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BirthOfChaordicAgeBirth of the Chadic Age
Dee Hock argues that traditional organizational forms can no longer work because organizations have become too complex. Hock advocates a new organizational form that he calls “”chaordic, “” or simultaneously chaotic and orderly. The book shows how these same chaordic concepts are now being put into practice in a broad range of business, social, community, and government organizations.

BuildingSocialBizBuilding Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism that Serves Humanity’s Most Pressing Needs
Muhammad Yunus, the practical visionary who pioneered microcredit and, with his Grameen Bank, won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, has developed a new dimension for capitalism which he calls “social business.” The social business model has been adopted by corporations, entrepreneurs, and social activists across the globe.

CompassionateSamurai

The Compassionate Samurai: Being Extraordinary in an Ordinary World
The Compassionate Samurai by Brian Klemmer will show you the way to produce extraordinary results in a dog-eat-dog world and still maintain the highest levels of ethics. You’ll learn: How to always be satisfied and motivated regardless of your circumstances; Why all people have freedom but very few have liberty…and much more!

ConciousCapitalism

Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business
Whole Foods Market cofounder John Mackey and professor Raj Sisodia argue that both business and capitalism are inherently good, and they use today’s best-known and most successful companies to illustrate their point. From Southwest Airlines, UPS, Google, and Amazon, today’s organizations create value for all stakeholders and the environment.

Conscious Company Media
Conscious Company Media shares inspiring, cutting edge stories about business as a force for good, hosts educational events and workshops, and connects talented individuals with purpose-driven work, all with the higher purpose of elevating consciousness in the business world.

ConciousCreatorThe Conscious Creator: 6 Laws for Manifesting Your Masterpiece Life
You were born for greatness. But life is challenging. So many forces are arrayed against our success: pain, fear, lack of knowledge, social pressure. Success and happiness are the predictable and guaranteed results of living natural laws-specifically, the Six Laws of conscious Creation. These powerful, universal laws are detailed in this book by Kris Krohn and Stephen Palmer, which is written as a parable.

Entrepreneur on Fire – Conversations with Visionary LeadersEntreprenuerOnFire
Have you ever wanted to be privileged to private conversations bout business and success? The book allows you to be a fly on the wall as eleven time author Woody Woodward interviews visionary entrepreneurs from multiple countries to find out what are the best practices for business.

 

FifthDiscipline The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
Peter Senge’s bestselling classic is based on fifteen years of experience. The only sustainable competitive advantage is your organization’s ability to learn faster than the competition. The leadership stories demonstrate the ways that the radical core ideas have become deeply integrated into people’s ways of seeing and their managerial practices.

HotFlatCrowdedHot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How It Can Renew America
In this essential book, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas L. Friedman speaks to America’s urgent need for national renewal and explains how a green revolution can bring about both a sustainable environment and a sustainable America.

 

Human Performance Institute
The Johnson & Johnson Human Performance Institute is a pioneer in proven, sustainable behavior change – we have over 30 years of research and results in the field of high performance and energy management. Their work with professional athletes, military Special Forces and Fortune 500 CEOs proves that when you bring your best energy to work and life, you can accomplish great things.

IfHowTosIf How-To’s Were Enough We Would All be Skinny, Rich and Happy
Brian Klemmer explores what is missing and real reason why most people do not succeed. The secret is found in seven paradigm that will change the course of your life. It has produced dramatic lasting change in a short period of time for tens of thousands of people and can for you, too.

 

Inspired BusinessInspiredBusiness
Filled with remarkable stories of overcoming bleak circumstances, coupled with proven magnetic communication techniques, you’ll gain skills to develop your personal brand, attract clients, and increase sales. Based on the true – yet seemingly impossible story of author Elinor Stutz, this provocative book gives a whole new take on the business world.

LeaderOfTheFutureThe Leader of the Future
This compendium of new thought is about the future quality of our lives, our business, our organizations, our society – and the leadership required to move us into the exciting unknown. Each acclaimed author offers a special perspective on leadership, a unique glimpse into the future, and their thinking forms a treasure trove of insight.

 

LiberatingTheCorporateSoulLiberating the Corporate Soul: Building a Visionary Organization
In turbulent times, strategic success will hinge on whether the organization is a trusted member of the community and a good global citizen. This bestseller by Richard Barrett presents a convincing rationale for making ethical and socially responsible behavior the keystone in providing a high performance, globally successful business.

