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Rebecca pointed us all to Amazon's Best Books of 2007 last month, and in light of all the other lists coming out lately, I thought it'd be a good idea to revisit that list and highlight the business titles on it. There were three business categories--Business, Business Narratives, and Finance & Investing. So without further ado, the choice of Amazon's editors were.
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There has been an explosion of business books written by journalists in the past few years, and this trend doesn't seem to be stopping. Personally, I like the trend. The authors write for a living, so the books are usually well written, and the topics they touch on are making business literature accessible to a wider audience.
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I have always appreciated BusinessWeek's commitment to the category of business books. The magazine reviews books in each issue and publish its monthly business book bestseller list.
Continuing in their support, here are the slideshow of books BusinessWeek choose in 2007 as their Best Business Books of the Year:
In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India by Edward Luce
Asian Godfathers: Money and Power in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia by Joe Studwell
The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World by Alan Greenspan
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Strategy Paradox: Why Committing to Success Leads to Failure (And What to Do About It) by Michael E.
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Yesterday I had a chance to catch up on a few weeks of blog posts over on the Freakonomics blog. I found out that their book is going to be made into a documentary; each story will be told by a different set of directors. One set of directors is looking for ideas from Freakonomics fans.
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John over at Brandy Autopsy has announced his favorite marketing books of the year. Among them are What Were They Thinking? , Wal-Smart, and Made To Stick.
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