Some of my favourites and go-to books…

PROFESSIONAL

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Yellow book cover titled 'Weapons of Math Destruction' with a stylized skull made of mathematical symbols and the author name Cathy O'Neil.
Book cover for 'Courage is Calling' by Ryan Holiday, featuring a lion illustration and a beige and gold mosaic border.
Book cover titled 'VINTAGE SCHUMACHER' with an acorn and the subtitle 'Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered'.
Book cover for 'Human Kind: A Hopeful History' by Rutger Bregman, featuring a hand holding an orange umbrella.
Book cover titled "How to change things when change is hard" by Chip & Dan Heath, with a blue background and the word "switch" prominently displayed in large red and white letters.
Book cover of "Fierce Leadership" by Susan Scott, featuring orange and blue text, silhouettes of dogs in gray, and a black silhouette of a dog on the right.
Book cover titled 'Naked Statistics' by Charles Wheelan with a graphic of a human figure holding a bar chart.
Book cover titled "The Decision Book: Fifty models for strategic thinking" by Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschäppeler, featuring a red circle with a black counterclockwise arrow and a green circle with a black right arrow.
Book cover titled 'High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out' by Amanda Ripley, featuring a red background and a gold tangled line drawing.
Book cover titled "Think Again" by Adam Grant. The subtitle reads "The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know." The cover features a matchstick with a flame made of water, shaped like a splash. The top mentions it is a #1 New York Times Bestseller. A quote at the bottom says, "Brilliant... guaranteed to make you rethink your opinions and your most important decisions," attributed to Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman.
The cover of the book titled 'Invisible Women' by Caroline Criado Perez, with a red background and abstract green shapes.
Book cover of "Everybody Lies" by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, featuring a line of zebras and an elephant at the bottom.
Book cover for "Proofiness" by Charles Seife featuring a person in a suit holding a calculator in front of their face, with the calculator displaying "2+2=22". The background is red with spiral patterns.
Book cover titled "Collaborative Teams That Work" with colorful abstract paint strokes, subtitle "The definitive guide to cycles of learning in a PLC," authors Colin Sloper and Gavin Grift, and foreword by Anthony Muhammad.
Book cover of 'Drive' by Daniel H. Pink, featuring a red upward arrow and the subtitle 'The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us', with Malcolm Gladwell's quote, published by The New York Times Top 10 Bestseller.
Book cover titled 'Revenge of the Tipping Point' by Malcolm Gladwell, with a matchstick igniting against a black background, and subtitle about overstories, superspreaders, and social engineering.
Book cover of 'The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals' by Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, Jim Huling with Beverly Walker & Scott Thele, 2nd edition, revised and updated. The cover features large blue and gold text and design elements.
Book cover titled "Teacher Wellbeing" by Amy Green, with watercolor illustrations of raised hands and various abstract shapes in blue, green, and yellow at the top and bottom.
Book cover titled 'Belonging: The Ancient Code of Togetherness' by Owen Eastwood, featuring a spiral design in black, white, and red.
The book cover of Tim Harford's "How to Make the World Add Up." The cover features an orange background with a swimming fish wearing a yellow life jacket, partially submerged in blue water. Quotes from critics are present at the top, and a black circle on the right indicates it is "A Times Book of the Year." The title is in bold black and white text, and the subtitle reads "Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers."
Book cover titled "Seeing What Others Don’t: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights" by Gary Klein, featuring a pair of sunglasses with colorful reflections.
Book cover for 'Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment' by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein, featuring a pencil sketch of a scribbled noise pattern.
Book cover of 'Atomic Habits' by James Clear, titled 'Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results'. It features gold and black dotted text and a red circle indicating over 1 million copies sold.
Book cover for 'How Big Things Get Done' by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner, featuring a silhouette of a person climbing a ladder.
Book cover titled "Making Numbers Count: The Art and Science of Communicating Numbers" by Chip Heath and Karla Starr. The cover features a green ruler on a red background.
Book cover titled 'In Distractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life' by Nir Eyal with Julie Li, with a yellow background and a quote from Jonathan Haidt at the top.
Book cover titled "The Impact Cycle" by Jim Knight with an orange background and white text. It features a diagram with three interconnected circles labeled "1 Identify," "2 Learn," and "3 Improve," with additional phrases around the circles such as "modeling," "checklists," and "actions." The subtitle reads "What instructional coaches should do to foster powerful improvements in teaching."
Book cover titled 'Company of One' by Paul Jarvis with a yellow background, stylized mountain illustrations, and the Penguin logo at the bottom right.
Book cover titled 'Influence is Your Superpower' by Zoe Chance with quotes praising it and a Penguin logo.
Book cover titled "Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning" by Thomas H. Davenport and Jeanne G. Harris, published by Harvard Business Review Press, featuring a design with pink and blue bar charts.
Book cover for 'Radical Candor' by Kim Scott, with subtitle 'How to get what you want by saying what you mean.' The cover features the title in large red letters, the author name in red, and a quote from Sheryl Sandberg.
Book cover for "Spoon Fed" by Tim Spector, featuring a colorful overlapping spoon graphic, quotes from Yotam Ottolenghi, Felicity Cloake, and Bee Wilson, and a photo of the author in a green circle.
Book cover titled 'Able' by Dylan Alcott with a man in a wheelchair in front of large yellow text. The cover has handwritten text saying 'Gold medals, grand slams and smashing glass ceilings' and 'Fully Updated.'
The cover of Brené Brown's book titled 'Atlas of the Heart' has a red background and features an illustration of a human heart with various images and objects, including a bird, flowers, a map, and a small child, symbolizing emotional and human connections.
Green cover of the book titled 'The Liar Theory' by Mel Robbins and Sawyer Robbins, with yellow, white, and black text.
Book cover of "Where the Crawdads Sing" by Delia Owens, featuring a sunset over a lake with silhouette trees and a person kayaking.
A book cover with a swimming pool background, featuring white and orange flowers, and the title 'It Starts With Us' by Colleen Hoover. The cover includes a yellow circle with the text 'Every ending has a beginning.'
Book cover titled "The Third Space" by Dr. Adam Fraser, featuring icons of a clock, airplane, suitcase, group of people, flip-flops, and a house.
Cover of the book titled 'The Happiness Project' by Gretchen Rubin. The book cover features a blue sky background with colorful illustrated buildings at the bottom and a bird flying. Text highlights include '#1 New York Times Bestseller' and a quote praising the book.
A book cover titled 'The Happiest Man on Earth' by Eddie Jaku. It features an elderly man with glasses, smiling and holding his arm across his chest. The cover includes a badge indicating the author is a 2021 ABIA winner and mentions that he is a Holocaust survivor sharing themes of gratitude, kindness, and hope.

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Book cover featuring a black and white portrait of Jacinda Ardern, smiling, with bold yellow text that reads "Jacinda Ardern: A Different Kind of Power" and smaller text "A Memoir".
Book cover titled 'Matters of the Heart' featuring a smiling woman with dark curly hair, wearing a white shirt and standing outdoors, author name Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, subtitle 'a memoir', and a foreword by Hon. John Howard.
Book cover for 'Sand Talk' by Tyson Yunkaporta. The cover features a red patterned boomerang with Indigenous Australian designs and some scattered sand or dirt at the bottom. The title is in large red and black letters, and a quote from Tommy Orange is at the top.
Book cover with colorful abstract brushstrokes background and white bold text reading 'Growing Up Disabled in Australia', edited by Carly Findlay.
Cover of the book "Becoming" featuring Michelle Obama smiling with her hand on her chin.