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Going Rogue: An American Life HarperCollins One year ago Sarah Palin burst onto the national political stage like a comet Yet even now few Americans know who this remarkable woman really is / On September 3 2008 Alaska Governor and vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin delivered a speech at the Republican National Convention that electrified the nation and instantly made her one of the most recognizable women in the world / As chief executive of Americas largest state she had built a record as a reformer who cast aside politics-as-usual and pushed through changes other politicians only talked about Energy independence Ethics reform And the biggest private sector infrastructure project in U S history And while revitalizing public school funding and ensuring the state met its responsibilities to seniors and Alaska Native populations Palin also beat the political good ol boys club at their own game and brought Big Oil to heel / Like her GOP running mate John McCain Palin wasnt a packaged and over-produced candidate She was a Main Street American woman a working mom wife of a blue collar union man and mother of five children the eldest of whom was serving his country in a yearlong deployment in Iraq and the youngest an infant with special needs Palins hometown story touched a populist nerve rallying hundreds of thousands of ordinary Americans to the GOP ticket / But as the campaign unfolded Palin became a lightning rod for both praise and criticism Supporters called her refreshing and honest a kitchen-table public servant they felt would fight for their interests Opponents derided her as a wide-eyed Pollyanna unprepared for national leadership But none of them knew the real Sarah Palin / In this eagerly anticipated memoir Palin paints an intimate portrait of growing up in the wilds of Alaska meeting her lifelong love her decision to enter politics the importance of faith and family and the unique joys and trials of life as a high-profile working mother She also opens up for the first time about the 2008 presidential race providing a rare moms-eye view of high-stakes national politics from patriots dedicated to Country First to slick politicos bent on winning at any cost / Going Rogue traces one ordinary citizens extraordinary journey and imparts Palins vision of a way forward for America and her unfailing hope in the greatest nation on earth / 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 Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government Threshold Editions ISBN13 9781416595014 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 ig center FUNNY / center / ig / ig center FRIGHTENING / center / ig / ig center TRUE / center / ig / It happens to all of us Youre minding your own business when some idiot informs you that guns are evil the Prius will save the planet or the rich have to finally start paying their fair share of taxes Just go away you think to yourself -- but they only become more obnoxious Your heart rate quickens You start to sweat You cant get away Your only hope is center this book / center / Glenn Beck author of the 1 New York Times bestsellers An Inconvenient Book and Glenn Becks Common Sense has stumbled upon the secret formula to winning arguments against people with big mouths but small minds knowing the facts center And this book is full of them / center / The next time your Idiot Friends tell you how gun control prevents gun violence youll tell them all about Englands handgun ban see page 53 When they tell you that we should copy the UKs health-care system youll recount the horrifying facts you read on page 244 And the next time an idiot tells you that vegetable prices will skyrocket without illegal workers youll stop saying no they wont and youll start saying actually eliminating all illegal labor will cause us to spend just 8 a year more on produce See page 139 Idiots cant be identified through voting records they can be found only by looking for people who hide behind stereotypes embrace partisanship and believe that bumper sticker slogans are a substitute for common sense If you know someone who fits the bill then Arguing with Idiots will help you silence them once and for all with the ultimate weapon the truth 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/ Eating Animals Little, Brown and Company ISBN13 9780316069908 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 r Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian But on the brink of fatherhood-facing the prospect of having to make dietary choices on a childs behalf-his casual questioning took on an urgency His quest for answers ultimately required him to visit factory farms in the middle of the night dissect the emotional ingredients of meals from his childhood and probe some of his most primal instincts about right and wrong Brilliantly synthesizing philosophy literature science memoir and his own detective work Eating Animals explores the many fictions we use to justify our eating habits-from folklore to pop culture to family traditions and national myth-and how such tales can lull us into a brutal forgetting Marked by Foers profound moral ferocity and unvarying generosity as well as the vibrant style and creativity that made his previous books Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close widely loved Eating Animals is a celebration and a reckoning a story about the stories weve told-and the stories we now need to tell / Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen Liberty Mountain Knopf ISBN13 9780307266309 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 Full of incredible characters amazing athletic achievements cutting-edge science and most of all pure inspiration Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question Why does my foot hurt In search of an answer Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world s greatest distance runners and learn their secrets and in the process shows us that everything we thought we knew about running is wrong r r Isolated by the most savage terrain in North America the reclusive Tarahumara Indians of Mexico s deadly Copper Canyons are custodians of a lost art For centuries they have practiced techniques that allow them to run hundreds of miles without rest and chase down anything from a deer to an Olympic marathoner while enjoying every mile of it Their superhuman talent is matched by uncanny health and serenity leaving the Tarahumara immune to the diseases and strife that plague modern existence With the help of Caballo Blanco a mysterious loner who lives among the tribe the author was able not only to uncover the secrets of the Tarahumara but also to find his own inner ultra-athlete as he trained for the challenge of a lifetime a fifty-mile race through the heart of Tarahumara country