The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co.24 reviews William D. Cohan Broadway, 2008 From a different age + Lazard Freres & Co. Who would have thought it would be revealed! + A big long book displaying the limitless greed and power seeking at Lazard + interesting, thorough but a little insider-ish             A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier419 reviews Ishmael Beah Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007 A Book Everyone Should Read! + Good book. + Ishmael Beah Ishmael Beah has written an amazing memoir called A Long Way Gone, which tells the story of his life as a child soldier in Sierra Leone. This is a book that everyone should take the time to read, because it will really teach you a lot about the current problem worldwide, with young kids being ...             Stumbling on Happiness218 reviews Daniel Gilbert Vintage, 2007 Makes me glad to be human + A valuable and important book that needs to truly deal with the results of unhappiness to make even more sense. + Interesting pop-psychology This book is fabulous. As much as the content informs on the human condition, the frolicking experience of reading it reinforces it. Makes me glad to be human. Highly recommended! - kara             Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street222 reviews Michael Lewis Penguin (Non-Classics), 1990 A warning for the uninitiated + Pretty Darn Interesting + Must Read + Unbelievably Superb!!! A Masterpiece!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! + it is enough             Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking967 reviews Malcolm Gladwell Little, Brown and Company, 2005 blink...and then it's gone There's not much substance to this book. Rather than being a resource of information, it is merely a book of examples. There is no broad takeaway you can gather from it after reading except to say perhaps that many of our decisions are based on split-second thoughts. But did you really need to read ...             Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company29 reviews Andrew S. Grove Doubleday Business, 1999 Enriching Personal Real-Life Account by Someone Who Had Managed a Mega-Size Corporation!!! + Ross Olsen's Review of Andrew S.Grove's Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company + Great Insight Into a Business Leader's World The real value of this book is that it is written by someone, Andrew Grove, who has actual experiences and managed a start-up right up to a mega successful corporation. There are tons of management and marketing books written by people, based on case-studies and analysis, but lack actual ...             Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the ...123 reviews Lynne Truss Gotham, 2005 So honest and accurate! + One Woman Answers an Eternal Question-"How Rude Was That?" Although the book was a bit dirty looking when it arrived at my house (at least the cover was pretty filthy), when I got into the guts of the book, I really enjoyed it. Truss' writing is both interesting and humorous. I think she makes many valid points and observations about the world today and ...             Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone (Vintage)152 reviews Rajiv Chandrasekaran Vintage, 2007 A damning indictment + reads like a novel + Good Introductory Book + Who's Your Baghdaddy? + a very decent account of the first couple years of the Iraq occupancy             The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11287 reviews Lawrence Wright Knopf, 2006 This book will get under your skin + A plot cooked up by cavemen with computers + Good intro to the topic + An Excellent Primer on Al-Qaeda's Birth and Growth + The Looming Tower             Career Warfare: 10 Rules for Building a Successful Personal Brand and Fighting to Keep It35 reviews D'Alessandro, David D'Alessandro McGraw-Hill, 2003 The Ultimate Career Guide (really!) + Very smart, honest book + The Art of Warfare + Great advice for anyone + Not quite Machiavelli, but good counsel for the aspiring business prince             The McKinsey Way100 reviews Ethan Rasiel McGraw-Hill, 1999 Phenomenal! + A great read for a targeted audience... I have to say, that as a businessman, this book is incredible! I have reread it four times, and I live by what is inside. If you are thinking of going into consulting, this book is a must-have, but if you are a manager in any capacity you need to have this book in your collection. You can apply ...             Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets387 reviews Nassim Nicholas Taleb Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2005 Very serious philosophical work + Wow + a fun read + Randomness in life and business, other than finance + It will encourage you to look at things differently             The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan5 reviews Yasmin Khan Yale University Press, 2007 The Great Partition -- an excellent history + Commendable, succinct history + An excellent context on partition + Erudite reading             The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor--and Why You Can Never Buy a ...116 reviews Tim Harford Oxford University Press, USA, 2005 Great Style, Great Content + Economics demystified (for the developed world only) + Dry but worth a second read + Going undercover             China Shakes the World: A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future -- and the Challenge for America (Edition 001)43 reviews James Kynge Mariner Books, 2007 A Startling Preview of the Emerging China + As China goes, so goes the world? + Great Book On China's Economic Miracle + great book + Good perspective on China in relation to the world             Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story142 reviews Kurt Eichenwald Broadway, 2005 Giving You, The Stockholder, The Business + Read it. + a horror story of greed and incompetence + Excellent, revealing, very well written + The Backroom Story of Ethics Failure             Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround121 reviews Louis V. Gerstner Jr. Collins, 2002 What Life at the Top is Really Like--As Told By a Superb Leader + Is it the same when it's changed? + Great leader + Where Were the Details?             The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World85 reviews Paul Roberts Mariner Books, 2005 Still an excellent primer on the economics of hydrocarbons and alternatives + Excellent and thorough book, misleading title + the oil end + Makes analysis of the contemporary energy order accessible.             Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco87 reviews Bryan Burrough, John Helyar Collins Business, 2003 A Big Deal + Better than "Wall Street" + Ladies And Gentlemen, The 1980s!!! Barbarians at the Gate is a classic of the business book genre, and with the private equity boom we have seen in the last couple of years, it is still as relevant as it was when it came twenty years ago. It is the story or some extremely unlikable rich people brought low by equally unsavory, but ...             Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything1581 reviews Stephen J. Dubner William Morrow, 2005 A much-appreciated gift + Sociology-flavored econ + Enlightened I purchased this book as a gift for my fiance. He really enjoyed and appreciated it. Now it's my turn to read it!