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Resilience, recommended by Kristal James

1

Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness
by Rick Hanson PhD & Forrest Hanson

2

Resilience: Powerful Practices for Bouncing Back from Disappointment, Difficulty, and Even Disaster
by Linda Graham

3

The Renaissance Mind: Forging Resilience in Mind, Body and Spirit
by Michael Day & Douglas Bertram

4

The Science of Emotional Resilience: Find Balance and Strength, Become Unbreakable, and Overcome Adv
by Peter Hollins

5

Resilience
by Steven M. Southwick, Dennis S Charney & Jonathan M DePierro

Resilience

by Kristal James

Top 5 Books on Writing a Groundbreaking Business Book, recommended by Millie Smith-Clare

1

Book Magic: Become an author faster and transform your expertise into business gold
by Lucy McCarraher

2

The Business Book Bible: Everything You Need to Know to Write a Great Business Book
by Derek B Lewis

3

How The Hell Do You Write A Book?: Unleash Your Inner Author & Write Your Business Book One Simple S
by Vicky Fraser & Julia Brown

4

The Influential Author: How and Why to Write, Publish, and Sell Nonfiction Books that Matter
by Gregory V Diehl

5

You Must Write a Book: Boost Your Brand, Get More Business, and Become the Go-To Expert (The You Mus
by Honoree Corder & Dino Marino

Top 5 Books on Writing a Groundbreaking Business Book

by Millie Smith-Clare

Top 5 Books on Scaling African Excellence to a Global Stage, recommended by Millie Smith-Clare

1

Afro-Optimism Unleashed: Scaling African excellence to the global stage
by Adeolu Adewumi-Zer

2

Africa's Business Revolution: How to Succeed in the World's Next Big Growth Market
by Acha Leke, Musta Chironga & George Desvaux

3

How we made it in Africa: Learn from the stories of 25 entrepreneurs who've built thriving busi
by Jaco Maritz

4

Africa Rise And Shine: How a Nigerian Entrepreneur from Humble Beginnings Grew a Business to $16 Bil
by Jim Ovia

5

Africa: Open for Business: Discover the ABCs….
by Deanne De Vries

Top 5 Books on Scaling African Excellence to a Global Stage

by Millie Smith-Clare

Top 5 Books on Making Your Business Cyber Secure, recommended by Daisy Reynolds

1

Secure by Design: A leader's guide to keeping cybercriminals out of your business
by René-Sylvain Bédard

2

Cyber Security and Business Analysis: An essential guide to secure and robust systems
by Mrs Bindu Channaveerappa

3

Secure You - The Ultimate Cybersecurity Handbook For Startups and Small businesses in the digital Ag
by Filip Nerell

4

How to Cyber Secure Your Business: A Guide to Demystifying IT Security for Small and Medium Business
by Tracy Hardin

5

The Secure Board: How To Be Confident That Your Organisation Is Cyber Safe
by Anna Leibel & Claire Pales

Top 5 Books on Making Your Business Cyber Secure

by Daisy Reynolds

American Revolutionaries, recommended by Franklin Ridgway

1

Assata: An Autobiography
by Assata Shakur & Angela Davis

2

Eugene V. Debs Speaks
by Eugene V. Debs

3

The Haymarket Tragedy
by Paul Avrich

4

Lucy Parsons: An American Revolutionary
by Carolyn Ashbaugh

5

Teamster Rebellion
by Farrell Dobbs

American Revolutionaries

by Franklin Ridgway

Top 5 Books on Delivering Value from Data, recommended by Daisy Reynolds

1

Drive RAPPID Results from Data: A proven methodology for business leaders to confidently unlock data
by Karl Dinkelmann & Zjaén Coetzee

2

Data and Analytics Strategy for Business: Unlock Data Assets and Increase Innovation with a Results-
by Simon Asplen-Taylor

3

Data Strategy: How to Profit from a World of Big Data, Analytics and Artificial Intelligence
by Bernard Marr

4

Humanizing Data Strategy: Leading Data with the Head and the Heart
by Tiankai Feng

5

Analytics the Right Way: A Business Leader's Guide to Putting Data to Productive Use
by Tim Wilson & Joe Sutherland

Top 5 Books on Delivering Value from Data

by Daisy Reynolds

Top 5 Books on the Lives of Missionaries, recommended by Daisy Reynolds

1

Mission to China: The Life of Walter Henry Medhurst
by John Holliday

2

Through Gates of Splendour: The Five Missionary Martyrs of Ecuador
by Elisabeth Elliot

3

Missionary Stories From Around the World
by Betty Swinford

4

Paul the Missionary: Realities, Strategies And Methods
by Professor Eckhard J Schnabel

5

Soaring Higher: One Man’s True Story of the Faithfulness of God in a Life of Travel and Adventure
by Philip Eyster

Top 5 Books on the Lives of Missionaries

by Daisy Reynolds

Five Indispensable Texts for Revolutionary Marxists, recommended by Franklin Ridgway

1

The Communist Manifesto (Norton Critical Editions)
by Karl Marx & Frederic L. Bender

2

Essential Works of Lenin:
by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

3

Reform Or Revolution And Other Writings (Dover Books on History, Political and Social Science)
by Rosa Luxemburg

4

History of the Russian Revolution
by Leon Trotsky

5

Selected Writings
by Alexandra Kollontai

Five Indispensable Texts for Revolutionary Marxists

by Franklin Ridgway

The Artistic Life, recommended by Romas Viesulas

1

The Inner Life of the Artist: Conversations from the Atelier
by Juliette Aristides

2

Classical Drawing Atelier: A Contemporary Guide to Traditional Studio Practice
by Juliette Aristides

3

Classical Painting Atelier: A Contemporary Guide to Traditional Studio Practice
by Juliette Aristides

4

Beginning Drawing Atelier: An Instructional Sketchbook
by Juliette Aristides

5

Figure Drawing Atelier: An Instructional Sketchbook
by Juliette Aristides

The Artistic Life

by Romas Viesulas

Best Math Books for People who Don’t Do Math, recommended by Karen Carlson

1

Math with Bad Drawings: Illuminating the Ideas That Shape Our Reality
by Ben Orlin

2

Change Is the Only Constant: The Wisdom of Calculus in a Madcap World
by Ben Orlin

3

The Heart of Mathematics: An invitation to effective thinking
by Edward B. Burger & Michael Starbird

4

The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
by Ian Stewart

5

What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
by Randall Munroe

Best Math Books for People who Don’t Do Math

by Karen Carlson

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