This is the entire bibliography for our book, The World Cafe: Shaping Our Futures Through Convesations That Matter, with titles linked to the original source or their listing on Amazon.com.

Adams, M.G. (2004) Change Your Questions Change Your Life. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler

Alexander, C. (1979) The Timeless Way of Building. New York: Oxford University Press.

Allee, V. (1997) The Knowledge Evolution: Expanding Organizational Intelligence. Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann.

Allee, V. (2002) The Future of Knowledge: Increasing Prosperity through Value Networks. Boston: Butterworth Heinemann

Anderson, H. and Goolishian, H. (1988) Human Systems as Linguistic Systems in Family Process 27, 371-393.

Atlee, T. (2003) The Tao of Democracy. Cranston, RI. The Writer’s Collective

Baldwin, C. (1994). Calling the Circle: The First and Future Culture. Newberg, OR: Swan Raven & Co.

Bennett, S., & Brown, J. (1995). Mindshift: Strategic Dialogue for Breakthrough Thinking. In S. Chawla and J. Renesch (Eds.) Learning Organizations: Developing Cultures for Tomorrow’s Workplace. Portland, OR: Productivity Press.

Bohm, D. On Dialogue. (1996) London: Brunner-Routledge.

Brown, J. (2001), The World Café: Living Knowledge Through Conversations that Matter. Mill Valley CA. Whole Systems Associates.

Brown, J., and Isaacs, D. (1995). Building Corporations as Communities: Merging the Best of Two Worlds. In Community Building: Renewing Spirit and Learning in Business. San Francisco: New Leaders Press

Capra, F. (1996). The Web Of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems. New York: Anchor Books, Doubleday.

Capra, F. (2002). Hidden Connections: Integrating the Biological, Cognitive and Social Dimensions of Life into a Science of Sustainability. New York: Doubleday.

Chasin, L. Searching for Wise Questions. Unpublished paper. Available at www.publicconversations.org

Clark, E., Interview by Gene Dunaway conducted for Sustainable Strategies, Inc. 1995

Cooperrider, D. & Srivastva, S. (1987) Appreciative Inquiry in Organizational Life. In R. W. Woodman and W.A. Pasmore (Eds.), Research in Organizational Change and Development  (vol. 1). Grennwich: CT. JAI Press

Cooperrider, D. & Whitney D. (2000) Exploring Appreciative Inquiry. Perspectives: A Journal of the World Business Academy, 14(2), 69-74

Goldberg. M. (1997). The Art of the Question: A Guide to Short Term Question Centered Therapy. New York: John Wiley and Sons.

Greider, W., Who Will Tell The People? (1992) New York: Simon & Schuster.

Hamel, G. (1997) The Search for Strategy. Unabridged, unpublished version of an article that appeared in the June 23, 1997 issue of Fortune as “Killer Strategies that Make Shareholders Rich.”

Heisenberg, W. (1971) Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations. New York: Harper and Row.

Horn, B. (1998) Visual Language: Global Communication for the 21st Century. Bainbridge Island, WA: MacroVue Press.

Institute for the Future (1999) In Good Company: Innovation at the Intersection of Technology and Sustainability, Outlook Project Report. SR-672d. Menlo Park:CA. Unpublished.

Johnson, E. (2001) Contextual Teaching and Learning: What It Is and Why It is Here to Stay. Thousand Oaks, CA. Corwin Press/Sage Publications

Johnson, H.T. (1991). Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.

Johnson, H.T., & Bröms, A. (2000). Profit Beyond Measure: Extraordinary Results Through Attention to Work and People. New York, NY: Free Press

Kinsler, Steven, “Germany Ablaze: It's Candlelight, Not Firebombs”, New York Times, Jan. 12, 1992

Kofman, F., & Senge, P. (l993). Communities of commitment: The Heart of the Learning Organization. Organizational Dynamics, 22 (2), 5-23.

Lakoff, G. & Johnson M. (2003) Metaphors We Live By. Chicago, Illinois. University of Chicago Press

Lambert, L. et al. (1995) The Constructivist Leader. New York. Teachers College Press

Leeds, D. (2000). The Seven Powers of Questions. New York: Berkeley Publishing Group.

Levine, R. et. al. (2000) The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual. New York: NY. Perseus Books, Harper Collins.

Mathews, D. (1985). Civic Intelligence. Social Education, November-December.

Maturana H. and Bunnell, P. (1999) Biosphere, Homosphere, and Robosphere: What Has That To Do With Business? Unpublished paper based on June 1998 presentation to Society for Organizational Learning.

Maturana H. and Verden Zöller, G. (undated) The Origins of Humanness in the Biology of Love. Unpublished manuscript.

Maturana H. and Varela, G, (1987)The Tree of Knowledge. Boston: MA., Shambhala Publications

Morgan, G. (1997)Images of Organization. (2nd ed.) Thousand Oaks: CA. Sage Publications.

