Here is a list of some of the books that I have read and enjoyed over the years.
"You will be the same in five years as you are now, except for the people you meet and the books you read." -Charlie "Tremendous" Jones
Leadership and Business
God is My CEO
Following God's Principles in a Bottom-Line World
by Larry S. Julian
ISBN: 1580624774
Book Description
Many business leaders struggle with the dilemma of being successful and living a life with purpose. Often, their personal beliefs seem to conflict with the bottom-line demands of today's business world. God Is My CEO offers a practical and inspirational source of guidance for achieving a meaningful and accomplished life.
God Is My CEO details the experiences of highly successful business leaders who have managed to create impressive bottom-line results while upholding God's principals, including:
- Horst Schulze, CEO, The Ritz Carlton Hotel Company
- Ken Melrose, Chairman and CEO, The Toro Company
- Bob O. Naegle Jr., Former Chairman and Co-owner, Rollerblade
- Al Quie, Former Governor, State of Minnesota
- C. William Pollard, Chairman and CEO, The ServiceMaster Company
Good to Great
Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
by Jim Collins
ISBN: 0066620996
Book Description
After establishing a definition of a good-to-great transition that involves a 10-year fallow period followed by 15 years of increased profits, Collins's crew combed through every company that has made the Fortune 500 (approximately 1,400) and found 11 that met their criteria, including Walgreens, Kimberly Clark and Circuit City. He then looks at what happened in these companies compared to others that had similar opportunities, but that didn't achieve greatness.
Lincoln on Leadership
Executive Strategies for Tough Times
by Donald T. Phillips
ISBN: 0446394599
Book Description
Takes a look at Lincoln's life and gives examples of some the qualities that he demonstrated as a great leader so that you can learn from him.
Biography's
Abandoned to God
Biography of Oswald Chambers
by David McCasland
ISBN: 092923975X
Mountain Rain
The Biography of James O. Fraser
by Eileen Crossman, Leith Samuel
ISBN: 1850784116
Misc.
Light and the Glory
Did God have a plan for America?
by: Peter Marshall, David Manuel
ISBN: 0800750543
Gaining Favor with God and Man
by William M. Thayer
ISBN: 1889128384
I Kissed Dating Goodbye
by Joshua Harris
ISBN: 1576730360
Book Description
Joshua Harris exposes the "Seven Habits of Highly Defective Dating" and offers a realistic outline of how to have a biblical vision of marriage. Harris contends that one must begin with a new attitude, viewing love, purity, and singleness from God's perspective rather than thinking that love and romance are to be enjoyed "solely for recreation."
Boy Meets Girl
Say Hello to Courtship
by Joshua Harris, Shannon Harris
ISBN: 1576737098
Book Description
Where Harris's first book encouraged readers to throw off modern ideas of romantic fixation, Boy Meets Girl goes to the next level and urges single Christian men and women to pursue courtship, and ultimately marriage, thoughtfully and prayerfully. Knowing that many readers will balk at the idea of premeditated courtship, Harris insists that dating should not be emotional recreation but rather a careful decision rooted in obedience to God.
Fun
Cheaper by the Dozen
by Frank B. Gilbreth, Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
ISBN: 006008460X
Comment by Nathan
About a Family in the early 1900's who loved children and loved life. The chapter where they tell what happened when the lady from Planned Parenthood came by one day for a visit is one of my favorites
At the Corner of Mundane and Grace
Finding Glimpses of Glory in Ordinary Days
by Chris Fabry
ISBN: 1578561175
The Mad Scientists' Club
by Bertrand R. Brinley
ISBN: 1930900104
Comment by Nathan
First published in 1961 this book is probably supposed to be for people between the ages of 9-14, but you really ought to get a hold of this book. About a group of kids who do everything from building a "Sea Monster" at their local lake that gets everyone in an uproar, to helping find a downed Air force pilot, a Hot Air bag race and building a flying mannequin.
The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists' Club
by Bertrand R. Brinley
ISBN: 1930900112
Comment by Nathan
First published in 1968 this one is just as good as the first book. This time they build a submarine, seed rain clouds during a drought, and build a flying saucer amongst other things.
Max and Me and the Time Machine
by Gery Greer
ISBN: 0064402223
Comment by Nathan
If time travel were possible this is how I would want it to work.
