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SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance William Morrow ISBN13 9780060889579 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a lockquote The New York Times bestselling Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation selling more than four million copies in thirty-five languages and changing the way we look at the world / / lockquote Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner return with Superfreakonomics and fans and newcomers alike will find that the freak quel is even bolder funnier and more surprising than the first / SuperFreakonomics challenges the way we think all over again exploring the hidden side of everything with such questions as / ul li How is a street prostitute like a department-store Santa / li li What do hurricanes heart attacks and highway deaths have in common / li li Can eating kangaroo save the planet / li / ul Levitt and Dubner mix smart thinking and great storytelling like no one else By examining how people respond to incentives they show the world for what it really is good bad ugly and in the final analysis super freaky Freakonomics has been imitated many times over but only now with SuperFreakonomics has it met its match / Book Description / r/ The New York Times best-selling Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation selling over four million copies in thirty-five languages and changing the way we look at the world Now Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner return with SuperFreakonomics and fans and newcomers alike will find that the freakquel is even bolder funnier and more surprising than the first / Four years in the making SuperFreakonomics asks not only the tough questions but the unexpected ones Whats more dangerous driving drunk or walking drunk Why is chemotherapy prescribed so often if its so ineffective Can a sex change boost your salary / SuperFreakonomics challenges the way we think all over again exploring the hidden side of everything with such questions as / / ul li How is a street prostitute like a department-store Santa / li li Why are doctors so bad at washing their hands / li li How much good do car seats do / li li Whats the best way to catch a terrorist / li li Did TV cause a rise in crime / li li What do hurricanes heart attacks and highway deaths have in common / li li Are people hard-wired for altruism or selfishness / li li Can eating kangaroo save the planet / li li Which adds more value a pimp or a Realtor / li / ul / Levitt and Dubner mix smart thinking and great storytelling like no one else whether investigating a solution to global warming or explaining why the price of oral sex has fallen so drastically By examining how people respond to incentives they show the world for what it really is good bad ugly and in the final analysis super freaky / Freakonomics has been imitated many times over but only now with SuperFreakonomics has it met its match / span class h1 From Superfreakonomics Where do you stand on the freak-o-meter / / span r mg src http / / g-ecx images-amazon com/ images/ G/ 01/ books/ harpercollins-ems/ levitt-dubner300 jpg border 0 hspace 5 vspace 5 align right Four years ago you were cool You read Freakonomics when it first came out You impressed family and friends and dazzled dates with the insights you gleaned Now Steven D Levitt What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures Little, Brown and Company ISBN13 9780316075848 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a --StartFragment-- What is the difference between choking and panicking Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety of ketchup What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers What does hair dye tell us about the history of the 20 sup th / sup century r In the past decade Malcolm Gladwell has written three books that have radically changed how we understand our world and ourselves The Tipping Point Blink and Outliers Now in What the Dog Saw he brings together for the first time the best of his writing from The New Yorker over the same period r Here is the bittersweet tale of the inventor of the birth control pill and the dazzling inventions of the pasta sauce pioneer Howard Moscowitz Gladwell sits with Ron Popeil the king of the American kitchen as he sells rotisserie ovens and divines the secrets of Cesar Millan the dog whisperer who can calm savage animals with the touch of his hand He explores intelligence tests and ethnic profiling and hindsight bias and why it was that everyone in Silicon Valley once tripped over themselves to hire the same college graduate r Good writing Gladwell says in his preface does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you to make you think to give you a glimpse into someone elses head What the Dog Saw is yet another example of the buoyant spirit and unflagging curiosity that have made Malcolm Gladwell our most brilliant investigator of the hidden extraordinary --EndFragment-- Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System---and Themselves Viking Adult ISBN13 9780670021253 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a A real-life thriller about the most tumultuous period in America s financial history by an acclaimed New York Times Reporter / R R Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes moment-by-moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami From inside the corner office at Lehman Brothers to secret meetings in South Korea and the corridors of Washington Too Big to Fail is the definitive story of the most powerful men and women in finance and politics grappling with success and failure ego and greed and ultimately the fate of the world s economy R R We ve got to get some foam down on the runway a sleepless Timothy Geithner the then-president of the Federal Reserve of New York would tell Henry M Paulson the Treasury secretary about the catastrophic crash the world s financial system would experience R R Through unprecedented access to the players involved Too Big to Fail re-creates all the drama and turmoil revealing never disclosed details and elucidating how decisions made on Wall Street over the past decade sowed the seeds of the debacle This true story is not just a look at banks that were too big to fail it is a real-life thriller with a cast of bold-faced names who themselves thought they were too big to fail Outliers: The Story of Success Little, Brown and Company ISBN13 9780316017923 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a In this stunning new book Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of outliers --the best and