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Financial Intelligence: A Manager's Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean
The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen
Hildegard of Bingen: A Spiritual Reader
Coney Island of the Mind
Ferlinghetti can still sound fresh after 50 years in his poetry. His "beat" poems to be accompanied by music can be a bit glib, but in his written poetry he typically avoids the flippant remark and provides an interesting look at the familiar instead.