 | The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander
Buy new: $40.95 / Used from: $37.28 Architecture: learning from buildings; patterns - forces of both creative and destructive potential. Written a decade before-the-web this has a hypertext feel to it, a lifelike, quality without a name
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 | Dialogue: The Art Of Thinking Together by William Isaacs
Buy new: $19.11 / Used from: $8.98 Systems Thinking: Talk and talk until the talk starts, a conversation without sides, break through the polite shared monologues to connect with shared and meaningful flow
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 | Tree of Knowledge by Humberto R. Maturana
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $14.81 Biology: a glimpse of natural complexity - structure, organisation, observing distinctive boundaries between us and them, conversation to coordinate behaviour, love it to death
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 | Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace by Ricardo Semler
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $1.33 Business: More south american brilliance, break the rules, change the game, a ceo who doesn't seek celebrity but instead celebrates complexity by encouraging self organising behaviour, for a change
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 | Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War by Robert Coram
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $3.06 Military Strategy: Ancient oriential wisdom meets high-tech fighter jets: break the rules? fight the law! and do it faster, deliberate disruption for confusion and agility
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 | Linked: The New Science of Networks by Albert-László Barabási
Buy used from: $5.28 Mathematics: it's a networked world, go beyond a linear supply chain, appreciate the non random structure of the web (or other networks: social, political or broadcast) scaling beyond hierarchy
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 | Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics by Eric D. Beinhocker
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $8.26 Economics: in the first 300 pages we learn why economics is a dismal science, get a good recap of chaos/complexity theory, then a solid application of knowledge to finance, management and organisation
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 | Coercion: Why We Listen to What "They" Say by Douglas Rushkoff
Buy new: $11.25 / Used from: $1.11 Marketing: Along with Klein and Cialdini this is good stuff for those who want to bend the rules, or bypass the law, learn how to play the game and turn it around
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 | My Voice Will Go With You: The Teaching Tales of Milton H. Erickson, M.D.
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $3.99 Therapy: Story telling and subtle pattern interrupts, for a change, by a master. Consider, too, The Story Factor, by Annette Simmons, for practical insights on how to start yourself
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 | The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance by W. Timothy Gallwey
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.75 Sports: before you can cooperate learn to compete, Know Thyself, it could be Sun Tzu. Self1 wants control, Self2, like the motorcycle, needs maintenance before the journey starts
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 | Aikido in Everyday Life: Giving In to Get Your Way Second Edition by Terry Dobson
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $3.01 Martial Arts: giving in to get your way, learn how fighting is one way - the last way. Some make conflict management so hard, try this instead: kill your enemy; what enemy? do less and get more
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 | The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late by Thom Hartmann
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $5.25 Politics: Lucid story telling. What will the world be like in 20 years? Is the sky falling, getting warmer? The clocks ticking and the oil's running out - will we be ready?
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 | Great Mambo Chicken And The Transhuman Condition: Science Slightly Over The Edge by Ed Regis
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $0.01 Futurism: Could there be a better title? A wild ride, a great read, some people are getting ready!
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 | The Death of Forever: New Future for Human Consciousness by Darryl Reanney
Buy used from: $23.09 Philosophy: Let it go - embrace change? Embrace your fear! Ego death, egoless, timeless
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