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    100 Years of Harley Davidson
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    by Bulfinch
    Hardcover (11 October, 2002)
    (6 reviews) 4.5 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Great history recount: I would recommend this one to any cycle enthusiast; however I did miss:- More mechanical facts- A more thorough coverage of all models (e.g
    1001 Ways to Energize Employees
    list: $10.95 - our price: $8.21
    by Workman Publishing
    Paperback (01 May, 1997)
    (10 reviews) 3.6 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: very hands-on, practical --- real-life effective ideas: This book was enlightening. I never knew there were so many easy and low cost ways to energize employees --- and Bob shows you all of them plus more.

    A Term at the Fed : An Insider's View
    list: $26.95 - our price: $18.33
    by HarperBusiness
    Hardcover (06 July, 2004)
    (5 reviews) 4.8 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Excellent insider's account of the Fed: This is an excellent book that gives you a good insider's view on how monetary policy is crafted within the Fed.
    Action! : Nothing Happens Until Something Moves
    list: $21.95 - our price: $14.93
    by M. Evans and Company, Inc.
    Hardcover (25 October, 2004)

    Advanced modelling in finance using Excel and VBA
    list: $95.00 - our price: $59.85
    by John Wiley & Sons
    Hardcover (30 May, 2001)
    (10 reviews) 4.6 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Comprehensive coverage of VBA financial models: I like the style of this book. Don't let the small number of pages fool you. The authors didn't get overly wordy explaining the basics of the models (they assume the reader is already a proficient Excel user),
    America Beyond Capitalism : Reclaiming our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democrac
    list: $24.95 - our price: $16.47
    by Wiley
    Hardcover (08 October, 2004)

    Apple Confidential 2.0: The Definitive History of the World's Most Colorful Compan
    list: $19.95 - our price: $13.57
    by No Starch Press
    Paperback (January, 2004)
    (78 reviews) 4.59 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: MyMac.com Book Review: Back in 2000, I had the pleasure of reading and reviewing Mr. Linzmayer's first Apple Confidential book, and thought that he had done an outstanding job of presenting the visible and the behind-the-scenes story of Apple Computer.
    Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One
    list: $30.00 - our price: $19.80
    by Basic Books
    Hardcover (11 November, 2003)
    (16 reviews) 4.56 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Applied Brilliance: This is Thomas Sowell's amazing companion book to 'Basic Economics'. Applied Economics is his attempt to show the average voter how economic principles are applied to major current issues such as medical care and housing.

    Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional,
    list: $15.00 - our price: $12.60
    by Free Press
    Paperback (01 November, 1992)
    (206 reviews) 4.04 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: A book that gets results f-a-s-t!: I am both astounded and amuse by the negative reviews here. I wonder how many of these naysayers really tried the program.
    Banking on Baghdad: Inside Iraq's 7,000-Year History of War, Profit, and Conflic
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    by John Wiley & Sons
    Hardcover (17 September, 2004)

    Basic Economics: A Citizens Guide to the Economy, Revised and Expanded
    list: $35.00 - our price: $22.05
    by Basic Books
    Hardcover (23 December, 2003)
    (84 reviews) 4.49 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: I wish I had this book in college... Invaluable!: "Economics is the study of the use of scarce resources which have alternative uses."
    Better Places, Better Lives: A Biography of James Rouse
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    by Independent Publishers Group
    Hardcover (01 April, 2004)

    Beyond the Core: Expand Your Market Without Abandoning Your Roots
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    by Harvard Business School Press
    Hardcover (02 January, 2004)
    (11 reviews) 4.55 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Standing Tall: Standing Tall among Business Books, Chris Zook has indepth research examples of Companies portraying picture of today's business times.
    Beyond the Summit: Setting and Surpassing Extraordinary Business Goals
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    by Portfolio
    Hardcover (23 October, 2003)
    (5 reviews) 4.8 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Can Change Your Thinking: Todd Skinner has written a book that invites you to change how you think about challenges and obstacles.

    Big Trends in Trading: Strategies to Master Major Market Moves
    list: $39.95 - our price: $39.95
    by Wiley
    Hardcover (01 February, 2002)
    (11 reviews) 4.45 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: No Rehashes...Ideas Traders Can Use Immediatly: For everyone who reads this highly original book, there will probabably be a chapter or two that will be most significant that can add to ones bottom line.
    Blood and Whiskey : The Life and Times of Jack Daniel
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    by Wiley
    Hardcover (16 April, 2004)

    Blue Streak: Inside Jet Blue, The Upstart That Rocked An Industry
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    by Portfolio
    Hardcover (18 November, 2004)
    Boards That Make a Difference : A New Design for Leadership in Nonprofit and Public
    list: $35.00 - our price: $32.90
    by Jossey-Bass
    Hardcover (14 May, 1997)
    (6 reviews) 4.5 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Very Helpful: The world is full of experts at what is wrong with the things that we do. Dr. Carver has a rock-solid, well thought out suggestion concerning how to do it right.

