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Hansen Books

1. Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction by Helen Sharp

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Read this in Nov/Dec 2007 to review for the Tech Comm journal, so the review will be published in 2008 sometime.

2. Yes, You Can Get A Financial Life!: Your Lifetime Guide to Financial Planning by Ben Stein

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Very, very good--what to do with money in your 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, and retirement. Read this over 2007 Christmas/New Years holiday and loved it.

3. The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous & Broke by Suze Orman

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Read this in early 2007 and adjusted my auto insurance coverage based on it--great advice throughout the book even if you're not young or broke.

4. Professional XML (Programmer to Programmer) by Bill Evjen

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Read this in late 2007 to review it for Tech Comm journal. Great for defining latest terms and for reference later.

5. Database Design, Application Development, and Administration by Michael V. Mannino

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Textbook for Accounting Masters class.

6. The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama

7. User-Centered Design Stories: Real-World UCD Case Studies (Interactive Technologies) by Carol Righi

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Read this in mid-2007 to review for the Tech Comm journal. Lots of typos but some chapters toward middle and end are great (written by gurus, and so on).

8. The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka

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Excellent fiction book set in Malaysia.

9. Secrets of RSS (Visual QuickStart Guide) by Steven Holzner

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Reviewed this for Tech Comm journal. Quick read, decent material.

10. Slow Is Beautiful: New Visions of Community, Leisure And Joie De Vivre by Cecile Andrews

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Decent.

11. In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed (Plus) by Carl Honore

12. Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth about Compassionate Conservatism by Arthur C. Brooks

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Best book that I read in 2006. By far. Still think about its content to this day.

13. Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More by Derek Bok

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Great book.

14. Strapped: Why America's 20- and 30-Somethings Can't Get Ahead by Tamara Draut

15. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell

16. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell

17. Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology (P.S.) by Eric Brende

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I loved this book. It made me lower my electrical usage for months afterward (and still do). This book also reminded me of Ohio.

18. Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman

19. Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt

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One of my all-time favorite books.

20. Managers Not MBAs: A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development by Henry Mintzberg

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Great book.

21. Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream by Andres Duany

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Great book.

22. Place of Learning, Place of Dreams: A History of the Seattle Public Library (Mclellan Book) by John Douglas Marshall

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Enjoyable.

23. The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits (Wharton School Publishing Paperbacks) by CK Prahalad

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Great book.

24. The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz

25. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman

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Really liked this book.

26. Winning by Jack Welch

27. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie; Translator-Ina Rilke

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Quick read and teaches you about Chinese history (re-education). Good book. Read it as a much-needed break from all of the nonfiction in 2007.

28. Waiting: A Novel by Ha Jin

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Started this at end of 2007 and finished it in June 2008. Decent but I liked Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress better, and I liked Rice Mother better than both of these.

29. Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides

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Great fiction book.

30. House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday

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On my library's Book Club list for 2008, so will probably read it (might not attend the group, though).

31. Fall On Your Knees (Oprah's Book Club) by Ann-Marie MacDonald

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On my library's Book Club list for 2008, so will probably read it.

32. A Fine Balance (Oprah's Book Club) by Rohinton Mistry

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On my library's Book Club list for 2008, so will probably read it--I started this before and know that it's about India, so want to finish it.

33. Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen

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On my library's Book Club list for 2008, so will probably read it.

34. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson

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On my library's Book Club list for 2008 and had already planned to read it, so it will probably be one of the first books that I read in 2008.

35. Daughter of Fortune: A Novel (P.S.) by Isabel Allende

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On my library's Book Club list for 2008, so will probably read it--I've read Allende before and enjoyed it, so highly likely to read this.

36. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

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Want to read this. Meant to read it in 2007 and never got around to it.

37. Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children by John Wood

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Saw it in a bookstore last week, and it looked good.

38. Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist by Tyler Cowen

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Reading this in January 2008.

39. A Widow for One Year by John Irving

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My favorite John Irving book. My favorite author.

40. Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design (Interactive Technologies) by Bill Buxton

41. The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World by Alan Greenspan

42. Richistan: A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich by Robert Frank

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Read this quick read in Jan 2008. This book was excellent; the chapter about charitable giving with demanded results was inspiring.

43. Connected: 24 Hours in the Global Economy by Daniel Altman

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I saw this book while browsing at the library in January 2008, so I plan to read it at some point.

44. The Middle-Class Millionaire: The Rise of the New Rich and How They Are Changing America by Russ Alan Prince

45. West Federal Taxation 2008: Individual Income Taxes, Professional Version (West Federal Taxation Individual Income Taxes) by William H. Hoffman

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Read this Spring 2008

46. The Imagination Challenge: Strategic Foresight and Innovation in the Global Economy (VOICES) by Alexander Manu

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Read this in March 2008 and wrote a review to appear in one of the 2008 Technical Communication journals.

47. Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik

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looks to be a good nonfiction book about living for 5 years in Paris and raising a toddler there, before returning to the US. I will likely finish this in September 2008.

48. South-Western Federal Taxation 2009: Corporations, Partnerships, Estates and Trusts (with TaxCut® Tax Preparation Software CD-ROM) by William H. Hoffman

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I need to read this textbook on my own prior to CPA exam - it's the text for a class that I did not take (I took Individual Income Tax but this book is about Corporate taxes).

49. Intermediate Accounting 10th Edition(with Business and Company Resource Center) by Loren A. Nikolai

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