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Interests

  • Adaptation
  • Animism
  • Anthropology
  • Apple/Macintosh Computers
  • Appreciative Inquiry (AI)
  • Attachment Parenting (AP)
  • Attachment Theory
  • Autopoeisis
  • Biology
  • Biomimicry
  • Bioregionalism
  • Business
  • Chaos Theory
  • Child Development
  • Civilization
  • Co-opetition
  • Coevolution
  • Communitarianism
  • Community Building
  • Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)
  • Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS)
  • Complexity Science
  • Cooperation Theory
  • Cultural Creatives
  • Cultural Evolution
  • Daniel Quinn
  • Ecological Design — Sim van der Ryn and Stuart Cowan
  • Ecological Economics
  • Ecology
  • Economics
  • Education
  • Emergence
  • Emergent Properties
  • Emotional Intelligence (EI)
  • Empowerment
  • Endosymbiosis
  • Ergonomics
  • Ethnopediatrics
  • Evolution
  • Evolutionary Psychology (EP)
  • Excellence
  • Film
  • Flow
  • Fractals
  • Gaia Theory
  • Game Theory
  • Gardening
  • General Systems Theory
  • Genetics
  • Hierarchy
  • History
  • Holons
  • Human Ecology
  • Human Systems Dynamics (HSD)
  • Humanistic Psychology
  • Hunter-Gatherers
  • Imago Relationship Therapy
  • Indigenous Cultures
  • Industrial Ecology
  • Interdisciplinarity
  • Internal Family Systems (IFS)
  • Jungian Psychology
  • Learning Organizations
  • Memes
  • Memetics
  • Movies
  • Multiple Intelligences
  • Music
  • Musical Theatre
  • Mythology
  • Natural Parenting
  • Natural Step
  • Network Science
  • Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)
  • Non-Linear Dynamic Systems
  • Non-Violent Communication (NVC)
  • Organizational Development
  • Organizational Learning
  • Pantheism
  • Paradigm Shifts
  • Permaculture
  • Personality Types
  • Philosophy
  • Playwriting
  • Political Evolution
  • Population Ecology
  • Positive Change
  • Positive Psychology
  • Psychology
  • Science
  • Screenwriting
  • Self-Esteem
  • Self-Expression
  • Self-Leadership
  • Self-Organization
  • Self-Organizing Systems
  • Self-Parenting
  • Self-Similarity
  • Self-Sufficiency
  • Social Ecology
  • Social Evolution
  • Socially Responsible Business (SRB)
  • Socially Responsible Investment (SRI)
  • Sociology
  • Solution Focus
  • Songwriting
  • Steady-State Economics
  • Strengths Theory
  • Sustainability
  • Symbiogenesis
  • Systems Dynamics (SD)
  • Systems Thinking (ST)
  • Taoism
  • Televison
  • Theatre
  • Tipping Point
  • Tribalism
  • Triple Bottom Line
  • Unconditional Parenting (UP)
  • Universal Darwinism
  • Unschooling
  • Video
  • Voluntary Simplicity
  • Win-Win

Activities

  • “Lost” Scholarship
  • Appreciative Inquiry (AI)
  • Attachment Parenting (AP)
  • Blogging
  • Business Consulting
  • Composing
  • Creativity Coaching
  • Custom Instrumentals
  • Custom Songs
  • Custom Works
  • Custom Writing
  • Directing
  • Dramatic Writing
  • Entrepreneurship/Self-Employment
  • Gardening
  • Health and Fitness
  • Lyric Writing
  • MarkSMeritt.com
  • Music
  • Music Workshops
  • Musical Arrangements and Production
  • Personal Development
  • Piano/Keyboard Performance
  • Potluck (potluck.com)
  • Potluck Creative Arts (potluckcreativearts.com)
  • Potluck Creative Arts’ YouTube Channel (youtube.com/potluckcreativearts)
  • Reading
  • Simply Music
  • Singalong Workshops
  • Social Networking
  • Songwriting
  • Songwriting Workshops
  • Sophie’s World (sophiaquinnmeritt.com)
  • Teaching Piano/Music Lessons
  • Unconditional Parenting (UP)
  • Website Design
  • WordPress
  • Writing

Books

  • 1984 — George Orwell
  • The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture — Jerome H. Barkow, Leda Cosmides & John Tooby, Editors
  • Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic — John de Graaf, David Wann & Thomas H. Naylor
  • After Dachau — Daniel Quinn
  • Amelia Bedelia — Peggy Parish, illustrated by Fritz Siebel
  • American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History Since 1492 — Russell Thornton
  • An Introduction to General Systems Thinking — Gerald M. Weinberg
  • Animal Farm — George Orwell
  • Anno’s Magic Seeds — Mitsumasa Anno
  • The Appreciative Inquiry Handbook — David L. Cooperrider, Diana L. Whitney, and Jacqueline M. Stavros
  • Appreciative Inquiry: Change at the Speed of Imagination — Jane Magruder Watkins and Bernard J. Mohr
  • Appreciative Inquiry: Rethinking Human Organization Toward a Theory of Positive Change — David L. Cooperrider, Jr. Sorensen Peter F., Diana Whitney, and Therese F Yaeger, editors
  • Arnie, the Doughnut — Laurie Keller
  • At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity — Stuart Kauffman
  • Atlas Shrugged — Ayn Rand
  • Attachment Parenting: Instinctive Care for Your Baby and Young Child — Katie Allison Granju & Betsy Kennedy, R.N., M.S.N.
