 | Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman
Buy new: $9.78 / Used from: $3.43 This is another great book by Thomas Friedman. If you want a deeper insight into the critical issues facing the world readthis book.
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 | Snappy Sayings: wit & wisdom from the world's greatest minds by Bradford Gordon Wheler
Buy new: $31.45 / Used from: $28.72 A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist said.
"Brad Wheler's prodigious research, wide-ranging eye, and ample sense of humor yield a book that's at turns funny, profound, and thought-provoking. A fun read!"
-- Bryan Gruley, author of Starvation Lake: A Mystery and Chicago Bureau Chief of The Wall Street Journal"
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 | The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $3.99 |
 | House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street by William D. Cohan
Buy new: $18.45 / Used from: $12.95 This detailed story of the fall of Bear Stearns is fascinating but a bit scary. It shows what a mess or financial leader have made.
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 | How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman
Buy new: $10.37 / Used from: $3.04 There is great insight into how all professionals make decisions. It explains the pitfalls and helps both Doctors and patients do a better job. read this before you get sick.
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 | Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
Buy new: $11.75 / Used from: $11.49 This may be Malcolm Gladwell's best book
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 | Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $3.92 Gilbert shows us that even though we think we know what make us happy we have much to learn. He does this in a witty and engaging way.
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 | The Sages: Warren Buffett, George Soros, Paul Volcker, and the Maelstrom of Markets by Charles R. Morris
Buy new: $11.62 / Used from: $0.01 Three very different financial geniuses that all saw the financial crisis coming and warned us years ago. Very readable.
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 | Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life by John C. Bogle
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $9.98 An other great book by John Bogle explaining how the financial service sector rips us off.
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 | The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission ofWorld War II by Gregory A. Freeman
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $5.51 This is a riveting story of the rescue of 500 downed airmen by the OSS behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia.
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 | iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business by Jeffrey S. Young
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $2.78 |
 | Shakespeare: The World as Stage (Eminent Lives) by Bill Bryson
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $3.34 Bill Bryson is as always very readable.
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 | The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature by Steven Pinker
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $5.50 |
 | The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash by Charles R. Morris
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $0.01 Morris was way out ahead of the field in understanding the financial crisis
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 | Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of Our Times by George Crile
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 This read like a novel. Very enjoyable.
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 | The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science (James H. Silberman Books) by Norman Doidge
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $5.75 New and fascinating insight into how the brain works.
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 | Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
Buy new: $13.64 / Used from: $4.50 |
 | The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us by Robyn Meredith
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $6.10 Excellent discussion of the impact China and India on the world. Meredith highlights the differences as well as the similarities.
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 | Encore: Finding Work that Matters in the Second Half of Life by Marc Freedman
Buy used from: $6.06 If you are over 50 you are probably thinking about the issues discussed in this book.
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 | The Google Story by David A. Vise
Buy used from: $3.63 This is a great book. However David Vise has a 2008 update which I haven't read yet
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 | Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely
Buy new: $18.47 / Used from: $9.25 Ariely book is fun to read and very witty. He give great insight into how we make decisions and what factors influence the process.
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 | The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $6.75 |
 | Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $11.95 |
 | The Pixar Touch (Vintage) by David A. Price
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $6.82 |
 | Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy by Martin Lindstrom
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $12.49 |
 | The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805 by Richard Zacks
Buy new: $15.95 / Used from: $1.26 |
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