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JULY 4, 2005
The BusinessWeek Best-Seller List 1. THE WORLD IS FLAT By Thomas L. Friedman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux -- $27.50) Globalization is great -- sort of, says a columnist for The New York Times. Last month: --, Months on list: 1 2. WINNING By Jack Welch with Suzy Welch (HarperBusiness -- $27.95) How to succeed within a company, against your competition, and over the course of a career. Last month: 1, Months on list: 2 3. BLINK By Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown -- $25.95) Why snap judgments deserve careful consideration, from the author of The Tipping Point. Last month: 2, Months on list: 5 4. FREAKONOMICS By Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner (Morrow -- $25.95) Crack gangs, the Ku Klux Klan, and more, examined by a University of Chicago economist. Last month: 12, Months on list: 2 5. SECRETS OF THE MILLIONAIRE MIND By T. Harv Eker (HarperBusiness -- $19.95) How your "personal money blueprint" shapes your financial destiny. Last month: 5, Months on list: 4 6. THE MONEY BOOK FOR THE YOUNG, FABULOUS & BROKE By Suze Orman (Riverhead -- $24.95) Career plans, credit, etc. Last month: 3, Months on list: 3 7. JIM CRAMER'S REAL MONEY By James J. Cramer (Simon & Schuster -- $26) Trading recommendations from the CNBC commentator. Last month: 6, Months on list: 2 8. COLLAPSE By Jared Diamond (Viking -- $29.95) From Easter Island to Central America, why civilizations fall apart. Last month: 8, Months on list: 5 9. THE ONE THING YOU NEED TO KNOW By Marcus Buckingham (Free Press -- $29.95) Filtering out nonessential matters. Last month: --, Months on list: 1 10. CONSPIRACY OF FOOLS By Kurt Eichenwald (Broadway -- $26) Inside Enron's house of cards, by a columnist from The New York Times. Last month: 4, Months on list: 3 11. THE LITTLE RED BOOK OF SELLING By Jeffrey Gitomer (Bard Press -- $19.95) Why people buy. Last month: 10, Months on list: 9 12. NICE GIRLS DON'T GET RICH By Lois P. Frankel, PhD (Warner Business -- $21.95) A psychologist on the mistakes women make with money. Last month: --, Months on list: 1 13. HOW FULL IS YOUR BUCKET? By Tom Rath, Donald O. Clifton, PhD (Gallup Press -- $19.95) Accentuate the positive at work, says this Gallup Organization duo. Last month: --, Months on list: 8 14. THE 8TH HABIT By Stephen R. Covey (Free Press -- $26) In the new workplace, leaders must demonstrate trust, respect, and openness. Last month: --, Months on list: 5 15. THE FUTURE FOR INVESTORS By Jeremy J. Siegel (Crown -- $27.50) In stocks, avoid "the bold and the new." Last month: 15, Months on list: 3 1. THE 48 LAWS OF POWER By Robert Greene (Penguin -- $17) Rules for strivers, drawn from the likes of Machiavelli, Catherine the Great, and Henry Kissinger. Last month: 2, Months on list: 18 2. THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM By Bethany McLean, Peter Elkind (Portfolio -- $16) An adept account of Enron's implosion, by two writers from Fortune. Last month: 4, Months on list: 3 3. THE MILLIONAIRE REAL ESTATE INVESTOR By Gary Keller with Dave Jenks and Jay Papasan (McGraw-Hill -- $21.95) Get the right attitude, then build your own empire. Last month: 10, Months on list: 2 4. WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE? By Richard Nelson Bolles (Ten Speed -- $17.95) The 2005 edition of the enduring job-search bible. Last month: 3, Months on list: 7 5. GETTING THINGS DONE By David Allen (Penguin -- $15) Organizing your office and learning how to manage your time. Last month: 6, Months on list: 14 6. THE ABCs OF REAL ESTATE INVESTING By Ken McElroy (Warner Business -- $16.95) Stories from the front lines. Last month: 8, Months on list: 9 7. THE ART OF POSSIBILITY By Rosamund Stone Zander, Benjamin Zander (Penguin -- $14) Rethinking your life, by a therapist and the conductor of the Boston Philharmonic. Last month: 15, Months on list: 8 8. SMART WOMEN FINISH RICH By David Bach (Broadway -- $14.95) A nine-step program for managing money. Last month: 5, Months on list: 18 9. UGLY AMERICANS By Ben Mezrich (Perennial -- $13.95) Hedge-fund cowboys live it up in Japan. Last month: --, Months on list: 1 10. THE MILLIONAIRE REAL ESTATE AGENT By Gary Keller with Dave Jenks and Jay Papasan (McGraw-Hill -- $19.95) Models that can make a real estate career soar. Last month: 14, Months on list: 10 11. SMART COUPLES FINISH RICH By David Bach (Broadway -- $14.95) Managing money after you've tied the knot. Last month: 7, Months on list: 20 12. OPM: OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY By Michael A. Lechter, Esq. (Warner Business -- $19.95) Getting investors to back your business proposition. Last month: --, Months on list: 1 13. HOW TO BE WILDLY WEALTHY FAST By Sandy Forster (Universal Prosperity -- $22.95) Turn yourself into a money magnet. Last month: --, Months on list: 1 14. CRUCIAL CONVERSATIONS By Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler (McGraw-Hill -- $16.95) Strategies for those all-important talks. Last month: --, Months on list: 2 15. GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL By Jared Diamond (Norton -- $16.95) Why Western civilization prevailed against all others. Last month: --, Months on list: 1 GOOD TO GREAT Jim Collins (HarperBusiness -- $27.50) NOW, DISCOVER YOUR STRENGTHS Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton (Free Press -- $27) WHO MOVED MY CHEESE? Spencer Johnson (Putnam -- $19.95) THE FIVE DYSFUNCTIONS OF A TEAM Patrick Lencioni (Jossey-Bass -- $22.95) FISH! Stephen C. Lundin, PhD, Harry Paul, Jon Christensen (Hyperion -- $19.95) EXECUTION Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan (Crown Business -- $27.50) RICH DAD, POOR DAD By Robert T. Kiyosaki with Sharon L. Lechter (Warner -- $16.95) THE TIPPING POINT By Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay -- $14.95) THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE By Stephen R. Covey (Free Press -- $15) THE E-MYTH REVISITED By Michael E. Gerber (HarperBusiness -- $16) GETTING TO YES By Roger Fisher, William Ury, Bruce Patton (Penguin -- $15) RICH DAD'S CASHFLOW QUADRANT By Robert T. Kiyosaki with Sharon L. Lechter (Warner -- $17.95) FAST FOOD NATION By Eric Schlosser (Perennial -- $14.95) THE RICHEST MAN IN BABYLON By George S. Clason (Signet -- $6.99) NICKEL AND DIMED By Barbara Ehrenreich (Owl Books -- $13) THE MILLIONAIRE NEXT DOOR By Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko (Pocket Books -- $15) HOME BUYING FOR DUMMIES By Eric Tyson, MBA, Ray Brown (Wiley -- $21.99) RICH DAD'S GUIDE TO INVESTING By Robert T. Kiyosaki with Sharon L. Lechter (Warner -- $19.95) BusinessWeek's Best-Seller List is based on a survey of chain and independent booksellers that carry a broad selection of books on economics, management, sales and marketing, small business, investing, personal finance, and careers. Well over 1,000 retail outlets nationwide are represented. Current rankings are based on a weighted analysis of unit sales in May. Titles that have been on the Best-Seller List for more than two years appear as Long-Running Best-Sellers. 
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