 | The Tao of Physics (Flamingo) by Fritjof Capra
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £2.19 The best introduction to our true Reality
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 | The Hidden Connections: A Science for Sustainable Living by Fritjof Capra
Buy new: £6.39 / Used from: £3.24 What to do with this "true Reality"
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 | Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World with CD-ROM by John Sterman
Buy new: £40.39 / Used from: £9.19 The Bible of business dynamics - not for the faint-hearted !
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 | The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World by David Abram
Buy new: £6.40 / Used from: £4.21 Unusual book on the connections between language and sensory experience
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 | Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought by George Lakoff
Buy new: £12.73 / Used from: £13.86 Enlightening enough to make Descartes turn in his grave
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 | Metaphors We Live by by G Lakoff
Buy new: £8.54 / Used from: £5.59 Where our mental categories come from
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 | A Language Older Than Words by Derrick Jensen
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £6.49 An extremely raw account of our modern disconnect with Nature
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 | Story of B by Daniel Quinn
Buy new: £9.53 / Used from: £6.21 Controversial yet thought-provoking essay on modern civilisation
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 | Seeing the Forest for the Trees: A Manager's Guide to Applying Systems Thinking by Dennis Sherwood
Buy new: £14.61 / Used from: £9.65 Very readable introduction to Systems Thinking
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 | The New Pioneers: Men and Women Who are Transforming the Workplace by Thomas Petzinger
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £0.01 Tales of unusual entrepreneurship - a must read !
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 | Socrates Cafe: Tales of the Examined Life by C Phillips
Buy used from: £2.08 Wish I could one day emulate this format in business consulting
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 | Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals by John Gray
Buy new: £5.89 / Used from: £0.51 In case you thought Human Beings were special
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 | Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Buy used from: £0.53 A fictional account of the Buddha's life - for the soul
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 | The Fear of Freedom (Routledge Classics) by Erich Fromm
Buy new: £8.76 / Used from: £5.68 To understand the barriers we create for ourselves
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 | Letters to a Young Poet by R M Rilke
Buy new: £5.58 / Used from: £0.01 An encouragement to self-expression and authenticity
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 | Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £2.95 Very original and truth-resounding take on decision-making
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 | The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding by Humberto Maturana Rumesin
Buy new: £12.88 / Used from: £16.61 A primer of cognitive science
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 | The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century by James Howard Kunstler
Buy used from: £4.50 Crash down to reality !
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 | The Limits to Growth: The 30-year Update by D.H. Meadows
Buy new: £14.09 / Used from: £10.21 Why we need to endorse Principles of Sustainability
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 | A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Buy new: £6.29 / Used from: £0.01 Quirky, funny but well-researched
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 | Dangerous Company: Consulting Powerhouses and the Companies They Save and Ruin by James O'Shea
Buy used from: £0.44 This will make "small" consultants smile
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 | Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.74 A page-turner for those interested in the birth of Information Science
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 | The Quantum Self: Human Nature and Consciousness Defined by the New Physics by Danah Zohar
Buy used from: £3.86 A more realistic definition of Consciousness
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 | The Devil's Cup: Coffee, the Driving Force in History by Stuart Lee Allen
Buy used from: £5.33 Fascinating history of the consultant's usual mode of subsistence
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 | The World Cafe: Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations That Matter by Ph.D Juanita Brown
Buy new: £9.51 / Used from: £8.14 Love to converse, but I'm incapable of small talk
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