Morton, N. (1985) The Journey Is Home. Boston, MA: Beacon Press

Needleman, J. (1997) Report to the Fetzer Institute, unpublished paper. Visit www.fetzer.org

Ochs, C. (1983) Women and Spirituality. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

Oldenberg, R., (1989) The Great Good Place: Cafés, Coffee Shops, Community Centers, Beauty Parlors, General Stores, Bars, Hangouts, and How They Get You Through The Day. New York: Paragon House.

Owen, H. (1997). Open Space Technology: A Users Guide. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler.

Peavey, F. (1994). Strategic Questioning: An Approach to Creating Personal and Social Change, in By Life’s Grace: Musings on the Essence of Social Change. Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 86-111.

Prahalad, C.K. and Ramaswamy, V. (2004). The Future of Competition. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.

Rheingold H. (1993) The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley

Robin, V. (2004). Personal Correspondence.  You can contact Conversation Cafes and Vicki’s other writings at: www.conversationcafe.org

Roth, S. (1998) Questions & Ways of Being to Amplify Dialogic Possibilities: Stance and Focus of Attention. Unpublished manuscript. Public Conversations Project, Watertown MA., www.publicconversations.org

Russell, P. (1995) The Global Brain Awakens: Our Next Evolutionary Leap. Palo Alto, CA: Global Brain Inc.

Russell, P. (1998) Waking Up in Time: Finding Inner Peace in Times of Accelerating Change. Novato, CA: Origin Press.

Sandow, D. and Allen A.M. (2004). The Nature of Social Collaboration. Unpublished article.

Sandra, J. (1997) The Joy of Conversation: The Complete Guide to Salons. Minneapolis, MN: Utne Reader Books.  

Schrage, M. Shared Minds: New Technologies of Collaboration. New York: NY Random House

Seely Brown, J. (1997) Seeing Differently: Insights on Innovation. Boston: MA. Harvard Business School Press.

Seely Brown, J. (2000) Ch. 4 opening quotation. Interview with Seely Brown and Paul Duguid based on their book The Social Life of Information

Singer, M., & Ammerman, R. (1960) Introductory Readings in Philosophy. Dubuque, IA: William C. Brown

Slater, P. (2003) Connected We Stand. In The Utne Reader, Minneapolis, Minn., March-April, 2003, pp. 62-64.

Srivastva, S. and Cooperrider, D., Appreciative Management and Leadership: The Power of Positive Thought and Action in Organizations. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Strachan, D. (2001) Questions That Work: A Resource for Facilitators. Ottawa CA: ST Press.

Toms, M. (2002) A Time for Choices: Deep Dialogues for a Deep Democracy. British Columbia, Canada: New Society publishers.

Varela, F. & Maturana, (1992) H. The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding. Boston, MA: Shambhala Pulications

Varela F., Thompson, E. & Rosch, E. (1992) The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Vogt, E. (1994). The Art and Architecture of Powerful Questions. Micromentor Corporate Learning Journal. Available through eric.vogt@interclass.com.

Vogt, E., Brown J. and Isaacs, D. (2003). The Art of Powerful Questions: Catalyzing Insight, Innovation and Action. Waltham, MA: Pegasus Communications.

Vogt E. (1995). Learning out of Context. In Learning Organizations: Developing Cultures for Tomorrow’s Workplace. Portland, Oregon: Productivity Press

Waldrop, M. M. (1992). Complexity: The Emerging Science At The Edge of Order and Chaos. New York: Touchstone.

Watkins, J. and Mohr, B., Appreciative Inquiry: Change at the Speed of Appreciation. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer.

Waugh, B. (2001). The Soul in the Computer: The Story of A Corporate Revolutionary. Makawao, HI: Inner Ocean Publishing.

Webber, A. (1993) What’s So New About the New Economy. Harvard Business Review, January-February, pp. 24-42. Reprint #93109.

Weisbord, M. and Janov S. (2000) Future Search: An Action Guide to Finding Common Ground in Organizations and Communities. San Francisco: CA. Berrett-Koehler.

Wenger, E. (1998). Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning and Identity. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Wenger, E., McDermott, R., and Snyder. W. (2002) Cultivating Communities of Practice: A Guide to Managing Knowledge. Boston, MA: Harvard University Press.

Wheatley, M. (1992). Leadership and The New Science. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler.

Wheatley, M. & Kellner-Rogers, M. (1996) A Simpler Way. San Francisco, CA: Berret-Kohler.

Whitney, D. & Cooperrider D. (2002). Encyclopedia of Positive Questions. Euclid, OH: Lakeshore Communications.

Whitney, D. and Trosten-Bloom A. (2003) The Power of Appreciative Inquiry: A Practical Guide to Positive Change. San Francisco: CA. Berrett-Koehler.

Wittgenstein, L. (1999) Philosophical Investigation. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Zaleski, P. (1997) Gifts of the Spirit: Living the Wisdom of the Great Religious Traditions. New York: NY HarperCollins

Zohar, D., & Marshall, I. (1994). The Quantum Society: Mind, Physics, and a New Social Vision. New York: William Morrow.