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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
By : Azar Nafisi
Publisher : Random House
Price : $13.95

This book is about Azar Nafisi’s dreams and of the nightmares that made it come true. Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to read and discuss Western literature. The women, shy and uncomfortable in the beginning, unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, soon began to open up and to speak more freely, not only about the novels they were reading but also about themselves, their dreams and disappointments. Their stories became intertwined with those they were reading—Pride and Prejudice, Washington Square, Daisy Miller and Lolita—their Lolita, as they imagined her in Tehran. The book offers a fascinating portrait of the Iran-Iraq war viewed from Tehran and gives us a rare glimpse, from the inside, of women’s lives in revolutionary Iran.

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Them
By : Nathan McCall
Publisher : Atria
Price : $16.50

Them is Nathan McCall's debut novel where he explores issues of race and gentrification through the story of Barlowe, a middle aged black man who lives in Atlanta's Fourth Ward. When a white couple moves in next door, Barlowe eventually forms a friendship with the wife while continuing to experience tension over the ways that white people are changing the neighborhood. Them is not only a page turning story with well developed characters and voice, it is also a thought-provoking look at race relations in 2007 America.

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The Future of Management
By : Gary Hamel and Bill Breen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Price : $17.79

Legacy beliefs prevent organizations from overcoming new, 21st-century challenges. The way forward is management innovation: new ways of mobilizing talent, allocating resources and building strategies. How do you turn your company into a serial innovator and make it fit for the future? Gary Hamel has studied cases from Google, Whole Foods, IBM and Samsung and illustrated his interesting new theories towards these ends.

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Business, Government and Society: A Managerial Perspective
By : John F. Steiner, George A. Steiner
Publisher : McGraw-Hill/Irwin
Price : $148.13

Steiner and Steiner, tells the story of how forces in business, government and society shape our world. While current events move rapidly over the surface of the subject matter, the underlying principles and relationships at its core lie undisturbed. The Twelfth edition of this popular textbook is equipped with new chapter opening stories and cases that reflect current concerns in a changing environment. The thorough blend of history and today’s events help students understand the entire context of forces at work in business, government, and society. A new emphasis on management issues and processes allows students to apply the principles they learn to real world situations.

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