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ISBN 9781594201318 Published Oct. 2007
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Age of Turbulence
Adventures in a New World
By Alan Greenspan 

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Love the lists
Posted Dec. 19, 2007 1:36 a.m. by kate
In Lists - 800 CEO Read Blog

Gotta love this time of year. Lots of lists. As is true in business book publishing. Let me catch you up on the last few weeks of lists. This week we announced the semifinalists for our first ever 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards. There are the best books according to the Amazon editors. And BusinessWeek's choice picks. Books written by Economist writers.

And, now we have the best books as chosen by the Economist. You'll find a number of duplicate titles on the various lists. The business titles from the Economist lists are:

Find the entire list here.

*Starred books are in the running for our 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards which will be announced on January 15th.



Another List
Posted Dec. 13, 2007 9:36 a.m. by dylan
In Uncategorized - 800 CEO Read Blog

Rebecca pointed us all to Amazon's Best Books of 2007 last month, and in light of all the other lists coming out lately, I thought it'd be a good idea to revisit that list and highlight the business titles on it. There were three business categories--Business, Business Narratives, and Finance & Investing. So without further ado, the choice of Amazon's editors were...

Business:

*1-The Future of Management by Gary Hamel with Bill Breen

*2-Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip & Dan Heath

*3-The Leadership Challenge (4th Edition) by James M. Kouzes

*4-The Art of Project Management by Scott Berkun

*5-Off-ramps and On-ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success by Sylvia Ann Hewlett

*6-We Are Smarter Than Me: How to Unleash the Power of Crowds in Your Business by Barry Libert & John Spector

*7-The Three Signs of a Miserable Job: A Fable for Managers (And Their Employees) by Patrick M. Lencioni

*8-Know-How: The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform from Those Who Don't by Ram Charan

*9-Authenticity: What Consumers Really Want by James H. Gilmore & Joseph B Pine II

*10-Firms of Endearment: How World-Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose by

Rajendra S. Sisodia, David B. Wolfe & Jag Sheth

Business Narratives:

*1-The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World by Alan Greenspan

*2-The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co. by William D. Cohan

*3-The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

*4-The Myths of Innovation by Scott Berkun

*5-A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World by Gregory Clark

*6-Richistan: A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich by Robert Frank

*7-Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott & Anthony D. Williams

*8-Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days by Jessica Livingston

*9-The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein

*10-All the Money in the World: How the Forbes 400 Make--and Spend--Their Fortunes by Peter W. Bernstein & Annalyn Swan

Finance & Investing:

*1-The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns by John C. Bogle

*2-Invest Like a Shark: How a Deaf Guy with No Job and Limited Capital Made a Fortune Investing in the Stock Market by James "RevShark" DePorre

*3-Wise Investing Made Simple: Larry Swedroe's Tales to Enrich Your Future by Larry Swedroe

*4-Your Money and Your Brain: How the New Science of Neuroeconomics Can Help Make You Rich by Jason Zweig

*5-Hedge Hunters: Hedge Fund Masters on the Rewards, the Risk, and the Reckoning by Katherine Burton

*6-Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics by William Bonner & Lila Rajiva

*7-Bonds: The Unbeaten Path to Secure Investment Growth by Hildy Richelson & Stan Richelson

*8-Crash Proof: How to Profit From the Coming Economic Collapse by Peter D. Schiff with John Downes

*9-A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation by Richard Bookstaber

*10-The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles

Wikinomics also made the list in the Computers & Internet category, as did David Weinberger's excellent book, Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder. The Age of Turbulence and The Shock Doctrine made the list in multiple categories, both making the Current Events list and The Age of Turbulence making the Memoirs list as well. The Black Swan also got the nod in Nonfiction.

And don't forget to check back Monday to see who made the shortlist for our first annual 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards.



BusinessWeek's Best Business Books of 2007
Posted Dec. 12, 2007 10:17 a.m. by todd-sattersten
In Lists - 800 CEO Read Blog

I have always appreciated BusinessWeek's commitment to the category of business books. The magazine reviews books in each issue and publish its monthly business book bestseller list.

Continuing in their support, here are the slideshow of books BusinessWeek choose in 2007 as their Best Business Books of the Year:



Bloomberg suggests business books for gifts
Posted Dec. 6, 2007 11:32 a.m. by kate
In Uncategorized - 800 CEO Read Blog

We've been in Chicago for the past two days for our second annual Author Pow-wow. I'll write more on that soon. There's much to share.

As for the blog, Rebecca had it right the other day. It has been a bit quiet as we have all been so preoccupied and mentally exhausted from two days of conversation. Speed will pick up again soon, I promise.

Today's post is a recommendation from Bloomberg.com. James Pressley outlined a handful of financial books (they're all the rage) to give as holiday presents. A few of the books:

  1. The Age of Turbulence by Alan Greenspan

  2. The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  3. A Demon of Our Own Design by Richard Bookstaber

  4. The Last Tycoons by William D. Cohan *his favorite pick of the year and the winner of the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs book award.

  5. Blue Blood & Mutiny by Patricia Beard

  6. Zoom by Iain Carson and Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran

  7. Boeing Versus Airbus by John Newhouse

The full list and descriptions are here.



Amazon's Best of 2007 List
Posted Nov. 13, 2007 4:30 a.m. by 800-ceo-read
In Uncategorized - 800 CEO Read Blog

Another list is out: Amazon's Best Books of 2007!

You can see the categories by Editors' Picks, Customers' Favorites, the Top 100...and you can browse by category. Here's a brief sampling:

Literature and fiction (Customers' Favorites)

* A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

* The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel by Michael Chabon

* Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult

* On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

* Playing for Pizza by John Grisham

* The Choice by Nicholas Sparks

* Shopaholic & Baby (Shopaholic) by Sophie Kinsella

* World Without End by Ken Follett

* The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian

* Spook Country by William Gibson

Nonfiction (Editors' Picks)

* The Long Road Home by Martha Raddatz

* Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell

* The Kings of New York by Michael Weinreb

* Until Proven Innocent by Stuart Taylor

* Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano

* The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

* The Human Touch by Michael Frayn

* Poor People by William T. Vollmann

* Other Colors by Orphan Pamuk

* Once Upon a Quinceanera by Julia Alvarez

Current Events (Editors' Picks)

* The Nine by Jeffrey Toobin

* The Age of Turbulence by Alan Greenspan

* Dead Certain by Robert Draper

* Once Upon a Country by Sari Nusseibeh

* The Terror Presidency by Jack L. Goldsmith

* Supreme Court by Jan Crawford Greenburg

* The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein

* Blackwater by Jeremy Scahill

* The Occupation of Iraq by Ali A. Allawi

* The Art of Political Murder by Francisco Goldman

There isn't space here to list all 100 of the Top 100 Customers' Favorites (ranked based on orders through October), but check it out when you have a chance; I was pleased to see that within the top 30 there was a number of books we at 800-CEO-READ took under our wing this year, including StrengthsFinder 2.0, Made to Stick, What Got You Here Won't Get You There, The Age of Turbulence, and The Black Swan. You can probably guess this year's #1 most-ordered book on Amazon.






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