Books

index:

1. nature & spirit
2. personal development
3. nutrition
4. relax feelgood & travel
5. stories for inspiration 
6. poetry 
7. nature & garden
8. company development 

1. Nature & connection books

• Your Guide to Forest Bathing (Expanded Edition)

In Your Guide to Forest Bathing, you'll discover a path that you can use to begin a practice of your own that includes specific activities presented by Amos Clifford, one of the world's most experienced forest bathing experts. Whether you're in a forest or woodland, public park, or just your own backyard, this book will be your personal guide as you explore the natural world in a way you may have never thought possible. 

Simply being present in the natural world, with all of our senses fully alive, can have a remarkably healing effect. It can also awaken in us our latent but profound connection with all living things. This is "forest bathing," a practice inspired by the Japanese tradition of shinrin-yoku. It is a gentle, meditative approach to being with nature and an antidote to our nature-starved lives that can heal our relationship with the more-than-human world. 

• Natural-Navigator

Starting with a simple question – 'Which way am I looking?' – Tristan Gooley blends natural science, myth, folklore and the history of travel to introduce you to the forgotten art of finding your way using nature's clues, from the feel of a rock to the look of the moon. Using Tristan's expert insight and anecdotes, you'll develop a unique insight into the world around you. From learning why some trees grow the way they do and how they can help you find your way in the countryside, to discovering how it's possible to find North simply by looking at a puddle and how natural signs can be used to navigate on the open ocean or in the heart of the city. Wonderfully detailed and full of fascinating stories, this is the seminal guide to the rediscovered art of natural navigation. 

• Secret life of plants  

Explore the inner world of plants and its fascinating relation to mankind, as uncovered by the latest discoveries of science. A perennial best seller!

In this truly revolutionary and beloved work, drawn from remarkable research, Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird cast light on the rich psychic universe of plants. Now available in a new edition, The Secret Life of Plants explores plants' response to human care and nurturing, their ability to communicate with man, plants' surprising reaction to music, their lie-detection abilities, their creative powers, and much more.

Tompkins and Bird's classic book affirms the depth of humanity's relationship with nature and adds special urgency to the cause of protecting the environment that nourishes us.

• the Alchemist

A global phenomenon, The Alchemist has been read and loved by over 62 million readers, topping bestseller lists in 74 countries worldwide. Santiago, a young shepherd living in the hills of Andalucia, feels that there is more to life than his humble home and his flock. One day he finds the courage to follow his dreams into distant lands, each step galvanised by the knowledge that he is following the right path: his own. The people he meets along the way, the things he sees and the wisdom he learns are life-changing. With Paulo Coelho’s visionary blend of spirituality, magical realism and folklore, The Alchemist is a story with the power to inspire nations and change people’s lives.

• Grounded nature connection

Reflecting on nature's unknowable and mysterious qualities, Grounded explores how we can therapeutically benefit from a deeper connection with nature, finding within it balance, stillness, solitude, resilience, contentment, activity, fearlessness – and our own wild voice.

• How to read a tree

'Will undoubtedly leave you with a deeper appreciation of trees...your country walks will never be quite the same again' - Daily Mail

Each tree we meet is filled with signs that reveal secrets about the life of that tree and the landscape we stand in. The clues are easy to spot when you know what to look for, but remain invisible to most people.
In How to Read a Tree, you'll discover the simple principles that explain the shapes and patterns you can see in trees and what they mean. And you'll learn rare skills that can be applied every time you pass a tree, whether you are in a town or a wilder spot. 

• How to read water

'A wonderful read... It's one of those books that gives you a new pair of eyes to see the world in a different way. I've been transported by it... You'll love every minute, the writing is absolutely beautiful.' - Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
A must-have book for walkers, sailors, swimmers, anglers and everyone interested in the natural world, in How To Read Water, Natural Navigator Tristan Gooley shares knowledge, skills, tips and useful observations to help you enjoy the landscape around you and learn about the magic of the outdoors from your living room.
Includes over 700 clues, signs and patterns. From wild swimming in Sussex to wayfinding in Oman, via the icy mysteries of the Arctic, Tristan Gooley draws on his own pioneering journeys to reveal the secrets of ponds, puddles, rivers, oceans and more to show us all the skills we need to read the water around us.

2. Personal development books

• Mr. Jim Rohn personal development coach and motivational speaker

This extraordinary novel by Jim Rohn and Chris Widener will inspire you to take your life to the next level and beyond. It will challenge and encourage you to become the best you can be!

