| Books (74) |
Arts & Photography
The Rebel Comedians of the 1950s and 1960s
by Gerald Nachman
Apr 2003
 (13 reviews)  (my rating) List: $29.95
672 pages
Mile Wide, Inch Deep
| Biographies & Memoirs
A True Story
by Martha Tod Dudman
Mar 2001
 (47 reviews) (my rating) List: $23.00
256 pages
honest, thought-provoking
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A Winner's Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars
by Charles H. Ferguson
Oct 1999
(42 reviews)  (my rating) List: $27.50
400 pages
Important perspective
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A Memoir of Love and Madness in the Internet Gold Rush
by Tom Ashbrook
May 2000
(27 reviews) (my rating) List: $25.00
320 pages
Totally Unexpected
| Business & Investing
by Gary W. Eldred PhD
Mar 1994
(40 reviews)  (my rating) List: $17.95
224 pages
not bad
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A Citizen's Guide to the Economy
by Thomas Sowell
Dec 2000
(107 reviews) (my rating) List: $32.50
432 pages
Spitting Into the Wind
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by Myron E. Ferguson
Jun 1997
(26 reviews) (my rating) List: $18.95
302 pages
unique, valuable resource
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Lessons From Netscape & Its Battle with Microsoft
by Michael A. Cusumano,
David B. Yoffie
Nov 1998
(23 reviews)  (my rating) List: $26.00
361 pages
chalkboard analysis
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by Tim Burns
Nov 2000
(11 reviews) (my rating) List: $19.95
300 pages
Back to Basics
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Work Is Theatre & Every Business a Stage
by B. Joseph Pine II,
James H. Gilmore
Apr 1999
(32 reviews) (my rating) List: $29.95
254 pages
block that metaphor
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How America's New Independent Workers Are Transforming the Way We Live
by Daniel H. Pink
May 2001
(51 reviews) (my rating) List: $24.95
356 pages
exceeded my high expectations
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Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order
by Francis Fukuyama
Jun 1999
(17 reviews) (my rating) List: $26.00
368 pages
Must read
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Tough-Minded Economics for a Just Society
by Alan S. Blinder
Sep 1988
(5 reviews) (my rating) List: $17.50
236 pages
My favorite book on economic policy
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The Economics of Everyday Life
by David D. Friedman
Aug 1997
(23 reviews) (my rating) List: $15.95
352 pages
Welcome to Chicago
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by Randy Johnson
May 1998
(30 reviews) (my rating) List: $16.95
274 pages
Valuable Book
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A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy
by Carl Shapiro,
Hal R. Varian
Nov 1998
(68 reviews) (my rating) List: $35.00
352 pages
valuable insights
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by Robert J. Shiller
Mar 2000
(83 reviews) (my rating) List: $39.95
312 pages
An Act of Courage
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by Arnold Kling
Sep 2004
(2 reviews) List: $22.99
376 pages
From Don Boudreaux: "Learning Economics is a collection of 57 essays—each about the length of an op-ed—on public-policy topics ranging from health care to education to stock prices. The engaged reader will learn, up-close and clearly, just how a master economist uses the economic way of thinking in ways that matter most."
