Futures Foundation Library
Index of titles work – historical (current) ................................................................................................. 1
work – unemployment ....................................................................................................... 3
work – work/family/life balance ....................................................................................... 5
work – future ...................................................................................................................... 6
work – ageing ................................................................................................................... 13
time ................................................................................................................................... 13
money ............................................................................................................................... 14
evolution ........................................................................................................................... 16
economics ........................................................................................................................ 18
management .................................................................................................................... 23
futurology .......................................................................................................................... 26
Utopias .............................................................................................................................. 33
human consciousness, ethics and values ..................................................................... 34
ecology .............................................................................................................................. 41
community development ................................................................................................. 41
education and learning .................................................................................................... 45
science and technology ................................................................................................... 41
general interest ................................................................................................................ 41
work – historical (current)
Time Life Series – The Emergence of Man, Time Life International, 1973
Work and the Nature of Man, by Frederick Herzberg – World Publishing, 1971
Working Australia, by Charlie Fox – Allen and Unwin, 1991
Chicken Soup for the Soul at Work – 101 Stories of Courage, Compassion and Creativity in the
Workplace, by Jack Canfield et al – Health Communications Inc 1996
Changes at Work – The 1995 Australian Workplace Industrial Relations Survey, by Alison
Morehead et al – Longman Cheshire 1997
The Social Psychology of Work, by Michael Argyle – Penguin 1972
Work in Australian Society, by Caven, Gullen and Mc Lennan – Macmillan, 1989
Jobsmarts for twenty somethings, audio tape read by the author; Bradley Richardson
You’ve got the job – how to get and keep your dream job, by Grace Johnston – Beyond
Productions, 2006
Workabout Australia – jobs galore, what a way to see Australia, by Barry Brebner – self
published, undated
Weevils at work – What’s happening to work in Australia – an oral record, by Wendy Lowenstein
– Southwood Press, 1997
Shadow Work, by Ivan Illich – Marion Boyars, 1981
Working Life, by Belinda Probert – Mc Phee Gribble, 1989
Working but Poor – America’s Contradiction, by Sar A. Levitan and Isaac Shapiro – The Johns
Hopkins Press, 1987
Workers without Frontiers – The Impact of Globalization on International Migration, by Peter
Stalker – Lynne Rienner, 2000
The Work of Strangers – A survey of international labour migration, by Peter Stalker -
International Labor Organisation, 1984
Beyond Employment – Changes in Work and the Future of Labour Law in Europe, by Alain Supiot
– Oxford University Press, 2001
Work Rich, Work Poor. Inequality and economic change in Australia, edited by Jeff Borland, Bob
Gregory and Peter Sheehan- Victoria University, 2001
Selling the Work Ethic – From Puritan Pulpit to Corporate PR, by Sharon Beder – Scribe
Publications, 2000
The Joy of Work, by Maltbie D. Babcock – Fleming H. Revell Company, 1910
Blood Sweat and Tears – The Evolution of Work, by Richard Donnkin –Texere LLC, 2001
Not Just a Just Wage – A Conversation with Four Popes about the Living or Family Wage, by the
Business Leaders for Excellence, Ethics and Justice – ACTA Publications, 2003
Getting that job – How to Establish & Manage Your Career, by Geoff Morgan and Andrew Banks –
Harper Collins, 1996
Fat, Forty and Fired – One man’s frank, funny and inspiring account of losing his job and finding
his life, by Nigel Marsh – Bantam Books, 2005
The pleasures and sorrows of work, by Alain de Botton – Hamish Hamilton, 2009
The pin striped prison – how overachievers get trapped in corporate jobs they hate, by Lisa Pryor
– Picador, 2008
The Job, by Douglas Kennedy – Little Brown and Company, 1998
Volunteering – A Current Perspective, by Joy Noble – Volunteer Institute of South Australia, 1991
Hiding what we feel, Faking what we don’t – Understanding the Role of Your Emotions at Work,
by Sandi Mann – Element Books, 1999
A Passion for Work – Our Lifelong Affair, by Paul Stevens – The Centre for Worklife Counselling,
1993
The Oxford Book of Work, edited by Keith Thomas – Oxford University Press, 1999
Australia at work, Australian Centre for Industrial Relations Research and Training – Prentice
Hall, 1999
it’s only a job, by phil thornton and paul jones – new holland, 2000
People at Work, by Christopher McHugh – Wayland, 1993
Work Satisfaction – a comprehensive guide to planning and managing your career, by Paul
Stevens – William Brooks, 1994
Citizenship, Gender and Work – Social Organization of Industrial Agriculture, by Robert J. Thomas
– University of California Press, 1985
Dirt Cheap – Life at the wrong end of the job market, by Elisabeth Wynhausen – Macmillan,
2005
The Short Goodbye – a skewed history of the last boom and the next bust, by Elisabeth
Wynhausen – Melbourne University Publishing, 2011
Diversity – Celebrating the Differences, by Dan Zadra and Kristel Wills – Compendium Publishing,
2006
Smallcreep’s day, by Peter Currell Brown – Pinter and Martin, 2008
Manage your own career – reinvent your bob, reinvent yourself – by Warren Frehse, Pearson
Education, 2003
work – unemployment
Life Without Work – a time for change, growth and personal transformation, by Christine Ingham
– Harper Collins, 1994
It’s not working, Unemployment in Australia, by Janet Baker – CIS Publishers, 1993
Facing the Future, Young People and Unemployment Around the World, published by UNESCO in
1991
A World that Has Lost its Future, Introduction by Alain Touraine
Full Employment – The Challenge and the Churches, by Paul Smyth – Collins Dove 1994
Achieving full employment, by Helen Hughes (Discussion paper 1/94 of the Full Employment
Project, November 1994
Full Employment, The first priority for a responsible society by Jocelyn Pixley: No. 3 in the
Apocalypse? NO! essay series published by The Australian Commission for the Future 1993
Work words – an explanation of employment terms – DEET, AGPS 1992
A Culture for Full Employment, report on an Institute of Public Affairs conference, December
1993
Unemployment, An issues Paper, by Dr. Michael Wooldridge, Deputy Leader of the Opposition
Report on the inquiry into long term unemployment, Senate Employment, Education and Training
References Committee – October 1995
Redistributing Work – Solutions to the paradox of overwork and unemployment in Australia,
Australia Institute, 1996
Stuck – Unemployed people talk to Michele Turner, by Michele Turner – Penguin, 1983
The Unemployment Crisis, by Richard Layard, Stephen Nickell, Richard Jackman – Oxford
University Press, 1994
101 uses for the unemployed, by Neuman and Neuman – Inti Publishing 1983
Unemployment are their lessons from history, by Jill Roe – Hale and Ironmonger, 1985
Understanding the unemployed – The psychological effects of unemployment, by John Hayes and
Peter Nutman – Tavistock Publications, 1981
Fighting Back – The politics of the unemployed in Victoria in the great depression, by Charlie Fox
– Melbourne University Press, 2000
Work and Welfare, by Robert M. Solow – Princeton University Press, 1998
Enterprising States – the Public Management of Welfare-to-Work, by Mark Considine –
Cambridge University Press, 2001
Youth without work – three countries approach the problem, by Shirley Williams et al – OECD,
1981
The nature of youth unemployment – an analysis for policy makers, OECD, 1984
Job loss it’s a family affair – understand and survive one of the most severe tests a family can
face. Discover opportunities hidden within this crisis, by Alix Bradfield, Jill Jukes and Ruthan
Rosenberg, – Lothian, 1991
Labour, unemployment and Democratic Rights, Edited by Ray Jureidini – Deakin University, 1995
When work disappears – The World of the New Urban Poor, by William Julius Wilson – Vintage
Books, 1997
I want to work, by Mick Young – Cassell Australia, 1979
Voices of the river – Life experiences of people with mental illness in employment, education and
training, edited by Phillip Camela and Fiona Strahan – DEAC, 1996
Australia’s youth: reality and risk, Dusseldorp Skills Forum, 1998
Australia’s young adults: the deepening divide, Dusseldorp Skills Forum, 1999
Ways that Work – Good practices in working with unemployed people, by Colin Ball – National
SkillShare Association, 1996
Work &Worklessness Meeting Report, Global Business Network 1996
Finding a job when there are no jobs – a guide for 18- to 25- year olds, by Ira Abraham – McGraw
Hill, 1988
work – work/family/life balance
Solving the Work/Family Puzzle, by Bonnie Michaels and Elizabeth Mc Carty – Business One
Irwin, 1992
Focus on Families, Work and Family Responsibilities, Australian Bureau of Statistics, ABS
4422.0, 1994
Midlife Moves – Taking Charge of Your Future, by Susie Linder Pelz – Allen and Unwin, 1993
Who We Could Be at Work, by Margaret A. Lulic; Butterworth Heinemann, 1996
Working Times – Confessions of a Breadwinner, by Libby Purves – Robinson Publishing, 1993
What chance a job? – Employment of parents with young children, by Tim Gilley – Brotherhood of
St Laurence, 1993
Children and the Future of Work, by Louise Crossley – Brotherhood of St Laurence, 1990
Time On, Time Out – Flexible Work Solutions to Keep Your Life in Balance, by Susan Biggs and
Kerry Fallon Horgan; Allen and Unwin, 1999
When I Go to Work I Feel Guilty – a working mother’s guide to sanity and survival, by Eileen
Gillibrand and Jenny Mosley; Harper Collins, 1997
When work doesn’t work any more – Women, Work, and Identity, , by Elizabeth Perle Mc Kenna -
Hodder and Stoughton, 1997
Beyond Work-Family Balance – Advancing Gender Equity and Workplace Performance, , by
Rhona Rapaport, Lotte Bailyn, Joyce K. Fletcher, Bettye H. Pruitt – Jossey Bass, 2002
Cycles – How We Will Live, Work and Buy, by Maddy Dychtwald – The Free Press, 2003
Life and work – challenging economic man, by Charles Birch and David Paul –UNSW Press, 2003
The War Over Work – The Future of Work and Family, by Don Edgar–University of Melbourne
Press, 2005
Love Your Work – Reclaim Your Life. Step into a Whole New Way of Experiencing Work, by
Maggie Hamilton – Viking Press, 2004
Rewired, Rehired or Retired? – A Global Guide for the Experienced Worker, by Robert K Critchley
–Jossey Bass, 2002
Striking a Balance – Work, Family, Life by Robert W Drago–Dollars and Sense, 2007
see jane win – How 1,000 Girls Became Successful Women by Dr Sylvia Rimm, Penguin Books,
1999
Women in Families – The sexual division of labour and Australian family policy by Patricia
Gowland – Ink Shed Graphics, Knox Community Relations Centre, 1983
High Pressure – working lives of women managers by Cary Cooper and Marilyn Davidson –
Fontana, 1982
Women and Work, by Ross Davies – Arrow Books, 1975
wifework – what marriage really means for women, by susan maushart – Text Publishing, 2001
No more frogs to kiss – 99 ways to give economic power to girls, by Joline Godfrey – Harper
Business, 1995
Restoring the American Dream – A Working Families’Agenda for America, by Thomas A. Kochan
– MIT Press, 2005
Families at Work – Practical Examples from 140 Businesses, by Jacqueline A. Adie and Heather I.
