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(202) 466-4999


1. Jack: Straight From The Gut, Jack Welch For the illustrator named Jack Welch, see Jack Welch (illustrator)

John Francis "Jack" Welch, Jr. (born on November 19 1935 (1935--) (age 73) 
 and John A. Byrne (Warner Books)

2. Who Moved My Cheese?, Spencer Johnson Spencer Johnson may refer to the following persons:
  • Spencer Johnson (writer), author of Who Moved My Cheese?
  • Spencer Johnson (American football player), NFL defensive tackle for the Minnesota Vikings
 (Penguin Putnam)

3. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap & Others Don't, Jim Collins (HarperCollins)

4. Warrior Politics, Robert Kaplan (Random House)

5. Fish! A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results, Stephen C. Lundin, Harry Paul, and John Christensen (Random House)

6. Road To Wealth, Suze Orman (Putnam Publishing Group)

7. First, Break All the Rules, Marc Buckingham and Curt Coffman (Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster

U.S. publishing company. It was founded in 1924 by Richard L. Simon (1899–1960) and M. Lincoln Schuster (1897–1970), whose initial project, the original crossword-puzzle book, was a best-seller.
 Trade)

8. Now Discover Your Strengths, Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton (The Free Press)

9. The 21 Irrefutable irrefutable - The opposite of refutable.  Laws of Leaders, John C. Maxwell and Zig Ziglar (Fwd) (Thomas Nelson)

10. How To Become A Rainmaker Rainmaker

An employee of a brokerage firm who brings a large amount of wealthy individuals or corporations to the brokerage firm's client base.

Notes:
Rainmakers are usually compensated very well for their efforts (or connections).
, Jeffrey J. Fox (Hyperion)

CANADA
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1. Who Moved My Cheese?, Spencer Johnson (G.P. Putnam's Sons)

2. Jack: Straight From The Gut, Jack Welch and John A. Byrne (Warner Books)

3. First, Break All the Rules, Marc Buckingham and Curt Coffman (Simon & Schuster)

4. In Transition: From the Harvard Business School Harvard Business School, officially named the Harvard Business School: George F. Baker Foundation, and also known as HBS, is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University.  Club of New York's Personal Seminar in Career Management, Mary L. Burton and Richard A. Wedermeyer (HarperCollins)

5. The Strategy-Focused Organization: How Balanced Scorecard Balanced Scorecard

A performance metric used in strategic management to identify and improve various internal functions and their resulting external outcomes. The balanced scorecard attempts to measure and provide feedback to organizations in order to assist in implementing
 Companies Thrive in the New Business Environment, Robert S. Kaplan Robert S. Kaplan is Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and co-creator, together with David P. Norton, of the balanced scorecard, a means of linking a company's current actions to its long-term goals.  and David P. Norton (Harvard Business School Press)

6. Fish! A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results, Stephen C. Lundin, Harry Paul, and John Christensen (Random House)

7. The Trusted Advisor, David H. Maister, Charles H. Green, and Robert M. Galford (Simon & Schuster)

8. Creative Destruction: Why Companies That Are Built to Last Underperform the Market -- and How to Successfully Transform Them, Richard Foster and Sarah Kaplan (Currency Doubleday)

9. The Prudent Investor's Guide to Hedge Funds: Profiting from Uncertainty & Volatility, James P. Owen (John Wiley & Sons)

10. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap & Others Don't, Jim Collins (HarperCollins)

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Oxford OX1 3 BQ
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1. Economic Sentiments, G. Rothschild (John Wiley/Harvard)

2. Silent Takeover, N.Hirst (Heineman)

3. Jack: Straight From the Gut, Jack Welch and John A. Byrne (Headline Books)

4. Elusive Quest for Growth, Gasterly (M.I.T. Press)

5. Rise and Fall of Marks & Spencer, J. Bevan (Profile)

6. End of Globalization globalization

Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation
, H. James (John Wiley/Harvard)

7. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap & Others Don't, J. Collins (Century Publishing Ltd.)

