food for thought books

A Treasury of Deception: Liars, Misleaders, Hoodwinkers and the Extraordinary True Stories of History’s Greatest Hoaxes, Fakes and Frauds shows that our willingness to believe and forgive those who deceive us knows no bounds.

Recommended reading for any future vegetarians or vegans, Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability, is written by an former vegan.

A short and sweet inspiration from Seth Godin Poke the Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?

Research about why we eat as much as we do and find it so hard to eat less Mindless Eating is often quoted by others.

Influencer: The Power to Change Anything. Hmm, well maybe, if you can be bothered…

Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High. Or you could just avoid them altogether.

The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone

Explains most things in life, even if it doesn’t fix them: The Selfish Gene

Laugh out loud funny: Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour

Was far better than the American equivalent: Snobbery: The American Version. Perhaps because I’m English.

Always entertaining and very readable, Malcolm Gladwell turns his mind to What the Dog Saw: and Other Adventures

If you’re in a toxic workplace you may enjoy The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t.

Banker to the Poor: Micro-lending and the Battle Against World Poverty makes for inspiring reading of the ‘teach a man to fish’ variety.

Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard. Dan and Chip (Chip?) Heath explain what you’ll know if you’ve read The Selfish Gene.

Or you could use the Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness approach.

Choke: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal about Getting It Right When You Have to

was better than Bounce: How Champions are Made

More from the Heath brothers in Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Take Hold and Others Come Unstuck.

A gift for yourself or your manager perhaps. Good Boss, Bad Boss: How to be the Best… and Learn from the Worst.