    Book of Five Rings : The Classic Guide to Strategy
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    by Gramercy
    Hardcover (28 May, 1988)
    (88 reviews) 4.25 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: A Profound Work of Philosophy: The Book of Five Rings is an amazing insight into the mind of one of the greatest warriors in human history.
    Bringing Out the Best in People
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    by McGraw-Hill
    Hardcover (21 December, 1999)
    (21 reviews) 4.48 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Apply PM with appropriate measurement and doubled output.: This book describes a process that if implemented properly can have a dramatic impact on you organization.

    Buffett : The Making of an American Capitalist
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    by Main Street Books
    Paperback (18 August, 1996)
    (60 reviews) 4.82 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: What You Can Learn From This Book: I just read the Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham. This book is a great supplement to that decidedly more technical text,
    Built to Last : Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Harper Business Essentials
    list: $17.95 - our price: $12.56
    by HarperBusiness
    Paperback (20 August, 2002)
    (101 reviews) 4.63 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: A Business Student's Perspective: Having spent the last four years of our lives being taught to think about every business problem in a particular way,

    Capitalism and Freedom : Fortieth Anniversary Edition
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    by University of Chicago Press
    Paperback (15 November, 2002)
    (62 reviews) 3.97 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Insight for those who wish to be free: Nobel laureate Milton Friedman is quite possibly the most brilliant economist in the world today and a man on the cutting edge of libertarian (classical liberal) thought.
    Carolyn 101 : Business Lessons from The Apprentice's Straight Shooter
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    by Fireside
    Hardcover (05 October, 2004)
    Editorial Review: Smart, direct, precise. These are adjectives viewers of NBC's hit reality show, The Apprentice might use to describe Donald Trump's left-hand woman, Carolyn Kepcher. Kepcher is a tough judge who can make or break hopeful contestants vying to get hired by Trump.

    Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
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    by Berrett-Koehler Publishers
    Hardcover (09 November, 2004)
    Editorial Review: John Perkins started and stopped writing Confessions of an Economic Hit Man four times over 20 years. He says he was threatened and bribed in an effort to kill the project, but after 9/11 he finally decided to go through with this expose of his former professional life.
    Confidence : How Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin and End
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    by Crown Business
    Hardcover (31 August, 2004)
    Editorial Review: Rosabeth Moss Kanter will convince you that the goal of winning is not losing two times in a row. In her view, success and failure are not events, they are self-fulfilling tendencies. "Confidence is the sweet spot between arrogance and despair--consisting of positive expectations for favorable outcomes."

    Confronting Reality : Doing What Matters to Get Things Right
    list: $27.50 - our price: $16.50
    by Crown Business
    Hardcover (19 October, 2004)
    Editorial Review: In their 2002 bestseller, Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan identify why people don’t get results: they don’t execute. Bossidy and Charan are back with another stellar study on organizational behavior that shows how companies can succeed if they return to reality and examine every part of their business.
    Copies in Seconds : How a Lone Inventor and an Unknown Company Created the Biggest
    list: $24.00 - our price: $16.32
    by Simon & Schuster
    Hardcover (10 August, 2004)

    Credit Derivatives & Synthetic Structures: A Guide to Instruments and Applications,
    list: $75.00 - our price: $47.25
    by Wiley
    Hardcover (29 June, 2001)
    (28 reviews) 4.14 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Excellent Primer and Reference Resource: Tavakoli has done an artful job in Credit Derivatives ( 2nd Edition) of simplifying complex subject matter through the use of practical examples,
    Credit Derivatives Pricing Models: Model, Pricing and Implementation
    list: $125.00 - our price: $78.75
    by John Wiley & Sons
    Hardcover (01 March, 2003)
    (6 reviews) 3.17 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Amongst the best of a bad lot: The state of theory is in such tremendous flux at present with a majority of research unpublished and a growing consensus that the state of the art is entirely inadequate.

    Currency Strategy: A Practitioner's Guide to Currency Trading, Hedging and Forecastin
    list: $110.00 - our price: $69.30
    by John Wiley & Sons
    Hardcover (11 November, 2002)
    (4 reviews) 4.25 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: A Good Read!: In 1971, President Richard Nixon ended the convertibility of the dollar into gold and thereby scotched the mechanism of international agreements and regulations that had governed the world monetary system since the end of World War II.
    Deal Terms - The Finer Points of Venture Capital Deal Structures, Valuations, Term Sheets,
    list: $49.95 - our price: $39.96
    by Aspatore Books
    Paperback (01 January, 2003)
    (6 reviews) 4.5 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Helpful, practical, and brilliant!: I recently finished your book "Deal Terms" and found it extremelyhelpful as we are looking into our first round of financing.T

