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Godel, Escher, Bach

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 1:00:54 PST

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this book applies Godel's seminal contribution to modern mathematics to the study of the human mind and the development of artificial intelligence.

iWoz

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 0:21:51 PST

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The mastermind behind Apple sheds his low profile and steps forward to tell his story for the first time. Before cell phones that fit in the palm of your hand and slim laptops that fit snugly into briefcases, computers were like strange, alien vending machines. They had cryptic switches, punch cards and pages of encoded output. But in 1975, a young engineering wizard named Steve Wozniak had an ...

The Long Tail

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 22:46:05 PST

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What happens when there is almost unlimited choice? When everything becomes available to everyone? And when the combined value of the millions of items that only sell in small quantities equals or even exceeds the value of a handful of best-sellers? In this ground-breaking book, Chris Anderson shows that the future of business does not lie in hits - the high-volume end of a traditional demand cur ...

Kane and Abel

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 16:44:56 PST

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William Lowell Kane and Abel Rosnovski, one the son of a Boston millionaire, the other a penniless polish immigrant-born on the same day near the turn of the century on opposite sides of the world-are brought together by fate and the quest of a dream. Two men - ambitious, powerful, ruthless - are locked in a relentless struggle to build an empire, fueled by their all-consuming hatred. Over sixty ...

A Prisoner of Birth

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 16:41:58 PST

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Danny Cartwright and Spencer Craig were born on different sides of the track. Danny, an East End Cockney, leaves Clement Attlee Comprehensive School at the age of 15 to take up a job at a local garage. He falls in love with Beth, the boss' daughter, and asks her to marry him. Spencer Craig resides in the West End. A graduate of an English public school and Cambridge University. After leaving univ ...

Built to Last

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 16:32:02 PST

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企業の使命として株主への利益還元がさけばれて久しい。しかし、ジョンソン・エンド・ジョンソンのように企業が奉仕する優先順位として1に顧客、2に社員、3に地域社会、最後にようやく株主という基本理念を掲げる企業がアメリカの経営者から尊敬を集めているのも事実だ。本書は、アメリカの主要企業のCEOから採ったアンケートによって選び出された18社の歴史に対する6年間の調査から生み出されたレポート。企業を組織する人間が企業内に活力を生み出すのは、カネでは計れない動機づけにあるというシンプルな「真理」が、ライバル企業と比較された各社の資料、エピソードから浮き彫りにされる。著者の1人であるコリンズはコンサルティングも手がける大学教授であるためか、随所に抽象化された概念と企業が取るべき方策が図を合わせて示される。しかし、経営指南よりも、世界を代表する大企業の決断の歴史が斜め読みできる魅力の方が大 ...

Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 16:30:59 PST

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In the grand satirical tradition of Swift, Rabelais, and Twain comes... Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot, and Other Observations... a scathing--but uncompromisingly fair--look at America's largest talk show host and the rest of the Republican right. Penned by the Emmy award-winning Saturday Night Live writer whom John Podhoretz of the New York Post has called "the man responsible fo ...

Butterfly Economics

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:13:11 PST

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The economy is like society itself, he argues: a complex system living on the edge of chaos. Conventional economics has always failed to predict and manage its fluctuations. Governments and businesses need to adopt quite different mindsets and less heavy-handed approaches. Hence Butterfly Economics.

Fooled by Randomness

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:12:45 PST

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Finally in paperback, the word-of-mouth sensation that will change the way you think about the markets and the world. This book is about luck: more precisely how we perceive luck in our personal and professional experiences. Set against the backdrop of the most conspicuous forum in which luck is mistaken for skill–the world of business–Fooled by Randomness is an irreverent, iconoclastic, eye- ...

The Black Swan

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:12:30 PST

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Elegant, startling, and universal in its applications, The Black Swan is a concept that will change the way you look at the world. Black Swans underlie almost everything, from the rise of religions, to events in our own personal lives. A Black Swan is a highly improbable event with three principle characteristics: it is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct a ...

Being Digital

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:12:14 PST

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As the founder of MIT's Media Lab and a popular columnist for Wired, Nicholas Negroponte has amassed a following of dedicated readers. Negroponte's fans will want to get a copy of Being Digital, which is an edited version of the 18 articles he wrote for Wired about "being digital." Negroponte's text is mostly a history of media technology rather than a set of predictions for future technologi ...