  • Being Is Enough: Collective Self-Help for a Sustainable World — Doug Brown
  • Beyond Civilization: Humanity’s Next Great Adventure — Daniel Quinn
  • Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development — Herman E. Daly
  • Billibonk and the Big Itch — Phil Ramsey
  • Billibonk and the Thorn Patch — Phil Ramsey
  • Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium — Carl Sagan
  • Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature — Janice M. Benyus
  • The Birth of a New Physics — Bernard Cohen
  • Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking — Malcolm Gladwell
  • The Book of the Damned — Daniel Quinn
  • Brave New World — Aldous Huxley
  • Breakfast of Champions — Kurt Vonnegut
  • Brother Eagle, Sister Sky — Chief Seattle, illustrated by Susan Jeffers
  • The Butter Battle Book — Dr. Seuss
  • Cannibals and Kings: The Origins of Cultures — Marvin Harris
  • The Cat in the Hat Comes Back — Dr. Seuss
  • Cat’s Cradle — Kurt Vonnegut
  • Catch-22 — Joseph Heller
  • The Catcher in the Rye — J.D. Salinger
  • Chaos: Making a New Science — James Gleick
  • A Christmas Carol — Charles Dickens
  • Civilization and Its Discontents — Sigmund Freud
  • Co-Opetition: A Revolutionary Mindset That Combines Competition and Cooperation: The Game Theory Strategy That’s Changing the Game of Business — Adam M. Brandenburger and Barry J. Nalebuff
  • Coevolution: Genes, Culture, and Human Diversity — William H. Durham
  • The Collapse of Ancient States and Civilizations — Norman Yoffee & George L. Cowgill, Editors
  • The Collapse of Complex Societies — Joseph A. Tainter
  • The Complexity of Cooperation: Agent-Based Models of Competition and Collaboration — Robert Axelrod
  • Complexity: The Emerging Science on the Edge of Order and Chaos — M. Mitchell Waldrop
  • The Continuum Concept: In Search of Happiness Lost — Jean Liedloff
  • Cows, Pigs, War and Witches: The Riddles of Culture — Marvin Harris
  • Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things — William McDonough & Michael Braungart
  • Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  • The Crucible — Arthur Miller
  • The Culture of Make Believe — Derrick Jensen
  • The Culture of Nature: North American Landscape from Disney to the Exxon Valdez — Alexander Wilson
  • The Culture of Wilderness: Agriculture as Colonization in the American West — Frieda Knobloch
  • Dancing with Mosquitoes: To Liberate the Mind from Humanism: A Way To Green the Mind — Theo Grutter
  • Darwinizing Culture: The Status of Memetics As a Science — Robert Aunger, Editor
  • The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark — Carl Sagan
  • Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change — Victor Papanek
  • Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency — Douglas Adams
  • Dominion — Niles Eldredge
  • Doodle Flute — Daniel Pinkwater
  • The Dot — Peter H. Reynolds
  • Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit — Al Gore
  • Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth — Lester R. Brown
  • Ecological Design — Sim van der Ryn and Stuart Cowan
  • The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability — Paul Hawken
  • The Ecology of Eden: An Inquiry Into the Dream of Paradise and a New Vision of Our Role in Nature — Evan Eisenberg
  • The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy — Murray Bookchin
  • Ecology: The Link Between the Natural and Social Sciences — Eugene P. Odum
  • The Economy of Nature: Rethinking the Connections Between Ecology and Economics — William Ashworth
  • Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ — Daniel Goleman
  • The Evolution of Cooperation — Robert Axelrod
  • Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind — David M. Buss
  • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization — Peter M. Senge, Editor
  • The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization — Peter M. Senge
  • First Things First: To Live, to Love, to Learn, to Leave a Legacy — Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill & Rebecca R. Merrill
  • Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions — Edwin A. Abbott
  • Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  • The Foolish Tortoise — Richard Buckley, illustrated by Eric Carle
  • Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography — Roger Shattuck
  • Foucault’s Pendulum — Umberto Eco
  • The Fountainhead — Ayn Rand
  • Franny and Zooey — J.D. Salinger
  • Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin — Stephen Jay Gould
  • Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth — James Lovelock
  • Galápagos — Kurt Vonnegut
  • Galileo — Bertolt Brecht
  • Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World — Alan Weisman
  • General Systems Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications — Ludwig von Bertalanffy
  • Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples — Harville Hendrix
  • Getting to the Source: Readings on Sustainable Values — William Ross McCluney
  • The Gift of Nothing — Patrick McDonnell
  • The Giving Tree — Shel Silverstein
  • Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age — Michael H. Shuman
  • The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest — Lynne Cherry
  • Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: How Intelligence Increases When You Think Less — Guy Claxton
  • The Hero with a Thousand Faces — Joseph Campbell
  • The Hidden Connections: Integrating The Biological, Cognitive, And Social Dimensions Of Life Into A Science Of Sustainability — Fritjof Capra
  • Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity — John Holland
  • Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels With Science — Paul R. Gross & Norman Levitt
  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams
  • The Holy — Daniel Quinn
  • Horton Hears a Who! — Dr. Seuss
  • How Children Fail — John Holt
  • How Children Learn — John Holt
  • How the Leopard Changed its Spots: The Evolution of Complexity — Brian Goodwin
  • Human Ecology: The Story of Our Place in Nature from Prehistory to the Present — Bernard Campbell
  • Human Natures: Genes, Cultures, and the Human Prospect — Paul Ehrlich
  • Humanity’s Environmental Future: Making Sense in a Troubled World — William Ross McCluney
  • Humankind — Peter Farb
  • The Iceman Cometh — Eugene O’Neill
  • The Idiot’s Guide to Simple Living — Georgene Lockwood
  • If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways — Daniel Quinn
  • If You Give a Moose a Muffin — Laura Joffe Numeroff, illustrated by Felicia Bond
  • If You Give a Mouse a Cookie — Laura Joffe Numeroff, illustrated by Felicia Bond
  • If You Give a Pig a Pancake — Laura Joffe Numeroff, illustrated by Felicia Bond
  • Industrial Dynamics — Jay Forrester
  • Inherit the Wind — Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee
  • Insatiable Is Not Sustainable — Doug Brown
  • Internal Family Systems Therapy — Richard C. Schwartz
  • Into the Wild — Jon Krakauer
  • Introduction to Permaculture — Bill Mollison
  • Inventing the Child: Culture, Ideology, and the Story of Childhood — Joseph Zornado
  • Ishmael — Daniel Quinn
  • It is So! (If You Think So) — Luigi Pirandello
  • Karma Cola: Marketing the Mystic East — Gita Mehta
  • The King’s Stilts — Dr. Seuss
  • The Knight and the Dragon — Tomie dePaola
  • A Language Older Than Words — Derrick Jensen
  • The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush — Tomie dePaola
  • Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong — James W. Loewen
  • Life, the Universe and Everything — Douglas Adams
  • Limited Wants, Unlimited Means: A Reader on Hunter-Gatherer Economics and the Environment — John Gowdy, Editor
  • Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life — Albert-László Barabási
  • Living Within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos — Garrett Hardin
  • The Logic of Failure: Recognizing and Avoiding Error in Complex Situations — Dietrich Dörner
  • Lolita — Vladimir Nabokov
  • The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul — Douglas Adams
  • The Lorax — Dr. Seuss
  • Lord of the Flies — William Golding
  • The Making and Breaking of Affectional Bonds — John Bowlby
  • Making the World — Douglas Wood, illustrations by Yoshi
