Books for Decision-Makers

Below are links to books for decision-makers organized by relevant questions and answers that relate to particular milestones along the Decision-Maker's Path (tm). An alphabetical listing of books may be found at: Alphabetical List of Books.

Books for Decision-Makers

1. Where are you coming from?

• Your Life as Story
• Leisure The Basis Of Culture
• The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community
• When God Writes Your Life Story: Experience the Ultimate Adventure
• REDEMPTOR HOMINIS

2. Where are you wanting to go?

• Living with the End in Mind
• End of Time: A Meditation on the Philosophy of History
• Touching the Void
• Young Men and Fire
• Death and Immortality
• Insight: A Study of Human Understanding
• Understanding and Being
• Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas
• The City of the Gods
• Time and Myth
• A Search for God in Time and Memory
• The Way of All the Earth: Experiments in Truth and Religion
• The Homing Spirit
• The House of Wisdom
• The Peace of the Present An Unviolent Way of Life
• The Reasons of the Heart
• The Road of the Heart's Desire
• Loves Mind: An Essay on Contemplative Life
• Reading The Gospel
• The Mystic Road of Love
• A Vision Quest
• Deep Rythym and the Riddle of Eternal Life
• DIVES IN MISERICORDIA

3. What are you waiting for?

• Thinking With a Pencil
• The Elements of Style
• WFF 'N PROOF
• Adler's Philosophical Dictionary
• The Great Ideas: A Lexicon of Western Thought
• Some Questions About Language
• Tractatus Logico Philosophicus
• Philosophical Investigations
• How To Find Your Mission In Life
• How to Read a Book
• How to Win Friends & Influence People
• How to Speak How to Listen
• How to Think About God
• How to Think About the Great Ideas
• Memorize the Faith
• The Mind Map Book
• Way of the Winding Path: A Map for the Labyrinth of Life
• The Writers Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers, 3rd Ed
• The Hero's Journey
• The Hero's 2 Journeys
• The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle
• LABOREM EXERCENS

4. What are your wise ones generally advising?

• Greek Myths for Young Children
• Classic Myths to Read Aloud
• Philosophy for Kids
• Philosophy 101 by Socrates
• Young Person's Guide to Philosophy
• The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy
• Does the Center Hold?: An Introduction to Western Philosophy
• Looking At Philosophy: The Unbearable Heaviness of Philosophy Made Lighter
• In Defense of Philosophy
• The Story of Philosophy
• Great Books of the Western World
• History of Philosophy, Volume 1
• History of Philosophy, Volume 2
• History of Philosophy, Volume 3
• History of Philosophy, Volume 4
• History of Philosophy, Volume 5
• History of Philosophy, Volume 6
• History of Philosophy, Volume 7
• History of Philosophy, Volume 8
• History of Philosophy, Volume 9
• Great Treasury of Western Thought
• A Brief Reader on the Virtues of the Human Heart
• Back to Virtue
• The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to American History
• The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to Capitalism
• The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to Islam
• The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to the Constitution
• The Collected Dialogues of Plato
• The Trial of Socrates
• Aristotle for Everybody
• Intellect: Mind over Matter
• Hard Thinking
• Socratic Logic 2E
• The Difference of Man and the Difference It Makes
• The Four Dimensions of Philosophy
• Six Great Ideas
• Ten Philosophical Mistakes
• Desires, Right and Wrong
• Paideia Proposal
• Paideia Problems & Possibilities
• Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
• Who Are You?: 101 Ways of Seeing Yourself
• Religion and the One: Philosophies East and West
• Eastern Religions & Western Thought
• The Gospel of John in the Light of Indian Mysticism
• Sadhu Sundar Singh: Essential Writings
• Autobiography of a Yogi
• Responses to 101 Questions on Hinduism
• The Law Code of Manu
• Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
• Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
• Kali's Child
• The Road Less Traveled
• People of the Lie
• Self Knowledge in Thomas Aquinas
• Religion and the Rise of Western Culture
• Fear and Trembling
• The Phenomenon of Man
• The Divine Milieu
• Method in Theology
• Augustine for Armchair Theologians
• Introduction to Saint Thomas Aquinas
• Josef Pieper: An Anthology
• First Glance At Thomas Aquinas
• Aquinas 101: A Basic Introduction
• Aquinas for Armchair Theologians
• Aquinas's Shorter Summa
• A Shorter Summa: The Essential Philosophical Passages
• An Introduction to Philosophy: The Perennial Principles of the Classical Realist Tradition
• An Introduction to the Metaphysics of St. Thomas Aquinas
• Guide to Thomas Aquinas
• The Christian Philosophy Of St Thomas Aquinas
• Elements of Christian Philosophy
• St. Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica
• A Summa of the Summa
• Dante the Philosopher
• Methodical Realism
• The Unity of Philosophical Experience
• The Spirit of Mediaeval Philosophy
• God and Philosophy
• The Rule of Saint Benedict
• St. Benedict's Toolbox
• The Spiritual Life
• The Spirit Of Catholicism
• The Aquinas Catechism
• Catechism of the Catholic Church: Second Edition
• Guide to the Catechism of the Catholic Church
• The Apostles
• Ignatius Catholic Study Bible
• Complete Jewish Bible
• A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus
• St. Francis of Assisi and the Conversion of the Muslims
• SLAVORUM APOSTOLI

