Books

NOTE: A selection of books recommended by members of the community, listed in no particular order. In using these links, 6% of your purchase goes to support the maintenance of this site :-)

 

Graphic Recording Skills

 
Visual Meetings: How Graphics, Sticky Notes and Idea Mapping Can Transform Group Productivity
~ David Sibbet

Mapping Inner Space: Learning and Teaching Visual Mapping
~ Nancy Margulies

The Back of the Napkin (Expanded Edition): Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures
~ Dan Roam

Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers
~ Dave Gray and Sunni Brown

Graphic Idea Notebook:
 A Treasury of Solutions to Visual Problems

~ Jan White

Fundamentals of Graphic Language: Practice Book
 ~ David Sibbet
 

Drawing Skills


Ed Emberley's Drawing Book: Make a World

Mark Kistler's Draw Squad
 ~ Mark Kistler


Rapid Viz: A New Method for the Rapid Visualitzation of Ideas
~ Kurt Hanks


The Mind Map Book:
 How to Use Radiant Thinking to Maximize Your Brain's Untapped Potential

 ~ Tony Buzan

A Picture's Worth 1,000 Words:
 A Workbook for Visual Communications

~ Jean Westcott

Thinking with a Pencil
~ Henning Nelms
 

Group Facilitation


Crucial Conversations:
 Tools for Talking When Stakes are High

~ Kerry Patterson

The Art of Engagement:
 Bridging the Gap Between People and Possibilities

 ~ Jim Haudan

The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook:
 Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization
~ Richard B. Ross

Start with Why:
 How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
~ Simon Sinek

The Facilitator's Toolkit:
 Tolls and Techniques for Generating Ideas and Making Decisions in Groups

  ~ A. T. Kearney & Company

From Workplace to Playspace:
 Innovating, Learning and Changing Through Dynamic Engagement
~ Pamela Meyer
 

Learning and Teaching


Brain Rules:
 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School

~ John Medina

Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind:
 How Intelligence Increases When You Think Less
 
~ Guy Claxton

Presentation Zen:
 Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery
~ Garr Reynolds

slide:ology:
 The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations
~ Nancy Duarte

A Whole New Mind:
 Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

~ Dan Pink

resonate:
 Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences

~ Nancy Duarte