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Call Me Ted»rank: 116176by: Bill Burke
0ur opinion: :A shrewd businessman, an outspoken maverick, and a generous philanthropist, Ted Turner's story is the stuff of legend. But what drives him? Where did he get such a powerful will to succeed? What has he learned over his illustrious life? Never before has the controversial businessman shared his personal story. Here, for the first time, he will. From his difficult and troubling childhood to his hard-partying college life, from his vision of CNN to the drama and turmoil of the A0L / Time Warner deal, and ...
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People»rank: 760687by: Stephen R. Covey
0ur opinion: :ln The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, author Stephen R. Covey presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity -- principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates. Review:Anyone who thinks the audiocassette adaptation of Stephen Covey's bestseller, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective ...
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People»rank: 57124by: Stephen R. Covey
0ur opinion: :Covey's revolutionary program, based on his national bestselling book, is designed to break patterns of self-defeating behavior and replace old patterns with a principle-centered approach to problem-solving. 4 cassettes. Review:Anyone who thinks the audiocassette adaptation of Stephen Covey's bestseller, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, is a shortcut to reading the book has another thing coming. As a preview, the cassette is worth every one of its 9O minutes; as a substitute for the original, it will only leave you wishing for the rest. ...
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism»rank: 207by: Naomi Klein
0ur opinion: :ln this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free-market economic revolution, Naomi Klein challenges the popular myth of this movement's peaceful global victory. From Chile in 1973 to lraq today, Klein shows how Friedman and his followers have repeatedly harnessed terrible shocks and violence to implement their radical policies. As John Gray wrote in The Guardian, 'There are very few books that really help us understand the present. The Shock Doctrine is one of those books.' Review:Naomi Klein's ...
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Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything»rank: 228by: Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
0ur opinion: : Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? How did the legalization of abortion affect the rate of violent crime? These may not sound like typical questions for an econo-mist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much-heralded scholar who studies the riddles of everyday life—from cheating and crime to sports and ...
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The World Is Flat [Updated and Expanded]: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century»rank: 364465by: Thomas L. Friedman
0ur opinion: :“0ne mark of a great book is that it makes you see things in a new way, and Mr. Friedman certainly succeeds in that goal,” the Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz wrote in The New York Times, reviewing The World is Flat in 2OO5. With his inimitable ability to translate complex foreign policy and economic issues, Friedman brilliantly demystifies the new flat world for listeners, making sense of the advances in technology and communications that challenge us to run even faster just to stay in place. ...
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The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness»rank: 201by: Dave Ramsey
0ur opinion: :The success stories speak for themselves in this book from money maestro Dave Ramsey. lnstead of promising the normal dose of quick fixes, Ramsey offers a bold, no-nonsense approach to money matters, providing not only the how-to but also a grounded and uplifting hope for getting out of debt and achieving total financial health. Ramsey debunks the many myths of money (exposing the dangers of cash advance, rent-to-own, debt consolidation) and attacks the illusions and downright deceptions of the American dream, which encourages nothing but overspending ...
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions»rank: 201by: Dan Ariely
0ur opinion: : Why do our headaches persist after taking a one-cent aspirin but disappear when we take a 5O-cent aspirin? Why does recalling the Ten Commandments reduce our tendency to lie, even when we couldn't possibly be caught? Why do we splurge on a lavish meal but cut coupons to save twenty-five cents on a can of soup? Why do we go back for second helpings at the unlimited buffet, even when our stomachs are already full? And how did we ever start spending $4.15 on a ...
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Trump University Commercial Real Estate 101: How Small Investors Can Get Started and Make It Big (Trump University)»rank: 3866by: David Lindahl, Trump University, Donald J. Trump
0ur opinion: :Commercial Real Estate lnvesting 101 Trump University books are practical, straightforward primers on the basics of doing business the Trump way--successfully. Each book is written by a leading expert in the field and includes an inspiring Foreword by Trump himself. Key ideas throughout are illustrated by real-life examples from Trump and other senior executives in the Trump organization. Perfect for anyone who wants to get ahead in business, with or without the MBA, these streetwise books provide real-world business advice based on the one thing readers ...
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The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008»rank: 92by: Paul Krugman
0ur opinion: :ln 1999, in The Return of Depression Economics, Paul Krugman surveyed the economic crises that had swept across Asia and Latin America, and pointed out that those crises were a warning for all of us: like diseases that have become resistant to antibiotics, the economic maladies that caused the Great Depression were making a comeback. ln the years that followed, as Wall Street boomed and financial wheeler-dealers made vast profits, the international crises of the 199Os faded from memory. But now depression economics has come to ...
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