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What do readers say about Thinking, Fast and Slow?
repetitive and somewhat dry errors in decision making faith vs. rationality conjecture and illustrative storiesMajor New York Times bestseller
Over two million copies sold
Selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the ten best books of 2011
Selected by The Wall Street Journal as one of the best nonfiction books of 2011... Read more about Thinking, Fast and Slow
Your experience as you look at the woman’s face seamlessly combines what we normally call seeing and intuitive thinking. As surely and quickly as you saw that the young woman’s hair is dark, you knew ...
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What do readers say about The Undercover Economist?
wide-ranging without being scattershot clear and informative language who gets what how economic systems work"The economy [isn't] a bunch of rather dull statistics with names like GDP (gross domestic product)," notes Tim Harford, columnist and regular guest on NPR's Marketplace, "economics is about who gets what and why." In this acclaimed and riveting book... Read more about The Undercover Economist
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What do readers say about Outliers?
well researched and thought-out pop-academia is irresistible extremely thought provoking clear and entertainingLearn what sets high achievers apart - from Bill Gates to the Beatles - in this #1 bestseller from "a singular talent" (New York Times Book Review).
In this stunning book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "... Read more about Outliers
One warm, spring day in May of 2007, the Medicine Hat Tigers and the Vancouver Giants met for the Memorial Cup hockey championships in Vancouver, British Columbia. The Tigers and the Giants were the t...
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What do readers say about Guns, Germs, and Steel?
smooth and articulate informative and thought-provoking widely read and popular straight forward argumentWhy did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? Evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental f... Read more about Guns, Germs, and Steel
ASUITABLE STARTING POINT FROM WHICH TO COMPARE historical developments on the different continents is around 11,000 B.C.* This date corresponds approximately to the beginnings of village life in a few...
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What do readers say about Basic Economics?
clear, jargon-free prose student text book clear and thorough the subprime mortgage crisisThe bestselling citizen's guide to economics
Basic Economics is a citizen's guide to economics, written for those who want to understand how the economy works but have no interest in jargon or equations. Bestselling economist Thomas Sowell explains t... Read more about Basic Economics
Whether one is a conservative or a radical, a protectionist or a free trader, a cosmopolitan or a nationalist, a churchman or a heathen, it is useful to know the causes and consequences of economic ph...
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What do readers say about Naked Economics?
well-written and approachable an approachable introduction highly accessible way a great overviewFinally! A book about economics that won't put you to sleep. In fact, you won't be able to put this one down.
Naked Economics makes up for all of those Econ 101 lectures you slept through (or avoided) in college, demystifying key concepts, laying ba... Read more about Naked Economics
In 1989, as the Berlin Wall was toppling, Douglas Ivester, head of Coca-Cola Europe (and later CEO), made a snap decision. He sent his sales force to Berlin and told them to start passing out Coke. Fr...
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What do readers say about Predictably Irrational?
it reads easy systematic and predictable wittily and without fanfare interesting and thought provoking"A marvelous book… thought provoking and highly entertaining."
-Jerome Groopman, New York Times bestselling author of How Doctors Think
"Ariely not only gives us a great read; he also makes us much wiser."
-George Akerlof, 2001 Nobel Laureate in ... Read more about Predictably Irrational
Have you ever grabbed for a coupon offering a FREE! package of coffee beans—even though you don’t drink coffee and don’t even have a machine with which to brew it? What about all those FREE! extra hel...
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What do readers say about Blink?
it was very interesting how people make decisions how the brain works very effortless to readFrom the #1 bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia, the landmark book that has revolutionized the way we understand leadership and decision making.
In his breakthrough bestseller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the wo... Read more about Blink
Some years ago, a young couple came to the University of Washington to visit the laboratory of a psychologist named John Gottman. They were in their twenties, blond and blue-eyed with stylishly tousle...
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What do readers say about The Big Short?
the subprime mortgage disaster entertaining and informative first person narratives the sub-prime mortgage crisisFeaturing an Exclusive Audio Interview with Michael Lewis
When the crash of the U.S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it was already old news. The real crash, the silent crash, had taken place over the previous year, in bizar... Read more about The Big Short
Eisman entered finance about the time I exited it. He’d grown up in New York City, gone to yeshiva schools, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania magna cum laude, and then with honors from Har...
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What do readers say about An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Na...?
very verbose, antiquated english long, boring, and dated very detailed, great analysis a book describing societyThe complete five unabridged books of The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith. This epic collection of economic ideas show that people and free markets drive improvements, not governments and regulation.
First published the same year as the Declaration o... Read more about An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Na...
The greatest improvements in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment, with which it is anywhere directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects ...
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