Carmody – The Council for Equal Opportunity in Employment, 1994
Family Stress and Work Productivity, by Dr Warwick Hartin – Marriage Guidance Australia, 1992
Only so many hours – Flexible and part-time work at managerial levels, by Work and Family Unit
– Commonwealth of Australia, 1995
Work and Family Responsibilities – Adjusting the Balance, by Joan Napoli – CCH Australia, 1994
When Roles Overlap – Workers with Family Responsibilities, by Audrey VandenHeuvel –
Australian Institute of Family Studies, 1993
Work and Family – Employers’Views, by Ilene Wolcott – Australian Institute of Family Studies,
1991
Building Bridges – Work and Family practices and workplace productivity, by Work and Family
Unit – Commonwealth of Australia, 1995
Discretionary Time – A new Measure of Freedom, by Robert E. Goodin, James Mahmud Rice,
Antii Parpo and Lina Eriksson – Cambridge University Press, 2008
work – future
Work for All – Full Employment in the Nineties, by John Langmore MP and John Quiggin;
Melbourne University Press, 1994
We are all self-employed – The new social contract for working in a changed world, by Cliff Hakim
– Berrett Koehler, 1994
Job Shock – Four new principles transforming our work and business, by Harry S. Dent Jr. – St.
Martins Press, 1995
The REInvention of Work – A New Vision of Livelihood for Our Time, by Matthew Fox – Harper
Collins, 1994
Future Work – Jobs, self employment and leisure after the industrial age, by James Robertson –
Universe, 1985
House of Representatives Standing Committee for Long Term Strategies – Inquiry into the
Workforce of the Future
IBIS Business Paper – Employment in the Nineties and Beyond – published by IBIS Business
Information Pty Ltd. (no date of publication)
Achieving full employment, by Helen Hughes (Discussion paper 1/94 of the Full Employment
Project, November 1994
JobShift – How to Prosper in a Workplace Without Jobs, by William Bridges – Allen and Unwin,
1995
The Future of Work, ACOSS, – Pluto Press, 1995
The Future of Work and Incomes, Issues paper prepared for the Commission for the Future of
Work – ACOSS, 1995
The end of work – The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era,
by Jeremy Rifkin – GP Putnam and Sons, 1995
Sleepers, Wake! – Technology and the Future of Work, by Barry Jones – Oxford University Press,
4th Edition 1995
Reawakening The Spirit in Work – the power of Dharmic Management, by Jack Hawley – Berrett
Koehler, 1993
A Future that Works for All of Us: goals and strategies for Australia, Commission for the Future of
Work Final Report, May 1996 – Australian Council of Social Service
Naked Truth – an open letter to the Australian working community, by Fabian Dattner –
Woodslane Press 1996
Turning the Century (Personal and Organizational Strategies for Your Changed World, by Robert
Theobald – Knowledge Systems, 1992
Work Concepts for the Future, by Patricia Schiff Estess; Crisp Publications, 1996
Creating You & Co – be the boss of your own career, by William Bridges; Nicholas Brealey
Publishing, 1997
Workforce 2020 – work and workers in the 21st century, by the Hudson Institute
Guaranteed full employment – A Proposal for Achieving Continuous Work Opportunity for All,
Without Inflation, Through ‘Economic Performance Insurance’ (EPI), by John HC Pierson and
Leonora Stettner, self-published, 1985
Their Futures – how to help young people choose a career in a changing Australia, by Warren
Mann – Hallmark Editions, 1994
Good Work, by E.F. Schumacher; Harper and Row, 1979
Designing the Future – Workplace Reform in Australia, Report of Workplace Reform Conference,
1991
No workplace like home – Here’s how to work and live smart, by Jane Shelton – Wilkinson
Publishing, 2007
Should I stay or should I go? – how to make that crucial job move decision, by Jim Bright –
Pearson Education, 2003
Employment As Though People Mattered – Changing work patterns in a just and sustainable
society, Keith Suter – The Tasmanian Peace Trust 1991 lecture
Jobs that Matter – Finding a Stable, Fulfilling Career in Public Service, by Heather Krasna – Jist
Works, 2010
My Job My Self – Work and the creation of the modern individual, by Al Gini – Routledge 2000
Navigating the Frenzied World of Work, by Alastair Rylatt – Business and Professional Publishing,
1997
Humanity at work, by Ted Scott and Phil Harker – Phil Harker and Associates, 1998
Retire Bizzi – How to start a business without risking your retirement income, by Jill and Owen
Weeks – Lifestyle InfoServices, 2001
Un-jobbing – The Adult Liberation Handbook, by Michael Fogler – Free Choice Press, 1997
Work This Way – Inventing Your Career in the Workplace of the Future, by Bruce Tulgan –
Capstone Publishing, 1998
The Truth About Work – Making a Life Not a Living, by David Harder – Health Communications
Inc., 1997
Life-Work – Meaningful employment in an age of limits, by William A Charland Jr – Continuum,
1986
The Joy of not working – A book for the retired, unemployed, and overworked, by Ernie J Zelinski
– Ten Speed Press, 1997
Work and other occupational hazards – The Best Quotes and Cartoons About Making a Buck, by
Bruce Lansky – Meadowbook Press, 1998
Workaholics – The respectable addicts, by Barbara Lillinger – Simon and Schuster, 1992
The Corrosion of Character – the personal consequences of work in the new capitalism, by
Richard Sennett – WW Norton, 1998
You Can’t Steal Second With Your Foot on First! – Why You Should Choose To Become
Independent In A Job-Dependent World!, by- Burke Hedges, Inti Publishing 1995
Making your future work – How to find satisfaction, security and stability in the job market of the
future!, by- Marcus Letcher – Allen and Unwin, 1997
The Quality of Work – A People-Centred Agenda, by Graham S. Lowe – Oxford University Press,
2000
the myth of nine to five – work, workplaces and workplace relationships, by ted scott and phil
harker – Richmond Ventures, 2002
Aligning Your Work and Purpose – Step out to an abundant life, by Grace Johnston – Information
Australia, 2000
Rewarding Work – How to Restore Participation and Self-Support to Free Enterprise, by Edmund
S. Phelps – Harvard University Press, 1997
Sleep your way to success – Working Smarter in the Information Age, by Lesley Gillett -The Time
Out Seminar Company, 2001
Working In America – A Blueprint for the New Labour Market, by Paul Osterman, Thomas A.
