The following books are largely responsible for what I think. I highly recommend them.
| Title |
Author |
| Presentation of Self in Everyday Life |
Erving Goffman |
| Wisdom of my father |
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| 10 Minute Guide to Motivating People |
Marshall J. Cook |
| 101 Ways To Promote Yourself |
Raleigh Pinskey |
| 21st Century Discipline Teaching Students Responsibility and Self-esteem |
Jane Bluestein, Ph.D. |
| A Letter To Teachers |
Vito Perrone |
| A place To Stand (While Putting Yourself Together) |
Dr. Earl Reum |
| A Short Book On The Subject Of Speaking |
John Quick |
| A whole new Mind |
Daniel Pink |
| ABC's of Life |
Byron Garrett |
| Action Strategies for personal Achievement (10) (audio) |
Brian Tracy |
| Action Strategies for personal Achievement (6) (audio) |
Brian Tracy |
| Adolescent Stress |
Jan D'Onofrio & Ed Klesse |
| All I Need to Know I Learned In Kindergarten |
Robert Fulghum |
| America 2000 An Education Strategy "… making this land all that it should be." |
George Bush |
| Anatomy of Buzz |
Rosen |
| As a Man Thinketh |
James Allen |
| Assertive Discipline |
Dr. Glenn and Nelsen |
| Assertive Discipline For Parents |
Lee Canter |
| Become the Best you can Become (audio) |
Stan Billue |
| Being Digital |
Nicholas Negroponte |
| Beyond the Classroom |
Leon Stineberger |
| Blink |
Malcolm Gladwell |
| Book of Questions |
Gregory Stock, PH.D |
| Boundary Breakers |
John Schrader |
| Breaking Ranks II |
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| Brian Tracy's Action Guide for Personal Achievement (audio) |
Nightingale/Conant |
| Buddha |
Deepak Chopra |
| Built to Last |
Collin s and Porras |
| Bury Me with Balloons |
Pat Postlewaite |
| Charging the Human Battery |
Mac Anderson |
| Choosing Your Own Greatness (audio) |
Dr. Wayne Dyer |
| Cleopatra's Nose |
Daniel Boorstine |
| Decartes Error |
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| Delegate: The Key to Successful Management Second Printing |
Harold L. Taylor |
| Democracy in America |
Alexis de Tocqueville |
| Don't Sweat the Small Stuff… And it's all Small Stuff |
Richard Carlson, Ph.D. |
| Educational Ideals in American Society |
Robert E. Mason |
| Elephants Don't Bite It's the little things that get you |
Joel Weldon |
| Emotional Intelligences |
Goldman |
| Enthusiasm Makes The Difference |
Norman Vincent Peale |
| Every Monday Matters |
Matthew Emerzian, Kelly Bozza |
| Feeling Good |
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| Fifth Discipline The art & practice of the learning organization (audio) |
Peter M. Senge |
| From the Soul |
Pat Postlewaite |
| Getting Things Done |
David Allen |
| Gifts I'd like to give to you |
Douglas Pagels |
| Guns, Germs, and Steel |
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| How To Make Meetings Work |
Michael Doyle/David Straus |
| How To Organize Meetings- Third Printing |
Martin Jones |
| How to Sell anything to anyone |
Joe Girard |
| How To Start A Leadership Class |
Linda Teague Rogers |
| How to Win Friends and Infulence People |
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| Hung by the Tongue |
Francis P. Martin |
| It’s all in your Head |
Marilyn Grey and Betty Bender |
| Keeping life Simple |
Karen Levine |
| Kids' Book of Questions |
Gregory Stock, PH.D |
| Kitchen Table Wisdom |
Remen |
| Leadership Retreats For Middle Level and Senior High School Students |
Kelly Stevens |
| Life on a Sort Fuse |
Jack Drain |
| Lifetime Speaker's Encyclopedia Volumes I-II |
Jacob M. Braude |
| Lincoln on Leadership |
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| Little Words of Wisdom |
Dalai Lama |
| Look Before You Leap! |
Norman Hull |
| Love Me When I'm Most Unlovable Book Two: The Kids' view |
NASSP Robert Ricken |
| Love Me When I'm Most Unlovable The Middle School Years |
NASSP Robert Ricken |
| Magic of Encouragement Nurturing your Child's Self-esteem |
Stephanie Marston |
| Making A Difference College Guide |
Miriam Weinstein |
| Making College Count |
Patrick S. O'Brien |
| Making Time Work For You Fifth Printing |
Harold L. Taylor |
| Man’s Search for Meaning |
Dr. Frankel |
| Maxwell Attitude 101 |
John Maxwell |
| Maxwell Ethics 101 |
John Maxwell |
| Megatrends (audio) |
John Naisbitt |
| Mind Mapping |
Tony Buzan |
| Miniversity Ideas for Student Activities and Projects |
NASSP |
| Miniversity II Ideas for Student Activities and Projects |
NASAA |
| Motivation and Emotion |
Edward J. Murray |
| Motivation Theory for Teachers |
Madeline Hunter |
| Mutual Aid |
Kropkin |
| Naked Economics |
Charles Wheelan |
| Native Wisdom for White Minds |
