As an art student, Bill  Ritchie lived in a house owned by his painting teacher, Sara Spurgeon. Her private library overflowed and filled a storeroom there. On a long and circuitous pathway, the experience led him to online education. That was a lesson he never forgot. You may follow the teacher's path as it is continuing today by clicking on highlighted links to Amazon.com, and Borders bookstores to review and purchase them on-line (or search for a used copy).

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• Art of Selling Art by Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

• Contemporary Printmaking in the Northwest by Lois Allan.

Cover and Bill's print, "Canceled Artist's Last Loveletter," P. 155 and works by 40 other artists. Each artist is given several pages in Allan's book.

• People Smarts:
  Bending the Golden Rule to Give Others What They Want by Tony Alessandra and Michael J. O'Connor.

• The Power of Focus: How to hit your business, personal and financial targets with absolute certainty by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen and Les Hewitt.

• Against the Gods:
  The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein

• Systems Approach by C. West Churchman.

• Innovator's Dilemma:
  When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail by Clayton M. Christensen.

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• 7 Habits of Highly Effective People; and 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families; and Principle-Centered Leadership by Dr. Stephen R. Covey.

• Managing People is like Herding Cats:
  Warren Bennis on Leadership by Warren Bennis.

• Mapmaker's Dream:
  The Meditations of Fra Mauro, Cartographer to the Court of Venice by James. A Cowan.

• Virtual Corporation:
  Structuring and Revitalizing the Corporation for the 21st Century by William H. Davidow & Michael S. Malone.

• Sovereign Individual:
  How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg.

• Intellectual Capital:
  Realizing Your Company's True Value by Finding Its Hidden Brainpower by Leif Edvinsson and Michael S. Malone.

• Hamilton's Blessing:
  The Extraordinary Life and Times of Our National Debt by John Steele Gordon.

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• Book: A Novel; and On Dialogue: An Essay in Free Thought; and Grace of Great Things: Creativity; and Innovation and Time and the Art of Living all by Robert Grudin.

• Net Gain:
  Expanding Markets Through Virtual Communities by John Hagel, III.

• The Retirement Myth:
  What You Must Know to Prosper in the Coming Meltdown of Job Security, Pension Plans, Social Security, the Stock market, Housing Prices and More by Craig S. Karpel.

• Managing the Equity Factor:
  Or "After All I've Done for You by Richard C. Huseman and John D. Hatfield.

• Who Moved My Cheese?:
  An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life by Johnson, Spencer, M.D..

• No Contest:
  The Case Against Competition by Alfie Kohn.

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• Conversing with Cage by Richard Kostelanetz.

• Game Theory and Economic Modeling by David M. Kreps.

• Wellsprings of Knowledge:
  Building and Sustaining the Sources of Innovation by Dorothy Leonard-Barton.

• The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli.

• The Dictionary of Imaginary Places by Manguel, Alberto and Gianni Guadalupi.

• Thomas Jefferson:
  A Strange Case of Mistaken Identity by Alf Mapp.

• Digital Estate:
  Strategies for Competing, Surviving and Thriving in an Internetworked World by Chuck Martin.

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• Prisoner's Dilemma by Richard Powers.

• America the Wise:
  The Longevity Revolution and the True Wealth of Nations by Theodore Roszak.

• Intellectual Capital:
  The New Wealth of Organization by Thomas A. Stewart.

• The Moment of Complexity:
  Emerging Network Culture by Mark C. Taylor

• Twilight of Sovereignty:
  How the Information Revolution is Transforming Our World by Walter B.Wriston.

Oldies and Goodies:
Books read from 1998 and before

• Longevity Factor: The New Reality of Long Careers and How it can Lead to Richer Lives by Lydia Bronte.

• Mythical Man-Month by Frederick Brooks.

• Glass Bead Game (Magister Ludi) by Hermann Hesse.

• The Gift by Lewis Hyde.

• Act of Creation; and Ghost in the Machine; and Sleepwalkers all by Arthur Koestler.

• Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will by Noel M. Tichy & Stratford Sherman.

• Excerpts from Adam's Diary by Mark Twain.

• Cybernetics by Norbert Wiener.

Also:

The Wealthy Barber by David Chilton.
Don't Eat Your Heart Out by Joe Piscatela.
Diet for a New America by John Robbins.
Artworks as Packages by Harold Rosenberg.
Eve's Diary (CD/ROM) Twain's World.
Ten Bamboo Studio by Joseph Vedlich.
Flextactics (Audio) Denis Waitley.

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