Reading List
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A Theory of Craft – Function and Aesthetic Expression
Howard RisattiCraft – An Inquiry into the Origins and Ture Meaning of Traditional Crafts
Alexander LanglandsThe Unknown Craftsman – A Japanese Insight in Beauty
Sōetsu YanagiWhy Art Cannot Be Taught
James ElkinsThe Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick RubinFree Play – Improvisation in Life and Art
Stephen NachmanovitchCraft – An American History
Glenn AdamsonHow Art Can Be Thought – A Handbook for Change
Allan deSouzaTalking Art – The Culture of Practice & the Practice of Culture in MFA Education
Gary Alan Fine -
Clay and Glazes for the Potter
Daniel RhodesStoneware & Porcelain – The Art of High Fire Pottery
Daniel RhodesWood-fired Ceramics – Contemporary Practices
Coll Minogue and Robert SandersonKiln Book – Materials, Specifications & Construction
Fred OlsenShapes from Out of Nowhere – Ceramics from the Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection
August EditionsKintsugi – The Poetic Mend
Bonnie KemskeThe Teabowl – East and West
Bonnie KemskeWild Clay – Creating Ceramics and Glazes from Natural and Found Resources
Matt Levy, Takuro Shibata and Hitomi Shibata -
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert M. PirsigThe Idiot
Elif BatumanThe Essential Rumi
By Jala ad-Din Muhammad RumiThe Alchemist
Paulo CoelhoAll Boys Aren’t Blue
George M. JohnsonTick Mirror
Jia TolentinoDemon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver -
Attention – Beyond Mindfulness
Gay WatsonHow Emotions are Made – The Secret Life of the Brain
Lisa Feldman BarrettThe Body Keeps the Score – Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D.The Myth of Normal – Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture
Gabor MatéGut – The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ
Giulia EndersThe Village Effect – How Face-To-Face Contact can make us Healthier and Happier
Susan PinkerNo Bad Parts – Healing Trauma & Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
Richard C. SchwartzYou Are the One You’ve Been Waiting For
Richard C. SchwartzI – Minds – How and Why Constant Connectivity is Rewiring our Brains and What to do About It
Mari K. SwingleThe Runaway Brain – The Evolution of Human Uniqueness
Christopher WellsThe Hand – How its use shapes the brain, language and human culture
Frank R. WilsonNonviolent Communication – A Language of Life
Marshall B. RosenbergLiving Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change
Pema ChödrönHow to Do Nothing – Resisting the Attention Economy
Jenny OdellThe Art of Is – Improvising as a Way of Life
Stephen NachmanovitchHallucinations
Oliver SacksRadical Compassion – Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN
Tara BrachHow to Change Your Mind – What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression and Transcendence
Michael PollanIn the Realm of Hungry Ghosts – Close Encounters with Addiction
Gabor Maté M.D.The Better Brain – Overcome Anxiety, Combat Depression, and Reduce ADHD and Stress with Nutrition
Bonnie J. Kaplan PhD and Julia J, Rucklidge PhDThe End of Mental Illness – How Neuroscience is Transforming Psychiatry and Helping People Prevent or Reverse Mood and Anxiety Disorders, ADHD, Addictions, PTSD, Psychosis, Personality Disorders and More
David G. Amen MD -
Thinking in Systems
Donella H. MeadowsThe Hidden Life of Trees – What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World
Peter WohllebenGathering Moss – A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
Robin Wall KimmererBraiding Sweetgrass – Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall KimmererEntangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Merlin Sheldrake