Ann Schaef |
| No Contest - The Case Against Competition |
Alfie Kohn |
| Paideia Proposal An Educational Manifesto |
Mortimer J. Adler |
| Parents in a Pressure Cooker |
Jane Bluestein, Ph.D. & Lynn Collins, M.A. |
| Peak performances |
–Dr. Charles Garfield |
| Personal Excellence for Key People |
Don M. Essig, Ph.D. |
| Pocket Muse |
Monica Wood |
| Positive Discipline |
Jane Nelsen, Ed.D. |
| Pro Evo |
Asama |
| Process of Education |
Jerome S. Bruner |
| Psycho-Cybernetics |
Maxwell Maltz |
| Psychology of High Self-esteem (audio) |
Nathaniel Branden, Ph.D. |
| Psychology of Selling (audio) |
Brian Tracy |
| Psychology of Winning |
Dr. Dennis Waitley |
| Psychology of Winning (audio) |
Denis E. Waitley, Ph.D. |
| Rainbows of Leadership |
Dr. Earl Reum |
| Raising Self-Reliant Children in a Self-indulgent world |
Stephen Glenn |
| Retention Theory for Teachers |
Madeline Hunter |
| Return to Love |
Marianne Williamson |
| Science of Self-Discipline |
Kerry L. Johnson |
| Secrets of Fundraising 10 Secrets to Success |
Phil Boyte |
| Secrets of the Universe |
Dr. Wayne Dyer |
| Secrets of the Universe (audio) |
Dr. Wayne Dyer |
| Self-esteem In The Classroom (audio) |
Jack Canfield |
| Seven Habits of Highly Effective People |
Dr. Steven Covey |
| Sound Mind, Sound Body |
Dr. Depock Chotra |
| Speaker's Desk Book |
Maxwell Droke |
| Speaking of Graduating…. |
Compoled and edited by Alan Ross |
| Spirit Works, Turn it on |
Bob Burton |
| Spirit Works… turn it on! Third edition |
Bob Burton |
| Stop! The Watch. A Book of Everyday, Ordinary, Anybody Olympics |
The editors of Klutz Press |
| Student Activities for Students at Risk |
Edward J. Klesse/Jan A. D'Onofrio |
| Student Activities The Third Curriculum II |
Edward J. Klesse |
| Student Council Projects |
James E. Ferguson |
| Study Skills For Life |
L. Ron Hubbard |
| Stumbling on Happiness |
Daniel Gilbert |
| Subliminal Winner (audio) |
Denis E. Waitley/Thomas Budzynski, Ph.D. |
| Tales That Ignite the Imagination Why Geese Fly Farther Than Eagles |
Bob Stromberg |
| Teach for Transfer |
Madeline Hunter |
| Teacher & Child A Book for Parents and Teachers |
Dr. Haim G. Ginott |
| Teachers At Work |
Susan Moore Johnson |
| Teaching Other People's Children |
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| Teens to the top (audio) |
Mark Rhode w/ Lisa Nock |
| The 8th Habit |
Stephen Covey |
| The Age of Engage |
Denise Shiffman |
| The Anatomy of the Buz |
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| The Art of Happiness |
Dalai Lama |
| The Art of War – |
Lau Tso |
| The Big Book of Business games |
Newstrom and Scannell |
| The Complete Insight Series |
Earl Nightengale |
| The Contract For Life |
Robert Anastas |
| The Creators |
Daniel Boorstine |
| The Discovers |
Daniel Boorstine |
| The E Myth Revised |
Michael Gerber |
| The Eagle Has Landed (audio) |
Dr. Ken McFarland |
| The Invisible Touch |
Harry Beckwith |
| The Leadership Pill |
Ken Blanchard and Marc Muchnick |
| The Little Book of Truths for Student Leaders (And Every Other Person Who Cares) |
Dr. Earl Reum |
| The Naked Ape |
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| The Outliers |
Malcolm Gladwell |
| The Prince |
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| The Richest Man in Babylon |
George Clason |
| The Seekers |
Daniel Boorstine |
| The Strangest Secret Ever Told |
Earl Nightengale |
| The Tau |
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| The Tipping Point |
Malcolm Gladwell |
| The World is Flat |
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| Think like a Winner |
Staples |
| Thoughts are Things |
Ernest Holmes/Willis Kinnear |
| Top 20 Teens |
Paul Bernabei, Tom Cody Mary Cole |
| Tough Times never Last But Tough People Do (audio) |
Robert H. Schuler |
| Tranforming the Mind |
Dalai Lama |
| Transformation: You'll See It When You Believe It (audio) |
Dr. Wayne Dyer |
| Universal Laws of Success and Achievement (audio) |
Brian Tracy |
| Using both sides of your brain . |
Marylin Grey |
| Voices of Experience (audio) |
National Speakers Association |
| What Do You Really Want For Your Children (audio) |
Dr. Wayne Dyer |
| What the Bleep do we really know? |
Movie |
| What the Dog Saw |
Malcolm Gladwell |
| What we believe but can not prove |
John Brockman |
| When Parents Cry |
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| Who Knew |
David Hoffman |
| Winner's Circle |
Charles Paul Conn |
| Wise Words and Quotes |
Vern McLellan |
| Words I wish I wrote |
Robert Fulghum |
| Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda |
Dr. Arthur Freeman/Rose DeWolf |