the brightest the most famous and the most successful He asks the question what makes high-achievers different His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like and too little attention to where they are from that is their culture their family their generation and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires what it takes to be a great soccer player why Asians are good at math and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band R/ R/ R/ Brilliant and entertaining OUTLIERS is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate Amazon Best of the Month November 2008 / Now that hes gotten us talking about the viral life of ideas and the power of gut reactions Malcolm Gladwell poses a more provocative question in em Outliers / em why do some people succeed living remarkably productive and impactful lives while so many more never reach their potential Challenging our cherished belief of the self-made man he makes the democratic assertion that superstars dont arise out of nowhere propelled by genius and talent they are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot Examining the lives of outliers from Mozart to Bill Gates he builds a convincing case for how successful people rise on a tide of advantages some deserved some not some earned some just plain lucky r / r / em Outliers / em can be enjoyed for its bits of trivia like why most pro hockey players were born in January how many hours of practice it takes to master a skill why the descendents of Jewish immigrant garment workers became the most powerful lawyers in New York how a pilots culture impacts their crash record how a centuries-old culture of rice farming helps Asian kids master math But theres more to it than that Throughout all of these examples--and in more that delve into the social benefits of lighter skin color and the reasons for school achievement gaps--Gladwell invites conversations about the complex ways privilege manifests in our culture He leaves us pondering the gifts of our own history and how the world could benefit if more of our kids were granted the opportunities to fulfill their remarkable potential -- em Mari Malcolm / em r/ r/ Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (P.S.) Harper Perennial ISBN13 9780060731335 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a lockquote Which is more dangerous a gun or a swimming pool / What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common / How much do parents really matter / / lockquote These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask But Steven D Levitt is not a typical economist He studies the riddles of everyday life from cheating and crime to parenting and sports and reaches conclusions that turn conventional wisdom on its head Freakonomics is a groundbreaking collaboration between Levitt and Stephen J Dubner an award-winning author and journalist They set out to explore the inner workings of a crack gang the truth about real estate agents the secrets of the Ku Klux Klan and much more Through forceful storytelling and wry insight they show that economics is at root the study of incentives how people get what they want or need especially when other people want or need the same thing / Economics is not widely considered to be one of the sexier sciences The annual Nobel Prize winner in that field never receives as much publicity as his or her compatriots in peace literature or physics But if such slights are based on the notion that economics is dull or that economists are concerned only with finance itself Steven D Levitt will change some minds In Freakonomics written with Stephen J Dubner Levitt argues that many apparent mysteries of everyday life dont need to be so mysterious they could be illuminated and made even more fascinating by asking the right questions and drawing connections For example Levitt traces the drop in violent crime rates to a drop in violent criminals and digging further to the Roe v Wade decision that preempted the existence of some people who would be born to poverty and hardship Elsewhere by analyzing data gathered from inner-city Chicago drug-dealing gangs Levitt outlines a corporate structure much like McDonalds where the top bosses make great money while scores of underlings make something below minimum wage And in a section that may alarm or relieve worried parents Levitt argues that parenting methods dont really matter much and that a backyard swimming pool is much more dangerous than a gun These enlightening chapters are separated by effusive passages from Dubners 2003 profile of Levitt in The New York Times Magazine which led to the book being written In a book filled with bold logic such back-patting veers Freakonomics however briefly away from what Levitt actually has to say Although maybe theres a good economic reason for that too and were just not getting it yet --John Moe The Sellout: How Three Decades of Wall Street Greed and Government Mismanagement Destroyed the Global Financial System HarperBusiness lockquote The definitive account of Wall Streets stunning collapse / / lockquote From critically acclaimed investigative journalist and CNBC personality Charles Gasparino comes a sweeping examination of the most recent volatile anxiety-ridden era in our nations socioeconomic history The Sellout traces the implosion of the financial services business back to its roots in the late 1970s when Wall Street embraced a new business model predicated on taking enormous risks It shows how a backwater business involving the trading of risky bonds packed with mortgages showered countless billions in profits on the financial industry but sowed the seeds of its ultimate demise Gasparino walks readers through Wall Streets three-decades love affair with risk revealing a trail of culpability from the government bureaucrats who crafted housing policies that encouraged homeownership to the Wall Street firms that underwrote and invested in risky debt to the mortgage sellers who handed out loans to people without the financial wherewithal to pay them back to the homeowners who became convinced they could afford mansions on blue-collar wages The ongoing tumult in financial markets and the global economy began when some of our most esteemed financial institutions our government and even average citizens abdicated their collective responsibilities eventually selling out investors and selling off the American Dream itself / In the spirit of classics such as Barbarians at the Gate and Liars Poker this page-turning narrative captures how avarice arrogance and sheer stupidity eroded Wall Streets dominance and profoundly weakened the financial security