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HBS Working Knowledge December 6, 2004 Cynthia Churchwell	An Entrepreneur's Journey in Africa Monique Maddy, who started and then closed a telecommunications business in Africa, has interesting insights into the challenges of entrepreneurship in developing countries in her new book, Learning to Love Africa: My Journey from Africa to Harvard Business School and Back.
HBS Working Knowledge December 6, 2004 Jim Heskett	Why Do Managers Fail to Act on Their Predictions? In "Predictable Surprises: The Disasters You Should Have Seen Coming and How to Prevent Them," the authors contend that a predictable surprise has several discerning characteristics.
Reason December 2004 Nick Gillespie	Hippie Heaven Hippie, is a spectacularly designed coffee table book by Barry Miles that is every bit as captivating, colorful, and self-congratulatory as the social type it describes.
Reason December 2004 Eric L. Muller	Indefensible Internment The book In Defense of Internment: The Case for `Racial Profiling' in World War II and the War on Terror, by Michelle Malkin advocates such measures as allowing law enforcement and airport security to take account of ethnicity, and barring Muslims from serving in combat roles in the Middle East.
Reason December 2004 Charles Paul Freund	Severed Heads Arab literary fantasy and terrible reality: Mohammed Barrada's intentionally disturbing tale "The Story of the Severed Head."
Reason December 2004 Julian Sanchez	Soundbite An interview with Joe Trippi who pioneered the political use of blogs and other online tools. His new campaign memoir, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised reminds us that it doesn't mean the rhetoric isn't true.
BusinessWeek December 13, 2004	The Pick of This Year's Crop of Books Running the gamut from Ted Turner to Alexander Hamilton, here's the top 10 business books of 2004 as selected by BusinessWeek reviewers.
CRM November 15, 2004 Colin Beasty	Required Reading: The Evolution of the CRM Value Proposition An interview with Paul Greenberg, author of CRM at the Speed of Light: Essential Customer Strategies for the 21st Century, on the evolution of CRM, how to increase customer value, resolve customer problems, and keep the customer service personal so customers keep coming back.
Industrial Physicist	Books Acoustic Absorbers and Diffusers: Theory, Design and Application. T. J. Cox, P. D'Antonio... Advances in Condensed Matter and Materials Research. Vol. 5. F. Gerard... etc.
Fast Company December 2004 Sylvia Nasar	What Makes Beautiful Minds Some forms of creative genius seem unfathomable. But as the author of A Beautiful Mind tells us, that doesn't mean we can't learn from them. The book's subject, John Nash, won a Nobel Prize in 1994 for his noncooperative games theory.
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