Wednesday, July 17, 2013

New York Times Business Bestsellers for July 2013



July 14, 2013
This Month    Hardcover Business Books
1
LEAN IN, by Sheryl Sandberg with Nell Scovell. (Knopf.) The chief operating officer of Facebook urges women to pursue their careers without ambivalence.  (Also available as a downloadable eBook or Audiobook).
2
ELEVEN RINGS, by Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. (Penguin Press.) An autobiography by the coach who led the Chicago Bulls and the Los Angeles Lakers to multiple N.B.A. championships.
3
THE DUCK COMMANDER FAMILY, by Willie and Korie Robertson with Mark Schlabach. (Howard Books.) Behind the scenes at the A&E show “Duck Dynasty.”
4
COLLAPSE OF DIGNITY, by Napoleon Gomez. (BenBella.) The head of a Mexican miners’ union describes the explosion that killed 65 miners in 2006, and his subsequent fight against corporate greed and political corruption. (Not currently available in library system.  Can be borrowed by Evanston patrons via Interlibrary Loan.)
5
RUMSFELD'S RULES, by Donald Rumsfeld. (Broadside.) Leadership lessons in business, politics, war and life, from the former defense secretary.
6
FINERMAN'S RULES, by Karen Finerman. (Business Plus.) Advice for women on making good decisions both personally and professionally.
7 * THE ONE THING, by Gary Keller with Jay Papasan. (Bard.) Narrowing your concentration and becoming more productive. (†)
8
FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH, by Les Gold. (Portfolio/Penguin.) Business advice from the Detroit pawnbroker and reality TV personality.
9
YOUTILITY, by Jay Baer. (Portfolio/Penguin.) A marketing plan to provide free, useful information as a way of building customer relationships. (†)

10 * SMARTTRIBES, by Christine Comaford. (Portfolio/Penguin.) Neuroscience techniques for building teams that perform better. (†)
11
FINDING YOUR ELEMENT, by Ken Robinson with Lou Aronica. (Viking.) Discovering your strengths and passions and achieving your true potential.
12
THE POWER OF HABIT, by Charles Duhigg. (Random House.) A Times reporter’s account of the science behind how we form, and break, habits. (Also available as a downloadable eBook or Audiobook).
13
BIG DATA, by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger and Kenneth Cukier. (Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.) The science of making sense of vast collections of information to change the way we think about business, health, politics and more.
14
12 WEEK YEAR, by Brian P. Moran and Michael Lennington. (Wiley.) Principles for accomplishing more.
15
THE GREAT DEGENERATION, by Niall Ferguson. (Penguin Press.) Institutional degeneration lies behind the West’s economic stagnation geopolitical decline.

About the Best Sellers

A version of this list appears in the July 14, 2013 Sunday Business section of The New York Times. Rankings reflect sales for June 2013.
An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (†) indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders.

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