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The Google-Trap is nominated for the “getAbstract International Book Award”

The Google Trap was nominated for the economics-related “getAbstract International Book Award” that will be issued for the 8th time at the Frankfurt Book Convention on 15. October 2008. Of more than 10,000 English and German books in the categories Business Administration, Management, Marketing, Human Resources, Finances and Careers, ten where selected for the final nominations.

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The nominees are:

DEUTSCH:
Die Geldverbesserer by Martin Gerth, FinanzBuch Verlag
Die Google-Falle by Gerald Reischl, Verlag Carl Ueberreuter

Humanomics by Uwe Jean Heuser, Campus Verlag

Die Karriere-Bibel by Jochen Mai, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag (dtv)

Vorbeben by Wolfgang Münchau, Carl Hanser Verlag

ENGLISCH:
Economic Facts and Fallacies by Thomas Sowell, Basic Books/ Perseus Books 

The Game-Changer by A.G. Lafley and Ram Charan, Crown/ Random House, Inc.

Hot, Flat, and Crowded von Thomas L. Friedman, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. 

Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets von William Bonner and Lila Rajiva, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 

The Subprime Solution von Robert J. Shiller, Princeton University Press

of these ten nominations, four – two in German and two in English - will receive the award. The nomination alone already makes me very happy and gives me the courage to continue to focus on the topic…

getAbstract is the world-leading provider of book summaries. Each year about 800 of the most significant books in the fields of Economics, Management, Finances, Human Resources and Marketing are selected and summarized.

Details about the the “getAbstract International Book Award” and a list of the previous recipients are listed here.

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