Hello — my name is Anthony Fasano, I am the founder of the Engineering Management Institute where we help engineers and other technical professionals become more effective managers and leaders. I preach to engineers constantly about the importance of self-improvement, and to that end, I’m constantly working on my own development. One of the ways I work on improving my own skills is through reading. I usually read (or listen) to three to five books per month. We decided to create this page so that we can easily share these books with our readers depending on what skills you are looking to improve. Please enjoy and feel free to contact us should you have comments about this page or want to share books that you have found to be helpful. Thank you.
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| This book will teach you how to: • Achieve wealth and cash flow through real estate • Find property with real potential • Show you how to unlock the myths that are holding you back • Negotiating the deal based on the numbers • Evaluate property and purchase price • Increase your income through proven property management tools. Click to view on Amazon | ||
 | Art’s Principles reveals the blueprint behind one of the most successful professional services firms, giving career-minded individuals the tools they need to excel in business. The book covers the essentials of leadership, talent acquisition and operations, while outlining the creative strategies that propelled a small business into one of the largest and most admired in its industry. Click to view on Amazon | |
 | Face To Face: How to Reclaim the Personal Touch in a Digital World by Susan RoAne | Bestselling author, communications expert, and popular keynote speaker Susan RoAne shows that face to face encounters are still paramount to both career and personal success. For those attached to their gadgets, gizmos, and Google, RoAne explains how technology should enhance, not envelop their lives. Whether it’s handling office politics, turning small talk into BIG TALK, finding a mentor, or conducting successful business deals over meals, RoAne offers tips to interact and connect with comfort and confidence in shared social space. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss | Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan–there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic times. Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, experiencing high-end world travel, or earning a monthly five-figure income with zero management, The 4-Hour Workweek is the blueprint. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen | Since it was first published almost fifteen years ago, David Allen’s Getting Things Done has become one of the most influential business books of its era, and the ultimate book on personal organization. “GTD” is now shorthand for an entire way of approaching professional and personal tasks, and has spawned an entire culture of websites, organizational tools, seminars, and offshoots. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Dale Carnegie’s rock-solid, time-tested advice has carried countless people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives. One of the most groundbreaking and timeless bestsellers of all time, How to Win Friends & Influence People will teach you: -Six ways to make people like you -Twelve ways to win people to your way of thinking -Nine ways to change people without arousing resentment And much more! Click to view on Amazon | |
 | How To Work A Room lays down the fundamentals for savvy socializing, whether at a party, a conference, a meeting, or while communicating online. Drawing from her vast experiences working with top industry leaders such as Coca-Cola, Apple, the NFL, and UnitedHealth, Susan RoAne presents easy-to-implement strategies to exude more confidence, win over your colleagues, and achieve more at work and in life. Click to view on Amazon | |
 | Leadership is Half the Story introduces the first model to seamlessly integrate leadership, followership, and partnerships. This research-backed, field-tested book contributes many new ideas and practical advice for everyone in an organization – from CEO to HR director to front-line manager to consultant. Click to view on Amazon | |
 | Living the 80/20 Way: Work Less, Worry Less, Succeed More, Enjoy More by Richard Koch | Acclaimed entrepreneur and author Richard Koch changed the face of the business world with The 80/20 Principle. In Living the 80/20 Way, a self-help bestseller, he returns to show how working and worrying less can transform our personal lives. Koch takes the widely renowned 80/20 principle and shows how in today’s cluttered and stressful world, working out the few things that are really important, and the few methods that will give us those things, leads to increased happiness and greater success. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman by Yvon Chouinard | Yvon Chouinard-legendary climber, businessman, environmentalist, and founder of Patagonia, Inc.-shares the persistence and courage that have gone into being head of one of the most respected and environmentally responsible companies on earth. Let My People Go Surfing is the story of a man who brought doing good and having grand adventures into the heart of his business life-a book that will deeply affect entrepreneurs and outdoor enthusiasts alike. Click to view on Amazon |
 | This new 5th edition includes an up-to-date culture and vocabulary guide, allowing you to broaden your knowledge of contemporary language and customs. Do you want to learn Spanish or brush up what you know already? Are you looking for a course with a traditional approach to language learning, based on solid grammatical foundations, translation skills and practical vocabulary? If so, this is the course for you. Click to view on Amazon | |
 | The bestseller author of The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction, and The 33 Strategies of War, Robert Greene has spent a lifetime studying the laws of power. Now, he shares the secret path to greatness. With this seminal text as a guide, readers will learn how to unlock the passion within and become masters. Click to view on Amazon | |
 | The Millionaire Real Estate Investor is your handbook to the tried and true financial wealth building vehicle that rewards patience and perseverance and is available to all–real estate. Click to view on Amazon | |
 | In this edition, Dweck offers new insights into her now famous and broadly embraced concept. She introduces a phenomenon she calls false growth mindset and guides people toward adopting a deeper, truer growth mindset. She also expands the mindset concept beyond the individual, applying it to the cultures of groups and organizations. With the right mindset, you can motivate those you lead, teach, and love—to transform their lives and your own. Click to view on Amazon | |
 | In Never Eat Alone, Ferrazzi lays out the specific steps—and inner mindset—he uses to reach out to connect with the thousands of colleagues, friends, and associates on his contacts list, people he has helped and who have helped him. And in the time since Never Eat Alone was published in 2005, the rise of social media and new, collaborative management styles have only made Ferrazzi’s advice more essential for anyone hoping to get ahead in business. Click to view on Amazon | |
 | Ogilvy on Advertising by David Ogilvy | Told with brutal candor and prodigal generosity, David Ogilvy reveals: • How to get a job in advertising • How to choose an agency for your product • The secrets behind advertising that works • How to write successful copy—and get people to read it • Eighteen miracles of research • What advertising can do for charities. Click to view on Amazon |
 | On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William Zinsser | Whether you want to write about people or places, science and technology, business, sports, the arts or about yourself in the increasingly popular memoir genre, On Writing Well offers you fundamental priciples as well as the insights of a distinguished writer and teacher. With more than a million copies sold, this volume has stood the test of time and remains a valuable resource for writers and would-be writers. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Persuasive Business Proposals: Writing to Win More Customers, Clients, and Contracts by Tom Sant | This classic guide explains how to craft compelling messages and powerful proposals that attract prospects’ attention and speak to their needs. The new edition includes more valuable information than ever before, including: * Essential questions for qualifying opportunities * Ways to “power up” cover letters and executive summaries * Advice for overcoming “value paranoia” * Guidelines for incorporating proof into a proposal * Tips for winning renewal contracts. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain | In Quiet, Susan Cain argues that we dramatically undervalue introverts and shows how much we lose in doing so. She charts the rise of the Extrovert Ideal throughout the twentieth century and explores how deeply it has come to permeate our culture. She also introduces us to successful introverts—from a witty, high-octane public speaker who recharges in solitude after his talks, to a record-breaking salesman who quietly taps into the power of questions. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future by Dorie Clark | In Reinventing You, branding expert Dorie Clark provides a step-by-step guide to help you assess your unique strengths, develop a compelling personal brand, and ensure that others recognize the powerful contribution you can make. Mixing personal stories with engaging interviews and examples from well-known personalities—Mark Zuckerberg, Al Gore, Tim Ferriss, Seth Godin, and others—Reinventing You shows how to think big about your professional goals, take control of your career, build a reputation that opens doors for you, and finally live the life you want. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki | Anyone stuck in the rat-race of living paycheck to paycheck, enslaved by the house mortgage and bills, will appreciate this breath of fresh air. Learn about the methods that have created more than a few millionaires. This is the first abridged miniature edition of Rich Dad Poor Dad. The full-length edition has sold millions as a New York Times bestseller. As proven by the runaway success of The Secret and like titles, changing one’s thinking to influence one’s fortune sells big, and forms the basis of rich dad’s advice. Learn to think like a rich dad and let your money work for you! Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Road to Character by David Brooks | Looking to some of the world’s greatest thinkers and inspiring leaders, Brooks explores how, through internal struggle and a sense of their own limitations, they have built a strong inner character. Labor activist Frances Perkins understood the need to suppress parts of herself so that she could be an instrument in a larger cause. Dwight Eisenhower organized his life not around impulsive self-expression but considered self-restraint. Dorothy Day, a devout Catholic convert and champion of the poor, learned as a young woman the vocabulary of simplicity and surrender. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Stand Out: How to Find Your Breakthrough Idea and Build a Following Around It by Dorie Clark | Dorie Clark explains how to identify the ideas that set you apart and promote them successfully. The key is to recognize your own value, cultivate your expertise, and put yourself out there. Featuring vivid examples and drawing on interviews with Seth Godin, Robert Cialdini, and other thought leaders, Clark teaches readers how to develop a big idea, leverage existing affiliations, and build a community of followers. She offers not mere self-promotion, but an opportunity to change the world for the better while giving you the ultimate job insurance. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less by Richard Koch | The 80/20 principle is one of the great secrets of highly effective people and organizations. Did you know, for example, that 20 percent of customers account for 80 percent of revenues? That 20 percent of our time accounts for 80 percent of the work we accomplish? The 80/20 Principle shows how we can achieve much more with much less effort, time, and resources, simply by identifying and focusing our efforts on the 20 percent that really counts. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. | You know the authors’ names. You recognize the title. You’ve probably used this book yourself. This is The Elements of Style, the classic style manual, now in a fourth edition. A new Foreword by Roger Angell reminds readers that the advice of Strunk & White is as valuable today as when it was first offered.This book’s unique tone, wit and charm have conveyed the principles of English style to millions of readers. Use the fourth edition of “the little book” to make a big impact with writing. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea by Bob Burg | The Go-Giver tells the story of an ambitious young man named Joe who yearns for success. Joe is a true go-getter, though sometimes he feels as if the harder and faster he works, the further away his goals seem to be. And so one day, desperate to land a key sale at the end of a bad quarter, he seeks advice from the enigmatic Pindar, a legendary consultant referred to by his many devotees simply as the Chairman. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Goddess, the Grail and the Lodge by Alan Butler | We’re only just beginning to realize that Bronze Age people knew far more about astronomy and engineering than we have given them credit for. Reading like a thriller, The Goddess, the Grail and the Lodge shows what Grail Knowledge really was and is. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Kensington Rune Stone: Compelling New Evidence by Richard Nielsen | This book is 570+ pages of a scientific review of the data and facts that surround the Kensington Runestone. The authors tackle the rune stone mystery from every angle imaginable in complete detail, using archaeology, linguistics, geology, and runeology! Tons of illustrations, photos, tables and data are included. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life (Before 8AM) by Hal Elrod | What if you could wake up tomorrow and any—or EVERY—area of your life was beginning to transform? What would you change? The Miracle Morning is already transforming the lives of tens of thousands of people around the world by showing them how to wake up each day with more ENERGY, MOTIVATION, and FOCUS to take your life to the next level. It’s been right here in front of us all along, but this book has finally brought it to life. Are you ready? The next chapter of YOUR life—the most extraordinary life you’ve ever imagined—is about to begin. Buy the book and WAKE UP to your full potential! Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Miracle Morning for Salespeople brings you the Life S.A.V.E.R.S. as a guide for taking your SALES to the next level. Get beyond the typical sales advice and get into a daily rhythm that will transform your career. The Miracle Morning for Salespeople brings you the Life S.A.V.E.R.S. as a guide for taking your SALES to the next level. Get beyond the typical sales advice and get into a daily rhythm that will transform your career. Click to view on Amazon | |
 | The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller | The ONE Thing has made more than 400 appearances on national bestseller lists, including #1 Wall Street Journal, NewYork Times, and USA Today. It won 12 book awards, has been translated into 30 languages, chosen as one of the Top 5 Business Books of 2013 by Hudson’s Booksellers and one of Top 30 Business Books of 2013 by Executive Book Summaries.Voted one of Top 100 Business Books of All Time on Goodreads. People are using this simple, powerful concept to focus on what matters most in their personal and work lives. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Beloved New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani returns with the most epic and ambitious novel of her career—a breathtaking multigenerational love story that spans two continents, two World Wars, and the quest of two star-crossed lovers to find each other again. The Shoemaker’s Wife is replete with the all the page-turning adventure, sumptuous detail, and heart-stopping romance that has made Adriana Trigiani, “one of the reigning queens of women’s fiction” (USA Today). Click to view on Amazon | |
 | To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others by Daniel H. Pink | To Sell Is Human offers a fresh look at the art and science of selling. As he did in Drive and A Whole New Mind, Daniel H. Pink draws on a rich trove of social science for his counterintuitive insights. He reveals the new ABCs of moving others (it’s no longer “Always Be Closing”), explains why extraverts don’t make the best salespeople, and shows how giving people an “off-ramp” for their actions can matter more than actually changing their minds. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom | Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Click to view on Amazon |
 | What Do I Say Next?: Talking Your Way to Business and Social Success by Susan RoAne | Susan Roane, keynote speaker and bestselling author provides the reader with easy solutions, can’t miss guidelines and vital do’s and dont’s in the fine art of conversation. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Win More Work: How to Write Winning A/E/C Proposals by Jim R Rogers | Win More Work: How to Write Winning A/E/C Proposals offers an experienced look at how to write memorable proposals. Being memorable is the key to success. This book will help architects, engineers, construction executives, and their marketing professionals understand how to write proposals that can double their win rate —thereby freeing them up to provide better service to customers, reduce marketing costs from bad pursuits, or simply spend more time with family and fewer Saturdays at the office. This book has something to say to both the novice proposal writer and those with decades of experience. Click to view on Amazon |
 | A classic work on leadership for business men and women, government leaders and all persons in positions of authority. Click to view on Amazon | |
 | The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey | CONSIDERED ONE OF THE MOST INSPIRING BOOKS EVER WRITTEN, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has guided generations of readers for the last 25 years. Presidents and CEOs have kept it by their bedsides, students have underlined and studied passages from it, educators and parents have drawn from it, and individuals of all ages and occupations have used its step-by-step pathway to adapt to change and to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates. Click to view on Amazon |
| America’s beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking excitement, drama, and narrative force, the stirring story of the year of our nation’s birth, 1776, interweaving, on both sides of the Atlantic, the actions and decisions that led Great Britain to undertake a war against her rebellious colonial subjects and that placed America’s survival in the hands of George Washington. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t by Jim Collins | The findings of the Good to Great study will surprise many readers and shed light on virtually every area of management strategy and practice. “Some of the key concepts discerned in the study,” comments Jim Collins, “fly in the face of our modern business culture and will, quite frankly, upset some people.” Perhaps, but who can afford to ignore these findings? Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Generals’ War : The Inside Story of the Conflict in the Gulf by Michael R. Gordon | An account of the war in the Persian Gulf takes readers behind the scenes at the Pentagon and the White House to provide portraits of the top military commanders and to discuss what worked and what did not. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Jefferson Davis and His Generals: The Failure of Confederate Command in the West by Steven E. Woodworth | In Jefferson Davis and His Generals, Steven Woodworth shows that both extremes are accurate—Davis was both heroic and incompetent. Yet neither viewpoint reveals the whole truth about this complicated figure. Woodworth’s portrait of Davis reveals an experienced, talented, and courageous leader who, nevertheless, undermined the Confederacy’s cause in the trans-Appalachian west, where the South lost the war. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Sleep Smarter: 21 Proven Tips to Sleep Your Way To a Better Body, Better Health and Bigger Success by Shawn Stevenson | Sleep Smarter is a fun and entertaining look at how sleep impacts your mind, body, and performance, without skimping on the “how to’s” to get the sleep you really deserve. Whether you’ve struggled with sleep problems, or you’re simply interested in living a longer, healthier life, you’re going to be blown away with what you learn. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Beneath a Marble Sky by John Shors | A dramatic coming-of-age story set in the decade after World War II, “Warlight” is the mesmerizing new novel from the best-selling author of “The English Patient. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance by Steven Kotler | In this groundbreaking book, New York Times–bestselling author Steven Kotler decodes the mystery of ultimate human performance. Drawing on over a decade of research and first-hand reporting with dozens of top action and adventure sports athletes like big wave legend Laird Hamilton, big mountain snowboarder Jeremy Jones, and skateboarding pioneer Danny Way, Kotler explores the frontier science of “flow,” an optimal state of consciousness in which we perform and feel our best. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi | Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s famous investigations of “optimal experience” have revealed that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying is a state of consciousness called flow. During flow, people typically experience deep enjoyment, creativity, and a total involvement with life. In this new edition of his groundbreaking classic work, Csikszentmihalyi (“the leading researcher into ‘flow states’” —Newsweek) demonstrates the ways this positive state can be controlled, not just left to chance. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Necessary Bridges: Public Speaking & Storytelling for Project Managers & Engineers by Rashid N. Kapadia | The primary purpose of this book is to get project managers and engineers to commit to acquiring expertise in public speaking and storytelling. The secondary purpose is to provide (just) enough content (accompanied by exercises, examples and directions to other resources — i.e. the work of others) to keep the commitment strong and sustained over years. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Power of Preeminence: High performance principles to accelerate your business and career by Paul W. P. Rulkens | In The Power of Preeminence you will learn the critical skills and inside secrets to: – Focus on the few things necessary for business success – Dramatically grow your business and career – Achieve twice the results in half of the time – Strategically quit your way to achieve big goals – Communicate anything to anyone – Quickly and cheaply innovate and outsmart your competition – Rapidly build essential high-performance habits – Become part of the top 10 percent in your professional field. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Goals!: How to Get Everything You Want — Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible by Brian Tracy | Tracy presents a simple, powerful, and effective system for setting and achieving goals—a method that has been used by more than one million people to achieve extraordinary things. In this revised and expanded second edition he has added three new chapters addressing areas in which goals can be most rewarding but also the toughest to set and keep: finances, family, and health. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done by Peter F. Drucker | Drucker identifies five practices essential to business effectiveness that can, and must, be learned:
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 | Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath | Made to Stick will transform the way you communicate. It’s a fast-paced tour of success stories (and failures): the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who drank a glass of bacteria to prove a point about stomach ulcers; the charities who make use of the Mother Teresa Effect; the elementary-school teacher whose simulation actually prevented racial prejudice. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini | Influence, the classic book on persuasion, explains the psychology of why people say “yes”—and how to apply these understandings. Dr. Robert Cialdini is the seminal expert in the rapidly expanding field of influence and persuasion. His thirty-five years of rigorous, evidence-based research along with a three-year program of study on what moves people to change behavior has resulted in this highly acclaimed book. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School by John Medina | In Brain Rules, Dr. John Medina, a molecular biologist, shares his lifelong interest in how the brain sciences might influence the way we teach our children and the way we work. In each chapter, he describes a brain rule—what scientists know for sure about how our brains work—and then offers transformative ideas for our daily lives. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin Kleon | You don’t need to be a genius, you just need to be yourself. That’s the message from Austin Kleon, a young writer and artist who knows that creativity is everywhere, creativity is for everyone. A manifesto for the digital age, Steal Like an Artist is a guide whose positive message, graphic look and illustrations, exercises, and examples will put readers directly in touch with their artistic side. Click to view on Amazon |