 

Mystery2012The Mystery of 2012: Predictions, Prophecies, and Possibilities
Long before 2012,  a handful of pioneers dedicated themselves to studying the scientific, spiritual, and prophetic evidence that marks this year as a critical time in our planet’s history. Eight of these thought leaders present reliable research alongside eye-opening revelations to help you prepare for what lies beyond this crossroads.

 

OnBecomingaLeaderOn Becoming A Leader
Deemed “the dean of leadership gurus” by Forbes, Warren Bennis has for years persuasively argued that leaders are not born—they are made. Delving into the qualities that define leadership, the people who exemplify it, and the strategies that anyone can apply to achieve it.

 

TheOneThingThe ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
The ONE Thing has made more than 350 appearances on national bestseller lists, including #1 Wall Street Journal, NewYork Times, and USA Today. It won 12 book awards, translated into 27 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.

TheOrganizedMindThe Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
Daniel Levity confronts an issue that affects everyone in the digital age: organization. It’s the reason that some people are more adept than others at managing today’s hyper flow of data. The Organized Mind explains the science behind their success and shows how all of us can make small but crucial changes to regain mastery over our lives.

PowerOfFullEngagementThe Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal
This groundbreaking bestseller by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz has helped hundreds of thousands of people at work and at home balance stress and sustain high performance despite crushing workloads and demands.

 

PowerofStoryThe Power of Story: Change Your Story, Change Your Destiny in Business and in Life
In his groundbreaking new book, Dr. Jim Loehr examines the way we tell stories about ourselves to ourselves — and, most important, the way we can change those stories to transform our business and personal lives. “Your story is your life”.

 

PursuitAndPracticeThe Pursuit and Practice of Personal Mastery
Personal Mastery by Brian Klemmer offers you the opportunity to explore your unproductive beliefs and discover new viewpoints to situations. These new viewpoints will accelerate success in your life. Mastery is a process of integrity by which you can create superior results with ease.

 

StraightPathThe Straight Path to Real Estate Wealth
Kris Krohn demonstrates why other strategies and systems fail and reveals how to escape their pitfalls. He exposes the flaws of Americas traditional retirement advice and products and offers a refreshing alternative. His advice will empower you to move beyond education to actual implementation.

 

SoulIntheComputerThe Soul in the Computer: The Story of a Corporate Revolutionary
When Barbara Waugh joined the Hewlett-Packard Corporation in the mid-80’s, this 60’s radical encountered a company with a benign but topdown leadership. As she progressed from recruiting manager to world change manager, she used a set of radical tools to transform its corporate culture and to help realize the true potential of The HP Way.

ThoughtsOnSuccessThoughts on Success: Thoughts and Reflections From History’s Great Thinkers
Each month, millions of business leaders look to Forbes magazine for insight into the world of business – and into the business of life. The books in this series reflect the magazine”s philosophy on life and leadership.

 

TradeUpTrade-Up!: 5 Steps for Redesigning Your Leadership and Life from the Inside Out
Silicon Valley wunderkind Rayona Sharpnack has been a schoolteacher, tennis champion, manager and player for a women’s professional softball team, and a celebrity who coaches some of the most successful leaders in business.  She reveals how leaders limit themselves by holding on to ideas or assumptions about ourselves.

WhenCompaniesDoBadThingsWhen Good Companies Do Bad Things: Responsibility and Risk in an Age of Globalization
Peter Schwartz and Blair Gibb recount well-known cases of companies that found themselves facing accusations of hazardous environmental practices, racism, and human rights violations. They present new approaches to avoid the pitfalls of bad corporate assumptions and enable companies to make good on translating social value into business value.

WikinomicsWikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
Translated into more than twenty languages, Wikinomics by Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams, has become essential reading for business people. It explains how mass collaboration happens not just at Web sites like Wikipedia and YouTube, but at traditional companies who embrace technology to breathe new life into their enterprises.

 

WomenomicsWomenomics: Write Your Own Rules for Success
Womenomics, the New York Times bestseller by Claire Shipman and Katty Kay, is an invaluable guide for professional women and provides knowledgeable advice on how to “Work Less, Achieve More, Live Better.” It covers new trends that offer today’s overworked working women more professional and personal choices than ever before.

