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Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell Staff Pick If you've ever wondered what so-and-so had that you didn't, you need to read Outliers. Gladwell's writing is always engaging, especially when he illuminates the mysterious elements that allow one person to succeed beyond all others.... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover 
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell Staff Pick Somewhere along the way to guru-dom, Malcolm Gladwell got tagged as a business writer. Fair enough — The Tipping Point speaks more powerfully to the principles of succesful marketing than any pedestrian semester in the classroom. But while raves from... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell Staff Pick Gladwell's appeal can be traced directly to his studied obsession with familiar objects and events, and his remarkable talent for synthesizing complicated ideas into compelling stories. In The Tipping Point, the author set out to describe how ideas... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Handmade Marketplace: How to Sell Your Crafts Locally, Globally, and Online by Kari Chapin Staff Pick Dreaming of quitting your day job and opening up an Etsy shop? Kari Chapin, with help from crafty experts like Amy Karol (Bend the Rules with Fabric) and Megan Reardon (notmartha.org), has written a timely and inspiring guide to starting, marketing, and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis Staff Pick The roots of the bubble and the story of Wall Street's collapse can be told no clearer — nor with as much humor — as by Michael Lewis. If you read only one book that explains the current economic crisis, make it The Big Short.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell Staff Pick Twenty-two of Malcolm Gladwell's favorite "adventures," all previously published in the New Yorker, come together in this engaging book. Gladwell's contagious curiosity helps us understand how other people feel about the topics of homelessness, ketchup... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath and Dan Heath Staff Pick Some ideas become success stories, others don't stick around. In this no-nonsense look at successful communication the brothers Heath examine the principles of "stickiness" considering the elements needed to make a particular idea take hold. An... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill Staff Pick Enter the secretive world of the most powerful private army on the planet. Here Scahill exposes the disturbing story of Blackwater, a shadowy private company offering specialized military services for hire. A dark study of both the organization and the... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home by Dan Ariely Staff Pick Why are we more motivated about our work when we feel it has meaning? Can we increase our enjoyment of an activity by interrupting it? Why do we believe that information from a dating web site, which reads more like a baseball card than a personality... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis Staff Pick Lewis describes the causes of the financial crisis with clarity, while putting it all in a very human context by focusing on a few of the individuals involved. It would have been easy for Lewis to second guess — in retrospect, it seems crazy to have... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (10th Anniversary Edition) by Stephen King Staff Pick Whether or not you read Stephen King's fiction, if you're interested in writing, you'll love this book. Now in a handsome paperback anniversary edition.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy by Raj Patel Staff Pick Raj Patel's remarkable and ambitious new book asks some basic economic and political questions and comes up with surprising solutions. Patel explores ways we might more accurately value the world, arguing that our current market system is deeply flawed... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Escape from Cubicle Nation: From Corporate Prisoner to Thriving Entrepreneur by Pamela Slim Staff Pick I work for Powell's — a pretty far cry from a "corporate prison" — but even so, I found Escape from Cubicle Nation to be equal parts inspirational and practical. Mixing contemporary research with anecdotes and exercises, Slim's engaging book will... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford Staff Pick One of the most engaging, thought-provoking books I've read in a long time. Matthew Crawford has delivered an accessible, carefully reasoned examination of work and America's evolving ideas about it, addressing a host of important subjects — for... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink Staff Pick Without being preachy or didactic, Daniel H. Pink shows readers how to direct their own lives, improve their work, and do something that really matters — and he provides all the motivation they'll need to get up and do it. Better than a how-to, this... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
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The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 by Paul Krugman Staff Pick We could have prevented this economic free-fall, Paul Krugman believes. He wrote the first edition of The Return of Depression Economics in response to the Asian crisis of the 1990s, which he saw as a warning to economies around the world. Now Krugman... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell Staff Pick Somewhere along the way to guru-dom, Malcolm Gladwell got tagged as a business writer. Fair enough — The Tipping Point speaks more powerfully to the principles of succesful marketing than any pedestrian semester in the classroom. But while raves from... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk Staff Pick In The Thank You Economy, Gary Vaynerchuk leads by inspirational example as he urges businesses to build relationships with their customers, to woo them with marketing strategies oozing with realness and affability. Entrepreneurs take heed — I... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: Stories by Ben Katchor Staff Pick I first became aware of Katchor's sublime black and white strips in the pages of Art Spiegelman's Raw magazine. "(His) picture stories speak a sad, beautiful clarity," R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe once remarked. Compiled from strips published in The Forward... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story by Kurt Eichenwald Staff Pick Intricately detailed yet compulsively readable, Conspiracy of Fools is the best account yet of the Enron debacle. Eichenwald makes you feel like you are there — in the boardroom, on the cell phone — while the deals get brokered and the walls come... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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