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AskMen.com August 20, 2003 Matthew Simpson	Top 10: Classic American Authors Books still shape our society. It has been so for centuries; the great thinkers of humanity put their ideas into writing for the benefit of all. And America has produced great artists whose musings are still studied today. Let's explore the top 10 most influential American writers.
HBS Working Knowledge August 11, 2003 Wendy Guild	Cheap, Fast, and In Control: How Tech Aids Innovation Companies don't need to spend a fortune on research and innovation. Harvard professor Stefan Thomke explains how new technologies enable businesses to experiment on the cheap in his new book, Experimentation Matters.
BusinessWeek August 25, 2003 Stanley Reed	The Regime Change That Backfired With American and British troops occupying Iraq and the Bush Administration rattling its sabers at Iran, Stephen Kinzer's entertaining and sometimes shocking All the Shah's Men is timely indeed.
HBS Working Knowledge August 4, 2003 Andrew Hargadon	The Best Practices of Technology Brokers Companies that are best at developing out-of-the-box thinking on new products employ four successful work practices. An excerpt from the new book How Breakthroughs Happen.
BusinessWeek August 11, 2003 Robert J. Rosenberg	Living Well Wasn't the Best Revenge Accounting irregularities, self-dealing, financial chicanery: Today's headlines repeat themes that have long bedeviled American finance, as can be seen in After the Ball: Gilded Age Secrets, Boardroom Betrayals, and the Party That Ignited the Great Wall Street Scandal of 1905.
BusinessWeek August 11, 2003 Robert Barker	Summer Reading Worth Investing In? If only we could read our way to wealth. Then, by my calculations, I would've turned the pages of enough become-a-better-investor books to split my time between homes in Paris and Fiji, and endow three university chairs. Alas, no. Just the same, some of these books are valuable.
Geotimes August 2003 Meghan F. Cronin	Review: Sea Legs: Tales of a Woman Oceanographer Enter Kathy Crane and her autobiography Sea Legs: Tales of a Woman Oceanographer, published in February. If you think Tibet is exotic, try pictures from places 2,500 meters below the ocean surface.
BusinessWeek August 4, 2003 Joan O'C. Hamilton	Who Wants to Be a 150-Year-Old? A modern band of Ponce de Leons comes to life in the intensely researched and well-written Merchants of Immortality: Chasing the Dream of Human Life Extension by ace science writer Stephen S. Hall.
BusinessWeek August 4, 2003 Mike McNamee	Diamond Spies If you absorb even a fraction of the information in Paul Dickson's The Hidden Language of Baseball, his tales of baseball's silent strategy and how teams have used it to win games through the decades, your next trip to the ballpark will be considerably richer.
BusinessWeek July 28, 2003 John Carey	The Hundred Years' War at the FDA Philip J. Hilts's often fascinating new history of the Food & Drug Administration, Protecting America's Health: The FDA, Business, and One Hundred Years of Regulation teaches that in order to look after the public and advance medicine, there's no substitute for scientific testing.
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