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Business/Sociology

Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home
by David Shipley and Will Schwalbe
This book should be on your bookshelf alongside "Elements of Style", "The Chicago Manual of Style", and other writing references. The content is compelling and presented conversationally. Netiquette, legal issues, and common sense benchmarks are all covered in an informative, breezy, and self-effacing style. The authors have been there! [Read 4/2007]
The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization
by Peter M. Senge
Recently revised and updated, this business and policy classic covers a wide range of issues and responses. I found it extemely valuable reading. It not only covers busines but, like "Joy at Work" it covers how to balance work and life with the needs of organizations, and the world at large.
Joy At Work
by Dennis Bakke [Read 7/2006]
See also: Power Trip - 2003 documentary on the AES effort to bring power to Tbilisi, capital of the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. There is also a page discussing the film at "Power Trip" Progressive?
Great Game of Business
by Jack Stack and Bo Burlingham [Read a couple years ago, but complementary to the Joy at Work book.]
See also: the official site of the Great Game
Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable About the Most Painful Problem in Business
by Patrick Lencioni [Read 9/2005]
Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box
by The Arbinger Institute [Read 7/2005]
Sun Tzu Was a Sissy: Conquer Your Enemies, Promote Your Friends, and Wage the Real Art of War
by Stanley Bing [Read 12/2004]
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
by Lynn Truss [Read 11/2004]
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
by Mary Roach [Read 2004]
And God Created the French
by Louis-Bernard Robitaille Read 2004
Crab Wars: A Tale of Horshoe Crabs, Bioterrorism, and Human Health
by William Sargent [Read 2003]
UnRetirement: A Career Guide for the Retired... the Soon-to-Be Retired... the Never-Want-to-Be Retired
by Catherine Dorton Fyock and Ann Marrs Dorton [Read 2003]
Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life
by Spencer, M.D. Johnson, Kenneth H. Blanchard [Read 2003]
Herding Cats: A Primer for Programmers Who Lead Programmers [eBook]
by J. Hank Rainwater
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
by Patrick Lencioni [Read 2003]
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by Malcolm Gladwell [Read 2003]
The Making of the Movie Trilogy (The Lord of the Rings)
by Brian Sibley [Read 2003]
The Lord of the Rings Official Movie Guide
by J.R.R. Tolkien (Author), Brian Sibley (Author) [Read 2002]

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Biography/History/Travel

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
by Doris Kearns Goodwin [Read 2/2006]
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
by Alexandra Fuller [Read 7/2005]
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
by Ben Carson, M.D. with Cecil Murphey [Read 5/2005]
If Chins Could Kill: Confession of a B Movie Actor
by Bruce Campbell [Read 4/2005]
All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Artists
by Terry Gross [Read 12/2004]
One Year Off: Leaving it all behind for a round-the-world journey with our children
by David Elliot Cohen [Read 2003]
From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey
by Pascal Khoo Thwe [Read 2003]
Aung San Suu Kyi: Standing Up for Democracy in Burma
by Bettina Ling [Read 2003]
It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
by Lance Armstrong, with Sally Jenkins [Read 2003]
Singing My Him Song
by Malachy McCourt [Read 2003]
A Monk Swimming
by Malachy McCourt [Read 2003]
Maus: A Survivor's Tale
by Art Spiegelman [Read 2003]
Thurgood Marshall: Warrior at the Bar, Rebel on the Bench
by Michael D. Davis, Hunter R. Clark [Read 2003]
No Heroes: A Memoir of Coming Home
by Chris Offutt [Read 2002]
Ten Things I Learned from Bill Porter
by Shelly Brady, William H. Macy (Foreword) [Read 2002]
Crossing Over: The Stories Behind the Stories
by John Edward [Read 2002]
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
by Richard P. Feynman [Read 2002]
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character
by Richard P. Feynman [Read 2002]
The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist
by Richard P. Feynman [Read 2002]

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Literature/Fiction

The Children of Hurin
by J.R.R. Tolkein (edited by Christopher Tolkein) [Read 2007]
The Aeneid
by Virgil (translated by Robert Fitzgerald [Read 2006]
Skinny Dip
by Carl Hiaasen [Read 2004]
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers [Read 2004]
The DaVinci Code
by Dan Brown [Read 2003]
The Piano Tuner
by Daniel Philippe Mason [Read 2003]
Letters to My Son on the Love of Books [eBook]
by Roberto Cotroneo [Read 2003]
The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories
edited with commentary by William J. Bennett [Read 2003]
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley [Read 2003]
Out of the Woods: Stories
by Chris Offutt [Read 2002]
The Iliad
by Homer [translation: Robert Fagles] [Read 2002]
The Odyssey
by Homer [translation: Robert Fagles] [Read 2002]
Earthsea Trilogy
by Ursula K. Le Guin [Read 2002]
A Wizard of Earthsea
Tombs of Atuan
The Farthest Shore
Earthsea Cycle
by Ursula K. Le Guin [Read 2002]
Tehanu
Tales from Earthsea
The Other Wind
The Left Hand of Darkness
by Ursula K. Le Guin [Read 2002]
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
by J. R. R. Tolkein [Read 2002]
"The Hobbit"
"The Fellowship of the Ring"
"The Two Towers"
"The Return of the King"
The Silmarillion
by J. R. R. Tolkein [Read 2004]

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