Integral Bibliography and the Ten Best non-fiction Books I've Read
You may or may not be familiar with the notion of integral politics. According to the Integration Website, Integral Politics is an approach to Politics and related Social Phenomena from a post-modern viewpoint as advocated by thinkers including Clare Graves, Don Beck, Chris Cowan, Ken Wilber, and others whose work can be found at the same website. My favourite one is a piece on the implications presented by P2P for the organisation of society, business and in general our lives written by Michel Bauwns [you can find the permanent link at frame at the right of this page - Click on P2P The Basis for a New Civilisation]. Michel Bauwens who's leading the integral bibliography project and is a good and dear friend of mine [Merry Christmas Michel:-)], has asked me to send a list of the ten most interesting and important non-fiction books I've read to this very day. BTW, I will also contribute two lists: one about the best books on organisations, business and management (that I've read and they're not so many) along with a clear outline of the ideas presented in them and why I found them to be worthwhile and similarly, one about Greek works.
So, let's start putting this list together:
Ten best non-fiction books I've Read:
[1] C. Handy, 1994. The Empty Raincoat
[2] C. Leadbeater, 2000. Living on Thin Air: The New Economy
[3] C. Leadbeater, 2002. Up the Down Escalator: why the global pessimists are wrong
[4] T. Homer-Dixon, 2000. The Ingenuity Gap
[5] L. Lessig, 1999. Code
[6] H. Marks, 1996. Mr. Nice (Autobiography)
[7] D. Streatfeild, 2001. Cocaine
[8] The Audit of War
[9] D. Rushkoff, Cyberia: Life in the trenches of cyberspace
[10] G. Moody, 2001. Rebel Code: the Inside Story of Linux and the Open Source Revolution
The Ten Best Business-related Books I've Read:
[1] C. Handy, 1994. The Empty Raincoat
[2] J.K. Gailbraith, The Affluent Society
[3] T. Peters Liberation Management
[4] J.G. March and H.A. Simon, 1958. Organizations.
[5] A.M. Brandenburger and B.J. Nalebuff, 1996. Co-opetition.
[6]Nordström and Ridderstråle, 2000. Funky Business: Talent makes capital dance
[7] R. Levine, D. Searls, D. Weinberger and C. Locke, 1999. The Cluetrain Manifesto: the end of business as usual
[8] T. Burns and G.M. Stalker, 1961. The Management of Innovation.
[9] T. Clarke and S. Clegg, 1998. Changing Paradigms: The Transformation of Management Knowledge for the 21st Century
[10] J.B. Arthur
[11] R.M. Axelrod and M.D. Cohen, 1999. Harnessing Complexity: Organizational Implications of a Scientific Frontier
[12] Open Boundaries
[13] M.A. Cusumano, 1985. The Japanese Automobile Industry: Technology and Management at Nissan and Toyota.
[14] C.B. Handy, 1989. The Age of Unreason.
[15] G. Morgan, 1993. Imaginization: The Art of Creative Management.
The Best Books on Greece:
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