Recommended Books and Media

* Thomas Sowell: A Personal Odyssey

* Peter F. Drucker: Adventures of a Bystander

* The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction

* Ayn Rand: Atlas Shrugged

* Malcolm Gladwell: Blink : The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

* Al Ries: Bottom-Up Marketing

* Jeff Hecht: City of Light: The Story of Fiber Optics (Sloan Technology Series)

* Carver A. Mead: Collective Electrodynamics: Quantum Foundations of Electromagnetism

* Geoffrey A. Moore: Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers

* P. J. O'Rourke: Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics

* Randall E. Stross: Eboys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work

* Henry Hazlitt: Economics in One Lesson: 50th Anniversary Edition

* Orson Scott Card: Ender's Game

* Francine Hardaway: Foster Mom: A Journey of Self-Discovery

* Isaac Asimov: Foundation

* Milton Friedman: Free to Choose: A Personal Statement

* Jim Collins: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

* Harvey Butchart: Grand Canyon Treks: 12,000 Miles Through the Grand Canyon

* Charles H. Ferguson: High Stakes, No Prisoners: A Winner's Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars

* Harry Browne: How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World: A Handbook for Personal Liberty

* Darrell Huff: How to Lie With Statistics

* Richard Bach: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

* Geoffrey A. Moore: Inside the Tornado: Marketing Strategies from Silicon Valley's Cutting Edge

* Evan I. Schwartz: Juice: The Creative Fuel That Drives World-Class Inventors* Linus Torvalds: Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary

* Al Ries: Marketing Warfare

* Heman Melville: Moby-Dick

* Michael Lewis: Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

* Robert Wright: Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny

* Robert M. Metcalfe: Packet Communication

* P. J. O'Rourke: Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government

* Seth Godin: Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers

* Michael Ritchie: Please Stand by: A Prehistory of Television

* Al Ries: Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind, 20th Anniversary Edition

* Seth Godin: Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable

* Guy Kawasaki: Selling the Dream

* Richard P. Feynman: Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

* Guy Kawasaki: The Art Of The Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide For Anyone Starting Anything

* Seth Godin: The Big Red Fez: How To Make Any Web Site Better

* Richard Dawkins: The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design

* Susan F. Shultz: The Board Book: Making Your Corporate Board a Strategic Force in Your Company's Success

* Richard Bach: The Bridge Across Forever

* Peter F. Drucker: The Effective Executive Revised

* Peter F. Drucker: The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management

* Richard Dawkins: The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene

* Dale Dauten: The Gifted Boss: How to Find, Create and Keep Great Employees

* Evan I. Schwartz: The Last Lone Inventor: A Tale of Genius, Deceit, and the Birth of Television

* Randy Komisar: The Monk and the Riddle: The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur

* Robert A. Heinlein: The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

* The New Yorker: The New Yorker Dogs 2005 Calendar

* Adam Cohen: The Perfect Store: Inside eBay

* F. A. Hayek: The Road to Serfdom

* Richard Dawkins: The Selfish Gene

* Jody Hoffer Gittell: The Southwest Airlines Way : Using the Power of Relationships to Achieve High Performance

* Malcolm Gladwell: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

* Tom Standage: The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers

* Harold Evans: They Made America: Two Centuries of Innovators from the Steam Engine to the Search Engine

* Aaron Lynch: Thought Contagion: How Belief Spreads Through Society

* Seth Godin: Unleashing the Ideavirus

* U. S. Marine Corps Staff: Warfighting: The United States Marine Corps

* Richard P. Feynman: What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character

* Katie Hafner: Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet

* Brian Fugere, Chelsea Hardaway, Jon Warshawsky: Why Business People Speak Like Idiots: A Bullfighter's Guide