The Book Sense Business and Economics Bestseller List

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Based on sales for the four-week period ending February 8, 2004, at hundreds of independent bookstores across the U.S.

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Trade Paperback
1. Fast Food Nation
Eric Schlosser, Perennial, $13.95, 0060938455
2. The Tipping Point
Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay, $14.95, 0316346624
3. World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability
Amy Chua, Anchor/Doubleday, $14, 0385721862
4. Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey, Free Press, $15, 0671708635
5. The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community, and Everyday Life
Richard Florida, Basic Books, $15.95, 0465024777
6. Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America
Arianna Huffington, Three Rivers, $13, 1400051266
7. The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization
Thomas L. Friedman, BDD, $15.95, 0385499345
8. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
Michael E. Gerber, HarperBusiness, $16, 0887307280
9. The One Minute Manager
Spencer Johnson, Kenneth H. Blanchard, Penguin, $12.95, 0425098478
10. It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be
Paul Arden, Phaidon, $7.95, 0714843377
11. The Best Business Stories of the Year -- 2004 Edition
Andrew Leckey (Ed.), Vintage, $15, 140003146X
12. Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In (2nd Ed.)
Roger Fisher, Penguin, $14, 0140157352
13. If You Don't Have Big Breasts, Put Ribbons on Your Pigtails: And Other Lessons I Learned From My Mom
Barbara Corcoran, Portfolio, $14, 1591840333
14. How Wal-Mart Is Destroying America (and the World) and What You Can Do About It
Bill Quinn, Ten Speed, $10.95, 1580082319
15. How to Work for an Idiot: Survive & Thrive Without Killing Your Boss
John Hoover, Career Pr., $14.99, 1564147045

 

Hardcover
1. Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich -- and Cheat Everybody Else
David Cay Johnston, Portfolio, $25.95, 1591840198
2. The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century
Paul Krugman, Norton, $25.95, 0393058506
3. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap ... and Others Don't
Jim Collins, HarperCollins, $27.50, 0066620996
4. Who Moved My Cheese?
Spencer Johnson, Putnam, $19.95, 0399144463
5. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Michael Lewis, Norton, $24.95, 0393057658
6. Negotiate This! By Caring, But Not T-H-A-T Much
Herb Cohen, Warner, $24.95, 0446529737
7. The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
Bethany McLean, Viking, $26.95, 1591840082
8. Origins of the Crash: The Great Bubble and Its Undoing
Roger Lowenstein, Penguin, $24.95, 1594200033
9. The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke
Elizabeth Warren, Basic, $26, 0465090826
10. Fish! A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results
Stephen C. Lundin, Harry Paul, John Christensen, Hyperion, $19.45, 0786866020
11. The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead
David Callahan, Harcourt, $26, 0151010188
12. Now, Discover Your Strengths
Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton, S&S, $27, 0743201140
13. The Art of Happiness at Work
The Dalai Lama, Howard C. Cutler, Riverhead, $24.95, 1573222615
14. Shameless Exploitation in Pursuit of the Common Good: The Madcap Business Adventure by the Truly Oddest Couple
Paul Newman, A.E. Hotchner, Nan A. Talese, $23.95, 0385508026
15. The On-Time, On-Target Manager: How a "Last-Minute Manager" Conquered Procrastination
Kenneth H. Blanchard, Steve Gottry, Morrow, $19.95, 0060574593
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