Blue Ocean Strategy

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:11:56 PST

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Winning by not competing: a fresh approach to strategy Since the dawn of the industrial age, companies have engaged in head-to-head competition in search of sustained, profitable growth. They have fought for competitive advantage, battled over market share, and struggled for differentiation. Yet these hallmarks of competitive strategy are not the way to create profitable growth in the future. In ...

Shantaram

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:11:25 PST

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A novel of high adventure, great storytelling and moral purpose, based on an extraordinary true story of eight years in the Bombay underworld. 'In the early 80s, Gregory David Roberts, an armed robber and heroin addict, escaped from an Australian prison to India, where he lived in a Bombay slum. There, he established a free health clinic and also joined the mafia, working as a money launderer, fo ...

Screw It, Let's Do It

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:11:11 PST

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Global entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson has built a business empire and made billions, yet is renowned for his approachability, ability to challenge and succeed against the odds. Screw It, Let’s Do It reveals the lessons from life that have helped him through his business and personal life – such as, believe it can be done and that, if others disagree with you, try and try again until you achieve ...

Losing My Virginity

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:11:09 PST

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"Oh, screw it, let's do it." That's the philosophy that has allowed Richard Branson, in slightly more than twenty-five years, to spawn so many successful ventures. From the airline business (Virgin Atlantic Airways), to music (Virgin Records and V2), to cola (Virgin Cola), to retail (Virgin Megastores), and nearly a hundred others, ranging from financial services to bridal wear, Branson has a t ...

Honor Among Thieves

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:09:31 PST

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Spring, 1994, Washington, D.C. -- While the Clinton Administration grapples with its domestic policies, a sinister plot is being masterminded six thousand miles away in Baghdad. By using $100 million as bait and spinning a deadly web of corruption, forgery, and terror, Saddam Hussein seeks to embarrass the U.S. with the ultimate revenge: to steal a treasured historical document and then destroy i ...

The Prodigal Daughter

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:09:25 PST

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Florentyna Kane inherited a vast hotel empire from her father, but his greatest gift to her was a love of America. She knew from childhood that it was a debt she would someday try to repay by running for the highest political office in the country. Along the path to power Florentyna finds fulfillment in love and family, but still she struggles with the burden of her duty and responsibility. Then, ...

As the Crow Flies

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:09:23 PST

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One of Jeffrey Archer’s masterpieces, As The Crow Flies is the intriguing tale of merchant Charlie Trumper. The grandson of a peddler, Trumper’s epic journey out of the poverty of London’s East End carries him across three continents and through the triumphs and disasters of the twentieth century.

A Matter of Honour

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:09:08 PST

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He should never have opened the envelope ...Adam Scott listens to the reading of his father's will, aware that the results can only be pitiful. The Colonel, after all, had nothing to leave - except a letter he had never opened himself, a letter Adam fears can only bring further disgrace to the family name. Against his mother's wishes, Adam opens the letter, and immediately realises his life can n ...

Not A Penny More Not/Penny Less

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:09:04 PST

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Jeffrey Archer is at his captivating best in this, his first novel, an intricate tale of deceit, dishonor, and sweet revenge. What can an Oxford don, a respected society physician, a chic French art dealer, and a charming English lord have in common? Very little, except they’ve all been swindled out of every cent they had by Harvey Metcalfe, the man who wrote the book on international stock fraud ...

The Namesake

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:07:58 PST

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Jhumpa Lahiri's debut story collection, Interpreter of Maladies, took the literary world by storm when it won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000. Fans who flocked to her stories will be captivated by her best-selling first novel, now in paperback for the first time. The Namesake is a finely wrought, deeply moving family drama that illuminates this acclaimed author's signature themes: the immigrant expe ...

Time Flies

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:07:44 PST

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The Origin of Species

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:07:24 PST

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It's hard to talk about The Origin of Species without making statements that seem overwrought and fulsome. But it's true: this is indeed one of the most important and influential books ever written, and it is one of the very few groundbreaking works of science that is truly readable. To a certain extent it suffers from the Hamlet problem--it's full of clichés! Or what are now cliché ...

The Russian Revolution

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:06:48 PST

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WW II's abrupt end brought us many gifts, none stranger than the papers of the German State. These were captured virtually complete, and to this day give up secrets. One that emerges from Alan Moorehead's research is the extent to which Germany was involved in the Russian Revolution. The ironic result of this clandestine maneuver was Germany's sure defeat on the Eastern front in WW II. "It all fo ...

