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JPMorgan's Dangerous Derivatives

Fool's Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J.P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe

By Gillian Tett
Free Press; 293 pp.; $26 Reader Reviews

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Divided We Stand

Going to Extremes: How Like Minds Unite and Divide

By Cass R. Sunstein
Oxford University Press; 199 pp.; $21.95 Reader Reviews

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The Bernie Madoff of the Jazz Age

The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, the Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals

By Frank Partnoy
Public Affairs; 288 pp; $26.95 Reader Reviews

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How Each Nation Sinks or Swims

False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the World

By Alan Beattie
Riverhead Books; 321 pp.; $26.95 Reader Reviews

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Imagining India: In Pursuit of Prodigious Potential

Imagining India: The Idea of a Renewed Nation

By Nandan Nilekani
The Penguin Press; 511 pp.; $29.95 Reader Reviews

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A Rose-Colored Look Under GM's Hood

Why GM Matters: Inside the Race to Transform an American Icon

By William J. Holstein
Walker; 267pp; $26 Reader Reviews

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How News Corp. Nabbed MySpace

Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America

By Julia Angwin
Random House; 371 pp; $27 Reader Reviews

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Irrational Exuberance Writ Large

Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism

By George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller
Princeton; 230 pp.; $24.95 Reader Reviews

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Bear Stearns and Wall Street's House of Cards

House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street

By William D. Cohan
Doubleday; 468 pp.; $27.95 Reader Reviews

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Speaking Up for the Organization Man

The Truth About Middle Managers: Who They Are, How They Work, Why They Matter

By Paul Osterman
Harvard Business Press; 189 pp.; $35.00 Reader Reviews

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Washington's Greatest Stimulus Projects

Bold Endeavors: How Our Government Built America, and Why It Must Rebuild Now

By Felix Rohatyn
Simon & Schuster; 259 pp; $26 Reader Reviews

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Sony, Microsoft, and the Ultimate Gaming Chip

The Race for a New Game Machine: Creating the Chips Inside the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3

By David Shippy and Mickie Phipps
Citadel Press; 240 pp.; $21.95 Reader Reviews

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McNuggets of Wisdom at McDonald's

Everything I Know About Business I Learned at McDonald's: The 7 Leadership Principles that Drive Break Out Success

By Paul Facella
McGraw-Hill; 223 pp.; $24.95 Reader Reviews

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Iconoclasts Who Drilled the Texas Oil Patch

The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes

By Bryan Burrough
The Penguin Press; 466 pp.; $29.95 Reader Reviews

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The Alienation of the Striving Middle Class

Elsewhere, U.S.A.: How We Got from the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, Blackberry Moms, and Economic Anxiety

By Dalton Conley
Pantheon; 221 pp.; $24 Reader Reviews

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The Rise and Fall of David Ogilvy

The King of Madison Avenue: David Ogilvy and the Making of Modern Advertising

By Kenneth Roman
Palgrave Macmillan; 282 pp.; $27.95 Reader Reviews

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The Evangelists of Innovation

Market Rebels: How Activists Make or Break Radical Innovations

By Hayagreeva Rao
Princeton; 205 pp.; $24.95 Reader Reviews

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Bleeder's Digest

Panic! The Story of Modern Financial Insanity

By Michael Lewis
Norton; 391 pp.; $27.95 Reader Reviews

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The Money Theory of World History

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

By Niall Ferguson
Penguin Press; 442 pp.; $29.95 Reader Reviews

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The Influence of the Net Generation

Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation Is Changing Your World

By Don Tapscott
McGraw-Hill; 368 pp.; $27.95 Reader Reviews

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Gladwell's Outliers: Timing is Almost Everything

Outliers: The Story of Success

By Malcolm Gladwell
Little, Brown; 309 pp.; $27.99 Reader Reviews

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How Inflation Shaped Economics in Today's U.S.

The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath: The Past and Future of American Affluence

By Robert J. Samuelson
Random House; 309 pp.; $26 Reader Reviews

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Portrait of the Art Scene

Seven Days in the Art World

By Sarah Thornton
Norton; 274 pp; $24.95 Reader Reviews

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Neuromarketing: When an MRI Predicts What You'll Buy

Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy

By Martin Lindstrom
Doubleday; 240 pp.; $24.95 Reader Reviews

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Copyright Expert Lawrence Lessig Copies Himself

Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy

By Lawrence Lessig
Penguin Press; 327 pp; $25.95 Reader Reviews

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The Rise (and Mishaps) of Goldman Sachs

The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs

By Charles D. Ellis
The Penguin Press; 729 pp.; $37.95 Reader Reviews

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Sweat and Striving on China's Factory Floor

Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China

By Leslie T. Chang
Spiegel & Grau; 420 pp.; $26 Reader Reviews

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Buffett's Ferocious Focus

The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

By Alice Schroeder
Bantam; 960 pp.; $35 Reader Reviews

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Google + Rise to Power + Audacious

Planet Google: One Company's Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know

By Randall Stross
Free Press; 275 pp.; $26 Reader Reviews

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The Wisdom of the Business Crowd

Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business

By Jeff Howe
Crown Business; 311 pp; $26.95 Reader Reviews

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Enlisting Father Profit to Save Mother Nature

Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution—And How It Can Renew America

By Thomas L. Friedman
Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 438 pp; $27.95 Reader Reviews

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Solving the Subprime Crisis of Financial Democracy

The Subprime Solution: How Today's Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to Do about It

By Robert J. Shiller
Princeton; 196 pp.; $16.95 Reader Reviews

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