When Ritchie saw the private library of his painting professor, Sarah Spurgeon, it filled an entire room in her house! Arts and crafts practices may require a surprising amount of reading. Besides technical and  history books there are legacy-driving books to read listed here in Bill Ritchie's library.

• 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.

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

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

• 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.

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

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

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

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

• 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. 

• 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. 

• 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.

• 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. 

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

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

• The Gift by Lewis Hyde. 

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

• Grinding it Out by Ray Kroc.

• We Build the Road as We Travel:
  Mondragon--A Cooperative Social System by Roy Morrison. 

• Intrapreneuring:
  Why You Don't Have to Leave the Corporation to Become an Entrepreneur by Gifford Pinchot, III. 

• Decline of Bureacracy and the Rise of the Intelligent Organization by Gifford Pinchot, III and Elizabeth Pinchot.

• Art of the Electronic Age by Frank Popper. 

• Leading People:
  Transforming Business from the Inside Out by Robert Rosen. 

• Game of Life and How to Play It by Florence Scovel Shinn. 

• Goodbye Gutenberg by Anthony Smith. 

• Discovering the Laws of Life by Sir John Templeton. 

• 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.