Odin's Library
Buck, William. 1973. Mahabharata. Berkeley, University of California
Press.
The Mahabharata is an important Asian Indian epic. It includes
the Bhagavad Gita.
Buck, William. 1976. Ramayana. Berkeley, University of California
Press
The Ramayana is another important Indian epic.
Bulfinch, Thomas. 1979. Myths of Greece and Rome, Penguin Books,
New York.
Bulfinch, Thomas. 1979. Bulfinch's Mythology, Avenel Books,
New York
Campbell, Joseph, with Moyers, Bill. 1988. The Power of Myth.
Doubleday, New York
Carrière, Jean-Claude. Peter Brook, translator.
The Mahabharata. Harper & Row Publishers, New York 1987.
Cavendish, Richard. 1989. Legends of the World, Crown
Publishers, Inc. New York.
Cavendish, R. (Editor), Man, Myth, and Magic: An Illustrated
Encyclopedia of the Supernatural, Marshall Cavendish, New York, 1970.
Chu, Chin-Ning. 1992. Thick Face, Black Heart.Warner Books,
New York.
Clavell, James. 1975. Shogun. Dell Publishing, New York.
Clausewitz, Carl von. 1832. On War. Translation by Michael
Howard and Peter Paret. 1976. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University
Press.
Cleary, Thomas. 1991. The Japanese Art of War. Shambhala
Publications, Inc., Boston.
Cohen, Eliot, and Gooch, John. 1990. Military Misfortunes– the Anatomy
of Failure in War. The Free Press, New York.
Confucius. 1938. The Analects of Confucius (translated by Arthur
Waley) Vintage Books/ Random House, New York.
Covey, Stephen R. 1991. Principle-Centered Leadership, Summit
Books, New York. (Also, abridged book on tape. Simon &
Schuster, Inc. NY 1992)
An outstanding reference for understanding Natural Law, the keystone
of organizational behavior.
Covey, Stephen R. 1992. Living the Seven Habits: Applications and Insights.
(Book on tape) Covey Leadership Center, Inc. Provo, Utah
Crossley-Holland, Kevin, The Norse Myths, Pantheon Books, New
York, 1980.
Deshimaru Taisen, The Zen Way to the Martial Arts. E.P.
Dutton (New American Library), 1982
Donnithorne, Col. Larry R. 1993. The West Point Way of Leadership.
Doubleday, New York.
Another excellent reference for understanding the making of "leaders
of character."
Edinger, Edward F. 1994. The Eternal Drama– the Inner Meaning of Greek
Mythology. Shambhala Publications Inc., Boston.
Green, Peter. 1991. Alexander of Macedon. Berkeley: University
of California Press
Hayes, Robert H., Wheelwright, Steven C., and Clark, Kim B. 1988. Dynamic
Manufacturing. New York, The Free Press.
Homer. 1990 (Robert Fagles' translation). The Iliad. Penguin
Books, New York.
Holy Bible, dictionary concordance. 1970. Thomas Nelson, Inc.
Camden, NJ 08103
Hughes, Daniel J. 1993. Moltke on the Art of War– Selected Writings.
Presidio Press, Novato, CA. (Helmuth Karl Bernhard, Graf von Moltke,
1800-1891)
Keegan, John. 1987. The Mask of Command. Penguin Books, New
York.
Keegan studies Alexander the Great, the Duke of Wellington, Ulysses
S. Grant, Adolf Hitler, and their approaches to leadership.
Keegan, John. 1993. A History of Warfare. Vintage Books, New York.
An outstanding reference on the history of war.
Kipling, Rudyard, Complete Verse, Doubleday, New York, (C) 1940
Klein, Stewart M. and Ritti, R. Richard. 1984. Understanding
Organizational Behavior, Wadsworth Inc., Belmont, California.
Koch, H. W. 1982. The Rise of Modern Warfare, Prentice-Hall,
Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
Lao Tzu. 1963. Tao Te Ching. Penguin Books, New York.
Levinson, William. 1994. The
Way of Strategy. ASQC Quality Press, Milwaukee, WI.
Follow the link for online excerpts and endorsements.
Levinson, William (editor). 1998.
Leading the Way to Competitive Excellence: The Harris Mountaintop Case
Study. ASQC Quality Press, Milwaukee, WI.
Excerpts and endorsements are available online.
Machiavelli, Niccolò, [1469-1527] The Art of War, Da Capo
Press, New York. (Original publication in 1521.)
Not as well known as The Prince, but very valuable.
Machiavelli, Niccolò, [1469-1527] The Prince, Airmont Publishing
company, New York, 1965. (Original publication in 1513.)
Mahan, Alfred Thayer (Captain) [1840-1914] 1980. The Influence of
Sea Power upon History. Bison Books Ltd. London.
Mascarò, Juan (trans.) 1962. The Bhagavad Gita. Penguin
Classics, New York.
