Recommended Books

Business & Economics

  • The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Starting a Home-Based Business, by Barbara Weltman
  • The 4-Hour Work Week, by Timothy Ferriss
  • Awkening the Entrepreneur Within, by Michael E. Gerber
  • The Millionaire Next Door, by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko
  • The Ten-Day MBA, by Steven A. Silbiger
  • Getting Started in Financial Consulting, by Edward J. Stone
  • Own Your Own Corporation, by Garrett Sutton, Esq.
  • The Great Game of Business, by Jack Stack
  • What They (still) Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School, by Mark McCormack
  • Never Wrestle with a Pig (You get dirty and the pig enjoys it.), by Mark McCormack
  • Barclays The Business of Banking 1690-1996, by Margaret Ackrill and Leslie Hannah
  • The House of Nomura, by Al Alletzhauser
  • How to be Rich, by J. Paul Getty
  • Merchants of Grain (The Power and Profits of the Five Giant Companies at the Center of the World’s Food Supply), by Dan Morgan 
  • The Affluent Society, by John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Thinking Strategically, by Avinash K. Dixit and Barry J. Nalebuff
  • The Long Emergency, by James Howard Kunstler
  • The Sales Bible, by Jeffery Gitomer
  • After the Trade is Made (Processing Securities Transactions), by David M. Weiss
  • The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith


Life in Japan

  • Chasing The Cherry Blossom, by Lowell Sheppard
  • Living in Japan, by the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan
  • Nagoya Footsteps, compiled by the Nagoya International Center 
  • The Chrysanthemum and the Sword, by Ruth Benedict
  • Teach English in Japan, by Charles Wordell and Greta Gorusch
  • Teaching English in Japan, by Jerry O’Sullivan
  • A Handbook for Teaching English at Japanese Colleges and Universities, by Paul Wadden
  • The Language Teaching Matrix, by Jack C. Richards

Self-Improvement

  • Web Analytics for Dummies, by Pedro Sostre and Jennifer LeClaire
  • Guide to Effective E-mail, by Shirley Taylor
  • The 7 Habits of Highly-Effective People, by Stephen Covey
  • Brain Building in Just 12 Weeks, by Marilyn vos Savant and Leonore Fleischer
  • Think like Da Vinci, by Michael J. Gelb  
  • Massage for Dummies, by Steven Capellini
  • The Elements of Style, by William Strunk
  • The Rules of the Game, by Neil Strauss
  • Work Smarter Not Harder, by Jack Collis and Michael Leboeuf 
  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, by Benjamin Franklin 
  • Think and Grow Rich, by Napoleon Hill
  • Difficult Conversations, by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton and Sheila Heen
  • The Bully, the Bullied and the Bystander, by Barbara Coloroso 


Psychology and Sociology

  • The Moral Animal, by Robert Wright
  • Emotional Intelligence, by Daniel Goleman
  • Working with Emotional Intelligence, by Daniel Goleman
  • Social Intelligence, by Daniel Goleman 
  • Body Language for Dummies, by Elizabeth Kuhnke
  • The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Body Language, by Peter A. Andersen
  • How to Read a Person like a Book, by Gerlad Nierenberg and Henry H. Calero

Miscellaneous

  • Guns, Germs and Steel, by Jared Diamond
  • Collapse, by Jared Diamond
  • The Third Chimpanzee (The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal), by Jared Diamond
  • The Orgin of Species, by Charles Darwin
  • Asimov’s New Guide to Science, by Isaac Asimov
  • The Pirate Wars, by Peter Earle
  • The Art of War, by Sun Tsu
  • The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli
  • A Brief History of Time, by Stephen Hawking
  • Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: Theory and Technique, by Renzo and Royler Gracie
  • Tao of Jeet Kune Do, by Bruce Lee