of millions of middle-class Americans Eye-opening and engrossing The Sellout provides the most thorough investigation to date of this latest gilded era / Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time Penguin Books ISBN13 9780143038252 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a The astonishing uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban s backyard / Anyone who despairs of the individual s power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson a homeless mountaineer who following a 1993 climb of Pakistan s treacherous K2 was inspired by a chance encounter with impoverished mountain villagers and promised to build them a school Over the next decade he built fifty-five schools especially for girls that offer a balanced education in one of the most isolated and dangerous regions on earth As it chronicles Mortenson s quest which has brought him into conflict with both enraged Islamists and uncomprehending Americans Three Cups of Tea combines adventure with a celebration of the humanitarian spirit This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly Princeton University Press ISBN13 9780691142166 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a Throughout history rich and poor countries alike have been lending borrowing crashing--and recovering--their way through an extraordinary range of financial crises Each time the experts have chimed this time is different --claiming that the old rules of valuation no longer apply and that the new situation bears little similarity to past disasters This book proves that premise wrong Covering sixty-six countries across five continents This Time Is Different presents a comprehensive look at the varieties of financial crises and guides us through eight astonishing centuries of government defaults banking panics and inflationary spikes--from medieval currency debasements to todays subprime catastrophe Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff leading economists whose work has been influential in the policy debate concerning the current financial crisis provocatively argue that financial combustions are universal rites of passage for emerging and established market nations The authors draw important lessons from history to show us how much--or how little--we have learned / Using clear sharp analysis and comprehensive data Reinhart and Rogoff document that financial fallouts occur in clusters and strike with surprisingly consistent frequency duration and ferocity They examine the patterns of currency crashes high and hyperinflation and government defaults on international and domestic debts--as well as the cycles in housing and equity prices capital flows unemployment and government revenues around these crises While countries do weather their financial storms Reinhart and Rogoff prove that short memories make it all too easy for crises to recur / An important book that will affect policy discussions for a long time to come This Time Is Different exposes centuries of financial missteps / The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference Back Bay Books ISBN13 9780316346627 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a This celebrated New York Times bestsellernow poised to reach an even wider audience in paperbackis a book that is changing the way North Americans think about selling products and disseminating ideas Gladwells new afterword to this edition describes how readers can constructively apply the tipping point principle in their own lives and work Widely hailed as an important work that offers not only a road map to business success but also a profoundly encouraging approach to solving social problems The best way to understand the dramatic transformation of unknown books into bestsellers or the rise of teenage smoking or the phenomena of word of mouth or any number of the other mysterious changes that mark everyday life writes Malcolm Gladwell is to think of them as epidemics Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do Although anyone familiar with the theory of memetics will recognize this concept Gladwells The Tipping Point has quite a few interesting twists on the subject For example Paul Revere was able to galvanize the forces of resistance so effectively in part because he was what Gladwell calls a Connector he knew just about everybody particularly the revolutionary leaders in each of the towns that he rode through But Revere wasnt just the man with the biggest Rolodex in colonial Boston he was also a Maven who gathered extensive information about the British He knew what was going on and he knew exactly whom to tell The phenomenon continues to this day--think of how often youve received information in an e-mail message that had been forwarded at least half a dozen times before reaching you Gladwell develops these and other concepts such as the stickiness of ideas or the effect of population size on information dispersal through simple clear explanations and entertainingly illustrative anecdotes such as comparing the pedagogical methods of Sesame Street and Blues Clues or explaining why it would be even easier to play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon with the actor Rod Steiger Although some readers may find the transitional passages between chapters hold their hands a little too tightly and Gladwells closing invocation of the possibilities of social engineering sketchy even chilling The Tipping Point is one of the most effective books on science for a general audience in ages It seems inevitable that tipping point like future shock or chaos theory will soon become one of those ideas that everybody knows--or at least knows by name --Ron Hogan The Oz Principle: Getting Results through Individual and Organizational Accountability Portfolio Hardcover ISBN13 9781591840244 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a A decade ago The Oz Principle took the business world by storm At its root the principle works like this Like Dorothy and the gang in The Wizard of Oz most businesspeople have the tools to succeed but when things go wrong they blame circumstance or others instead of looking within for the true cause of unsatisfactory results Once individuals learn to accept responsibility they can use the Oz Principle to become better leaders Now with corporate scandals in the headlines and the culture of victimization running rampant at every level of the business world Roger Connors Tom Smith and Craig Hickman return with a new edition of The Oz Principle Fully revised this edition will update the statistics concepts and relevant companies through fresh timely anecdotes and stories