This is the sort of book that I would have loved to have when I first started learning about various ideas around resilience and systems thinking and complex adaptive systems and mindfulness and communities and leadership. As the length of that list implies, this book was a broad and shallow introduction to a wide variety of topics that can all be categorized under resilience. This breadth was useful in showing connections between different topics. It was challenging because it felt like the topic changed just as the previous topic really started to get interesting. People who are newer to these topics and just want an overview will likely enjoy it. ( )