- BESTSELLERS
- "Organizing
from the Inside Out"
by Julie Morgenstern
Don't worry! Julie Morgenstern used to be more disorganized than you. Then
she had a child and was forced to devise a foolproof system for organizing,
including "Julie's No- Brainer Toss List." Fortune 500 companies consult her.
Shouldn't you?
- "Clicks
and Mortar"
by David Pottruck and Terry Pearce
According to David Pottruck (co-CEO at Schwab) and Terry Pearce, virtually
every business will have to embrace the Internet sooner or later--which means
profound changes. They offer an insightful road map for creating the culture
and leadership necessary to meet the e-commerce challenge.
- "White
Teeth"
by Zadie Smith
Already the subject of much transatlantic buzz, Zadie Smith's first novel
takes on race and sex, class and history. Yet "White Teeth" is no polemical
tract, but a wickedly inventive comedy with a large London cast and an unmistakable
bite to its prose.
- "Ravelstein"
by Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow pulls off yet another masterpiece in this controversial, acerbic,
surprisingly funny fictionalization of his friendship with the late Allan
Bloom, the Chicago academic turned millionaire author. Here Bloom becomes
Abe Ravelstein, ravenous for great ideas and the good life even as AIDS claims
him.
- "Easy
Prey"
by John Sandford
Supercool sleuth Lucas Davenport tries to figure out who killed a Minneapolis
supermodel after her last wild sex party--but there are so many colorful suspects!
- "Hannibal"
by Thomas Harris
Hannibal the Cannibal is back, he's bad, and he's in paperback.
- "ChangeWave
Investing"
by Tobin Smith
Smith argues that, despite the topsy-turvy NASDAQ, the New Economy can still
double your money in six months.
- "The
Simple Abundance Companion"
by Sarah Ban Breathnach
The latest smash bestseller from an author whose books are "like having a
big sister to guide you through the journey of self-discovery, sharing equal
parts of joy and sorrow, pain and growth," according to one Amazon.com customer.
Each chapter is devoted to making the most of one month of the year.
- "The
Four Agreements"
by Don Miguel Ruiz
Everything Don Miguel Ruiz knows he learned from his Toltec ancestors--and
autorbusght to Oprah and her fans. He's like Carlos Castaneda, only his advice
is actually practical as well as spiritual. And you get no hangovers, either.
- "American
Psycho"
by Bret Easton Ellis
Long before the movie came out, this shiny, soulless, stylish, extraordinarily
black and bloody satire of upper- class manners and mayhem has been flying
out of Amazon.com's distribution centers faster than one of Patrick Bateman's
dates fleeing his chainsaw.
- BUSINESS
- "High-Flying
Adventures in the Stock Market"
by Molly Baker
If you think mutual funds are boring, then read "High-Flying Adventures in
the Stock Market" and think again. Molly Baker looks into a year in the life
of Jerry Frey, manager of a family of mutual funds, and relates what it means
to oversee a $2 billion portfolio.
- "Clicks
& Mortar"
by David Pottruck and Terry Pearce
According to David Pottruck (co-CEO at Charles Schwab) and Terry Pearce, virtually
every business will have to embrace the Internet sooner or later--which means
profound changes internally as well as externally. In "Clicks & Mortar," they
offer an insightful road map for creating the culture and leadership necessary
to meet the e-commerce challenge.
- "The
Monk and the Riddle"
by Randy Komisar
Randy Komisar can say it with a straight face: "It's not about the money."
In "The Monk and the Riddle," Komisar, former CEO of LucasArts Entertainment
and now "virtual CEO" of several emerging companies, explains what success
really means in the heart of Silicon Valley.
- "Play
Like a Man, Win Like a Woman"
by Gail Evans
What is it about the American workplace that women make up half the workforce
but are practically invisible at the top of corporate hierarchies? In "Play
Like a Man, Win Like a Woman," CNN executive vice president Gail Evans shows
women what it takes to succeed in a workplace whose rules are written by men.
- "High
Tech Start Up"
by John Nesheim
Thinking about doing an IPO? Reading John Nesheim's "High Tech Start Up" may
be the best first step you can take. From preparing the business plan to working
with venture capitalists, Nesheim's got it covered.
