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Selling the Fountain of Youth

How the Anti-Aging Industry Made a Disease Out of Getting Old—and Made Billions

By Arlene Weintraub
Basic Books, 256 pp., $25.95 Reader Reviews

The Importance of Being Famous

A Short History of Celebrity

By Fred Inglis
Princeton University Press, $29.95, 312 pp Reader Reviews

The Digital Future: You Know It When You See It

I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works: Why Your World, Work, and Brain Are Being Creatively Disrupted

By Nick Bilton
Crown Business, 304 pp, $25 Reader Reviews

The Original Captain of Industry

A Full Cup: Sir Thomas Lipton's Extraordinary Life and His Quest for the America's Cup

By Michael D'Antonio
Riverhead Books; 368 pp, $26.95 Reader Reviews

The Stack: Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirky

Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age

By Clay Shirky
The Penguin Press, 242 pp, $25.95 Reader Reviews

Randall Lane's The Zeroes: Wall Street's Greediest

The Zeroes: My Misadventures in the Decade Wall Street Went Insane

By Randall Lane
Portfolio, 359 pp, $27.95 Reader Reviews

Bronfman's Redemption Song

Fortune's Fool: Edgar Bronfman Jr., Warner Music, and an Industry in Crisis

By Fred Goodman
Simon & Schuster; 323 pp, $28 Reader Reviews

Could Anything Have Saved the Beatles?

You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup

By Peter Doggett
Harper; 390 pp, $24.99 Reader Reviews

A Year of Tragical Thinking—for Others

Diary of a Very Bad Year: Confessions of an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager

By Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager and Keith Gessen
Harper Perennial; 272 pp, $14.99 Reader Reviews

Alan C. 'Ace' Greenberg's The Rise and Fall of Bear Stearns

The Rise and Fall of Bear Stearns

By Alan C. Greenberg with Mark Singer
Simon & Schuster; 224 pp, $26.00 Reader Reviews

Steinbrenner: The Last Lion of Baseball by Bill Madden

Steinbrenner: The Last Lion of Baseball

By Bill Madden
Harper; 480 pp, $26.99 Reader Reviews

The Shallows: Is the Net Fostering Stupidity?

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

By Nicholas Carr
Norton; 276 pp; $26.95 Reader Reviews

The History of DreamWorks

The Men Who Would Be King: An Almost Epic Tale of Moguls, Movies, and a Company Called DreamWorks

By Nicole LaPorte
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 512 pp; $28 Reader Reviews

Building an Empire, One Goldman Brick at a Time

When Money Was in Fashion: Henry Goldman, Goldman Sachs, and the Founding of Wall Street

By June Breton Fisher
Palgrave MacMillan, 288 pp., $27.00 Reader Reviews

How Do You Stave Off a Slump? Have Uncle Sam Play the Market

How the Economy Works: Confidence, Crashes and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies

By Roger E.A. Farmer
Oxford University Press; 208 pp.; $22.95 Reader Reviews

A Story of O, Starved for Scandal

Oprah: A Biography

By Kitty Kelley
Crown Publishers; 524 pp.; $30 Reader Reviews

When the Country Went Cold Turkey?

Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition

By Daniel Okrent
Scribner, 480 pp., $35.00 Reader Reviews

Too Big to Prevail?

13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown

By Simon Johnson and James Kwak
Pantheon; $26.95; 304 pp Reader Reviews

The Long Knives at Lehman

The Devil's Casino: Friendship, Betrayal and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers

By Vicky Ward
Wiley; $27.95; 270 pp Reader Reviews

The Power and the Glory

The Battery: How Portable Power Sparked a Technological Revolution

By Henry Schlesinger
Smithsonian Books; $25.99; 287 pp Reader Reviews

Engineering the Earth

How to Cool the Planet

By Jeff Goodell
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 262 pp; $26.00 Reader Reviews

Defusing the Banks' Financial Time Bomb

Too Big to Save? How to Fix the U.S. Financial System

By Robert Pozen
John Wiley & Sons; $29.95 Reader Reviews

The Subprime of Their Lives

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

By Michael Lewis
W.W. Norton; $27.95; 288 pp Reader Reviews

Slapped by the Invisible Hand

The Crisis of Capitalist Democracy

By Richard A. Posner
Harvard; $25.95; 408 pp Reader Reviews

Why the Hackers Are Winning

Fatal System Error: The Hunt for the New Crime Lords Who Are Bringing Down the Internet

By Joseph Menn
PublicAffairs; $25.95; 281 pp Reader Reviews

How Quants Made a Killing—and Made a Mess

The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It

By Scott Patterson
Crown Business; $27; 337 pp Reader Reviews

Make a List. Check It Twice

The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

By Dr. Atul Gawande
Metropolitan Books; 209 pp; $24.50 Reader Reviews

The Meltdown According to Hank Paulson

On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System

By Henry M. Paulson, Jr.
Hachette; $28.99 Reader Reviews

Why the Price Is Rarely Right

Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage of It)

By William Poundstone
Hill and Wang; 352 pp; $26.99 Reader Reviews

Where Does Wall Street Go Now?

Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy

By Joseph E. Stiglitz
W.W. Norton & Co., 361 pp; $27.95 Reader Reviews

Where Does Wall Street Go Now?

