The New Penguin Business Dictionary

This compact handbook contains business information of all sorts, and is nearly as entrancing to read as a novel. We find biographical notes, financial concepts, marketing terms, historical events and even psychological theories ('cognitive dissonance,' 'the hierarchy of needs,' among others). The writers have accomplished the miraculous: brief, accurate and memorable essays on the central concepts of business in the modern age. Keep it close at hand, read it on the train, quote it-- people will think you're a genius.