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