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Peter W. Bernstein and Annalyn Swan, Editors. All the Money in the World: How the Forbes 400 make — and spend — their fortunes. Knopf, 2007.

Prominent editors and business writers provide an entertaining view into the lives of the wealthiest Americans of the past quarter century. After discussing the personal qualities necessary to become a multimillionaire, the book describes how fortunes are made, how the superrich spend their money, and how heirs enhance or squander their fortunes.

Many individual stories are included, such as profiles of Oprah Winfrey and Warren Buffett, as well as the philanthropy of Ted Turner and Bill Gates. Lavish descriptions of how the rich live and lurid details about family feuds within the dynasties make for entertaining reading.

© Reviewer: Meg Trauner & Ford Library – Fuqua School of Business. All rights reserved.

April is Earth Month at Duke. Also, the 8th Annual MBA International Retreat will be held on Energy & the Environment (May 31st-June 1st).

See these new titles at the Ford Library on energy, the environment, and sustainability issues. As always, you can click on any title below to check availability or to place a hold.

• Saving Energy, Growing Jobs: How Environmental Protection Promotes Economic Growth, Profitability, Innovation and Competition by David. B. Goldstein
• Carbon Strategies: How Leading Companies are Reducing Their Climate Change Footprint by Andrew J. Hoffman
• Terra Incognita:A Navigation Aid for Energy Leaders by Christopher E.H. Ross and Lane E. Sloan
• Managing Green Issues by Tom Curtin
• Harvard Business Review on Green Business Strategy by Harvard Business School Press
• Markets and the Environment by Nathaniel O. Keohane and Sheila M. Olmstead
• The Commonwealth of Life: Economics for a Flourishing Earth, 2nd Edition by by Peter G. Brown
• Sustainability in Manufacturing: Recovery of Resources in Product and Material Cycles edited by Gunther Seliger
• Future Energy: How the New Oil Industry Will Change People, Politics, and Portfolios by Bill Paul
• Green Seduction: Money, Business, and the Environment by Bill Streever
• Business, Ethics, and the Environment: Imagining a Sustainable Future (Basic Ethics in Action)by Joseph R. Des Jardins
• Cut Carbon, Grow Profits: Business Strategies for Managing Climate Change and Sustainability edited by Kenny Tang and Ruth Yeoh
• Organizations and the Sustainability Mosaic: Crafting Long-Term Ecological and Societal Solutions edited by Sanjay Sharma, Mark Starik and Bryan Husted

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The Ford Library has started off the Spring Semester by adding lots of great new books. Come check out our New Books section for even more titles than are shown here. We add many new ones every month on a wide variety of business and related topics. (Click on any of the titles below to check availability or to place a hold.)

Business Trends & Events

• From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession by Rakesh Khurana
• World Event Trading: How to Analyze and Profit from Today’s Headlines by Andrew Busch
• Trading Catalysts: How Events Move Markets and Create Trading Opportunities by Robert I. Webb
• Coming Attractions?: Hollywood, High Tech, and the Future of Entertainment by Philip E. Meza
• Speechless: The Erosion of Free Expression in the American Workplace by Bruce Barry
• The Secrets of Economic Indicators: Hidden Clues to Future Economic Opportunities by Bernard Baumohl

Finance

• The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America’s Top Traders Jack D. Schwager
• Building Financial Models with Microsoft Excel: A Guide for Business Professionals by K. Scott Proctor
• Forecasting Expected Returned in the Financial Markers by Stephen Satchel

The Environment, Nature, and Natural Resources:

• Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine M. Benyus
• Cut Carbon, Grow Profits: Business Strategies for Managing Climate Change and
  Sustainability edited by Dr. Kenny Tang CFA and Ruth Yeoh
• The Commonwealth of Life: Economics for a Flourishing Earth, 2nd Edition by Peter G. Brown
• Terra Incognita: A Navigation Aid for Energy Leaders by Christopher E.H. Ross
  and Lane E. Sloan

Leadership & Ethics*:

• The Moral Leader: Challenges, Insights, and Tools by Sandra J. Sucher
• What Really Matters: Service, Leadership, People, and Values by John Pepper
• Ethics and Business: An Introduction by Kevin Gibson
• The Sentinel CEO: Perspectives on Security, Risk, and Leadership in a Post- 9/11
  World by William G. Parrett
• The Leadership Experience by Richard L. Daft
• Radical Trust: How Today’s Great Leaders Convert People to Partners by Joe Healey
• Leadership Communication by Deborah J. Barrett

* Many leadership and ethics titles are part of the library’s Dorothea F. Peterjohn Leadership Collection

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