LIGHTHOOK'S PICKS: BOOKS AND MOVIES

• ARCHITECTURE
  
• COGNITIVE STYLES
  
• COMPUTERS
  
• CONFLICT RESOLUTION
  
• ENVIRONMENT
  
• ECONOMICS/ENVIRONMENT
  
• JAPANESE/CHINESE
  
• LITERATURE
  
• METAPHYSICS
  
• MILLENNIUM
  
• MISCELLANEOUS
  
• NATIVE AMERICAN
  
• ORGANIZATIONS
  
• PHYSICS
  
• POETRY
  
• RELIGION
  
• SOARING
  
• AVIATION-PILOTING
  

ARCHITECTURE

• The Straw Bale House Book
• Superinsulated Design and Construction - Lenchek, Matlock, and Raabe
• Diffusion of Innovations - Everrett Rogers
• Thermal Delight in Architecture - Lisa Heschong
• From the Ground Up - Cole

COGNITIVE STYLES

• Multiple Intelligences - Howard Gardner ****
• Riding the Waves of Culture - Fons Trompenaars*****
• An Adult's Guide to Style - Anthony Gregorc

COMPUTERS

• Being Digital - Nicholas Negroponte****
• Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson*** (while this book is often crude and violent, it is also extremely imaginative and one of the most provocative predictors of the future of electronic communication)

CONFLICT RESOLUTION

• Getting to Yes - Fisher and Uri*****
• No Fault Negotiating - Lenlertiz****

ENVIRONMENT

• The Diversity of Life - Edward O. Wilson*****
• The Rebirth of Nature - Rupert Sheldrake****
• The End of Nature - Bill McKibben****
• Ecopsychology - Rozak, Gmes and Kanner

ECONOMICS/ENVIRONMENT

• Ancient Futures - Helena Norberg-Hodge*****
• Beyond Despair - Robert Theobald****
• The Politics of the Solar Age - Hazel Henderson****
• Building a Sustainable Society - Lester Brown***
• The Rapids of Change - Robert Theobald***
• The Unsettling of America - Wendell Berry****
• A World Waiting to be Born - M. Scott Peck****
• The Great Reckoning - James Dale Davidson**
• Diffusion of Innovations - Everrett Rogers***
• Voltaire's Bastards - John Raulston Saul***

JAPANESE/CHINESE

• A Book of the Five Rings - Miyamoto Musashi ****
• Dance, Dance, Dance - Haruki Murakami**

LITERATURE

• The River Why - David Duncan*****
• Serenade to the Big Bird - Bert Stiles*****
• Einsteins Dream - Alan Lightman****
• The Periodic Table - Primo Levi****
• The Songlines - Bruce Chatwin *****
• What Am I Doing Here - Bruce Chatwin ****
• The Little Prince - Antoine de St. Exupery****
• Slightly Out of Focus - Robert Capa***
• In Patagonia - Bruce Chatwin****
• Ghost Dancers

METAPHYSICS

• Awareness - Anthony de Mello***** (One of my favorite books!)
• The Scientist - John Lilly ****
• The Mystery of Christ - Rut Bjorkman
• Autobiography of a Yogi - Paramahausa Yogananda**
• Unconditional Life - Deepak Chopra***
• Journeys Out of the Body and Far Journeys - Robert Monroe**
• The Deep Self - John Lilly***

MILLENIUM

• Mavericks of the Mind - David Jay Brown and Rebecca McClen Novick****
• Diffusion of Innovations - Everrett Rogers
• Trialogues at the Edge of the West - Sheldrake and....****

MISCELLANEOUS

• The Red Couch - Kevin Clarke ***** (Photographs. Find this one! Great!)
• Mortal Choices - Ruth Ackerman **** (medical ethics)

