If you could fill your library with only 50 books, you could do much worse than choose these 50. So what is this list? A list of some great reads.

In the book, Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff write about how social media -- blogs, wikis, Facebook -- has impacted the way customer's interact with your brands. These elements of a social phenomenon -- the groundswell -- has created a permanent, long-lasting shift in the way the world works. Most companies see it as a threat. You can see it as an opportunity.

Top MBA programs don't have a monopoly on advanced business knowledge: you can teach yourself everything you need to know to succeed in life and at work. The Personal MBA Recommended Reading List features only the very best business books available, based on thousands of hours of research. So skip b-school and the $100,000 loan: you can get a world-class business education simply by reading these books.

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Famed prosecutor and #1 New York Times bestselling author Vincent Bugliosi has written the most powerful, explosive, and thought-provoking book of his storied career. As a prosecutor dedicated to seeking justice, he delivers a non-partisan argument, free from party lines, based upon hard facts and pure objectivity. More

"Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists. It is one of the most powerful defenses of the free market ever written."

I finished Fareed Zakaria's The Post American World the other day. Which means the Zakaria quotes of the day are history. Hopefully you all enjoyed them. If you did, you should really pickup the book and read it.

HAS Fareed Zakaria finally succeeded where others have failed, and named the era in which the world finds itself today? For most of the past century it has been conflict that has defined the age

Friedman proposes that an ambitious national strategy

The Political Brain is a ground-breaking investigation into the role of emotion in determining the political life of the nation by Drew Westen, professor of psychology and psychiatry at Emory University. Westen shows how politicians can capture the hearts and minds of the electorate through examples of what candidates have said