The dialogue between Krishna and Arjuna before the Battle of Kurukshetra
Mascarò, Juan (trans.) 1973. The Dhammapada. Penguin Classics,
New York.
Miller, Robert B. (Professor, Union College) Lecture notes, courses
on organizational psychology and behavior. (1985-1986)
Miyamoto Musashi [1584-1645], A Book of Five Rings, translation
by Victor Harris. Overlook Press, 1974. (Original publication
in 1645).
An excellent translation of Musashi's work
Miyamoto Musashi [1584-1645], The Book of Five Rings. Bantam Books,
New York, 1982.
Morris, William (Ed.) 1969. American Heritage Dictionary of the
English Language. New York. American Heritage Publishing Co. Appendix,
"Indo-European Roots"
Newman, John. Bushido- the Way of the Warrior. Brompton
Books Corporation, Greenwich, CT, 1989.
Nitobe, Inazo. 1963. Bushido– the Soul of Japan. Charles E.
Tuttle, Rutland, Vermont.
Nye, Roger H. 1993. The Patton Mind. Avery Publishing Group,
Inc. Garden City Park, NY
Palmer, R.R., and Colton, Joel. 1971. A History of the Modern World.
Alfred A. Knopf, New York.
Paterno, Joseph V. and Asbell, Bernard. 1989. Paterno: by the Book.
Berkeley Books, New York.
Virgil's Aeneid comes to modern football through Joe Paterno,
coach of Penn State's Nittany Lions
Patton, George S. Jr. 1947. War as I Knew It. Houghton Mifflin
Company, New York.
Peters, Thomas, and Waterman, Robert. 1982. In Search of Excellence.
New York, Harper & Row.
Peters, Thomas, and Austin, Nancy. 1985. A Passion For Excellence.
New York, Warner Books.
Peters, Thomas, 1987. Thriving on Chaos. New York,
Harper & Row.
Peters, Thomas, 1989. Presentation to the Cornell Society of
Engineers, April, 1989.
Anything by Tom Peters is good.
Sawyer, Ralph D. 1993. The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China.
Westview Press, Boulder, CO. 157
Schermerhorn, John R., Hunt, James G., and Osborn, Richard N.
Managing Organizational Behavior, 2nd ed., John Wiley & Sons,
New York, 1985.
Shaku, Soyen, Zen for Americans, (c) 1906, Open Court Publishing
Company.
Soho, Takuan [1573-1645]. 1986. The Unfettered Mind. (William
Scott Wilson, trans.) Kodansha International, New York
Squire, Charles. 1994. Celtic Myths and Legends. Gramercy Books,
Avenel, NJ.
Storry, Richard, The Way of the Samurai, Orbis Publishing Limited,
1978.
Sun Tzu. 1983. The Art of War, translated by James Clavell.
Delacorte Press, New York.
Clavell's translation is very easy to read.
Sun Tzu. 1989. The Art of War, translated by Thomas Cleary (tape
version), Shambhala Publications, Inc., Boston
Sun Tzu. 1963. The Art of War, translated by Samuel Griffith.
Oxford Univesity Press, Oxford, England.
A comprehensive, very useful translation with many footnotes.
Sun Tzu. 1987. Sun Tzu's Art of War– The Modern Chinese Interpretation,
by General Tao Hanzhang. Translated by Yuan Shibing. Sterling Publishing
Company, Inc. New York
Sun Tzu. 1988. The Art of War, translated by R. L. Wing. ("The
Art of Strategy") Doubleday, New York
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Quotations. Cassell Arms and Armor Press, London
This is the source of the Suvorov quotes.
Turnbull, Stephen. Battles of the Samurai, Arms and Armour
Press, New York, 1987
Turnbull, Stephen. 1991 Ninja- the True Secret of Japan's Secret
Warrior Cult. Firebird Books, Dorset, England Armour Press, New
York, 1987
Wagner, Richard. Translation by Stewart Robb, 1972. Siegfried,
ABC Records, Inc. New York
Williamson, Porter B. Patton's Principles, Simon and Schuster,
New York 1979.
Colonel Williamson served under Patton for a while, and provides valuable
insights into his thinking.
Wilson, William S. (editor) 1982. The Ideals of the Samurai: Writings
of Japanese Warriors. Ohara Publications, Inc. Burbank
Yagyu Munenori [1571-1646] (translated by Sato Hiroaki), The Sword
and the Mind. Overlook Press, 1986.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo [1658-1719], Hagakure ("Hidden Leaves"),
Kodansha International, New York, 1979.
Yoshikawa Eiji, Musashi. Kodansha International, New York,
1981.
Biography of Miyamoto Musashi.
Zhuge Liang (~180) and Liu Ji (1311-1375), Mastering the Art of War,
translated by Thomas Cleary, Shamballah Publications, Inc., Boston, 1989
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