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