Long ago, Professor Ritchie learned how his eclectic readings could add value to a students' education and led eventually to electric productions--in a roundabout way. Follow these highlighted links to Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble 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.

• 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.

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• 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. 

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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. 

• 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. 

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• 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 

• Elmer Gates and the Art of Mind-Using
  by Donald E. Gates