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Thomas L. Friedman
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America
by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2008-09-08)

Fareed Zakaria
The Post-American World
by W. W. Norton (Hardcover)

Thomas L. Friedman
The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
by Picador (Paperback) (Release Date: 2007-07-24)

Jr., William Strunk
The Elements of Style
by FQ Classics (Paperback)

Charlene Li
Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies
by Your Coach in a Box (CD)

Corporate executives are struggling with a new trend: people using online social technologies (blogs, social networking sites, YouTube, podcasts) to discuss products and companies, write their own news, and find their own deals. This groundswell is global, it s unstoppable, it affects every industry and it s utterly foreign to the powerful companies running things now.When consumers you ve never met are rating your company s products in public forums with which you have no experience or influence, your company is vulnerable. In Groundswell, Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff of Forrester, Inc. explain how to turn this threat into an opportunity. Using tools and data straight from Forrester, you ll learn how to: -Evaluate new social technologies as they emerge -Determine how different groups of consumers are participating in social technology arenas -Apply a four-step process for formulating your future strategy -Build social technologies into your business including monitoring your ...

David Macaulay
The New Way Things Work
by Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books (Hardcover)

Sun Tzu
The Art Of War
by Filiquarian (Paperback) (Release Date: 2007-11-07)

Twenty-Five Hundred years ago, Sun Tzu wrote this classic book of military strategy based on Chinese warfare and military thought. Since that time, all levels of military have used the teaching on Sun Tzu to warfare and cilivzation have adapted these teachings for use in politics, business and everyday life. The Art of War is a book which should be used to gain advantage of opponents in the boardroom and battlefield alike.

Aldous Huxley
Brave New World
by Harpercollins (Hardcover)

Joy Masoff
Oh, Yuck! The Encyclopedia of Everything Nasty
by Workman Publishing Company (Paperback)

Kids love stuff that's gross. From the liquids, solids, and gases--especially the gases!--or their own bodies to the creepy, crawly, slimy, slithery, fetid, and feculent phenomena in the world at large, kids with a curious bent just can't get enough. Oh, Yuck! The Encyclopedia of Everything Nasty brings together, in one book, all the good things about some of the baddest things on Earth.Exhaustively researched and impeccably scientific, yet written with a lively lack of earnestness, Oh, Yuck! is an ants to zits encyclopedic compendium covering people, animals, insects, plants, foods, and more. Here are vampire bats, which sip blood and pee at the same time so that they'll always be light enough to fly away; and slime eels, wreathed in mucus and eating fellow fish from the inside out. Oh, Yuck! explains why vomit smells; where dandruff comes from; what pus is all about; and why maggots adore rotting meant. Other features include gross recipes, putrid projects, 10 foods that make ...

Richard Dawkins
The Selfish Gene
by Oxford University Press, USA (Hardcover)

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