Great gift books

A Higher Standard of Leadership

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

The Abundant Community

Bestselling authors John McKnight and Peter Block offer compelling new understanding of how and why community has been lo...

Power and Love

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

Best Care Anywhere

It's shocking but true. The VA health system has quietly accomplished everything that the country expected from health re...

America As Empire

In America as Empire, Jim Garrison urges us to face up to the complexities and responsibilities inherent in the indisputa...

Capitalism 3.0

Working Assets Co-founder and successful journalist Peter Barnes details a revolutionary market-based approach to “upgrad...

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 ...

Spiritual Capital

Our world is at a crossroads; we must choose between two alternatives. The first is capitalism as we know it today-an amo...

Rooftop Revolution

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

The Self-Made Myth

This book debunks one of America’s most influential myths: the idea that successful people achieve their status entirely ...

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...

Growing Local Value

Hanna Andersson founder Gun Denhart and BALLE co-founder Laury Hammel show how every aspect of a business (from product ...

Our Common Wealth

The most lucid and compelling examination yet written for the role and value of the commons in our world and why the comm...

Collective Visioning

Drawing on Linda Stout's thirty years of experience training organizers, advocates, activists, and coalition groups, "Col...

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?

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...