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Mr. Market Miscalculates: The Bubble Years and Beyond»rank: 952by: James Grant
0ur opinion: :Why is America in financial crisis today? This book, better than any to date, explains it all-how we got here and where we are going. The how we got here is brilliantly described in a collection of pieces from Grant's lnterest Rate 0bserver, the Wall Street insider's Bible. The where we are going is treated in Jim Grant's up-to-the-minute introduction. No fan of Greenspan or Bernanke, Grant tells the unvarnished truth about America. More Info |
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The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It»rank: 856by: Tilar J. Mazzeo
0ur opinion: : The story of the visionary young widow who built a champagne empire, showed the world how to live with style, and emerged a legend Veuve Clicquot champagne epitomizes glamour, style, and luxury. But who was this young widow—the Veuve Clicquot—whose champagne sparkled at the courts of France, Britain, and Russia, and how did she rise to celebrity and fortune? ln The Widow Clicquot, Tilar J. Mazzeo brings to life—for the first time—the fascinating woman behind ... More Info |
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The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter, & Miracles»rank: 1870by: Bruce H. Lipton
0ur opinion: : With more than 100,000 copies sold of his self-published book, The Biology of Belief, Bruce Lipton teams up with Hay House to bring his message to an even wider audience. This book is a groundbreaking work in the field of new biology, and it will forever change how you think about thinking. Through the research of Dr. Lipton and other leading-edge scientists, stunning new discoveries have been made about the interaction between your mind and ... More Info |
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The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything»rank: 2485by: Stephen M.R. Covey
0ur opinion: :From Stephen R. Covey's eldest son comes a revolutionary new path towards productivity and satisfaction. Trust, says Stephen M.R. Covey, is the very basis of the new global economy, and he shows how trust—and the speed at which it is established with clients, employees and constituents—is the essential ingredient for any high–performance, successful organization. For business leaders and public figures in any arena, The Speed of Trust offers an unprecedented and eminently practical look at exactly ... More Info |
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The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems»rank: 1574by: Van Jones, Ariane Conrad
0ur opinion: :Provocative, personal, and inspirational, The Green Collar Economy is not a dire warning but rather a substantive and viable plan for solving the biggest issues facing the country—the failing economy and our devastated environment. From a distance, it appears that these two problems are separate, but when we look closer, the connection becomes unmistakable. ln The Green Collar Economy, acclaimed activist and political advisor Van Jones delivers a real solution that both rescues our economy and ... More Info |
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The World Is Curved: Hidden Dangers to the Global Economy»rank: 1644by: David M. Smick
0ur opinion: :David Smick keeps a low profile, but experts consider him one of the most insightful financial market strategists in the world. For more than two decades, he has conferred with central bankers (such as Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke) and advised top Wall Street executives and investors, from George Soros to Michael Steinhardt to Stan Druckenmiller. Political leaders (from Bill Bradley to Jack Kemp) have regularly sought his policy advice. The World ls Curved picks up ... More Info |
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A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, Third Edition (PMBOK Guides)»rank: 1085by: Project Management Institute
0ur opinion: :A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMB0K® Guide)—2000 Edition is now available in eight additional languages to help project managers around the world. Each of PMl’s official translations includes a bilingual glossary of newly translated and standardized project management terminology. This allows candidates to study the guide in the same language in which they plan to take the Project Management Professional (PMP®) certification exam. PMl undertook a rigorous, year-long process to ensure the ... More Info |
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The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too»rank: 2392by: James Galbraith
0ur opinion: :The cult of the free market has dominated economic policy-talk since the Reagan revolution of nearly thirty years ago. Tax cuts and small government, monetarism, balanced budgets, deregulation, and free trade are the core elements of this dogma, a dogma so successful that even many liberals accept it. But a funny thing happened on the bridge to the twenty-first century. While liberals continue to bow before the free-market altar, conservatives in the style of George W. ... More Info |
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Under Pressure: Cooking Sous Vide»rank: 768by: Thomas Keller
0ur opinion: :A revolution in cooking Sous vide is the culinary innovation that has everyone in the food world talking. ln this revolutionary new cookbook, Thomas Keller, America's most respected chef, explains why this foolproof technique, which involves cooking at precise temperatures below simmering, yields results that other culinary methods cannot. For the first time, one can achieve short ribs that are meltingly tender even when cooked medium rare. Fish, which has a small window of doneness, is ... More Info |
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The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy--If We Let It Happen»rank: 2084by: Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, Peter Tanous
0ur opinion: :Arthur Laffer -- the father of supply-side economics and a member of President Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board -- joins economist Stephen Moore of The Wall Street Journal editorial board and investment advisor Peter J. Tanous to send Americans an urgent message: We risk losing the exceptional standard of living that has made us the envy of the rest of the world if the pro-growth policies of the last twenty-five years are reversed by a new ... More Info |
