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Good Books

Here’s a short selection of good books about the mind, human behaviour & communication. All of them have some bearing on how to have good conversations, some more directly – like Dialogue and The Art of Thinking Together – and some more tangentially – like Focus or Just Breathe.

  • 10% Happier, Dan Harris
  • Behave, Robert Sapolsky
  • Blink, Malcom Gladwell
  • Cure, Jo Marchant
  • Descartes’ Error, Antonio Damasio
  • Dialogue and The Art of Thinking Together, William Isaacs
  • Drive, Daniel H. Pink
  • Embodied Communication, Maja Storch & Wolfgang Tschacher
  • Focus, Daniel Goleman
  • From Gutenberg To Zuckerberg, John Naughton
  • Fühlen, Denken, Handeln, Gerhard Roth
  • Genes, Cells, and Brains, Hilary Rose & Steven Rose
  • Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari
  • How The Body Shapes The Mind, Shaun Gallagher
  • Just Breathe, Dan Brule
  • Liars, Lovers, and Heroes, Steven R. Quartz & Terrence J. Sejnowski
  • LikeWar, P.W. Singer & Emerson T. Booking
  • Mindfulness, Mark Williams & Danny Penman
  • Mindwise, Nicholas Epley
  • Mirroring People, Marco Iacoboni
  • Miteinander Reden, Friedemann Schulz von Thun
  • Neuropsychotherapie, Klaus Grawe
  • Positive Psychology, Sandra L. Foster & Jeffrey E. Auerbach
  • Positive Psychology Coaching, Robert Biswas-Diener & Ben Dean
  • Predictably Irrational, Dan Ariely
  • Reinventing Organizations, Frederic Laloux
  • Revolution im Kopf, Gerd Kempermann
  • Soft-Wired, Michael Merzenich
  • Symbols, Signals and Noise, J.R. Pierce
  • The Age of Empathy, Frans De Waal
  • The Biology of Belief, Bruce H. Lipton
  • The Brain, David Eagleman
  • The Brain That Changes Itself, Norman Doidge
  • The Culture Code, Daniel Coyle
  • The Culture Map, Erin Meyer
  • The Invisible Gorilla, Christopher Chabris & Daniel Simons
  • The Joy Of Living, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche & Eric Swanson
  • The Person and the Situation, Lee Ross & Richard E. Nisbett
  • The Personality Puzzle, David Funder
  • The Pressure Principle, Dave Alred
  • The Shallows, Nicholas Carr
  • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, Mark Manson
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahnemann
  • Thought as a System, David Bohm
  • We Need To Talk, Celeste Headlee
  • Wer Bin Ich – und wenn ja, wie viele?, Richard David Precht
  • What To Think About Machines That Think, John Brockman (ed.)
  • Wherever You Go There You Are, Jon Kabat-Zinn
  • Wired For Culture, Mark Pagel