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DAVE PELZ'S PUTTING BIBLE by PELZ, DAVE (Hardcover - 2000)
ISBN: 9780385500241
Subject: SPORTS, HOBBIES & GAMES
Publisher: DOUBLEDAY USA
DAY OF EMPIRE: HOW HYPERPOWERS RISE TO GLOBAL DOMINANCE - AND WHY THEY FALL by CHUA, AMY (Hardcover - 2007)
ISBN: 9780385512848
Subject: HISTORY (NON-ASIAN)
Publisher: DOUBLEDAY USA
DESCARTES' BONES: A SKELETAL HISTORY OF THE CONFLICT BETWEEN FAITH AND REASON by SHORTO, RUSSELL (Hardcover - 2008)
ISBN: 9780385517539
Subject: FICTION
Publisher: DOUBLEDAY USA
DIAMOND CUTTER: THE BUDDHA ON MANAGING YOUR BUSINESS AND YOUR LIFE by ROACH, GESHE MICHAEL (Paperback - 2003)
ISBN: 9780385497916
Subject: RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY
Publisher: DOUBLEDAY USA
DIANA CHRONICLES by BROWN, TINA (Hardcover - 2007)
ISBN: 9780385517089
Subject: BIOGRAPHY
Publisher: DOUBLEDAY USA
ENDLESS UNIVERSE: BEYOND THE BIG BANG by STEINHARDT, PAUL J. (Hardcover - 2007)
ISBN: 9780385509640
Subject: SCIENCE & NATURE
Publisher: DOUBLEDAY USA
ENEMY AT HOME: THE CULTURAL LEFT AND ITS RESPONSIBILITY FOR 9/11 by D'SOUZA, DINESH (Hardcover - 2007)
ISBN: 9780385510127
Subject: CURRENT AFFAIRS
Publisher: DOUBLEDAY USA
EXCEEDING CUSTOMER EXPECTIONS by KAZANJIAN, KIRK (Hardcover - 2007)
ISBN: 9780385518321
Subject: BUSINESS & FINANCE
Publisher: CURRENCY DOUBLEDAY USA
FIFTH DISCIPLINE: THE ART & PRACTICE OF THE LEARNING ORGANIZATION by SENGE, PETER M. (Hardcover - 2006)
ISBN: 9780385517829
Subject: BUSINESS & FINANCE
Publisher: CURRENCY DOUBLEDAY USA
FRED FACTOR: HOW PASSION IN YOUR WORK AND LIFE CAN TURN THE ORDINARY INTO THE EXTRAORDINARY by SANBORN, MARK (Hardcover - 2004)
ISBN: 9780385513517
Subject: MIND, BODY & HEALTH
Publisher: CURRENCY DOUBLEDAY USA
GARGOYLE by DAVIDSON, ANDREW (Hardcover - 2008)
ISBN: 9780385524940
Subject: FICTION
Publisher: DOUBLEDAY USA
HOUSE OF CARDS: A TALE OF HUBRIS AND WRETCHED EXCESS ON WALL STREET by COHAN, WILLIAM D. (Hardcover - 2009)
ISBN: 9780385528269
Subject: BUSINESS & FINANCE
Publisher: DOUBLEDAY USA

On March 5, 2008, at 10:15 A.M., a hedge fund manager in Florida wrote a post on his investing advice Web site that included a startling statement about Bear Stearns & Co., the nation¡¦s fifth-largest investment bank: ¡§In my book, they are insolvent.¡¨ This seemed a bold and risky statement. Bear Stearns was about to announce profits of $115 million for the first quarter of 2008, had $17.3 billion in cash on hand, and, as the company incessantly boasted, had been a colossally profitable enterprise in the eighty-five years since its founding. Ten days later, Bear Stearns no longer existed, and the calamitous financial meltdown of 2008 had begun. How this happened ¡V and why ¡V is the subject of William D. Cohan¡¦s superb and shocking narrative that chronicles the fall of Bear Stearns and the end of the Second Gilded Age on Wall Street.
IMMORTAL GAME: A HISTORY OF CHESS, OR HOW 32 PIECES ON A BOARD ILLUMINATED OUR UNDERSTANDING OF WAR, ART, SCIENCE AND THE HUMAN BRAIN by SHENK, DAVID (Hardcover - 2006)
ISBN: 9780385510103
Subject: SPORTS, HOBBIES & GAMES
Publisher: DOUBLEDAY USA

Why has one game, alone among the thousands of games invented and played throughout human history, not only survived but thrived within every culture it has touched? Nearly everyone has played chess at some point in their lives. Its rules and pieces have served as a metaphor for society, influencing military strategy, mathematics, artificial intelligence, and literature and the arts. In his fascinating examination of chess, Shenk unearths the hidden history of a game that seems so simple yet contains infinity. From its invention somewhere in India around 500 A.D., to its enthusiastic adoption by the Persians and its spread by Islamic warriors, to its crucial importance in the birth of cognitive science and its key role in the aesthetic of modernism in twentieth-century art, to its twenty-first-century importance in the development of artificial intelligence and use as a teaching tool in inner-city America, chess has been a remarkably omnipresent factor in the development of civilization.
IN SPITE OF THE GODS: THE STRANGE RISE OF MODERN INDIA by LUCE, EDWARD (Hardcover - 2007)
ISBN: 9780385514743
Subject: ASIA
Publisher: DOUBLEDAY USA
JESUS OF NAZARETH by POPE BENEDICT XVI (Hardcover - 2007)
ISBN: 9780385523417
Subject: RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY
Publisher: DOUBLEDAY USA
JUST TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE by HARRIS, E. LYNN (Hardcover - 2008)
ISBN: 9780385492720
Subject: FICTION
Publisher: DOUBLEDAY USA
KILLER HEART by FAIRSTEIN, LINDA (Hardcover - 2008)
ISBN: 9780385523974
Subject: FICTION
Publisher: DOUBLEDAY USA
KNOW YOUR POWER: A MESSAGE TO AMERICA'S DAUGHTERS by PELOSI, NANCY (Hardcover - 2008)
ISBN: 9780385525862
Subject: BIOGRAPHY
Publisher: DOUBLEDAY USA
LAST TYCOONS: THE SECRET HISTORY OF LAZARD FRERES & CO. by COHAN, WILLIAM D. (Hardcover - 2007)
ISBN: 9780385514514
Subject: BUSINESS & FINANCE
Publisher: DOUBLEDAY USA
LAST WORD ON POWER: EXECUTIVE RE-INVENTION FOR LEADERS WHO MUST MAKE THE IMPOSSIBLE HAPPEN by GOSS, TRACY (Hardcover - 1996)
ISBN: 9780385474924
Subject: BUSINESS & FINANCE
Publisher: CURRENCY DOUBLEDAY USA
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