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Masters of the Game Connie Bruck for $15

Fatal Subtraction How Hollywood Really Does Business 1992
McDougal, former L.A. Times reporter & Pierce O'Donnell, atty
The Last Mogul Lew Wasserman, MCA founder & head,
and the Mob in Hollywood 1998 McDougal
Dark Victory Ronald Reagan, MCA & the Mob 1986 Dan Moldea

Robert H. Frank:
Winner-Take-All Society Why the Few at the Top Get
So Much More Than the Rest of Us co-author Phil Cook
Luxury Fever Why Money Fails to Satisfy In an Era of Excess
Free Press, New York 1999

Market Decisions Vince Copeland WW Publishers
West 17 St NY NY 10011 from World Workers Party
Wall Street Doug Henwood, "communist Wall Street couldn't
ignore" & publisher of Left Business Observer
    Classics
Artaud
Celine		 Lautreamont
Menken
Nietzche		 Rimbaud
MarkTwain
 The Book of Isaiah ca. 8th - 2nd centuries B.C.E. Most fiery of Hebrew prophets zaps the rich, the greedy, and the unjust as well as the ungodly, and calls eloquently for an end to war. Hymns to the seasons and the right way to live on the land.
Divan of Shams-i-Tabriz Jalal ad-Din ar-Rumi 13th century Passionate poems by the greatest Sufi master. In Rumi, earthly love, including sexual desire, always joins the great river of love that flows to God.
Tale of Genji Lady Murasaki ca. 1000 World's first novel of manners (world's first novel, period) is Japanese tale of a supremely attractive prince whose lovers form an unforgettable gallery of female sensibilities.
Journey to the West Wu Ch'eng-en: Monkey 1592 Buddhism goes Rabelaisian in this Chinese tale of a monkey with superpowers and his mind-blowing adventures with gods, demons, and the King of Death.
The Journey's Echo Freya Stark 1920s-1960s Excerpts culled from the many books of an extraordinary Englishwoman who camped with desert nomads, explored forbidden cities, and crafted one of the 20th century's finest writing styles.
Poems Tu Fu 8th century Somber & reflective, Tu Fu lived in turbulent era of Chinese history & wrote political poetry of a beauty & density rarely equaled anywhere.
Tell the Truth and Run Rick Goldsmith 1996 Entertaining documentary about George Seldes, a legendary foreign correspondent of the '20s & '30s who became the granddaddy of the alternative press.
My Past & Thoughts Alexander Herzen 1852-53 Most humane of Russian socialist revolutionaries tells, in prose as vivid as the great Russian novelists', the story of his adventures as a thorn in the czar's side.
Prison Notebooks Antonio Gramsci 1926-1937 Italian Marxist martyr whose keen thinking on the role of mass media, civil society, & power politics in society is still important in the postcommunist world.
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Thomas Kuhn 1962 Made paradigm into almost a household word, and he brings a new understanding of the dynamics of intellectual development in science -- and, by implication, all other fields of knowledge.
Chaos James Gleick 1987 Charting the seeming randomness of weather patterns and traffic jams, chaos theory reminds us that the universe does not behave according to our best calculations; something more complicated and interesting is at work.
The Death & Life of Great American Cities Jane Jacobs 1961 Turns urban planning on its head by explaining how small things, corner shops, people on the sidewalk, make a neighborhood vital.
A Pattern Language Christopher Alexander et al. 1977 Design manual lays out 253 elements, from small window panes to sidewalks wide enough for promenading, that add up to good houses, good neighborhoods, and good cities.
Small Is Beautiful E.F. Schumacher 1973 Surprise best-seller from an English economist making the simple but exceedingly radical observation that large-scale projects tend to turn into disasters.
Tools for Conviviality Ivan Illich 1973 Maverick thinker takes aim at the institutions of modern technological society, from medicine to transportation, convincingly showing that most of them offer us far less than is commonly assumed.
The Web of Life Fritjof Capra 1996 Challenging all who think the world functions like a machine, Capra examines the new science of life and explores possibilities for an emerging ecological politics.
The Ecology of Commerce Paul Hawken 1993 Business guru who talks about something other than fatter profits. A calm and illuminating discussion of how the economic order must adapt to environmental realities.

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