Principles of Corporate Finance by Brealey & Myers is a standard book with a fine exposition of the theoretical basis of modern financial thinking.  An essential for your book shelf. ISBN: 0070074178

Another classic!  Considered as the single best guide to the analysis of economic value.   ISBN: 0471009938

From the acclaimed master of the valuation process--a unique guide for valuing companies as well as equities, bonds, options, futures, and more. Using real examples involving actual companies and securities, Damodaran guides readers through the theory and application of every current valuation model. Includes a special section on valuing unconventional assets. ISBN: 0471133930

Current business practice is changing rapidly with advances in Information Technology and Telecommunications.   Business Process Re-engineering is the structured approach to applying the new technologies in your business.  This book places the potential of this tool in perspective.  ISBN: 0749421096

Damodaran is widely viewed as one of the very best writers and teachers of Finance.  Applied Corporate Finance provides a user's perspective to corporate finance.  This is a book about coming up with real solutions to real problems, using real-time data on real companies. ISBN: 0471330426

A salutary book at the turn of the millennium.  A sobering tour of the global economic crises of the last two years.    Surely the Great Depression could never happen again. Or could it? An excellent and thought provoking read. ISBN: 039304839X

Essential reading for CEO's. A book with immediate application to your business.  Its powerful framework provides the tools to understand the drivers of cost and a company's relative cost position. Porter's value chain enables managers to isolate the underlying sources of buyer value that will command a premium price, and the reasons why one product or service substitutes for another. He shows how competitive advantage lies not only in activities themselves but in the way activities relate to each other, to supplier activities, and to customer activities. Competitive Advantage also provides for the first time the tools to strategically segment an industry and rigorously assess the competitive logic of diversification.
ISBN: 0684841460

Financial Modelling is a practical book on how to do the calculations and simulations needed to implement some commonly-used models in corporate finance and investments. The book comes with a diskette containing the spreadsheet models described in the text plus solutions to nearly all of the end-of-chapter problems.  ISBN: 0262024373