 

YouAlreadyKnowYou Already Know How to be Great: A Simple Way to Remove Interference and Unlock Your Greatest Potential
Alan Fine, an accomplished tennis, golf, and executive coach and a renowned authority on peak performance, believes that this “outside-in” method is precisely what’s holding you back from doing your best work. He’s found the biggest obstacle to improved performance isn’t not knowing what to do; it’s not doing what you already know.

Education

betterPerfectBetter than Perfect: 7 Strategies to Crush Your Inner Critic and Create a Life You Love
Timely and transformative, Better than Perfect by Dr. Elizabeth Lombardo offers step-by-step instructions for perfectionists to find balance and freedom. The book defines perfectionism in easy-to-understand terms, offers simple assessment tools, and shares case studies.

 

CompassionateSamurai

The Compassionate Samurai: Being Extraordinary in an Ordinary World
The Compassionate Samurai by Brian Klemmer will show you the way to produce extraordinary results in a dog-eat-dog world and still maintain the highest levels of ethics. You’ll learn: How to always be satisfied and motivated regardless of your circumstances; Why all people have freedom but very few have liberty…and much more!

drawingSolutionsDrawing Solutions: Visual Goal Setting Will Change Your Life
Filled with stories of personal and client experiences, this book by Patti Dobrowolski will convince you that you don’t have to be an artist or know how to draw to use these tools. You just have to be willing to honestly explore where you are, dream where you want to be and choose the three bold steps you will take to make it happen. Using the latest neuroscience findings, test out how to trick your brain into helping you get what you want.

Dear Someone by Nancy Margulies

Edutopia
A comprehensive website and online community that increases knowledge, sharing, and adoption of what works in K-12 education. We emphasize core strategies: project-based learning, comprehensive assessment, integrated studies, social and emotional learning, educational leadership and teacher development, and technology integration.

HabitsofMindActivatingHabits of Mind: Activating & Engaging
This second book in the Habits of Mind series translates that approach into action with practical, classroom-tested advice. To show the relationship between content and the habits of mind, Costa and Kallick sought contributions from practitioners in literature, math, music, etc.

 

HabitsofMindAssessingHabits of Mind: Accessing & Reporting on
This is the third book in the Habits of Mind series and considers how to assess and report student progress in using the habits of mind. What should teachers report and how? Many practical, classroom-tested assessment tools and approaches address these questions.

 

HabitsDiscoveringHabits of Mind: Discovering & Exploring
In this book, noted educators Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick define and describe 16 types of intelligent behavior that they call “habits of mind.” These habits can aid both students and adults in school and in everyday life as they encounter problems, dilemmas, and enigmas.

 

HabitsofMindIntegratingHabits of Mind: Integrating & Sustaining
Integrating and Sustaining Habits of Mind is the fourth volume in a series describing 16 types of intelligent behavior called “habits of mind.” These behaviors can aid both students and adults in school and everyday life as they encounter life’s challenges. The habits also encourage thinking skills essential to lifelong learning.

 

ImpactTriangleThe Impact Triangle: The 3 Essentials to Accelerate Your NonProfit Enterprise
The Impact Triangle by Cindi Phallen offers solutions to common challenges – Planning, Building strong boards, Fundraising, and Staff management. The strategies presented address three cornerstones: 1. Choose the right mindset 2. Focus on strategic relationships 3. Utilize winning practices and tools.

 

lateralThinkingLateral Thinking
Edward DeBono’s practical explanation of how creativity works, this results-oriented bestseller trains listeners to move beyond a “vertical” mode of thought to tap the potential of lateral thinking. It shows how the habit of lateral thinking can be encouraged and new ideas generated.

 

MappingInnerSpaceMapping Inner Space: Learning and Teaching Visual Mapping
This award winning guide to learning mind mapping provides detailed applications for personal and classroom use. Fully illustrated with a mind map for every page of text, this book by Nancy Margulies is an excellent guide for anyone who wants to learn or teach mapping.

 

BeyondYesNoPo: Beyond Yes and No
Edward de Bono’s basic primer of a revolutionary new way of thinking. Edward maintains that most of us are trapped within the rigid confines of traditional ways of thinking, limited by concepts which have developed simply for the purpose of arriving at the ‘right’ answer.

 

PowersMindPowers of Mind
Adam Smith, author of The Money Game, pens a fascinating and compelling read. He tells all about every mind trip under the sun! He discusses biofeedback, learning to know the left brain from the right, zen, and more in this considerable educational and entertaining book.