5. What are the pros and cons of the issue?

• Three Philosophies of Life
• Common Sense 101
• G. K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense
• The Catholic Church and Conversion
• You Can Understand The Bible
• Fundamentals of the Faith
• A Refutation of Moral Relativism
• The Snakebite Letters
• Handbook of Christian Apologetics
• Making Choices
• Making Sense Out of Suffering
• The Journey: A Spiritual Roadmap for Modern Pilgrims
• DOMINUM ET VIVIFICANTEM

6. What are the "Powers That Be" saying?

• Gorgias
• Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power
• St. Thomas Aquinas on Politics and Ethics
• Treatise on Law
• Treatise On Happiness
• Utopia
• The Pilgrimage of Grace
• After Elizabeth
• Inventing America
• We Hold These Truths
• Hope of the Wicked
• Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in Our Time
• Comrade J
• Gangster Capitalism
• Killing Pablo
• Utopia of Usurers
• The Creature from Jekyll Island
• Imperial Life in the Emerald City
• The Shock Doctrine
• Ethics and the National Economy
• What Happy Companies Know
• The Jesuits
• Heroic Leadership
• Happiness and Contemplation
• REDEMPTORIS MATER

7. What is your real agenda?

• Between People
• Vital Lies, Simple Truths
• What Men Are Like
• He: Understanding Masculine Psychology
• She: Understanding Feminine Psychology
• Encounter With the Self
• We: Understanding the Psychology of Romantic Love
• Inner Work
• Ecstasy: Understanding the Psychology of Joy
• Sacrament of Sexuality
• Humane Vitae
• Anatomy of the Psyche: Alchemical Symbolism in Psychotherapy
• Ego and Archetype
• The Man Who Wrestled with God
• Creation Continues
• The Bible and the Psyche
• The Unconscious Christian
• The Christian Archetype
• Healing Body and Soul: The Meaning of Illness in the New Testament and in Psychotherapy
• Ministry Burnout
• The Strange Trial of Mr. Hyde
• Kierkegaard For Beginners
• Short Life of Kierkegaard
• The Diary Of Soren Kierkegaard
• The Essential Kierkegaard
• Kierkegaard: A Very Short Introduction
• Kierkegaard and Socrates: A Study in Philosophy and Faith
• Kierkegaard Anthology
• Stages on Life's Way
• Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
• The Seinfeld Scripts: The First and Second Seasons
• Seinfeld and Philosophy
• Philosophical Fragments
• Practice in Christianity
• The Concept of Anxiety
• The Sickness Unto Death
• Purity of Heart
• Works of Love
• Concluding Unscientific Postscript
• Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses
• The Prayers of Kierkegaard
• Kierkegaard's Philosophy: Self Deception and Cowardice in the Present Age
• The Concept of Sin
• Lord, Have Mercy: The Healing Power of Confession
• SOLLICITUDO REI SOCIALIS

8. What are the facts and reasons you are contending with?

• First Comes Love
• Reasons to Believe
• Heretics
• Ecumenical Jihad
• The Rhine Flows into the Tiber
• Turmoil & Truth
• Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge
• Truth in Religion
• A Rulebook for Arguments
• Fallacy: The Counterfeit Of Argument
• Aquinas in the Courtroom
• Turning Points of the Civil War
• Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America
• Lincoln on Leadership
• Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural
• Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution
• Lincoln's Melancholy
• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
• Socrates on Trial
• Socrates on Trial: A play
• Socrates Meets Descartes
• Socrates Meets Machiavelli
• Socrates Meets Sartre
• The Unaborted Socrates
• Socrates Meets Jesus
• The Order of Things
• The Spiritual Exercise of St. Ignatius Loyola
• Ignatius of Loyola: Spiritual Exercises
• Thirty Days: On Retreat with the Exercises of St. Ignatius
• A 12-Step Approach to the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius
• Do It at Home Retreat
• The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ
• REDEMPTORIS MISSIO

