Our Bookshelf

A list of awesome books and learning resources, handpicked and curated by our mentors.

Atomic Habits - An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

James Clear

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

Start With Why - How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action

Simon Sinek

INSPIRED - How to Create Tech Products Customers Love

Marty Cagan

The Lean Startup - How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses

Eric Ries

Never Split the Difference - Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It

Chris Voss, Tahl Raz

Designing Data-Intensive Applications - The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

Martin Kleppmann

EMPOWERED - Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products

Marty Cagan

Radical Candor - How to Get What You Want by Saying What You Mean

Kim Scott

The Manager's Path - A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change

Camille Fournier

The Phoenix Project - A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford

Team Topologies - Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow

Matthew Skelton, Manuel Pais

Clean Code - A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

Robert C. Martin

The Culture Map - Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business

Erin Meyer

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team - A Leadership Fable

Patrick M. Lencioni

Radical Candor: Fully Revised & Updated Edition - Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

Kim Scott

Atomic Habits

James Clear

Hooked - How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Nir Eyal

Dare to Lead - Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.

Brené Brown

Continuous Discovery Habits - Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value

Teresa Torres

Agile & Lean

Refactoring - Improving the Design of Existing Code

Martin Fowler, Kent Beck

Domain-Driven Design Reference - Definitions and Pattern Summaries

Eric Evans

Flatlined - Why Lean Transformations Fail and What to Do About It

Mark DeLuzio

The Atomic Human - Understanding Ourselves in the Age of AI

Neil D. Lawrence

Agile Technical Practices Distilled - A learning journey in technical practices and principles of software design

Pedro M. Santos, Marco Consolaro, Alessandro Di Gioia

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Artificial Intelligence

The Atomic Human - Understanding Ourselves in the Age of AI

Neil D. Lawrence

AI Safety - Strategies for Ensuring Responsible, Ethical, and Reliable AI Systems

Zacharias Voulgaris, Arnoud Engelfriet

Cyber Strategy - Risk-Driven Security and Resiliency

Carol A. Siegel, Mark Sweeney

Empire of AI - Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI

Karen Hao

AWS Cloud Migration - A Modern Approach

Mukesh Das

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Brand & Public Relations

ZAG - The #1 Strategy of High-Performance Brands

Marty Neumeier

How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age

Dale Carnegie

Unleashing the Ideavirus

Seth Godin

How Brands Grow 2 Revised Edition - Including Emerging Markets, Services, Durables, B2B and Luxury Brands

Jenni Romaniuk, Bryon Sharp

Alchemy - The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life

Rory Sutherland

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Career Advice & Self Mastery

Pussy - A Reclamation

Regena Thomashauer

Women who Run with the Wolves - Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

Clarissa Pinkola Estés

The Neuroscience of Mindfulness: The Astonishing Science behind How Everyday Hobbies Help You Relax

Stan Rodski

The Love Prescription - Seven Days to More Intimacy, Connection, and Joy

John Gottman, PhD, Julie Schwartz Gottman, PhD

A Radical Awakening - Turn Pain into Power, Embrace Your Truth, Live Free

Shefali Tsabary

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Change Management

Trust Betrayed - Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and the Selling Out of America's National Security

Scott Taylor

Prisoners of Geography - Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World

Tim Marshall

The Atomic Human - Understanding Ourselves in the Age of AI

Neil D. Lawrence

Smart Cities - Development and Governance Frameworks

Zaigham Mahmood

Probabilistic Thinking - Presenting Plural Perspectives

Egan J. Chernoff, Bharath Sriraman

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Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing For Dummies

Judith S. Hurwitz, Robin Bloor, Marcia Kaufman, Fern Halper

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Conflict Resolution

How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships

Leil Lowndes

The Next Conversation - Argue Less, Talk More

Jefferson Fisher

Talk - The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves

Alison Wood Brooks

Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview - Pass Tough Coding Interviews, Get Noticed, and Negotiate Successfully