 

PsychoCyberneticsPsycho-Cybernetics
Maxwell Maltz’s landmark bestseller has inspired and enhanced the lives of more than 30 million readers. In this updated edition, with a new introduction and editorial commentary by Matt Furey, president of the Psycho-Cybernetics Foundation, the original text has been annotated and amplified to make Maltz’s message even more relevant for the contemporary reader.

PsychosynthesisPsychosynthesis: A Collection of Basic Writings
This is the seminal work by Dr. Roberto Assagioli, M.D. on a psychological model he developed called psychosynthesis. He was a contemporary and colleague of both Freud and Jung and had studied the work of both schools associated with them. He saw psychosynthesis as an evolution of the psychological thinking of the time to include all of a person’s body, mind & spirit.

ThePromiseThe Promise: How One Woman Made Good on Her Pact to Send a Classroom of 1st Graders to College
This marvelous and inspiring book is the amazing story of one woman’s unending desire to make a difference. And if once was not enough, in 2001 author Oral Lee Brown made the same promise to three new classrooms of first-, fifth-, and ninth-graders. Brown and her foundation adopt a new crop of kids to send to college every four years.

Quantum Seuss by Nancy Margulies

RootsThe Roots of Coincidence: An Excursion into Parapsychology
Arthur Koestler discusses various attempts to achieve a synthesis between the exact science of physics and man’s intuitive intimations of deeper levels of reality–from the Renaissance philosopher Pico della Mirandola to Schopenhauer, Kammerer and Jung.

 

MindsEyeSeeing With The Mind’s Eye: The History, Techniques and Uses of Visualization This book by Michael Samuels explores the concepts and techniques related to visualization as the basic process of thought, memory, imagination, religious experiences, the perception of reality, creativity, and consciousness itself.

 

SuperLearnSuper-Learning
A revolutionary new system by Sheila Ostrander, Lynn Schroeder, and Nancy Ostrander that lets you master facts, figures, sports skills, your health, psychic abilities–anything!–two to ten times faster than you ever thought passable. Add undreamed-of dimensions to your abilities, using innovative, easy-to-follow techniques proved in worldwide studies.

 

TwoSidedMind

Teaching for the Two-Sided Mind: A Guide to Right Brain/Left Brain Education
Linda VerLee Williams explores the application of this important research to the classroom, summarizing current knowledge, discussing its implications, and providing practical teaching techniques that draw upon the right side of the brain. Students need right-brain strength to achieve balanced thinking skills and to activate a full range of cognitive and creative abilities.

BrainSidesUse Both Sides of Your Brain: New Mind-Mapping Techniques
Using the latest research on the workings of the human brain, Tony Buzan, one of the world’s leading authorities on learning techniques, provides step-by-step exercises for discovering the powers of the right side of the brain and learning to use the left side more effectively.

 

WhackHeadA Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative
Over the years, Dr. Roger von Oech’s book has been praised by business people, educators, scientists, homemakers, artists, youth leaders, and many more. The book has been stimulating creativity in millions of readers, translated into eleven languages, and used in seminars around the world.

 

parachuteWhat Color is Your Parachute
In today’s challenging job-market, the long-trusted guidance of What Color Is Your Parachute? is needed more than ever. Published in 22 languages and 26 countries, and with over 10 million copies sold, What Color is Your Parachute? by Richard Bolles has helped millions discover their unique gifts, skills, and interests and land a job–even in hard times.

Peace

Albert Einstein Institution
The Albert Einstein Institution works to advance the worldwide study and strategic use of nonviolent action. Our work on this topic has been translated into dozens of languages. Visit our online library to access all currently available digital resources.

Artists United
Artists United is a nonprofit organization inviting artists of every medium, every genre, every stripe to share and exchange knowledge, access high-powered, collective tools, and embrace new ways of working together. We are based in the United States, but our network and reach are worldwide.
AtitudesOfGratitudeAttitudes of Gratitude: How to Give and Receive Joy Every Day of Your Life
Gratitude creates a powerful state of happiness because it returns us to the natural place where we notice what’s right instead of what’s wrong. In Attitudes of Gratitude, M. J. Ryan teaches us how to unlock the fullness of life through the expression and exercise of a grateful heart.