 | What the CEO Wants You to Know : How Your Company Really Works by Ram Charan | What the CEO Wants You to Know captures insights and explains in clear, simple language how to do what great CEOs do instinctively and persistently: *Understand the basic building blocks of a business and use them to figure out how your company makes money and operates as a total business. *Decide what to do, despite the clutter of day-to-day business and the complexity of the real world. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Do the Work: Overcome Resistance and Get Out of Your Own Way by Steven Pressfield | Do the Work, a manifesto by bestselling author Steven Pressfield, that will show you that it’s not about better ideas, it’s about actually doing the work. Do the Work is a weapon against Resistance – a tool that will help you take action and successfully ship projects out the door. Picking up where The War of Art and Turning Pro left off, Do The Work takes the reader from the start to the finish of any long-form project—novel, screenplay, album, software piece, you name it. Do The Work identifies the predictable Resistance Points along the way and walks you through each of them. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal by Jim Loehr | The Power of Full Engagement is a highly practical, scientifically based approach to managing your energy more skillfully. It provides a clear road map to becoming more physically energized, emotionally connected, mentally focused, and spiritually aligned — both on and off the job. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Risk Management Memory Jogger by Carl Pritchard | How do you deal with risk? Risk is everywhere…in your work, at home, and an ever-present factor in new ventures, financial investments, relationships, work projects, and all types of events…how do you decide whether the effort is worth the risk, or figure out how to minimize the risks? This guide will help you deal with the potentially rocky road of opportunity and risk. It begins with a road map and a five-step plan for how to proceed, including the rules of the road such as key terms to know, pitfalls to avoid, and tips that will keep you moving toward your goals. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Risk Management: Concepts and Guidance by Carl Pritchard | This new edition of Risk Management: Concepts and Guidance supplies a look at risk in light of current information, yet remains grounded in the history of risk practice. Taking a holistic approach, it examines risk as a blend of environmental, programmatic, and situational concerns. Supplying comprehensive coverage of risk management tools, practices, and protocols, the book presents powerful techniques that can enhance organizational risk identification, assessment, and management―all within the project and program environments. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein | In this unique exploration of the role of risk in our society, Peter Bernstein argues that the notion of bringing risk under control is one of the central ideas that distinguishes modern times from the distant past. Against the Gods chronicles the remarkable intellectual adventure that liberated humanity from oracles and soothsayers by means of the powerful tools of risk management that are available to us today. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Darwin Awards Countdown to Extinction by Wendy Northcutt | Fully illustrated and featuring all-new tales of the marvelously macabre, The Darwin Awards Countdown to Extinction chronicles the astonishing acts of individuals who have taken a swan dive into the shallow end of the gene pool. From attaching a five-horsepower engine to a barstool, to hammering a metal hook into an explosive device, to using a taser to treat a snake bite, these gloriously gruesome incidents prove that the countdown (to human extinction) is well under way. And we won’t exit this mortal coil without one last laugh. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable | A black swan is an event, positive or negative, that is deemed improbable yet causes massive consequences. In this groundbreaking and prophetic book, Taleb shows in a playful way that Black Swan events explain almost everything about our world, and yet we—especially the experts—are blind to them. In this second edition, Taleb has added a new essay, On Robustness and Fragility, which offers tools to navigate and exploit a Black Swan world. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Unretirement: How Baby Boomers are Changing the Way We Think About Work, Community, and the Good Life by Chris Farrell | Unretirement not only explains this seismic change, now in its early stages, it provides key insights and practical advice for boomers about to navigate this exciting, but unsettled, new frontier, drawing on Chris Farrell’s decades of covering personal finance and economics for Bloomsberg Businessweek and Marketplace Money. This will be an indispensable guide to the landscape of unretirement from one of America’s most trusted experts. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion by Pema Chödrön | In her wise and friendly manner, Tibetan Buddhist nun Pema Chodron lays out the basic training for becoming a warrior-bodhisattva: one who courageously takes up the path of awakening compassion for both self and others. This gathering of 108 short stand-alone readings – one for every bead in a traditional Buddhist mala – is designed to help readers cultivate compassion and awareness amid the challenges of daily living. Buddhist and non-Buddhists alike will find inspiration in her teachings. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations by Ori Brafman | Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom have discovered some unexpected answers, gripping stories, and a tapestry of unlikely connections. The Starfish and the Spider explores what happens when starfish take on spiders and reveals how established companies and institutions, from IBM to Intuit to the U.S. government, are also learning how to incorporate starfish principles to achieve success. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone | Brad Stone enjoyed unprecedented access to current and former Amazon employees and Bezos family members, and his book is the first in-depth, fly-on-the-wall account of life at Amazon. The Everything Store is the book that the business world can’t stop talking about, the revealing, definitive biography of the company that placed one of the first and largest bets on the Internet and forever changed the way we shop and read. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Engineer Your Own Success: 7 Key Elements to Creating an Extraordinary Engineering Career by Anthony Fasano | Focusing on basic skills and tips for career enhancement, Engineer Your Own Success is a guide to improving efficiency and performance in any engineering field. It imparts valuable organization tips, communication advice, networking tactics, and practical assistance for preparing for the PE exam—every necessary skill for success. Authored by a highly renowned career coach, this book is a battle plan for climbing the rungs of any engineering ladder. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers by Gillian Tett | From award-winning columnist and journalist Gillian Tett comes a brilliant examination of how our tendency to create functional departments—silos—hinders our work…and how some people and organizations can break those silos down to unleash innovation. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Defense of Hill 781: An Allegory of Modern Mechanized Combat by James R. McDonough | “Brilliant, hardhitting description of modern war on the U.S. Army’s premier training ground. A must-read tactical primer for today’s warrior.”—John C. “Doc” Bahnsen, Brigadier General, USA (Ret.) At the turn of the century a small, humorous book on tactics was published. The Defense of Duffer’s Drift quickly became a bestseller and today is still widely read. The Defense of Hill 781 is a modem version of this classic—a tactical primer with ample funpoking, but with serious lessons to be learned. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Inner Game of Work: Focus, Learning, Pleasure, and Mobility in the Workplace by W. Timothy Gallwey | The Inner Game of Work teaches you the difference between a rote performance and a rewarding one. It teaches you how to stop working in the conformity mode and start working in the mobility mode. It shows how having a great coach can make as much difference in the boardroom as on the basketball court– and Gallwey teaches you how to find that coach and, equally important, how to become one. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition by Kerry Patterson | The first edition of Crucial Conversations exploded onto the scene and revolutionized the way millions of people communicate when stakes are high. This new edition gives you the tools to:
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 | StrengthsFinder 2.0 by Tom Rath | In its latest national bestseller, StrengthsFinder 2.0, Gallup unveils the new and improved version of its popular assessment, language of 34 themes, and much more (see below for details). While you can read this book in one sitting, you’ll use it as a reference for decades. Loaded with hundreds of strategies for applying your strengths, this new book and accompanying website will change the way you look at yourself–and the world around you–forever. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Never-Ending Challenge of Engineering: Admiral H.G. Rickover in His Own Words by Hyman G. Rickover | This ebook is a practical and philosophical look at the principles used by engineers from the perspective of one of America’s greatest engineers, Admiral Hyman George Rickover. He is an icon in the history of nuclear power, and one of his greatest contributions was to develop nuclear power technology to meet much higher safety and quality standards than past technological developments. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Rickover Effect: How One Man Made A Difference by Theodore Rockwell | As Technical Director, Rockwell worked alongside the legendary Admiral Rickover for the first 15 years, creating the nuclear navy, then the world’s first commercial atomic power station. Rickover was both admired and hated as he forcibly reformed both bureaucracies and industries to harness the fearsome atom. Click to view on Amazon |
 | To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design by Henry Petroski | More than a series of fascinating case studies, “To Engineer is Human” is a work that looks at our deepest notions of progress and perfection, tracing the fine connection between the quantifiable realm of science and the chaotic realities of everyday life. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Sinking of the USS Maine: Declaring War Against Spain (Milestones in American History) by Samuel Willard Crompton | Bolstered by biographical sketches, extensive photographs, excerpts from primary source documents, and first-person narratives, each title in this history series presents a three-dimensional look at a particular event and those people who not only played an integral part in making it significant but also those who were ultimately affected by its consequences. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Achieving Project Management Success in the Federal Government by Jonathan Weinstein | Gain Valuable Insight into the Government’s Project Management Best Practices! Although project management is not new to the federal government, the discipline has taken on renewed importance in the face of the ever-increasing size, complexity, and number of mission-critical projects being undertaken by every branch and agency. This book addresses the key facets of project management, from organization and structure to people and process. A variety of government entities share their best practices in areas including leadership, technology, teams, communication, methodology, and performance management. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Government Manager’s Guide to Project Management by Jonathan Weinstein | This realistic cross-section of the project management discipline in the federal arena will help anyone leading, working on, or affecting the direction of a project team. It covers the entire scope of project management from organization to methodology, technology to leadership. This volume focuses on the three project management organizational dimensions of culture, systems, and structure. Click to view on Amazon |
 | A Sense of Urgency by John P. Kotter | Most organizational change initiatives fail spectacularly (at worst) or deliver lukewarm results (at best). In his international bestseller Leading Change, John Kotter revealed why change is so hard, and provided an actionable, eight-step process for implementing successful transformations. The book became the change bible for managers worldwide. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Leading Change by John P. Kotter | This immensely relevant bestselling business book serves as both visionary guide and practical toolkit on how to approach the difficult yet crucial work of leading change in any type of organization. Reading this highly personal book is like spending a day with the world’s foremost expert on business leadership. You’re sure to walk away inspired—and armed with the tools you need to inspire others. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath | In Switch, the Heaths show how everyday people—employees and managers, parents and nurses—have united both minds and, as a result, achieved dramatic results: ● The lowly medical interns who managed to defeat an entrenched, decades-old medical practice that was endangering patients. ● The home-organizing guru who developed a simple technique for overcoming the dread of housekeeping. ● The manager who transformed a lackadaisical customer-support team into service zealots by removing a standard tool of customer service. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt | Written in a fast-paced thriller style, The Goal is the gripping novel which is transforming management thinking throughout the Western world. The author has been described by Fortune as a ‘guru to industry’ and by Businessweek as a ‘genius’. It is a book to recommend to your friends in industry – even to your bosses – but not to your competitors. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Value Redesigned: New Models for Professional Practice by Kyle V. Davy | This groundbreaking book presents an in-depth look into that potential future. Davy and Harris reveal a vivid landscape where innovative new models for professional practice are already beginning to flourish, showing firms avenues of escape from the vicious cycle of commoditization and low prestige that is epidemic within the architecture and engineering community. Click to view on Amazon |
 | How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It by Mark Cuban | Mark Cuban shares his wealth of experience and business savvy in his first published book, HOW TO WIN AT THE SPORT OF BUSINESS. “It’s New Year’s resolution time, and Mark Cuban’s new book offers the rationale for a good one.” ―BUSINESS INSIDER. Click to view on Amazon |
 | 10-10-10: A Fast and Powerful Way to Get Unstuck in Love, at Work, and with Your Family by Suzy Welch | With 10-10-10, Welch proposes a transformative solution to this pressure, helping us tease apart our deepest goals and values, candidly face our fears and dreams, and rid ourselves of frustration and regret. 10-10-10 has shown its effectiveness in decisions large and small, routine and radical, getting us out of neutral at home, in love, and at work. Across the board, this immensely useful and revelatory idea provides us with the tools to regain control of our choices—and ultimately reclaim our lives. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture by Paul Gibbons | The Science of Organizational Change identifies dozens of change management myths, bad models, and unhelpful metaphors, replacing some with twenty-first century research and revealing gaps where research needs to be done. Paul Gibbons links the origins of theories about change to the history of ideas and suggests that the human sciences will provide real breakthroughs in our understanding of people in the twenty-first century. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Reboot Your Life: A 12-Day Program for Ending Stress, Realizing Your Goals, and Being More Productive by Paul Gibbons | Reboot Your Life is a 12-day process for reflecting on where you are in life, on clearing out aspects that don’t work, on designing your mission and vision, creating goals, and learning strategies for realizing those goals with the latest productivity strategies. Each day has a few minutes reading, but then practical exercises and tools to get you quickly into action. “Reboot” is the same process used by life-coaches who charge thousands of dollars, but after completing the process, you will be your own greatest coach. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler | From the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics, Richard H. Thaler, and Cass R. Sunstein: a revelatory look at how we make decisions—for fans of Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink and Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Antifragile is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, Skin in the Game, and The Bed of Procrustes. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization by Peter M. Senge | In The Fifth Discipline, Senge describes how companies can rid themselves of the learning “disabilities” that threaten their productivity and success by adopting the strategies of learning organizations—ones in which new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, collective aspiration is set free, and people are continually learning how to create results they truly desire. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman | In the international bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Introduction to Creativity and Innovation for Engineers by Stuart G. Walesh | This first edition of Introduction to Creativity and Innovation for Engineers was primarily designed for engineering students interested in acquiring knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSA) that will help them be more creative and innovative. While intended primarily for engineering students, the widely applicable principles, ideas, tools, and methods introduced will also be useful for practicing engineers and as well as members of other disciplines. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Engineering Your Future: The Professional Practice of Engineering by Stuart G. Walesh | This updated edition of Engineering Your Future is the go-to resource on the nontechnical aspects of professional practice for engineering students and young technical professionals alike. The content is explicitly linked to current efforts in the reform of engineering education including ABET’s Engineering Criteria 2000, ASCE’s Body of Knowledge, and those being undertaken by AAEE, AIChE and ASME. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge for the 21st Century, Second Edition | The manner in which civil engineering is practiced must change. That change is necessitated by such forces as globalization, sustainability requirements, emerging technology, and increased complexity with the corresponding need to identify, define, and solve problems at the boundaries of traditional disciplines. Click to view on Amazon |
 | As a Man Thinketh by James Allen | “As a Man Thinketh” is a literary essay by James Allen, first published in 1902. In more than a century it has become an inspirational classic, selling millions of copies worldwide and bringing faith, inspiration, and self healing to all who have encountered it. The title comes from the Bible: “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” — Proverbs, chapter 23, verse 7. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Civil Engineer Resume Hacking: Shortcuts to outshining your peers and getting interviews by Richard Poulin | If you’re a civil engineer looking to improve your resume, this book is just for you! And we mean just for you. All the examples in here are tailored for civil engineers (and structural engineers, project engineers or field engineers). We actually went through many of your peers’ resumes, to identify what made the best stand out. This is what you’ll find in this guide: the most relevant, high impact material from civil engineer resumes. Click to view on Amazon |
 | slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations by Nancy Duarte | With slide:ology you’ll learn to:
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 | Ignite Your Culture: 6 Steps to Fuel Your People, Profits and Potential by Carol Ring | Ignite Your Culture demystifies the concept of culture and provides an easy-to-follow framework for energizing that culture. Ring advocates a six-step IGNITE process, turning the nebulous concept of culture into a concrete business strategy. Her thought-provoking questions challenge leaders to raise their awareness about the true impact culture has on performance. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Wait, How Do I Write This Email?: Game-Changing Templates for Networking and the Job Search by Danny Rubin | In his award-winning guide, communications expert Danny Rubin provides more than 100 email/document templates for networking and the job search. With each template, Rubin saves you time and takes the stress out of professional email writing. Wait, How Do I Write This Email? is a perfect resource for people who need to build relationships and grow into careers. It’s also used in high schools, colleges, workforce development programs and even the Pentagon as part of in communications courses for senior-level personnel. Click to view on Amazon |
 | 25 Things Every Young Professional Should Know by Age 25 by Danny Rubin | Millennial author Danny Rubin shows 20-somethings (and people of any age) how to be more effective communicators and impress our bosses at every turn. “25 Things” is perfect for recent grads and anyone new to a job or the workforce. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Greet! Eat! Tweet!: 52 Business Etiquette Postings To Avoid Pitfalls and Boost Your Career by Barbara Pachter | Whether you are a first-timer, want to advance your career, or are desperately seeking employment, Greet! Eat! Tweet! is a must-have guide that will show you how to project the right image for success. Created by internationally renowned business etiquette speaker, coach, and author Barbara Pachter, Greet! Eat! Tweet! provides the best advice from her top fifty-two blogs, which will have you establishing relationships easily, writing and speaking confidently, using social media successfully, and giving effective presentations. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Power of Positive Confrontation: The Skills You Need to Handle Conflicts at Work, at Home, Online, and in Life, completely revised and updated edition by Barbara Pachter | This book teaches you the vital skills you need to confront others, communicate effectively, and live a more conflict-free life. In this updated edition, communications expert Barbara Pachter shares a practical, step-by-step guide to tackling conflicts in any situation, including a new section on navigating sticky situations online. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Essentials of Business Etiquette: How to Greet, Eat, and Tweet Your Way to Success by Barbara Pachter | “If you are looking for practical guidelines on how to conduct yourself in a business situation, what behaviors you need to use to get ahead, and how to be sure that you do not offend others, read this book!” — MADELINE BELL, President and COO, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Service Etiquette, 5th Edition by Cherlynn Conetsco | This all-new 5th edition of the venerable Service Etiquette cements the guide’s reputation as the definitive resource of military protocol. International protocol experts Cherlynn Conetsco and Anna Hart have totally rewritten the book, expanding its scope and intended readership from military officers and military spouses to all levels of the military, government, and business professionals. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success by Chip Conley | Using brilliantly simple logic that illuminates the universal truths in common emotional challenges, Emotional Equations offers a way to identify the elements in our lives that we can change, those we can’t, and how to better understand our emotions so they can help us . . . rather than hurt us. Click to view on Amazon |
 | How to Learn and Memorize Italian Vocabulary…: Using a Memory Palace Specifically Designed for the Italian Language by Anthony Metivier | If you’d like to double, triple or even quadruple your ability to learn Italian vocabulary by using simple memory techniques that you can learn in 30 minutes or less, then this may be the most important audiobook that you will ever listen to. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Business Manager Resume Hacking: Shortcuts to outshining your peers and getting interviews by Richard Poulin | If you’re a business manager looking to improve your resume, this book is just for you! And we mean just for you. All the examples in here are tailored for managers; we actually went through many of your peers’ resumes, to identify what made the best stand out. This is what you’ll find in this guide: the most relevant material from resumes of various managers. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Big Dig by Dan McNichol | The first book ever written about Boston’s Big Dig–the largest, most complex highway construction project ever embarked upon in U.S. history! This regional blockbuster reached #1 on the Boston Globe’s bestseller list. Filled with dozens of remarkable photos and fascinating archival illustrations, it pulsates with details only an insider like Dan McNichol, former director of the project who was in at the conception, could provide. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Reinventing Yourself, 20th Anniversary Edition: How to Become the Person You’ve Always Wanted to Be by Steven Chandler | This completely revised and updated edition of Reinventing Yourself, the motivational classic by inspirational author Steve Chandler, features several new chapters. You’ll learn numerous techniques for breaking down negative barriers and letting go of the pessimistic thoughts that prevent you from fulfilling, or even allowing yourself to conceive of, your goals and dreams. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Sam Walton: Made In America | In an autobiographical account of his rise to the pinnacle of the American retail business, the personal reminiscences of the late billionaire retailer are combined with dozens of interviews with Sam Walton’s family and friends. Click to view on Amazon |
 | John T. Molloy’s New Dress for Success | All the changes that have taken place in men’s wardrobes in the past fifteen years are incorporated into this highly successful title. Contains 30 percent new information and a four-color, four-page illustration insert. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It by Michael E. Gerber | In this first new and totally revised edition of the 150,000-copy underground bestseller, The E-Myth, Michael Gerber dispels the myths surrounding starting your own business and shows how commonplace assumptions can get in the way of running a business. He walks you through the steps in the life of a business from entrepreneurial infancy, through adolescent growing pains, to the mature entrepreneurial perspective, the guiding light of all businesses that succeed. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Fearless Salary Negotiation: A step-by-step guide to getting paid what you’re worth by Josh Doody | Fearless Salary Negotiation is a step-by-step guide to getting paid what you’re worth. But it’s also something deeper–it’s an exposé on how companies determine salaries and job titles, and how they think about raises and promotions. It is a roadmap showing you how to successfully bridge the chasm between what you know about salaries, job titles, and pay structures, and how they actually work so you can maximize your salary. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime by MJ DeMarco | Drive the Slowlane road and you will find your life deteriorate into a miserable exhibition about what you cannot do, versus what you can. For those who don’t want a lifetime subscription to “settle-for-less” and a slight chance of elderly riches, there is an alternative; an expressway to extraordinary wealth that can burn a trail to financial independence faster than any road out there. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Winner’s Lifestyle by Daniel Ally | Have you ever wondered how people become successful? It can take you many years to search for the kind of answers that can help speed up your results. Daniel has done the research for you and distributes the finest tools to help you get promoted quickly in your life. This easy-to-read and definitive book captures the key principles of getting the most out of life. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Ultimate Advantage by Daniel Ally | Daniel has gone from obscurity to fame and poverty to wealth and teaches you how you can do it too. If you are tired of living the way you are currently living, this book is waiting for you. It will give you the new ideas that you have been longing for, a fresh frame of mind, and the greatest methods ever found to achieve the most in life. Click to view on Amazon |
