz, H.J. The emergence of everything – How the world became complex. Oxford University Press 2002.
Taleb, N.N. The Black Swan – the impact of the highly improbable, Penguin 2007
Thaler, R.H. and Sunstein, C.R. Nudge – improving decisions about health, wealth and happiness
NATURE
Cohen, M.J. Reconnecting with Nature – Finding wellness through restoring your bond with the earth, Ecopress 1997.
Buczacki, S. Fauna Britannica
Jordan, M. The green mantle – An investigation into our lost knowledge of plants, Cassell&Co 2001
Griffiths, J. Wild – an elemental journey
Mabey, R. Flora Britannica
Stewart, I. Nature’s numbers – discovering order and pattern in the universe, Phoenix 1995
