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MAY 1, 2006
The BusinessWeek Best-Seller List The top-selling business books as reported in the May 1, 2006 issue. 1 THE WORLD IS FLAT Thomas L. Friedman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux -- $27.50) Globalization is great -- sort of. Last month: 1, Months on list: 11 2 FREAKONOMICS Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner (Morrow -- $25.95) Crack gangs, the Ku Klux Klan, and more, examined by a University of Chicago economist. Last month: 2, Months on list: 12 3 BLINK Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown -- $25.95) Why snap judgments deserve careful consideration, by a writer for The New Yorker. Last month: 3, Months on list: 15 4 RULE # 1 Phil Town (Crown -- $25) Think like a business owner and target your investments accordingly, says this seminar leader. Last month: --, Months on list: 1 5 JIM CRAMER'S REAL MONEY James J. Cramer (Simon & Schuster -- $26) Trading tips from CNBC's wild man. Last month: 4, Months on list: 12 6 THE AUTOMATIC MILLIONAIRE HOMEOWNER David Bach (Broadway -- $19.95) Building your fortune with real estate plays. Last month: --, Months on list: 1 7 THE LITTLE BOOK THAT BEATS THE MARKET Joel Greenblatt (Wiley -- $19.95) The basics of "value investing." Last month: 5, Months on list: 4 8 THE LITTLE RED BOOK OF SELLING Jeffrey Gitomer (Bard Press -- $19.95) A syndicated columnist explains why people buy. Last month: 7, Months on list: 19 9 THE NUMBER Lee Eisenberg (Free Press -- $26) A meditation on retirement and second acts. Last month: 6, Months on list: 3 10 THE WAL-MART EFFECT Charles Fishman (Penguin Press -- $25.95) The retailer's single-minded focus on price-cutting is good for some, disastrous for others. Last month: 9, Months on list: 2 11 THE LITTLE RED BOOK OF SALES ANSWERS Jeffrey Gitomer (Prentice Hall-- $19.99) "Fatal flaws" of selling and more. Last month: --, Months on list: 1 12 SECRETS OF THE MILLIONAIRE MIND T. Harv Eker (HarperBusiness -- $19.95) How to shape your financial destiny, by a Vancouver-based entrepreneur. Last month: 10, Months on list: 12 13 THE 360 DEGREE LEADER John C. Maxwell (Nelson Business -- $24.99) How you can exercise influence from the middle of an organization. Last month: --, Months on list: 1 14 THE TOTAL MONEY MAKEOVER Dave Ramsey (Thomas Nelson-- $24.99) Getting rid of debt and building up your rainy-day reserves. Last month: 8, Months on list: 16 15 THE COMING ECONOMIC COLLAPSE Stephen Leeb, PhD, with Glen Strathy (Warner -- $24.95) You can get rich from the coming oil shortfall. Last month: 15, Months on list: 2 1 COLLAPSE Jared Diamond (Penguin -- $17) From Easter Island to Central America, why civilizations fall apart. Last month: 3, Months on list: 2 2 GOOD TO GREAT AND THE SOCIAL SECTORS Jim Collins (Collins -- $11.95) How noncorporate organizations can excel. Last month: 1, Months on list: 4 3 GETTING THINGS DONE David Allen (Penguin -- $15) Organizing your office and learning how to manage your time. Last month: 2, Months on list: 24 4 THE AUTOMATIC MILLIONAIRE David Bach (Broadway -- $12.95) How you can put your investment program on autopilot. Last month: 4, Months on list: 3 5 J.K. LASSER'S YOUR INCOME TAX 2006 The J.K. Lasser Institute (Wiley -- $16.95) Time's up! Last month: 5, Months on list: 4 6 WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE? Richard Nelson Bolles (Ten Speed Press -- $17.95) The 2006 edition of the enduring job-search bible. Last month: 8, Months on list: 4 7 FIND IT, FIX IT, FLIP IT! Michael Corbett (Penguin -- $15) Profiting from real estate, by a television-show host. Last month: 11, Months on list: 2 8 CRUCIAL CONVERSATIONS Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler (McGraw-Hill -- $16.95)Talk that counts. Last month: --, Months on list: 9 9 THE ERNST & YOUNG TAX GUIDE 2006 Ernst & Young, LLP (CDS Books -- $16.95) Don't lose those receipts! Last month: 7, Months on list: 4 10 INVESTING FOR DUMMIES Eric Tyson, MBA (Wiley -- $21.99) The fundamentals of real estate, the stock market, small business, and so forth. Last month: 15, Months on list: 13 11 PAY IT DOWN! Jean Chatzky (Penguin -- $12.95) The Today Show's financial editor on how to reduce your debts. Last month: 10, Months on list: 2 12 A GUIDE TO THE PROJECT MANAGEMENT BODY OF KNOWLEDGE Project Management Institute (PMI Publications -- $49.95) Delivering results. Last month: --, Months on list: 4 13 THE ABCs OF REAL ESTATE INVESTING Ken McElroy (Warner Business-- $16.95) Stories from the front lines of real estate negotiations and purchases. Last month: --, Months on list: 13 14 RICH DAD'S BEFORE YOU QUIT YOUR JOB Robert T. Kiyosaki with Sharon L. Lechter, CPA (Warner -- $16.95) Starting your own business. Last month: 13, Months on list: 5 15 CONSPIRACY OF FOOLS Kurt Eichenwald (Broadway -- $16.95) Inside Enron's crumbling house of cards, by an investigative reporter from The New York Times. Last month: 6, Months on list: 3 BusinessWeek's Best-Seller List is based on a survey of chain and independent booksellers that carry a broad selection of books on economics, management, sales and marketing, small business, investing, personal finance, and careers. Well over 1,000 retail outlets nationwide are represented. Current rankings are based on a weighted analysis of unit sales in March.  Get BusinessWeek directly on your desktop with our RSS feeds.  Add BusinessWeek news to your Web site with our headline feed. Click to buy an e-print or reprint of a BusinessWeek or BusinessWeek Online story or video. To subscribe online to BusinessWeek magazine, please click here. Learn more, go to the BusinessWeekOnline home page  | | |
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