 | You Are The Boss! by Daniel Ally | You Are the Boss! will reveal the truth about yourself. Daniel Ally releases precepts that will align with what you naturally know and were afraid to think or discuss with others. This wonderful book slices right through your cranium and will send shockwaves through your body. You Are The Boss! will captivate you with its illuminating stories and breakthrough concepts. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future by Chris Guillebeau | Still in his early thirties, Chris is on the verge of completing a tour of every country on earth – he’s already visited more than 175 nations – and yet he’s never held a “real job” or earned a regular paycheck. Rather, he has a special genius for turning ideas into income, and he uses what he earns both to support his life of adventure and to give back. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny by Robin Sharma | The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny by motivational speaker and author Robin Sharma is an inspiring tale that provides a step-by-step approach to living with greater courage, balance, abundance and joy. Click to view on Amazon |
 | A Guide to Managing Engineering and Architectural Design Services Contracts: What every project manager needs to know by John M. Lowe | The book is a resource to design professionals as they manage their professional services contracts. Its more than fifty topics address the process from being selected, through the design process, and to preparation of record documents after construction. The book also contains twelve sample documents intended to improve effectiveness and efficiency during the design and construction process. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The First 90 Days, Updated and Expanded: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter by Michael D. Watkins | In this updated and expanded version of the international bestseller The First 90 Days, Michael D. Watkins offers proven strategies for conquering the challenges of transitions—no matter where you are in your career. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The New One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard | For decades, The One Minute Manager® has helped millions achieve more successful professional and personal lives. While the principles it lays out are timeless, our world has changed drastically since the book’s publication. The exponential rise of technology, global flattening of markets, instant communication, and pressures on corporate workforces to do more with less—including resources, funding, and staff—have all revolutionized the world in which we live and work. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Pledge: Your Master Plan for an Abundant Life by Michael Masterson | In The Pledge: Your Master Plan for an Abundant Life, author Michael Masterson reveals how to become successful-and not just financially, but in every area of life. The book
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 | Awaken the Giant Within by Anthony Robbins | The creator of acclaimed personal achievement programs and the author of the bestselling “Unlimited Power” reveals the proven steps to self-mastery. Robbins shares the secrets of his exclusive “Date with Destiny” seminars, describing how unconscious beliefs control our behavior and how we can make immediate changes to accomplish our goals. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Natural Capitalism: The Next Industrial Revolution by Paul Hawken | On its first publication 10 years ago, Natural Capitalism rocked the world of business with its innovative new approach – an approach that fused ecological integrity with business acumen using the radical concept of natural capitalism. This 10th-anniversary edition features a new Introduction by Amory B. Lovins and Paul Hawken which updates the story to include the successes of the last decade. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Speak to Win: How to Present with Power in Any Situation by Brian Tracy | In Speak to Win, Tracy reveals time-tested tricks of the trade that readers can use to present powerfully and speak persuasively, whether in an informal meeting or in front of a large audience. Readers will learn how to: * become confident, positive, and relaxed in front of any audience * grab people’s attention from the start * use body language, props, and vocal techniques to keep listeners engaged * transition smoothly from one point to the next * use humor, stories, quotes, and questions skillfully * deal with skepticism when presenting new ideas * wrap up strongly and persuasively Brimming with unbeatable strategies for winning people over every time, Tracy lets readers in on his most powerful presentation secrets in this indispensable, life-changing guide. Click to view on Amazon |
| The New Sustainability Advantage: Seven Business Case Benefits of a Triple Bottom Line by Bob Willard | Fully revised and updated, this tenth anniversary edition clearly demonstrates that, by focusing on seven powerful yet easy to grasp sustainability strategies, businesses can:
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 | The Ecology of Commerce Revised Edition: A Declaration of Sustainability by Paul Hawken | The world has changed in the seventeen years since the controversial initial publication of Paul Hawken’s Ecology of Commerce, a stirring treatise about the perceived antagonism between ecology and business. Yet Hawken’s impassioned argument—that business both causes the most egregious abuses of the environment and, crucially, holds the most potential for solving our sustainability problems—is more relevant and resonant than ever. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Cannibals with Forks: The Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business by John Elkington | Cannibals with Forks passionately demonstrates how all businesses can and must help society achieve the three inter-linked goals of economic prosperity,environmental protection and social equity, issues which are already at the top of the corporate agenda.Click to view on Amazon |
 | How To Be a Rocket Scientist: 10 powerful tips to enter the aerospace field and launch the career of your dreams by Brett Hoffstadt | Distilled from over two decades of wide-ranging experience in the aerospace industry and written in a conversational style, within these tips are stories, quotes of wisdom, and specific resources help launch you on a course that can transform your dreams into reality. Even if your career journey is aimed toward another field, the tips that prove powerful for rocket scientists will give you unique propulsive force plus guidance, navigation, and controls (or GNC) for your own success. When you read this book you’ll get 10 powerful tips to help you realize that Yes–YOU COULD BE a rocket. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin | Linchpins are the essential building blocks of great organizations. They may not be famous but they’re indispensable. And in today’s world, they get the best jobs and the most freedom. As Godin writes, “Every day I meet people who have so much to give but have been bullied enough or frightened enough to hold it back. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Sustainability in Project Management by Gilbert Silvius | Sustainability in Project Management explores and identifies the questions surrounding the integration of the concepts of sustainability in projects and project management and provides valuable guidance and insights. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Five Minute Journal: A Happier You in 5 Minutes a Day by Intelligent Change | THE SIMPLEST WAY TO START YOUR DAY HAPPY – Using the science of positive psychology to improve happiness, The Five Minute Journal focuses your attention on the good in your life. Improve your mental well-being and feel better every day. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The 5 Laws That Determine All of Life’s Outcomes by Brett Harward | This book is about the laws that govern successful outcomes whether it’s more money, fulfillment, self esteem, better health, connection with others, or any other aspect of life. 5 Laws control our outcomes in life… whether we know them or not. These laws control our speed and trajectory in life and most importantly how we deal with others. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Street Smart: The Rise of Cities and the Fall of Cars by Samuel I. Schwartz | From San Francisco to Salt Lake, Charleston to Houston, the American city is becoming a better and better place to be. Schwartz’s Street Smartis a dazzling and affectionate history of the struggle for control of American cities, and an inspiring off-road map to a more vibrant, active, and vigorous urban future. |
 | Find The Lost Dollars by June Jewell | In Find the Lost Dollars: 6 Steps to Increase Profits in Architecture, Engineering and Environmental Firms, you will learn to get the most from people, processes and technology to gain a competitive edge and increase your firm’s profitability. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do to Increase the Value of Your Growing Firm by Verne Harnish | From Harnish’s famous One-Page Strategic Plan to his concise outline of eight practical actions you can take to strengthen your culture, this book is a compilation of best practices adapted from some of the best-run firms on the planet. Click to view on Amazon |
 | A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting by Kenneth A. Adams | A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting, Third Edition is a uniquely in-depth survey of the building blocks of contract language. First published in 2004, it offers those who draft, review, negotiate, or interpret contracts an alternative to the dysfunction of traditional contract language and the flawed conventional wisdom that perpetuates it. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Ask by Ryan Levesque | Ask is based on the compelling premise that you should NEVER have to guess what your prospects and customers are thinking. The Ask Formula revealed in this book has been used to help build multi-million dollar businesses in 23 different industries, generating over $100 million dollars in sales in the process. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Maximum Achievement: Strategies and Skills That Will Unlock Your Hidden Powers to Succeed by Brian Tracy | In Maximum Achievement, Brian Tracy gives you a powerful, proven system — based on twenty-five years of research and practice — that you can apply immediately to get better results in every area of your life. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Prosperity in The Age of Decline: How to Lead Your Business and Preserve Wealth Through the Coming Business Cycles by Brian Beaulieu | In Prosperity in the Age of Decline, Brian and Alan Beaulieu—the CEO and President of the Institute for Trend Research® (ITR)—offer an informed, meticulously-researched look at the future and the coming Great Depression. Drawing on ITR’s 94.7% forecast accuracy rate, the book outlines specific, actionable strategies for capitalizing on cyclical opportunities and dodging economic danger. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Root Cause Analysis : A Tool for Total Quality Management by Paul Wilson | More than a troubleshooting guide, this thorough reference provides step-by-step instructions for digging beneath apparent causes to uncover the true problems in quality processes and explains techniques for correcting root causes and preventing their recurrence. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Spark: How to Lead Yourself and Others to Greater Success by Angie Morgan | In SPARK, entrepreneurs, business consultants and military Veterans Angie Morgan, Courtney Lynch, and Sean Lynch show how anyone can become an extraordinary leader by embracing seven key behaviors. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek | START WITH WHY shows that the leaders who’ve had the greatest influence in the world all think, act, and communicate the same way — and it’s the opposite of what everyone else does. Sinek calls this powerful idea The Golden Circle, and it provides a framework upon which organizations can be built, movements can be led, and people can be inspired. And it all starts with WHY. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport | In DEEP WORK, author and professor Cal Newport flips the narrative on impact in a connected age. Instead of arguing distraction is bad, he instead celebrates the power of its opposite. Dividing this book into two parts, he first makes the case that in almost any profession, cultivating a deep work ethic will produce massive benefits. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t by Simon Sinek | The New York Times bestseller by the acclaimed, bestselling author of Start With Why and Together is Better. Now with an expanded chapter and appendix on leading millennials, based on Simon Sinek’s viral video “Millenials in the workplace” (150+ million views). Click to view on Amazon |
 | Leading from the Front: No-Excuse Leadership Tactics for Women by Angie Morgan | THE LEADERSHIP BESTSELLER FOR WOMEN–FROM TWO MARINE CORPS CAPTAINS “A brilliant, original, practical, profound, human, energetic book written by two remarkable women. It’s one of the best books on leadership published in the last several years.” |
 | So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love by Cal Newport | In this eye-opening account, Cal Newport debunks the long-held belief that “follow your passion” is good advice. Not only is the cliché flawed-preexisting passions are rare and have little to do with how most people end up loving their work-but it can also be dangerous, leading to anxiety and chronic job hopping. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The CSI Construction Contract Administration Practice Guide by Construction Specifications Institute | The CSI Construction Contract Administration Practice Guide:
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 | The CSI Construction Specifications Practice Guide by Construction Specifications Institute | The CSI Practice Guides are a library of comprehensive references specifically and carefully designed for the construction professional. Each book examines important concepts and best practices integral to a particular aspect of the building process. The CSI Construction Specifications Practice Guide is focused on the roles and responsibilities of the specifications professional in meeting the challenges of the changing world of construction. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The CSI Project Delivery Practice Guide by Construction Specifications Institute | The CSI Project Delivery Practice Guide provides fundamental knowledge for the documentation, administration, and successful delivery of construction projects. It also serves as the pivotal starting point for understanding CSI’s core values, as well as a useful study aid for those wishing to obtain the Construction Documents Technologist certificate. Click to view on Amazon |
 | One More River To Cross by JH Joiner | Military bridging, often impeded by mines and hostile enemy fire, is a vital part of the advance of any modern army. Britain’s Royal Engineers have played a leading role in this crucial military operation, from the ravines behind the D-Day beaches to recent operations in Bosnia and Kosovo. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Fanatical Prospecting: The Ultimate Guide to Opening Sales Conversations and Filling the Pipeline by Leveraging Social Selling, Telephone, Email, Text, and Cold Calling by Jeb Blount | Fanatical Prospecting gives salespeople, sales leaders, entrepreneurs, and executives a practical, eye-opening guide that clearly explains the why and how behind the most important activity in sales and business development—prospecting. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Complete Freelancer Guide: Become your own boss, do what you love, and make money doing it by Ian Balina | Whether you’re tired of your day job or just want to start your own business on the side, The Complete Freelancer Guide is the ultimate guide for a fresh and radical career shift. Ignore the old notion of working up the corporate ladder and waiting your turn to do what you love—there is no need to wait and every reason not to. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Fooled by Randomness is the word-of-mouth sensation that will change the way you think about business and the world. Nassim Nicholas Taleb–veteran trader, renowned risk expert, polymathic scholar, erudite raconteur, and New York Times bestselling author of The Black Swan–has written a modern classic that turns on its head what we believe about luck and skill. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Public Speaking for Engineers: Communicating Effectively with Clients, the Public, and Local Government by Shoots Veis | In Public Speaking for Engineers: Communicating Effectively with Clients, the Public, and Local Government, Veis takes readers step by step through the process of preparing for a presentation. He breaks the main topics-speech planning, design, and delivery-into component pieces and explains the range of choices, emphasizing the importance of understanding your audience. Throughout the book, he uses an ongoing example to illustrate the path for planning, preparing, and delivering a speech. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream by Andres Duany | For a decade, Suburban Nation has given voice to a growing movement in North America to put an end to suburban sprawl and replace the last century’s automobile-based settlement patterns with a return to more traditional planning. Founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk are at the forefront of the movement, and even their critics, such as Fred Barnes in The Weekly Standard, recognized that “Suburban Nation is likely to become this movement’s bible.” A lively lament about the failures of postwar planning, this is also that rare book that offers solutions: “an essential handbook” Click to view on Amazon |
 | That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back by Thomas L. Friedman | In That Used to Be Us, Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum analyze the four major challenges we face as a country—globalization, the revolution in information technology, chronic deficits, and our pattern of energy consumption—and spell out what we need to do now to preserve American power in the world. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Civil Engineering Reference Manual for the PE Exam, 15th Ed by Michael R. Lindeburg PE | New for 2018. Choose the new edition of PE Civil Reference Manual, Sixteenth Edition and receive the eTextbook for free. This offer is only available at ppi2pass.com. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Evolution of Useful Things by Henry Petroski | In this delightful book Henry, Petroski takes a microscopic look at artifacts that most of us count on but rarely contemplate, including such icons of the everyday as pins, Post-its, and fast-food “clamshell” containers. At the same time, he offers a convincing new theory of technological innovation as a response to the perceived failures of existing products—suggesting that irritation, and not necessity, is the mother of invention. Click to view on Amazon |
 | FORTUNE The Greatest Business Decisions of All Time: How Apple, Ford, IBM, Zappos, and others made radical choices that changed the course of business by Verne Harnish | Here management consultant Verne Harnish, the CEO of Gazelles, and Fortune‘s editors provide the background stories behind the greatest business decisions of all time. In this fully original book, you’ll get a glimpse into the thought processes leading up to these groundbreaking moments and will learn how the decisions have shaped the thinking of today’s top leaders. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Out of Rushmore’s Shadow: The Luigi Del Bianco Story – An Italian Immigrant’s Unsung Role as Chief Carver by Lou del Bianco | When 8-year-old Lou Del Bianco finds out that his Grandpa Luigi was the Chief Carver on Mount Rushmore, his young life is instantly changed. Follow Lou’s journey as he and his Uncle Caesar make the painful discovery that Luigi is not even mentioned in the most definitive book on Rushmore. Cheer them on as you read the historic documents they unearth from the Library of Congress that not only tell Luigi’s story but also prove his great importance. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Your Successful Life, The Playbook for Defining and Achieving What Success Means to You by Belinda Gates | This playbook approach prompts you to answer in-depth questions that will provide a plan to achieving your successful life. It s a no-nonsense journey with practical steps to finding clarity, defining your goals, achieving success — and celebrating your accomplishments. Your successful life – it starts now! Click to view on Amazon |
 | The 80/20 Individual: How to Build on the 20% of What You do Best by Richard Koch | By building a team that supports your efforts and excels in areas where you lack experience or knowledge, you’ll be able to focus your time and energy on your strengths. Productivity and profits will soar because you’ll be doing what you do best and enjoy the most. By using the 80/20 strategies outlined in the book, you can take control of your career and financial future. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The 80/20 Manager: The Secret to Working Less and Achieving More by Richard Koch | In his bestselling book The 80/20 Principle, Richard Koch showed readers how to put the 80/20 Principle–the idea that 80 percent of results come from just 20 percent of effort–into practice in their personal lives. Now in THE 80/20 MANAGER, he demonstrates how to apply the principle to management. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The 80/20 Principle and 92 Other Powerful Laws of Nature: The Science of Success by Richard Koch | In this essential companion to his bestselling The 80/20 Principle – the radical power law that helped thousands of people achieve more by doing less – Koch illuminates 92 other universal principles and laws to promote the science of success in an increasingly challenging business environment. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Whale Hunt in the Desert: Secrets of a Vegas Superhost by Deke Castleman | This is the only book ever to examine the lifestyles and motivations of this rarest of breeds, as well as the highly guarded inner workings of the most money-oriented culture known to man. This third edition includes a Foreword by Anthony Curtis and an extensive update about Las Vegas, the “greening” of gambling, the nightclub and dayclub scenes, the evolving host position, and much more–all in the words of the superhost, Steve Cyr. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins | Filled with hundreds of specific examples and organized into a coherent framework of practical concepts that can be applied by managers and entrepreneurs at all levels, Built to Last provides a master blueprint for building organizations that will prosper long into the 21st century and beyond. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Managing and Leading: 52 Lessons Learned for Engineers by Stuart G. Walesh | Managing and Leading: 52 Lessons Learned for Engineers offers useful ideas on ways in which engineers can more effectively approach the non-technical or “”soft-side”” aspects of working with colleagues, clients, customers, the public, and other stakeholders. Reflecting upon 40 years of engineering and management experience, author Stuart Walesh shares in his often humorous style “”lessons learned”” that will advance your management and leadership skills. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Networking The Skill That the Schools Forgot to Teach What You Need to Know to Get Ahead in Business by Cynthia D’Amour | From starting a conversation with a stranger to working the room with confidence at the next party you attend, Cynthia D’Amour’s Networking: The Skill the Schools Forgot to Teach breaks networking down into a series of simple steps that anyone can learn. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Lazy Leader’s Guide to Outrageous Results by Cynthia D’ Amour | The Lazy Leader’s Guide to Outrageous Results will help you get more done with less effort,build a team of dedicated volunteers — and help you achieve outrageous results for your chapter. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Urban Surface Water Management by Stuart G. Walesh | The complete guide to managing the quantity and quality of urban storm water runoff. Focuses on the planning and design of facilities and systems to control flooding, erosion, and non-point source pollution. Explains the practical application of the state-of-the-art in concepts and methods, based on the author’s nearly 20 years’ urban water resources engineering experience in the public and private sectors–and the state-of-the-art of urban surface water management is far ahead of the state-of-the-practice. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Invention by Design; How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing by Henry Petroski | Henry Petroski’s previous bestsellers have delighted readers with intriguing stories about the engineering marvels around us, from the lowly pencil to the soaring suspension bridge. In this book, Petroski delves deeper into the mystery of invention, to explore what everyday artifacts and sophisticated networks can reveal about the way engineers solve problems. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Leading Leaders by Mickey Addison | “Leading Leaders” is straightforward advice for leaders at all levels on how to be successful. Developed over a 30 year military career and a lifetime of leading, Colonel Mickey Addison lays out the foundation for character-based leadership. Illustrated through personal stories and anecdotes, Leading Leaders is a must read for anyone who wants to improve their productivity and their character. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Five Be’s by Mickey Addison | Don’t read this book unless you want to be healthy and successful! In a world full of “no” and “don’t”, The Five Be’s is a positive vision of who to “Be.” Based on time-tested principles, The Five Be’s is a straightforward road map to living a healthy, fulfilling, and successful life! Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Gig Economy: The Complete Guide to Getting Better Work, Taking More Time Off, and Financing the Life You Want by Diane Mulcahy | The Gig Economy is your guide to this uncertain but ultimately rewarding world. Succeeding in it starts with shifting gears to recognize that only you control your future. Next is leveraging your skills, knowledge, and network to create your own career trajectory – one immune to the whims of an employer. Click to view on Amazon |
 | High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove | Grove covers techniques for creating highly productive teams, demonstrating methods of motivation that lead to peak performance—throughout, High Output Management is a practical handbook for navigating real-life business scenarios and a powerful management manifesto with the ability to revolutionize the way we work. Click to view on Amazon |
 | LeadershipFlow Perfectly Square: Story About Learning to Lead and Transforming a Company by Croft Edwards | How many times have you read a book about leadership but the next day couldn’t remember, let alone apply, any of the concepts to your real life? Today is a new day. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Vos | Life is a series of negotiations you should be prepared for: buying a car, negotiating a salary, buying a home, renegotiating rent, deliberating with your partner. Taking emotional intelligence and intuition to the next level, Never Split the Difference gives you the competitive edge in any discussion. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery by Garr Reynolds | Best-selling author and popular speaker Garr Reynolds is back in this newly revised edition of his classic, best-selling book, Presentation Zen, in which he showed readers there is a better way to reach the audience through simplicity and storytelling, and gave them the tools to confidently design and deliver successful presentations. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Slide Rules: Design, Build, and Archive Presentations in the Engineering and Technical Fields by Traci Nathans-Kelly | Slide Rules is a first-rate guide for practicing engineers, scientists, and technical specialists as well as anyone wishing to develop useful, engaging, and informative technical presentations in order to become an expert communicator. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Flipping the Switch: Unleash the Power of Personal Accountability Using the QBQ! by John G. Miller | In his bestselling book QBQ! The Question Behind the Question, John G. Miller revealed how personal accountability helps to create opportunity, overcome obstacles, and achieve goals by eliminating blame, complaining, and procrastination. The result? Stronger organizations, more dynamic teams, and healthier relationships. Click to view on Amazon |