NATIVE AMERICAN

• Ancient Child - N. Scott Momaday *****
• Talking Leaves - Craig Leslie*****
• Winged Words - (Italian woman editor)*****
• Meditations with Native Americans - Steinmetz*****
• Lame Deer: Seeker of Visions - Lame Deer/Erdoes*****
• Black Elk Speaks - Doug Boyd ***** (Read this!)
• The Pipe and Christ - William Stolzman, a Christian-Sioux dialog ***
• The Portable North American Indian Reader - Frederick Turner III
• A Pocket Anthology of Native American Literature (may be the proper title of listing just above)
• American Indian Literature - Velie ***

ORGANIZATIONS

• The Keys to Excellence - Nancy Mann ***** (RE: Deming)
• Beyond Dispute - Stafford Beer****

PHYSICS

• The Tao of Physics - Fritjof Capra*****
• Science, Order, and Creativity - David Bohm and David Peat*****
• Order Out of Chaos - I. Prigogine and I. Stengers*****
• The Holographic Universe - Michael Talbot***
• Fuzzy Thinking - Bart Kosko ****
• Surely You Are Joking, Mr Feynman - Richard Feynman*****

POETRY

• The Heights of Machu Pichu and Still Another Day - Pablo Neruda****
• One Hundred Chinese Poems - Kenneth Rexroth*****

RELIGION

• The Gnostic Gospels - Elaine Pagels****
• Jesus Before Christianity - Nolan***
• Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism - Bishop John Shelby Spong
• The Secret Teachings of Jesus, Four Gnostic Gospels - tr. Marvin Meyer ***
• Open Mind, Open Heart - Thomas Keating (contemplative prayer) **
• The Nag Hammadi Library - James Robinson, ed. ****
• Pistis Sophia: A Gnostic Gospel (for the excellent introduction which lays a historical background of Gnostic literature) ****
• The Abolution of Man - C.S. Lewis***
• Christian Metaphysics - Emmet Fox**
• The Other Bible - Willis Barnstone*****
• Zen - Alan Watts*****

SOARING

• The Joy of Soaring - Carle Conway*****
• Cross Country Soaring - Helmut Reichmann****
• The Art and Technique of Soaring - Richard Wolters***
• Gliding - Derek Piggott

AVIATION-PILOTING

• West With the Night - Beryl Markham*****
• Doorknob 52 - Fredric Arnold*****
• The Blond Knight of Germany - Erich Hartmann *****
• Winged Warfare - William A. Bishop
• Fly for Your Life - Larry Forrester
• Wing Leader - J.E. Johnson
• Captain Albert Ball - R. H. Kiernan
• Ace of the Iron Cross - Ernst Udet
• Flying Fury - James McCudden
• Fighter Pilot - William McLanachan
• The Airman's World - Gill Rob Wilson
• England Is My Village - James Liewellen-Rhys
• Fox Two - Randy Cunningham
• The First and the Last - Adolph Galland****
• The Look of Eagles - John Godfrey
• Full Circle - J.E. Johnson
• Samurai - Saburo Sakai with Martin Caiden *****
• Fighter Pilot Tactics - Mike Spick ***
• Fighter Combat - Shaw (The fighter combat tactics sourcebook.)
• Flying Hero Class - Thomas Kaneally
• Big Two Hearted - Ernest Hemingway

MOVIES

• Jesus of Montreal****
• A Map of the Human Heart***** (indigenous; very well done!)
• Jacob's Ladder***** (interior world)
• Waiting for the End of the World**** (future)
• Run*** (action)
• Yojimbo****
• Ran by Kurasawa*****
• Dreams by Kurasawa*****
• The Last Metro by Truffault****
• Truely, Deeply, Madly**** (grief issues)
• The Grey Fox****
• The Doctor****(medical ethics)
• The Committments***
• Hear My Song*****
• Thunderheart****
• Buckaroo Banzai ***** (cult sci-fi)
• Heaven and Earth (samurai)
• Starstruck *** Australian or New Zealand origin)
• Where the Green Ants Dream **** (Australian)
• The Man Facing Southeast ***** (Brazilian; philosophical)
• The Secret of Roan Innish*****
• The Maggie ***** (Ealing Studios, circa 1948)
• Wee Geordie ***** (Ealing Studios, circa 1948)
• Whiskey Galore ***** (Ealing Studios, circa 1948)