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• Aoife: Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek | • Aoife: Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek | ||
• Jason Bork: The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein | • Jason Bork: The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein | ||
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Scalar leadership reading list:
• PK: The Hard Things About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz • Glenn: From Good to Great by Scott Brouwer • Aoife: Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek • Jason Bork: The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein a new kind of science - wolfram
Joe D.
1) The Black Company - Glen Cook (the entire series) 2) At the Mountains of Madness - H.P. Lovecraft 3) Case of Charles Dexter Ward - H.P. Lovecraft 4) Oh the Places You'll Go - Dr. Seuss 5) Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang - Mordecai Richler 6) The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien 7) The Holy Bible, New International Version 8) Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand 9) Gord the Rogue - E. Gary Gygax 10) The Heir Apparent Series - Joel Rosenberg
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The Lion's Paw - Robb White Asterix the Gaul - René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo (and all Asterix books!) The Secret of Skeleton Island - Robert Arthur (and all the Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators books!) Dr. No - Ian Fleming Secrets Origins of the Super DC Heroes - various The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris Science Fiction Tales; Invaders, Creatures and Alien Worlds - edited by Roger Elwood A Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
Sandi J.
1. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A Heinlein 2. I Will Fear No Evil - Robert A Heinlein 3. The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein 4. Inside of a Dog - Alexandra Horowitz 5. Mindless Eating - Brian Wansink 6. Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card 7. Callahan's Crosstime Saloon - Spider Robinson 8. Lamb - Christopher Moore 9. Hackers and Painters - Paul Graham 10. Freakonomics - Levitt & Dubner
Jules
1. One Second After by William Forstchen 2. A Place So Foreign by Cory Doctorow (because it has a story with 151 Front in it) 3. The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty Anne Rice/ A.N. Roquelaure 4. Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank 5. New Wilderness by Brian Matthews 6. Anything Narnia by C.S. Lewis 7. Wikinomics by Don Tapscott 8. The Four Hour Body by Tim Ferriss 9. The Long Emergency by James Howard Kunstler 10. The Book of Answers by Carol Bolt
Kelly F.
1. Green eggs and Ham, the first book I ever remember reading 2. Oh, the places you will go. Best book ever! 3. Tuesday with Morie. Ball every time I read it 4. Silence of the Lambs 5. Hannibal 6. Red Dragon.... Yes there is a theme 7. Have a little faith... My favorite quote is from this book 8. She's Come Undone 9. Macbeth... Technically a play but I did read it 10. I Have to go pee.... Read it to Damon many times when he was in his isolate
Further Study:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Montagu_Doughty mentioned in Laurence of Arabia by Prince feisal as a "Desert loving englush"
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Hester_Stanhope mentioned in Laurence of Arabia by Prince feisal as a "Desert loving englush"
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_George_Gordon mentioned in Laurence of Arabia by Prince feisal as a "Desert loving englush"