Paper Fortunes: Modern Wall Street: Where It's Been and Where It's Going

By Roy C. Smith
St. Martin's Press; $35 Reader Reviews

Wake Up and Smell the Zeitgeist

Chief Culture Officer: How to Create a Living, Breathing Corporation

By Grant McCracken
Basic Books; 262 pp.; $26.95 Reader Reviews

Busting the Myth of the Heroic CEO

From Predators to Icons: Exposing the Myth of the Business Hero

By Michel Villette and Catherine Vuillermot
Cornell University Press; $24.95 Reader Reviews

The Limits of Going with Your Gut

Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition

By Michael J. Mauboussin
Harvard Business Press; 208 pp.; $29.95 Reader Reviews

Man of the Meltdown

The Greatest Trade Ever

By Gregory Zuckerman
Broadway; 293 pp.; $26 Reader Reviews

The King of the Cloud

Behind the Cloud

By Marc Benioff and Carlye Adler
Josey-Bass; 278 pp.; $27.95 Reader Reviews

John Cassidy's How Markets Fail

How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities

By John Cassidy
Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 390 pp.; $28 Reader Reviews

The Geekdom of Google

Googled: The End of the World as We Know It

By Ken Auletta
Penguin Press; 384pp.; $27.95 Reader Reviews

An Ambitious Look at Wall Street's Convulsions

Too Big Too Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves

By Andrew Ross Sorkin
Viking; 600 pp.; $32.95 Reader Reviews

More Oddball Tales for Freakonomics Fans

SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance

By Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Morrow; 270pp; $29.99 Reader Reviews

Blinded by Optimism—from 9/11 to Subprime

Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

By Barbara Ehrenreich
Metropolitan Books; 235 pp; $23 Reader Reviews

Jamie Dimon: Lucky or Good?

Last Man Standing: The Ascent of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase

By Duff McDonald
Simon & Schuster; 340 pp.; $28 Reader Reviews

Fixing an Out-of-Whack Global Economy

The Next Asia: Opportunities and Challenges for a New Globalization

By Stephen Roach
Wiley; 414 pp.; $39.95 Reader Reviews

Extraordinary Women, Familiar Advice

How Remarkable Women Lead: A Breakthrough Model for Work and Life

By Joanna Barsh and Susie Cranston
Crown Business; 355 pp.; $27.50 Reader Reviews

The Redemption of Keynes

Keynes: The Return of the Master

By Robert Skidelsky
PublicAffairs; 221 pp; $25.95

Keynes: The Rise, Fall, and Return of the 20th Century's Most Influential Economist

By Peter Clarke
Bloomsbury Press; 211 pp; $20 Reader Reviews

Can Entrepreneurs Tame the Mideast?

Forces of Fortune: The Rise of the New Muslim Middle Class and What It Will Mean for Our World

By Vali Nasr
Free Press; 308 pp.; $26 Reader Reviews

A Peek Under the Hood of a Business Book

Women Want More: How to Capture Your Share of the World's Largest, Fastest-Growing Market

By Michael J. Silverstein and Kate Sayre with John Butman
HarperCollins; $27.99 Reader Reviews

The Real Mother of Invention

Borrowing Brilliance: The Six Steps to Business Innovation by Building on the Ideas of Others

By David Kord Murray
Gotham; 293 pp.; $26 Reader Reviews

Health Care: Lessons for America

The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care

By T.R. Reid
Penguin Press; 277 pp.; $25.95 Reader Reviews

Bernanke, Flying by the Seat of His Pants

In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic

By David Wessel
Crown Business; 323 pp.; $27.99 Reader Reviews

Kinder, Gentler, Richer Companies

SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good

By Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Crown; 320 pp.; $27.50 Reader Reviews

Lehman Brothers: Wall Street's Titanic

A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers

By Lawrence G. McDonald and Patrick Robinson
Crown; 351 pp.; $27 Reader Reviews

A Brief History of Blogs

Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It Matters

By Scott Rosenberg
Crown; 405 pp.; $26 Reader Reviews

Chris Anderson: Not Just Info Wants to Be Free

Free: The Future of a Radical Price

By Chris Anderson
Hyperion; 274 pp.; $26.99 Reader Reviews

The Corporate Shape Shifters

Lethal Logic: Exploding the Myths that Paralyze American Gun Policy

By Dennis A. Henigan
Potomac Books; 256 pp.; $29.95 Reader Reviews

The Corporate Shape Shifters

The Future Arrived Yesterday: The Rise of the Protean Corporation and What It Means for You

By Michael S. Malone
Crown Business; 295 pp; $27.50 Reader Reviews

The Stop-Managing Guide to Management

Management Rewired: Why Feedback Doesn't Work and Other Surprising Lessons from the Latest Brain Science

By Charles S. Jacobs
Portfolio; 216 pp.; $25.95 Reader Reviews

The Things We Do for Money

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

By Alain de Botton
Pantheon; 327 pp.; $26 Reader Reviews

Smirnoff: The Amazing History of a Brand

The King of Vodka: The Story of Pyotr Smirnov and the Upheaval of an Empire

By Linda Himelstein
HarperCollins; 384 pp.; $29.99 Reader Reviews

The Story of Bear Stearns' Final, Tragic Days

Street Fighters: The Last 72 Hours of Bear Stearns, the Toughest Firm on Wall Street

By Kate Kelly
Portfolio; 247 pp.; $25.95 Reader Reviews

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