Kockan, Richard M. Locke and Michael J. Piore – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001
The SCHEME for FULL EMPLOYMENT, by magnus mills- flamingo, 2003
The Job Market of the Future – Using Computers to Humanise Economics, by James Cooke
Brown – M.E. Sharpe, 2001
The ART of HAPPINESS at WORK, by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler M.D. –
Hodder, 2003
The Future of Work – How the New Order of Business Will Shape Your Organization, Your
Management Style, and Your Life, by Thomas W. Malone –Harvard Business School Press, 2004
The BRAVE NEW WORLD of Work, by Ulrich Beck (translated from the German by Patrick
Camiller). –Polity Press, 2001
New Work Options – How to keep your career buoyant in turbulent times, by Christine Ingham –
Thorsons, 1996
Sacred Business – Resurrecting the spirit of work, by David Firth and Heather Campbell –
Odyssey Press, 1997
Changing the Way We Work, by R. Meredith Belbin – Butterworth Heinemann, 1997
Solutions for the New Work Force – Policies for a New Social Contract, by John J. Sweeney and
Karen Nussbaum – Seven Locks Press, 1989
Working Greener – Sustainable work strategies for organisations, industry and business, by
Kathleen Ralston – Green Press, 1990
Getting a job in Australia – Working in Australia – a step-by-step guide, by Nick Vandome – How
To Books, 2001
Simplicity – Working Smarter in a World of Infinite Choices, by Bill Jensen. – Harper Collins, 2000
The Living Dead – Switched Off, Zoned Out. The Shocking Truth About Office Life, by David
Bolchover – Capstone 2005
Workers of the world relax – the simple economics of less industrial work, by Conrad Schmidt –
self-published, 2006
Fifty to Forever – the complete sourcebook for living an active, involved and fulfilling second half
of your life – for you and for those you love, by Hugh Downs – Thomas Nelson, 1994
Working Wounded – Advice that Adds Insight to Injury, by Bob Rosner – Time Warner Books,
1998
Turbulence – Challenges and Opportunities in the World of Work – Are you prepared for the
future, by Roger E Herman – Oakhill Press, 1995
Willing Slaves – How the overwork culture is ruling our lives, by Madeleine Bunting – Harper
Collins, 2004
Working from the heart – a practical guide to loving what you do for a living, by Liz Simpson –
Vermillion Press, 1999
Work a little less, live a little more, by Mark McKeon – Harper Collins, 2001
The changing nature of work, edited by Frank Ackerman, Neva R. Goodman, Laurie Dougherty,
Kevin Gallagher – Island Press, 1998
Staying sane in a changing world – A handbook for work, leadership and life in the 21st century,
by Margot Cairnes – Simon and Schuster, 2003
The future of work and health, by Clement Bezold, Rick J. Carlson and Jonathan C. Peck –Auburn
House, 1986
Fair Choices – Flexibility and Negotiating Power in the Work Place, by Paul Monk – Connor Court,
2007
Work Rich, Work Poor – Inequality and economic change in Australia, edited by Jeff Borland, Bob
Gregory and Peter Sheehan – Victoria University Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, 2001
Work Life, edited by James Calder – Woods Bagot, 2007
Working Futures – The Changing Nature of Work and Employment in Australia, edited by Ron
Callus and Russell D. Lansbury – The Federation Press, 2002
The Heart Aroused – Poetry and the Preservation of Soul in Corporate America, by David Whyte –
Bantam Doubleday, 1996
True Work – The Sacred Dimension of Earning a Living, by Justine Willis Toms and Michael Toms
– Hay House, 1998
Jobsmarts for twentysomethings, by Bradley G. Richardson – Vintage Books, 1995
Work Smarter Not Harder, by Jack Collis and Michael Leboeuf – Harper Business,1995
What next at work? – a new challenge for managers, by Alastair Evans – Institute of Personnel
Management,1979
Beyond Employment – Time, Work and the Informal Economy, by Claus Offe and Rolf G. Heinze
(translated by Alan Braley) – Temple University Press, 1992
Green Jobs in Industry, report to the Department of Education Employment and Training –
Australian Conservation Foundation, 1994
a working society, The Salvation Army, 1997
Victoria: Working Futures, report of Victoria’s Workforce Participation Taskforce, 2005
The Way Forward – the future of work, by Sue Jackson – Brotherhood of St Laurence, 1996
Reading the signs– the future of work, by Kate MacNeill– Brotherhood of St Laurence, 1996
Working on the Margins – California’s Growing Temporary Workforce, by Sundari Bari – Centre
on Policy Initiatives, 2001
Just Getting By – The Experience of Temporary Workers in San Diego’s Economy, by Gianpaolo
Baiocchi, Sundari Bari and Paula Chakravaartty – Centre on Policy Initiatives, 2002
Changes at Work – Issues for the Nineties, by Kaye Healey – The Spinney Press, 1994
Patterns of Work – new directions, by Judith Condon – Franklin Watts, 1992
How to Recruit, Train and Manage Temporary and part-time Workers, by Nancy Campbell –
Source Com, 1989
The shape of jobs and come – possible new careers emerging from science and technology
(2010-2030), by Rohit Talwar and Tim Hancock – Fast Future Research, 2010
Work Trends – How work is changing in New Zealand – Department of Labour, 2003
What will work consist of in the future, by Susan Oliver – Australian Commission for the Future,
1992
Communications and the future of work – ‘Net Working’ – the New Gutenberg, by Keith
Hainsworth – Master of Arts (Communication) – Swinburne University of Technology, 1999
Awake at Work – Concepts and Principles for Creating Better Workplaces and a Better World, by
George SanFacon – self published, 2002
Transforming the Future Quality of Life – Rethinking free time and work, by WH Mason and S
Mason – Leisure Consultants, 1998
Work less and play more, by Steven Catlin – Kimberlite Publishing, 1997
Solutions for the new workforce – Policies for a New Social Contract, by John J. Sweeney and
Karen Nussbaum – Seven Locks Press, 1989
Tools of Change – New Technology and the Democratisation of Work, by John Mathews – Pluto
Press, 1989
Citizenship and Employment – Investigating Post-Industrial Options, by Jocelyn Pixley –
Cambridge University Press, 1993
The Future of Youth Employment, by Archbishop Hollingworth – Work Placement, 1998
Downshifting – The Ultimate Handbook – Practical advice on how to get out of the fast lane and
find freedom, by Andy Bull– Work Placement, 1998
The Choice either change the system or polish the fruit – a pictorial guide to creating productive
workplaces, by Jock MacNeish and Tony Richardson – Don’t Press, 1994
The Next Choice Controls or Connections – a pictorial guide to creating productive workplaces, by
Jock MacNeish and Tony Richardson – Don’t Press, 1995
Imagine Your Workplace – Images of Dreams and Nightmares, by Jock MacNeish and Tony
Richardson – Don’t Press, 1996
the secrets to getting a job, by Philip Garside – (second edition) Hyland House, 2005
A Passion for Work – Our Lifelong Affair, by Paul Stevens – The Centre for Worklife Counselling,
2000
Land that job, edited by Brigid Delaney – John Fairfax Publications, 2005
Starting Work, edited by Brigid Delaney – John Fairfax Publications, 2005
Manage your career, edited by Brigid Delaney – John Fairfax Publications, 2005
The Life Priorities Calculator – The calm way to get your life in order, by Paul Wilson – Penguin
Books, 2005
Manage your career – How to develop your career in the right direction, Steps to Success – A&C
Black, 2006
You and Your Job – expert advice on how to evaluate, hold improve or change your job, by Walter
Lowen – Collier Books, 1962
How to succeed at interviews, by Dr Rob Young – How To Books, 2011
What color is your parachute for retirement – Planning a Prosperous Healthy, and Happy Future,
by John E. Nelson and Richard N. Bolles – Ten Speed Press, 201
What Color is Your Parachute? – A practical manual for job-hunters and career-changers, by
Richard M Bolles – Ten Speed Press, 2002
What Next? – Your career-change companion, by Kaye Fallick – Allen and Unwin, 2010
Job loss. It’s a family affair – understand and survive one of the most severe tests a family can
face, by Kaye Fallick – Allen and Unwin, 2010
The Future of Success – work and life in the new economy, by Robert B. Reich – Vintage, 2002
The Future of Work, by Richard Donkin – Palgrove Macmillan, 2010
Humans Need Not Apply – A Guide to Wealth and work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, by
Jerry Kaplan – Yale University Press, 2015
The Shift – The future of work is already here, by Lynda Gratton –Harper Collins, 2011
Why the future is workless, by Tim Dunlop – New South, 2016
Changing Jobs – The Fair Go in the New Machine Age, by Jim Chalmers and Mike Quigley –
Redback Quarterly, 2017
What to do when machines do everything – how to get ahead in a world of AI, algorithms, bots
and big data, by Malcolm Frank, Paul Roehrig and Ben Pring – Wiley, 2017
Gigged – The end of the job and the future of work, by Sarah Kessler –St Martins Press, 2018
work – ageing
Dawning of a new age? The extent, causes and consequences of ageing in Australia, by Peter
Saunders – Social Policy Research Centre, 1996
Age doesn’t matter unless you’re a cheese – wisdom from our elders, by Kathryn and Ross
Petras –Workman Publishing, 2002
Ageing Well – surprising guideposts to a happier life from the landmark Harvard study of adult
development, by George Vaillant – Scribe Publications, 2002
Towards an Older Australia, edited by Anna L. Howe – University of Queensland Press, 1981
The Big Shift – navigating the new stage beyond midlife, by Marc Freedman – Perseus Books,
2011
time
A Brief History of Time, by Stephen Hawking – Bantam, 1989
The Nature of Time, edited by Raymond Flood and Michael Lockwood – Basil Blackwell, 1989
AboutTime – Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution, by Paul Davies – Viking Penguin, 1995
The Death of Forever – A New Future for Human Consciousness, by Darryl Reanney – Longman
Cheshire 1991
Terry Lane interviews Darryl Reanney, 29/4/92, ABC Audio Tape
Time and How We Experience It – Tape 1, Biological Time, ABC Audio Tape
Time and How We Experience It – Tape 2, Time and Memory, ABC Audio Tape
Time and How We Experience It – Tape 3, Social Time, ABC Audio Tape
Time and How We Experience It – Tape 4, Time, The Clock and The Future, ABC Audio Tape
Out of Time, by James P. Hogan – Bantam Books, 1993
Time Conflict and Human Values, by J.T. Fraser – University of Illinois Press, 1999
The clock of the long now – Time and Responsibility, by Stewart Brand – Butler and Tanner,
1999