Twelve Pillars blends together the fundamental principles and teachings of Jim Rohn into the unique tapestry of a fictional account that imparts the secrets to success in life.

• Mr. Eckard Tolle Power of now  

“To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer to the universe.” Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now 

• Atomic habbits

Learn how to: make time for new habits (even when life gets crazy);

overcome a lack of motivation and willpower - design your environment to make success easier - get back on track when you fall off course. Real change comes from the compound effect of hundreds of small decisions: doing two push-ups a day, waking up five minutes early, or holding a single short phone call. etc

• What to say when you talk to yourself 

By learning how to talk to yourself in new ways, you will notice a dramatic improvement in all areas of your life. You will feel better and accomplish more. It will help you achieve more at work and at home, lose weight, overcome fears, stop smoking and become more confident. And it works. Shad Helmsetter, Ph.D, is a bestselling author of many personal growth books, and the leading authority in the field of Self-Talk. 

• Minimalism

Simplify Life. We all have habits in our lives. Unfortunately, most of our habits are unconscious and they dont serve us. This leads us to feel overwhelmed and out of control. Sometimes it feels like anxiety and stress seems to come out of nowhere.

The modern world is making people feel overwhelmed and exhausted. But how can we take back our power and feel more happiness every day? This book is about using minimalist ideas to help you identify areas in your life that are working against you. This book will also walk you through the process to best use minimalism in your life to simplify and improve every area. 

• Motivational quotes

Why Motivational Quotes are Important for Everyone. Quotes are Useful for Everyone. Thoughts are an important aspect to humanity, as it allows us time to process ideas and...
The Appeal to the Subconscious. Inspirational or motivational quotes capture and appeal to your subconscious mind, which...
Cures Procrastination. One of the toughest things we all have to deal with is procrastination. Whilst being quiet to...
A Ninja Warrior to Depression. There is no better cure for feeling depressed or down, as a motivational... 

• Mindfulness for Beginners 

Here you are invited to learn how to transform your relationship to the way you think, feel, love, work, and play—and thereby awaken to and embody more completely who you really are. We may long for wholeness, suggests Jon Kabat-Zinn, but the truth is that it is already here and already ours.   

• Letting go

Your mind should be your safe zone, not the noisiest place in the world. Restore your inner peace. If you are always on edge and unable to relax, this book is for you. Choose the pace that you want to live life at - you DO have a choice. Control your thoughts; control your life; control your happiness. The Art of Letting Go is all about organizing the mess in your mind. It's about how to stop focusing on the past that is over, or the future that may never occur, and being present in the situations that you can actually have agency in. It's about how to rewire the anxious connections in your brain, and switch your mental programming and beliefs. It's about understanding that our brains are made for 10,000 BC, and that you can afford to let your guard down. 

• 5 am club

Legendary leadership and elite performance expert Robin Sharma introduced The 5am Club concept over twenty years ago, based on a revolutionary morning routine that has helped his clients maximize their productivity, activate their best health and bulletproof their serenity in this age of overwhelming complexity. Now, in this life-changing book, handcrafted by the author over a rigorous four-year period, you will discover the early-rising habit that has helped so many accomplish epic results while upgrading their happiness, helpfulness and feelings of aliveness 

• I Ching book of changes

For centuries THE I CHING OR BOOK OF CHANGES has been consulted for wise advice. Its enduring popularity lies in the lessons it teaches about how to attain life's greatest rewards - prosperity, understanding and peace of mind. On the surface, it is merely a book that has survived for thousands of years in many different forms. Underneath, however, THE I CHING is a living breathing oracle, a patient and all-seeing teacher who can be relied upon for flawless advice at every turning point in our lives. 

• The 8th habit

From effectiveness to greatness 

In the introduction, Covey says that the chief difficulty in progressing from effectiveness to greatness, both for individuals and organizations, stems from an existential frustration, a painful lack of fulfillment. The problem is that most of our leadership/management models are relics of the Industrial Age which treats people as “things” and are incapable of inspiring their best talent, ingenuity, and creativity. This creates a codependent cycle where people consent to being treated as things, which leads to half-hearted effort, which leads to greater managerial control, which leads to others’ consent, and so on. In such an environment, people either rebel, quit, maliciously obey, or at best willingly comply. “But in today’s Information/Knowledge Worker Age — only one who is respected as a whole person in a whole job — one who is paid fairly, treated kindly, used creatively, and given opportunities to serve human needs in principled ways — will bring cheerful cooperation, heartfelt commitment or creative excitement” to the job.

