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A reader suggested an addition of Atlas Shrugged to the best business book of all time vote we're running. Interestingly a few weeks back the weekly edition of The Week had a quip about Ayn Rand's famous book:
It was revealed that at least 17 universities had accepted $1 million from a wealthy donor under the condition that they make Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged required reading in a course on capitalism from a moral perspective.
If you're a Rand fan, Atlas Shrugged is now up on the book vote site.
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For everyone I speak to about how we can customize your books, I will now be referring you to this post. For those of you that didn't know, we do all sorts of stuff to books to make them more personalized for the people receiving them: tipped-in pages, signed copies, belly bands, etc.
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Silicon Dragon>>The Wall Street Journal | China's New Frontier
Ms. Fannin sets out to show, as her subtitle has it, "How China Is Winning the Tech Race. " But "winning" really goes too far.
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Here's what 800-CEO-READ shipped to other countries in March. Here's what they're reading overseas. :
The Big Switch - Quebec, Canada
Purpose - Besiktas, Istanbul
The Quest for Global Dominance: 2nd Edition - Shanghai, China
Get Out of Your Own Way - Frankfort, Germany
Who's Your City?
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There's a book coming out sometime in the next few weeks called Where's Your Wow? : 16 Ways to Make Your Competitors Wish They Were You! The authors, Robyn Spizman and Rick Frishman, talk about Wow people: "Everyone wants to be around them.
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