Gayle Laakmann McDowell, Mike Mroczka, Aline Lerner, Nil Mamano

Ho'oponopono - Your Path to True Forgiveness

Matt James

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Cryptcurrencies & Blockchain

Web3 - Charting the Internet's Next Economic and Cultural Frontier

Alex Tapscott

Cryptonomicon

Neal Stephenson

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Culture

Pussy - A Reclamation

Regena Thomashauer

Women who Run with the Wolves - Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

Clarissa Pinkola Estés

A Radical Awakening - Turn Pain into Power, Embrace Your Truth, Live Free

Shefali Tsabary

Shakti Woman - Feeling Our Fire, Healing Our World

Vicki Noble

Divergent Mind - Thriving in a World that Wasn't Designed for You

Jenara Nerenberg

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DataScience & Analytics

Datenintensive Anwendungen designen - Konzepte für zuverlässige, skalierbare und wartbare Systeme

Martin Kleppmann

Probabilistic Thinking - Presenting Plural Perspectives

Egan J. Chernoff, Bharath Sriraman

The Chief Data Officer Management Handbook - Set Up and Run an Organization’s Data Supply Chain

Martin Treder

Data-Driven Science and Engineering - Machine Learning, Dynamical Systems, and Control

Steven L. Brunton, J. Nathan Kutz

An Introduction to Statistical Learning - with Applications in Python

Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, Jonathan Taylor

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Diversity and Inclusion

Shakti Woman - Feeling Our Fire, Healing Our World

Vicki Noble

Divergent Mind - Thriving in a World that Wasn't Designed for You

Jenara Nerenberg

HERE - Where the Black Designers Are

Cheryl D. Holmes-Miller

Decolonizing Design - A Cultural Justice Guidebook

Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall

Design Against Racism - Creating Work That Transforms Communities

Omari Souza

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Emotional Intelligence

Pussy - A Reclamation

Regena Thomashauer

Women who Run with the Wolves - Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

Clarissa Pinkola Estés

The Neuroscience of Mindfulness: The Astonishing Science behind How Everyday Hobbies Help You Relax

Stan Rodski

The Love Prescription - Seven Days to More Intimacy, Connection, and Joy

John Gottman, PhD, Julie Schwartz Gottman, PhD

A Radical Awakening - Turn Pain into Power, Embrace Your Truth, Live Free

Shefali Tsabary

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Entrepreneurship

Refactoring - Improving the Design of Existing Code

Martin Fowler, Kent Beck

Pour Your Heart Into It - How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time

Howard Schultz, Dori jones Yang

The $100 Startup - Fire Your Boss, Do What You Love and Work Better To Live More

Chris Guillebeau

Dear Founder - Letters of Advice for Anyone Who Leads, Manages, or Wants to Start a Business

Maynard Webb, Carlye Adler

Ideen, um das Ende der Welt zu vertagen

Ailton Krenak

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Finance, Accounting & Controlling

Success Is Closer Than You Think - The highway to fulfilling success. Rebuilding oneself for an ideal life while maintaining great financial freedom

Pierre-Henry Soria

Trust Betrayed - Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and the Selling Out of America's National Security

Scott Taylor

Main Street Millionaire - How to Make Extraordinary Wealth Buying Ordinary Businesses

Codie Sanchez

Titan - The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

Ron Chernow

Practical Microsoft SQL Server 7

Brad McGehee, Rob Kraft

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Freelancing

Design Is a Job - Second Edition

Mike Monteiro

Free Kindle Books - How and where to Get All Your Ebooks for Free

Steve G. Pease

The Freelance Way - Best Business Practices, Tools and Strategies for Freelancers

Robert Vlach

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Game Development

A Playful Production Process - For Game Designers (and Everyone)

Richard Lemarchand

Play Nice - The Rise, Fall, and Future Of Blizzard Entertainment

Jason Schreier

The Gamer's Brain - How Neuroscience and UX Can Impact Video Game Design

Celia Hodent

Press Reset - Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry

Jason Schreier

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Human Resources & Recruiting

