Books and Beyond

Books & Beyond is a collection of favorite reads, essentials, and little treasures that inspire, inform, and bring us joy.

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Recommended Course Textbooks

Cover of 'Coaching Psychology Manual, Second Edition' showing a silhouette of a head with colorful interconnected gears and cogs inside the brain area.

Coaching Psychology Manuel

Book cover titled 'Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change and Grow' by William R. Miller and Stephen Rollnick, Fourth Edition, with blue and multicolored swirl design.

Motivational Interviewing-Fourth Edition

Book cover titled 'How to Be a Health Coach' by Meg Jordan, with a blue blueberry background.

How to Be a Heath Coach

Deepen Your Coaching Craft

Masterful Health &Wellness Coaching: Deepening Your Craft

Book cover titled 'Masterful Health & Wellness Coaching: Deepening Your Craft' by Michael Arloski, PhD, PCC, NBC-HWC, with a deep blue background, abstract clock or gear design, and a small photo of the author at the bottom.

Book cover titled 'Helping People Change: Coaching with Compassion for Lifelong Learning and Growth' by Richard Boyatzis, Melvin Smith, and Ellen Van Oosten.

Helping People Change

Book cover titled 'Changing to Thrive' by James O. Prochaska, PhD, and Janice M. Prochaska, PhD, with a subtitle about overcoming health and happiness threats through change stages.

Changing to Thrive

Wellness Coaching for Lasting Lifestyle Change- Second Edition

Cover of a book titled 'Wellness Coaching for Lasting Lifestyle Change,' second edition, authored by Michael Arloski, PhD, PCC, CWP, with a background featuring clock faces.

Building Motivational Interviewing Skills: A Practitioner Workbook: Second Edition

Cover of a book titled "Building Motivational Interviewing Skills" by David B. Rosengren, second edition, with a green background and additional text about print volume.

Awareness is Enough: Reflections on Being a Coach

Book cover titled 'Awareness is Enough' by Billie Frances with Terrell Dickey, featuring a blurred green and blue background with light spots, and a small bottle or vial at the top right corner.

How To Know A Person

Cover of the book titled 'Co-Active Coaching,' fourth edition, authored by Henry Kimsey-House, Karen Kimsey-House, Phillip Sandahl, and Laura Whitworth, with a colorful swirling abstract design in shades of blue, purple, and white.

Co-Active Coaching

Habit Building Reads

Book cover for "Atomic Habits" by James Clear, titled "Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results," with a white background and orange and black text.

Tiny Habits: The Small Changes that Change Everything

Book cover with title 'The Tiny Habits Small Changes That Change Everything' by BJ Fogg, PhD, featuring text in green, black, and blue, with a small smiley face at the bottom right.

The Power of Habit

Cover of the 10th anniversary edition of 'The Power of Habit' by Charles Duhigg, featuring a yellow background with red and black text, and a graphic of a large wheel with two smaller figures running on its rim.

Diversity Equity Inclusion Accessibility Justice

Mind the Inclusion Gap

Book cover of 'Mind the Inclusion Gap' by Suzy Levy, with a red background, black and white text, and author name at the bottom.

Inner Work of Racial Justice

Book cover titled "The Inner Work of Racial Justice" by Rhonda V. Magee, with subtitle "Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness," featuring a gradient background in yellow and blue.

Beyond the Gender Binary

Book cover titled 'Beyond the Gender Binary' by Alok Vaid-Menon, with a colorful illustration of a person with short hair, wearing a green outfit, standing with hands on hips surrounded by flowers, lightning bolts, a notebook, and other whimsical designs on a purple background.

Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism

Cover of the book titled 'Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism' by Barry M. Prizant, featuring two children jumping and playing.

White Fragility: Why Is It So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism

Book cover titled 'White Fragility' by Robin DiAngelo with a quote and a New York Times bestseller badge.

Physical and Mental Health

The Body Keeps The Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

Cover of the book titled "Why We Sleep" by Matthew Walker, PhD, with a night sky background, a crescent moon, and stars, promoting unlocking the power of sleep and dreams.

Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain

Book cover of 'Spark' by John J. Ratey, MD, with Eric Hagerman, featuring a minimalistic black stick figure running and radiating lines above its head on a white background, with yellow and orange accents.

The Stress Prescription: 7 Days to More Joy and Ease

Cover of a book titled '7 Days to More Joy and Ease: The Stress Prescription' by Elissa Epel, PhD, featuring a rainbow-colored gradient circles.

Rewire your Brain: Think Your Way to a Better Life

Book cover titled 'Rewire Your Brain' by John B. Arden, Ph.D., featuring a silhouette of a person's head with a colorful, scribbled brain inside.

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic on Mental Illness

Book cover of 'The Anxious Generation' by Jonathan Haidt, featuring a woman surrounded by yellow and brown spheres, with the title and author prominently displayed.

Brain food: The Suprising Science of Eating for Cognitive Power

Book cover titled 'Brain Food: The Surprising Science of Eating for Cognitive Power' by Lisa Mosconi, PhD, featuring images of various test tubes with food items like berries, nuts, and a plant.

Book cover titled 'The Body Keeps the Score' by Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D., with a blue background and an illustration of a black human figure surrounded by yellow leaves.

Feel Good Children’s Reads We Love

Cover of a children's book titled 'The Little Bit Scary People', featuring a girl in a green coat and a red hat walking past ghostly, shadowy figures in a neighborhood with houses and trees.

The Little Bit Scary People

Book cover for 'Out of My Mind' by Sharon M. Draper, featuring a goldfish swimming above a round fishbowl against a blue background.

Book cover for 'Wonders' by R.J. Palacio, featuring a minimalist illustration of a child's face with short black hair and ears. The face is faceless except for the word 'wonders' written across the face, with a small blue eye underneath. The background is light blue, and there is a quote from The Wall Street Journal at the top.