3. Nutrition

• Your body many cries for water

For the first time in medical history, F. Batmanghelidj, M.D., has identified the crisis calls of the body for water --pain, asthma, diabetes, hypertension, multiple sclerosis, chronic fatigue syndrome, and more. He has discovered the key to a longer, healthier, and more vigorous life. He shares with you his medical breakthrough that many people put their minds and bodies under intolerable and unecessary stress and become sick simply because they do not drink enough water. Unintentional dehydration leads to illness and painful, degenerative diseases that can be prevented, treated, and cure by drinking plenty of water. You will learn how to use water to: * Prevent and reverse premature aging * Eliminate pains including heartburn, back pain, arthritis, colitis pain, anginal pain, migraine headaches * Cure asthma in a few days, naturally and forever * Cure hypertension without diuretics or other medication * Lose weight effortlessly and naturally, without strict dieting

• mucusfree diet - healing Ehret Arnold
  

Professor Arnold Ehret's Mucusless diet healing system contains one of the most profound revelations of the 21st century: that mucus-forming foods are unnatural for us to eat and are the fundamental cause of many human illnesses. But how can you eliminate these foods and cleanse the body from their waste? This book has everything You need to Know to Instantly begin Cleansing the body and gaining a NEW lease on Life

• dr. Bernard Jensen healing through cleansing and mucusfree diet

Based on 60 years of patient studies, Dr. Jensen's Guide to Better Bowel Care gives you all the information you need to improve and monitor your gut health.  Inlcuding charts, photos, and Dr. Jensen's decades of expertise, this classic book provides specific dietary guidelines for proper anti-inflammatory bowel maintenance that will enhance your microbiome and address leaky gut, along with a colonic cleansing system and effective exercise program. Bernard Jensen, D.C., Ph.D., known as the Father of Holistic Health, has practiced natural healing therapies for more than 70 years, lectured in more than two dozen countries, and counseled and taught more than 350,000 patients. He is the recipient of the President's Award by the National Nutritional Foods Association, the Golden Carrot Award by the Center for the Advancement of Cancer Education, and the Pioneer Doctor of the Year Award by the National Health Federation. A true legend in the field of natural health, Dr. Jensen has helped millions achieve a better quality of life in body, mind, and spirit.

• Fit for life a classic in the healthfood book section

All diets work and all diets fail, but here at last is hope for anyone who wants to achieve - and maintain - permanent weight loss.
Fit For Life is a revolutionary diet and lifestyle programme that allows you to eat unlimited portions of the foods you like and leads you to new levels of overall good health and wellbeing. As you finally put an end to all those years of boring calorie counting and damaging yo-yo dieting, this simple, natural Fit for Life reveals...
vital principles to bring permanent weight loss and high energy - the secrets of timing and food combining that work with you

4. Feel good books

• The wisdom of Tuscany

This sun-drenched land has become synonymous with the ideal life. But it didn’t happen by chance. Since the Etruscans, the independence-loving Tuscans have treated their breathtaking countryside with sagacious respect and built hamlets and hill towns in which they perfected a culture of simplicity, beauty, neighborliness, good food, and love of daily life.
Ferenc Máté has lived in Tuscany for twenty years. Through personal experience and anecdotal history he explores the sources of this idyllic existence, which provides continuous economic stability, physical and emotional security, and a fortifying sense of belonging. From their organic gardens to their mouthwatering cuisine, from high-quality, craftsmen-made products and family-run businesses, to the joys centered in human contact and community, Tuscans live a healthy, all-senses-satisfying, emotionally rich life. Máté—engaging, funny, and insightful—nudges us all to live like Tuscans. With our frantic world so storm-tossed and rudderless, this might just be the book for our times.

• The Authenticity Project: The bestselling uplifting, joyful and feel-good book of the year loved by readers everywhere

Don't miss Clare's new, utterly feel-good book How to Age Disgracefully - available now. Treat yourself to the warm, poignant and uplifting Radio 2 Book Club pick, loved by hundreds of thousands of readers. 'The first book which has made me laugh in a long time' 'A charming, funny and uplifting story' 'Full of optimism ... I defy anyone not to pick it up and be both transported and delighted' 'This book helped to lift my spirits' 'Well-written, great characters , a charming tale, and packed with feel-good factor'

• The Man Who Listens To Horses: The worldwide million-copy bestseller

When Monty Roberts was thirteen years old he went off alone into the deserts of Nevada to watch mustangs in the wild. What he learned about their methods of communication changed his life forever. His horse whisperer powers may seem like magic, but his amazing "horse sense" is based on a lifetime of experience and a deep love and understanding of horses. He can take a wild, high-strung horse who has never been handled before and persuade that horse to accept a bridle, saddle, and rider in thirty minutes.

