Here are just some books that we have found of particular interest recently:

A Natural History of the Senses
by Diane Ackerman (1990, Vintage Books)

A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age
by Daniel Pink (2005, Riverhead Hardcover)

Art & Fear: Observations of the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
by David Bayles and Ted Orland (1993, The Image Continuum Press)

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell (2005, Little, Brown and Company)

Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1996, Harper Perennial)

Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation
by R. Keith Sawyer (2006, Oxford University Press)

Inspirability: 40 Top Designers Speak About What Inspires
by Matt Pashkow (2005, HOW Design Books)

Present Moment, Wonderful Moment
by Thich Nhat Hanh (1990, Parallax Press)

Reason for Hope
by Jane Goodall (1999, Warner Books)

The Art of Wonder: A History of Seeing
by Julian Spalding (2005, Prestel Publishing)

The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World
by Paul H. Phd Ray and Sherry Ruth Anderson (2001, Three Rivers Press)

The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent
by Richard Florida (2006, Collins)

The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
by Betty Edwards (1999, Tarcher)

The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life
by Richard Florida (2003, Basic Books)

The Sounds of Paper: Starting from Scratch
by Julia Cameron (2004, Penguin Group)

The Way of the Storyteller
by Ruth Sawyer (1990, Penguin Books)

The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century
by Thomas Friedman (2006, Farrar Straus Giroux)

What is Your Dangerous Idea? Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable
by John Brockman (2007, Harper Perennial)