The Three Signs of a Miserable Job - A Fable for Managers (And Their Employees)

Patrick M. Lencioni

Be the Mentor Who Mattered - Make a Difference. Be the Difference

Colleen Stanley, LeAnn Thieman

The Future of Work - Attract New Talent, Build Better Leaders, and Create a Competitive Organization

Jacob Morgan

Talent Wins - The New Playbook for Putting People First

Ram Charan, Dominic Barton, Dennis Carey

Hiring for Attitude: A Revolutionary Approach to Recruiting and Selecting People with Both Tremendous Skills and Superb Attitude

Mark Murphy

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Infrastructure & Security

Datenintensive Anwendungen designen - Konzepte für zuverlässige, skalierbare und wartbare Systeme

Martin Kleppmann

The Art of Deception - Controlling the Human Element of Security

Kevin D. Mitnick, William L. Simon

Cyber Strategy - Risk-Driven Security and Resiliency

Carol A. Siegel, Mark Sweeney

AWS Cloud Migration - A Modern Approach

Mukesh Das

Smart Cities - Development and Governance Frameworks

Zaigham Mahmood

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Innovation

Pour Your Heart Into It - How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time

Howard Schultz, Dori jones Yang

Decolonizing Design - A Cultural Justice Guidebook

Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall

Design Against Racism - Creating Work That Transforms Communities

Omari Souza

Dear Founder - Letters of Advice for Anyone Who Leads, Manages, or Wants to Start a Business

Maynard Webb, Carlye Adler

A Playful Production Process - For Game Designers (and Everyone)

Richard Lemarchand

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Leadership & Management

And... . Volume One - Foundations: Making a Difference by Levereging Polarity, Paradox, Or Dilemma

Barry Johnson

Pour Your Heart Into It - How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time

Howard Schultz, Dori jones Yang

Dear Founder - Letters of Advice for Anyone Who Leads, Manages, or Wants to Start a Business

Maynard Webb, Carlye Adler

Visual Thinking - Empowering People and Organisations through Visual Collaboration

Williemien Brand

Conscious Business - How to Build Value Through Values

Fred Kofman, PhD

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Legal, Risk Management, Compliance

AI Safety - Strategies for Ensuring Responsible, Ethical, and Reliable AI Systems

Zacharias Voulgaris, Arnoud Engelfriet

Cyber Strategy - Risk-Driven Security and Resiliency

Carol A. Siegel, Mark Sweeney

The Cuckoo's Egg - Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage

Cliff Stoll

Network Security Assessment - Know Your Network

Chris R. McNab, Chris McNab

How to be a Wildly Effective Compliance Officer - Learn the Secrets of Influence, Motivation and Persuasion to Become an In-demand Business Asset

Kristy Grant-Hart

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Marketing & Growth

High-Velocity Digital Marketing - Silicon Valley Secrets to Create Breakthrough Revenue in Record Time

Steven Mark Kahan

O poder do hábito - Por que fazemos o que fazemos na vida e nos negócios

Charles Duhigg

ZAG - The #1 Strategy of High-Performance Brands

Marty Neumeier

Unleashing the Ideavirus

Seth Godin

How Brands Grow 2 Revised Edition - Including Emerging Markets, Services, Durables, B2B and Luxury Brands

Jenni Romaniuk, Bryon Sharp

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Mobile Development

Python All-in-One For Dummies

John C. Shovic, Alan Simpson

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Negotiation

Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview - Pass Tough Coding Interviews, Get Noticed, and Negotiate Successfully

Gayle Laakmann McDowell, Mike Mroczka, Aline Lerner, Nil Mamano

The Nonviolent Communication Training Course

Marshall Rosenberg, Ph.D.

