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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
by Michael Lewis
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 (918 customer reviews)
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W. W. Norton & Company
March 15, 2010
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Although Lewis is perhaps best known for his sports-related nonfiction (including ...
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Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
by Chip Heath
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(360 customer reviews)
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Crown Business
February 16, 2010
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Chip Heath and Dan Heath on Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard "Change is hard." "People hate change." Those were two of the most common quotes we heard when we began to study change. But ...
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The Art of Choosing
by Sheena Iyengar
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 (92 customer reviews)
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Twelve
March 1, 2010
Hardcover
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Starred Review. Choice, perhaps the highest good in the American socioeconomic lexicon, is a very mixed blessing, according to this fascinating study of decision making and its discontents. Psychologist Iyengar cites evidence that a paucity of choice can d...
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The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Borzoi Books)
by Tim Wu
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(100 customer reviews)
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Knopf
November 2, 2010
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Starred Review. According to Columbia professor and policy advocate Wu (Who Controls the Internet), the great information empires of the 20th century have followed a clear and distinctive pattern: after the chaos that follows a major technological innovati...
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Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
by Steven Johnson
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(86 customer reviews)
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Riverhead Hardcover
October 5, 2010
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Johnson--writer, Web guru, and bestselling author of Everything Bad Is Good for You--delivers a sweeping look at innovation spanning nearly the whole of human history. What sparks our great ideas? Johnson breaks down the cultural, biological, and environme...
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Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy
by Raghuram Rajan
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(85 customer reviews)
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Princeton University Press
May 4, 2010
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Like geological fault lines, the fissures in the world economic system are more hidden and widespread than many realize, he says. And they are potentially more destructive than other, more obvious culprits, like greedy bankers, sleepy regulators and irresp...
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No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller
by Harry Markopolos
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(192 customer reviews)
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Wiley
March 2, 2010
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Harry Markopolos and his team of financial sleuths discuss first-hand how they cracked the Madoff Ponzi scheme No One Would Listen is the exclusive story of the Harry Markopolos-lead investigation into Bernie Madoff and his $65 billion Ponzi scheme. While a lot has been written about Madoff's scam, few ...
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The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home
by Dan Ariely
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(124 customer reviews)
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Harper
June 1, 2010
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Ariely (Predictably Irrational) expands his research on behavioral economics to offer a more positive and personal take on human irrationality's implications for life, business, and public policy. After a youthful accident left him badly scarred and facing grueling physical therapy, Ariely's treatment required him to accept temporary pain for ...
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When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead: Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man
by Jerry Weintraub
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(121 customer reviews)
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Twelve
April 7, 2010
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Hollywood power player Weintraub, now 72, is always in control and goes to great lengths to prove it: besides having managed musical legends like Presley, Sinatra and John Denver ("I cooked him from scratch"), Weintraub once closed a deal by faking a heart...
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Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire That Civilized the Wild West
by Stephen Fried
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(87 customer reviews)
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Bantam
March 23, 2010
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A Note from Stephen Fried on Appetite for America I first encountered Fred Harvey seventeen years ago in the lobby of El Tovar, the historic hotel just a few steps from the edge of the Grand Canyon. His moody portrait was hanging there, his anxious eyes seemingly scrutinizing ...
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