[Ailist] book recommendation

[Raffi Aftandelian]

Dear colleagues, 

If you were to recommend one book on AI to someone unfamiliar with the approach, a book that would be a good introduction and give the necessary essentials to begin working within the Positive Change Paradigm, what book would it be?

A few colleagues are looking at translating and publishing one of the AI books into Russian, and there seems to be lots of good books out there. We'd prefer a book under 300 pages, something that would not overwhelm the reader.

Thanks much!
Raffi Aftandelian
San Diego, Calif.