What They Don't Teach You At Harvard Business School

Mark H. McCormack

Rompe la barrera del no - Negocia como si te fuera la vida en ello

Chris Voss

Negotiation Genius - How to Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Brilliant Results at the Bargaining Table and Beyond

Deepak Malhotra, Max Bazerman

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Operations Management

Datenintensive Anwendungen designen - Konzepte für zuverlässige, skalierbare und wartbare Systeme

Martin Kleppmann

Flatlined - Why Lean Transformations Fail and What to Do About It

Mark DeLuzio

The TOGAF® Standard, Version 9.2

The Open Group

Practical Microsoft SQL Server 7

Brad McGehee, Rob Kraft

AWS Cloud Migration - A Modern Approach

Mukesh Das

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Product Management

Domain-Driven Design Reference - Definitions and Pattern Summaries

Eric Evans

The Customer-driven Playbook - Converting Customer Feedback Into Successful Products

Travis Lowdermilk, Jessica Rich

The User's Journey - Storymapping Products That People Love

Donna Lichaw

Design Sprint - A Practical Guidebook for Building Great Digital Products

Richard Banfield, C. Todd Lombardo, Trace Wax

The Lean Product Playbook - How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback

Dan Olsen

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Project Management

13 Hours - The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi

MItchell Zuckoff

AWS Cloud Migration - A Modern Approach

Mukesh Das

Risk Up Front - Managing Projects in a Complex World

Adam Josephs, Brad Rubenstein

Technical Program Manager's Handbook - Empowering managers to efficiently manage technical projects and build a successful career path

Joshua Alan Teter

Technical Program Manager's Handbook - Unlock your TPM potential by leading technical projects successfully and elevating your career path

Joshua Alan Teter

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Public Speaking

The Lee Strasberg Notes

Lee Strasberg

TED Talks - The official TED guide to public speaking: Tips and tricks for giving unforgettable speeches and presentations

Chris Anderson

The First Minute - How to Start Conversations that Get Results (Business Communication Skills)

Fenning

The Pop-up Pitch - The Two-Hour Creative Sprint to the Most Persuasive Presentation of Your Life

Dan Roam

Die with Zero - Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life

Bill Perkins

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Sales

High-Velocity Digital Marketing - Silicon Valley Secrets to Create Breakthrough Revenue in Record Time

Steven Mark Kahan

Selling to the C-Suite: What Every Executive Wants You to Know About Successfully Selling to the Top

Nicholas A. C. Read, Stephen J. Bistritz

Mastering Technical Sales - The Sales Engineer's Handbook

John Care, Aron Bohlig

Great Demo! - How to Create and Execute Stunning Software Demonstrations

Peter E. Cohan

The Six Habits of Highly Effective Sales Engineers

Chris White

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Social Entrepreneurship & Charity

The Return to Coatlicue

Grisel Gómez-Cano

This Is Not an Atlas - A Global Collection of Counter-Cartographies

orangotango

I Am Malala - The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban

Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb

Desert Flower - The Extraordinary Journey Of A Desert Nomad

Waris Dirie, Cathleen Miller

Divided - Why We're Living in an Age of Walls

Tim Marshall

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Social Media

Still Life with Rhetoric

Laurie E. Gries

How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age

Dale Carnegie

Hey, Whipple, Squeeze This - The Classic Guide to Creating Great Ads

Luke Sullivan

Hook Point - How to Stand Out in a 3-Second World

Brendan Kane

TikTok Marketing for Viral Sales - A Young Girl's Guide to Blowing Customers' Minds

Anastasia Olson

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Software Engineering

Refactoring - Improving the Design of Existing Code

Martin Fowler, Kent Beck

Datenintensive Anwendungen designen - Konzepte für zuverlässige, skalierbare und wartbare Systeme

Martin Kleppmann

Domain-Driven Design Reference - Definitions and Pattern Summaries

Eric Evans

Compilers: Principles, Techniques, & Tools, 2/E

Aho

Compilers, Principles, Techniques, and Tools

Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi, Jeffrey D. Ullman

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Startup: Founding & Funding

The $100 Startup - Fire Your Boss, Do What You Love and Work Better To Live More

Chris Guillebeau

Dear Founder - Letters of Advice for Anyone Who Leads, Manages, or Wants to Start a Business