English August

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:05:24 PST

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Agastya Sen, a young civil servant is posted to Madna where he experiences kitsch in all its forms - relics of the British Empire, temples, monsoons, Gandhi, savants. In his confusion he lurches towards the Hindu belief in the virtues of renunciation and an uncertain, traumatic, self-knowledge. The author has also written "The Assassination of Indira Gandhi" which was chosen for "Best Short Stori ...

The Lost Continent

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:05:07 PST

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An unsparing and hilarious account of one man's rediscovery of America and his search for the perfect small town.

Inscrutable Americans

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:04:48 PST

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Describes one year spent on a small university campus in the USA, by an Indian student.

The Pelican Brief

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:04:34 PST

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Anthony Heald gives an uncommonly compelling performance narrating this fast-paced legal thriller. The action begins with the fierce assassinations of two Supreme Court justices. Too unlikely to be coincidental, the murders have no identifiable connection until a young law student uncovers a hidden link, exposing herself and those around her to deadly consequences. Heald uses the flexibility of h ...

The Third Wave

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:03:59 PST

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The Life of Mahatma Gandhi

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:03:42 PST

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This is a biography of Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948). He led the fight for Indian independence from British rule, who tirelessly pursued a strategy of passive resistance, and who was assassinated by a Hindu fanatic only a few months after independence was achieved.

The One Minute Manager

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:02:57 PST

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The blockbuster #1 national bestselling phenomenon is back... not that it ever really went away. An easily-read story which quickly demonstrates three very practical management techniques, it also includes information on several studies in medicine and in the behavioral sciences, which help readers understand why these apparently simple methods work so well with so many people. The book is brief, ...

The Art of Happiness

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:02:37 PST

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"Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, the very purpose of our life is happiness, the very motion of our life is towards happiness." --H.H. the Dalai Lama, from The Art of Happiness So popular and so rarely understood, this Nobel Peace Prize winner and man of great inner peace brings to a general audience the key to a happy life. In coll ...

The Big Idea

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:02:07 PST

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Nowadays anyone can copy your product, or even your business model. What they can't copy is your worldview, your attitude, your special way of doing things. So in the future, the war in the marketplace will be a war of ideas. This text maps this new territory and shows how big ideas make great companies. Unlike business models, product ideas or the catchphrases of management gurus, a big idea is ...

India's Struggle for Independence

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:01:32 PST

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This is a study of India's independence movement, from an abortive revolt against the British in 1857 through the times which eventually lead to Indian Independence in 1947 seen from the Indian point of view. The book is based on primary sources, hundreds of interviews with those who took part in the struggle for freedom, and presents new information on the formation of the Indian National Congre ...

Am I A Hindu?/the Hinduism Primer

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:00:53 PST

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This gem of a book encapsulates the esoteric wisdom of one of humanity's oldest religions in an easy-to-understand conversational format. Covering the entire sweep of Hindu belief, answering questions Westerners ask about Hindu practice (like what exactly is the law of Karma and reincarnation? why do Hindu women wear a red dot on their forehead? and why do Hindus worship so many Gods?) answe ...

Life of Pi

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:00:03 PST

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Some books defy categorisation: Life of Pi, the second novel from Canadian writer Yann Martel, is a case in point: just about the only thing you can say for certain about it is that it is fiercely and admirably unique. The plot, if that's the right word, concerns the oceanic wanderings of a lost boy, the young and eager Piscine Patel of the title (Pi). After a colourful and loving upbringing in g ...

The mammaries of the welfare state

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 13:59:48 PST

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India Unbound

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 13:59:31 PST

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India today is a vibrant free-market democracy, a nation well on its way to overcoming decades of widespread poverty. The nation’s rise is one of the great international stories of the late twentieth century, and in India Unbound the acclaimed columnist Gurcharan Das offers a sweeping economic history of India from independence to the new millennium. Das shows how India’s policies after 1947 ...

The Corporation that Changed the World

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 13:59:08 PST

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This is a popular history of one of the world's most famous companies. Founded in 1600, the East India Company was the forerunner of the modern multinational. Starting life as a trader in Asian spices, the Company ended its days running Britain's Indian empire. In the process, it shocked its contemporaries with the scale of its violence, corruption and speculation. This is the first-ever book to ...

Beating the Street

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 13:58:39 PST

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Develop a Winning Investment Strategy -- with Expert Advice from "The Nation's #1 Money Manager"Peter Lynch's "invest in what you know" strategy has made him a household name with investors both big and small.An important key to investing, Lynch says, is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets. There's a company behind every stock and a reason companies -- and their stocks -- perform the ...