 

BlessedUnrestBlessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw it Coming
Paul Hawken has spent more than a decade researching organizations dedicated to restoring the environment and fostering social justice. These groups collectively comprise the largest movement on earth.

 

Brahma Kumaris
Brahma Kumaris is a worldwide spiritual movement dedicated to personal transformation and world renewal. Founded in India in 1937, Brahma Kumaris has spread to over 110 countries on all continents and has had an extensive impact in many sectors as an international NGO. Their real commitment is to helping individuals transform their perspective of the world from material to spiritual. It supports the cultivation of a deep collective consciousness of peace and of the individual dignity of each soul.

BuildingSocialBizBuilding Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism that Serves Humanity’s Most Pressing Needs
Muhammad Yunus, the practical visionary who pioneered microcredit and, with his Grameen Bank, won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, has developed a new dimension for capitalism which he calls “social business.” The social business model has been adopted by corporations, entrepreneurs, and social activists across the globe.

Conscious Elders Network
The Conscious Elders Network (CEN) is an educational, non-profit organization fostering a budding movement of vital elders, dedicated to growing in consciousness while actively addressing the demanding challenges facing our country. We work inter-generationally for social and economic justice, environmental stewardship, and sound governance. They bring multiple talents and resources, offering these in service to the goal of preserving and protecting life for all generations to come.

CreatingWorldWOutPovertyCreating a World Without Poverty
In the last two decades, free markets have swept the globe. But traditional capitalism has been unable to solve problems like inequality and poverty. In Muhammad Yunus’ groundbreaking sequel to Banker to the Poor, he outlines the concept of social business—business where the creative vision of the entrepreneur is applied to today’s most serious problems.

DancingInTheStreetsDancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy
Dancing in the Streets explores a human impulse that has been so effectively suppressed that we lack even a term for it: the desire for collective joy, historically expressed in revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing.Drawing on a wealth of history and anthropology, author Barbara Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture.

FromDictatorshipFrom Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation
Twenty-one years ago, at a friend’s request, Massachusetts professor Gene Sharp sketched out a blueprint for nonviolent resistance to repressive regimes. This short, pithy, inspiring, and extraordinarily clear guide to overthrowing a dictatorship by nonviolent means lists 198 specific methods to consider, depending on the circumstances.

Global Change Makers
Global Changemakers empowers youth to catalyse positive social change by providing them with skills, contacts, opportunities and a global network of like-minded people.

Gap Minder
Gapminder is an independent Swedish foundation with no political, religious or economic affiliations. Gapminder is a fact tank, not a think tank. It fights devastating misconceptions about global development, produces free teaching resources making the world understandable based on reliable statistics and promotes a fact-based worldview everyone can understand. Gapminder collaborates with universities, UN, public agencies and non-governmental organizations.

Global Shapers
The Global Shapers Community is a network of Hubs developed and led by young people who are exceptional in their potential, their achievements and their drive to make a contribution to their communities.

International Day of Peace
In 1984, in commemoration of the annual International Day of Peace and in solidarity with the United Nations, the NGO Pathways To Peace inaugurated the Minute of Silence at 12:00 Noon in each time zone, resulting in a “Peace Wave” around the world. Individuals, organizations, communities and nations are invited to participate in this shared and practical act of peacebuilding.

Kindness Diaries (Video on Netflix)
Follow the inspirational journey of a former stockbroker who leaves his unfulfilling desk job in search of a meaningful life. He sets out from Los Angeles on a vintage motorbike, determined to circumnavigate the globe surviving only on the kindness of strangers. Incredibly, he makes his way across the U.S., through Europe, India, Cambodia, and Vietnam, and finally to Canada and back to the Hollywood sign, by asking strangers for shelter, food, and gas.

Mystery2012The Mystery of 2012: Predictions, Prophecies, and Possibilities
Long before 2012,  a handful of pioneers dedicated themselves to studying the scientific, spiritual, and prophetic evidence that marks this year as a critical time in our planet’s history. Eight of these thought leaders present reliable research alongside eye-opening revelations to help you prepare for what lies beyond this crossroads.

 

OperatingManualOperating Manual for Spaceship Earth
Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) was an architect, engineer, geometrician, cartographer, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geodesic dome, and one of the most brilliant thinkers of his time. He set forth his comprehensive perspective on the world’s problems in numerous essays.

