Book suggestions for the TED bookstore
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A few books worth taking a look at
TED asked me to put together a list of books they might want to sell at the upcoming TED get together. They also asked for a headshot, so here are both.
The Blue Sweater
The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World
Amazon Price: $5.00 (as of 02/12/2012)
Jacqueline Novogratz has written a modern classic, a book about connection, dignity and change. It's impossible to read this true story by someone who matters (and continues to matter more every day) without being moved to understand the world better--and hopefully to take action. A keeper.
The Space Merchants
The Space Merchants
Amazon Price: $9.52 (as of 02/12/2012)
This book is a winner, even though it's fifty years old. A sparkling combination of marketing, futurism and space opera drama. It stuck with me for months.
The War of Art
The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
Amazon Price: $27.96 (as of 02/12/2012)
Steve Pressfield has written the most important book I've ever read on creativity and why it doesn't happen. The resistance is the most profound force in the life of the artist, the writer and the leader, and Steve has given it a name and called it out.
Mindful
The Pema Chodron Audio Collection: Pure Meditation:Good Medicine:From Fear to Fearlessness
Amazon Price: $24.11 (as of 02/12/2012)
I'm choosing an audio title from Pema, as I think it's more likely the message will sink in if you listen to her. One of the most important spiritual leaders of our time, Chodron delivers insight without dogma, appropriate for people of any faith.
The Tom Peters Seminar
The Tom Peters Seminar: Crazy Times Call For Crazy Organizations
Amazon Price: $0.01 (as of 02/12/2012)
The times are still crazy.
Lewis Hyde
The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World (Vintage)
Amazon Price: $9.61 (as of 02/12/2012)
Deep, astonishingly well researched and mindblowing. An exploration of one of the most basic (and least understood) human traits--our ability to create and share gifts.
Listen First...
The Magic of Thinking Big
The Magic of Thinking Big
Amazon Price: $18.96 (as of 02/12/2012)
More than a self help book (if you're afraid of those, please don't be), and quite vintage, it might open some doors for you. No, strike that. IT WILL open doors.
Maxx Barry
Syrup
Amazon Price: $3.95 (as of 02/12/2012)
Funny, thrilling, fast moving and about brand marketing and office politics. What more could you hope for in a novel?
How We Decide
How We Decide
Amazon Price: $5.83 (as of 02/12/2012)
This book will make you think (and then rethink) how decisions get made. Not just how your customers decide, but how you do.
Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees
Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin
Amazon Price: $78.42 (as of 02/12/2012)
Dense, a little scattered and occasionally riveting, this book may change the way you think about art, forever.
The Red Queen
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
Amazon Price: $7.93 (as of 02/12/2012)
Little, irresistible and so important. One more way to help you understand how evolution works.
Little Brother
Little Brother
Amazon Price: $6.63 (as of 02/12/2012)
Little Brother moves Cory from the ranks of astoundingly good science fiction author to one-of-a-kind. Your teenagers should read this, so buy two copies so you actually get to read it.
Six Pixels of Separation
Six Pixels of Separation: Everyone Is Connected. Connect Your Business to Everyone.
Amazon Price: $1.76 (as of 02/12/2012)
Mitch Joel brings it home. Direct and clear advice about how new media changes your brand forever.
Don't Bite the Hook
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Don't Bite the Hook: Finding Freedom from Anger, Resentment, and Other Destructive Emotions [DONT BITE THE HOOK]
Amazon Price: $20.70 (as of 02/11/2012)
This might be my favorite of her many recordings. Hard to find, though. (Mary Louise tells me that you can get it here as well: http://www.shambhala.com/html/catalog/items/isbn/978-1-59030-434-1.cfm )
Here Comes Everybody
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Amazon Price: $9.08 (as of 02/12/2012)
Clay is both the erudite professor and the compelling author, a rare combination. This book will change the way you think about our revolution.
The Noodle King and I
The Ramen King and I: How the Inventor of Instant Noodles Fixed My Love Life
Amazon Price: $0.01 (as of 02/12/2012)
Funny, poignant and apparently true. I couldn't put this one down. (and there's even marketing in it).
And some books by your host, Seth Godin
Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us by Seth Godin
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All Marketers are Liars (with a New Preface): The Underground Classic That Explains How Marketing Really Works--and Why Authenticity Is the Best Marketing of All by Seth Godin
Seth Godin's three essential questions for every marketer: more...0 points
Permission Marketing : Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers by Seth Godin
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Meatball Sundae: Is Your Marketing out of Sync? by Seth Godin
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Unleashing the Ideavirus by Seth Godin
The book that sparked a marketing revolution. "This more...0 points
Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin
"The only way to get what you're worth is to stand more...0 points
Yves Klein
Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers
Amazon Price: $41.74 (as of 02/11/2012)
Into the void, here we go.
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