Time – from micro seconds to millennia a search for the right time, by Alexander Waugh,
Headline Books, 1999
Of Time, Passion and Knowledge – Reflections on the Strategy of Existence, by J.T. Fraser,
George Braziller, 1975
Beyond 9 to 5 – your life in time, by Sarah Norgate – Phoneix Books, 2006
What is Time?, by GJ Whitrow, Thames and Hudson, 1972
A Sound of Thunder, by Ray Bradbury – Crowell-Collifer Publishing, 1952
money
The Secret Life of Money – Teaching Tales of Spending, Receiving, Saving and Owing, by Tad
Crawford – GP Putnam’s Sons, 1994
Money, Heart and Mind – Financial Well-Being for People and Planet, by William Bloom – Viking
Press, 1995
New Money for Healthy Communities, by Thomas H. Greco Jr – self-published, 1994
Rethinking Our Centralised Monetary System – The Case for a System of Local Currencies, by
Lewis D. Solomon – Praeger 1996
The Oxford book of Money, edited by Kevin Jackson – Oxford University Press – 1995
Money and the meaning of life, by Jacob Needleman – Currency Doubleday, 1991
The trick to money is having some, by Stuart Wilde – White Dove International – 1989
Money is my friend, by Phil Laut – Ivy Books 1978
Money creation – the great confidence trick, by Ed Burgi – self published, 1994
Hand over your loot, by Len Clampett – self published, 1990
Democratising money, by Charles Pinwill – Freedom’s Booksearch – 1995
Interest and Inflation Free Money – how to create an exchange medium that works for
everybody, by Margrit Kennedy – Permakultur Publikationen – 1990
Fast Money – The money market in Australia, by Edna Carew – Allen and Unwin, 1983
Rich Dad, Poor Dad – What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money – That The Poor And Middle
Class Do Not, by Robert T. Kiyosaki with Sharon L. Lechter – Techpress, 1997
The Real Meaning of Money, by Dorothy Rowe – Harper Collins, 1998
Shell Game – A True Account of Beads and Money in North America, by Jerry Martien -Mercury
House, 1996
A short history of socialist money, by Gavin Peebles – Allen and Unwin, 1991
Banker to the poor – The autobiography of Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank, by
Muhammad Yunus with Alan Jolis- Aurum Press, 1998
It’s your money, by William F. Hixon- Comer Publications, 1997
The Future of Money – Creating new wealth, work and a wiser world, by Bernard Lietaer –
Random House, 2001
The Mystery of Capital – Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else, by
Hernando de Soto – Basic Books, 2000
Boggs – a comedy of values, by Lawrence Weschler – University of Chicago Press, 1999
Money – Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender, by Thomas H. Greco -Chelsea
Green, 2001
The Great Harlot – The prostitution of the role of money in the marketplace, by Peter Lock -
Queen of the South, 2001
People Money – The promise of regional currencies, by Margrit Kennedy, Bernard Lietaer and
John Rogers – Triarchy Press, 2012
Money in an unequal world, by Keith Hart and his memory bank –Texere Publishing, 2000
Money, business and culture: issues for Aboriginal economic policy, by D.F. Martin – Centre for
Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, 1995
The Death of Money – How the Electronic Economy Has Destablized the World’s Markets and
Created Financial Chaos, by Joel Kurtzman – Simon and Schuster, 1993
The Making of National Money – Territorial Currencies in Historical Perspective, by Eric Helleiner
– Cornell University Press, 2003
Funny Money – In Search of Alternative Cash by David Boyle –Harper Collins, 1999
Healthy Money, Healthy Planet – Developing Responsibility through new money systems, by
Deirdre Kent –Craig Potton Publishing, 2005
Gold – the once and future money by Nathan Lewis – John Wiley and Sons, 2007
The Origin of Wealth – The Radical Remaking of Economics and What it Means for Business and
Society by Eric D. Beinhocker – Harvard Business School Press, 2006
The Cash Nexus – Money and poor in the modern world 1700-2000, by Niall Ferguson – Allen
Lane, the Penguin Press, 2001
The end of money and the future of civilization by Thomas H Greco Jr – Chelsea Green
Publishing, 2009
Cash Values – The Value of Money, the Nature of Worth by Craig M. Gay – UNSW Press, 2003
The Meaning of Money, by Hartley Withers – John Murray London, 1947
The Future of Money – From Financial Crisis to Public Resource, by Mary Mellor – Pluto Press,
2010
Cosmic Accounting – Developing a social system in harmony with the physical world. The
economic system for the new millennium, by Malcolm J. Greenstuart – Pigtail Publishing, 2001
Imagination, Money and You, by Charles Pinwill – self published
Making Money – Alan Kohler’s guide for the independent investor, by Alan Kohler – Random
House, 2005
The Money Game – The people vs the banks, by Jeremy Lee – Freedom Potentials Inc
What I learned losing a million dollars, by Jim Paul and Brendan Moynihan – Infrared Press,
2007
Wages – An introductory analysis of the wage system under modern capitalism, by Lionel
Robbins – Jarrolds, 1927
What everybody wants to know about money, by Frances Hutchinson – Jon Carpenter Publishing,
1998
Midas World – a brilliant social satire set in a world of unlimited plenty, by Frederik Pohl – Victor
Gollianz, 1983
Payback – debt and the shadow side of wealth, by Margaret Attwood – Bloomsbury Publishing,
2008
Creating Wealth – Growing Local Communities with Local Currencies, by Gwendolyn Hallsmith
and Bernard Lietaer – New Society Publishers, 2011
Money for nothing – One Man’s Journey Through the Dark Side of Lottery Millions, by Edward
Urgel – Harper Collins, 2007
Finance and the Good Society, by Robert J. Shiller – Princeton University Press, 2012
Life Without Money – Building Fair and Sustainable Economies, edited by Anitra Nelson and
Frans Timmerman – Pluto Press, 2011
Money – the unauthorised biography, by Felix Martin – The Bodley Head, 2013
The New Yorker on the Money – The economy in cartoons 1925-2009, edited by Robert Mankoff
– Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2009
Money and Sustainability – The Missing Link, by Bernard Lietaer, Christian Arnsperger, Sally
Goener and Stefan Brunnhuber – Triarchy Press, 2012
Citizens’ Wealth – Why (and how) sovereign wealth funds should be managed by the people for
the people, by Angela Cummine – Yale University Press, 2016
evolution
Evolution – The History of an Idea, by Peter J. Bowler – University of California Press, 1989
Time Life Series – The Emergence of Man Time Life International, 1973
The day before yesterday – five million years of human history, by Colin Tudge – Random House,
1995
Why things bite back – technology and the revenge effect, by Edward Tenner – Fourth Estate
Ltd., 1996
Guns, Germs and Steel – a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years, by Jared
Diamond – Vintage Books, 1998
The Descent of Woman – the classic study of evolution, by Elaine Morgan
Blood, Bread and Roses – How Menstruation Created the World, by Judy Grahn – Beacon Press,
1993
The Scars of Evolution – What Our Bodies Tell Us About Human Origins, by Elaine Morgan –
Oxford University Press, 1990
The Descent of the Child – Human Evolution From a New Perspective, by Elaine Morgan – Oxford
University Press, 1995
Biomimicry – Inside the revolutionary new science that is rediscovering life’s best ideas – and
changing the world, by Janine M Benyus – William Morrow, 1997
Ishmael – An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit, by Daniel Quinn – Bantam Turner, 1992
The Story of B – An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit, by Daniel Quinn – Bantam, 1996
The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins – Oxford University Press, 1989
Paradigms regained – A further exploration of the mysteries of modern science, by John L. Casti
– Little Brown and Company, 2000
The Extended Phenotype – The gene as the unit of selection, by Richard Dawkins – Oxford
University Press, 1982
A species in denial, by Jeremy Griffith-FHA Publishing, 2003
How Nature Works – The Science of Self-Organised Criticality, by Per Bak – Oxford University
Press, 1997
How An Insect Society is Organized – Ants at Work, by Deborah Gordon – The Free Press, 1999
The Prehistory of the Mind – A search for the origins of art, religion and science, by Steven
Mithen –Thames and Hudson, 1996
Right Hand, Left Hand. The Origins of Asymmetry in Brains, Bodies, Atoms and Cultures, by Chris
McManus – BCA, 2002
Gaia – a new look at life on earth, by James Lovelock– Oxford University Press, 2000
Up from Eden – A Transpersonal View of Human Evolution, by Ken Wilber – Shambhala Press,
1981
The Upside of Down – Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization, by Thomas Homer-
Dixon – Text Publishing, 2006
Treading Lightly – the hidden wisdom of the world’s oldest people, byKarl-Erik Sveiby and Tex
Skuthorpe – Allen and Unwin, 2006
Collapse – How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive, by Jared Diamond – Penguin, 2005
The Third Chimpanzee – the evolution and future of the human animal, by Jared Diamond –
Harper Collins, 1993
The world without us, by Alan Weisman – Virgin Books, 2007
The Link – uncovering our earliest ancestor, by Colin Tudge – Little Brown, 2009
Why geese don’t get obese and we do – How Evolution’s Strategies for Survival Affect our
Everyday Lives, by Eric P. Widmaier – WH Freeman and Co, 1988
The End Of Oil – the decline of the petroleum economy and the rise of a new energy order, by
Paul Roberts – Bloomsbury Press, 2004
The Engineer in the Garden – Genes and Genetics: From the idea of heredity to the creation of
life, by Colin Tudge – Jonathan Cape, 1993
River Out of Eden, by Richard Dawkins – Phoenix, 2004
Climbing Mount Improbable, by Richard Dawkins – Penguin, 2006
A Devil’s Chaplain, by Richard Dawkins – Phoenix, 2003
God’s Utility Function, by Richard Dawkins – Phoenix, 1995
Conscious Evolution – Personal and Planetary Transformation, by Barry McWaters – Turnstone
Press, 1982
Lamarck’s Evolution – Two centuries of genius and jealousy, by Ross Honeywill – Murdoch
Books, 2008
Perfect planet, clever species – how unique are we?, by William C. Burger – Prometheus Books,
2003
The Real History of the end of the world – Apocalyptic predictions from revelation and
Nostradamus to Y2K and 2012, by Sharan Newman – Penguin Books, 2010
The Collapse of Complex Societies, by Joseph A Tainter – Cambridge University Press, 1988
Reinventing Life – A guide to our evolutionary future, by Jeffrey Scott Coker – The Blue Helix,
2012
The Great Convergence – Asia, The West, and the logic of one world, by Kishore Mahbubani –