 | I Own It! Building Character Through Personal Accountability by Kristin E. Lindeen | I Own It! Building Character Through Personal Accountability is a 76 page teacher handbook based on the best selling book QBQ! The Question Behind the Question by John G. Miller. I Own It! guides teachers through 10-lessons designed to help students discover the incredible value of practicing accountability, responsibility, and ownership at school, home, and work. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Outstanding!: 47 Ways to Make Your Organization Exceptional by John G. Miller | In this insightful and accessible book John Miller identifies the principles and behaviors that distinguish such organizations from the pack and provides readers with ways to integrate them into their own work. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Parenting the QBQ Way, Expanded Edition: How to be an Outstanding Parent and Raise Great Kids Using the Power of Personal Accountability John G. Miller | Based on the same concepts that have made John Miller’s signature work, QBQ: The Question Behind the Question, an international bestseller over the last decade, Parenting the QBQ Way provides the tool called the QBQ or The Question Behind the Question that will help every parent look behind questions such as “Why won’t my kids listen?” or “When will they do what I ask?” to find better ones—QBQs—like “What can I do differently?” or “How can I improve as a parent?” This simple but challenging concept turns the focus – and responsibility – back to parents and to what they can do to make a difference. Click to view on Amazon |
 | QBQ! The Question Behind the Question: Practicing Personal Accountability at Work and in Life by John G. Miller | QBQ! The Question Behind the Question, already a phenomenon in its self-published edition, addresses the most important issue in business and society today: personal accountability. The lack of personal accountability has resulted in an epidemic of blame, complaining, and procrastination. No organization-or individual-can achieve goals, compete in the marketplace, fulfill a vision, or develop people and teams without personal accountability. Click to view on Amazon |
| Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by Michael Braungart by | “Reduce, reuse, recycle” urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. But as this provocative, visionary book argues, this approach perpetuates a one-way, “cradle to grave” manufacturing model that dates to the Industrial Revolution and casts off as much as 90 percent of the materials it uses as waste, much of it toxic. Why not challenge the notion that human industry must inevitably damage the natural world? Click to view on Amazon |
 | Janesville: An American Story by Amy Goldstein | This is the story of what happens to an industrial town in the American heartland when its main factory shuts down—but it’s not the familiar tale. Most observers record the immediate shock of vanished jobs, but few stay around long enough to notice what happens next when a community with a can-do spirit tries to pick itself up. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The 5 Levels of Leadership: Proven Steps to Maximize Your Potential by John C. Maxwell | #1 New York Times bestselling author John C. Maxwell explains how true leadership works and makes it accessible to everyone. Leadership does not come from your title. In fact, being named to a position is only the first and lowest of the five levels every effective leader achieves. To become more than a boss people are required to follow, you must master the ability to inspire and build a team that produces not only results, but also future leaders. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Developing the Leader Within You by John C. Maxwell | Developing the Leader Within You is Dr. Maxwells first and most enduring leadership book, having sold more than one million copies. In this Christian Leaders Series edition of this Maxwell classic, you will discover the biblical foundation for leadership that John Maxwell has used as a pastor and business leader for more than forty years. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson | Based on newly released personal letters of Einstein, this book explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk—a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn’t get a teaching job or a doctorate—became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos, the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom, and the universe. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Elon Musk: Biography of a Self-Made Visionary, Entrepreneur and Billionaire by B Storm | Here is A Preview Of What Elon Musk: Biography of a Self-Made Visionary, Entrepreneur, and Billionaire contains: Who is Elon Musk: A Brief Overview Elon Musk’s Humble Beginnings A comparison between Elon Musk & Tony Stark Zip2 Corporation: Musk’s First Company X.com & PayPal: A New Way of Doing Business SpaceX and the Journey to Mars Tesla Motors: A New Breed of Electric Cars SolarCity: The Potential of Solar-Powered Systems Hyperloop: Going the Distance in Less Time Getting Personal with Elon Musk Elon’s Future And much, much more! Click to view on Amazon |
 | How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life by John C. Mawell | A Wall Street Journal bestseller, HOW SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE THINK is the perfect, compact read for today’s fast-paced world. America’s leadership expert John C. Maxwell will teach you how to be more creative and when to question popular thinking. You’ll learn how to capture the big picture while focusing your thinking. You’ll find out how to tap into your creative potential, develop shared ideas, and derive lessons from the past to better understand the future. With these eleven keys to more effective thinking, you’ll clearly see the path to personal success. Click to view on Amazon |
 | How to Live a Good Life: Soulful Stories, Surprising Science, and Practical Wisdom by Jonathan Fields | How to Live a Good Life is your antidote—a practical and provocative modern-day manual for the pursuit of a life well-lived. No need for blind faith or surrender of intelligence. Everything you’ll discover is immediately actionable and subject to validation through your own experience. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Leadership 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know by John C. Maxwell | That is the message New York Times bestselling author John C. Maxwell gives in this power-packed guidebook: Leadership 101. Here the consummate leader offers a succinct and inspiring framework for enhancing the leadership abilities you already possess. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth by John C. Maxwell | This third book in John Maxwell’s Laws series (following the 2-million seller The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership and The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork) will help you become a lifelong learner whose potential keeps increasing and never gets “used up.” Click to view on Amazon |
 | The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You by John C. Maxwell | Internationally recognized leadership expert, speaker, and author John C. Maxwell has taken this million-seller and made it even better:
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 | The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization by John C. Maxwell | People who desire to lead from the middle of organizations face unique challenges. And they are often held back by myths that prevent them from developing their influence. Dr. Maxwell, one of the globe’s most trusted leadership mentors, debunks the myths, shows you how to overcome the challenges, and teaches you the skills you need to become a 360° leader. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help by Amanda Palmer | Part manifesto, part revelation, this is the story of an artist struggling with the new rules of exchange in the twenty-first century, both on and off the Internet. THE ART OF ASKING will inspire readers to rethink their own ideas about asking, giving, art, and love. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Managing The Professional Service Firm by David H. Maister | International expert and consultant David Maister offers a brilliant and accessible guide to every management issue at play in professional firms. Professional firms differ from other business enterprises in two distinct ways: first, they provide highly customized services and thus cannot apply many of the management principles developed for product-based industries. Second, professional services are highly personalized, involving the skills of individuals. Such firms must therefore compete not only for clients but also for talented professionals. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Engineer to Entrepreneur by Rick Del La Guardia | Starting, managing, and owning an engineering firm can be a daunting experience. Engineer to Entrepreneur: Success Strategies to Manage Your Career and Start Your Own Firm provides practical steps at key career points to reach your professional goals in any engineering discipline. Rick De La Guardia leads the aspiring entrepreneur through the process from undergraduate class choices, through first jobs, to opening an office and running a consulting firm. Click to view on Amazon |
 | PE Civil Reference Manual Sixteenth Edition by Michael R. Lindeburg PE | This book features:
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 | Wait, How Do I Write This Email?: Game-Changing Templates for Networking and the Job Search by Danny Rubin | In his award-winning guide, communications expert Danny Rubin provides more than 100 email/document templates for networking and the job search. With each template, Rubin saves you time and takes the stress out of professional email writing. Wait, How Do I Write This Email? is a perfect resource for people who need to build relationships and grow into careers. It’s also used in high schools, colleges, workforce development programs and even the Pentagon as part of in communications courses for senior-level personnel. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City | Norton describes how street users struggled to define and redefine what streets were for. He examines developments in the crucial transitional years from the 1910s to the 1930s, uncovering a broad anti-automobile campaign that reviled motorists as “road hogs” or “speed demons” and cars as “juggernauts” or “death cars.” He considers the perspectives of all users―pedestrians, police (who had to become “traffic cops”), street railways, downtown businesses, traffic engineers (who often saw cars as the problem, not the solution), and automobile promoters. Click to view on Amazon |
 | No One at the Wheel: Driverless Cars and the Road of the Future | Sam Schwartz, America’s most celebrated transportation guru, describes in this book the revolution in self-driving cars. The ramifications will be dramatic, and the transition will be far from seamless. It will overturn the job market for the one in seven Americans who work in the trucking industry. It will cause us to grapple with new ethical dilemmas-if a car will hit a person or a building, endangering the lives of its passengers, who will decide what it does? Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Art of Theatre: A Concise Introduction | THE ART OF THEATRE: A CONCISE INTRODUCTION, Third Edition, explores issues of cultural diversity and creativity, presents a full day-in-the-life of theatre, and offers briefer coverage of theatre history. The authors make timely and relevant connections between theatre and the familiar world of television and film to help students understand how the living art of theatre relates to and influences today’s screen entertainment. Click to view on Amazon |
 | 24 Assets: Create a Digital, Scalable, Valuable and Fun Business That Will Thrive in a Fast Changing World | 24 Assets provides a method for building a business that becomes a valuable asset. It focuses you on transforming your organization into something scalable, digital, fun, and capable of making an impact. It’s time to stand out, scale up, and build a business that has a life of its own. Start now by listening to this book. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Entrepreneur Revolution: How to develop your entrepreneurial mindset and start a business that works | Entrepreneur Revolution is a master class in gaining an entrepreneurial mind-set, showing you how to change the way you think, the way you network, and the way you make a living. Successful entrepreneur Daniel Priestley will show you how to embrace the Entrepreneur Revolution and thrive in the new age. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Key Person of Influence: The Five-Step Method to become one of the most highly valued and highly paid people in your industry | Every industry revolves around Key People of Influence. Their names come up in conversation. They attract opportunity. They earn more money. Many people think it takes decades of hard work, academic qualifications and a generous measure of good luck to become a Key Person of Influence. This book shows that there is a strategy for fast-tracking your way to the inner circle of the industry you love. Your ability to succeed depends on your ability to influence. Start now by reading this book. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Oversubscribed: How to Get People Lining Up to Do Business with You | In Oversubscribed, entrepreneur and bestselling author Daniel Priestley explains why…and, most importantly, how. This book is a recipe for ensuring demand outstrips supply for your product or service, and you have scores of customers lining up to give you money. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Risk Analysis in Engineering and Economics, Second Edition | Risk Analysis in Engineering and Economics is required reading for decision making under conditions of uncertainty. The author describes the fundamental concepts, techniques, and applications of the subject in a style tailored to meet the needs of students and practitioners of engineering, science, economics, and finance. Drawing on his extensive experience in uncertainty and risk modeling and analysis, the author covers everything from basic theory and key computational algorithms to data needs, sources, and collection. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Sea Level Rise and Coastal Infrastructure: Prediction, Risks and Solutions | Sea Level Rise and Coastal Infrastructure: Prediction, Risks, and Solutions analyzes the challenges posed by rising sea levels and climate change. Scientists estimate that global sea levels could rise by as much as 20 feet in this century, directly affecting about 100 million people worldwide. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Richest Man in Babylon | A modern day classic, The Richest Man in Babylon dispenses financial advice through a collection of parables set in ancient Babylon. These famous “Babylonian parables” offer an understanding of – and solution to – a lifetime’s worth of personal financial problems, and holds the secrets to acquiring money, keeping money, and earning more money. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Will It Stand Up?: A Professional Engineer’s View of the Creation of the London 2012 Olympic Stadium | Will it Stand Up? Uses the London 2012 Olympic Stadium to demonstrate the seven principles for running successful projects. As well as sharing what went on behind the scenes of this iconic stadium, it provides you with a clear blueprint for improving your own project outcomes. Whether you’re an architect, engineer, developer or contractor, you’ll find this book both entertaining and educational. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Changing the Conversation: The 17 Principles of Conflict Resolution | Beautifully packaged in a graphic, two-color format, Changing the Conversation is written by conflict expert Dana Caspersen and is filled with real-life examples, spot-on advice, and easy-to-grasp exercises that demonstrate transformative ways to break out of destructive patterns, to create useful dialogue in difficult situations, and to find long-lasting solutions for conflicts. Sure to claim its place next to Getting to Yes, this guide will be a go-to resource for resolving conflicts. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream | This story, dazzling in its simplicity and wisdom, is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of treasure buried in the Pyramids. Along the way he meets a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself king, and an Alchemist, all of whom point Santiago in the direction of his quest…. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Titan | The Titan is a novel written by Theodore Dreiser in 1914. It is Dreiser’s sequel to The Financier. Cowperwood moves to Chicago with his new wife Aileen. He decides to take over the street-railway system. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal | Winner of the National Book Award for history, the Francis Parkman Prize, the Samuel Eliot Morison Award, and the Cornelius Ryan Award (for the best book of the year on international affairs), The Path Between the Seas is a must-read for anyone interested in American history, the history of technology, international intrigue, and human drama. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Smart Collaboration: How Professionals and Their Firms Succeed by Breaking Down Silos | In Smart Collaboration, Heidi K. Gardner shows that firms earn higher margins, inspire greater client loyalty, attract and retain the best talent, and gain a competitive edge when specialists collaborate across functional boundaries. Gardner, a former McKinsey consultant and Harvard Business School professor now lecturing at Harvard Law School, has spent over a decade conducting in-depth studies of numerous global professional service firms. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations | Thank You for Being Late is a work of contemporary history that serves as a field manual for how to write and think about this era of accelerations. It’s also an argument for “being late”―for pausing to appreciate this amazing historical epoch we’re passing through and to reflect on its possibilities and dangers. Click to view on Amazon |
 | On Becoming a Leader | Warren Bennis (1925-2014) was a pioneer in leadership studies, a scholar who advised presidents and business executives alike on how to become successful leaders. On Becoming a Leader is his seminal work, exemplifying Bennis’s core belief that leaders are not born-they are made. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Negotiating for Success: Essential Strategies and Skills | This book is designed to help you achieve success in your personal negotiations and in your business transactions. This book, in contrast to others, covers the entire negotiation process in chronological order beginning with your decision to negotiate and continuing through the evaluation of your performance as a negotiator. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Winning: The Ultimate Business How-To Book | The core of Winning is devoted to the real “stuff” of work. This main part of the book is split into three sections. The first looks inside the company, from leadership to picking winners to making change happen. The second section looks outside, at the competition, with chapters on strategy, mergers, and Six Sigma, to name just three. The next section of the book is about managing your career—from finding the right job to achieving work-life balance. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Emotional Intelligence 2.0 | Emotional Intelligence 2.0 delivers a step-by-step program for increasing your EQ via four, core EQ skills that enable you to achieve your fullest potential. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Zen and the Art of Happiness | Cutting-edge science and spirituality tell us that what we believe, think, and feel actually determine the makeup of our body at the cellular level. In Zen and the Art of Happiness, you will learn how to think and feel so that what you think and feel creates happiness and vibrancy in your life rather than gloominess or depression. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Principles: Life and Work | Ray Dalio, one of the world’s most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he’s developed, refined, and used over the past forty years to create unique results in both life and business and which any person or organization can adopt to help achieve their goals. Click to view on Amazon |
 | SPIN Selling | In SPIN Selling, Rackham, who has advised leading companies such as IBM and Honeywell delivers the first book to specifically examine selling high-value product and services. By following the simple, practical, and easy-to-apply techniques of SPIN, readers will be able to dramatically increase their sales volume from major accounts. Rackham answers key questions such as “What makes success in major sales” and “Why do techniques like closing work in small sales but fail in larger ones?” Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation | Based on an exhaustive study of thousands of sales reps across multiple industries and geographies, The Challenger Sale argues that classic relationship building is a losing approach, especially when it comes to selling complex, large-scale business-to-business solutions. The authors’ study found that every sales rep in the world falls into one of five distinct profiles, and while all of these types of reps can deliver average sales performance, only one-the Challenger- delivers consistently high performance. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Rainmaking Conversations: Influence, Persuade, and Sell in Any Situation | Rainmaking Conversations offers a research-based,field-tested, and practical selling approach that will help youmaster the art of the sales conversation. This proven systemrevolves around the acronym RAIN, which stands for Rapport,Aspirations and Afflictions, Impact, and New Reality. You’ll learnhow to ask your prospects and clients the right questions, and helpthem set the agenda for success. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Confidence Gap: A Guide to Overcoming Fear and Self-Doubt | The Confidence Gap explains how to: • Free yourself from common misconceptions about what confidence is and how to build it • Transform your relationship with fear and anxiety • Clarify your core values and use them as your inspiration and motivation • Use mindfulness to effectively handle negative thoughts and feelings. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Strategic Excellence in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Industries | Strategic Excellence in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Industries is a process of applied strategic thinking designed to develop a strategy empowered with the agility to adapt to changing circumstances and to drive a high performing culture of ideal behaviors. It is infused with the insight and the thought leadership of the Shingo Model and the scientific thinking of Lean Six Sigma. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The History of Tunneling in the United States | This illustrated reference takes readers on a revealing tour of a vital, underappreciated piece of our nation’s infrastructure. This smartly told, beautifully illustrated book, by the construction experts who know the underground world better than anyone, gives tunnels their long-deserved due. This is a story that can only be told by these industry experts who have studied that two-century journey, learned from it, and created the tools and technology needed to improve it. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Beneath a Scarlet Sky | Beneath a Marble Sky brims with action and intrigue befitting an epic era when, alongside continuous war, architecture and its attendant arts reached a pinnacle of perfection. In a splendid debut, John Shors has crafted an immensely readable and well-researched historical novel of surprisingly contemporary relevance. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness The 8th Habit | From Stephen R. Covey comes a profound, compelling, and groundbreaking book of next-level thinking that gives a clear way to finally tap the limitless value-creation promise of the “Knowledge Worker Age.”In the more than twenty-five years since its publication, the classic The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has become an international phenomenon with more than twenty-five million copies sold. Tens of millions of people in business, government, schools, and families, and, most importantly, as individuals, have dramatically improved their lives and organizations by applying the principles of Stephen R. Covey’s classic book. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Million Dollar Consulting | Weiss provides his time-tested model on creating a flourishing consulting business, while incorporating and focusing on the many dynamic changes in solo and boutique consulting, coaching, and entrepreneurship. In addition to guidance on raising capital, attracting clients, and creating a marketing plan, he also gives brand new step-by-step advice. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Hidden Connections: A Science for Sustainable Living | Fritjof Capra, bestselling author of The Tao of Physics and The Web of Life, here explores another frontier in the human significance of scientific ideas—applying complexity theory to large-scale social interaction. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business | In The Power of Habit, award-winning business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed. Distilling vast amounts of information into engrossing narratives that take us from the boardrooms of Procter & Gamble to the sidelines of the NFL to the front lines of the civil rights movement, Duhigg presents a whole new understanding of human nature and its potential. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Battleground New Jersey: Vanderbilt, Hague, and Their Fight for Justice | New Jersey’s legal system was plagued with injustices from the time the system was established through the mid-twentieth century. In Battleground New Jersey, historian and author of Boardwalk Empire, Nelson Johnson chronicles reforms to the system through the dramatic stories of Arthur T. Vanderbilt—the first chief justice of the state’s modern-era Supreme Court—and Frank Hague—legendary mayor of Jersey City. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Meetings Matter: 8 Powerful Strategies for Remarkable Conversations | While meetings have become a pain point for millions, Paul Axtell offers a different perspective: that meetings matter and they can be mastered. In Meetings Matter, Axtell redesigns meetings using the vital foundation of conversation. With real-life examples and actionable advice, he shows you how to design meetings for results, lead them to achieve agendas that move projects forward, and even allow time to build the relationships that make working together in a remarkable way possible. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Ten Powerful Things to Say to Your Kids – Second Edition: Creating the Relationship You Want with the Most Important People in Your Life | This book will help parents: – Learn to listen to their children so they feel heard and understood – Understand the human hardwiring behind many relationship problems – Use their conversations to help kids gain the confidence – Create safety and trust . . . and a remarkable relationship that will last forever. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Louder Than Words | In Louder Than Words, thought leader and speaker Bob Kelleher distills vital employee engagement principles, culled from his many years of experience, into ten practical and transformative steps that will help companies maximize employee engagement – the key to capturing discretionary effort. Click to view on Amazon |