  • The Man Who Grew Young — Daniel Quinn, illustrated by Tim Eldred
  • Man’s Rise to Civilization (As Shown by the Indians of North America from Primeval Times to the Coming of the Industrial State) — Peter Farb
  • The Meme Machine — Susan Blackmore
  • Metapatterns: Across Space, Time, and Mind — Tyler Volk
  • Mid-Course Correction: Towards a Sustainable Enterprise: The INTERFACE Model — Ray C. Anderson
  • Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World — David Marbury-Lewis
  • The Mixed-Up Chameleon — Eric Carle
  • Monocultures of the Mind: Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology — Vandana Shiva
  • Mother Night — Kurt Vonnegut
  • My Ishmael — Daniel Quinn
  • The Name of the Rose — Umberto Eco
  • Native Roots: How the Indians Enriched America — Jack Weatherford
  • Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution — Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins & L. Hunter Lovins
  • Natural Family Living: The Mothering Magazine Guide to Parenting — Peggy O’Mara
  • The Natural Step for Business: Wealth, Ecology and the Evolutionary Corporation — Brian Nattrass & Mary Altomare
  • The Natural Way of Farming: The Theory and Practice of Green Philosophy — Masanobu Fukuoka
  • The Nature of Economies — Jane Jacobs
  • Nature’s Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas — Donald Worster
  • The New Economics: For Industry, Government, Education — W. Edwards Deming
  • The New Renaissance — Daniel Quinn
  • Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Create Your Life, Your Relationships, and Your World in Harmony with Your Values — Marshall B. Rosenberg
  • Now, Discover Your Strengths — Marcus Buckingham & Donald O. Clifton
  • The Old Ladies Who Liked Cats — Carol Greene
  • Old Turtle — Douglas Wood, illustrations by Cheng-Khee Chee
  • Old Turtle and the Broken Truth — Douglas Wood, illustrations by Jon J. Muth
  • On the Day You Were Born — Debra Frasier
  • Once A Mouse: A Fable Cut in Wood — Marcia Brown
  • One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale — Demi
  • The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming — Masanobu Fukuoka
  • The Origin of Species — Charles Darwin
  • Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent — Meredith F. Small
  • Out of the Crisis — W. Edwards Deming
  • People of the Deer — Farley Mowat
  • The Permaculture Garden — Graham Bell
  • Permaculture: A Designer’s Manual — Bill Mollison
  • Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability — David Holmgren
  • The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong — Dr. Laurence J. Peter & Raymond Hull
  • Pigs for the Ancestors: Ritual in the Ecology of a New Guinea People — Roy A. Rappaport
  • Player Piano — Kurt Vonnegut
  • The Power of Appreciative Inquiry: A Practical Guide to Positive Change — Diana Whitney and Amanda Trosten-Bloom
  • The Power of Myth — Joseph Campbell & Bill Moyers
  • A Primer of Ecology — Nicholas Gotelli
  • The Princess Bride — William Goldman
  • Principle-Centered Leadership — Stephen R. Covey
  • Principles of Systems — Jay Forrester
  • Providence: The Story of a Fifty-Year Vision Quest — Daniel Quinn
  • Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves: Transforming Parent-Child Relationships from Reaction and Struggle to Freedom, Power and Joy — Naomi Aldort
  • Re-Zoom — Istvan Banyai
  • The Restaurant at the End of the Universe — Douglas Adams
  • A River Ran Wild: An Environmental History — Lynne Cherry
  • The Road To Hell: The Ravaging Effects of Foreign Aid and International Charity — Michael Maren
  • The Road to Serfdom — Friedrich A. Hayek
  • Scaredy Squirrel — Melanie Watt
  • Seeing Green: The Politics of Ecology Explained — Jonathon Porritt
  • Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed — James C. Scott
  • The Selfish Gene — Richard Dawkins
  • A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Austere Academy — Lemony Snicket
  • A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning — Lemony Snicket
  • A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Carnivorous Carnival — Lemony Snicket