Book Description
When Steve brings home a time machine he bought for $2.50 at a garage sale, Max is suspicious. "There' s no such thing as time travel. Or time machines." Then they both end up in the year 1250 in medieval England — Steve as Sir Robert Marshall and Max as his horse! — and Max must admit the machine works.
Sir Robert soon finds himself in the midst of a duel to the death with the Hampshire mauler, defending not only his honor, but his life. Can Max rescue him? Will the machine return him in time to spare his life? The 20th century never looked so good.
Max and Me and the Wild West
by Gery Greer
ISBN: 015253136X
Comment by Nathan
Second book and once again a classic
Book Description
Steve and his sidekick Max land in central Arizona (in 1882). The adventures of the next two days are both hilarious and, well, funny. Steve, while sitting in a barber's chair, happens to comment on the HUGE tumbleweed outside the window. Unfortunatly, the town's gunslinger happens to be in the same room. His knickname? The Tumbleweed Kid! OOOOOOPS!
This Island Isn't Big Enough for the Four of Us!
by Gery Greer
ISBN: 0064402037
Comment by Nathan
This is another classic by Gery Greer. This one is a real hoot and is something that every young man dreams about in regards to the classic Boys vs. Girls .
Book Description
Scott and Pete picture themselves as intrepid explorers, charting a deserted island by naming field, forest, stream and cove. In reality, they're stuck with a tent decorated to look like a gingerbread house, and the deserted island has at least two other people on it, Sunny and Jill, who take pictures of some of the boys' most embarrassing moments. Enter Cornelius, an eccentric author who has built a treehouse on the island, and Jill's Aunt Katherine. What follows is a short battle of the sexes...
Authors
F.W. Boreham
Franlkin W. Boreham wrote about 53 books, many booklets, and over 2000 newspaper and Christian journal articles during his ministries in New Zealand and Australia. Most of his works were published from 1903 to 1958. They contain numerous short articles on the Australian way of life compared with Christian teachings. Most are out of print except for 6 that are currently in print.
Example
F. W. Boreham, 1886-1959 - speaking in North America in the 1930's.
"I come from Australia, and to us Australians, you Americans seem strange people. Not that you are strange; but you look queer to us. For Australia, as you know, is a topsy-turvy kind of place. It is a place where we walk with our feet to your feet; a place whose midnight corresponds with your noon and whose noon corresponds with your midnight. A place where we get up when you go to bed and go to bed when you get up; a place where we celebrate Christmas at midsummer and keep the fourth of July in the depth of winter; a place where we go north in winter if we want to be warm and go south in summer is we want to be cool; a place where the trees shed their bark instead of their leaves, where the birds laugh and where the native animals are fitted out with pockets. Now, just as all the world looks upside down to a man who is standing on his head, it is natural that, to us Australians, you Americans should appear odd. Here in my hand, for example, is the printed program of this gathering. The word Program is spelt with only seven letters. I am filled with admiration. The final letters of the word as we spell it are, of course, superfluous. But we British people never notice that, and, if we had noticed it, we should have been too conservative to make the change. But you Americans both see and act. The thing that puzzles me however, is that you, being such misers with your letters, are such spendthrifts with your syllables. You cut the final letters of our program; you deleted the u from colour and honour and valour; you even paint the words GO SLO in enormous letters across your city streets; yet you call a lift an elevator, a car an automobile, a jug a pitcher, a tram a street-car, and so on. Now this does strike us as peculiar. It would not be so bad if your long words were the right words and our short words the wrong words. But our short words are the right words and your long words are the wrong words. A lift is a lift; it not an elevator. You can lift a man up and lift him down; but you can't elevate him up and elevate him down . . ."
In explaining this, F. W. Boreham called it 'a banquet of banter', and it won admiration in the numerous conferences at which he spoke in the US and Canada in the 1920's and 1930's. It explains succinctly, the differences which bring us together with peoples of the world.
Another example On Abraham Lincoln
Others
Investor's Business Daily has a great section in their paper entitled Leadership and Success. In this section they almost always have a short Bio of someone, which they also publish on their web site
I generally try to read this everyday, lots of good little nuggets and it will introduce you to a whole world of people that you may not have known about. The Bio's will be on everything from Artists, politicians, sports players, business men and just about anyone else you can think of. Excellent resource.