Pour Your Heart into It

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 13:58:21 PST

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The success of Starbucks Coffee Company is one of the most remarkable business stories in decades, growing from a single retail store on Seattle's waterfront to a company with more than one thousand stores nationwide and a new one opening every business day. Starbucks has effected a fundamental change in American life, turning coffee into a national obsession and establishing the coffee bar ...

India in Slow Motion

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 13:57:40 PST

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A provocative, humorous, searching and deeply humane portrait of India. This book is an account of a journey that for Tully and Wright has no true beginning or end. Covering a diverse range of subjects, from Hindu extremism to child labor, Sufi mysticism to the crisis in agriculture.

Buddhism

Thu, 6 Nov 2008 18:02:17 PST

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A concise and up-to-date guide to the history, teachings, and practice of Buddhism by two luminaries in the field of world religions.

Six Degrees

Thu, 6 Nov 2008 18:02:06 PST

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In this Rremarkable book, Duncan Watts, one of the principal architects of network theory, sets out to explain the innovative research that he and other scientists are spearheading to create a blueprint of our connected planet. Whether they bind computers, economies, or terrorist organizations, networks are everywhere in the real world, yet only recently have scientists attempted to explain their ...

Linked

Thu, 6 Nov 2008 18:01:48 PST

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最新ネットワーク理論が自然界、ビジネス界、医学界、人間界に及ぼす影響をはじめて詳説した、衝撃の1冊。 1980年代、ジェイムズ・グリックの『Chaos』（邦題『カオス―新しい科学をつくる』）が、初めて「複雑系」という概念を世に紹介し、大きな話題をさらった。それに匹敵するのが、アルバート・ラズロ・バラバシによる本書である。これは、科学界の次の主役がまぎれもなく「ネットワーク理論」であることを実証した1冊だ。私たちはごく小さな世界に住んでいるのではないか。この世のすべてのものが、1つにつながっているのではないか。長いこと、人間はそう思って生きてきた。実際、地球上のネットワークは、今このときも果てしなく広がり続けている。人間の脳からインターネット、経済、それに個人的な友人関係に至るまで。しかも、このつながりは決して成り行きまかせのものではない。つまり、すべてのネットワークは ...

The Anatomy of Buzz

Thu, 6 Nov 2008 18:01:29 PST

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The first guide to creating the word-of-mouth magic that breaks through the skepticism and information overload of today's consumers, and drive sales--and profits--to new heights. As "Newsweek recently proclaimed, "Buzz greases the great conveyor belt of culture and commerce, moving everything from movies to fashions of the body and mind faster and faster." Now available in paperback, "The An ...

Emergence

Thu, 6 Nov 2008 18:00:53 PST

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...a penetrating exploration of emergence, the way in which an interconnected system of relatively simple elements organize themselves to form more intelligent, more adaptive and higher-level behavior

Still More George W. Bushisms

Thu, 6 Nov 2008 18:00:26 PST

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"""There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again."" With signature remarks like these, it's hardly surprising that George W. Bush's malapropisms have become renowned around the world. Editions of Bushisms have become bestsellers in Germany, France, and Italy, and they ...

Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins

Thu, 6 Nov 2008 18:00:09 PST

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Success in today's business economy demands nonstop innovation. But fancy buzzwords, facile lip service, and simplistic formulas are not the answer. Only an entirely new mindset -- a new attitude toward success and failure -- can transform managers' thinking, according to Richard Farson, author of the bestseller Management of the Absurd, and Ralph Keyes, author of the pathbreaking Chancing It: ...

Circles

Thu, 6 Nov 2008 17:59:46 PST

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From the bestselling author of The Knowledge Web come fifty mesmerizing journeys into the history of technology, each following a chain of consequential events that ends precisely where it began. Whether exploring electromagnetic fields, the origin of hot chocolate, or DNA fingerprinting, these essays -- which originally appeared in James Burke's popular Scientific American column -- all illustr ...

Fish! A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results

Thu, 6 Nov 2008 17:59:28 PST

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Imagine a workplace where everyone chooses to bring energy, passion, and a positive attitude to the job every day. Imagine an environment in which people are truly connected to their work, to their colleagues, and to their customers. In this engrossing parable, a fictional manager is charged with the responsibility of turning a chronically unenthusiastic and unhelpful department into an effective ...

