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Facebook Effect The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World by David Kirkpatrick
	The inside story of Facebook, told with the full, exclusive cooperation of founder Mark Zuckerberg and the company's other leaders. Review: the Christian Science Monitor Review: The Observer Review: The Economist

Capitalism 4.0 The Birth of a New Economy in the Aftermath of Crisis by Anatole Kaletsky
	A leading economic commentator argues that the crash of 2008 was not the sound of capitalism's fatal demise but its latest vigorous... Review: the Economist Review: The Observer Review: The Guardian

Cognitive Surplus Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age by Clay Shirky
	The author of the breakout hit "Here Comes Everybody" reveals how new technology is changing us from consumers to collaborators, unleashing... Review: The Independent Review: The Observer Review: The Guardian Review: Business Week

Rise and Fall of Bear Stearns by Alan C Greenberg
	Review: Business Week

Diary of a Very Bad Year Confessions of an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager by N+1
	"n + 1" Magazine, a New York literary magazine, presents a profoundly candid and captivating insider account of the economic crisis from an... Review: Business Week

Zeroes My Misadventures in the Decade Wall Street Went Insane by Randall Lane
	Magazine entrepreneur Lane had a prime seat at Wall Street's biggest greed fest. "The Zeroes" is a memoir of the excesses and bad behavior... Review: Business Week

Fortune's Fool Edgar Bronfman Jr., Warner Music, and an Industry in Crisis by Fred Goodman
	A groundbreaking report on how Seagram heir Edgar Bronfman, Jr, who lost $3 billion in failed deals, may be the record business's... Review: Business Week

You Never Give Me Your Money The Battle for the Soul of the 'Beatles' by Peter Doggett
	When Paul McCartney told the world in 1970 that he had no plans to work with the Beatles again, it was widely viewed as a cultural tragedy... Review: Business Week Review: The Independent

Cognitive Surplus Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age by Clay Shirky
	The author of the breakout hit "Here Comes Everybody" reveals how new technology is changing us from consumers to collaborators, unleashing... Review: The Independent Review: The Observer Review: The Guardian Review: Business Week

I Live in the Future and Here's How It Works Why Your World, Work, and Brain Are Being Creatively Disrupted by Nick Bilton
	Exploring how the Internet is creating a new type of consumer, Bilton's book captures the zeitgeist of an emerging age, providing the... Review: Business Week Review: Business Week

More Money Than God Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite by Sebastian Mallaby
	A window on tomorrow's financial system, this authoritative history of hedge funds spans their origins in the 1960s to their role in the... Review: the Economist Review: The Observer

More Money Than God Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite by Sebastian Mallaby
	A window on tomorrow's financial system, this authoritative history of hedge funds spans their origins in the 1960s to their role in the... Review: the Economist Review: The Observer

Stuff Matters Genius, Risk and the Secret of Capitalism by Harry Bingham
	A counter-blast to the bashing of capitalism and a fresh and bold re-evaluation of the fundamentals that turn genius into hard currency. Review: The Guardian

Devil's Casino Friendship, Betrayal, and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers by Vicky Ward
	Shows you how four good men lose their way, and how a firm that rose with the glory and bravado of Icarus fell burning in flames not so... Review: The Economist Review: Business Week Review: The Observer

13 Bankers The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown by Simon Johnson
	Johnson and Kwak examine not only how Wall Street's ideology, wealth, and political power among policy makers in Washington led to the... Review: Business Week Review: the Economist

How the Economy Works Confidence, Crashes and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies by Roger E A Farmer
	Review: Business Week

Men Who Would Be King An Almost Epic Tale of Moguls, Movies, and a Company Called DreamWorks by Nicole Laporte
	LaPorte goes behind the hype to reveal how Steven Spielberg, David Geffen, and Jeffrey Katzenberg joined forces to create DreamWorks. Review: Business Week

When Money Was in Fashion Henry Goldman, Goldman Sachs, and the Founding of Wall Street by June Breton Fisher
	The gripping story of the founding of world's most successful investment bank. Review: Business Week

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