Where to Find Out More

Books

Anderson, Chris (2016) TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking. Headline.

Baker, Tom (1998) Who on Earth Is Tom Baker? An Autobiography. HarperCollins.

Baron-Cohen, Simon (2003) The Essential Difference: Men, Women and the Extreme Male Brain. Penguin.

Blackmore, Susan (1999) The Meme Machine. Oxford University Press.

Campbell, Joseph (1949) The Hero with a Thousand Faces. New World Library.

Carnegie, Dale (1915/2017) The Art of Public Speaking. Dover Publications.

Dubner, Stephen, & Steven Levitt (2014) Think Like a Freak: How to Think Smarter About Almost Everything. Allen Lane.

Field, Andy (2016) An Adventure in Statistics: The Reality Enigma. Sage Publications.

Greenfield, Susan (2015) Mind Change: How Digital Technologies Are Leaving Their Mark on Our Brains. Rider.

Heath, Chip, & Dan Heath (2008) Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Take Hold and Others Come Unstuck. Arrow.

Kahneman, Daniel (2011). Thinking, Fast and Slow. Penguin.

Mayer-Schönberger, Viktor, & Kenneth Cukier (2013) Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think. John Murray.

McCandless, David (2009) Information Is Beautiful. HarperCollins.

McCandless, David (2014) Knowledge Is Beautiful. HarperCollins.

McKee, Robert (1999) Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screen-writing. Methuen.

Nussbaumer-Knaflic, Cole (2015) Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals. John Wiley & Sons.

Pink, Daniel H. (2011) Drive. Cannongate Books.

Pink, Daniel H. (2014) To Sell Is Human. Cannongate Books.

Pinker, Steven (1999) How the Mind Works. Penguin.

Pinker, Steven (2014) A Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century. Allen Lane.

Ronson, Jon (2011) The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry. Picador.

Silver, Nate (2013) The Signal & the Noise. Penguin.

Simmons, John (2000) We, Me, Them, and It. Urbane Publications.

Simmons, John (2003) The Invisible Grail. Texere Publishing.

Simmons, John (2004) Dark Angels. Urbane Publications.

Sinek, Simon (2009) Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action. Penguin.

Snow, C.P. (1959) The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution: The Rede Lecture 1959. Cambridge University Press.

Tasgal, Anthony (2015) The Storytelling Book. LID Publishing.

Tufte, Edward (2001) The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Graphics Press.

Tufte, Edward (2006) The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint: Pitching Out Corrupts within. Graphics Press.

Vigen, Tyler (2015) Spurious Correlations. Hachette Books.

Ted Talks

Amanpour, Christiane, in Conversation with TED’s Chris Anderson (2017) How to seek truth in the era of fake news. http://bit.ly/2i6AoUV

Chalabi, Mona (2017) 3 ways to spot a bad statistic. http://bit.ly/2mLt96d

McCandless, David (2010) The beauty of data visualization. http://bit.ly/1p1Njxv

Palmer, Amanda (2013) The art of asking. http://bit.ly/1lk3MBX

Rosling, Hans (2006) The best stats you’ve ever seen. http://bit.ly/1rP9yP8

Sinek’s, Simon (2009) How great leaders inspire action (aka “start with ‘why?’”). http://bit.ly/1fQ1qY0

Treasure, Julian (2013) How to speak so that people want to listen. http://bit.ly/2g4RpYY

Wellington, Ben (2015) Making data mean more through storytelling at TEDxBroadway. http://bit.ly/1XzrMAd

And finally … Marillion keyboard player Mark Kelly on how the progressive rock dinosaurs from Aylesbury I grew up with only went and invented crowd-funding last millennium. A great story, compelling told, data-driven, and from a most unlikely source http://huff.to/2gKIhwo