Why Moths Hate Thomas Edison

Thu, 6 Nov 2008 17:59:15 PST

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"Outside" magazine's editor and contributor, Hampton Sides, rollicks through the questions readers ask about the world around them in the magazine's "The Wild File". Why do worms writhe on the surface after a storm? What good are goose-pimples? Is is true that a great fright can cause your hair to turn grey suddenly? Are elephants really afraid of mice? What is the oldest living creature on earth ...

The Funny Thing Is...

Thu, 6 Nov 2008 17:58:21 PST

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"Ellen DeGeneres published her first book of comic essays, the #1 bestselling My Point...and I Do Have One, way back in 1996. Not one to rest on her laurels, the witty star of stage and screen has since dedicated her life to writing a hilarious new book. That book is this book. After years of painstaking, round-the-clock research, surviving on a mere twenty minutes of sleep a night, and collabo ...

Getting to Yes

Thu, 6 Nov 2008 17:58:01 PST

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Offers a concise, step-by-step, proven strategy for coming to mutually acceptable agreements in every sort of conflict. The national bestseller. DLC: Negotiation.

The 5 Patterns of Extraordinary Careers

Thu, 6 Nov 2008 17:57:44 PST

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What is different about the careers of people like Lou Gerstner, the acclaimed, recently retired chairman and CEO of IBM? Or Senator Elizabeth Dole, Yahoo! COO Dan Rosensweig, and Tom Freston, chairman and CEO of MTV Networks? Why did they ascend to the top and prosper—why did they have extraordinary careers—while others equally talented never reached their potential or aspirations? Jim Citr ...

Buck Up, Suck Up . . . and Come Back When You Foul Up

Thu, 6 Nov 2008 17:40:11 PST

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The political strategists who directed the Clinton campaign's War Room reveal the lessons and secrets from their hard-fought battles -- and how to use these highly effective strategies for success in business and everyday life.James Carville and Paul Begala have waged political war all across America and on three continents. They've won some of the most spectacular political victories of the twen ...

Babyhood

Thu, 6 Nov 2008 17:31:41 PST

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I'm going to be totally honest. This is not the kind of book that can help you. It's not a "how-to, " a "when-to, " or a "what-to-expect." Let's compare: Those "know-it-all" books tell you how to have a happy, healthy pregnancy. My book mentions a squirrel. Those books tell you how to care for a newborn child. My book describes how tired I am. Those books give you essential information you can us ...

COUPLEHOOD

Thu, 6 Nov 2008 17:31:32 PST

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In the tradition of the #1 best-seller SeinLanguage, Bantam Books proudly presents the first book by Paul Reiser, television's sharpest, funniest observer of love, marriage and other mysteries of life. A veteran comic performer, Reiser is best-known as the co-creator and star of the highly-rated NBC comedy, "Mad About You", which Time Magazine called "The season's best new sitcom"in its 1 ...

Selling Blue Elephants

Thu, 6 Nov 2008 17:30:56 PST

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Can you remember the world before the iPod? How about the world before chunky tomato sauce or brown mustard? Many of these products came about not through focus groups and polling, but rather through research and development labs and marketers developing the products they knew customers would want, before customers knew they wanted them. Today your customers can actually help you create your next ...

FROM RAJ TO RAJIV

Thu, 6 Nov 2008 17:30:29 PST

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No Full Stops in India

Thu, 6 Nov 2008 17:30:09 PST

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India's Westernized elite, cut off from local traditions, 'want to write a full stop in a land where there are no full stops'. From that striking insight Mark Tully has woven a superb series of 'stories' which explore Calcutta, from the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad (probably the biggest religious festival in the world) to the televising of a Hindu epic. Throughout, he combines analysis of major issues ...

The Lexus and the Olive Tree

Thu, 6 Nov 2008 17:27:54 PST

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In The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Thomas L. Friedman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times, offers an engrossing look at the new international system that is transforming world affairs today. Globalization has replaced the Cold War system with the integration of capital, technology, and information across national borders -- uniting Brazilian peasants, Indone ...

The Post-American World

Thu, 6 Nov 2008 17:27:28 PST

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'This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else'. So begins Fareed Zakaria's important new work on the era we are now entering. Following on the success of his best-selling "The Future of Freedom", Zakaria describes with equal prescience a world in which the United States will no longer dominate the global economy, orchestrate geopolitics, or overwhelm ...