 | I-Engage | In this timely and thought-provoking volume, author and engagement expert Bob Kelleher invites individuals and managers alike to expand the conversation about what it means to be truly engaged… as a whole person. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Team of Rivals | Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln’s political genius in this highly original work, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become president. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Steve Jobs | Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Leonardo da Vinci | The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is “a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it…Most important, it is a powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life” (The New Yorker). Click to view on Amazon |
 | Benjamin Franklin | In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America’s founders helped define our national character. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Mending Manufacturing: How America Can Manufacture Its Survival | This comprehensive book covers all aspects of the crisis in American manufacturing. The United States is facing a manufacturing emergency, and unless Washington acts swiftly and decisively, the U.S. could plummet into a second-class industrial power. Reveals the history behind the industry’s outsourcing of jobs and production to foreign nations, and questions whether the U.S. can sustain as an economic power without a solid manufacturing base. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition | “[Crucial Conversations] draws our attention to those defining moments that literally shape our lives, our relationships, and our world. . . . This book deserves to take its place as one of the key thought leadership contributions of our time.” Click to view on Amazon |
 | Meditations | Meditations is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor 161–180 CE, setting forth his ideas on Stoic philosophy. Marcus Aurelius wrote the 12 books of the Meditations in Koine Greek as a source for his own guidance and self-improvement. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Radical Candor | Radical Candor is packed with illuminating truths, insightful advice, and practical suggestions, all illustrated with engaging (and often funny) stories from Kim Scott’s own experiences at places like Apple, Google, and various start-ups. Indispensable.” Click to view on Amazon |
 | First, Break All The Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently | In this longtime management bestseller, Gallup presents the remarkable findings of its massive in-depth study of great managers. Some were in leadership positions. Others were front-line supervisors. Some were in Fortune 500 companies; others were key players in small, entrepreneurial firms. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck–Why Some Thrive Despite Them All | Ten years after the worldwide bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins returns withanother groundbreaking work, this time to ask: why do some companies thrive inuncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? Based on nine years of research,buttressed by rigorous analysis and infused with engaging stories, Collins andhis colleague Morten Hansen enumerate the principles for building a truly greatenterprise in unpredictable, tumultuous and fast-moving times. Click to view on Amazon |
 | American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America | An endlessly fascinating look at American regionalism and the eleven nations that continue to shape North America According to award-winning journalist and historian Colin Woodard North America is made up of eleven distinct nations each with its own unique historical roots In American Nations he takes readers on a journey through the history of our fractured continent offering a revolutionary and revelatory take on American identity and how the conflicts between them have shaped our past and continue to mold our future. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy – What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America’s Next Rendezvous with Destiny | With startling originality, The Fourth Turning illuminates the past, explains the present, and reimagines the future. Most remarkably, it offers an utterly persuasive prophecy about a new American era that will begin just after the millennium. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Selling the Invisible: A Field Guide to Modern Marketing | SELLING THE INVISIBLE is a succinct and often entertaining look at the unique characteristics of services and their prospects, and how any service, from a home-based consultancy to a multinational brokerage, can turn more prospects into clients and keep them. SELLING THE INVISIBLE covers service marketing from start to finish. Click to view on Amazon |
 | 80/20 Your Life! How To Get More Done With Less Effort And Change Your Life In The Process! | Amazon bestselling author Damon Zahariades offers a clear, practical, and easy-to-implement strategy for getting extraordinary results in your life with less action. You’ll learn how to adopt an unconventional mindset that’ll optimize every aspect of your daily experience. And best of all, you’ll enjoy a more rewarding lifestyle while spending less time and effort creating it. Click to view on Amazon |
 | I Ching The Book of Answers: The Profound and Timeless Classic of Universal Wisdom | This revised and expanded edition of Wu Wei’s well-loved version of the I Ching is unparalleled in its clarity, making this the easiest-to-grasp I Ching ever published. The I Ching is a book of answers that miraculously guides us to success in every possible situation. Click to view on Amazon |
 | 10-10-10: A Life-Transforming Idea | Recounting poignant stories from her own life and the lives of many other dedicated 10-10-10 users, Suzy Welch reveals how exploring the impact of our decisions in multiple time frames invariably surfaces our unconscious agendas, fears, needs, and desires — and ultimately helps us identify and live according to our deepest goals and values. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Terroni: All That Has Been Done to Ensure that the Italians of the South Became “Southerners” (VIA Folios) | Literary Nonfiction. Translated from the Italian by Ilaria Marra Rosiglioni. “Pino Aprile’s TERRONI is one of those books that could cause a revolution, albeit a peaceful one, if read by enough people. It could become ‘the spark that starts the fire’ by igniting a sentiment of unity among southern Italians, who are discovering that something is missing in mainstream history books informing how Italy was united 150 years ago.”—Naples Politics Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Old Man and The Sea | The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway’s most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal — a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Leading with Noble Purpose: How to Create a Tribe of True Believers | Building upon her bestseller Selling with Noble Purpose, leadership expert Lisa Earle McLeod tackles the employee engagement crisis by showing leaders how to put workplace meaning front and center. McLeod, whose clients include organizations like Google, Hootsuite, and Roche, asserts that many organizations are unconsciously squandering their greatest asset—their people’s passion. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Selling with Noble Purpose: How to Drive Revenue and Do Work That Makes You Proud | This book shows executives, managers, and aspiring sales leaders how to find your NSP and create a sales force of True Believers who drive revenue and do work that makes them proud. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking | In his landmark bestseller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant-in the blink of an eye-that actually aren’t as simple as they seem. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Crucial Accountability: Tools for Resolving Violated Expectations, Broken Commitments, and Bad Behavior | In this UPDATED SECOND EDITION (first edition titled “Crucial Confrontations“), you’ll learn how to hold anyone accountable, master performance discussions, and get results. Click to view on Amazon |
 | What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful | Whether you are near the top of the ladder or still have a ways to climb, this book serves as an essential guide to help you eliminate your dysfunctions and move to where you want to go. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Biology of Belief | In this greatly expanded edition, Lipton, a former medical school professor and research scientist, explores his own experiments and those of other leading-edge scientists that have unraveled in ever greater detail how truly connected the mind, body, and spirit are. It is now widely recognized that genes and DNA do not control our biology. Instead, they are controlled by signals from outside the cell, including energetic messages emanating from our thoughts. Click to view on Amazon |
 | On Writing | Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer’s craft, comprising the basic tools of the trade every writer must have. King’s advice is grounded in his vivid memories from childhood through his emergence as a writer, from his struggling early career to his widely reported, near-fatal accident in 1999—and how the inextricable link between writing and living spurred his recovery. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The 5 Book: Where Will You be Five Years from Today? | The next five years can be the most exciting and satisfying years of your life—or just another five years. Let this extraordinary book be your guide and inspiration. Whether you are just graduating from college, newly married, considering a new career, setting goals for retirement, or just looking to inspire a special friend, employee or family member, here’s the most inspiring and compelling gift you can find. Click to view on Amazon |
 | She Engineers: Outsmart Bias, Unlock Your Potential, and Create the Engineering Career of your Dreams | Imagine a life where YOU choose your own career path. You love what you do. You are an influencer, a go-to person at your company and in your field. You aren’t working ridiculous hours. You have a life outside of work. You may even have a couple of young children if you so choose, while still enjoying a well-paying, impactful career in engineering. Sound like a pipe dream? It’s not. This book will show you how. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Starting a New Job: Career Planning and Job Promotion Tactics for Motivated New Employees | This incredible resource will enable you to develop highly effective strategies for success in your performance at work and help you create a one year plan to meet your career goals, impress your supervisors, leverage relationships with co-workers and continue your personal development. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Dale Carnegie’s Golden Book | A plethora of golden tips will set you on the path toward unimagined success. Put these tips in to action to excel as a leader and become the best version of yourself. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Reversing Burnout: How to Immediately Engage Top Talent and Grow! | The life most of us experience today is much different than the past. The realities of work and life have changed rapidly, and our busyness has made matters worse. Professional burnout and entrepreneurial burnout as well as diminishing employee engagement are costing us and our organizations and creating fewer winners at work and in life. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Living the 80/20 Way: Work Less, Worry Less, Succeed More, Enjoy More | Koch takes the widely renowned 80/20 principle and shows how in today’s cluttered and stressful world, working out the few things that are really important, and the few methods that will give us those things, leads to increased happiness and greater success. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen | An epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? McDougall’s incredible story will not only engage your mind but inspire your body when you realize that you, indeed all of us, were born to run. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Story of B | The Story of B combines Daniel Quinn’s provocative and visionary ideas with a masterfully plotted story of adventure and suspense in this stunning, resonant novel that is sure to stay with readers long after they have finished the last page. Click to view on Amazon |
 | How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk | The ultimate “parenting bible” (The Boston Globe) with a new foreword—and available as an ebook for the first time—a timeless, beloved book on how to effectively communicate with your child from the #1 New York Times bestselling authors. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Business of Engineering: A New Mindset for the Engineer of the Future | Problem solving is the key to success in both engineering and business. If you are either an entrepreneur looking for a unique approach to business or an engineer searching for a way to advance your career, this book is for you. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Road Ahead | Within this context in The Road Ahead, Bill Gates is optimistic and remarkably prescient about how important the Internet will be. He predicts that the Internet is a revolutionary paradigm change in zero-cost information handling, that this will spur development of groundbreaking applications, and that virtuous cycles will kick off revolutions in many industries. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Dynamics of Software Development | Shipping great software can be done, insists McCarthy, and charts, in five sections, the progress from initial design to successful product. McCarthy is a software industry veteran and the director of the Microsoft Visual C++ development group. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Objectives and Key Results: Driving Focus, Alignment, and Engagement with OKRs | Objectives and Key Results is the first full-fledged reference guide on Objectives and Key Results, a critical-thinking framework designed to help organizations create value through focus, alignment, and better communication. Written by two leading OKRs consultants and researchers, this audiobook provides a one-stop resource for organizations looking to quantify qualitative goals. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies About Who You Are so You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be | In this challenging and inspiring new book, Rachel exposes the twenty lies and misconceptions that too often hold us back from living joyfully and productively, lies we’ve told ourselves so often we don’t even hear them anymore. With painful honesty and fearless humor, Rachel unpacks and examines the falsehoods that once left her feeling overwhelmed and unworthy, and reveals the specific practical strategies that helped her move past them. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts | Brené Brown has taught us what it means to dare greatly, rise strong, and brave the wilderness. Now, based on new research conducted with leaders, change makers, and culture shifters, she’s showing us how to put those ideas into practice so we can step up and lead. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Dynamic People Skills | In Dynamic People Skils, you will learn practical insights about how to: develop dynamic relationships stay movtivated overcome rejection understand who you are build a powerful marriage and more! Click to view on Amazon |
 | Keen on Retirement: Engineering the Second Half of Your Life | In Keen on Retirement, Bill Keen shares insights from more than 15,000 client meetings across a twenty-seven year career to help you approach retirement with peace of mind. In addition to walking you through the steps of building a dynamic retirement financial plan, Bill tackles the psychological and emotional challenges associated with retirement. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong-and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story | In Inferior, acclaimed science writer Angela Saini weaves together a fascinating—and sorely necessary—new science of women. As Saini takes readers on a journey to uncover science’s failure to understand women, she finds that we’re still living with the legacy of an establishment that’s just beginning to recover from centuries of entrenched exclusion and prejudice. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Turn the Ship Around! | Since Turn the Ship Around! was published in 2013, hundreds of thousands of readers have been inspired by former Navy captain David Marquet’s true story. Many have applied his insights to their own organizations, creating workplaces where everyone takes responsibility for his or her actions, where followers grow to become leaders, and where happier teams drive dramatically better results. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Permission to Screw Up | Permission to Screw Up dismisses the idea that leaders and organizations should try to be perfect. It encourages people of all ages to go for it and learn to lead by acting, rather than waiting or thinking. Through a brutally honest and often hilarious account of her own struggles, Kristen encourages us to embrace our failures and proves that we’ll be better leaders when we do. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization | Tribal Leadership shows leaders how to assess, identify, and upgrade their tribes’ cultures, one stage at a time. The result is an organization that can thrive in any economy. Click to view on Amazon |
 | All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things | Fulghum engages us with musings on life, death, love, pain, joy, sorrow, and the best chicken-fried steak in the continental United States. The little seed in the Styrofoam cup offers a reminder about our own mortality and the delicate nature of life . . . a spider who catches (and loses) a full-grown woman in its web one fine morning teaches us about surviving catastrophe . . . the love story of Jean-Francois Pilatre and his hot-air balloon reminds us to be brave and unafraid to “fly”.Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Productivity Project: Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time, Attention, and Energy | A fresh, personal, and entertaining exploration of a topic that concerns all of us: how to be more productive at work and in every facet of our lives. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business | In Traction, you’ll learn the secrets of strengthening the six key components of your business. You’ll discover simple yet powerful ways to run your company that will give you and your leadership team more focus, more growth, and more enjoyment. Successful companies are applying Traction every day to run profitable, frustration-free businesses—and you can too. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Influence of Military Strategies to Business | This military-based guide to business takes the best wartime tactics and practices and teaches you how you can apply them in your business—and your personal life—successfully. With its systematic and comprehensive framework, this book utilizes the art of war in a whole new way and reveals that the path to a smooth business victory can be found in an unexpected but rewarding place. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Structural Design for Physical Security: State of the Practice | After the bombing of the WTC guidance was needed in the private sector for design of civil structures to resist the effects of bombing. This Report is the first transfer of security technology to the civil sector, and provides complete methods, guidance and references for structural engineers challenged with a physical security problem. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Blast Protection of Buildings (ASCE/SEI 59-11) | Blast Protection of Buildings provides minimum requirements for planning, design, construction, and assessment of new and existing buildings subject to the effects of accidental or malicious explosions. The Standard includes principles for establishing appropriate threat parameters, levels of protection, loadings, analysis methodologies, materials, detailing, and test procedures. Click to view on Amazon |
 | People Skills for Engineers | Most engineers do not receive adequate people skills training in school or on the job. As a result, many engineers are grossly under prepared to face the interpersonal challenges they inevitably encounter while working alongside other engineers and engineering managers. People Skills for Engineers was created specifically to fill this training gap. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Trusted Advisor | Bestselling author David Maister teams up with Charles H. Green and Robert M. Galford to bring us the essential tool for all consultants, negotiators, and advisors. Click to view on Amazon |
 | True Professionalism: The Courage to Care about Your People, Your Clients, and Your Career | David Maister, the world’s premier consultant to professional service firms, vigorously challenges professionals to examine this essential, yet under-addressed question: What is true professionalism? Click to view on Amazon |
 | A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide)–Sixth Edition | The PMBOK® Guide–Sixth Edition – PMI’s flagship publication has been updated to reflect the latest good practices in project management. New to the Sixth Edition, each knowledge area will contain a section entitled Approaches for Agile, Iterative and Adaptive Environments, describing how these practices integrate in project settings. It will also contain more emphasis on strategic and business knowledge—including discussion of project management business documents—and information on the PMI Talent Triangle™ and the essential skills for success in today’s market. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It | This first full revision of the book since its initial publication in 1993 features new case studies from around the world, fully updated data and research, and a streamlined format. Written by the premier leadership experts working today, Credibility:
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 | Managing for People Who Hate Managing: Be a Success By Being Yourself | Professional success, more often than not, means becoming a manager. Yet nobody prepared you for having to deal with messy tidbits like emotions, conflicts, and personalities – all while achieving ever-greater goals and meeting ever-looming deadlines. Not exactly what you had in mind, is it?Don’t panic. Here are the tools to help you succeed and even thrive as a manager. Drawing on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Zack introduces two primary management styles – thinkers and feelers – and guides you in developing a management style that fits who you really are. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Singletasking: Get More Done—One Thing at a Time | Zack’s convincing neuroscientific evidence to prove that you really can’t do more by trying to tackle several things at once—it’s an illusion. There is a better way to deal with all the information and interruptions that bombard us today. Singletasking explains exactly how to clear and calm your mind, arrange your schedule and environment, and gently yet firmly manage the expectations of people around you so that you can accomplish a succession of tasks, one by one—and be infinitely more productive. Singletasking is the secret to success and sanity. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Networking for People Who Hate Networking, Second Edition: A Field Guide for Introverts, the Overwhelmed, and the Underconnected | Devora Zack, an avowed introvert and successful consultant who gives presentations to thousands of people at dozens of events annually, feels your pain. She found that other networking books assume that to succeed, you have to act like an extrovert. Not at all. There is another way. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Surfing the Edge of Chaos Laws of Nature & the New Laws of Business | Surfing the Edge of Chaos is a brilliant, powerful, and practical book about the parallels between business and nature — two fields that feature nonstop battles between the forces of tradition and the forces of transformation. It offers a bold new way of thinking about and responding to the personal and strategic challenges everyone in business faces these days. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Pillars of the Earth | “Follett risks all and comes out a clear winner,” extolled Publishers Weekly on the release of The Pillars of the Earth. A departure for the bestselling thriller writer, the historical epic stunned readers and critics alike with its ambitious scope and gripping humanity. Today, it stands as a testament to Follett’s unassailable command of the written word and to his universal appeal. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Palaces for the People | In Palaces for the People, Eric Klinenberg suggests a way forward. He believes that the future of democratic societies rests not simply on shared values but on shared spaces: the libraries, childcare centers, churches, and parks where crucial connections are formed. Interweaving his own research with examples from around the globe, Klinenberg shows how “social infrastructure” is helping to solve some of our most pressing societal challenges. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Pumpkin Plan | Full of stories of other successful entrepreneurs, The Pumpkin Plan guides you through unconventional strategies to help you build a truly profitable blue-ribbon company that is the best in its field. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Waking Up | Waking Up is part seeker’s memoir and part exploration of the scientific underpinnings of spirituality. No other book marries contemplative wisdom and modern science in this way, and no author other than Sam Harris – a scientist, philosopher, and famous skeptic – could write it. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Professional Service Agreements: A Guide for Construction Professionals | This book is an essential reference for consultants, project managers, architects as well as their legal advisors and insurers, enabling them to better understand and negotiate the contracts prepared by the client side of the industry for their professional services. It covers the contracts themselves and related legal issues and principles and is written in a way that will be accessible to non-legally trained readers. Uniquely the book provides an understanding of the risks, both legal and commercial, inherent in these types of professional appointments and therefore helps the reader to manage those risks. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The 28 Laws of Listening: Best Practices for the Master Listener | The 28 Laws of Listening represent the methods and mindset necessary to foster a culture of authentic listening and trust. The author relates lessons learned in two decades of police work and hostage negotiation and another decade of corporate training and keynoting. It represents the absolute cutting edge of theory and practice for active listening practitioners and negotiators. Each law has a corresponding challenge designed for the reader to put the lesson into action to build good listening habits. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Start with NO…The Negotiating Tools that the Pros Don’t Want You to Know | Start with No introduces a system of decision-based negotiation that teaches you how to understand and control these emotions. It teaches you how to ignore the siren call of the final result, which you can’t really control, and how to focus instead on the activities and behavior that you can and must control in order to successfully negotiate with the pros. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Life or Death Listening: A Hostage Negotiator’s How-to Guide to Mastering the Essential Communication Skill | This book contains the key to unlocking the potential for lives of trust, consensus, and community! Dan Oblinger lays out the ultimate sales pitch for creating a culture of authentic, skillful listening. It begins with you! Learn the hostage negotiator’s techniques for turning enemies in allies. Learn to be more empathetic and build stronger relationships with anyone! It is ideal for business executives, managers, parents, and community leaders. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter—And How to Make the Most of Them Now | Drawing from a decade of work with hundreds of twentysomething clients and students, The Defining Decade weaves the latest science of the twentysomething years with behind-closed-doors stories from twentysomethings themselves. The result is a provocative read that provides the tools necessary to make the most of your twenties, and shows us how work, relationships, personality, social networks, identity, and even the brain can change more during this decade than at any other time in adulthood-if we use the time wisely. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Innovator’s Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business | The Innovator’s Dilemma is the revolutionary business book that has forever changed corporate America. Based on a truly radical idea—that great companies can fail precisely because they do everything right—this Wall Street Journal, Business Week and New York Times Business bestseller is one of the most provocative and important business books ever written. Entrepreneurs, managers, and CEOs ignore its wisdom and its warnings at their great peril. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind | From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller—that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be “human.” Click to view on Amazon |
