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I’m often asked about what I read or what I keep on my bookshelf. Below is a compilation of what you'd find on my dusty shelves if you came over my house.  

And, If I you'd ask me to choose my Top 10 favorite books (which wouldn't be easy to do), they would most likely be:

  1. The Human Zoo:  Desmond Morris (Socio-Anthropology)

  2. Fool’s Gold:  Andrew Schmookler (Social Philosophy)

  3. The Organization Man:  William Whyte, Jr. (Business-Psychology)

  4. The Greatest Miracle in the World:  Og Mandino (Fiction-Inspirational)

  5. Escape From Freedom:  Erich Fromm (Social Philosophy-Psychology)

  6. For The New Intellectual:   Ayn Rand (Philosophy)

  7. Slapped Together-The Dilbert Business Anthology:  Scott Adams (Business Humor)

  8. The Western Intellectual Tradition:  Bronowski & Mazlish (History)

  9. The Nature & Logic of Capitalism:  Robert Heilbroner (Economic Theory)

  10. Atlas Shrugged:  Ayn Rand (Fiction-Philosophy)


  1. Hope Is Not A Strategy: Complex Selling: Rick Page 

  2. Flow-The Psychology of Optimal Experience: Mihaly Csikczenthmihalyi

  3. Individualism Old & New: John Dewey

  4. Wealth & Freedom: David Levine

  5. The Magic of Thinking Big: David Schwartz

  6. A History of Knowledge: Charles Van Doren

  7. Your Road Map For Success: John Maxwell

  8. Learned Optimism: Martin Seligman

  9. Century of Capitalism: Robert Heilbroner

  10. The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism: Daniel Bell

  11. Eat The Rich: P.J. O’Rourke

  12. On The Social Contract & Discourse: Jean Jacques Rousseau

  13. On Becoming A Leader: Warren Bennis

  14. Animal Farm: George Orwell

  15. The Fountain Head: Ayn Rand

  16. Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand

  17. The Nature and Logic of Capitalism: Robert Heilbroner

  18. The Fatal Conceit: F. A. Hayek

  19. Spin Selling: Neil Rackham 

  20. 1984: George Orwell

  21. Monopolies in America: Charles Geisst

  22. Bobos in Paradise: David Brooks

  23. Egalitarian Envy: Gonzalo Fernandez de la Mora

  24. Technolopoly: Neil Postman

  25. Who Is Ayn Rand?: Nathaniel Branden

  26. The Capitalistic Revolution in Latin America: Roberts Araujo

  27. The Economics of Life: Becker

  28. What They Still Don’t Teach You At Harvard Business School: Mark McCormack

  29. Erich Fromm: The Sane Society

  30. The Technological Society: Jacques Ellul

  31. Social Origins of Dictatorship & Democracy: Barrington Moore, Jr.

  32. Winning Through Intimidation: Robert Ringer

  33. Voltaire’s Bastards: John Saul

  34. Post Modernism and the Social Sciences: Pauline Rosenau

  35. Fear & Trembling: Soren Kierkegaard

  36. The Cult of Information: Theodore Rozsak

  37. Philosophy of Technology: Frederick Ferre

  38. Technics & Civilization: Lewis Mumford

  39. The Art of Seduction: Robert Greene

  40. Envy: Helmut Schoeck

  41. Ethics and the Sociology of Morals: Emile Durkheim

  42. Publicity on the Internet: Steve O’Keefe

  43. Repacking Your Bags: Leider Shapiro

  44. Why Smart People Do When Dumb Things Happen at Work: Charles Watson

  45. The 60 Second Shrink: Arnold & Clifford Lazurus

  46. Post-Capitalist Society: Peter Drucker

  47. The Problem of Order: Dennis Wrong

  48. Multiple Streams of Internet Income: Robert Allen

  49. Soloing: Harriet Rubin

  50. Capitalism & the Historians: F.A. Hayek & Others

  51. The Thinker’s Way: John Chaffer

  52. Leadership: William Safire & Leonard Safir

  53. The Power Elite: C.Wright Mills

  54. The Revolt of the Masses: Ortega Y Gasset

  55. The Voice of Reason: Ayn Rand

  56. Mind, Self & Society: George Herbert Mead

  57. One Dimensional Man: Herbert Marcuse

  58. Theory of the Leisure Class: Thorstein Veblen

  59. Self & Society: Drew Westen

  60. The Lonely Crowd: David Reisman

  61. Crossing The Chasm: Geoffrey Moore

  62. Consilience: Edward Wilson

  63. Social Darwinism in American Thought: Richard Hofstadter