All too Human

Thu, 6 Nov 2008 17:27:09 PST

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George Stephanopouloss memoir of life on the campaign trail and inside the White House has been widely praised as one of the most insightful political memoirs of our time. It is at once an eyewitness account of unprecedented historical events and a compelling revelation of the American political process. Paperback publication will coincide with the 2000 presidential political primary season, thro ...

Taking Heat

Thu, 6 Nov 2008 17:26:37 PST

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The early years of the twenty-first century were a tumultuous time in America. The country faced a hotly contested presidential election, the largest terrorist attack in the nation's history, and the early stages of war. Through it all, President George W. Bush surrounded himself with a handful of close advisers. During this time the man beside the President was Ari Fleischer, his press secretary ...

Flip

Thu, 6 Nov 2008 16:04:00 PST

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Emphasizing flexible, counterintuitive decision making, Flip calls for a new way of doing business in an economy where conventional wisdom won't get you anywhere "Business today requires new perspectives"—this is how Peter Sheahan, one of the youngest and fastest-rising stars on the international consulting and speaking circuit, begins this essential guidebook for succeeding in the twenty-fi ...

Tuesdays with Morrie

Tue, 4 Nov 2008 14:06:27 PST

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this is a very touching book. i even cried when i was reading. i have learned to love people and help people from this book. this book teach us need to care of people and love others.

A Good Hard Kick in the Ass

Tue, 4 Nov 2008 14:05:58 PST

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Every day, Rob Adams helps entrepreneurs find true markets for their products, design solid business models, and hire great teams—because that’s what it takes to build a successful company. While this sounds self-evident, far too many entrepreneurs have forgotten these fundamentals. They’ve been influenced by what Adams calls “business porn,” myths lingering like a bad hangover from the easy succ ...

Startup

Tue, 4 Nov 2008 14:05:23 PST

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How do the big bad boys of computing like Bill Gates, John Sculley, and Jim Cannavino really operate? Read this book and find out. Without an ounce of malice, Jerry Kaplan's Startup spins a wonderful kiss-and-tell about the people and the politics of computers... As far as computer industry books go, this one is a winner.

Only the Paranoid Survive

Tue, 4 Nov 2008 14:04:57 PST

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Under Andy Grove's leadership, Intel has become the world's largest chipmaker, the fifth-most-admired company in America, and the seventh-most-profitable company among the Fortune 500. You don't achieve rankings like these unless you have mastered a rare understanding of the art of business and an unusual way with its practice. Few CEOs can claim this level of consistent record-breaking success ...

Buffett

Tue, 4 Nov 2008 14:04:38 PST

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Since its hardcover publication in August of 1995, Buffett has appeared on the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Seattle Times, Newsday and Business Week bestseller lists. The incredible landmark portrait of Warren Buffett's uniquely American life is now available in paperback, revised and updated by the author. Starting from scratch, simply by pic ...

Buffettology

Tue, 4 Nov 2008 14:04:04 PST

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HOW WARREN BUFFETT DID IT -- AND HOW YOU CAN TOOIn the world of investing, the name Warren Buffett is synonymous with success and prosperity. Building from the ground up, Buffett chose wisely and picked his stocks with care, in turn amassing the huge fortune for which he is now famous. Mary Buffett, former daughter-in-law of this legendary financial genius and a successful businesswoman in her ow ...

Contrarian Investment Strategies in the Next Generation

Tue, 4 Nov 2008 13:52:15 PST

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David Dreman's name is synonymous with the term "contrarian investing," and his contrarian strategies have been proven winners year after year. His techniques have spawned countless imitators, most of whom pay lip service to the buzzword "contrarian," but few can match his performance. His Kemper-Dreman High Return Fund has been the leader since its inception in 1988 -- the number one equity-inco ...

Who Moved My Cheese?

Tue, 4 Nov 2008 13:51:00 PST

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Tue, 4 Nov 2008 13:50:33 PST

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『かもめのジョナサン』原作。「ほとんどのカモメが、飛ぶことに関して学ぶのは、いちばん単純な事実だけだ。海岸から食べ物のあるところまで到達し、また戻ってくること」。ジョナサン・リビングストン・シーガルという名の風変わりな鳥を描いたこの寓話の中で、著者リチャード・バックは語る。「たいていのカモメにとって、大切なのは飛ぶことではなく、食べることだ。しかし、このカモメにとっては、食べることではなく、飛ぶこと自体が重要だった」。飛行は、まさにこの物語の意義を高める、象徴的行為である。この寓話に込められた究極の意味は、たとえ、群れや仲間あるいは隣人から自分の野心は危険だと思われても、より高尚な人生の目的を探求することは大切だ、ということだ（われらが愛するジョナサンもある時点で、自分の群れから追放される）。妥協せず自分の気高い理想を守ることで、ジョナサンは、超越という究極の報酬を得た。そして最後に愛と ...

