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Diane Ackerman 
An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain  •  A Natural History of the Senses
Christopher Alexander 
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
Joan Evelyn Ames 
Mastery: Interviews with 30 Remarkable People
Nancy C. Andreasen 
Brave New Brain: Conquering Mental Illness in the Era of the Genome
Robert Axelrod and Michael D. Cohen 
Harnessing Complexity: Organizational Implications of a Scientific Frontier
Philip Ball 
The Self-Made Tapestry  •  Life’s Matrix: A Biography of Water  •  Bright Earth, Art and the Invention of Color  •  Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another (February 2007)
Janine M. Benyus 
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature (September 2007)
Ira B. Black 
The Dying of Enoch Wallace: Life, Death and the Changing Brain
Sharon Begley 
Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain (May 2007)
John Briggs and F. David Peat 
Seven Life Lessons of Chaos
John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid 
The Social Life of Information
Bill Bryson 
A Short History of Nearly Everything
James Burke 
The Day the Universe Changed
Chandler Burr 
The Emporer of Scent
William Calvin 
The River That Flows Uphill
Orson Scott Card 
Ender’s Game  •  Speaker for the Dead  •  Ender’s Shadow  •  Shadow of the Hegemon  •  Shadow of the Giant
Jean Carper 
Your Miracle Brain
John L. Casti 
Complexification
Jack S. Cohen and Ian Stewart 
The Collapse of Chaos
Antonio Damasio 
The Feeling of What Happens  •  Looking for Spinoza
Thomas H. Davenport and Laurence Prusak 
Working Knowledge
William C. Dement and Christopher Vaughan 
The Promise of Sleep
Keith Devlin 
Infosense: Turning Information into Knowledge
Jared Diamond 
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies  •  The Third Chimpanzee  •  Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Joe Dispenza, D.C. 
Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind (April 2007)
Norman Doidge, M.D. 
The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science (June 2007)
Gerald Edelman 
Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On the Matter of Mind
Richard Feynman 
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
Thomas L. Friedman 
The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century
George Gilder 
Telecosm: How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize Our World
Malcolm Gladwell 
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
James Gleick 
Faster
Natalie Goldberg 
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within  •  Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life  •  Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer’s Craft
Temple Grandin 
Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
Barry Green 
The Mastery of Music
Robert Heinlein and Spider Robinson 
Variable Star (August 2007)
Stephen Johnson 
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software  •  Mind Wide Open
 
Steve Jones 
Darwin’s Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated
Jon Kabat-Zinn 
Coming to Our Senses
Evelyn Fox Keller 
A Feeling for the Organism
Kevin Kelly 
Out of Control  •  New Rules for the New Economy
Ray Kurzweil 
The Age of Spiritual Machines
Ann Lamott 
Bird by Bird
Joseph LeDoux 
The Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are
George Leonard 
Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment (November 2007)
Lawrence Lessig 
The Future of Ideas
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner 
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Simon Levin 
Fragile Dominion
Alan Lightman 
Einstein’s Dreams
Dan Lloyd 
Radiant Cool
John Daido Loori 
The Zen of Creativity
Dr. James B. Maas 
Power Sleep
Alberto Manguel 
A History of Reading
John McCrone 
Going Inside: A Tour Round a Single Moment of Consciousness
William McDonough and Michael Braungart 
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way we Make Things (October 2007)
Read Montague 
Why Choose this Book? How We Make Decisions (July 2007)
Stephen Nachmanovitch 
Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
Sylvia Nasar 
A Beautiful Mind
Tor Norretrander 
The User Illusion
Joseph Pine and James H. Gilmore 
The Experience Economy
Paul H. Ray, Ph.D., and Sherry Ruth Anderson 
The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People are Changing the World
Michael Ray and Rochelle Myers 
Creativity in Business
Stephan Rechtschaffen 
Timeshifting: Creating More Time to Enjoy Your Life
Richard Restak 
The New Brain
Matt Ridley 
Nature via Nurture
Ian Robertson 
Mind Sculpture: Unlocking Your Brain’s Untapped Potential
Sir Ken Robinson 
Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative (March 2007)
Spider Robinson and Robert Heinlein  
Variable Star (August 2007)
Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz 
You: Staying Young—The Owner’s Manual for Extending Your Warranty (January 2008)
Robert Root-Bernstein 
Discovering  •  Sparks of Genius
Sark 
Eating Mangoes Naked  •  Prosperity Pie
Daniel Schachter 
The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers
Schwartz and Begley 
The Mind and the Brain
Peter M. Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, and Betty Sue Flowers 
Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society
William Stafford 
Writing the Australian Crawl
Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen 
Figments of Reality
Steven Strogatz 
Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order
Robert I. Sutton 
Weird Ideas that Work: 11 1/2 Practices for Promoting, Managing, and Sustaining Innovation
Twyla Tharp 
The Creative Habit: Learn it and Use it for Life
Lynn Truss 
Eats, Shoots, and Leaves
Fred Warshofsky 
Stealing Time
Richard Wurman 
Information Anxiety  •  Information Anxiety 2

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