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FAT AND MEAN: The Corporate Squeeze of Working Americans and the Myth of Managerial

1. FAT AND MEAN: The Corporate Squeeze of Working Americans and the Myth of Managerial "Downsizing"

by David M. Gordon

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The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Collins Business Essentials) cover

2. The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Collins Business Essentials)

by Clayton M. Christensen

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Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time cover

3. Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time

by Michael Shermer

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Secrets of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks cover

4. Secrets of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks

by Arthur Benjamin, Michael Shermer

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The Chopsticks Diet: Japanese-inspired Recipes for Easy Weight-Loss cover

5. The Chopsticks Diet: Japanese-inspired Recipes for Easy Weight-Loss

by Kimiko Barber

Mollie Katzen's Vegetable Heaven: Over 200 Recipes for Uncommon Soups, Tasty Bites, Side Dishes, and Too Many Desserts cover

6. Mollie Katzen's Vegetable Heaven: Over 200 Recipes for Uncommon Soups, Tasty Bites, Side Dishes, and Too Many Desserts

by Mollie Katzen

Musashi cover

7. Musashi

by 吉川英治

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The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It cover

8. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

by Michael E. Gerber

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The Arabian Nights (Norton Critical Editions) cover

9. The Arabian Nights (Norton Critical Editions)

by Muhsin Mahdi, Daniel Heller-Roazen

The Best 1001 Short, Easy Recipes cover

10. The Best 1001 Short, Easy Recipes

by Cookbook Resources Llc

Heuristics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment cover

11. Heuristics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment

by Thomas Gilovich, Dale Griffin, Daniel Kahneman

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Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science cover

12. Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science

by Philip Mirowski

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Hayek's Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F.A. Hayek cover

13. Hayek's Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F.A. Hayek

by Bruce Caldwell

The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art cover

14. The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art

by Donald N. Thompson, Don Thompson

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The Tao of Pooh cover

15. The Tao of Pooh

by Benjamin Hoff

Moving Mars: A Novel cover

16. Moving Mars: A Novel

by Greg Bear

King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine cover

17. King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine

by Robert Moore

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Beethoven As I Knew Him (Dover Books on Music) cover

18. Beethoven As I Knew Him (Dover Books on Music)

by Anton Schindler, Donald W. MacArdle

Real Fast Food: 350 Recipes Ready-To-Eat in 30 Minutes cover

19. Real Fast Food: 350 Recipes Ready-To-Eat in 30 Minutes

by Nigel Slater

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon cover

20. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

by David Grann

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Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays cover

21. Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays

by David Foster Wallace

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments cover

22. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

by David Foster Wallace

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NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children cover

23. NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children

by Po Bronson, Ashley Merryman

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Gardens of the Moon (The Malazan Book of the Fallen, Book 1) cover

24. Gardens of the Moon (The Malazan Book of the Fallen, Book 1)

by Steven Erikson

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine cover

25. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

by Michael M. Lewis

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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid cover

26. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

by Douglas R. Hofstadter

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War Music: An Account of Books 1-4 and 16-19 of Homer's Iliad cover

27. War Music: An Account of Books 1-4 and 16-19 of Homer's Iliad

by Christopher Logue

Shaping Things (Mediaworks Pamphlets) cover

28. Shaping Things (Mediaworks Pamphlets)

by Bruce Sterling

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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession cover

29. This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession

by Daniel J. Levitin

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The PayPal Wars: Battles with eBay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of Planet Earth cover

30. The PayPal Wars: Battles with eBay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of Planet Earth

by Eric M. Jackson

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Sudden Fiction: American Short-Short Stories cover

31. Sudden Fiction: American Short-Short Stories

by Robert Shapard, James Thomas

Sudden Fiction (Continued): 60 New Short-Short Stories cover

32. Sudden Fiction (Continued): 60 New Short-Short Stories

by Robert Shapard, James Thomas

The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions cover

33. The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

by Edwin Abbott Abbott

Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584 to 2069 cover

34. Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584 to 2069

by Neil Howe, William Strauss

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Timelock: How Life Got So Hectic and What You Can Do About It cover

35. Timelock: How Life Got So Hectic and What You Can Do About It

by Ralph Keyes

Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health cover

36. Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health

by Gary Taubes

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The Design of Everyday Things cover

37. The Design of Everyday Things

by Donald A. Norman

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Flip Dictionary cover

38. Flip Dictionary

by Barbara Kipfer

The Trachtenberg Speed System of Basic Mathematics cover

39. The Trachtenberg Speed System of Basic Mathematics

by Jakow Trachtenberg

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Think and Grow Rich cover

40. Think and Grow Rich

by Napoleon Hill

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iPhone Application Development For Dummies (For Dummies (Computers)) cover

41. iPhone Application Development For Dummies (For Dummies (Computers))

by Neal Goldstein

Virtual Machines: Versatile Platforms for Systems and Processes (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design) cover

42. Virtual Machines: Versatile Platforms for Systems and Processes (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)

by James Edward Smith, Ravi Nair

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Smarter Ventures: A Survivor's Guide to Venture Capital Through the New Cycle (

43. Smarter Ventures: A Survivor's Guide to Venture Capital Through the New Cycle ("Financial Times") ("Financial Times") ("Financial Times") (Financial Times Series)

by Katharine Campbell

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High Tech Start Up, Revised and Updated: The Complete Handbook For Creating Successful New High Tech Companies cover

44. High Tech Start Up, Revised and Updated: The Complete Handbook For Creating Successful New High Tech Companies

by John L. Nesheim

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