    Deep Change : Discovering the Leader Within (Jossey-Bass Business & Management
    list: $27.00 - our price: $17.82
    by Jossey-Bass
    Hardcover (31 July, 1996)
    (10 reviews) 4.4 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: A passionate appeal for personal change: Ghandi would be proud. This book if for all the bosses that rant and rave about how everyone else needs to change.
    Difficult Conversations
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    by Random House Audio
    Audio CD (06 April, 1999)
    (73 reviews) 4.4 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: very highly recommended: When I first picked up this book, I wasn't very optimistic about its content. I've got a rather solid background in conflict resolution and communication,

    Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantag
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    by Harvard Business School Press
    Hardcover (April, 2004)
    (21 reviews) 3.67 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Step back, read carefully and then decide ...: I read this book because my husband left it laying around and I was mildly curious about the state of IT since I retired over five years ago.
    Don't Sweat the Small Stuff at Work : Simple Ways to Minimize Stress and Conflict
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    by Hyperion
    Paperback (06 January, 1999)
    (25 reviews) 4.52 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: This is a nice book for all working people.: I received this book from U.S. and decided to translate it to my language (Farsi). I think it's a nice book for all working people and it should be bought by all the employers,

    Double-Digit Growth: How Great Companies Achieve It-No Matter What
    list: $27.95 - our price: $18.45
    by Portfolio
    Hardcover (21 August, 2003)
    (6 reviews) 4.5 out of 5 stars
    Editorial Review: After Michael Treacy finished writing his bestseller, The Discipline of Market Leaders, he continued to track the companies profiled to answer one major question: how do market-leading companies foster growth?
    Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Tim
    list: $13.95 - our price: $10.46
    by Berrett-Koehler Publishers
    Paperback (01 October, 2002)
    (41 reviews) 4.34 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Stop Procrastinating!: 'Eat That Frog', by Brian Tracy, is an excellent book on ceasing procrastination and on time management. While I'm not personally a procrastinator,

    Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data
    list: $78.00 - our price: $78.00
    by The MIT Press
    Hardcover (01 October, 2001)
    (4 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Simply a great text..: If you are frustrated with the presentation in Greene and other econometric textbooks, then you may want to take a look at this book.
    Econometric Analysis
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    by Prentice Hall
    Hardcover (22 August, 2002)
    (38 reviews) 3.34 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: A poor book at a rich price.: I own many econometrics books and this is by and large the worst I had (I sold it at once after the course I HAD to buy it for,

    Economic Development (8th Edition)
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    by Addison Wesley
    Hardcover (17 July, 2002)
    (5 reviews) 4.6 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Not really much economics: While Michael Todaro's text is widely used, as another reviewer points out, it is as much political "science" and sociology as economics.
    Economic Growth : Second Edition
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    by The MIT Press
    Hardcover (01 October, 2003)
    (7 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Macro Musings: By David Guy AtkinAs somewhat of a social insomniac, I have an exorbitant amount of time laying in bed doddling. While playing games with myself is somewhat amusing,

    Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economic
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    by Three Rivers Press
    Paperback (14 December, 1988)
    (71 reviews) 4.31 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Put This Book In Your Children's Hands: And make them read it. Less a primer in economics than a concise debunking of crank positions on economic issues,
    Empire of Wealth, An : The Epic History of American Economic Power
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    by HarperCollins
    Hardcover (05 October, 2004)

    Essentials of Statistics for Business and Economics with Data Files CD-ROM
    list: $110.95 - our price: $110.95
    by South-Western College Pub
    Hardcover (18 June, 2002)
    (2 reviews) 4.5 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Great Text!!: The information in this book is clear-cut, concise, and easy to read. Easily understandable examples are given for the various statistical formulas,
    Everybody Wins: The Story and Lessons Behind RE/MAX
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    by John Wiley & Sons
    Hardcover (03 December, 2004)

    Exporting America : Why Corporate Greed Is Shipping American Jobs Overseas
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    by Warner Business Books
    Hardcover (30 August, 2004)
    Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
    list: $14.95 - our price: $8.97
    by Perennial
    Paperback (08 January, 2002)
    (1014 reviews) 4.32 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Horrific information but I couldn't stop reading: Not for the weak stomach...I have begun to think more about everything involving the meat industry,

    Financial Management : Theory and Practice with Thomson ONE (Harcourt College Publishers
    list: $124.95 - our price: $124.95
    by South-Western College Pub
    Hardcover (12 March, 2004)
    Financial Peace: Revisited
    list: $23.95 - our price: $16.29
    by Viking Books
    Hardcover (01 December, 2002)
    (18 reviews) 4.78 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Awesome book! Get it. Read it. Do it.: In Dave's Financial Peace Revisited, he tells the story of how he got rich then went broke and what he learned from it.

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