5. Stories for inspiration 

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6. Poetry

• The love poems of Rumi

Beautifully illustrated edition. For more than eight centuries, Jalaluddin Muhammad Balkhi Rumi—commonly referred to simply as Rumi—has enchanted and enthralled readers from every faith and background with his universal themes of love, friendship, and spirituality, which he seamlessly wove into resplendent poetry. The verses herein perfectly express and are centered on the theme of love, along with the quest, desire, and deeper meanings of love for not only ourselves, but also of our fellow humankind

• Spiritual poems of Rumi

Over 120 poems on spirituality from the Persian mystic poet and Sufi master have been carefully collected and curated in this beautifully illustrated edition. The verses herein perfectly express the spiritual quest and desire for a deeper understanding of not only ourselves, but also of our collective oneness as humankind.

• Haiku poems, writing beginner guide

The iconic three-line haiku form is increasingly popular today as people embrace its simplicity and grace―and its connections to the Japanese ethos of mindfulness and minimalism. Say more with fewer words. This practical guide by poet and teacher Bruce Ross shows you how to capture a fleeting moment, like painting a picture with words, and how to give voice to your innermost thoughts, feelings, and observations. You don't have to be a practiced poet or writer to write your own haiku, and this book shows you how.

• Desert Songs of the Night 

Presents some of the finest poetry and prose by Arab writers, from the Arab East to Andalusia, over the last 1,500 years.

• Arabian Love Poems. 

Kabbani was a poet of great simplicity - direct, spontaneous, musical, using the language of everyday life. He was a ceasless campaigner for women's rights, and his verses praise the beauty of the female body, and of love. 

• Green ink days  

A Debut Collection Of Green-ish Poems

7. Nature & gardening

• Revive Eden Green. Sahara now

Six thousand years ago, the Sahara was lush and green. The Earth's precession (wobbling) has been blamed as the main cause for the vast climate changes between arid desert and green land in the Sahara. Accordingly, it will be another 10,000 years before the Green Sahara is predicted to return. Nevertheless, this book reveals that the Earth's precession only serves as a perturbation to trigger the transitions. The main control is the stability of the water cycle in the Sahara. This is governed by the non-linear relationship between precipitation and evaporation, and, in turn, depends on surface conditions and atmospheric circulation. About 5700 years ago, the Green Sahara suddenly started to wither. The wilting began in the standalone Great Chotts Basin, which is in the strong rain shadow of the Atlas Mountain ranges. When the water cycle stability in this basin was broken, the Great Chott Lakes dried quickly and the rain shadow effect became fully active, triggering desert formation. The desert expanded east and south, like a spreading wildfire powered by the westerlies and trade winds. This led to desertification and aridification in North Africa, West Asia, and the Mediterranean which have continued synchronously until this day. This process spans and affects most of human history as we know it, including the prosperity and desolation of Mesopotamia, the rise and fall of Egypt, and the civilization shifts from east to west across the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. This book will explain the step-by-step spread of the Sahara desert and its impact on West Asia and the Mediterranean regions. Archaeological records and paleoclimate data corroborate this new insight. As an independent validation, the desertification in Northwest China has followed a very similar process and control mechanism. Based on the new understanding, this book reveals methods to revive deserts in Northwest China and Australia, and to turn the Sahara back to green

• Regrow Your Veggies

Growing Vegetables from Roots, Cuttings, and Scraps (CompanionHouse Books) Sustainable Tips, Troubleshooting, & Directions for Lettuce, Potatoes, Ginger, Scallions, Mango, & More

8. company development 

• The seven day weekend
  

The must-read summary of Ricardo Semler's book: “The Seven-Day Weekend: Finding The Work/Life Balance”.

This complete summary of the ideas from “The Seven-Day Weekend” exposes the origins of ingrained habits in the business world and explains how changing them might be for the better. This useful summary provides you with the tools necessary to identify said habits in your company and to implement changes that will benefit both your business and the people involved, following in the example of the incredibly successful company Semco S.A. Striking the right balance between personal and professional life is now possible

 

• The art money succes.