{"id":1841,"date":"2010-07-02T11:42:51","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T18:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"tag:google.com,2005:reader\/item\/6d5d3bd7ca2735a6"},"modified":"2010-07-02T11:42:51","modified_gmt":"2010-07-02T18:42:51","slug":"paperback-business-best-sellers-list-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/paperback-business-best-sellers-list-nytimes-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Paperback Business Best Sellers &#8211; List &#8211; NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Published: July 1, 2010 <\/div>\n<div>\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"4\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"middle\" width=\"28\">\n<font size=\"-1\">This<br \/> Month<\/font><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"middle\" width=\"300\">\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"middle\">\n<font size=\"-1\">Last<br \/> Month<\/font>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"28\">\n<span>1<\/span>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><span>THE TIPPING POINT<\/span>, by Malcolm  Gladwell. (Back Bay\/Little, Brown, $14.95.) How and why certain products and ideas become fads.)<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"28\">\n<span>2<\/span>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><span>FREAKONOMICS<\/span>, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. (Harper Perennial, $15.99.) A maverick scholar and a journalist apply economic theory to everything from cheating sumo wrestlers to the falling crime rate.<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"28\">\n<span>3<\/span>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><span>THE BLIND SIDE<\/span>, by Michael Lewis. (Norton, $13.95.) The evolving business of football, viewed through the rise of the left tackle Michael Oher.<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"28\">\n<span>4*<\/span>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><span>THE BLACK SWAN<\/span>, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. (Random House, $17.) The hubris of predictions \u2014 and our perpetual surprise when the not-predicted happens.\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"28\">\n<span>5<\/span>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><span>LIAR\u2019S POKER<\/span>, by Michael Lewis. (Norton, $15.95.) Wall Street\u2019s tumultuous 1980s, as witnessed by a young bond trader.\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"28\">\n<span>6<\/span>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><span>PREDICTABLY IRRATIONAL<\/span>, by Dan Ariely. (Harper Perennial, $15.99.) The hidden forces that shape our decisions.\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"28\">\n<span>7*<\/span>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><span>LORDS OF FINANCE<\/span>, by Liaquat Ahamed. (Penguin, $18.) How four central bankers pushed the global economy into the Great Depression.\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"28\">\n<span>8<\/span>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><span>SHOP CLASS AS SOULCRAFT<\/span>, by Matthew B. Crawford. (Penguin, $15.) A philosopher on what manual labor can teach about the world and oneself.\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"28\">\n<span>9<\/span>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><span>THE FIRST TYCOON<\/span>, by T. J. Stiles. (Vintage, $19.95.) The biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt.\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"28\">\n<span>10<\/span>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><span>THE ACCIDENTAL BILLIONAIRES<\/span>, by Ben Mezrich. (Anchor, $15.95.) How two Harvard undergraduates created Facebook.\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"28\">\n<\/td>\n<td colspan=\"3\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published: July 1, 2010 <\/p>\n<p>This Month<\/p>\n<p>Last Month<\/p>\n<p>1<\/p>\n<p>THE TIPPING POINT, by Malcolm  Gladwell. (Back Bay\/Little, Brown, $14.95.) How and why certain products and ideas become fads.)<br \/>\n2<\/p>\n<p>2<\/p>\n<p>FREAKONOMICS, by Steven D. 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