General Interest
GENERAL INTEREST
When confined to a small space for long periods of time it is important to have as many things to distract you to make the time pass by quickly. Books are a popular distraction when traveling however the material must include topics unassociated with business or the work environment. Here is an list of books that I have carried with me and read on the long and boring flights to Southeast Asia:
- Beijing Confidential, Tales of comrades lost and found, Jan Wong, Anchor Canada
- Collapse, How societies choose to fall or succeed, Jared Diamond, Penguin
- The First Industrial Nation, An economic history of Britain (1700 – 1914), Peter Mathias, University Paperbacks
- Guns, Germs and Steel, The fate of human societies, Norton
- High and Mighty, SUVs: the world’s most dangerous vehicles and how they got that way, Keith Bradsher, BBS
- How to Hire & Develop Your Next Top Performer, The five qualities that make salespeople great, Herb Greenberg/Harold Weinstein/ Patrick Sweeney, McGraw Hill
- In Search of Excellence, Lessons from America’s best-run companies, Tom Peter J. Peters & Robert H Waterman Jr., Harper and Row
- Internal Combustion, How corporations and governments addicted the world to oil and derailed the alternatives, Edwin Black, St. Martin’s press
- K.C., The biography of K.C. Irving, Douglas How & Ralph Costello, Key Porter Books
- Marathon, You can do it, Jeff Galloway, Shelter
- Marathon Training, The proven 100-day program for success, Joe Henderson, Human Kenetics
- Never Complain Never Explain, The story of Henry Ford II, Victor Lasky, Marek
- The Paradox of Choice, Why more is less, Barry Schwartz, Harper Perenial
- Powershift, Knowledge, wealth and violence at the edge of the 21st century, Alvin Toffler, Bantam
- Preparing for the Twenty First Century, Paul Kennedy, Harper Collins
- Running, Start to finish, John Stanton, Lone Pine
- A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson, Anchor, Canada
- Storming the Fortress, How Canadian businesses can conquer Europe in 1992, Gordon Pitts, Harper Collins
- To The Last Drop, Canada’s and the world’s water crisis, Michael Keating, Macmillan of Canada