![]() | The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World by Alan Greenspan
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $0.01 A must-read. Especially interesting since the book is split in half. The first half focuses on his experience as an economist, the latter contains his predictions and analysis of the world markets.
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![]() | Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania by Andy Behrman
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $2.49 Nothing says funny like an OCD nut ambling through life and getting shock therapy.
It's a funny, relaxing read.
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![]() | Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science by Charles Wheelan
Buy new: $8.58 / Used from: $3.74 Plain English explanation of market systems and how economic principles are illustrated in the real world. Great, easy read for non-econ majors.
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![]() | Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools by Jonathan Kozol
Buy new: $10.76 / Used from: $0.01 Kozol's books uncover core issues with our country's school systems. This is my favorite of his books. It will, at least, leave you with a better idea of the inequalities with funding in our schools systems and the effects on the kids within them.
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![]() | A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.98 Quite possibly the best book ever written. Absolutely hilarious with a dark history. After unsuccessfully trying to get his book published, the author (John Kennedy Toole) killed himself. After his death, his mother was able to get it published, and it quickly won the Pulitzer prize.
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![]() | Animal Farm (Signet Classics) by George Orwell
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $0.01 A short read that's in my top 10 books of all time.
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![]() | Victory: The Reagan Administration's Secret Strategy That Hastened the Collapse of the Soviet Union by Peter Schweizer
Buy used from: $1.99 Reagan's secret strategy to undermine the Soviet Union! Yay!
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![]() | Dave Pelz's Short Game Bible: Master the Finesse Swing and Lower Your Score (Dave Pelz Scoring Game Series) by Dave Pelz
Buy new: $23.07 / Used from: $6.62 Improve your short game, post lower scores. His book series is excellent.
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![]() | The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition) by Frederick P. Brooks
Buy new: $25.80 / Used from: $9.47 Classic project management book. Not exactly an exciting read, but worthwhile if you have a PM role.
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![]() | Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Collins Business Essentials) by Robert B. Cialdini
Buy new: $12.23 / Used from: $9.00 Phenomenal book on how to read people and get them to do what you want. What's more important than that?
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![]() | How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $1.92 What could be more depressing than a book detailing from a M.D.'s perpective what happens when people die via various methods?
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![]() | Collected Stories (Everyman's Library) by Roald Dahl
Buy new: $19.80 / Used from: $12.00 Most people don't realize what great short stories he wrote for adults, not children. Pick up one of his collections and enjoy.
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![]() | Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Bethany McLean
Buy used from: $0.63 Check out this book or the extremely well-done documentary for an insider look at the Enron case. Probably the best case on corporate ethics around.
Also check out Stealing Time about the Time Warner - AOL merger.
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![]() | Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Buy used from: $0.99 Interesting read about where an individual is happiest and most productive. Concept is perhaps best summarized in a simple graph in the middle of the book.
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![]() | Contemporary Strategy Analysis by Robert M. Grant
Buy new: $91.75 / Used from: $24.99 Excellent text on corporate strategy analysis and creation.
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![]() | The McKinsey Mind: Understanding and Implementing the Problem-Solving Tools and Management Techniques of the World's Top Strategic Consulting Firm by Ethan Rasiel
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $9.78 Since the probabilities suggest that you can't get a job a McKinsey, at least you can see what you're missing and how they operate. This is a useful read for anyone in a strategy role.
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![]() | Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt
Buy new: $17.51 / Used from: $4.61 |
![]() | Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough
Buy new: $12.20 / Used from: $3.03 The classic M&A account that all b-schoolers must read.
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![]() | Buyout: The Insider's Guide to Buying Your Own Company by Rick Rickertsen
Buy new: $21.75 / Used from: $6.78 The actual practical guide to how the leveraged buyout actually works.
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![]() | The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.49 |
![]() | The Carl Hiaasen Collection: Lucky You and Sick Puppy by Carl Hiaasen
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $5.72 Crazy funny!
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![]() | The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Buy new: $9.79 / Used from: $3.70 Classic.
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![]() | Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty by Muhammad Yunus
Buy new: $10.55 / Used from: $2.82 Market solutions driving economic development - Nobel Prize winner Yunus.
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![]() | I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell by Tucker Max
Buy used from: $2.97 Just sick, wrong, and wonderful.
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![]() | Why We Buy: The Science Of Shopping by Paco Underhill
Buy used from: $0.01 |
![]() | Kitchen Confidential Updated Ed: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (P.S.) by Anthony Bourdain
Buy new: $9.32 / Used from: $4.91 |
![]() | Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart by Ian Ayres
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $1.87 Follow up to Freakonomics - how data warehouses and data mining is being used in different ways with incredible results.
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