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This week's books

I have been getting a lot of books lately. It is a sign that we are heading into the fall season. This is a prime time for the publishing industry with lots of new releases. To give you a sampling, I thought I would just give you a list of the books I received in the mail this week.

• Mastering Foreign Exchange & Currency Options by Francesca Taylor (FT Prentice Hall, June 2004)
• J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century by David Cassidy (Pi Press, August 2004)
• The Essential CIO: Leadership Strategies for Personal and Professional Success, edited by Richard Pastore and Edward Prewitt (CXO Media, 2004)
• Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne (HBS Press, Feb. 2005)
• Semper Fi: Business Leadership the Marine Corps Way by Dan Carrison & Rod Walsh (Amacom, August 2004)
• The Secrets of Great Sales Management by Robert Simpkins (Amacom, July 2004)
• Extending the Supply Chain: How Cutting-Edge Companies Bridge the Critical Last Mile into Customers' Homes by Kenneth Boyer, Markham Frohlich, and G. Tomas Hult (Amacom, October 2004)
• The Wisdom of Alexander the Great by Lance Kurke (Amacom, August 2004)
• Dickless Marketing: Smart Marketing to Women Online by Yvonne DiVita (1st Books, January 2004)
• The (Mis)Behavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin, and Reward by Benoit Mandelbrot and Richard Hudson (Basic Books, August 2004)
• HRD in the Age of Globalization: A Practical Guide to Workplace Learning in the Third Millenium by Michael Marquardt, Nancy Berger, and Peter Loan (Basic Books, August 2004)
• The Mystery of Capital: Why Capital Triumphs in the West and Fails in Everywhere Else by Hernando De Soto (Basic Books, June 2003)