Books I want to read

• The Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation (Paperback) by Frans Johansson

• Bioviolence: Preventing biological terror and crime by Barry Kellman

• Emergency management: The American experience 1900-2005 edited by Claire B. Rubin

• Field notes from a catastrophe: Man, nature and climate change by Elizabeth Kolbert

• Green remodeling: Changing the world one room at a time by David R. Johnston and Kim Master

• Deming, W. Edwards (1986). Out of the Crisis. MIT Press. ISBN 0-911379-01-0.

• First Break All the Rules by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman

• Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman

• Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond

• The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in America by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray

• The Leadership Machine: Architecture to Develop Leaders for Any Future by Michael Lombardo and Robert Eichinger

• Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference AND Blink, both by Malcolm Gladwell

• Inside Terrorism by Bruce Hoffman

• FINISHED The Long Emergency by James Kunstler : This book portrays a stark view of what could happen in this country when our fossil fuel supplies run out (in 37 years, according to the author). I am hoping that he is painting a worse case scenario and that we pull our heads out of the sand (to put it nicely) in time to keep anything so dire from happening.

• The Geography of Nowhere and Home from Nowhere, both by James Kunstler

• The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman

• A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar

• Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

• Learning in Real Time: Synchronous Teaching and Learning Online by Jonathan Finkelstein

• Unintended Consequences by John Ross

• The Persian Puzzle by Kenneth Pollack

• FINISHED-almostInsurgency and Terrorism by Bard O'Neill - I struggled to get half-way through this book. I'm sure it is a useful tome, but it reads like a text book and I had a hard time staying with it. Half-way was the best I could do.

• World War Z by Max Brooks (according to my son, it is really good on audio book because of the acting)

• Authors recommended by Johno: David Sedaris, David Rakoff, Sarah Vowell, David Foster Wallace

• Isaac's Storm and Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

• Them: Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson

• Future Files: A history of the next 50 years by Richard Watson

• The design of everyday things by Donald A. Norman

• FINISHED The Looming Tower: al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright - This is an excellent book that helped me to have a much better understanding of the Islamic world view and how different it is from mine. I also learned a tremendous amount about all the players, foreign and domestic, who were connected to 9/11. It is one of those books you just can't put down once you start it.