Public Affairs, 2013
The evolution of useful things – how everyday artifacts – from forks and pins to paper clips and
zippers – came to be as they are, by Henry Petroski – Vintage Books, 1994
Sapiens – A Brief History of Humankind, by Yuval Noah Harari –Vintage Books, 2011
A User’s guide to the crisis of civilisation and how to save it, by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed – Pluto
Press, 2010
Other minds – the octopus and the evolution of intelligent life, by Peter Godfrey-Smith – Harper
Collins, 2016
Defiant Earth – The fate of humans in the Anthropocene, by Clive Hamilton – Allen and Unwin,
2017
economics
The Economic Nature of the Firm, A Reader, edited by Louis Putterman – Cambridge University
Press, 1986
Tumbling Dice – Economists are our gods, but do they live in the twentieth century?, by Brian
Toohey – William Heinemann, 1994
Small is Beautiful – A Study of Economics as if People Mattered, by E.F. Schumacher – Abacus
Sphere, 1994
Economic Concepts, by Julie Monaghan – Longman Cheshire, 1989
A Guide for the Perplexed, by E.F. Schumacher – Jonathan Cape, 1977
This I believe and other essays , by E.F.Schumacher – A Resurgence Book, 1998
The Sane Alternative, by James Robertson – River Basin Publishing, 1978
Counting for Nothing – what men value and what women are worth, by Marilyn Waring – Allen
and Unwin, 1988
The winner-take-all society – Why the Few at the Top Get So Much More Than the Rest of Us, by
Robert H. Frank and Philip J Cook; Penguin 1995
Economic Democracy, by C.H. Douglas – Bloomfield Publishers, 1974
The Recovery Myth, by Bryan Kavanagh – Land Values Research Group, 1994
Stop Think, by Paul Hellyer – Chimo Media, 1999
The Economic Horror, by Viviane Forrester – Polity Press, 1999
small is possible, by George Mc Robie – Jonathan Cape, 1981
A Concise Economic History of the World – from Paleolithic times to the present , by Rondo
Cameron – Oxford University Press, 1992
Why Economies Grow – the forces that shape prosperity and how to get them working again, by
Jeff Madrick – Century Foundation, 2002
Butterfly Economics – A New General Theory of Social and Economic Behaviour, by Paul
Ormerod – faber and faber, 1998
the Incredible Bread Machine by Susan Love Brown, Karl Keating, David Mellinger, Patrea Post,
Stuart Smith, Catriona Tudor– World Research Institute, 1974
Marching Powder – A true story of friendship, cocaine and South America’s strangest jail, by
Rusty Young– Macmillan, 2003
Economia – New economic systems to empower people and support the living world, by Geoff
Davies –ABC Books, 2004
well and good – how we feel & why it matters by Richard Eckersley – Text Publishing, 2004
The Mystery of Economic Growth by Elhanan Helpman –The Belnapp Press of Harvard University
Press, 2004
The Nature of Economies by Jane Jacobs – Modern Library, 2000
Freakonomics – A rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything by Steven D. Levitt
and Stephen J. Dubner – Harper Collins, 2005
Bronze Age Economics – The Beginnings of Political Economies by Timothy Earle – Westview
Press, 2002
The Company of Strangers – A Natural History of Economic Life by Paul Seabright – Princeton
University Press, 2005
Luxury Fever – Money and happiness in an era of excess by Robert H. Frank– Princeton
University Press, 1999
Hidden Order – the economics of everyday life by David Friedman – Harper Collins, 1996
I.O.U. – the debt threat and why we must defuse it by Noreena Hertz – Harper Collins, 2004
Islam and Mammon – The Economic Predicaments of Islamism, by Timur Kuran – Harper Collins,
2004
Affluenza – When Too Much Is Never Enough, by Clive Hamilton and Richard Denniss – Allen and
Unwin, 2005
Frontiers of Political Economy, by Guglielmo Carchedi – Verso, 1991
Parecon – Life After Capitalism, by Michael Albert – Verso, 2003
The Undercover Economist, by Tim Harford – Little Brown, 2006
Gaian Democracies – Redefining Globalisation & People-Power, by Roy Madron and John Jopling
– Schumacher Society, 2003
Government Managing Risk – Income contingent loans for social and economic progress, by
Bruce Chapman –Routledge, 2006
The Economic Naturalist – in search of explanations for everyday enigmas, by Robert H. Frank –
Basic Books, 2007
Bubbles and how to survive them, by John P. Calverley – Nicholas Brearley, 2004
The Return of the Economic Naturalist – How economics helps make sense of your world, by
Robert H Frank – Virgin Books, 2009
The use of knowledge in society, by F.A. Hayek – Institute for Humane Studies, 1945
Future Wealth – A New Economics for the 21st Century, by James Robertson – Cassell, 1989
Nudge – Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness, by Richard H Thaler and Cass
R Sunstein – Penguin Books, 2009
Prosperity without growth – Economics for a Finite Planet, by Tim Jackson – Earthscan, 2009
The creation and destruction of value – the globalization cycle, by Harold James – Harvard
University Press, 2009
Progress and Poverty – An inquiry into the cause of industrial depressions and of increase of
want with increase of wealth, by Henry George – Henry George Foundation of Great Britain, 1943
The growth of a central bank – the development of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia 1924-
1945, by L.F. Giblin –Melbourne University Press, 1951
Investing in Natural Capital – The Ecological Economics Approach to Sustainability, edited by
AnnMari Jansson, Monica Hammer, Carl Folke and Robert Costanza – Island Press, 1994
The wheels of commerce – civilization and capitalism 1th-18th century volume 2, by Fernand
Braudel – Phoenix Press, 2002
Stone Age Economics, by Marshall Sahlins – Aldine de Gruyter, 1972
How to argue with an economist, by Lindy Edwards – Cambridge University Press, 2007
Gittinomics – living the good life without money stress, overwork and joyless consumption, by
Ross Gittins – Allen and Unwin, 2007
Economics of the real world, by Peter Donaldson – Penguin Books, 1979
Filthy Lucre – Economics for those who hate capitalism, by Joseph Heath – Scribe, 2009
Main Economic Indicators – Sources and Definitions, OECD, 1997
Measuring Progress – Is life getting better?, by Richard Eckersley – CSIRO publishing, 1998
The Economic Way of thinking – seventh edition, by Paul Heyne – Macmillan Publishing, 1994
Banks and the Capital Market – An Australian Study, by J.O.N. Perkins and J.E. Sullivan – Wilke
and Company, 1972
Keynes and After, by Michael Stewart – Pelican, 1970
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, by Charles Mackay – Three Rivers
Press, 1980
The Lexus and the Olive Tree, by Thomas Friedman – Harper Collins, 2000
Whoops! – Why everyone owes everyone and no one can pay, by John Lancaster – Allen Lane,
2010
The next convergence – The future of economic growth in a multispeed world, by Michael Spence
– University of Western Australia Publishing, 2011
Reinventing the bazaar – a natural history of markets, by John McMillan – WW Norton and Co,
2002
The price of fish – A New Approach to Wicked Economics and Better Decisions, by Michael
Mainelli and Ian Harris – Nicholas Brearley, 2011
Debt – the first 5,000 years, by David Graeber – Melville House, 2012
Grand Pursuit – The Story of Economic Genius, by Sylvia Nasar – Simon and Schuster, 2011
The Relentless Revolution – a history of capitalism, by Joyce Appleby – WW Norton and
Company, 2010
Gittins’ Gospel – The economics of just about everything, by Ross Gittins – Allen and Unwin,
2012
The Cost Disease – Why Computers Get Cheaper and Health Care Doesn’t, by William J. Baumol
– Yale University Press, 2012
The Physics of Wall Street – A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable, by James Owen
Weatherall – Scribe Publications, 2013
Energy and the Wealth of Nations – Understanding the Biophysical Economy, by Charles. A.S.
Hall and Kent A. Klitgard – Springer LLC, 2012
The Lights in the Tunnel – Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future,
by Martin Ford – Acculant Publishing, 2009
The Why Axis – Hidden Motives and the Undiscovered Economics of Everyday Life, by Uri Gneezy
and John List – Random House Books , 2013
The Zero Marginal Cost Society – The Internet of Things, The Collaborative Commons, and The
Eclipse of Capitalism, by Jeremy Rifkin – Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
An Economy is not a society – Winners and Losers in the New Australia, by Dennis Glover – Black
Ink Books, 2015
The Price of Everything – Solving the Mystery of Why We Pay What We Do, by Eduardo Porter –
Portfolio Penguin, 2011
The World is Flat – A brief history of the globalized world in the 21st century, by Thomas
Friedman– Allen Lane, 2005
Zombie Economics – How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among Us, by John Quiggin – Black Ink, 2012
Misbehaving – The Making of Behavioural Economics, by Richard H. Thaler – Allen Lane, 2015
Generation Less – How Australia is Cheating the Young, by Jennifer Rayner – Redback Quarterly,
2016
Throwing rocks at the Google bus – how growth became the enemy of prosperity, by Douglas
Rushkoff – Portfolio Penguin, 2016
Deep Economy – The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future, by Bill McKibben – Holt
Paperback, 2007
A Basic Income Alternative to the Slow-Motion Train Wreck of Global Finance, by Derryl
Hermanutz – Self-published, 2016
Postcapitalism – a guide to our future, by Paul Mason – Penguin Books, 2015
Inequality – What can be done?, by Anthony B. Atkinson – Harvard University Press, 2015
How will capitalism end?, by Wolfgang Streeck – Verso, 2016
Why Wall Street Matters, by William D. Cohan – Allen Lane, 2017
Basic Income: And How We Can Make It Happen, by Guy Standing, – Pelican, 2017
Doughnut Economics – Seven ways to think like a 21st-century economist, by Kate Raworth, –
Random House, 2017
Another economy is possible, by Manuel Castells et al, – Polity Press, 2017
Inventing the Future – Postcapitalism and a World Without Work, by Nick Srnicek and Alex
Williams Verso, 2016
The Secret Life of Real Estate and Banking, by Phillip J. Anderson – Shepheard-Walwyn, 2008
Raising the Floor – How a universal basic income can renew our economy and rebuild the
American dream, by Andy Stern with Lee Kravitz – Public Affairs, 2016
management
Managing the Future – Unlocking 10 of the best Management Books, by Vic Zbar – VCTA
Publishing, 1995
The Fourth Wave – Business in the 21st Century, by HB Maynard Jr and SE Mehrtens – Berrett
Koehler Publishers, 1993
The Strategy of the Dolphin – Scoring A Win in A Chaotic World, by Dudley Lynch and Paul L.
