Below you will find a list of books that we recommend. All of these books make you think and have great perspectives on life.
The following books are our favorite books since they detail a great deal about our personal development as an individual, as a society, and as citizens of the world. We strongly recommend them! If you would like to publish a book review, add books or have any suggestions, please send us an email to mirilenoff@knownsuccess.com
In this book, E.P. Selligman shows us how we can enrich and grow our lives. Based on positive psychology, the book details which ways makes the human being full. It is not only happiness, but also exploring talents, establishing relationships with others, feeling pleasure and contributing to the world. This book takes a different angle and questions us in the areas of education, economics, therapy, medicine and politics. This is a book that includes many areas of development, including our personal area.
In this book, the authors explain to us in which way the world has changed and how massive data will change the way in which we live. The government uses this data to fight terrorism, but businesses uses this data to predict buying patterns. We have reached a moment in which information can predict our behavior. The authors explain how this is changing our lives and what we can do to prevent danger.
This book is fundamental to understand new developments in the world. Yunus received the Nobel Peace Price in 2006 for his growth in microcredit. He is the pioneer of microcredit, and his book details his developments in social business as a continued practice in today’s world by major corporations. Social business has become a new dimension of capitalism. Through this book, we hope you learn from Yunus’ example.
This book shows us how we can apply different business models in our world. With practical and innovative ideas, the authors are very clear and they design a systematic process for the reader. We can find many examples and exercises to show the content. This book is a guide for visionaries and businessmen and women to improve their business and for anyone who would like to learn different business models which is a skill that is necessary in any field.
This book details a visual method for business. Using only one piece of paper, the authors explain this method to evaluate, summarize and reflect any business idea or business product. By doing this, the reader understands different and new creative ways to adapt and find satisfactory solutions. The book teaches us the model of business and helps us improve our professional area.
Why the book Creating a New Civilization through Social Entrepreneurship? This is a book that can be generalized for students of any area at the University level. Also, this book shows how entrepreneurship is possible, especially in tough times of financial and economic crisis. Social entrepreneurs are emerging in all facets of society undertaking important tasks. We hope you enjoy this book and learn from great entrepreneurs.
In this book, Ken Robinson explains the need to reform education so that it becomes more practical and creative. Robinson details his plan in his book and how to make work his new educative system. Today’s education is based on the Industrial Revolution. After 200 years, a drastic change is necessary. Robinson would like to use today’s resources so that students can maximize their potential. This book helps us reflect on the great sense of education in the XXI century.
Additionally, Ken Robinson has talked about this topic on TED. Please click here to watch the videoconference.
Tal Ben-Shahar shows us how the small decisions that we make in our lives are as determinant to us for our happiness. The book shows us how we can change our lives so that we have a happy life. With the 101 examples, the author shows us a different way to choose the life that we want to live. We invite you to read the book and put your life in perspective. This book can have a huge influence in the questionnaire that you completed in the first phase.
With David Bornstein, the level of human consciousness is reborn as a vital element in the new world trend of Social Entrepreneur at every level of the human being. This will take us to the evolutionary development which breaks all current paradigms that may represent all of us, with determination and innovation, a huge difference and impact to our global village.
Through this book, you will find an interesting perspective on life cycles to modern discoveries. Braden explains how our present mirrors our past cycles of time. You will find how to make sense of the constant changes in today’s world. Through these discoveries, we will be guided away from the destructive choices we have made in the past and we will be demonstrated a way “to the greatest possibilities of our lives”. The author does a great job explaining how the past can reveal our future.
In this book, Malala Yousafzai, Nobel Peace Prize winner, details her courageous story of fighting for her basic rights. The right to study and go to school was the impetus for Malala. She was shot in a bus while she was going to school. She writes about the importance of education for women and the importance to fight for what one believes in. Malala has become a peace symbol at her early age of 16 and shows us how to have the power to change the world.
Through this assignment, you will get the vision of the benefits of Globalization in this world, rather than the distraction of seeing it as an inconvenience. We can take the opportunity to reduce poverty, to include the rights of women and children, as well as democracy, culture, human rights, and improve our environment. Then, we can also minimize the social and economic risks, or the fanatic financial capitalism.
In this book, Brené Brown writes about the significance of vulnerability. Brown has heard numerous leaders of worldly companies where these leaders have had the courage, they have fallen, but they have risen. Brown has seen how they all have something in common. With this book, Brown shows us the power of our emotions and the power of the process to be who we are and admitting our vulnerability. This is a book where one understands how to write our own histories and be able to write our own final chapter.
