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Business writer Stuart Crainer's The Ultimate Business Library: 50 Books That Shaped Management Thinking offers an excellent overview of some of the most significant books ever written on the art of management. The selections--alphabetically from Igor Ansoff to Max Weber, and chronologically from 500 B.C. to 1994--are books Crainer feels have the greatest impact on management thought and practice. His insightful summaries of each work, which include Robert Townsend's Up the Organization, Henry Ford's My Life and Work, and Peter Senge's The Fifth Discipline, are preceded by a bio of the author and a commentary by London Business School professor Gary Hamel.