8. Dot Bomb, D. Kuo (Aurum Press Ltd.)

9. Pocket Guide to Trading Online, A. Patez (Pearson)

10. John Maynard Keynes Noun 1. John Maynard Keynes - English economist who advocated the use of government monetary and fiscal policy to maintain full employment without inflation (1883-1946)
Keynes
, Vol. 3 (paperback), R. Skidelsky (MacMillan)

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1. Exchange Fraud, Gunter Ogger (Bertelsmann)

2. The Mice: Strategy For Managers, Spencer Johnson (Ariston)

3. The Path to Financial Freedom, Bodo Schafer

4. Wealth without Stress, Bodo Schafer (Campus Verlag GmbH)

5. Jack: Straight From the Gut, Jack Welch and John A. Byrne (Econ Verlag)

6. Fish! A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results, Stephen C. Lundin, Harry Paul, and John Christensen (Ueberreuter)

7. The Power of Freedom, Hans Olaf-Henkel (Econ Verlag)

8. To Lead, To Perform, To Live, Fredmund Malik (DVA DVA Department of Veterans Affairs
DVA Deutsche Verlagsanstalt (German publishing company)
DVA DatenVerarbeitungsAnlage
DVA Defence Vetting Agency (UK)
DVA Dundee Voluntary Action
)

9. No Logo, Naomi Klein (Riemann)

10. Revolt of the Individual, Reinhard K. Sprenger (Campus Verlag GmbH)

FRANCE France (frăns, Fr. fräNs), officially French Republic, republic (2005 est. pop. 60,656,000), 211,207 sq mi (547,026 sq km), W Europe.  
Librairie Des Sciences Politiques
30, Rue Saint-Guillaume
75007 Paris
(1) 45.48.36.02


1. Macroeconomics macroeconomics

Study of the entire economy in terms of the total amount of goods and services produced, total income earned, level of employment of productive resources, and general behaviour of prices.
, Gregory N. Mankiw (De Boeck)

2. A Reason to Hope, Jacques Genereux (Plon)

3. Inequality Reexamined, Amartya Sen (Le Seuil)

4. The Return of Depression Economics, Paul Krugman (Le Seuil)

5. Liberalism, Pascal Salin (Odile Jacob)

6. Pension Funds and "New Capitalism", Annual Regulations, Vol. 4 -- 2000 (La Decouverte)

7. The Lugano Report: On Preserving Capitalism in the 21st Century, Susan George (Fayard)

8. The Illusion of Neoliberalism ne·o·lib·er·al·ism  
n.
A political movement beginning in the 1960s that blends traditional liberal concerns for social justice with an emphasis on economic growth.



ne
, Rene Passer (Fayard)

9. The Economy is a Moral Science, Amartya Sen (La Decouverte)

10. Economics Reexamined, Philippe Cabin (Editions Sciences Humaines)

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New York, NY 10020
(212) 765-1456


1. Who Moved My Cheese?, Spencer Johnson (G.P. Putnam's Sons)

2. Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That The Poor And Middle Class Do Not, Robert T. Kiyosaki and Sharon L. Lechter (Warner Books)

3. Goal: A Process Of Ongoing Improvement, Eliyahu M. Goldratt Eliyahu M. Goldratt (1948 - ) is an Israeli physicist turned business consultant, the originator of the Theory of Constraints (abbreviation: TOC). He claims that he applied the scientific method to resolving some permanent problems of organizations.  and Jeff Cox (North River Press)

4. Jack: Straight From the Gut, Jack Welch and John A. Byrne (Warner Books)

5. Why We Buy: The Science Of Shopping, Paco and Underhill (Touchstone Books)

6. One Minute Manager, Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson (HarperCollins)

7. Cash Flow Quadrant: Rich Dad's Guide To Financial Freedom, Robert T. Kiyosaki (Warner Books)

8. Can Japan Compete?, Michael E. Porter, Hirotaka Takeuchi; and Mariko Sakakibara (Palgrave)

9. Analysis For Financial Management, 6th Ed., Robert C. Higgins (McGraw-Hill)

10. Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives, John C. Hull (Prentice-Hall)

ITALY
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Rome Bookstore
Via V.E. Orlando, 84/86
00185 Rome
(06) 4827878-4870999


1. Empire, Hardt-Negri (Harvard University Press The Harvard University Press is a publishing house, a division of Harvard University, that is highly respected in academic publishing. It was established on January 13, 1913. In 2005, it published 220 new titles. )

2. No Logo, N. Klein (Flamingo)

3. Dot Bomb, D. Kuo (Little Brown)

4. Future of Marketing, Peppers-Rogers (Prentice-Hall)

5. Age of Access, Rifkin (Penguin)

6. Future of Success, Reich (Vintage)

7. Lexus and the Olive Tree, T. Friedman (HarperCollins)

8. Global Net Economy, Garratt-Shulhan (McGraw-Hill)

9. Fragmentation, Arndt (Ed.) (Oxford)

10. Global Business Today, C. Hill (McGraw-Hill)
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