 | Self-Renewal – The Individual and the Innovative Society | In his classic treatise Self-Renewal, John W. Gardner examines why great societies thrive and die. He argues that it is dynamism, not decay, that is dramatically altering the landscape of American society. The twentieth century has brought about change more rapidly than any previous era, and with that came advancements, challenges, and often destruction. Gardner cautions that “a society must court the kinds of change that will enrich and strengthen it, rather than the kind of change that will fragment and destroy it.” Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business | New York Times best-selling author, Patrick Lencioni, argues that the seminal difference between successful companies and mediocre ones has little to do with what they know and how smart they are and more to do with how healthy they are. In this book, Lencioni brings together his vast experience and many of the themes cultivated in his other best-selling books and delivers a first: a cohesive and comprehensive exploration of the unique advantage organizational health provides. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Building Code Requirements for Structural Concrete | “The “Building Code Requirements for Structural Concrete” (“Code”) provides minimum requirements for the materials, design, and detailing of structural concrete buildings and, where applicable, nonbuilding structures. Among the subjects covered are: design and construction for strength, serviceability, and durability; load combinations, load factors, and strength reduction factors; structural analysis methods; deflection limits; mechanical and adhesive anchoring to concrete; development and splicing of reinforcement; construction document information; field inspection and testing; and methods to evaluate the strength of existing structures. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Introverted Leader: Building on Your Quiet Strength | The book includes fresh information on the unique challenges faced by introverted women, how leaders can shape a more introvert-friendly workplace, customized hiring and coaching strategies for introverts, and the positive correlation between introverted leadership and company performance. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Compound Effect | No gimmicks. No Hyperbole. No Magic Bullet. The Compound Effect is based on the principle that decisions shape your destiny. Little, everyday decisions will either take you to the life you desire or to disaster by default. Darren Hardy, publisher of Success Magazine, presents The Compound Effect, a distillation of the fundamental principles that have guided the most phenomenal achievements in business, relationships, and beyond. This easy-to-use, step-by-step operating system allows you to multiply your success, chart your progress, and achieve any desire. Click to view on Amazon |
| TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Research Report 883: Fracture-Critical System Analysis for Steel Bridges presents a proposed specification for the analysis and identification of fracture-critical members and system-redundant members. The report describes the analysis methodology and provides application examples. The analysis methodology is based on comprehensive 3-D finite element analyses (FEA) and case studies to evaluate the redundancy of new and existing steel bridges with members traditionally designated as fracture-critical members (FCMs), including simple- and continuous-span I-girder and tub-girder, through-girder, truss, and tied-arch steel bridges. Click to view on Amazon | |
 | Who Moved My Cheese | A timeless business classic, Who Moved My Cheese? uses a simple parable to reveal profound truths about dealing with change so that you can enjoy less stress and more success in your work and in your life. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Soft as Steel: Leadership Qualities to Grow Relationships and Succeed in Business and Life | The landscape of the construction industry is changing rapidly. Success is no longer driven by a single generation, technology, or bidding strategy. In today’s diverse industry, your ability to adapt and grow hinges on soft skills. In Soft as Steel, Dennis Doran starts new conversations about bringing communication and introspection to a business where these essential skills traditionally go undervalued. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Pocket Ref | The concise all-purpose pocket-sized reference book featuring abundant information on many subjects, hundreds of tables, maps, formulas, constants and conversions. If you need to know it, it is in this book! Click to view on Amazon |
 | Get Noticed & Promoted: The Playbook: A Step-by-Step Guide for Women in STEM | The Playbook, gives women in STEM the confidence to step up by providing an easy to follow career strategy. This action-filled guide fast tracks your career progression by giving you: • Exact word-by-word scripts of what to say to your boss• Essential email templates• Tools to discover your core reason “why”, greatest impact at work and ideal salary• Spreadsheet templates to track your performance… and so much more! Click to view on Amazon |
 | Brag!: The Art of Tooting Your Own Horn Without Blowing It | The renowned communication expert’s subtle but effective plan for selling your best asset – yourself – without turning off those you’re trying to impress. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Wooden on Leadership | A compelling look inside the mind and powerful leadership methods of America’s coaching legend, John Wooden. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Average Joe: Be the Silicon Valley Tech Genius | The book covers numerous tech entrepreneurial founders and software developers, and the exciting brands or products that they created. It goes deep on a handful of them, narrowly divulging exactly how a few software developers and startup founders created breakthrough tech products like Gmail, Dropbox, Ring, Snapchat, Bitcoin, Groupon, and more. Click to view on Amazon |
 | What Can I Be? STEM Careers from A to Z is an inspiring and easy-to-read alphabet picture book that teaches our next generation about Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) careers. This book provides colorful illustrations of six diverse children representing various STEM careers. Click to view on Amazon | |
 | Saving Lives While Fighting for Mine: Stories to Empower Women to Win | 10 authors discuss their past problems that presented as pain appearing beyond repair. Although the authors could not see victory over their current situations; they kept going because someone else needed them to win. |
 | 10-10-10 ~ 10 Minutes-10 Months- 10 Years~ A Life-Transforming Idea | Any choice you make – any decision – will benefit from 10-10-10. We all want to lead a life of our own making. But in today’s accelerated world, with its competing priorities, information overload, and confounding options, we can easily find ourselves steered by impulse, stress, or expedience. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Balancing Act explores the characteristics required of a new generation of leaders who must find balance between strength and vulnerability; confidence and selflessness; passion and measure; single mindedness and inclusivity; determination and curiosity; and leadership and followership. He stresses that balance is a journey, not a destination. Click to view on Amazon | |
 | Participative Management: Employee-Management Cooperation : A Practical Approach | Essays consider issues in employee-management cooperation, the Scanlon Plan, stress reduction, conflict resolution, productivity, and quality circles. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Prosperity Plan | Ten Steps to Beating the Odds and Discovering Greater Wealth and Happiness Than You Ever Thought Possible. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Now What? | In Now What? pioneering life coach Laura Berman Fortgang shares the process that she has used so successfully to help hundreds of clients make major changes in their lives. Whether it’s moving on from a dead end job, discovering an entirely new creative outlet, or answering the age old question “What am I meant to do with my life?” this book provides a clear and infinitely practical 90-day program that can help you make major changes in your life. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Living Your Best Life | Being happy doesn’t have to be hard, says prominent personal coach Laura Berman Fortgang. We each possess an internal compass that expresses our individual wisdom and points to the things that would most fulfill us. Personal and professional satisfaction, Fortgang believes, comes from tapping into this wisdom. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Take Yourself to the Top | Success from the Inside Out. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Little Book on Meaning | In The Little Book on Meaning Laura Berman Fortgang reveals that while our hunger for a meaningful life can be enormous, our desire for meaning is usually satiated by small, bite-size morsels of meaning-the small, almost incidental events or “achievements” that comprise the fabric of our lives. According to Fortgang, meaning is where you look for it, and through tenderly drawn stories from her own life and the lives of those around her, she shows readers how they too can peek around corners to discover the small elements of their lives that truly matter. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t | Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the very beginning. But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? Click to view on Amazon |
 | Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell | Based on interviews with over eighty people who knew and loved Bill Campbell, Trillion Dollar Coach explains the Coach’s principles and illustrates them with stories from the many great people and companies with which he worked. The result is a blueprint for forward-thinking business leaders and managers that will help them create higher performing and faster moving cultures, teams, and companies. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Geotechnical Engineering: Unsaturated and Saturated Soils | Written by a leader on the subject, Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering is first introductory geotechnical engineering textbook to cover both saturated and unsaturated soil mechanics. Destined to become the next leading text in the field, this book presents a new approach to teaching the subject, based on fundamentals of unsaturated soils, and extending the description of applications of soil mechanics to a wide variety of topics. This groundbreaking work features a number of topics typically left out of undergraduate geotechnical courses. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Career Toolkit: Essential Skills for Success That No One Taught You | The Career Toolkit will help you master these vital skills and yield outsized returns for your career and your income. Every chapter is packed with dozens of actionable principles, exercises, and practices that will accelerate your success. It’s a multivitamin for your career! Click to view on Amazon |
 | 10+1 Steps to Problem Solving: An Engineer’s Guide | How to think like a Lead Engineer. And how to turn these newly boosted problem solving skills into engineering career progression.Did you already reach your maximum potential? Or do you look at knowledge as a way to become an authority?This engineering book is one way to transform an everyday problem solver into an engineering ninja! Click to view on Amazon |
 | Satori Ananda – Awaken to Happiness | In this raw and powerful memoir, Michael Tranmer fearlessly shares his transformational story from emotionally caged and heartbroken, to self-aware and fully expressed. His journey of self-discovery shows how he transcended his pain to find his greater purpose. On his inspiring journey, Michael discovers the one thing that will ultimately awaken himself, and others, to lasting happiness. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Managing Gigaprojects: Advice from Those Who’ve Been There, Done That | Managing Gigaprojects: Advice from Those Who ve Been There, Done That reports from the leading edge of the world s biggest infrastructure construction projects. Megaprojects, with costs of more than US$1 billion, are being surpassed by gigaprojects, with pricetags higher than US$10 billion. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York | Robert Caro’s monumental book makes public what few outsiders knew: that Robert Moses was the single most powerful man of his time in the City and in the State of New York. And in telling the Moses story, Caro both opens up to an unprecedented degree the way in which politics really happens—the way things really get done in America’s City Halls and Statehouses—and brings to light a bonanza of vital information about such national figures as Alfred E. Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt (and the genesis of their blood feud), about Fiorello La Guardia, John V. Lindsay and Nelson Rockefeller. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Ready for Takeoff! A Winning Process for Launching Your Engineering Career (Esource: The Prentice Hall Engineering Source) | Part I of this unique book starts by helping you assess your own unique skills and abilities and understand how they match opportunities in the job market. The author then explains the basics of a successful job hunt, including how to write a resume that sells your skills, using your university’s career center to your advantage, and nailing the interview. Part II offers career advice and expectations from 32 industry insiders like CEOs and Engineering Directors, and explores career development. Finally, Part III covers the finer points of success in your field such as leadership, motivation, teamwork, and interpersonal skills. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Atlas Shrugged | Atlas Shrugged is a 1957 novel by Ayn Rand. Rand’s fourth and final novel, it was also her longest, and the one she considered to be her magnum opus in the realm of fiction writing. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race | The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a gripping account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies. Click to view on Amazon |
 | 2021 International Building Code (International Code Council Series) | This code applies to all buildings except detached one- and two-family dwellings and townhouses up to three stories. The 2021 IBC contains many important changes such as: Puzzle rooms (escape rooms) are now defined and regulated as special amusement areas, requiring compliance with Section 411 and special means of egress requirements. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Jack: Straight from the Gut | Nearly 20 years ago, former General Electric CEO Reg Jones walked into Jack Welch’s office and wrapped him in a bear hug. “Congratulations, Mr. Chairman,” said Reg. It was a defining moment for American business. So begins the story of a self-made man and a self-described rebel who thrived in one of the most volatile and economically robust eras in U.S. history, while managing to maintain a unique leadership style. In what is the most anticipated book on business management for our time, Jack Welch surveys the landscape of his career running one of the world’s largest and most successful corporations. Click to view on Amazon |
 | SEED: A Hard Science Fiction Novel about Survival, Colonization, and Leadership | What kind of person does it take to build a civilization from the ground up? In this fun, hard science fiction novel, astronaut Nick Burke will have to learn how to be a leader if he wants humanity to survive on a new planet…even if he is no longer a human himself. Click to view on Amazon |
 | A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload | From New York Times bestselling author Cal Newport comes a bold vision for liberating workers from the tyranny of the inbox–and unleashing a new era of productivity. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle | This groundbreaking book explains why women experience burnout differently than men—and provides a simple, science-based plan to help women minimize stress, manage emotions, and live a more joyful life. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Man’s Search for Meaning | When Man’s Search for Meaning was first published in 1959, it was hailed by Carl Rogers as “one of the outstanding contributions to psychological thought in the last fifty years.” Now, more than forty years and 4 million copies later, this tribute to hope in the face of unimaginable loss has emerged as a true classic. Man’s Search for Meaning–at once a memoir, a self-help book, and a psychology manual-is the story of psychiatrist Viktor Frankl’s struggle for survival during his three years in Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Dichotomy Of Leadership: Balancing The Challenges Of Extreme Ownership To Lead And Win | From the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of Extreme Ownership comes a new and revolutionary approach to help leaders recognize and attain the leadership balance crucial to victory. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Extreme Ownership | From Jocko Wilnick, the New York Times best selling author of Discipline Equals Freedom and Leadership Strategy and Tactics, an updated edition of the blockbuster bestselling leadership book that took America and the world by storm, two U.S. Navy SEAL officers who led the most highly decorated special forces unit of the Iraq War demonstrate how to apply powerful leadership principles from the battlefield to business and life. Now with an excerpt from the authors’ new book, THE DICHOTOMY OF LEADERSHIP. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Obstacle Is the Way | Ryan Holiday shows us how some of the most successful people in history—from John D. Rockefeller to Amelia Earhart to Ulysses S. Grant to Steve Jobs—have applied stoicism to overcome difficult or even impossible situations. Their embrace of these principles ultimately mattered more than their natural intelligence, talents, or luck. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You | Attached guides listeners in determining what attachment style they and their mate (or potential mate) follow, offering a road map for building stronger, more fulfilling connections with the people they love. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Grassroots Leaders for a New Economy | Grassroots Leaders for a New Economy explains the unique leadership qualities that set civic entrepreneurs apart, and illustrates how these leaders can emerge from all levels of private, public, social, and civic organizations. The book shows how civic entrepreneurs forge powerfully productive linkages at the intersection of business, government, education, and community, and it demonstrates how they operate at the grassroots level to create collaborative advantages that make it possible for their economic communities to compete on the global stage. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Optimism Bias | The Optimism Bias provides us with startling new insight into how the workings of the brain create our hopes and dreams. About the Author Tali Sharot’s research on optimism, memory and emotion has been featured in Time, New Scientist, The New York Times and more. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Patton | In Ladislas Farago’s masterpiece, Patton: Ordeal and Triumph, the complete story of this fascinating personality is revealed. Born into an aristocratic California family, Patton rose in military rank quickly and was tapped to lead the Allied landings in North Africa in 1942. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values | A narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and his son, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance becomes a personal and philosophical odyssey into fundamental questions on how to live. The narrator’s relationship with his son leads to a powerful self-reckoning; the craft of motorcycle maintenance leads to an austerely beautiful process for reconciling science, religion, and humanism. Resonant with the confusions of existence, this classic is a touching and transcendent book of life. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road | Within a ten-month period, Neil Peart lost both his 19-year-old daughter, Selena, and his wife, Jackie. Faced with overwhelming sadness and isolated from the world in his home on the lake, Peart was left without direction. This memoir tells of the sense of personal devastation that led him on a 55,000-mile journey by motorcycle across much of North America, down through Mexico to Belize, and back again.Peart chronicles his personal odyssey and includes stories of reuniting with friends and family, grieving, and reminiscing. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Revolution of Efficiency | In how many dimensions can we see Efficiency? Nowadays, making a company efficient means making it more secure, solid and profitable. Being efficient means producing with less resources, thereby increasing margins. The resources of interest to an entrepreneur are, for example: raw materials, energy, time and labor. Therefore, the efficiency of processes is analyzed under various aspects: Automation, Productivity, Flexibility and Sustainability. This account of the author’s experiences, accompanies us on the discovery of efficiency through case studies, uses and difficulties that have been overcome thanks to analyzing out of the box. Click to view on Amazon |
 | How to Get UnUnemployed: An A-to-Z Guide on Finding a Career You Like: Crackerjack Insight from a Human Resources Recruiter | I wrote this book to help others find a job. I am not going to try to out-intellectualize you — I mean outsmart you. I just want to show you a nice little road map covering all the bases within the employment process. From cradle to grave. I hate that term. Anyway, this road map will be what you will need to do, step by step, to put yourself into the best position to get the career you wish to pursue. Click to view on Amazon |
 | How to Get UnUnEmployed: Fill That Calendar! 22 Daily Step-By-Step Ways and Daily Motivators to Kickstart Your Career and Find a Job in Under 6 Weeks (An Interactive Guide) | The job hunting process does not need to be complicated. It’s not like you’re building rockets, but you definitely need to know how to navigate this tricky scenario. This book was made to help in that navigation. A way to declutter, reverse engineer and simplify the process of finding a job. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America | For five years, James and Deborah Fallows have travelled across America in a single-engine prop airplane. Visiting dozens of towns, the America they saw is acutely conscious of its problems—from economic dislocation to the opioid scourge—but it is also crafting solutions, with a practical-minded determination at dramatic odds with the bitter paralysis of national politics. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Ms. Adventure: My Wild Explorations in Science, Lava, and Life | Ms. Adventure skillfully blends personal memoir, daring adventure, and scientific exploration, following Phoenix’s journey from reality television sites deep in Ecuadorian jungles to Andean glaciers, university classrooms to Death Valley in summer. She has even chased down members of a Mexican cartel to retrieve a stolen favorite rock hammer. Readers will delight in her unbelievable adventures, all embarked on for the love of science. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Self-Coaching 101 | Self coaching is about feeling better. It really is that simple. Everything we do in our lives is because we want to feel better. When we give-it feels good. When we help others-it feels good. When we accomplish something-it feels good. Whenever we feel bad-we are usually seeking a way to feel good. The reason we want to feel good, is because it is our true nature. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Total Money Makeover | Hey, if you’re tired of the lies and sick of the false promises, take a look at this—it’s the simplest, most straightforward game plan for completely making over your money habits. And it’s based on results, not pie-in-the-sky fantasies. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Power Phrases | Being Clear, Kind and Direct Can Get You What You Want in Life. Have You EVER been in a situation where you knew you should say something, but…you didn’t have the right words to say it? Never be left speechless again. Stand up and be heard! Click to view on Amazon |
 | The 5 Second Journal | In the international bestseller The 5 Second Rule, Mel Robbins inspired millions to 5 – 4 – 3 – 2 – 1…take action, get results, and live a more courageous life! Now, in The 5 Second Journal, Mel guides you step-by-step through a simple research-backed daily journaling method that will help you become the most productive, confident, and happiest you. It is the most powerful journal on the planet because it uses science to unlock the greatest force in the universe…YOU. Click to view on Amazon |
