HARVARD, YALE, PRINCETON, MIT, CALTECH ... Books the smart people read .. according to reading circle surveys... Can you afford to ignore them?
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... these are the books the smartest people read .... what about you?

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THE HARVARD CIRCLE  REALLY DIG DEEP INTO

Rebellion or Revolution? : England 1640-1660
by G. E. Aylmer


The Causes of the English Civil War : The Ford Lectures Delivered in the University of Oxford, 1987-1988
by Conrad Russell

 

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Genes VI
by Benjamin Lewin, et al

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A Monarchy Transformed : Britain 1603-1714 (Penguin History of Britain Series , No 6)
by Mark Kishlansky, David Cannadine (Editor)

 

Architecture Theory Since 1968
by K. Michael Hays(Editor)


Alternative Careers in Science : Leaving the Ivory Tower
by Cynthia Robbins-Roth(Editor)

 

Essentials of Accounting
by Robert N. Anthony
Guns, Germs, and Steel : The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond

The Shape of the River : Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions
by William G. Bowen(Preface), Derek Curtis Bok

The Fast Track : The Insider's Guide to Winning Jobs in Management Consulting, Investment Banking, and Securities Trading
by Mariam Naficy

 

HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL ...

 

cover Technology Integration : Making Critical Choices in a Dynamic World (Management of Innovation and Change Series)
by Marco Iansiti
cover The Service Profit Chain : How Leading Companies Link Profit and Growth to Loyalty, Satisfaction, and Value
by James L. Heskett, et al
.  cover Competing on Internet Time : Lessons from Netscape and Its Battle With Microsoft
by Michael A. Cusumano, David B. Yoffie
cover Net Worth
by John Hagel, Marc Singer
cover Net Gain : Expanding Markets Through Virtual Communities
by John Hagel, Arthur G. Armstrong
Burn Rate : How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet
by Michael Wolff(Preface)
The Innovator's Dilemma
by Clayton M. Christensen
Competitive Advantage : Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance
by Michael E. Porter, Micheal Porter
Information Rules : A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy
by Carl Shapiro, Hal R. Varian
Competitive Strategy : Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors
by Michael E. Porter

YALE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY  - HOTTEST BOOKS

Stepping Left : Dance and Politics in New York City, 1928-1942
by Ellen Graff

 

On Becoming Filipino : Selected Writings of Carlos Bulosan (Asian American History and Culture)
by Carlos Bulosan, et al

The End of Victory Culture : Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation (Culture, Politics, and the Cold War)
by Tom Engelhardt

The End of the European Era : 1890 to the Present (The Norton History of Modern Europe)
by Felix Gilbert, David Clay Large (Contributor)

Blues People : Negro Music in White America
by Leroi Jones, et al

 

The New Negro
by Alain Leroy Locke, Arnold Rampersad (Introduction)

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum : Or How Violence Develops and Where It Can Lead (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
by Heinrich Boll, Leila Vennewitz (Translator)

 

This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Tadeusz Borowski, et al

 

The Conquest of Cool : Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism
by Thomas Frank

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY    --- READS:

Core Web Programming (Core Series)
by Marty Hall
 

The Fast Track : The Insider's Guide to Winning Jobs in Management Consulting, Investment Banking, and Securities Trading
by Mariam Naficy

 

Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie

 

Understanding Electronic Commerce (Strategic Technology Series)
by David R. Kosiur

 

Our Dumb Century : The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source
by The Onion(Editor), T. Herman Zweibel (Introduction)

 

Liar's Poker : Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street
by Michael Lewis

Guns, Germs, and Steel : The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond

 

The C++ Programming Language
by Bjarne Stroustrup

Cryptonomicon
by Neal Stephenson
A Random Walk Down Wall Street : Including a Life-Cycle Guide to Personal Investing
by Burton Gordon Malkiel(Preface)

 

M.I.T. FOLKS GET INTO ...

 

Acquisitions, Mergers, Sales, Buyouts, and Takeovers : A Handbook With Forms
by Charles A. Scharf, et al

Competing on Internet Time : Lessons from Netscape and Its Battle With Microsoft
by Michael A. Cusumano, David B. Yoffie

 

Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition
by Christopher M. Bishop

The Visualization Toolkit
by William Schroeder, et al

 

Analysis for Financial Management (Irwin/McGraw-Hill Series in Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate)
by Robert C. Higgins

Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day: A Guide to Starting, Revising, and Finishing Your Doctoral Thesis

 

Microsoft Secrets : How the World's Most Powerful Software Company Creates Technology, Shapes Markets, and Manages People

 

International Economics : Theory and Policy
by Paul R. Krugman, et al

 

The Java Programming Language (Java Series)
by Ken Arnold, James Gosling

 

The Innovator's Dilemma
by Clayton M. Christensen

 

WHILE CALTECH (California Institute of Technology Recently Ranked #1 by US News and World Report) READS

Evolving Brains (Scientific American Library Series, No 68)
by John Morgan Allman

 

Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition
by Christopher M. Bishop

The Baltimore Case : A Trial of Politics, Science, and Character
by Daniel J. Kevles

Cryptonomicon
by Neal Stephenson

 

cover Learning Perl (2nd Edition)
by Randal L. Schwartz, et al

Our Dumb Century : The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source
by The Onion(Editor), T. Herman Zweibel (Introduction)

 

The Path of Daggers (Wheel of Time/Robert Jordan, Bk 8)
by Robert Jordan
  (these folks must be reeeeely smart if they have time for getting close to the source.)

 

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