  64. Beyond Good & Evil: Friederich Nietzsche

  65. The Naked Ape: Desmond Morris

  66. Techgnosis: Eric Davis

  67. Media Virus: robert Rushkoff

  68. The Signs of Our Time: Jack Solomon

  69. The Unreality Industry: Mitroff & Bennis

  70. Leadership and the New Science: Margaret Wheatley

  71. The Limits of Satisfaction: William Leiss

  72. Life 101: Peter McWilliams

  73. Why Businessmen Need Philosophy: Ayn Rand

  74. The Laws of Power: Robert Greene

  75. Study Methods & Motivation: Edwin Locke

  76. The Greatest Salesman in the World: Og Mandino

  77. Return of the Ragpicker: Og Mandino

  78. Value-Added Selling Techniques: Tom Reilly

  79. University of Success: Og Mandino

  80. The Art of Creative Thinking: Gerard Nierenberg

  81. The Human Zoo: Desmond Morris

  82. The Inhuman Condition: Keith Tester

  83. Tern Theories of Human Nature: Leslie Stevenson & David Haberman

  84. Economics Explained: Robert Heilbroner & Lester Thurow

  85. A Nation of Victims: Charles Sykes

  86. La Sociedad Tecnologica: Oskar Schalz y Otros

  87. Tuesday’s With Morrie: Mitch Albom

  88. Why America Doesn’t Work: Colson Eckerd

  89. The Law: Frederic Bastiat

  90. The Work Trap: Martin Helldorfer

  91. Why People Believe Weird Things: Michael Shermer

  92. The Construction of Social Reality: John Searle

  93. Rethinking Business to Business Marketing: Paul Sherlock

  94. The Limits of American Capitalism: Robert Heilbroner

  95. Beyond Our Means: Alfred Malabre, Jr.

  96. Twilight of Sovereignty: Walter Wriston

  97. Confrontation with Modernity-Heidegger: Michael Zimmerman

  98. The Good Society: John Kenneth Galbraith

  99. Ethics: Aristotle

  100. The Republic: Aristotle

  101. The Inquisition: Edward Burman

  102. Man and His Symbols: Carl Jung

  103. Turbulent Mirror: Briggs & Peat

  104. Time & Social Theory: Barbara Adam

  105. Shakedown: Kenneth Zimmerman

  106. You Shall Be As Gods: Erich Fromm

  107. Cluetrain Manifesto: Levine, Lock, Searls & Weinberger

  108. For The New Intellectual: Ayn Rand

  109. The Road To Serfdom: F.A. Hayek

  110. A&R: Bill Flanagan

  111. The Secret Language of Success: David Lewis

  112. Metatheory in Social Science: Fisk & Shweder

  113. White Collar Blues: Charles Heckscher

  114. The Virtue of Selfishness: Ayn Rand

  115. Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal: Ayn Rand

  116. Invitation to Sociology: Peter Berger

  117. Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Robert Bork

  118. The End of Equality: Mickey Kaus

  119. The Sociological Imagination: C. Wright Mills

  120. Free To Choose: Milton & Rose Friedman

  121. The Seven Deadly Sins: Solomon Schimmel

  122. Essentials of Economics: Faustino Balve

  123. Towards the Next Economic: Peter Drucker

  124. The New Realities: Peter Drucker

  125. Free To Try: The Freeman-Compilation

  126. The Divine Comedy-Inferno: Dante Alighery

  127. Emile Durkheim: Kenneth Thompson

  128. Why Things Bite Back: Edward Tenner

  129. The Ten Things You Can’t Say in America: Larry Elder

  130. Philosophy, Who Needs It: Ayn Rand

  131. The Worldly Philosophers: Robert Heilbroner

  132. The Overspent America: Juliet Schor

  133. The Idea of Race in Latin America, 1870-1940

  134. A Different Mirror: Ronald Takaki

  135. The Executive’s Compass: James O’Toole

  136. The Human Zoo: Desmond Morris (Socio-Anthropology)

  137. Fool’s Gold: Andrew Schmookler (Social Philosophy)

  138. The Organization Man: William Whyte, Jr. (Business-Psychology)

  139. The Greatest Miracle in the World: Og Mandino (Fiction)

  140. Escape From Freedom: Erich Fromm (Social Philosophy-Psychology)

  141. Slapped Together-The Dilbert Business Anthology: Scott Adams (Business Humor)

  142. The Western Intellectual Tradition: Bronowski & Mazlish (History)

  143. One Minute Millionaire: Mark Victor Hansen & Robert Allen

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