Books that Shaped Exchange

03/03/2005

"Old habits are iron shirts." - Yugoslavian Proverb

Books that Shaped Exchange

With the March issue of Exchange, we are starting our 28th year of publication. As we were putting that issue together, I was reflecting about our history and looking through our past 161 issues (can you believe 161 issues!). I ran across a feature, "Books that Shaped Exchange" in our November 1995 issue. As I looked over this list, I was struck by the fact that many of these books still continue to influence us (even though many are now out of print). So I am going to share some of these influential books and then invite you to share books that have shaped your career.

Theodore Caplow, Managing an Organization. NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1983.

George Dennison, The Lives of Children. NY: Vintage Books, 1969.

Peter F. Drucker, Management. NY: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1973.

Stephanie Feeney, Doris Christensen, and Eva Moravcik. Who Am I in the Lives of Children?. OH: Merrill Publishing Company, 1987.

Selma H. Fraiberg, The Magic Years. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1959.

Jonathan Kozol, Death at an Early Age. NY: Bantam Books, 1967.

Elizabeth Prescott and Elizabeth Jones, Day Care as a Child-Rearing Environment. DC: NAEYC, 1972.

Elwyn Richardson, In the Early World. NY: Pantheon Books, 1964.

David Viscott, Taking Care of Business. NY: William Morrow and Company, 1985.

Roger von Oech, A Whack on the Side of the Head. NY: Warner Books, 1983.

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