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The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker
by Steven Greenhouse  Publisher Comments The Big Squeeze takes a fresh, probing, and often shocking look at the stresses and strains faced by tens of millions of American workers as wages have stagnated, health and pension benefits have grown stingier, and job security has shriveled. Going...
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich 
Publisher Comments The New York Times bestseller, and one of the most talked about books of the year, Nickel and Dimed has already become a classic of undercover reportage.Millions of Americans work for poverty-level wages, and one day Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join...
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by Eric Schlosser
Powells.com Staff Pick "What we eat has changed more in the last forty years than in the last forty thousand," Schlosser observes, yet most Americans know very little about how that food is made, where, by whom, and at what cost. Fast Food Nation traces the industry's...
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by Eric Schlosser
Publisher Comments Are we what we eat? To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar Amerca. Though created by a handful of mavericks, the fast food industry has triggered the homogenization of our society. Fast food has hastened...
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Birth of the Chaordic Age
by Dee W. Hock Synopsis This is the story of how VISA International was conceived, founded and established. It challenges the ideas and radical philosophy about the nature of the world, the role of money and organizations in the world, reinventing leadership and management, and...
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Innovation Corrupted: The Origins and Legacy of Enron's Collapse
by Malcolm S. Salter Publisher Comments Although much has already been written about the rise and fall of Enron, four important questions remain unanswered: What management behavior and practices led Enron down the path from truly innovative to fraudulent management? How could Enronandrsquo;s...
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Broken Buildings, Busted Budgets: How to Fix America's Trillion-Dollar Construction Industry
by Barry B. Lepatner Publisher Comments Across the nation, construction projects large and small—from hospitals to schools to simple home improvements—are spiraling out of control. Delays and cost overruns have come to seem “normal,” even as they drain our wallets and...
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Sneaker Wars: The Enemy Brothers Who Founded Adidas and Puma and the Family Feud That Forever Changed the Business of Sport
by Barbara Smit Publisher Comments The fascinating story of the enemy brothers behind adidas and puma, whose rivalry shaped the modern sports business Adidas and Puma are two of the biggest global brands in sports, paying stars, clubs, and competitions to show off their labels in...
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The Informant: A True Story
by Kurt Eichenwald
Publisher Comments From an award-winning New York Times investigative reporter comes an outrageous story of greed, corruption, and conspiracy – which left the FBI and Justice Department counting on the cooperation of one man... It was one of the FBI's biggest...
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The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty
by Julia Flynn Siler Publisher Comments An epic, scandal-plagued story of the immigrant family that built — and then spectacularly lost — a global wine empire Set in California's lush Napa Valley and spanning four generations of a talented and visionary family, The House of...
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Inside Steve's Brain
by Leander Kahney Publisher Comments Steve Jobs has turned his personality traits into a business philosophy. Hereas how he does it. Itas hard to believe that one man revolutionized computers in the 1970s and a80s (with the Apple II and the Mac), animated movies in the 1990s (with Pixar...
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The Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars
by Joel Glenn Brenner Publisher Comments Corporate candy giants Milton Hershey and Forrest Mars built business empires out of one of the world's most magical, sought-after substances: chocolate. In The Emperors of Chocolate, Joel Glenn Brenner--the first person to ever gain access to the highly...
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The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture
by John Battelle
Publisher Comments What does the world want? According to John Battelle, a company that answers that question — in all its shades of meaning — can unlock the most intractable riddles of business and arguably of human culture itself. And for the past few years...
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The United States of Wal-Mart
by John Dicker
Publisher Comments An irreverent, hard-hitting examination of the world's largest-and most reviled-corporation, which reveals that while Wal-Mart's dominance may be providing consumers with cheap goods and plentiful jobs, it may also be breeding a culture of discontent. It...
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Starbucked: A Double Tall Tale of Caffeine, Commerce, and Culture
by Taylor Clark Publisher Comments Part "Fast Food Nation," part "Bobos in Paradise," this book provides an objective, meticulously reported story of how the coffeehouse movement changed everyday lives, from evolving neighborhoods and workplaces to the ways people shop, socialize, and...
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The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind Publisher Comments Just as Watergate was the defining political story of its time, so Enron is the biggest business story of our time. And just as All the President's Men was the one Watergate book that gave readers the full story, with all the drama and nuance, The...
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DisneyWar
by James B. Stewart
Publisher Comments "When You Wish Upon a Star," "Whistle While You Work," "The Happiest Place on Earth" — these are lyrics indelibly linked to Disney, one of the most admired and best-known companies in the world. So when Roy Disney, chairman of Walt Disney Animation...
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The Sky's the Limit: Passion and Property in Manhattan
by Steven S. Gaines
Powells.com Staff Pick Delightfully wicked and painfully true, The Sky's the Limit is the platinum-card tell-all from New York magazine's Steven Gaines. Having already tackled the Hamptons (Philistines at the Hedgerow), Gaines is in familiar territory examining real estate in...
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Giants of Enterprise Seven Business In
by Richard S Tedlow Publisher Comments Witness seven extraordinary men doing what Americans do best: building new businesses. These entrepreneurs broke old rules and made their own, mastering the future by shaping it. They overcame seemingly impossible obstacles to achieve enormous success...
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The Clean Tech Revolution: The Next Big Growth and Investment Opportunity
by Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder
Publisher Comments When industry giants such as GE, Toyota, and Sharp and investment firms such as Goldman Sachs are making multibillion-dollar investments in clean technology, the message is clear. Developing clean technologies is no longer a social issue championed by...
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