Book Treasures of the ELP'99
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List of books recommended by members of The Emerging Leaders Program 1999 (Attendants to the State of the World Forum, San Francisco, CA, October 1999).
| Book Title | Author | Recommended by | Description |
| Alchemist, The | Paulo Coelho | Mille Bojer | Touches and moves your heart, and leaves you determined to do the best you can to make your dreams come true |
| All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things | Robert Fulghum | Katie Bell | Everyday occurrences, small things with large meanings, and the truths that touch our lives |
| Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | Devin Hibbard | A classic novel, magnificent drama of vengeance, infidelity, and retribution |
| Anything We Love Can Be saved |
Alice Walker | Sarah Ghiorse | Alice Walker writes about her life as an activist, in a book rich in the belief that the world is saveable, if only we will act. religion and the spirit, feminism and race, families and identity, politics and social change |
| Be Here Now | Ram Dass | Devin Hibbard | Describes one man's transformation upon his acceptance of the principles of Yoga and gives a modern restatement of the importance of the spiritual side of man's nature |
| Brief History of Everything, A |
Ken Wilber | Marianne Knuth | Friendly and accessible account of men and women's place in the universe of sex, soul and spirit. Other topics: political correctness, multiculturalism, environmental ethics, the gender wars, and the course of evolution |
| Celestine Prophecy, The | James Redfield | Benjamin Quinto | Offers nine insights into the spiritual awakening of the human race and its purpose on the planet |
| Co-creative People | Mikael Lund/Goran Eklund | Imo521@aol.com | No description available |
| Cry the Beloved Country | Alan Paton | Colleen Bowker , Devin Hibbard | Both touches your heart deeply and inspires a renewed faith in the dignity of mankind. Cry, the Beloved Country is a classic tale, passionately African |
| Demian | Hermann Hesse | Tyler Stevenson | A docile young man is drawn by his schoolmates into a secret and dangerous world of petty crime and revolt against convention |
| Diet for a New America |
John Robbins |
Ocean Robbins, Benjamin Quinto | How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness, and the Future of Life on Earth |
| Ecology of Commerce, The | Paul Hawken | Colleen Bowker | Presents a visionary new program which businesses can follow to help restore the planet |
| Foucault's Pendulum | Umberto Eco | Max Arturo Oliva | If you love mind games, intricate puzzles, the curiosities of history, and strange imaginings, you'll be fascinated by Foucault's Pendulum, an elaborate maze of a book by the author of the huge bestseller The Name Of The Rose. |
| Freedom from the Known | J. Krishnamurti | Darshan Chitrabhanu | Shows how people can free themselves radically and immediately from the tyranny of the expected, no matter what their age-opening the door to transforming society and their relationships |
| Genius | James Glieck | James Moody | A rare, jewel-like biography... terrifically readable. It achieves an almost perfect balance between the physicist's work and his life… |
| Gift from the Sea | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | Katie Bell | A woman's reflections on life, its stages, and its states compares them with the natural treasures of life in the sea |
| Human, All Too Human | Friedrich Nietzsche | Max Arturo Oliva | "A Book for Free Spirits" |
| Inner Experience | Georges Bataille | Tyler Stevenson | Comprehensive and essential to understanding Bataille's philosophies of base materialism, expenditure, the sacred and the need to transgress the limits of experience. |
| Intimate History of Humanity, The | Theodore Zeldin | Colleen Bowker | Traces the evolution of emotions and personal relationships through the ages and among diverse cultures |
| Ishmael | Daniel Quinn | Colleen Bowker | A man and a great ape conduct a series of philosophical conversations in a work that presents a new vision of evolution and humankind and asks the question: does the Earth belong to humans, or do humans belong to the Earth? |
| Leader of the Future, The | Drucker Foundation | Victor Del Rosal | Twenty innovative leaders are sought out for their views on what makes for successful leadership in the business, government, and nonprofit organizations of today and tomorrow |
| Leadership and the New Science | Margaret Wheatley |
Colleen Bowker |
If there's a single book that sets the stage for the future of organizations, this is it |
| Like Water for Chocolate | Laura Esquivel | James Moody | Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico became a best-selling phenomenon with its winning blend of poignant romance and bittersweet wit |
| Natural Capitalism | Paul Hawken | Colleen Bowker | Three top strategists show how leading-edge companies are practicing "a new type of industrialism" that is more efficient and profitable while saving the environment and creating jobs |
| No More Prisons | William Upski Wimsatt | Benjamin Quinto | Discusses activism, breaking beyond what we are told and the direction our society has been heading in. Has great facts and figures, success stories and resources in each chapter! Topics include a Hitchhiker's Guide to Community Organizing and Why Philanthropy is the Greatest Art Form of the 21st Century |
| Prophet, The | Kahlil Gibran |
Benjamin Quinto Katie Bell |
A brilliant man's philosophy on love, marriage, joy and sorrow, time, friendship and much more |
| Reinvention of work, The | Matthew Fox | Marianne Knuth | A compassionate and powerful call for the reformation of aily work |
| Restoring Hope | Cornel West | Heidi Sarah Lubin | Conversations on the Future of Black America, in this collection of eight question-and-answer interviews, West seeks ideas for inspiring and reinvigorating black America. |
| Seven Laws of Spiritual Success, The | Deepak Chopra | Victor Del Rosal | Chopra's teachings are distilled into seven simple principles which can be applied to all elements of personal life to evoke success |
| Survival in Auschwitz | Primo Levi | Heidi Sarah Lubin | Levi's haunting memoir about his ten months in the German death camp Auschwitz is an unforgettable chronicle of systematic cruelty and miraculous survival |
| Synchronicity | Joseph Jaworski | Victor Del Rosal | Synchronicity illustrates that leadership is about the release of human possibilities, about enabling others to break free of limits-created organizationally or self-imposed |
| Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe | Benjamin Quinto | Combining a richly African story with the author's keen awareness of the qualities common to all humanity, Achebe here shows that he is "gloriously gifted, with the magic of an ebullient, generous, great talent |
| V for Vendetta | Alan Moore | Tyler Stevenson | A frightening and powerful story of the loss of freedom and identity in a totalitarian world, V for Vendetta takes place in an alternate future in which Germany wins WWII and Britain becomes a fascist state. |
| Weetzie Bat | Francesca Lia Block | Heidi Sarah Lubin | Francesca Lia Block's five post-modern fairy tales chronicle the thin line between fear and desire, pain and pleasure, cutting loose and holding on in a world where everyone is vulnerable to the most excruciatingly beautiful and dangerous angel of all--love |
| When Corporations Rule the World | David Korten | Benjamin Quinto Colleen Bowker |
If you can read only one book on how to understand and address the enormous challenges of our time, When Corporations Rule the World is it. |
| When Things Fall Apart | Pema Chodron | Sarah Ghiorse | An American Buddhist teacher reveals the secret to happiness in the midst of life's difficulties. Pema Chodron shows that the secret to freeing ourselves from pain is not to run away from it |
| Winnie the Pooh | A.A.Milne | James Moody | When Christopher Robin asks Pooh what he likes doing best in the world, Pooh says, after much thought, "What I like best in the whole world is Me and Piglet going to see You, and You saying "What about a little something?" and Me saying, "Well, I shouldn't mind a little something, should you, Piglet," and it being a hummy sort of day outside, and birds singing." |
| Zoom | Istvan Banyai | Heidi Sarah Lubin | A unique and groundbreaking picture book offers compelling illustrations that, without words, create a world full of nuances and details, full of striking tableaus that seem to transform before your eyes |
Descriptions taken from http://www.amazon.com, February 2000.
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