Kordis – Ballantyne Books, 1988
The Management Myth – Exploring the Essence of Future Organisations, by Richard David
Hames – Business and Professional Publishing, 1994
2020 Vision, by Stan Davis and Bill Davidson, Simon and Schuster, 1992
The Monster Under the Bed – How Business is Mastering the Opportunity of Knowledge for
Profit, by Stan Davis and Jim Botkin: Simon and Schuster, 1994
The Fifth Discipline, by Peter Senge: Random House, 1992
Corporate Darwinism, by Robert R. Blake, Warren E. Avis and Jane S. Mouton – Gulf Publishing,
1966
The New Paradigm in Business, Edited by Michael Ray and Alan Rinzler for the World Business
Academy: a New Consciousness Reader, Perigree Books, 1993
The Empty Raincoat – making sense of the future, by Charles Handy
Breakpoint and Beyond, by George Land and Beth Jarman; Harper Collins, 1993
The Age of Unreason, by Charles Handy – Random House/Arrow, 1990
Charting the Corporate Mind – From Dilemma to Strategy, by Charles Hampden-Turner – Basil
Blackwell, 1990
The Seven Cultures of Capitalism, by Charles Hampden-Turner and Fons Trompenaars – Piatkus,
1994
Discipline of Market Leaders – Choose your Customers, Narrow your Focus, Dominate your
Market, by Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema – Addison Wesley, 1995
Leaders We Deserve, by Alistair Mant – Currency Publications, 1993
Creative Compartments – A Design for Future Organization, by Gerard Fairtlough – Praeger,
1994
Burying the 20th Century by Richard David Hames with Geraldene Callanan – Business and
Professional Publishing,1997
Evolution of an Australian Management Style, by Ivan Deveson – Business and Professional
Publishing – 1997
75 best business practices, for Socially Responsible Companies, edited by Alan Reder for the
Social Venture Network; Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1995
Intelligent Leadership, by Alistair Mant – Allen and Unwin, 1997
Leaders at the Edge – The Need to Build a Vision for Australia, by Alistair Mant – Australian
Commission for the Future, 1992
The change masters – corporate entrepreneurs at work, by Rosabeth Moss Kanter – Unwin
Paperbacks, 1983
Businesses without bosses, by Charles C. Manz and Henry P. Sims Jr – James Wiley, 1993
Sacred Cows make the best burgers, by Robert Kriegal and David Brandt – Harper Business,
1996
Tyranny of the bottom line – Why Corporations Make Good People Do Bad Things, by Ralph Estes
– Berrett Koehler, 1996
The Peter Principle – Every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence, by Dr Laurence J
Peter and Raymond Hull – Pan Books, 1969
The Peter Pyramid or will we ever get the point, by Dr Laurence J Peter – Unwin Paperbacks,
1986
Up The Organization – How to stop the company stifling people and strangling profits, by Robert
Townsend – Coronet Books, 1970
Managing the Innovating Enterprise – Australian companies competing with the world’s best,
report of the BCA Innovation Study Commission, 1993
Common Sense and the Art of Balancing – A Critical Analysis of Modern Management Thinking,
by Alan R. Cane – Asia Link, 1995
10x10 – ten years by ten opinions, by Rod Bennett – Badjar, 1990
The Hinds Model of Company Success – How to Overcome Boredom Through Instant Teams and
Transform Your Workplace, by Joan-Mary Hinds – Millennium Books, 1995
The Hungry Spirit – Beyond Capitalism a Quest for Purpose in the Modern World, by Charles
Handy – Hutchison, 1997
Leadership and the New Science – Learning about Organization from an Orderly Universe, by
Margaret J Wheatley – Berrett-Koehler, 1994
Roses and Rust – redefining the essence of leadership in a new age, by David Clancy and Robert
Webber – Business and Professional Publishing, 1997
The Post-Corporate World – Life After Capitalism, by David C. Korten – Berrett Koehler, 1999
Human Capital – What It Is and Why People Invest In It, by Thomas O Davenport – Jossey Bass,
1999
You Can’t Go Wrong By Doing It Right – 50 Principles for Running a Successful Business, by Dr
Stephen L Goldstein -The Oasis Press, 1999
The New Alchemists, by Charles Handy – Random House, 1999
Inclusive Leadership – Rethinking the World of Business to Generate the dynamics of Lasting
Success, by Brian Hirsh and Peter Sheldrake – Information Australia, 2001
No Logo, by Naomi Klein -Harper Collins, 2001
Against the Gods, the remarkable story of risk, by Peter L. Bernstein -John Wiley and Sons, 1999
Waiting for the mountain to move – Reflections on Work and Life, by Charles Handy – Jossey
Bass, 1999
Maverick, by Ricardo Semler – Tableturn Inc., 1993
The Seven-Day Weekend – The Wisdom Revolution: Finding the Work/Life Balance, by Ricardo
Semler – Random House, 2003
Work in Progress – Risking Failure, Surviving Success, by Michael Eisner with Tony Schwartz –
Hyperion, 1999
On Becoming a Leader, by Warren Bennis– Addison Wesley,1999
The Company – A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea, by John Mickethwait and Adrian
Wooldridge –Modern Library, 2003
Babbitt, by Sinclair Lewis – Penguin Books, 1987
The Future of Industrial Man, by Peter Drucker – The John Day Company, 1942
The Starfish and the Spider – The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations, by Ori
Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom – Penquin, 2006
The Power of Spirit – How Organizations Transform, by Harrison Owen – Berrett Koehler, 2000
Conscious Business – How to build value through values, by Fred Kofman – Sounds True, 2006
The Essence of Change, by Liz Clarke – Prentice Hall, 1994
The one minute manager, by Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson – Harper Collins, 1994
What will they Franchise next – The story of Jim’s Group, by Jim Penman – self published, 2003
Do lunch or be lunch – The Power of Predictability in Creating Your Future, by Howard H.
