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Publishers Hedging Their Book Bets
By Porchlight
With the present financial madness, publishers have been hedging their bets on how fast they can turn around the next big financial book. The folks over at The Economist recently researched the extent of the hedging. They counted at minimum 18 books on the crisis that are either in the works or already in the shops.
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Guest Post: Invest in Your Networks by Jonathan Salem Baskin and Michael Cayley
By Porchlight
Jonathan Salem Baskin and Michael Cayley met through the concurrent release of their manifestos in the 50th issue of ChangeThis, and have coauthored the following article on the nature of networks and crisis leadership. Looking for Leadership? Invest in Your Networks by Michael Cayley & Jonathan Salem Baskin Lincoln and Roosevelt are heralded as great American leaders in times of crisis, and their vision and fortitude are recognized as drivers of their historic accomplishments.
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Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year
By Porchlight
The Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year was announced last night at a Gala Dinner in New York, and congratulations are in order for Mr. Mohamed El-Erian. He has won the prize for his book When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change.
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New Excerpt - The New Paradigm for Financial Markets
By Porchlight
Todd mentioned on Monday that Borders' business-book buyer listed George Soros' The New Paradigm for Financial Markets as a book he'd recommend for the credit crisis. We have posted an excerpt of that book on our excerpts blog. I recently finished the book myself, and would agree that it helps explain the crisis we're in, or at least the second half does.
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The New Paradigm for Financial Markets
By Porchlight
George Soros has led an extraordinary life, having survived Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia to become one of the richest men in the world. He is one of the most successful financial speculators in the world, and as such, has a deep understanding of financial markets. He released a book in May, The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means, in which he stated "Eventually, the U.
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More Meltdown Recommendations from The Wall Street Journal
By Porchlight
The Weekend Edition of The Wall Street Journal has a regular feature called Five Best, where the editors ask an expert about the five books that best represent a topic. They have done personal finance and advertising just to name a few. This past weekend, the subject was financial meltdowns.
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What Borders Is Selling For the Credit Crisis
By Porchlight
In today's Wall Street Journal, Borders business-book buyer Michael D'Agostini says there are five titles that seems to be of most interest to credit concerned consumers visiting his stores: The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers and the Great Credit Crunch by Charles Morris The World Is Curved: Hidden Dangers to the Global Economy by David Smick The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means by George Soros Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and The Global Crisis of American Capitalism by Kevin Phillips Crash Proof: How to Profit from the Coming Economic Collapse by Peter Schiff The article also says that you will probably find a similar display at your local Barnes & Noble the next time you visit.
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Amazon lists The 100 Best Business Books of All Time
By Porchlight
Amazon now has catalog copy and cover art for our book. Four months before publication date, our sales ranking is already 280,000, but who's counting. Check us out here.
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The ChangeThis Connection - Hugh MacLeod Interviews Seth Godin
By Porchlight
The author of the most downloaded ChangeThis manifesto of all time recently interviewed the site's founder about his new book and much, much more. A lot of people are saying this is Seth's finest book, which is really saying something considering the consistent quality of his writing. Hugh asks Seth 10 questions, the first of which is: 1.
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ChangeThis: Issue 51
By Porchlight
The November issue of ChangeThis has been published for your reading pleasure. Titles and excerpts, links and cover image thumbnails below. ::::: Finding Your Howl by Jonathon Flaum "To find our howl we have to pay a price.
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