Library
Books for Mentoring, Free Online Books, Book Recommendations, Presentations, Speeches, Articles and White Papers
Welcome to The Invisible Mentor Library! Here you’ll find what I’m reading each month, and I invite you to read along with me (the book links are affiliate links). When it comes to reading, I’m sometimes very spontaneous, so there’ll be times when I change the books that I’ve committed to reading for the month. The Invisible Mentor approaches mentoring in a very non-traditional way. Many people have been mentored by the books they read, so when you’re reading any of the books that I’m reading, be open to the lessons they bring. In this section, you are also given websites where you can get access to free online books, as well as reading lists and books that feature the best books to read.
2012 Books for Mentoring
The Books Avil is Reading in January 2012
Outliers: The Story of Success
A Fine Line: How Design Strategies Are Shaping the Future of Business
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
Classic Starts: Little Women (Classic Starts Series)
The Letters of Pliny the Younger
The Early History of the Airplane
Project Gutenberg: Has a very large selection of books that are now in the public domain.
FreeKindleBooks.org: An extensive selection of free books for the Kindle from Project Gutenberg.
ebook finds: This website has many free books, and what I like about it is that there are many contemporary books from a variety of genres that you can subscribe to, to get notification for which e-books are offered for free each day. I have downloaded books and enjoyed them so much that I went to Amazon and supported the authors by buying their other books.
Google Books: For years Google has been scanning books into their database. Some of the books you have to purchase and others are in the public domain. In the search box, type in the topic that you are interested in, and Google will return the books for that subject matter. You can also search by the name of the author.
Google ebookstore: You can find a large selection of e-books for sale here.
Books that Feature Must-Read Books (I am including only the ones that I personally have)
- Books That Changed The World: The 50 Most Influential Books in Human History
, Andrew Taylor
- Who the Hell is Pansy O’Hara: The Fascinating Stories Behind 50 of the World’s Best-Loved Books
, Jenny Bond & Chris Sheehy
- How to Read and Why?
Harold Bloom
- The Novel 100: A Ranking of the Greatest Novels of All Time
- 501 Must-Read Books
- The Great Books: From The Iliad and The Odyssey to Goethe’s Faust: A Journey Through 2,500 Years of the West’s Classic Literature
, Anthony O’Hear
Book List by Gene Waddell
Using Rare Books to Inspire Learning — Part 1: Anthropology – Diaries
Using Rare Books to Inspire Learning — Part 2: Drama – Travel
How To Build Intellectual Power
Great Speeches: Words That Shaped the World
Speeches that Changed the World
Great Canadian Speeches: Words That Shape a Nation
The 35 Greatest Speeches in History
American Rhetoric Top 100 Speeches
Time Magazine’s Top 10 Greatest Speeches
Acres of Diamonds by Russell Conwell
Creating Your Signature – Journey to Becoming a Master
Know When to Walk Away From Projects
An alumna who really gets it by Matthew Fox
Building Intellectual Power One Book at a Time
Better Decision Making the Gateway to Superior Solutions
What Kind of Problem Solver Are You?
Work Life Balance…Turning Myth to Reality
Beyond Regret: Letting Go, Stepping Up, Moving Onwards
E-books
Ambeck Edge Your Invisible Mentor: A collection of Ambeck Edge newsletters, which includes interviews with successful people, book reviews, formulas for success and much more. Tales of People Who Get It is an outgrowth of Ambeck Edge.
Organizations
Center for the Study of Great Ideas
Foundation for Critical Thinking
Infed.org: Encyclopedia of Informal Education
Websites of Interest
Project Gutenberg: Has a wide selection of ebooks, including many great works where the copyright has expired
Magportal.com and Magatopia: Full-text magazine articles on a variety of topics
Wiki Summaries: Has a small collection of free book summaries
800 Ceo Read: Has the latest collection of business books
Abe Books: The place to go for hard-to-find books
Mahalo: Human powered search engine
Dogpile and Clusty: Meta-search engines, which means that they aggregate the search results from many search engines and present the result in one place
Book links are Amazon affiliate links.
Or use email.