The Partner

Mon, 3 Nov 2008 20:26:34 PST

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They found him in a small town in Brazil, near the border with Paraguay. He had a new name, Danilo Silva, and his appearance had been changed by plastic surgery. The search had taken four years. They'd chased him around the world, always just missing him. It had cost their clients $3.5 million. But so far none of them had complained. The man they were about to kidnap had not always been called Da ...

The Firm

Mon, 3 Nov 2008 20:26:22 PST

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AT THE TOP OF HIS CLASS AT HARVARD LAW, HE HAS HIS CHOICE OF THE BEST IN AMERICA. HE MADE A DEADLY MISTAKE. When Mitch McDeree signed on with Bendini, Lambert & Locke of Memphis, he thought he and his beautiful wife, Abby, were on their way. The firm leased him a BMW, paid off his school loans, arranged a mortgage, and hired him a decorator. Mitch McDeere should have remembered what his brother ...

A Time to Kill

Mon, 3 Nov 2008 20:26:06 PST

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With a chillingly calm, even delivery, Michael Beck, a regular Grisham reader (The Rainmaker, The Runaway Jury), turns the narrative of this disturbing tale of racism, ignorance, and brutality into an almost visceral experience. "Cobb strung a length of quarter inch ski rope over a limb ... he grabbed her and put the noose around her head." The story is frighteningly believable and expertly craft ...

To Kill a Mockingbird

Mon, 3 Nov 2008 20:25:55 PST

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The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award winning film, also a classic. Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A Moc ...

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Mon, 3 Nov 2008 20:24:22 PST

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What on earth is Bill Bryson doing writing a book of popular science--A Short History of Almost Everything? Largely, it appears, because this inquisitive, much-travelled writer realised, while flying over the Pacific, that he was entirely ignorant of the processes that created, populated and continue to maintain the vast body of water beneath him. In fact, it dawned on him that "I didn't know the ...

In a Sunburned Country

Mon, 3 Nov 2008 20:23:15 PST

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Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the Woods. In A Sunburned Country is his report on what he found in an entirely different place: Australia, the country that doubles as a continent, and a place with the friendliest inhabitants, t ...

Beekeeping for Dummies

Mon, 3 Nov 2008 20:23:03 PST

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Believe it or not, bees are one of the oldest species of domesticated animals. Archeologists have found evidence of beekeeping, or apiculture, in the Middle East dating back more than five thousand years. If you’ve ever tasted good clover honey, it’s not hard to understand why. But it’s not just for the honey that more than 125,000 people (and growing) in the United States, alone, keep hives. Any ...

Even More Bushisms

Mon, 3 Nov 2008 20:22:36 PST

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Still More Bushisms

Mon, 3 Nov 2008 20:22:33 PST

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Give him a microphone, a podium, even a teleprompter...and he's off! George W. Bush fans and foes alike just can't get enough of Dubya's headline-grabbing gaffes and malapropisms - and the hits just keep on coming. In this third instalment of BUSHISMS, Dubya's unique brand of verbal contortionism is more hilarious and enjoyable than ever. Here is Bushspeak in all its mind boggling glory, from th ...

In an Uncertain World

Mon, 3 Nov 2008 20:21:58 PST

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FROM THE PUBLISHER "From his early years in the storied arbitrage department at Goldman Sachs to his current position as chairman of the executive committee of Citigroup, Robert Rubin has been a major figure at the center of the American financial system. He was a key player in the longest economic expansion in U.S. history. With In an Uncertain World, Rubin offers a shrewd, keen analysis of some ...

The Power of Simplicity

Mon, 3 Nov 2008 20:21:27 PST

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'Engaging...Trout practices what he preaches' - "Publishers Weekly". 'Compelling' - "Booklist". It's high time for businesses to replace complexity with common sense, argues corporate guru Jack Trout in this impassioned yet practical guide. The best-selling coauthor of the classic "Positioning" shows managers how to banish jargon, articulate their vision, simplify processes, and refocus on core i ...