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 | Die with Zero | Die with Zero presents a startling new and provocative philosophy as well as practical guide on how to get the most out of your money—and out of your life. It’s intended for those who place lifelong memorable experiences far ahead of simply making and accumulating money for one’s so-called Golden Years. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life…And Maybe the World | Based on a Navy SEAL’s inspiring graduation speech, this #1 New York Times bestseller of powerful life lessons “should be read by every leader in America” (Wall Street Journal). Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom | In The Four Agreements, bestselling author don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, The Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Radical Candor | Radical Candor has been embraced around the world by leaders of every stripe at companies of all sizes. Now a cultural touchstone, the concept has come to be applied to a wide range of human relationships. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Craig’s Soil Mechanics | Craig’s Soil Mechanics continues to evolve and remain the definitive text for civil engineering students worldwide. It covers fundamental soil mechanics and its application in applied geotechnical engineering from A to Z and at the right depth for an undergraduate civil engineer, with sufficient extension material for supporting MSc level courses, and with practical examples and digital tools to make it a useful reference work for practising engineers. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Principles of Foundation Engineering | Now you can learn core concepts and applications of foundation analysis and design with Das/Sivakugan�s best-selling PRINCIPLES OF FOUNDATION ENGINEERING, 9th Edition. Written specifically for undergraduate civil engineering students by renowned authors in the field of geotechnical engineering, this outstanding text provides an ideal balance between today’s most current research and practical field applications. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Engineering Geology of Southern Africa | The first volume deals with the engineering characteristics of rocks and their weathered derivatives, emplaced during the first half of geological time – from nearly 4 000 million years ago to 2000 million years ago. Click to view on Amazon |
 | A Guide to practical Geotechnical Engineering in Southern Africa | The new Fifth Edition, co-authored once again by Gavin Byrne – together with Dr Nicol Chang as Technical Director of Franki and Dr Venu Raju as the Keller Group’s Director: Engineering and Operations – depicts Franki’s expansion through the African continent and the Indian Ocean Islands. The ownership of Franki Africa by the Keller Group, the largest geotechnical contractor worldwide, is reflected in the significant change and evolution of the book’s content. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Gifted Boss | Revised and updated, here is the groundbreaking “bible” on how to manage successful employees from Dale Dauten, one of America’s most innovative business consultants. A classic business “how-to” book, The Gifted Boss is an important business tool to help you find, create, and keep great employees—an indispensible guide to increasing workplace synergy and, ultimately, productivity from the internationally renowned management guru and founder of The Innovators’ Lab. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Where You Are Is Not Who You Are | he first Black female CEO of a Fortune 500 company looks back at her life and her career at Xerox, sharing unique insights on American business and corporate life, the workers she has always valued, racial and economic justice, how greed is threatening democracy, and the obstacles she’s conquered being Black and a woman. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Investing in Patents: What Startup Investors Need To Know About Patents | “Investing In Patents” discusses the patent process from an investor’s view, but with insider knowledge.Investment-grade patents do not just happen by chance, they are curated through due diligence prior to filing the patent, then careful and consistent management through the process. Good patents are clear, straightforward, and easy to read. Understandable patent applications are easier to examine, meaning the issued patent is legitimate and defensible. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The AEC Professional’s Guidebook | The A/E/C Professional’s Guidebook is a series of seventy brief lessons that will propel your growth in several key business areas. Architects, Engineers, and Contractors will strengthen their careers in marketing, business development, writing, project management, professional development, and leadership. This bite-sized book is arranged for convenient reading and easy implementation. Each lesson contains a challenge to help you act on what you are learning. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Business Made Simple | Business Made Simple is the must-have guide for anyone who feels lost or overwhelmed by the modern business climate, even if they attended business school. Learn what the most successful business leaders have known for years through the simple but effective secrets shared in these pages. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Rainmaking | In this new edition of his classic book, Rain Making, Ford Harding reveals step by step how–even if you’ve never sold a product in your life–you can become a top performer in your organization. Filled with easy-to-use strategies, checklists, tables, and guides, this book shows you how to:
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 | Proposal Development Secrets: Win More, Work Smarter, and Get Home on Time
| Proposal Development Secrets is full of ground-level advice from the proposal trenches and valuable insights that might just make proposal development a little less taxing and a lot more rewarding. It focuses on the cold hard realities of the proposal business and provides you with some strategies to help you get home to the people and things that you love. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Magic of Winning Proposals | The Magic of Winning Proposals will not only help you improve your RFP win rates. This essential book will help you win new clients and realize better margins. Some of the most successful consulting firms in the world use this process, achieving win rates of more than 80 percent. Now author Laura Ricci shares her process with you. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Makes Me Wanna Holler | In these pages, McCall chronicles his passage from the street to the prison yard—and, later, to the newsrooms of The Washington Post and ultimately to the faculty of Emory University. His story is at once devastating and inspiring, at once an indictment and an elegy. Makes Me Wanna Holler became an instant classic when it was first published in 1994 and it continues to bear witness to the great troubles—and the great hopes—of our nation. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Surviving to Thriving – The 10 Laws of Grateful Leadership | 10 Laws of Grateful Leadership explores how anyone can master gratitude and create the life of their dreams.Surviving to Thriving offers an in-depth look at the reasons why many people struggle to move beyond a life of survival, feeling unfulfilled, exhausted, and like there’s never enough time in the day. The book goes one step further and offers a simple yet revolutionary solution. What if we could all transform our lives by building habits that don’t take any more time in your day than brushing your teeth? Click to view on Amazon |
 | The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader | In the tradition of his million-seller The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, author John C. Maxwell provides a concise, accessible leadership book that helps readers become more effective leaders from the inside out. Daily readings highlight twenty-one essential leadership qualities and include Reflecting On It and Bringing It Home sections that help readers integrate and apply each days material. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Designing Your New Work Life | From the authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller Designing Your Life comes a revised, fully up-to-date edition of Designing Your New Work Life, a timely, urgently needed book that shows us how to transform our new uncharted work life into a meaningful dream job or company. With practical, useful tools, tips, and design ideas that show us how to navigate disruption (global, regional, or personal) and create new possibilities for our post-COVID work world and beyond. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Success Mindsets | Success Mindsets, written by Wall-Street Journal and USA Today Best-Seller Ryan Gottfredson, helps natural achievers, stalled professionals, and business executives unlock greater success in their life, work, and leadership.“Mindsets” is a word that is used quite frequently, however, many of those who use it are unaware that mindsets are foundational to and dictate one’s success in life, work, and leadership. They are also unable to identify specific mindsets that are necessary for success. Click to view on Amazon |
 | From the world’s leading thinker on innovation and New York Times bestselling author of The Innovator’s Dilemma, Clayton M. Christensen, comes an unconventional book of inspiration and wisdom for achieving a fulfilling life. Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma, notably the only business book that Apple’s Steve Jobs said “deeply influenced” him, is widely recognized as one of the most significant business books ever published. Click to view on Amazon | |
 | The Happiness Trap | Are you, like millions of Americans, caught in the happiness trap? Russ Harris explains that the way most of us go about trying to find happiness ends up making us miserable, driving the epidemics of stress, anxiety, and depression. This empowering book presents the insights and techniques of ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) a revolutionary new psychotherapy based on cutting-edge research in behavioral psychology. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Phoenix Project | In this newly updated and expanded edition of the bestselling The Phoenix Project, co-author Gene Kim includes a new afterword and a deeper delve into the Three Ways as described in The DevOps Handbook. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Engineering’s Public-Protection Predicament: Reform Education and Licensure for a Safer Society | The book provides potential engineering students, and their parents and advisors, examples of engineering excellence and exemplars. It also:
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 | Righting Software | Righting Software presents the proven, structured, and highly engineered approach to software design that renowned architect Juval Löwy has practiced and taught around the world. Although companies of every kind have successfully implemented his original design ideas across hundreds of systems, these insights have never before appeared in print. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Thinking in Systems | Thinking in Systems is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute’s Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world, showing readers how to develop the systems-thinking skills that thought leaders across the globe consider critical for 21st-century life. Click to view on Amazon |
 | A Philosophy of Software Design | This book addresses the topic of software design: how to decompose complex software systems into modules (such as classes and methods) that can be implemented relatively independently. The book first introduces the fundamental problem in software design, which is managing complexity. It then discusses philosophical issues about how to approach the software design process and it presents a collection of design principles to apply during software design. The book also introduces a set of red flags that identify design problems. Click to view on Amazon |
| The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy | The bestselling The Millionaire Next Door identifies seven common traits that show up again and again among those who have accumulated wealth. Most of the truly wealthy in this country don’t live in Beverly Hills or on Park Avenue-they live next door. This new edition, the first since 1998, includes a new foreword for the twenty-first century by Dr. Thomas J. Stanley. Click to view on Amazon | |
| The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable | In keeping with the parable style, Patrick Lencioni begins by telling the fable of a woman who, as CEO of a struggling Silicon Valley firm, took control of a dysfunctional executive committee and helped its members succeed as a team. Story time over, Lencioni offers explicit instructions for overcoming the human behavioral tendencies that he says corrupt teams (absence of trust, fear of conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability and inattention to results). Click to view on Amazon | |
| The Effective Client: Why Being a Good Client is Smart Business in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Industries | This book allows you to peek behind the curtain and find out how designers and builders really differentiate between good and bad clients. You will learn how client behavior affects the price and quality of work – and even how designers and builders choose their clients. That’s right, just because you have a project to bid doesn’t anybody has to bid it. This book offers practical advice on how you can improve your standing with designers and builders so you can become a client of choice. Make no mistake: owners are in competition with each other for a very limited pool of capable designers and builders. Being a desirable customer is smart business, this book will show you how. Click to view on Amazon | |
| Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most | Through compelling stories that reveal surprising insights, Johnson explains how we can most effectively approach the choices that can chart the course of a life, an organization, or a civilization. Farsighted will help you imagine your possible futures and appreciate the subtle intelligence of the choices that shaped our broader social history. Click to view on Amazon | |
| The Hard Thing About Hard Things | While many people talk about how great it is to start a business, very few are honest about how difficult it is to run one. Ben Horowitz analyzes the problems that confront leaders every day, sharing the insights he’s gained developing, managing, selling, buying, investing in, and supervising technology companies. A lifelong rap fanatic, he amplifies business lessons with lyrics from his favorite songs, telling it straight about everything from firing friends to poaching competitors, cultivating and sustaining a CEO mentality to knowing the right time to cash in. Click to view on Amazon | |
| The Real-Life MBA | In the decade since their blockbuster international best-seller Winning was published, Jack and Suzy Welch have dug deeper into business than ever in their careers, traveling the world consulting to businesses of every size and in every industry, working closely with entrepreneurs from Mumbai to Silicon Valley, starting their own company, and owning and managing more than 40 companies through private equity. Coupled with Jack’s 20 years of iconic leadership at GE and Suzy’s tenure as editor of the Harvard Business Review, their new database of knowledge will infuse the pages of The Real Life MBA with fresh, relevant stories and equally powerful solutions. Click to view on Amazon | |
| Geotechnical Finite Element Analysis aims to combine essential learning material in one place. As a practical guide, textbook, reference and training tool, it is aimed at practising civil, structural and geotechnical engineers, and those undergoing training in geotechnical FEA and performing geotechnical FEA in design. Click to view on Amazon | ||
| Visual Impact | This A-Z reference guide, full of original illustrations, will inspire you, whether in the boardroom, classroom, or living room to expand what you thought possible. It will jumpstart your creativity into the realm of visual thinking and push your thought processes beyond the confines of the typical ways we work to process information. Pillars powerfully demonstrates the vast potential of using visual thinking to improve productivity, outcomes, and communication with audiences of all ages. Leaning on decades of teaching in varied global settings, she brings tremendous insight and mastery with clear examples to empower you to think visually, experiment creatively, and sketch more! Click to view on Amazon
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| The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry | The Art of the Commonplace gathers twenty essays by Wendell Berry that offer an agrarian alternative to our dominant urban culture. Grouped around five themes—an agrarian critique of culture, agrarian fundamentals, agrarian economics, agrarian religion, and geobiography—these essays promote a clearly defined and compelling vision important to all people dissatisfied with the stress, anxiety, disease, and destructiveness of contemporary American culture. Click to view on Amazon | |
| Cross, Yield or Burn – Navigating the Bridges of Life | Through personal stories of heartbreak, inspiration, loss and triumph, this book will help you better understand the bridges in your own life, and whether to cross, yield or burn them as you travel the passageways that lead to purpose, acceptance, wisdom, and love. Click to purchase | |
| Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships | If “violent” means acting in ways that result in hurt or harm, then much of how we communicate—judging others, bullying, having racial bias, blaming, finger pointing, discriminating, speaking without listening, criticizing others or ourselves, name-calling, reacting when angry, using political rhetoric, being defensive or judging who’s “good/bad” or what’s “right/wrong” with people—could indeed be called “violent communication.” Click to view on Amazon | |
| Overcoming Awkward: The Introvert’s Guide to Networking, Marketing, and Sales | In this groundbreaking work from a bona fide introvert master marketer, you will learn actionable strategies to create connections, build relationships, and establish loyal, repeat customers who are thrilled to refer you to everyone they know. Click to view on Amazon | |
| Becoming a Seller-Doer | Becoming a Seller-Doer helps technical professionals in the architecture, engineering, and construction (A/E/C) industry become seller-doers, or better ones. A seller-doer is a billable professional who takes purposeful action to help produce revenue for their firm. By learning to bring in business to their firms through marketing and business development, seller-doers will become more valuable to the firm and will take command of their careers. Click to view on Amazon | |
| Everybody Matters | Chapman and coauthor Raj Sisodia show how any organization can reject the traumatic consequences of rolling layoffs, dehumanizing rules, and hypercompetitive cultures. Once you stop treating people like functions or costs, disengaged workers begin to share their gifts and talents toward a shared future. Uninspired workers stop feeling that their jobs have no meaning. Frustrated workers stop taking their bad days out on their spouses and kids. And everyone stops counting the minutes until it’s time to go home. Click to view on Amazon | |
| Conscious Capitalism | Read this book and you’ll better understand how four specific tenets—higher purpose, stakeholder integration, conscious leadership, and conscious culture and management—can help build strong businesses, move capitalism closer to its highest potential, and foster a more positive environment for all of us. Click to view on Amazon | |
| Right of Way | In Right of Way, journalist Angie Schmitt shows us that deaths like Duarte-Rodriguez’s are not unavoidable “accidents.” They don’t happen because of jaywalking or distracted walking. They are predictable, occurring in stark geographic patterns that tell a story about systemic inequality. These deaths are the forgotten faces of an increasingly urgent public-health crisis that we have the tools, but not the will, to solve. Click to view on Amazon | |
| Entrepreneurial You | It’s no secret that the world of work has changed, and we’re shifting toward an ever more entrepreneurial, self-reliant, work-from-wherever-you-are economy. That can be a liberating force, and many professionals dream of becoming independent, whether by starting their own businesses, becoming consultants or freelancers, or developing a sideline.This book will be your hands-on guide to building a portfolio of revenue streams, both traditional and online, so that you can liberate yourself financially and shape your own career destiny. Click to view on Amazon | |
| The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: 30th Anniversary Edition | One of the most inspiring and impactful books ever written, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has captivated readers for nearly three decades. It has transformed the lives of presidents and CEOs, educators and parents—millions of people of all ages and occupations. Now, this 30th anniversary edition of the timeless classic commemorates the wisdom of the 7 Habits with modern additions from Sean Covey. Click to view on Amazon | |
| Cadillac Desert | The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruption and intrigue, of billion-dollar battles over water rights, of ecological and economic disaster. In his landmark book, Cadillac Desert, Marc Reisner writes of the earliest settlers, lured by the promise of paradise, and of the ruthless tactics employed by Los Angeles politicians and business interests to ensure the city’s growth. He documents the bitter rivalry between two government giants, the Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in the competition to transform the West. Based on more than a decade of research, Cadillac Desert is a stunning expose and a dramatic, intriguing history of the creation of an Eden–an Eden that may only be a mirage. Click to view on Amazon | |
| How to Work with Jerks: Getting Stuff Done with People You Can’t Stand | How to Work with Jerks provides solutions sought by professionals and leaders about how to motivate and retain their staff and achieve maximum productivity. This book also answers the questions asked by all employees about how to stay motivated in a job they can’t stand while learning the necessary skills to make them marketable in today’s uncertain job market. Click to view on Amazon | |
| Anti-Time Management: Reclaim Your Time and Revolutionize Your Results with the Power of Time Tipping | Discover the answer to the age-old question of “work-life balance” and what to do about it. Award-winning author Richie Norton brings you into the future with the power of Time Tipping, a framework that allows you to live and work wherever you choose. Enjoy expansive freedom by prioritizing attention, not managing time. Click to view on Amazon | |
| Humble Leadership: The Power of Relationships, Openness, and Trust (The Humble Leadership Series) | Authors Edgar Schein and Peter Schein recognize this reality and call for a reimagined form of leadership that coincides with emerging trends of relationship building, complex group work, diverse workforces, and cultures in which everyone feels psychologically safe. Humble Leadership calls for “here and now” humility based on a deeper understanding of the constantly evolving complexities of interpersonal, group and intergroup relationships that require shifting our focus towards the process of group dynamics and collaboration. Click to view on Amazon | |
| The Culture Solution: A Practical Guide to Building a Dynamic Culture so People Love Coming to Work and Accomplishing Great Things Together | The six foundational principles of a Dynamic Culture are universal and unchanging. In The Culture Solution, business consultant and New York Times bestselling author of The Dream Manager and Off Balance presents the six enduring principles of a Dynamic Culture in a way that is both intensely practical and inspiring. If you want to . . . grow your business; attract, grow, and retain top talent; learn the key to hiring in the 21st century; teach every person in your organization that they have a role to play in making the culture better today than it was yesterday . . . this book is for you and every person on your team. Click to view on Amazon | |
| The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The story of modern medicine and bioethics—and, indeed, race relations—is refracted beautifully, and movingly.”—Entertainment Weekly. Intimate in feeling, astonishing in scope, and impossible to put down, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks captures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, as well as its human consequences. Click to view on Amazon | |
| The Elevated Leader: Level Up Your Leadership Through Vertical Development | In The Elevated Leader, readers will…
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| The Martian | #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Brilliant . . . a celebration of human ingenuity [and] the purest example of real-science sci-fi for many years . . . utterly compelling.”—The Wall Street Journal. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive—and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Click to view on Amazon | |
| The Greatest Salesman in the World | The runaway bestseller with more than four million copies in print! You too can change your life with the priceless wisdom of ten ancient scrolls handed down for thousands of years. Click to view on Amazon | |
| Why It Matters: Reflections on Practical Leadership | In Why It Matters, John A. White draws on a wealth of expertise acquired across his six-decade career as a corporate leader, chancellor, dean, educator, engineer, and consultant to create a thorough and thought-provoking treatise on leadership philosophy. Based in part on Leadership Practices and Principles, the award-winning course he designed and taught at the University of Arkansas, Why It Matters brilliantly weaves Dr. White’s inspiring personal story and observations on leadership with a treasure trove of leadership philosophy from some of the nation’s most respected corporate, military, and political leaders. Click to view on Amazon | |
| The YOU Project: Your Personal Guide to Self-Mastery at Work | As the ideal self-help book for working professionals, The YOU Project is a personal guidebook that equips you with the knowledge you need to navigate your unique challenges at work. Learn to embrace your individuality, discover practical ways to survive the difficult seasons of work, find the gift in your struggles, and emerge as a more masterful version of yourself. With this five-part book, you’ll overcome both personal and professional challenges.Click to view on Amazon | |
| Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter | A thought-provoking, accessible, and essential exploration of why some leaders (“Diminishers”) drain capability and intelligence from their teams, while others (“Multipliers”) amplify it to produce better results. Including a foreword by Stephen R. Covey, as well the five key disciplines that turn smart leaders into genius makers, Multipliers is a must-read for everyone from first-time managers to world leaders. Click to view on Amazon | |
| Post-Tensioned Concrete: Principles and Practice | The book is a combination of history, academic notes intended for use at the university level, design examples straight from actual jobs that we have designed and practical applications and detailing intended for the practicing engineer. Chapter 1 describes the history of post-tensioned concrete in the United States as only Ken Bondy can tell it. Click to view on Amazon | |