- "Irrational
Exuberance"
by Robert Shiller
Ever since Alan Greenspan first uttered them in 1996, the words "irrational
exuberance" have caused many a sleepless night for both professional and individual
investors. In "Irrational Exuberance," Yale professor Robert Shiller reflects
on the factors and feedback loops that have kept stocks priced so high for
so long. Look out below!
- "Beyond
the Basics"
by Mary Farrell
Online investing has lead thousands to the stock market for the first time.
But after you've gotten your feet wet (or burned), what's next? In "Beyond
the Basics," PaineWebber analyst and Wall $treet Week "elf" Mary Farrell helps
both novice and experienced investors find their edge in today's turbulent
markets.
- CYBERCULTURE
- "Clicks
and Mortar"
by David S. Pottruck and Terry Pearce
David S. Pottruck, president and co-CEO of Charles Schwab, and Terry Pearce,
founder of Leadership Communication, are among those who believe the Net will
forever change the way business is conducted--if it hasn't done so already.
In "Clicks and Mortar," they draw on personal experience to suggest corporate
officials preparing for this new reality by refocusing their practices, principles,
and passions on the real needs of a 21st-century company.
- "Code
and Other Laws of Cyberspace"
by Lawrence Lessig
Everyone knows that cyberspace is a wild frontier that can't be regulated,
right? Everyone is wrong, and that's why we should all read Harvard Law prof
(and famous Microsoft trial expert) Lawrence Lessig's eye-opening, jaw-dropping
book "Code," the best guide yet to the future that's heading our way like
a frictionless freight train. For such an analytical book, it's also anecdote-studded
and utterly fun to read.
- "Community
Building on the Web: Secret Strategies for Successful Online Communities"
by Amy Jo Kim
There's been a marked shift in the philosophy of developing successful Web
sites. The technologies (HTML, JavaScript, JavaServer Pages) no longer occupy
center stage. Rather, functional objectives and the communities that grow
up around them seem to be the main ingredient in Web-site success. In her
carefully reasoned and well-written "Community Building on the Web," Amy Jo
Kim explains why communities form and grow.
- "Database
Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century"
by Simson Garfinkel
Forget the common cold for a moment. Instead, consider the rise of "false
data syndrome," a deceptive method of identification derived from numbers
rather than more recognizable human traits. Simson Garfinkel couples this
idea with concepts like "data shadow" and "datasphere" in "Database Nation,"
offering a decidedly unappealing scenario of how we have overlooked privacy
with the advent of advanced technology.
- "Faster:
The Acceleration of Just About Everything"
by James Gleick
Never in the history of the human race have so many had so much to do in so
little time. That, anyway, is the impression most of us have of civilized
life at the turn of the millennium, and "Faster" only sharpens it. Elegantly
composed and insightfully researched, "Faster" delivers a brisk volley of
observations on how microchips, media, and economics, among other things,
have accelerated the pace of everyday experience over the course of the manic
20th century.
- "Telecosm"
by George Gilder
Publication date: June 2000
Predicting a revolutionary new era of unlimited bandwidth, George Gilder's
"Telecosm" describes how the "age of the microchip"--dubbed the "Microcosm"--is
ending and leaving in its wake a new era, the telecosm. Gilder explains this
new stage as "the world enabled and defined by new communications technology."
- "The
Nudist on the Late Shift: And Other True Tales of Silicon Valley"
(Reprint Edition)
by Po Bronson
In "The Nudist on the Late Shift," Po Bronson intends to capture the spirit
of the Valley, leading us through a series of vignettes that take us from
a "near brush with sudden wealth" to a $400 million buyout; from life on the
edge with a group of Java programmers to the plight of a futurist writer with
the deadline for a 9,000-word article looming.
- "The
Social Life of Information"
by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid
How many times has your PC crashed today? While Gordon Moore's now famous
law projecting the doubling of computer power every 18 months has more than
borne itself out, it's too bad that a similar trajectory of the reliability
and usefulness of all that power didn't come to pass as well. Advances in
information technology are most often measured in the cool numbers of megahertz,
throughput, and bandwidth--but for many of us the experience of these advances
might be better measured in hours of frustration. The gap between the hype
of the Information Age and its reality is often wide and deep, and it's into
this gap that John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid plunge in "The Social Life
of Information."
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