Stevenson – Harvard Business School Press, 1998
Corporate Citizenship – successful strategies for responsible companies, by McIntosh, Leipziger,
Jones and Coleman – Financial Times Publishing, 1998
High Tech High Touch – Technology and our Accelerated Search for Meaning, by John Naisbitt –
Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2001
Communicating Change – How to Win Employee Support for New Business Directions, by TJ and
Sandar Larkin – McGraw Hill, 1994
ideas – original perspectives on life and business from leading thinkers volume 2, by Thought
Leaders, 2007
Why don’t people listen? Solving the communication problem, by Hugh Mackay – Pan Australia,
1996
The Prelude – a novel for managers, by Stephen Bright – Telecom Australia, 1990
The Emotionally Healthy Leader, by Gayle Hardie and Malcolm Lazenby – Monterey Press, 2013
Simplexity – Why Simple Things Become Complex (and How Complex Things Can Be Made
Simple, by Jeffrey Kluger – Hyerion, 2008
The Art of the Sale – Learning from the Masters about the Business of Life, by Philip Delves
Broughton – The Penguin Press, 2012
Spiral Dynamics – mastering values, leadership, and change, by Don Edward Beck and
Christopher C. Cowan – Blackwell Publishing, 2006
The Great Fragmentation – and why the future of business is small, by Steve Sammartino –Wiley,
2014
The Line Ahead, by Stephen Bright – Catalyst Communications Consultants, 1996
Blind Spot – How we fail to see the solution right in front of us, by Gordon Rugg with Joseph
DÁgnese – Harper One, 2013
Industries of the Future, by Alec Ross – Simon and Schuster, 2016
The Witch Doctors – What the management gurus are saying, why it matters and how to make
sense of it, John Mickethwait and Adrian Wooldridge – Mandarin Press, 1997
Inevitable Surprises – Thinking ahead in a time of turbulence, by Peter Schwartz – Gotham
Books, 2003
futurology
The Art of the Long View, by Peter Schwartz – Currency Doubleday, 1991
The World in 2020 – Power, Culture and Prosperity: A Vision of the Future , by Hamish McRae –
Harper Collins, 1995
Building a Win-Win World – Life Beyond Global Economic Warfare, by Hazel Henderson – Berrett
Koehler, 1996
Critical Path, by R. Buckminster Fuller – St Martins Press, 1981
Future Workshops – How to Create Desirable Futures, by Robert Jungk and Norbert Muellert –
Institute for Social Inventions, 1987
Future Search – An Action Guide to Finding Common Ground in Organizations and Communities,
by Marvin R. Weisbord and Jandra Janoff – Berrett Koehler, 1995
Participative Design for Participative Democracy, Edited by Merrelyn Emery – Centre for
Continuing Education ANU, 1995
The Foresight Principle – Cultural Recovery in the 21st Century, by Richard A. Slaughter –
Adamantine Press, 1995
The Search Conference – A Powerful Method for Planning Organisational Change and
Community Action, by Merrelyn Emery and Ronald E. Purser – Jossey Bass, 1996
Future Sex – Can we recover from our addition to monogamy?, by Stephen Davis and Lyssa
Royal – Awareness Through Education, 1991
Creating the Future Australia, Australia in 2010 – Business Council of Australia, 1993
An Australia that Works: A vision for the future – a long term economic strategy for Australia,
CEDA (Fred Argy) – 1993
The Popcorn Report on the Future of your Company, your World, your Life, by Faith Popcorn –
Random House, 1991
Developing Lifelong Learners through Undergraduate Education, NBET Commissioned Report
No. 28, 1994
ideas for the new millennium, by Peter Ellyard – Melbourne University Press, 1998
Futures for the Third Millennium – enabling the forward view, by Richard Slaughter- Prospect
Press, 1999
The Future: An Owner’s Manual – What the World will Look Like in the 21st Century and Beyond,
by Robert Pondiscio- Harper Trophy, 2000
Future Revolutions – Unravelling the uncertainties of life and work in the 21st Century, by David
Mercer – Orion Business Publishing, 1999
As The Future Catches You – How genomics and other forces are changing your life, work, health
and wealth, by Juan Enriquez – Crown Business Publishing, 2000
Getting to the Better Future – A Matter of Conscious Choosing – How Business Can Lead the
Way to New Possibilities, by John Renesch-New Business Books, 2000
21st Century Opportunities and Challenges – An Age of Destruction or An Age of Transformation,
edited by Howard F. Didsbury Jr –World Futures Society, 2003
Dictionary of the future – The words, terms and trends that define the way we’ll live, work and
talk, by Faith Popcorn and Adam Hanft – Hyperion, 2003
Futures Beyond Dystopia – Creating Social Foresight, by Richard A. Slaughter – Routlege and
Farmer, 2004
6.a/ 25 Reinventing Australia – The mind and mood of Australia in the 90s, by Hugh Mackay
– Angus and Robertson, 19938 752
Deep futures – our prospects for survival, by Doug Cocks – UNSW Press, 2003
The meaning of the 21st Century – A vital blueprint for ensuring our future, by James Martin –
Riverhead Books, 2006
Scanning the Future – 20 Eminent Thinkers on the World of Tomorrow, by Yorick Blumenfeld –
Thames and Hudson, 1999
Thinking about the future – Guidelines for Strategic Foresight, by Andy Hines and Peter Bishop –
Social Technologies LLC, 2006
Future File – A History of the Next 50 Years, by Richard Watson – Scribe Books, 2007
Will She Be Right? The Future of Australia, by Herman Kahn and Thomas Pepper – University of
Queensland Press, 1980
To be a crime scene investigator, by Henry M. Holden – Zenith Press, 2006
The Evolution of Future Consciousness, by Thomas Lombardo – Author House, 2008
Contemporary Futurist Thought, by Thomas Lombardo – Author House, 2008
The Future by us – Young leaders imagine Australia beyond 2020, edited by Hugh Evans and
Tom O’Connor – Hardie Grant Books, 2009
Our Future – consumerism or humanism, by JC Kapur – Kapur Surya Foundation, 2005
Inventing the future, by David Suzuki – Allen and Unwin, 1990
Gone today, here tomorrow – millennium previews, edited by Richard Slaughter – Prospect
Media (no publication date)
The Gaia Atlas of Future Worlds – challenge and opportunity in an age of change, Norman Myers
– Penguin, 1990
Footprints of the future, Richard Neville’s handbook for the third millennium – Richmond Books,
2002
Futures Thinking for Social Foresight, by Richard A Slaughter with Marcus Bussey – Tamkang
University Press (no publication date)
Futuring – the exploration of the future, by Edward Cornish – World Future Society, 2004
The Ingenuity Gap – How can we solve the problems of the future?, by Thomas Homer- Dixon –
Alfred A Knopf, 2000
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The Future We Deserve – 100 essays about the future, edited by Vinay Gupta, Cat Lupton and
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Drinking from the Fire Hose – Making Smarter Decisions Without Drowning in Information, by
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The Signal and The Noise – Why So Many Prediction Fail – But Some Don’t, by Nate Silver – The
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Leading from the Emerging Future – From Ego-System to Eco-System Economies, by Otto
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The Future, by Al Gore – Random House, 2013
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Community Development
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Developing Communities for the Future – Community Development in Australia, by Susan Kenny
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Douthwaite – The Lilliput Press, 1996
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you’re at it, by Wayne Roberts and Susan Brandum – Get a life publishing, 1995
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MacLeod – University College of Cape Breton Press, 1997
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Community Development in the Market Economy, by Jeremy McArdle- Vista Publications, 1999
Jobs of our own – Building a Stake-Holder Society, by Race Mathews-Pluto Press, 1999
The age of access – the new culture of hypercapitalism where all of life is a paid-for experience,
by Jeremy Rifkin – Jeremy P Tarcher/Putnam, 2000
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Free Press, 1998
Cutting Edge – Technology, Information, Capitalism and Social Revolution, edited by Jim Davis,
Thomas Hirschl & Michael Stack-Verso, 1997
Believing Cassandra – An Optimist Looks at a Pessimist’s World, by Alan AtKisson – Scribe
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Counterweight – the neighbourhood option, by Tony Gibson – Town and Country Planning
Association, 1984
Gaviotas – a village to reinvent the world, by Alan Weisman – Chelsea Green Publishing
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Clare in the community, by Harry Venning – Aurum Press, 2000
The Great Good Place – Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons and other Hangouts
at the Heart of a Community, by Ray Oldenburg- Marlow and Co., 1999
A Future for Everyone – Innovative Social Responsibility and Community Partnerships, by David
Maurrasse – Routledge, 2004
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Proscio – Westview Press, 2000
Building a World Community – Globalisation and the Common Good, edited by Jacques Baudot –
Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2001
Blessed Unrest – How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw
It Coming, by Paul Hawken – Viking Books, 2007
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Vital signs vibrant society, by Craig Emerson – UNSW Press, 2006
What the Dog Saw and other adventures, by Malcolm Gladwell – Penguin, 2009
The Tipping Point – How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, by Malcolm Gladwell – Little
Brown and Company, 2002
The Social Entrepreneur – Making Communities Work, by Andrew Mawson – Atlantic Books,
2008
The Black Swan – The Impact of the Highly Improbable, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – Penguin
Books, 2007
World Poverty for Dummies, by Sarah Marland, Ashley Clements, Lindsay Rae and Adam
Valvasori – John Wiley and Sons, 2008
The Collapse of Globalism and the Reinvention of the World by John Ralston Saul – Penguin,
2005
What the Dog Saw and other adventures, by Malcolm Gladwell – Penguin, 2009
The End of Charity – Time for Social Enterprise, by Nic Frances – Allen and Unwin, 2008
Third Sector – The contribution of non profit and cooperative enterprises in Australia, by Mark
Lyons – Allen and Unwin, 2001
Cities and the Wealth of Nations – Principles of Economic Life, by Jane Jacobs – Vintage Books,
1985
The Virtual Community – finding connection in a computerized world, by Howard Rheingold –
Martin Secker and Warburg, 1994
Captive of the System – Why Governments fail to deliver on their promises – and what to do
about it, by Peter J. Crawford – Richmond Ventures, 2003
Good and bad power – the ideals and betrayals of Government, by Geoff Mulgan – Allen Lane,
2006
Thinking in Time – The uses of history for decision makers, by Richard E. Neustadt and Ernest R.