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Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
by Hernando De Soto
Sep 2000
(124 reviews) (my rating) List: $27.50
276 pages
An intellectual swindle
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Why We're Better Off Than We Think
by W. Michael Cox,
Richard Alm
Jan 1999
(21 reviews) (my rating) List: $25.00
256 pages
helpful data and analysis, but too breezy
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True Tales of Working the Web
by Bill Lessard,
Steve Baldwin
Sep 1999
(64 reviews) (my rating) List: $19.95
256 pages
nice ingredients, bitter seasoning
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by John Hagel III,
Marc Singer
Jan 1999
(31 reviews) (my rating) List: $24.95
313 pages
Read before you hire McKinsey
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by Amar V. Bhide
Jan 2000
(13 reviews) (my rating) List: $50.00
432 pages
important step forward
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Measuring the Real State of the World
by Bjorn Lomborg
Sep 2001
(321 reviews) (my rating) List: $29.99
540 pages
pleasantly surprised
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Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime
by Eliot Cohen
Jun 2002
(28 reviews) (my rating) List: $25.00
304 pages
Thought-provoking
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Zooming, Evolution, and the Future of Your Company
by Seth Godin
Jan 2002
(24 reviews) (my rating) List: $26.00
288 pages
Unfortunate coincidence with Enron scandal
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How Infinite Bandwidth will Revolutionize Our World
by George Gilder
Sep 2000
(50 reviews) (my rating) List: $26.00
368 pages
Stimulating
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Starting Your Internet Business without Venture Capital
by Arnold Kling
Sep 2001
(7 reviews) List: $26.00
272 pages
From Amazon.com: "Combining experiences gleaned from his own self-funded Homefair.com (which he eventually sold for $85 million) along with examples of 25 other online enterprises also financed that way, Kling presents a practical how-to that readers with real ideas and realistic expectations could use to build viable Internet concerns."
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Digital Strategies for Market Dominance
by Larry Downes,
Chunka Mui
May 1998
(154 reviews) (my rating) List: $24.95
243 pages
More right than wrong
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Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos
by Robert D. Kaplan
Dec 2001
(76 reviews) (my rating) List: $22.95
224 pages
one great essay
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A Field Guide to Mastering Our Numerical World
by Derrick Niederman,
David Boyum
Jun 2003
(10 reviews) (my rating) List: $24.95
288 pages
and the audience is...
| Computers & Internet
When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
by Ray Kurzweil
Jan 2000
(179 reviews) (my rating) List: $16.00
400 pages
Provocative Economics
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A Critical Romp Through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech
by Paulina Borsook
May 2000
 (29 reviews) (my rating) List: $24.00
276 pages
Inescapably relevant
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The Practice of Simplicity
by Jakob Nielsen
Dec 1999
(232 reviews) (my rating) List: $45.00
432 pages
Quite Usable
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by Jason Cranford Teague
May 2001
(48 reviews) (my rating) List: $21.99
616 pages
good CSS intro
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by Danny Goodman
Jul 2001
(17 reviews) (my rating) List: $69.99
1600 pages
be forewarned
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A Beginner's Guide to HTML, Graphics, and Beyond
by Jennifer Niederst
Mar 2001
(31 reviews) (my rating) List: $34.95
424 pages
will help me teach
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Personal, Public, & Political--Citizen's Action Handbook for Fighting Terrorism, Genocide, Disease, Toxic Bombs, & Corruption
by Robert David Steele
Apr 2002
(6 reviews) (my rating) List: $34.95
438 pages
Needs a filter
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Spies and Secrecy in an Open World
by Robert David Steele
Nov 2001
(10 reviews) (my rating) List: $34.95
495 pages
relevant to DC sniper case
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by Jeff Foster
Jan 2001
(18 reviews) (my rating) List: $45.00
321 pages
What I was looking for
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The Next Social Revolution
by Howard Rheingold
Oct 2002
(23 reviews) (my rating) List: $26.00
288 pages
Distributing the Future
| Entertainment
A Guide to the Information Millennium
by Paul Levinson
Apr 1999
(8 reviews) (my rating) List: $89.95
226 pages
I prefer "The Soft Edge"
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The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made
by Dave Marsh
Apr 1999
(32 reviews) (my rating) List: $25.00
717 pages
Soul beats psychedelic?
| Health, Mind & Body
The Modern Denial of Human Nature
by Steven Pinker
Sep 2002
(180 reviews) (my rating) List: $27.95
528 pages
Don't just buy it. Read it.