 | The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership | Bill Walsh is a towering figure in the history of the NFL. His advanced leadership transformed the San Francisco 49ers from the worst franchise in sports to a legendary dynasty. In the process, he changed the way football is played. Prior to his death, Walsh granted a series of exclusive interviews to bestselling author Steve Jamison. These became his ultimate lecture on leadership. Click to view on Amazon |
 | CLT Handbook: Cross-Laminated Timber | The CLT Handbook is the result of a collaboration between Swedish suppliers of cross laminated timber, CLT, and the industry body Swedish Wood. The CLT Handbook is part of Swedish Wood’s investment in handbooks for building in wood. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Hacked the Rich | Cyber criminals come in all shapes and sizes. They may even already be in your network. Hacking is the type of event that happens every minute of every hour of every day and has the potential to destroy reputations, fortunes, families, and just about everything else that matters to you. It can destroy all the hard work of a lifetime with the click of a button. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Three Cups of Tea | The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban’s backyard. Anyone who despairs of the individual’s power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistan’s treacherous K2, was inspired by a chance encounter with impoverished mountain villagers and promised to build them a school. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Beyond Failure | “Beyond Failure” presents the circumstances of important failures that have had wide-reaching impacts on civil engineering practice. Each case study narrates the known facts of the situation: design and construction, the failure, subsequent investigation or analysis, and, where appropriate, additional issues such as technical concerns, ethical considerations, professional practice issues, and long-term effects. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Winning on Purpose | Few management ideas have spread so far and wide as the Net Promoter System (NPS). Since its conception almost two decades ago by customer loyalty guru Fred Reichheld, thousands of companies around the world have adopted it—from industrial titans such as Mercedes-Benz and Cummins to tech giants like Apple and Amazon to digital innovators such as Warby Parker and Peloton. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Coaching & Mentoring For Dummies | Coaching & Mentoring For Dummies is the playbook to help supervisors change their role from doer/manager to coach/mentor. Leadership and coaching expert Leo MacLeod, shares the secrets of motivating employees to find purpose in their work and grow as independent problem solvers―without micromanaging them. Click to view on Amazon |
 | From the Ground Up | Whether you have three years or thirty years of experience, From the Ground Up provides the tools, strategies, and mindset to help you transition from doer to leader and bring you more aligned with what’s important to you. Click to view on Amazon |
 | RAISE Your Value | RAISE Your Value is the ultimate guide to elevating Architecture and Engineering firms out of the trap of commoditization. Learn how to Uncover Hidden Value, Design a Winning Advantage, and Charge More… As your firm pursues business, your staff must navigate difficult conversations around fees and pricing every day. Pressures from existing and potential new clients to lower fees often force your team to give away profits and avoid asking for change orders to get the work and “be competitive.” Click to view on Amazon |
 | SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering | Revised and significantly expanded, the fifth edition of this classic work offers both new and substantially updated information. As the definitive reference on fire protection engineering, this book provides thorough treatment of the current best practices in fire protection engineering and performance-based fire safety. Over 130 eminent fire engineers and researchers contributed chapters to the book, representing universities and professional organizations around the world. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Force Multiplier | Leadership is all about leading people. if you can’t effectively lead people, you can’t be considered an effective leader. The Force Multiplier is the leadership book for everyone who wants to maximize their ability to lead people. From the opening chapter, Tony Chatman provides a fresh approach to the familiar, real world problems facing leaders. This book provides a practical roadmap to prepare you for the diverse challenges of leading people. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Miracle of St. Anthony | In a city mired in endless decay, where the youth suffer through all the horrors of urban blight, hope comes in a most unassuming form: a tiny brick schoolhouse run by two Felician nuns where a singular basketball genius takes teenagers from the mean streets of Jersey City and turns them into champions on the hardcourt. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning | Corporate learning and development programs play an undeniable role in successful business endeavors, but only when they’re done right. The significant revisions in the third edition of The Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning add fresh, timely elements to a resource that has become known globally as a trusted guide for professionals determined to get the most of their companies’ training and development programs. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication | John C. Maxwell has been a public speaker and motivational teacher for more than fifty years. He is one of only eight people on the planet who have been awarded Toastmaster’s Golden Gavel and been inducted into the National Speakers’ Association Hall of Fame. In The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication: Apply Them and Make the Most of Your Message, he shares everything he’s learned from a lifetime of communication. Click to view on Amazon |
 | A New Mindskin | From the dawn of the universe to the advent of the metaverse, significant events have resulted in cosmic shifts that have permanently reshaped life as we know it. Like the year 0 that separated BC from AD, 2020 was a dividing line in time. It marked the end of one significant era of human existence and the beginning of another. What happened before 2020 would be distinct from what happened after. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Atomic Habits | James Clear is a writer and speaker focused on habits, decision making, and continuous improvement. He is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, Atomic Habits. The book has sold over 5 million copies worldwide and has been translated into more than 50 languages. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The 4-Hour Workweek | How to reconstruct your life? Whether your dream is experiencing high-end world travel, earning a monthly five-figure income with zero management, or just living more and working less, this book teaches you how to double your income, and how to outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for $5 per hour and do whatever you want. A new, updated and expanded edition of this New York Times bestseller on how to reconstruct your life so it’s not all about work. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Designing with Geosynthetics | This latest edition differs from previous ones in that sustainability is addressed throughout, new material variations are presented, new applications are included and references are updated accordingly. Each chapter includes problems for which a solutions manual is available. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Edmund Morris’s Theodore Roosevelt Trilogy Bundle | he definitive trilogy of biographies chronicling the storied life of the United States’ youngest President, Theodore Roosevelt—a consummate writer, soldier, naturalist, and politician—and his two world-changing terms in office. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Navigating the Engineering Organization: A New Engineer’s Guide | Transitioning new engineers into professionals who can blend in and contribute to the technical organization is, at best, doubtful. Trained in the “nuts and bolts” of a technical subject, new engineers have little to no training on the “soft” skills of how to work within an organization. This robust guide shows new engineers how to quickly operate and succeed within their new engineering organization. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Inside Out Empathy | It’s time for a new vision of leadership, one with more heart, more connection, more honesty, and deeper vulnerability. Whether you have been newly promoted to a leadership position or have been in the seat for many years, there is something for everyone in this book. You may have noticed that employing the same skills and tactics you used in your role as a team member now that you’re a leader has left you with some major bumps and bruises. You may even fail at leadership. But this book is here to help you succeed as a leader. It will challenge you to learn new skills, dare you to try new approaches, and demand that you open up to vulnerability like you’ve probably never done. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The 5AM Club | Legendary leadership and elite performance expert Robin Sharma introduced The 5am Club concept over twenty years ago, based on a revolutionary morning routine that has helped his clients maximize their productivity, activate their best health and bulletproof their serenity in this age of overwhelming complexity. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Getting to Yes | Since its original publication nearly thirty years ago, Getting to Yes has helped millions of people learn a better way to negotiate. One of the primary business texts of the modern era, it is based on the work of the Harvard Negotiation Project, a group that deals with all levels of negotiation and conflict resolution. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Leadership on the Line | To lead is to live dangerously. It’s romantic and exciting to think of leadership as all inspiration, decisive action, and rich rewards, but leading requires taking risks that can jeopardize your career and your personal life. It requires putting yourself on the line, disrupting the status quo, and surfacing hidden conflict. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude | Your mind has a secret invisible talisman. On one side is emblazoned the letters PMA (positive mental attitude) and on the other the letters NMA (negative mental attitude). A positive attitude will naturally attract the good and the beautiful. The negative attitude will rob you of all that makes life worth living. Your success, health, happiness, and wealth depend on how you make up your mind! Click to view on Amazon |
 | Adrift: America in 100 Charts | In Adrift, Galloway looks to the past – from 1945 to present day – to explain just how America arrived at this precipice. Telling the story of our nation through 100 charts, Galloway demonstrates how crises such as Jim Crow, World War II, and the Stock Market Crash of 2008, as well as the escalating power of technology, an entrenched white patriarchy, and the socio-economic effects of the pandemic, created today’s perfect storm. Adrift attempts to make sense of it all, and offers Galloway’s unique take on where we’re headed and who we’ll become, touching on topics as wide-ranging as online dating to minimum wage to the American dream. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Negotiation Mythbusters | Negotiation is a complex human activity. It is so complex that many attempts to simplify negotiation result in the creation of a myth. The tricky part about myth is the small kernel of truth. The dangerous part of the myth is the fantastic narrative that hides the truth from us. Negotiation myths undermine our ability to build the right principles, habits, and culture for strong agreements that do not fall apart easily. This book explores 30 common negotiation myths. No sacred cow is left untouched! The mission of the Mythbuster is to gain clarity by unlocking the truth from the myth! Click to view on Amazon |
 | Wood-Framed Shear Wall Construction | Wood-framed shear walls are a crucial part of modern residential and small commercial buildings. Shear walls resist wind and earthquake forces to protect buildings from collapse. This book explains the engineering principles involved with shear wall design and proper construction. It is written in non-technical language intended for carpenters and builders. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Earthquake Strengthening for Vulnerable Homes | Explains how earthquakes damage wood-framed buildings of various ages and styles. Shows detailed methods to strengthen various weaknesses. Methods are based on author’s experience investigating hundreds of existing wood-framed houses and small apartment buildings and designing retrofit systems that work in the real world. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The STEM Crew Kids Adventures Series | “The STEM Crew Kids Adventures: Building a Balloon-Powered Car” is part of a series of children picture books that include four STEM Crew Kids who are given an engineering project by their science teacher. The book follows the group as they work together to build a balloon-powered car and emphasizes the importance of teamwork, creativity, and problem-solving skills. Click to view on Amazon |
 | What Can I Be? STEM Careers from A-Z | What Can I Be? STEM Careers from A to Z is an inspiring and easy-to-read alphabet picture book that teaches our next generation about Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) careers. This book provides colorful illustrations of six diverse children representing various STEM careers (i.e. astronauts, doctors, scientists, and engineers, etc), helping children (5 to 8 years old) see themselves in one of the STEM careers, and motivates them to shape their future through STEM! Click to view on Amazon |
 | Augment It | In the past, technology has helped AEC companies to gain efficiency and become more productive. Artificial intelligence is one of the most under-utilized emerging technologies in the AEC industry, but when understood and used correctly, it improves efficiency, empowers creativity, and improves bottom-line results. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Freakonomics | Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? Which should be feared more: snakes or french fries? Why do sumo wrestlers cheat? In this groundbreaking book, leading economist Steven Levitt—Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and winner of the American Economic Association’s John Bates Clark medal for the economist under 40 who has made the greatest contribution to the discipline—reveals the answers. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Building a Second Brain | Discover the full potential of your ideas and make powerful, meaningful improvements in your work and life by Building a Second Brain.For the first time in history, we have instantaneous access to the world’s knowledge. There has never been a better time to learn, to create and to improve ourselves. Yet, rather than being empowered by this information, we’re often overwhelmed, paralysed by believing we’ll never know or remember enough.This eye-opening and accessible guide shows how you can easily create your own personal system for knowledge management, otherwise known as a Second Brain. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Leadership and the One Minute Manager | In Leadership and the One Minute Manager you’ll learn why tailoring management styles to individual employees is so important; why knowing when to delegate, support, or direct is critical; and how to identify the leadership style suited to a particular person. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Small Is Beautiful | Small Is Beautiful is Oxford-trained economist E. F. Schumacher’s classic call for the end of excessive consumption. Schumacher inspired such movements as “Buy Locally” and “Fair Trade,” while voicing strong opposition to “casino capitalism” and wasteful corporate behemoths. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Unsettled | When it comes to climate change, the media, politicians, and other prominent voices have declared that “the science is settled.” In reality, the long game of telephone from research to reports to the popular media is corrupted by misunderstanding and misinformation. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Undaunted Courage | From the New York Times bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the definitive book on Lewis and Clark’s exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, the most momentous expedition in American history and one of the great adventure stories of all time. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Ways We Choose, Lessons for Life From a POW’s Experience | Dave Carey is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy. During the Vietnam War, after his plane was shot down, he was interred as a POW in Hanoi for five and a half years. His military honors include the Legion of Merit, five Bronze Stars, two Meritorious Service Medals, the Purple Heart, eight Air Medals, and the Navy Commendation Medal. He resumed his career as a Naval officer after returning from Vietnam. During that time he held three positions as commanding officer, including service as Director of the Navy’s Leadership and Management program. He retired with the rank of Captain. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Intentional Engineer | The Intentional Engineer shares Jeff Perry’s vast experience coaching and training engineers and technical professionals on leadership, career development, and intentional living. In this book, you’ll learn how to take charge of your life and career rather than just letting life happen to you. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Big Leap | With over 100,000 copies sold, New York Times bestselling author Gay Hendricks demonstrates how to go beyond your internal limits, release outdated fears and learn a whole new set of powerful skills and habits to liberate your authentic greatness. Fans of Wayne Dyer, Eckhart Tolle, Marianne Williamson, and Gabrielle Bernstein will discover the way to break down the walls to a better life. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The War of Art | A succinct, engaging, and practical guide forsucceeding in any creative sphere, The War ofArt is nothing less than Sun-Tzu for the soul. What keeps so many of us from doing what we long to do? Why is there a naysayer within? How can we avoid theroadblocks of any creative endeavor—be it starting up a dreambusiness venture, writing a novel, or painting a masterpiece? Bestselling novelist Steven Pressfield identifies the enemy thatevery one of us must face, outlines a battle plan to conquer thisinternal foe, then pinpoints just how to achieve the greatest success. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Balanced Business | The Balanced Business is the follow-up to Dr. Temte’s first book, Balancing Act: Teach, Coach, Mentor, Inspire. While Balancing Act explored the “what” and “why” of myriad balancing acts that leaders play, The Balanced Business brings those principles to life with a concrete focus on the “how” of the all-important balancing act organizations must strike between trust and accountability. Click to view on Amazon |
 | What Got You Here Won’t Get You There | This book addresses the fundamental problems that often come with success–and offers ways to attack these problems. Goldsmith outlines twenty habits commonly found in the corporate environment and provides a systematic approach to helping you achieve a positive change in behavior. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Soil to Foil tells the extraordinary story of aluminum. Saleem H. Ali reveals its pivotal role in the histories of scientific inquiry and technological innovation as well as its importance to sustainability. He offers compelling portraits of the scientists and innovators who discovered new uses for this remarkable element, ranging from chemistry and geoscience to engineering and industrial design. Ali argues that aluminum exemplifies broader lessons about stewardship of nonrenewable resources: its seeming abundance has given rise to wasteful and destructive practices. Click to view on Amazon | |
 | The Covid-19 Pandemic has brought forth global anxiety about linkages between the environment and society at a fundamental structural level. Earthly Order: How Natural Laws Define Human Life provides an accessible exposition of the latest foundational knowledge on how natural and social systems science can inform planetary crises. Humanity has either tried to conquer or capitulate to natural order, whereas we should be seeking to understand latent structures and patterns that permeate all systems and develop an “earthly order,” that is socially functional and sustainable. Click to view on Amazon | |
 | What if you could stop selling altogether and grow your profits? With The Serving Mindset, you’ll learn how to serve, elevate your business success, and feel great about it! Targeted to business owners and entrepreneurs who are very good at what they do but feel guilt and shame around selling and sales and therefore limit their own success and overall possibilities, The Serving Mindset: Stop Selling and Grow Your Business positions selling as serving and takes readers through the process of why and how to acquire this “serving mindset” and put it into practice. Click to view on Amazon | |
 | Raise Your Game | High achievers are at the top of their game because of the discipline they have during the unseen hours. They have made a commitment to establish, tweak, and repeat positive habits in everything they do. Raise Your Game examines the top leaders in sports and business and proves that success is a result of the little things we do all the time. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Sustain Your Game | Sustain Your Game is built upon a simple premise: each of us will always be under construction, a work in progress, and constantly evolving. The goal is to be moving toward our highest potential, toward making a meaningful contribution, and toward becoming the best version of ourselves. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Intern Management | Are you interested in taking your internship program to a new level? If so, this book is for you. Intern Management shares a set of guiding principles that ensure you host an exceptional internship – every time. Click to view on Amazon |
 | How to Intern Successfully | These days if you’re interested in a corporate career, interning is probably how you’re expected to spend your college or grad school summers. But – Is interning actually for you? And if so, how can you optimize the experience? How To Intern Successfully aims to help you be informed and confident as you explore and then successfully complete your internship. Click to view on Amazon |
 | How the Mighty Fall | How the Mighty Fall presents the well-founded hope that leaders can learn how to stave off decline and, if they find themselves falling, reverse their course—in part by understanding the five step-wise stages of decline uncovered in the four-year research project behind this book. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Please Understand Me | Keirsey’s original sorting of the sixteen “types” into Ernst Kretschmer’s four “temperaments,” the latter harking back over 2000 years to the temperament theory of Hippocrates. A 25 year clinical study of differences in temperament in mating, parenting, and leading. Contains Keirsey’s personality descriptions of the four temperaments and sixteen types that have been copied and imitated by other authors for over forty years. Includes the original Keirsey Temperament Sorter. Click to view on Amazon |
 | For Love of Money | Have you longed to contribute to household income with your own small business – then wondered how you could do it and keep your family thriving, as well? This book will show you how Bellandra Foster kept God first, her marriage and children foremost – and became the successful entrepreneur she’d always dreamed of being! Her seven “no-nonsense” guidelines will show you how. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Lean In | In Lean In, Sheyl shares her personal stories, uses research to shine a light on gender differences, and offers practical advice to help women achieve their goals. The book challenges us to change the conversation from what women can’t do to what we can do, and serves as a rallying cry for us to work together to create a more equal world. Click to view on Amazon |
 | A Whole New Engineer | A Revolution Is Coming. It Isn’t What You Think.This book tells the improbable stories of Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, a small startup in Needham, Massachusetts, with aspirations to be a beacon to engineering education everywhere, and the iFoundry incubator at the University of Illinois, an unfunded pilot program with aspirations to change engineering at a large public university that wasn’t particularly interested in changing. That either one survived is story enough, but what they found out together changes the course of education transformation forever. Click to view on Amazon |
 | OSHA 1926 Construction Standards | Make compliance with dense government safety regulations simple with MANCOMM’s 29 CFR 1926 OSHA Construction Industry Regulations. Updated through January 2024, the book provides a comprehensive set of the most up-to-date Construction regulations. Utilizing MANCOMM’s signature formatting approach – RegLogic CFR – this edition includes notations for changes within the past year and letters of reference. Click to view on Amazon |
 | OSHA 1910 General Industry Standards | Make compliance with dense government safety regulations simple with MANCOMM’s 29 CFR 1910 OSHA General Industry Standards and Regulations. Updated through January 2024, the book provides a comprehensive set of the most up-to-date General Industry regulations. Click to view on Amazon |
 | AEC Marketer’s Guide to the Artificial Intelligence | In the dynamic world of AEC (Architecture, Engineering, and Construction), the role of artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly evolving. Dive into this insightful guide crafted especially for professionals in the AEC domain. Learn how to harness the power of generative AI to elevate your marketing strategies, craft compelling proposals, and boost sales efforts. This book is a beacon for those looking to navigate the fusion of industry-specific challenges with the latest AI tools and techniques. Discover how AI can transform traditional practices and offer a competitive edge in today’s digital age. Click to view on Amazon |
 | How to Be Human in a Technical World | How to Be Human in a Technical World is a powerful account for the technically minded who want to change their behavior and their lives, but don’t know where to start. The first step, asserts author Karine Leblanc, is to increase their emotional intelligence and learn her recipe for success with the Six Magic Skills. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Four Disciplines of Execution | For fans of Good to Great and The First 90 Days, The Four Disciplines of Execution is the book “every leader should read” (Clayton Christensen, Professor, Harvard Business School, and author of The Innovator’s Dilemma) for creating lasting organizational change. A #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller with more than 500,000 copies sold, The Four Disciplines of Execution will radically change your business. Click to view on Amazon |