  • A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Ersatz Elevator — Lemony Snicket
  • A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Hostile Hospital — Lemony Snicket
  • A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Miserable Mill — Lemony Snicket
  • A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Reptile Room — Lemony Snicket
  • A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Slippery Slope — Lemony Snicket
  • A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Vile Village — Lemony Snicket
  • A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Wide Window — Lemony Snicket
  • Seven Blind Mice — Ed Young
  • Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are — Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan
  • Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train: Errant Economists, Shameful Spenders, and a Plan to Stop Them All — Brian Czech
  • Silent Spring — Rachel Carson
  • Six Characters in Search of an Author — Luigi Pirandello
  • The Skin of Our Teeth — Thornton Wilder
  • Slapstick: or, Lonesome No More! — Kurt Vonnegut
  • Slaughterhouse Five, or the Children’s Crusade — Kurt Vonnegut
  • Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered — E.F. Schumacher
  • The Sneetches and Other Stories — Dr. Seuss
  • So Human an Animal: How We Are Shaped By Surroundings and Events — Rene Dubos
  • So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish — Douglas Adams
  • The Solitaire Mystery: A Novel about Family and Destiny — Jostein Gaarder
  • Sophie’s World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy — Jostein Gaarder
  • Starting a Sudbury School: A Summary of the Experiences of Fifteen Start-Up Groups — Daniel Greenberg and Mimsy Sadofsky
  • Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology — Gregory Bateson
  • Stolen Continents: The Americas Through Indian Eyes Since 1492 — Ronald Wright
  • Stone Age Economics — Marshall D. Sahlins
  • Stone Soup — Marcia Brown
  • The Story of B — Daniel Quinn
  • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions — Thomas S. Kuhm
  • The Sudbury Valley School Experience — Daniel Greenberg
  • Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion — Edward J. Larson
  • A Survey of Ecological Economics — Rajaram Krishnan, Jonathan M. Harris, Neva R. Goodwin, Editors
  • Symbiotic Planet: A New Look at Evolution — Lynn Margulis
  • The Systems Thinking Playbook: Exercises to Stretch and Build Learning and Systems Thinking Capabilities — Dennis Meadows & Linda Booth Sweeney
  • The Tales of Adam — Daniel Quinn
  • The Tao of Physics — Fritjof Capra
  • The Tao of Pooh — Benjamin Hoff
  • Tao Te Ching — Lao Tzu
  • The Te of Piglet — Benjamin Hoff
  • The Thin Book of Appreciative Inquiry — Sue Annis Hammond
  • Thought Contagion: How Belief Spreads Through Society: The New Science of Memes — Aaron Lynch
  • Three Native American Learning Stories: Who Speaks for Wolf, Winter White and Summer Gold, Many Circles — Paula Underwood
  • The Three-Legged Cat — Margaret Mahy, illustrated by Jonathan Allen
  • The Time Before History: 5 Million Years of Human Impact — Colin Tudge
  • The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference — Malcolm Gladwell
  • Tree of Life: The World of the African Baobab — Barbara Bash
  • The Trouble with Testosterone: And Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament — Robert M. Sapolsky
  • The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture — Fritjof Capra
  • Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason — Alfie Kohn
  • The Unschooling Handbook: How to Use the Whole World As Your Child’s Classroom — Mary Griffith
  • Voluntary Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life That is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich — Duane Elgin
  • Waffle — Chris Raschka
  • Walden: Or, Life in the Woods — Henry David Thoreau
  • The Water Hole — Graeme Base
  • We Have Never Been Modern — Bruno Latour
  • We: Understanding the Psychology of Romantic Love — Robert A. Johnson
  • The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems — Fritjof Capra
  • What Else Could It Be? — Mario Gomboli
