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Excellent reading from a terrible year
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December 12, 2008
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http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_50/b4112081259662.htm
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The Best Business Books of 2008: Juicy reads on the financial crisis, Chinese migration, the secret of Bill Gates' success, decision-making, gridlocked economies, and more
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By Chang, Leslie T.
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An eye-opening and previously untold story, Factory Girls is the first look into the everyday lives of the migrant factory population in China.China has 130 million migrant workers—the...
Ranking at Amazon 289799
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Spiegel & Grau
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October 2008 - Hardcover
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Business in China
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By Friedman, Thomas L.
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Thomas L. Friedman’s no. 1 bestseller The World Is Flat has helped millions of readers to see globalization in a new way. Now Friedman brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing...
Ranking at Amazon 5423
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Farrar Straus & Giroux
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September 2008 - Hardcover
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Environment & Society
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By Lafley, A. G.
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How you can increase and sustain organic revenue and profit growth . . . whether you’re running an entire company or in your first management job.Over the past seven years, Procter & Gamble has...
Ranking at Amazon 7238
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Crown Business
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April 2008 - Hardcover
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Innovation & Creativity
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By Ariely, Dan
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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,...
Ranking at Amazon 3249
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HarperCollins
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February 2008 - Hardcover
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Consumer Behavior
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By Jeffreys, Diarmuid
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The remarkable rise and shameful fall of one of the twentieth century’s greatest conglomerates At its peak in the 1930s, the German chemical...
Ranking at Amazon 671499
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Metropolitan Books
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July 2008 - Hardcover
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Business History & Biography
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By Ellis, Charles
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The jury is still out on what the future of Goldman Sachs will look like, but no one can argue that the 139 year old firm has been (and, if Warren Buffett has his way, will be) the dominant investment
Ranking at Amazon 170102
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Penguin Books
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October 2008 - Hardcover
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Companies and Industries
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By Schroeder, Alice
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Here is THE book recounting the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world, Warren Buffett. The legendary Omaha investor has never written a memoir, but now he has allowed one...
Ranking at Amazon 13238
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Bantam Books
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September 2008 - Hardcover
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Business History & Biography
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By Gladwell, Malcolm
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In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the...
Ranking at Amazon 226575
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Little Brown & Co (Pap)
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November 2008 - Hardcover
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Personal Success
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