Lists of Bests: Financial Times Business Book of the Year 2005-2008 http://www.listsofbests.com/list/65895 Includes the the winner and finalists from the inaugural year 2005 to the present Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:34:35 GMT en-us 0 50 23 0 0 The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2789609 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2789609"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01ebV8Qoh1L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas L. Friedman</div> The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/798782 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/798782"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1591841410.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Battelle</div> Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2894257 <div id="position">3</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Steven D. Levitt</div> Fast Second: How Smart Companies Bypass Radical Innovation to Enter and Dominate New Markets http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/442353 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/442353"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0787971545.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1112389051_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Constantinos C. Markides</div> The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5133637 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pietra Rivoli</div> DisneyWar http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6570508 <div id="position">6</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> China Shakes the World: A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future -- and the Challenge for America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2836279 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2836279"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/016bKVJzENL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Kynge</div> Long Tail, The, Revised and Updated Edition: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6414399 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6414399"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41h0cZRmWKL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chris Anderson</div> Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2641068 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2641068"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1591841496.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44780910_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bo Burlingham</div> The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works--and How It's Transforming the American Economy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1964423 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1964423"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143038788.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Fishman</div> The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3057151 <div id="position">11</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marc Levinson</div> The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4464700 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4464700"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41MJ1D1CFNL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alan Greenspan</div> The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1963003 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1963003"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400063515.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nassim Nicholas Taleb</div> Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3225650 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3225650"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11p3hOlh8gL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philippe Legrain</div> The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co. http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6570617 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6570617"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Z6WymJq1L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William D. Cohan</div> Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3545416 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3545416"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01gzeUBRpXL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Don Tapscott</div> ZOOM: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6570633 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6570633"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41yTm9DMhpL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vijay Vaitheeswaran</div> When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3919830 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3919830"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Anfm0iwHL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mohamed El-Erian</div> A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6570688 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6570688"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51V-gTm2gML._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William J. Bernstein</div> Cold Steel: The Multi-Billion-Dollar Battle for a Global Empire http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6570706 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6570706"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51i8uevIZAL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tim Bouquet</div> McMafia: A Journey Throuh the Global Criminal Underworld (Vintage) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4673349 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4673349"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41ua-y4HfcL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Misha Glenny</div> Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6570718 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6570718"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41F9XSr7S9L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lawrence Lessig</div> The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3667349 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3667349"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/019%2B9yli8hL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alice Schroeder</div>