Maynard Webb, Carlye Adler

Losing My Virginity - The Autobiography

Richard Branson

Startup Brasil

Pedro Mello, Marina Vidigal

The Founder's Mentality - How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth

Chris Zook, James Allen

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Strategy & Business Development

The $100 Startup - Fire Your Boss, Do What You Love and Work Better To Live More

Chris Guillebeau

Domain-Driven Design Reference - Definitions and Pattern Summaries

Eric Evans

Trust Betrayed - Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and the Selling Out of America's National Security

Scott Taylor

Vergessene Kulturen der Weltgeschichte - 25 verlorene Pfade der Menschheit

Harald Haarmann

Shadowplay - Behind the Lines and Under Fire: The Inside Story of Europe's Last War

Tim Marshall

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Supporting Refugees

Lily's Story - From the Congo

Charles Thomas

Building Evolutionary Architectures - Support Constant Change

Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, Patrick Kua

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Sustainability

Shakti Woman - Feeling Our Fire, Healing Our World

Vicki Noble

Design Against Racism - Creating Work That Transforms Communities

Omari Souza

Ideen, um das Ende der Welt zu vertagen

Ailton Krenak

Citizen First, Designer Second

Rejane Dal Bello

Vergessene Kulturen der Weltgeschichte - 25 verlorene Pfade der Menschheit

Harald Haarmann

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Team Structure & Work Methodologies

Divergent Mind - Thriving in a World that Wasn't Designed for You

Jenara Nerenberg

And... . Volume One - Foundations: Making a Difference by Levereging Polarity, Paradox, Or Dilemma

Barry Johnson

Refactoring - Improving the Design of Existing Code

Martin Fowler, Kent Beck

Pour Your Heart Into It - How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time

Howard Schultz, Dori jones Yang

The Everyday Stoic - Simple Rules for a Good Life

William Mulligan

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Time management

Das Happiness-Projekt - Oder: Wie ich ein Jahr damit verbrachte, mich um meine Freunde zu kümmern, den Kleiderschrank auszumisten, Philosophen zu lesen und überhaupt mehr Freude am Leben zu haben

Gretchen Rubin

The Everyday Stoic - Simple Rules for a Good Life

William Mulligan

The Art of Letting Go

THOUGHT CATALOG.

You are the Placebo - Making Your Mind Matter

Joe Dispenza

The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down - Bring calm to your life with the ultimate mindfulness guide from a Buddhist monk

Haemin Sunim

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Transformation

And... . Volume One - Foundations: Making a Difference by Levereging Polarity, Paradox, Or Dilemma

Barry Johnson

Determined - A Science of Life without Free Will

Robert M. Sapolsky

Visual Thinking - Empowering People and Organisations through Visual Collaboration

Williemien Brand

Conscious Business - How to Build Value Through Values

Fred Kofman, PhD

Play Nice - The Rise, Fall, and Future Of Blizzard Entertainment

Jason Schreier

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UX, Design & User Research

HERE - Where the Black Designers Are

Cheryl D. Holmes-Miller

Decolonizing Design - A Cultural Justice Guidebook

Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall

Design Against Racism - Creating Work That Transforms Communities

Omari Souza

Visual Thinking - Empowering People and Organisations through Visual Collaboration

Williemien Brand

Hans Ulrich Obrist - Interviews

Hans Ulrich Obrist

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Web Development

React: Building Modern Web Applications

Jonathan Hayward, Artemij Fedosejev, Narayan Prusty, Adam Horton, Ryan Vice, Ethan Holmes, Tom Bray

Python All-in-One For Dummies

John C. Shovic, Alan Simpson

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Writing

Still Life with Rhetoric

Laurie E. Gries

Diary of Frida Kahlo

Carlos Fuentes

A Tale for the Time Being

Ruth Ozeki

An Actor Prepares

Constantin Stanislavski

Living the Artist's Way - An Intuitive Path to Creativity

Julia Cameron

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