May – The Free Press, 1986
History’s worst decisions and the People Who Made Them, by Stephen Weir – Pier 9, 2005
Social Problems of the Industrial Revolution, by P.F. Speed – Pergamon Press, 1975
Reframe – how to solve the world’s trickiest problems, by Eric Knight – Black Ink, 2012
100 Mistakes that changed history – Backfires and blunders that collapsed empires, crushed
economies, and altered the course of our world, by Bill Fawcett – Penguin Books, 2010
Fooled by Randomness – The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets, by Nassim
Nicholas Taleb – Penguin Books, 2007
What then must we do? – straight talk about the next American revolution, Democratizing wealth
and building a community-sustaining economy from the ground up, by Gar Alperovitz – Chelsea
Green Publishing, 2013
Antifragile – Things That Gain from Disorder, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – Random House, 2012
The Democracy Project – A History. A Crisis. A Movement, by David Graeber –Penguin Books,
2013
If mayors ruled the world – dysfunctional nations, rising cities, by Benjamin R. Barber – Yale
University Press, 2014
Radicals – Outsiders changing the world, by Jamie Bartlett – Penguin Random House, 2017
How to thrive in the next economy – Designing tomorrow’s world today, by John Thackara –
Thames and Hudson, 2015
Skin in the Game – Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – Allen Lane,
2018
education and learning
The Learning Revolution – A life long learning program for the world’s finest computer: you
amazing brain!, by Gordon Dryden and Jeannette Vos – Jalmar Press, 1994
Learning Unlimited – Practical strategies and techniques for transforming learning in the
workplace, by Alastair Rylatt -Business and Professional Publishing, 1994
Deschooling society, by Ivan Illich – Penguin Books, 1970
Schooling for the Knowledge Era, by David Warner – ACER Press, 2006
Teaching Thinking, by Edward de Bono – Pelican, 1976
Asking the right questions – a guide to critical thinking, by M. Neil Brown and Stuart M. Keeley –
Pearson Education, 2004
Everyday evaluation on the run – the user-friendly introductory guide to effective evaluation, by
Yoland Wadsworth – Allen and Unwin, 2011
science
Fuller’s Earth – A Day with Buckminster Fuller and the Kids, by Richard J. Brenneman – The New
Press, 2009
Human – the science behind what makes us unique, by Michael S. Gazzaniga – Harper Collins,
2008
Consilience – the unity of knowledge, by Edward O. Wilson – Alfred A. Knopf, 1998
Shadows of the mind – a search for the missing science of consciousness, by Roger Penrose –
Oxford University Press, 1994
A Step Farther Out, by Jerry Pournelle; Ace Books, 1979
Goedel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, by Douglas Hofstadter – Penguin Books, 1979
The Feynmann Processor – An introduction to quantum computation, by Gerard Millburn – Allen
and Unwin, 1998
The Pattern on the Stone – The Simple Ideas that Make Computers Work, by W Daniel Hillis –
Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1998
Quintessence – The Mystery of Missing Mass in the Universe, by Lawrence M. Krauss – Vintage,
2001
Warped Passages – Unravelling the universe’s hidden dimensions, by Lisa Randall –Penguin
Books, 2005
The Goldilocks Enigma – Why is the Universe Just Right for Life?, by Paul Davies – Penguin
Books, 2006
How We Live and Why We Die – the secret lives of cells, by Lewis Wolpert – Faber and Faber,
2009
Quantum – Einstein Bohr and the great debate about the nature of reality, by Manjit Kumar –
Icon Books, 2008
The substance of civilization – materials and human history from the stone age to the age of
silicon, by Stephen L. Sass – Arcarde Publishing, 1998
QED – the strange theory of light and matter, by Richard P. Feynman – Princeton University
Press, 1985
The Mathematician’s Brain – A personal tour through the essentials of mathematics and some
of the great minds behind them, by David Ruelle – Princeton University Press, 2007
The Drunkard’s Walk – How Randomness Rules Our Lives, by Leonard Mlodinow – Random
House, 2008
The Shadow Club – The greatest mystery in the universe and the thinkers who unlocked its
secrets, by Roberto Castro – Random House, 2003
The Infinite Book, by John D. Barrow – Vintage Books, 2005
How to fossilize your hamster – and other amazing experiments for the armchair scientist, by
Mick O’Hare – Profile Books, 2007
Chaos – the amazing science of the unpredictable, by James Gleick – Vintage Books, 1998
An illustrated history of science, by F. Sherwood Taylor – Heinemann, 1964
The history of the human body – a 5000 year old mystery, by Joseph Hixson – Cooper Square
Publishers, 1966
Don’t you have time to think?, by Richard P. Feynman – Allen Lane, 2005
The Grand Design – new answers to the ultimate questions of life, by Stephen Hawking and
Leonard Mlodinow – Bantam Press, 2010
The Brain that changes itself – stories of personal triumph from the frontiers of brain science, by
Norman Doidge – Scribe Publications, 2007
The universe in a nutshell, by Stephen Hawking – Bantam Press, 2001
Quantum computer science an introduction, by N. David Mermin – Cambridge University Press,
2007
Right hand, left hand – the origins of asymmetry in brains, bodies, atoms and cultures, by Chris
McManus – BCA, 2002
Physics of the Impossible – a scientific exploration of the world of phasers, force fields,
teleportation and time travel, by Michio Kaki – Allen Lane, 2008
Stephen Hawking – a life in science, by Michael White and John Gribbin – Viking Press, 1992
Perceiving Ordinary Magic – science and intuitive wisdom, by Jeremy W. Hayward – New Science
Library, 1984
Subliminal – the revolution of the new unconscious and what it teaches us about ourselves, by
Leonard Mlodinow – Allen Lane 2011
The Decisive Moment – How the Brain Makes Up Its Mind, by Jonah Lehrer – Text Publishing,
2009
Paradox – The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Science, by Professor Jim Al-Khalili – Bantam Press,
2011
Neutrino, by Frank Close – Oxford University Press, 2010
The quantum universe (and why anything that can happen, does), by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw
– Perseus Books, 2011
Physics for future presidents – the science behind the headlines, by Richard A Muller – WW
Norton and Co, 2008
The Norm Chronicles – Stories and numbers about danger, by Michael Blastland and David
Spiegelhalter – Profile Books, 2013
The Matter Myth – Towards 21st Century Science, by Paul Davies and John Gribbin – Viking,
1991
Turing’s Cathedral – The Origins of the Digital Universe, by George Dyson – Penguin Books, 2012
Life on the Edge – The Coming Age of Quantum Biology, by Jim Al-Khalili and JohnjoeMcFadden –
Bantam Press, 2014
The Gene – An Intimate History by Siddhartah Mukherjee – Bodley Head, 2016
Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs – The Astounding Connectedness of the Universe by Lisa Randall
– The Bodley Head, 2015
What’s Next – Even Scientists Can’t Predict the Future – or Can They? edited by Jim Al-Khalili –
Profile Books, 2017
The Upright Thinkers – The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos by
Leonard Mlodinow – Pantheon Books, 2015
general interest
The Dead Sea Scrolls – a very short introduction, by Timothy H. Lim – Oxford University Press,
2005
The book of general ignorance, by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson – Faber and Faber, 2009
Chronology of World History – A Calendar of Events from 3000BC to AD 1976, Rex Collings 1978
I am right you are wrong, by Edward de Bono – Penguin, 1991
The Year 1000 – What life was like at the turn of the first millennium, by Robert Lacey and Danny
Danziger -Abacus Books, 1999
Long Walk to Freedom, by Nelson Mandela – Abacus, 1994
The Big Tilt – What happens when the boomers bust and the Xers and Ys inherit the earth?, by
Bernard Salt – Hardie Grant Books, 2011
Whatever you think think the opposite, by Paul Arden – Penguin Books, 2006
Secrets of the Jury Room – inside the black box of criminal justice in Australia, by Malcolm Knox-
Random House Australia, 2002
Why Terrorism Works – understanding the threat, responding to the challenge, by Alan M.
Dershowitz –Scribe Publications, 2002
God The Interview, by Terry Lane – ABC Books, 1993
Playing the Fool – Subversive Laughter in Troubled Times, by Ralph Leaner – University of
Chicago Press, 2009
Confessions of a Public Speaker, by Scott Berkun – O’Reilly, 2010
Schott’s Original Miscellany, by Ben Schott – Bloomsbury, 2002
Write Faster, Write Better, by David A. Fryxell – Writer’s Digest Books, 2004
Writing the successful thesis and dissertation – entering the conversation, by Irene L. Clark –
Prentice Hall, 2007
Spin Selling, by Neil Rackham– Gower Publishing, 1995
Giving it away – in praise of philathropy, by Denis Tracey – Scribe Publications, 2003
Troublesome Words, by Bill Bryson – Penguin Books, 2001
The Left-handed Book – An Investigation into the Sinister History of Left-Handedness, by Michael
Barsley – Souvenir Press, 1966
Marketing for SME’s Made Easy, by Ian Godbold – Godbold Publishing, 2008
wild ride – The Rise and Fall of Cobb and Co, by Sam Everingham – Viking, 2007
Popply, by Drusilla Modjeska – McPhee Gribble, 1990
how to write your own book and make it a bestseller, by Rachael Bermingham – PR International,
2009
The Stranger, by Albert Camus – Vintage Internation, 1988
Mark McKeon’s life tips – it’s all about being you but better, by Mark McKeon – Courtney
Ballantyne, 2007
The book thief, by Markus Zuszak – Pan Macmillan, 2005
The Reader, by Bernhard Schlink – Phoenix, 1997
Works of Art, by M.C. Escher –Leopard Books, 1995
Who We Are – A Miscellany of the New Australia, by David Dale – Allen and Unwin, 2006
Orbiting the giant hairball – a corporate fool’s guide to surviving with grace, by Gordon
MacKenzie – Viking Penguin, 1998
Elements of Refusal, by John Zerzan – Left Hand Books, 1998
A History of the Lyceum Club Melbourne, by Joan Gillison – McKellar Press, 1975
The New Australian and New Zealand Public Relations Manual, by Tymson and Lazar– Tymson
Communications, 1987
Maya sends her love – a parable for our times, by Steaphen Pirie – Pro Creative, 2006
The big issues – political cartoons from ten years of The Big Issue, by Andrew Weldon – The Big
Issue, 2006
The Ultimate Quotable Einstein, edited by Alice Calaprice – Princeton University Press, 2011
Got a minute? The 9 Lessons Every HR Professional Must Learn to be Successful, by Dale J.
Dwyer and Sheri A. Gladwell – Society for Human Resource Management, 2010
Bigger or Better? – Australia’s population debate, by Ian Lowe – University of Queensland Press,
2011
Surfaces and Essences – Analogy as the fuel and fire of thinking, by Douglas Hofstadter and
Emmanuel Sander – Basic Books, 2013
Big History – Between Nothing and Everything, by David Christian, Cynthia Stokes Brown and
Craig Benjamin – McGraw Hill, 2014
Trillion Year Spree – the history of science fiction, by Brian Aldis with David Wingrove – Pallidin
Books, 1988
The First Muslim – The Story of Muhammad, by Lesley Hazleton – Atlantic Books, 2013
In the Future – The Neglect of the Long Term in Australian Politics, by Ian Marsh and David
Yencken – Black Inc., 2004
Deer Hunting with Jesus – Guns, Votes, Debt and Delusion in Redneck America, by Joe Bageant
– Portobello Books, 2008
In Praise of Forgetting – Historical Memory and its Ironies, by David Rieff – Yale University Press,
2016
Walkaway, by cory Doctorow –Head of Zeus, 2017