In this book, the authors explain the three transitions that the world has had in the history of the modern world. We are actually undergoing a fourth revolution. Through industrialization, we have transformed our economies and they have left us toxic effects. The book details the crisis and guides us towards the future. Some ideas are about how to change our governments and progress. The future is in our hands and we need to act as soon as possible.
Angus Deaton details the possibilities of change in our social, economic, international and health environments. The Great Escape, gives us an interesting perspective through economics and poverty. Deaton explains the history of 250 years where some parts of the world change their ways to a sustainable process which opened up possibilities to what we see today. The world has been transformed and the new technologies have opened up many new opportunities. Deaton shows us how this world’s standards have changed our world and gives us a guide of the direction that we should approach.
Why the book Hidden Connections? Because it is a book that integrates the different technical and human disciplines that allows us to have a holistic vision in the resolution of developing alternatives in interdisciplinary matters as well as in the globalized world in which we live in, and to obtain a sustainable development.
In this book, Sonja Lyubomirsky clarifies life’s promises that say make us happy. What people say that makes us happy makes us unhappy many times, what people don’t believe that makes us happy is the absolute happiness. Having a clear vision where not everything is black and white, the authors teaches us how we can change our life. The book is full of practical lessons that can be adapted to what we believe in. This book shows with scientific evidence that it is not only our circumstances but our way of thinking that is the most important to reach happiness.
Michael A Singer shares with us the importance of how to liberate our mind and spirt beyond any limit. This book teaches us how to learn about ourselves and about the relationships between us and the world. Through meditation, there is a conscious development that can erase everything to reach the happiness that we desire. Singer explains how these energies within us can liberate our thoughts and emotions that limit our conscience. This book is the freedom of ourselves to reach to be who we want to be.
This book is fundamental to integrate the advances and scientific tendencies in our daily lives as the one of our communities, optimizing the evolution possibilities. It is very satisfactory to find integrated in a single film and/or book most of the thoughts, theories, and discoveries of the present scientists; with greater reason when they appear to us of an accessible way and with an ample range of applications that are concrete and practical
Through this book, we realize how we can reach to invent the future. Thiel explains the vertical invention instead of the horizontal invention. Meaning, generating one invention takes us from 0 to 1. Generating a horizontal invention takes us from 1 to n. To do what we already know is not ideally what the world needs. In the end, we need to start thinking for ourselves to reach that place. This book transcends any area and makes us reevaluate courageous ideas.
Additionally, the following list contains names of other books that you might find interesting:
Written by: Kevin D. Haggerty & Aaron Doyle.
Written by: Peter Thiel.
Written by: Parsons Paul.
Written by: Warren Berger.
Written by: Howard Gardner.
Written by: Muhammad Yunus.
Written by: Manfred Eigen.
Written by: Greg Holden.
Written by: Lawrence Weinstein and John A. Adams.
Written by: Freeman A. Hrabowski III.
Written by: Annie Murphy Paul.
Written by: Anthony Robbins.
Written by: Edgar Morin.
Written by: Ethan S. Sanders and Sivasaliam Thiagarajan.
Written by: Mario Bunge.
Written by: George A. Akerlof, Robert J. Shiller.
Written by: Ervin Laszlo.
Written by: Bruce Resemble and Fred Kutter.
Written by: Fritjof Capra, Alicia Juarrero.
Written by: Marion Nestle.
Written by: Ervin Laszlo.
Written by: Antonio Damasio.
Written by: Edgar Morin.
Written by: Jerry Acuff and Wally Wood.
Written by: Carlos Calle.
Written by: by Luciano Floridi.
Written by: Ervin Laszlo.
Written by: David Eagleman.
Written by: Malcolm Gay.
Written by: Lynne McTaggart.
Written by: Paul Polak & Mal Warwick.
Written by: Andrei Sakharow.
Written by: Gregg Braden.
Written by: Ken Robinson and Lou Aronica.
Written by: Bradley Nelson.
Written by: Matt Ridley.
Written by: C.K Prahalad.
Written by: Noam Wasserman.
Written by: Edgar Morin.
Written by: Oliver Sacks.
Written by: Kenichi Omae.
Written by: Salman Khan.
Written by: Oliver Morton.
Written by: Bradley Nelson.
Written by: Gregg Braden.
Written by: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
Written by: V.S. Ramachandran.
Written by: Anne-Marie Slaughter.
Written by: Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang.
Written by: Steve Johnson.
Written by: Shane O’Mara.
Written by: Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams.
Written by: Mary Kay Slesinger Rich.
