Great gift books

A Higher Standard of Leadership

Would you like to know the secrets of Gandhi's inspirational leadership style?

Power and Love

War and peace are the two main ways that people try to solve our toughest group, community, and societal conflicts. Kaha...

This Changes Everything

YES! Magazine has been at the forefront of reporting on the Occupy Wall Street/99% movement that has spread all over the ...

So Far from Home

Bestselling author Margaret Wheatley is a highly-respected though leader about how life, organizations, leadership, and o...

99 to 1

“We are the 99%” is the rallying cry of millions of people involved in the “Occupy Wall Street” movement. This is the fir...

Rooftop Revolution

We're at a tipping point in our global movement from dirty, big-industry electricity-- countries like Germany have 25% of...

Small Change

In this hard-hitting and controversial exposé, activist, writer, and former Ford Foundation officer Michael Edwards criti...

Citizen Wealth

Charismatic activist and chief organizer for ACORN (the nation’s largest grassroots community organization, with more tha...

Share This!

Blogger, tech guru, and leading thinker on the convergence of media, activism, and technology Deanna Zandt shows how the ...

Invisible Capital

Writer, consultant and speaker Chris Rabb coined the term "invisible capital" to represent those unseen forces that drama...

All Together Now

As the new century unfolds, we face a host of economic and social challenges--jobs lost to "off shoring," a huge and grow...

Framing the Future

Polls consistently show that most Americans are progressives at heart. In FRAMING THE FUTURE political consultant and co...

Unite and Conquer

Progressives have been using divide-and-conquer tactics stolen from conservatives to further their own cause with limited...

False Profits

Despite reports that the recession may be ending, the unemployment rate is sky high and home foreclosures are at record l...

Plunder and Blunder

For the second time this decade, the U.S. economy is sinking into a recession due to the collapse of a financial bubble. ...

How the Poor Can Save Capitalism

This book has a simple message for business leaders: you help yourselves by helping the poor. Instead of feeling as if th...

Rebalancing Society

Internationally renowned bestselling author Henry Mintzberg offers an original and compelling analysis of the roots of ou...

Why Wait to be Great?

How do you get past what's holding you back and embrace the power of your best self?

Overfished Ocean Strategy

Business is waking up to a global shortage of resources of every kind. Raw materials are running out, whether in Tokyo or...

With Liberty and Dividends for All

Journalist and business leader Barnes offers new understanding of why our middle class is withering and a powerful new so...

The Nonviolence Handbook

Sharing a lifetime’s worth of learning and experience by noted peace scholar Michael Nagler, this work distills the pract...

The Resilient Investor

Socially responsible investors try to avoid putting their assets in companies that do damage in the world. Resilient inve...

The Nonviolence Handbook (Audio)

What will convince people that nonviolence is not the path of the weak but the path of the strong?

Breaking Through Gridlock

Conversations about social change devolve quickly into conflict when participants don’t agree. Experienced practitioners ...

Change the Story, Change the Future

Every society is governed by stories—overarching cultural frameworks that determine what people value and how they unders...

Your Happiness Was Hacked

“Technology is a great servant but a terrible master. This is the most important book ever written about one of the most ...

The Five Legends

Drawing on 30 years of helping families, this profound fable by the Anasazi Foundation illustrates the true anguish of co...

Citizen Capitalism

Top Cornell law professor Lynn Stout and her coauthors Tamara Belinfanti and Sergio Gramitto offer a visionary but practi...

Why We Elect Narcissists and Sociopaths–And How We Can Stop!

Bestselling author, therapist, lawyer, and mediator Bill Eddy describes how dangerous, high-conflict personalities have g...

The Making of a Democratic Economy

Our economy is designed by the 1 percent, for the 1 percent. This book offers a compelling vision of an equitable, ecolog...

In Defense of Public Service

“Dr. Alexander . . . brings to this book an acute understanding of both why our cherished form of government—and those wh...

From the Ground Up

“Everyone in a hospital leadership role should read this book as it offers a wealth of practical advice for organizations...

Thriving in the Fight

Social justice work is more crucial than ever, but it can be physically and emotionally draining. Longtime activist Denis...