  • What Happy People Know: How the New Science of Happiness Can Change Your Life for the Better — Dan Brown
  • When a Butterfly Sneezes: A Guide for Helping Kids Explore Interconnections in Our World Through Favorite Stories — Linda Booth Sweeney
  • Who Do You Think You Are? — Dr. Nick Isbister and Dr. Martin Robinson
  • Whose Garden Is It? — Mary Ann Hoberman, illustrated by Jane Dyer
  • Why Can’t I Fly? — Rita Golden Gelman, illustrated by Jack Kent
  • Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences — Edward Tenner
  • Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West — Gregory Maguire
  • The Wisdom of the Crows and Other Buddhist Tales — Sherab Chodzin anf Alexandra Kohn, illustrated by Marie Cameron
  • Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories — Dr. Seuss
  • You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man: How Ponzi Schemes and Pyramid Frauds Work… and Why They’re More Common Than Ever — James Walsh
  • Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence — Joe Dominguez & Vicki Robin
  • Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design — Laurence G. Boldt
  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values — Robert M. Pirsig
  • Zoom — Istvan Banyai

Music

  • 10cc
  • ABBA
  • Lynn Ahrens
  • Tori Amos
  • Benny Andersson
  • Fiona Apple
  • Howard Ashman
  • Burt Bacharach
  • Barenaked Ladies
  • The Beach Boys
  • The Beatles
  • Beck
  • The Bee Gees
  • Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Elmer Bernstein
  • Leonard Bernstein
  • Bjork
  • Blur
  • David Bowie
  • Leslie Bricusse
  • Mel Brooks
  • Wendy Carlos
  • Harry Chapin
  • Chicago
  • Eric Clapton
  • Alf Clausen
  • Joe Cocker
  • Coldplay
  • Phil Collins
  • Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Elvis Costello
  • Sheryl Crow
  • Jamie Cullum
  • Neil Diamond
  • Donovan
  • Bob Dorough
  • The Dream Academy
  • Duran Duran
  • Electric Light Orchestra
  • Eurhythmics
  • William Finn
  • Flaming Lips
  • Ben Folds Five
  • Ben Folds
  • Franz Ferdinand
  • Peter Gabriel
  • Garbage
  • Genesis
  • George Gershwin
  • Gnarls Barkley
  • Godlely and Creme
  • Jerry Goldsmith
  • Hall and Oates
  • Marvin Hamlisch
  • George Harrison
  • Indigo Girls
  • Jethro Tull
  • Billy Joel
  • Elton John
  • Tom Jones
  • Scott Joplin
  • The Killers
  • The Kinks
  • Lenny Kravitz
  • k.d. lang
  • Led Zeppelin
  • John Legend
  • John Lennon
  • Annie Lennox
  • Andrew Lloyd Webber
  • Jeff Lynne
  • Henry Mancini
  • Aimee Mann
  • George Martin
  • Paul McCartney
  • Nellie McKay
  • Alan Menken
  • George Michael
  • Glenn Miller
  • Monty Python
  • Alanis Morissette
  • Morphine
  • Alison Moyet
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • N.E.R.D.
  • Anthony Newley
  • Randy Newman
  • Harry Nilsson
  • Michael Nyman
  • Oasis
  • Outkast
  • Trey Parker
  • Pearl Jam
  • Michael Penn
  • Pet Shop Boys
  • Pink Floyd
  • The Police
  • Cole Porter
  • Queen
  • Radiohead
  • The Rembrandts
  • Tim Rice
  • Lionel Richie
  • Linda Ronstadt
  • Seal
  • Marc Shaiman
  • Richard B. Sherman
  • Robert M. Sherman
  • Simon and Garfunkel
  • Paul Simon
  • Jill Sobule
  • Stephen Sondheim
  • Squeeze
  • Carl Stalling
  • Ringo Starr
  • Steely Dan
  • Jim Steinman
  • Sufjan Stevens
  • Sting
  • Johann Strauss
  • Jule Styne
  • Supertramp
  • Matthew Sweet
  • Talking Heads
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • Tears for Fears
  • They Might Be Giants
  • Pete Townshend
  • Travis
  • True Margrit
  • U2
  • Bjorn Ulvaeus
  • Suzanne Vega
  • Rufus Wainwright
  • Jimmy Webb
  • The Who
  • John Williams
  • Brian Wilson
  • Wings
  • Stevie Wonder
  • The Wondermints
  • XTC

Movies

  • 12 Monkeys
  • 9 to 5
  • A.I. – Artificial Intelligence — Written by Steven Spielberg; Screen Story by Ian Watson; Based on the short story Super-Toys Last All Summer Long by Brian Aldiss; Directed by Steven Spielberg
  • Adaptation
  • The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
  • Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic — John de Graaf, David Wann & Thomas H. Naylor
  • Airplane!