9. What insights and oversights are emerging?

• Chicken Soup for the Soul: Living Your Dreams
• King Saul, the Tragic Hero
• Dreams: A Study of the Dreams of Jung, Descartes, Socrates
• Dreams: God's Forgotten Language
• Angels and Us
• Angels and Demons: What Do We Really Know About Them?
• The Angels and Their Mission
• Enthusiasm and Divine Madness
• "Divine Madness": Plato's Case Against Secular Humanism
• The I Ching or Book of Changes
• The I Ching Coloring Book
• The Visual I Ching
• Tao Te Ching, 25th-Anniversary Edition
• Baseball Tarot
• The Mythic Tarot
• Le Tarot De Marseille Deck
• Meditations on the Tarot
• Tarot and the Journey of the Hero
• Contemplatives in Action
• Befriending Our Desires
• Christianity for Modern Pagans: Pascal's Pensees
• Finding God in All Things
• Orthodoxy
• Fides et Ratio
• The Philosophy of Jesus
• The Silence of St. Thomas
• Thomas Aquinas Theologian
• The Way of Paradox
• Thomist Realism and the Critique of Knowledge
• The World of Silence
• The Kingdom Within: The Inner Meaning of Jesus' Sayings
• The Mystical Theology of St. Bernard
• Mystical Christianity
• Saint Francis of Assisi
• Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox
• Jesus As Teacher
• Jesus the Teacher
• Jesus of Nazareth
• Entering into the Heart of Jesus
• Understanding "Our Father"
• Swear to God: The Promise and Power of the Sacraments
• Ten Prayers God Always Says Yes To
• Yoga for Christians
• The Examen Prayer
• The Discernment of Spirits
• God Is Near Us
• A Key to the Doctrine of the Eucharist
• Grace and Freedom
• Jesus and the Victory of God
• Because God Is Real
• Love Is Stronger Than Death
• Love Alone Is Credible
• Salvation Is from the Jews
• The Arts of the Beautiful
• CENTESIMUS ANNUS
• VERITATIS SPLENDOR

10. How are you telling the story of your decision?

• Committed to Memory
• A Gerald Manley Hopkins Reader
• Four Quartets
• Dove Descending
• Last Tales
• Seven Gothic Tales
• Winter's Tales
• Cinematic Storytelling
• A River Runs through It and Other Stories
• Gone with the Wind
• Atonement: A Novel
• And Then There Were None
• Animal Farm
• Don Quixote
• Brave New World
• Catch-22
• Pride and Prejudice
• The Catcher in the Rye
• The Quiet Light: A Novel About Thomas Aquinas
• The Golden Thread: A Novel About St. Ignatius Loyola
• Latin Sayings for Spiritual Growth
• My Way of Life
• Scripture Matters
• Letter & Spirit
• The Mind of the Maker
• The Prophetic Imagination
• The Future of Man
• The New Testament and the People of God
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• The Human Factor
• The Shawshank Redemption
• Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt
• Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana
• All's Well That Ends Well
• Antony and Cleopatra
• As You Like It
• Cymbeline
• Hamlet
• Henry IV, Part One
• Henry IV, Part Two
• Henry V
• Henry VIII
• King John
• King Lear
• Love's Labor's Lost
• Macbeth
• Measure for Measure
• Pericles
• Richard II
• Romeo and Juliet
• The Comedy of Errors
• The Merry Wives of Windsor
• The Tempest
• The Two Gentlemen of Verona
• The Winter's Tale
• Timon of Athens
• Troilus and Cressida
• Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
• Shakespeare the Thinker
• Shakespeare the Papist
• The Illusion of Power
• Her Majesty's Spymaster
• Shadowplay
• EVANGELIUM VITAE

11. What are you willing to risk to gain what you can only be hoping for?

• What's Wrong With the World
• The Mass and Modernity
• Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity
• How to Think About War and Peace
• Report From Iron Mountain on the Possibility & Desirability of Peace
• On Evil
• Evil And the Justice of God
• Evil: The Shadow Side of Reality
• The Philosophy of Tolkien
• The Psychopathic God: Adolf Hitler
• Explaining Hitler
• Hostage to the Devil
• Clerical Error
• The Anti-Christ
• The Myth of Hitler's Pope
• Death of the Messiah
• Judas and the Gospel of Jesus
• The Court-Martial of Jesus
• The Gifts of the Jews
• The Spirit of the Ten Commandments
• Pensees
• Pascal's Wager
• Christ's Fulfillment of Torah and Temple
• An Interrupted Life
• Honey from the Rock
• Lazarus, Come Forth!
• The Resurrection of the Son of God
• Surprised by Hope
• Mysterium Paschale (The Mystery of Easter)
• What's So Great About Christianity
• Triumph: The Power and the Glory of the Catholic Church
• How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization
• Truth And Tolerance: Christian Belief And World Religions
• Dare We Hope "That All Men Be Saved"?
• UT UNUM SINT
• FIDES ET RATIO
  

12. How are you determining that the decision you discern is the right one?

• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Heaven, but Never Dreamed of Asking
• Heaven: The Heart's Deepest Longing
• God's Passionate Desire
• Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense
• The God Who Loves You
• The Kingship of Christ
• The Last Word
• Only the Lover Sings
• John Paul II: The Encyclicals in Everyday Language
• Agenda for the Third Millennium
• Living the Mysteries
• The Mass Of The Roman Rite
• The End: A Study of the Book of Revelation
• The Lamb's Supper: The Mass as Heaven on Earth
• The Violence of Love
• The Evidential Power of Beauty
• Before I Go
• A Friendship Like No Other
• A Travel Guide to Heaven
• Surprised by Hope
• The Everlasting Man
• ECCLESIA DE EUCHARISTIA