pitting the tribe against an odd band of Americans including a star ultramarathoner a beautiful young surfer and a barefoot wonder r r With a sharp wit and wild exuberance McDougall takes us from the high-tech science labs at Harvard to the sun-baked valleys and freezing peaks across North America where ever-growing numbers of ultrarunners are pushing their bodies to the limit and finally to the climactic race in the Copper Canyons Born to Run is that rare book that will not only engage your mind but inspire your body when you realize that the secret to happiness is right at your feet and that you indeed all of us were born to run r r r From the Hardcover edition Book Description / r/ Full of incredible characters amazing athletic achievements cutting-edge science and most of all pure inspiration Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question Why does my foot hurt In search of an answer Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world s greatest distance runners and learn their secrets and in the process shows us that everything we thought we knew about running is wrong r/ Isolated by the most savage terrain in North America the reclusive Tarahumara Indians of Mexico s deadly Copper Canyons are custodians of a lost art For centuries they have practiced techniques that allow them to run hundreds of miles without rest and chase down anything from a deer to an Olympic marathoner while enjoying every mile of it Their superhuman talent is matched by uncanny health and serenity leaving the Tarahumara immune to the diseases and strife that plague modern existence With the help of Caballo Blanco a mysterious loner who lives among the tribe the author was able not only to uncover the secrets of the Tarahumara but also to find his own inner ultra-athlete as he trained for the challenge of a lifetime a fifty-mile race through the heart of Tarahumara country pitting the tribe against an odd band of Americans including a star ultramarathoner a beautiful young surfer and a barefoot wonder / With a sharp wit and wild exuberance McDougall takes us from the high-tech science labs at Harvard to the sun-baked valleys and freezing peaks across North America where ever-growing numbers of ultrarunners are pushing their bodies to the limit and finally to the climactic race in the Copper Canyons Born to Run is that rare book that will not only engage your mind but inspire your body when you realize that the secret to happiness is right at your feet and that you indeed all of us were born to run / r/ span class h1 Amazon Exclusive A Q A with Christopher McDougall / / span r/ mg align right border 0 src http / / g-ecx images-amazon com/ images/ G/ 01/ randoEMS/ McDougall credit James Rexroad jpg / Question / Born to Run explores the life and running habits of the Tarahumara Indians of Mexico s Copper Canyon arguably the greatest distance runners in the world What are some A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity Broadway Books ISBN13 9780767928823 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 year was 1957 the month September and I had just turned eight years old Dwight Eisenhower was President but in my life it was the diminutive intense Sister Mary Lurana who ruled at least in the third-grade class where I was held captive For reasons you will soon understand my parents had remanded me to the penal institution of St Brigid s School in Westbury New York a cruel and unusual punishment if there ever was one r r Already I had barely survived my first two years at St Brigid s because I was well a little nitwit Not satisfied with memorizing the Baltimore Catechism s fine prose which featured passages like God made me to show his goodness and to make me happy with him in heaven I was constantly annoying my classmates and of course the no-nonsense Sister Lurana With sixty overactive students in her class she was understandably short on patience For survival she had also become quick on the draw r r Then it happened One day I blurted out some dumb remark and Sister Lurana was on me like a panther Her black habit blocked out all distractions as she leaned down looked me in the eye and uttered words I have never forgotten William you are a bold fresh piece of humanity r r And she was dead-on / One day in 1957 in the third-grade classroom of St Brigid s parochial school an exasperated Sister Mary Lurana bent over a restless young William O Reilly and said William you are a bold fresh piece of humanity Little did she know that she was early in his career as a troublemaker defining the essence of Bill O Reilly and providing him with the title of his brash and entertaining issues-based memoir r r And this time it s personal In his most intimate book yet O Reilly goes back in time to examine the people places and experiences that launched him on his journey from working-class kid to immensely influential television personality and bestselling author Readers will learn how his traditional outlook was formed in the crucible of his family his neighborhood his church and his schools and how his views on America s proper role in the world emerged from covering four wars on five continents over three-plus decades as a news correspondent What will delight his numerous fans and surprise many others is the humor and self-deprecation with which he handles one of his core subjects himself and just how O Reilly 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 Guinness World Records 2010 Guinness World Records Guinness World Records 2010 continues to build on the intriguing informative inspiring and instructional records and superlatives that have made Guinness World Records one of the most famous brands and an annual best-seller around the world Over 100 million copies have sold since the first edition was published in 1955 Nearly 4 million copies are sold every year in more than 100 countries and in 25 languages Whats new in GWR10 - Free downloadable content including videos photographs screensavers and interviews - 100 new photographs and fully updated records - Brilliant new steampunk graphic novel design - New sections and record threads celebrating the first decade of the 21st century - Top 50 Records of the Decade - Record of the Day - one for every day of the year - Unbreakable Records those that will seemingly never be broken - Lasts records such as the last living survivor of the Titanic disaster or the last known dodo - The Names Bond celebrating the James Bond phenomenon - Culture Shock unusual rituals and festivals around the globe - Gold the commodity that never loses its luster - Updated gazetteer sections covering records in all major regions of the world - Fully updated regular sections including Space Planet Earth The Animal Planet The Body Human Achievements Engineering and Technology The Modern World Arts and the Media and of course Sports