  • Apocalypto — Written by Mel Gibson & Farhad Safinia; Directed by Mel Gibson
  • The Aristocrats
  • Austin Power: International Man of Mystery
  • Austin Powers in Goldmember
  • Awakenings
  • Babe — Written by George Miller and Chris Noonan; Based on the Novel The Sheep Pig by Dick King-Smith; Directed by Chris Noonan
  • Back to the Future
  • Back to the Future II
  • Beauty and the Beast
  • Being John Malkovich
  • Best in Show
  • Big
  • Billy Elliot — Written by Lee Hall; Directed by Stephen Daldry
  • The Blues Brothers
  • Boogie Nights
  • Borat: Cultural Learnings of American for Make Benefit Glorious Nation Kazakhstan
  • Bowfinger
  • Bowling for Columbine
  • A Bug’s Life
  • Capturing the Friedmans
  • Cast Away — Written by William Broyles, Jr.; Directed by Robert Zemeckis
  • Chicken Run
  • A Christmas Carol — Charles Dickens
  • Citizen Kane — Written by Herman J. Mankiewicz & Orson Welles; Directed by Orson Welles
  • Citizen Ruth — Written by Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor; Directed by Alexander Payne
  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  • Comedian
  • Contact
  • The Corporation — Written by Joel Bakan; Directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott
  • Crash
  • Dances with Wolves — Written by Michael Blake, based on his novel; Directed by Kevin Costner
  • Die Hard
  • Dr. Strangelove (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb) — Written by Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern & Peter George; Based on the novel Red Alert by Peter George; Directed by Stanley Kubrick
  • E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex…
  • Excalibur
  • Fahrenheit 9/11
  • Falling Down — Written by Ebbe Roe Smith; Directed by Joel Schumacher
  • Fantasia
  • Fantasia 2000
  • Fight Club — Written by Jim Uhls; Based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk; Directed by David Fincher
  • Finding Nemo
  • Fly Away Home — Written by Robert Rodat & Vince McKewin; Based on the autobiography by Bill Lishman; Directed by Carroll Ballard
  • Forrest Gump
  • The Full Monty
  • Galaxy Quest
  • The Game
  • Gattaca
  • Ghostbusters
  • The Gods Must Be Crazy — Written and Directed by Jamie Uys
  • Good Fellas
  • Grizzly Man — Written and Directed by Werner Herzog
  • A Hard Day’s Night
  • Harold and Maude
  • Help!
  • Hero
  • Hot Shots!
  • House of Games
  • I Love You to Death
  • The Ice Storm — Written by James Schamus; Based on the novel by Rick Moody: Directed by Ang Lee
  • The Illusionist
  • Imagine: John Lennon
  • An Inconvenient Truth — Directed by Davis Guggenheim
  • The Incredibles — Written and Directed by Brad Bird
  • Independence Day — Written by Dean Devlin & Roland Emmerich; Directed by Roland Emmerich
  • The Indian in the Cupboard — Written by Melissa Mathison; Based on the novel by Lynne Reid Banks; Directed by Frank Oz
  • Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
  • Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
  • Inherit the Wind — Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee
  • It’s a Wonderful Life — Written by Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett and Frank Capra; Based on the short story The Greatest Gift by Philip Van Doren Stern; Directed by Frank Capra
  • Jaws
  • The Jerk
  • Jerry Maguire
  • JFK — Written by Oliver Stone & Zachary Sklar; Based on the books Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy by Jim Marrs and On the Trail of the Assasins by Jim Garrison; Directed by Oliver Stone
  • The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters — Directed by Seth Gordon
  • Kinsey
  • Lars and the Real Girl — Written by Nancy Oliver; Directed by Craig Gillespie
  • The Last Supper — Written by Dan Rosen; Directed by Stacy Title
  • Life is Beautiful
  • Lord of the Flies — William Golding
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
  • Magnolia
  • The Man Who Knew Too Much
  • The Manchurian Candidate
  • Mary Poppins — Written by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi; Based on the novels by P.L. Travers; Directed by Robert Stevenson
  • The Matrix — Written and Directed by Andy Wachowski & Larry Wachowski
  • Memento
  • Microcosmos
  • Mindwalk — Written by Fritjof Capra & Floyd Byars; Story by Bernt Capra; Directed by Bernt Capra
  • Monsters, Inc. — Written by Andrew Stanton & Dan Gerson; Directed by Pete Docter
  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  • Monty Python’s Life of Brian
  • Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
  • Mr. Holland’s Opus — Written by Patrick Sheane Duncan; Directed by Stephen Herek
  • Murderball — Directed by Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro
  • The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
  • North by Northwest
  • Once Were Warriors — Written by Riwia Brown; Based on the novel by Alan Duff; Directed by Lee Tamahori
  • The People vs. Larry Flynt
  • The Planet of the Apes
  • Pleasantville — Written and Directed by Gary Ross
  • Poltergeist
  • The Presitge
  • The Princess Bride — William Goldman
  • The Producers
  • Psycho
  • Pulp Fiction
  • The Queen
  • Quills
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark
  • Rear Window
  • Rocky — Written by Sylvester Stallone; Directed by John G. Avildsen
  • The Rutles: All You Need is Cash
  • School of Rock — Written by Mike White; Directed by Richard Linklater
  • Seven
  • The Sixth Sense
  • South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut
  • The Spanish Prisoner
  • Spellbound
  • Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
  • Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
  • Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
  • Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
  • Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
  • Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
  • The Sting
  • Strictly Ballroom — Written by Baz Luhrmann, Craig Pearce and Andrew Bovell; Based on the play by Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce; Directed by Baz Luhrmann
  • The Stunt Man
  • Sunday in the Park with George
  • Super Size Me
  • Sweeney Todd
  • Team America: World Police
  • The Terminal
  • Terminator 2: Judgment Day
  • The Terminator
  • This is Spinal Tap
  • Three Kings
  • Time After Time
  • Time Bandits
  • Titanic — Written and Directed by James Cameron
  • Top Secret
  • Toy Story
  • Toy Story 2
  • Tron
  • The Truman Show — Written by Andrew Niccol; Directed by Peter Weir
  • Twice Upon a Time
  • Unbreakable — Written and Directed by M. Night Shyamalan
  • The Usual Suspects
  • V for Vendetta — Written by The Wachowski Brothers; Based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore, illustrated by David Lloyd; Directed by James McTiegue
  • Wag the Dog
  • Waiting for Guffman
  • Wall-E
  • WarGames
  • The Way Things Go — Written and Directed by Peter Fischli and David Weiss
  • Wayne’s World
  • West Side Story
  • When Harry Met Sally…
  • Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
  • Winged Migration
  • The Wizard of Oz
  • Wordplay
  • Young Frankenstein
  • Zelig
  • Zoolander

Television

  • 30 Days
  • 30 Rock
  • Andy Richter Controls the Universe
  • The Animaniacs
  • Arrested Development
  • Beavis and Butthead
  • Boston Legal
  • The Brak Show
  • Cartoon Planet
  • Cheers
  • The Colbert Report
  • The Critic
  • Curb Your Enthusiasm
  • Da Ali G Show
  • The Daily Show
  • Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
  • Emeril Live
  • The Ernie Kovacs Show
  • Frasier
  • Friends
  • Futurama
  • Good Eats
  • House
  • Iron Chef
  • It’s Garry Shandling’s Show
  • The Kids in the Hall
  • King of the Hill
  • The Larry Sanders Show
  • Late Night with Conan O’Brien
  • The Late Show with David Letterman
  • Looney Tunes
  • Lost
  • Mad About You
  • Malcolm in the Middle
  • Monty Python’s Flying Circus
  • Moral Orel
  • Mr. Show
  • My Name is Earl
  • Northern Exposure
  • The Office (BBC)
  • The Office (NBC)
  • Pinky and the Brain
  • Police Squad!
  • Reno 911
  • Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In
  • Schoolhouse Rock
  • Sealab 2021
  • Seinfeld
  • The Simpsons
  • South Park
  • Space Ghost: Coast to Coast
  • Sports Night
  • The Tick (Animated)
  • Tiny Toon Adventures
  • The Tracey Ullman Show
  • TV Funhouse
  • TV Nation
  • Viva Variety
  • The West Wing
  • The X-Files

Some Other People and Things I Like

  • Woody Allen
  • Paul Thomas Anderson
  • Dan Aykroyd
  • Alton Brown
  • Lenny Bruce
  • Giordana Bruno
  • James Burke
  • George Carlin
  • Chuck Close
  • Sacha Baron Cohen
  • Stephen Colbert
  • Leonard Da Vinci
  • Larry David
  • Walt Disney
  • M.C. Escher
  • Jodie Foster
  • R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Galileo Galilei
  • Matt Groening
  • Bill Hicks
  • Harry Houdini
  • Howard Hughes
  • Chuck Jones
  • Mike Judge
  • Charlie Kauffman
  • Ernie Kovacs
  • John Lasseter
  • David Letterman
  • George Lucas
  • Bill Maher
  • Demetri Martin
  • Steve Martin
  • Freddy Mercury
  • Michael Moore
  • Michael Moshen
  • Penn & Teller
  • Jerry Seinfeld
  • Garry Shandling
  • Aaron Sorkin
  • Steve Jobs
  • Jon Stewart
  • Matt Stone
  • Mark Twain
  • Tracey Ullman
  • Robin Williams
  • The Yes Men
  • Bloom County — Berkeley Breathed
  • Calvin and Hobbes — Bill Watterson
  • Dilbert — Scott Adams
  • The Far Side — Gary Larson

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