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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
by Lawrence Wright
A brilliant - but also brilliantly depressing - book! (August 2006)
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Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators: From Idea to Execution
by Vijay Govindarajan
Some great insights for big company CEO's on what they personally must do to enable strategic innovation in their companies. More in my review here.
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Fortune's Formula : The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
by William Poundstone
A great read -- see my brief comments. (September 25, 2005)
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Perfect Soldiers : The Hijackers: Who They Were, Why They Did It
by Terry McDermott
An amazing -- and amazingly distressing -- book.
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Wild Grass : Three Stories of Change in Modern China
by IAN JOHNSON
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A Sense of Place : Great Travel Writers Talk About Their Craft, Lives, and Inspiration (Travelers' Tales)
by Michael Shapiro
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A Great Improvisation : Franklin, France, and the Birth of America
by Stacy Schiff
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Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
by W. Chan Kim
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Mr. China : A Memoir
by Tim Clissold
Think you understand China? Think again.
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The New Normal: Great Opportunities In A Time Of Great Risk
by Roger McNamee
January 8, 2004
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The Coming Generational Storm: What You Need to Know about America's Economic Future
by Laurence J. Kotlikoff
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State Of Fear
by Michael Crichton
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Courting Justice: From New York Yankees vs. Major League Baseball to Bush vs. Gore, 1997-2000
by David Boies
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Think Like a Chef
by TOM COLICCHIO
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They Made America: Two Centuries of Innovators from the Steam Engine to the Search Engine
by Harold Evans
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Raising the Bar : Integrity and Passion in Life and Business: The Story of Clif Bar, Inc.
by Gary Erickson
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Noble Rot: A Bordeaux Wine Revolution
by William Echikson
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How Customers Think: Essential Insights into the Mind of the Market
by Gerald Zaltman
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Creating the Inspired House : Discovering Your Place Called Home
by John Connell
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America's Secret War: Inside the Hidden Worldwide Struggle Between America and Its Enemies
by George Friedman
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Craftsman Style
by Robert Winter
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Profitable Growth Is Everyone's Business : 10 Tools You Can Use Monday Morning
by Ram Charan
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Skywriting: A Life Out of the Blue
by Jane Pauley
Pauley quotes Mark Twain: "Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under different conditions."
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Coast of Dreams : California on the Edge, 1990-2003
by KEVIN STARR
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Damn Right: Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger
by Janet Lowe
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Latticework: The New Investing
by Robert G. Hagstrom
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The Art Of The Start
by Guy Kawasaki
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Seeing What's Next
by Clayton Christensen
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The Wisdom of Crowds
by James Surowiecki
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Public Enemies
by Bryan Burrough
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Fire Flight
by John Nance
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Creative Destruction
by Richard Foster
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RFK: Collected Speeches
by Edwin O. Guthman
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Rising from the Rails : Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class
by Larry Tye
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Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror
by Anonymous
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Online Investing Hacks
by Bonnie Biafore
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Down to a Soundless Sea
by Thomas Steinbeck
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My Life
by Bill Clinton
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Sleeping With the Devil
by Robert Baer
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Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad
by David Zucchino
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Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil
by David Goodstein
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The Outlaw Sea: A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime
by William Langewiesche
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Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
by Bethany McLean
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Eventide
by Kent Haruf
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McKinsey's Marvin Bower : Vision, Leadership and the Creation of Management Consulting
by Elizabeth Haas Edersheim
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Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet
by Jim Mann
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American Sucker
by David Denby
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McGee & Stuckey's Bountiful Container
by Rose Marie Nichols McGee
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The Sound of Paper: Starting from Scratch
by Julia Cameron
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The Price of Loyalty
by Ron Suskind