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Entrepreneur December 2004 Mark Henricks	A Work of Art In"The Medici Effect" Frans Johansson shows how to improve the results of idea-generating campaigns... "The Art of Business" by Raymond T. Yeh discusses a new art of business that merges Eastern and Western concepts.
BusinessWeek November 29, 2004 Alexandra Starr	Is Welfare Reform Working? Jason DeParle's "American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive" points out that welfare reform's elimination of no-strings cash handouts cleared the path for a new debate over ways to help the poor.
ifeminists November 17, 2004 Byron Fraser	Review: Your Drug May Be Your Problem Excerpts from the book Your Drug May Be Your Problem: How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Medications by Peter Breggin and David Cohen delineating the adverse effects of these medications and how to stop taking them.
BusinessWeek November 22, 2004 Mark Hyman	His Fists Couldn't Protect Him A life of struggles to cope with racism and overcome self-destructive impulses are deftly chronicled in Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, an unsettling portrait of the boxing legend and his times.
HBS Working Knowledge November 15, 2004 Mallory Stark	Is Your Job Just Work? In his new book, "Just Work," Harvard's Russell Muirhead examines the new striving for careers that promise more than a paycheck. In this e-mail interview, he explains that when work seems disconnected from our own central purposes, it is no longer something worthy of our devotion.
DailyCandy November 11, 2004	Homecoming Game Secrets, estrangement, and priceless dysfunction are the key ingredients in Nicholas Delbanco's book "The Vagabonds."
Registered Rep. November 1, 2004 David A. Geracioti	The Great Gray Beast An interview with Peter G. Peterson, author of Gray Dawn: How the Coming Age Wave Will Transform America -- and the World and Running on Empty: How the Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do About It, on how the political class is mortgaging America's future.
CRM October 18, 2004 Emmy Favilla	Required Reading: Getting the Most From Customer Relationships Wal-Mart veteran Michael Bergdahl delivers useful insights into the retailer's strategies, including customer service, in "What I Learned From Sam Walton: How to Compete and Thrive in a Wal-Mart World."
BusinessWeek November 15, 2004 Peter Coy	A Geek's Walk on Wall Street In "My Life as a Quant," Emanuel Derman offers a literate and entertaining memoir of his two-stage career in physics and finance engineering -- including a detailed explanation of trading tools he developed.
Search Engine Watch November 3, 2004 Chris Sherman	Tuning up Your Skills in the Web Search Garage Every now and then a book comes along that's a must-read for every serious searcher, and Tara Calishain's Web Search Garage falls squarely into that category.
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