 

Pacha’s Pajamas “We Are All Connected” Dance

Pathways to Peace
Pathways To Peace works locally and globally to promote Peacebuilding, Education and to collaborate with other organizations in initiatives that help further our Culture of Peace Initiative (CPI) The annual highlight of this initiative is the International Day of Peace (Peace Day), held annually on September 21.

RainbowBridgeThe Rainbow Bridge: Bridge to Inner Peace and to World Peace
This book by Brent Hunter is a vision of peace that comes from deep within the heart of humanity. This book illuminates the common ground in the world’s religions through 60 simple-to-understand Universal Principles that we can all benefit from following leading to more joy, love, bliss, compassion and freedom.

SapiensSapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
From renowned historian Dr. Yuval Harari comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution. Yuval Noah Harari explores how biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be “human.”

 

United Nations Millennium Development Goals
The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty rates to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 – form a blueprint agreed to by all the world’s countries and all the world’s leading development institutions. They have galvanized unprecedented efforts to meet the needs of the world’s poorest.

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
On Sept. 25th 2015, countries adopted a set of goals to end poverty, protect the planet, & ensure prosperity for all as part of a new sustainable development agenda. Each goal has specific targets to be achieved over the next 15 years. Everyone needs to participate: governments, private sector and people like you.

Visions of Humanity
Launching in spring of 2017. With a focus on peace, Vision of Humanity looks at the major issues of today in a factual, balanced and positive light, so you can make better choices to create the kind of world you want to live in.

Sports

AwakenOlympianAwaken the Olympian Within: Stories from America’s Greatest Olympic Motivators In this inspiring new book, four-time Olympic gold medalist and television sports announcer John Naber has assembled a collection of Olympic stories to help people see their own personal dreams come true – by “Going for the Gold” in their chosen fields.

 

TheFutureOfTheBodyThe Future of the Body: Explorations Into the Further Evolution Of Human Nature
Michael Murphy presents evidence for metanormal cognition, movement, and spiritual development from more than 3,000 sources in this encyclopedia of exceptional functioning of body, mind, and spirit. Surveying ancient and modern records in science, sports, the arts, religion, and dozens of other disciplines.

GabbyDGabby Douglas: Going for Gold
Gabby Douglas became the first African American to win gold in the individual all-around event. She also won a team gold medal with teammates Aly Raisman, Kyla Ross, McKayla Maroney and Jordyn Wieber, now known as the Fab 5. Learn all about Gabby’s early life and road to becoming a gold medal Olympian in this full-colour photographic biography.

 

GraceGoldGrace, Gold, and Glory My Leap of Faith
In the 2012 London Olympics, US gymnast Gabrielle Douglas stole hearts and flew high as the All-Around Gold Medal winner, as well as acting as a critical member of the US gold-medal-winning women gymnastics team. In this personal autobiography, Gabrielle tells her story of faith, perseverance, and determination, demonstrating you can reach your dreams if you let yourself soar.

InnerGame

Inner Game Basketball: Find Your Greatness Within
Inner Game Basketball grew out of conversations between Chris Mullin and Tom Mitchell about players, coaches, parents and the game of basketball. The book is written specifically for players who want to gain a competitive edge and a better understanding of the habits and behaviors that are at the heart of an athlete’s success.

 

InnerGameInner Game: Breaking Golf’s Unbreakable Barriers
Dr. Mac Powell teaches you to incorporate personality and the latest findings of sports psychologists into your golf game. Mastering the mental game requires a deep understanding of your personality type. Using illustrations, personality inventories, and exercises to improve your game from the inside out.

 

LifeSportLife, The Spiritual Sport
Jon Edward Root is a former American volleyball player and Olympic Gold Medalist. He was a member of the United States men’s National Volleyball Team that won the 1986 World Championships in Paris, France, and the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. Jon attended Loyola High, then Stanford University where his volleyball career earned him multiple All America honors and a 2003 induction into the Stanford Athletics Hall of Fame.

SpiritChampionsSpirit of Champions: Great Achievers Reveal how to Integrate Mind, Body and Spirit
In a book based on interviews with more than thirty of America’s top athletes, marvelous stories of magnified personal power on the playing field emerge. The stories of champions who describe how they have integrated mind, body and spirit to create an “inner seeing” which allowed them to perform above themselves resulted in remarkable experiences.