Every Business Is a Growth Business

Mon, 3 Nov 2008 20:20:43 PST

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Everyone wants growth, coauthor Noel Tichy explains on this audiocassette, but how many businesses are truly geared toward that end? At a time when the business cycle demands growth--or businesses risk death--but when so many businesses have already grown beyond anyone's wildest expectations, it's hard for companies not to circle the wagons and protect what they've already gained. If you can get ...

Start Small, Finish Big

Mon, 3 Nov 2008 20:18:25 PST

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In 1965, 17-year-old Fred DeLuca borrowed $1,000 and started Subway, a sandwich shop, with the hopes of making enough money to go to college. Today there are over 14,000 Subway stores in 70 countries. In this book DeLuca explores the basic principles he used to achieve such astonishing success and explains how readers can use them in their own businesses and lives.

Predictably Irrational

Mon, 3 Nov 2008 20:16:39 PST

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Why do our headaches persist after taking a one-cent aspirin but disappear when we take a 50-cent aspirin? Why does recalling the Ten Commandments reduce our tendency to lie, even when we couldn't possibly be caught? Why do we splurge on a lavish meal but cut coupons to save twenty-five cents on a can of soup? Why do we go back for second helpings at the unlimited buffet, even when our ...

The Essential Drucker

Mon, 3 Nov 2008 20:15:02 PST

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Father of modern management, social commentator, and preeminent business philosopher, Peter F. Drucker has been analyzing economics and society for more than sixty years. Now for readers everywhere who are concerned with the ways that management practices and principles affect the performance of the organization, the individual, and society, there is "The Essential Drucker" -- an invaluable compi ...

The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

Mon, 3 Nov 2008 20:10:06 PST

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An internationally bestselling fable about a spiritual journey, littered with powerful life lessons that teach us how to abandon consumerism in order to embrace destiny, live life to the full and discover joy. * This inspiring tale is based on the author's own search for life's true purpose, providing a step-by-step approach to living with greater courage, balance, abundance and joy. * It tells t ...

Winning: The Answers

Mon, 3 Nov 2008 20:09:44 PST

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In Winning, their 2005 international bestseller, Jack and Suzy Welch created a rare document, both a philosophical treatise on fundamental business practices and a gritty how-to manual, all of it delivered with Jack's trademark candor and can-do optimism. It seemed as if "no other management book," in the words of legendary investor Warren E. Buffett, would "ever be needed." Instead, Winning u ...

Winning

Mon, 3 Nov 2008 20:09:25 PST

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Amazon.com If you judge books by their covers, Jack Welch's Winning certainly grabs your attention. Testimonials on the back come from none other than Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Rudy Giuliani, and Tom Brokaw, and other praise comes from Fortune, Business Week, and Financial Times. As the legendary retired CEO of General Electric, Welch has won many friends and admirers in high places. In this l ...

Jack

Mon, 3 Nov 2008 20:08:42 PST

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It's hard to think of a CEO that commands as much respect as Jack Welch. In Jack: What I've Learned Leading a Great Company and Great People, Welch, with the help of Business Week journalist John Byrne, recounts his career and the style of management that helped to make GE one of the most successful companies of the last century. Under his leadership, General Electric reinvented itself several ti ...

Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround

Mon, 3 Nov 2008 20:08:29 PST

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IBMは、1990年に過去最高益を記録した。ところが、1993年までにコンピュータ業界の様相は一変し、160億ドルの赤字が見込まれたIBMは、消滅の危機に直面していた。自らの巨体をもてあまし、孤立した企業文化と、IBM自身が誕生に一役買ったはずのPC時代の犠牲者となりつつあったのだ。まさにそんなときにIBMを経営するために送り込まれたのがルイス・ガースナーだった。ガースナーの着任について、このアメリカの象徴の急激な弱体化を目の当たりにした人のほとんどは、当時IBMの中で進行していた、自主的な事業体の連合という形をめざすという、解体に向けた動きを指揮するためと考えていた。彼がやってきたとき、この戦略はすでにかなり進行しており、これまでコンピュータ業界の重要なテクノロジーを数多く発明してきたIBMという会社は、事実上消滅することになるはずだった。ところが、経営の手綱を握ったガー ...

Execution

Mon, 3 Nov 2008 20:08:09 PST

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The book that shows how to get the job done and deliver results . . . whether you’re running an entire company or in your first management job Larry Bossidy is one of the world’s most acclaimed CEOs, a man with few peers who has a track record for delivering results. Ram Charan is a legendary advisor to senior executives and boards of directors, a man with unparalleled insight into why some com ...