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by Susan M. Love,
Karen Lindsey
Sep 2000
(43 reviews) (my rating) List: $22.50
632 pages
valuable for consumers
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Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do
by Judith Rich Harris
Sep 1998
(94 reviews) (my rating) List: $26.00
480 pages
Must read, even if you want to disagree
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Embracing Aging, Changing, and Dying
by Ram Dass
May 2000
(26 reviews) (my rating) List: $22.22
208 pages
Just the same old, same old
| History
Strategy in a Changing World
by Ralph Peters
May 2002
(23 reviews) (my rating) List: $22.95
368 pages
A Treasure
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How the Past Can Improve Our Future
by Neil Postman
Sep 1999
(14 reviews) (my rating) List: $25.00
224 pages
Neil Postman for Secretary of Education
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Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus
by Robert D. Kaplan
Nov 2000
(41 reviews) (my rating) List: $26.95
384 pages
Must Read
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An American Legend
by Laura Hillenbrand
Mar 2001
(610 reviews) (my rating) List: $25.95
416 pages
maximum melodrama
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A Natural History and Future of the Information Revolution
by Paul Levinson
Sep 1998
(13 reviews) (my rating) List: $29.95
276 pages
Great questions, uneven answers
| Literature & Fiction
A Mustang Sally Mystery
by Virginia Swift
Jun 2002
(3 reviews) (my rating) List: $24.95
336 pages
comedy of manners
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by Virginia Swift
Apr 2000
(8 reviews) (my rating) List: $24.00
306 pages
Best of Genre
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by Keith Maillard
Sep 2000
(35 reviews) (my rating) List: $27.00
643 pages
psychological drama
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A Novel
by Jeanne Ray
May 2000
(107 reviews) (my rating) List: $21.00
240 pages
I'll be generous
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Difficulty at the Beginning
by Keith Maillard
Mar 2006
(2 reviews) (my rating) List: $12.95
152 pages
A Depressing Year
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by Keith Maillard
Jan 2006
(2 reviews) (my rating) List: $22.95
278 pages
Period Piece
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A Novel
by Curtis Sittenfeld
Jan 2005
(396 reviews) (my rating) List: $21.95
416 pages
What Makes it so Powerful?
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Difficulty at the Beginning, Book 1
by Keith Maillard
Aug 2005
(3 reviews) (my rating) List: $14.95
144 pages
the 50's
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A Novel
by Zadie Smith
Apr 2000
(335 reviews) (my rating) List: $24.95
464 pages
Most likely to recommend
| Nonfiction
The New Upper Class and How They Got There
by David Brooks
Mar 2001
(182 reviews) (my rating) List: $14.00
288 pages
Barf Alert
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Why We Listen to what "They" Say
by Douglas Rushkoff
Aug 1999
(45 reviews) (my rating) List: $24.95
321 pages
worthwhile in spite of flaws
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Rethinking How We Pay for Health Care
by Arnold Kling
Apr 2006
(4 reviews) List: $16.95
120 pages
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Scenarios for the 21st Century
by Pamela McCorduck,
Nancy Ramsey
May 1996
(8 reviews) (my rating) List: $24.00
288 pages
sophomoric class-struggle rhetoric
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Reflections of a Computer Contrarian
by Clifford Stoll
Sep 2000
(128 reviews) (my rating) List: $12.00
240 pages
Heroic
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What Conservatives Know That Liberals Don't
by George Lakoff
Nov 1997
(26 reviews) (my rating) List: $20.00
421 pages
Provocative
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The Future of American Politics
by Ted Halstead,
Michael Lind
Oct 2001
(8 reviews) (my rating) List: $24.95
272 pages
Maddeningly Irrelevant
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by Paul Levinson
Oct 1997
(13 reviews) (my rating) List: $79.95
257 pages
Interesting questions
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Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?
by David Brin
Jun 1999
(28 reviews) (my rating) List: $18.00
378 pages
Highly Topical, Particularly after 9-11-01
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Self-Congratulation As a Basis for Social Policy
by Thomas Sowell
Jun 1996
(96 reviews) (my rating) List: $18.00
305 pages
One of my all-time favorites
| Reference
A Beginner's Guide
by Wendy Willard
Nov 2000
(26 reviews) (my rating) List: $29.99
569 pages
incremental improvement
| Science
Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution
by Francis Fukuyama
Apr 2002
(32 reviews) (my rating) List: $25.00
272 pages
Too much filler
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Our Inevitable Genetic Future
by Gregory Stock
Jun 2002
(23 reviews) (my rating) List: $24.00
288 pages
falls a bit short
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