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What do readers say about Antifragile?
stream of consciousnesscircular and repetitivehard to summarizepainstakingly detailed explanationsAntifragile is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don't understand. The other books in the series are... Read more about Antifragile
To see how alien the concept is to our minds, repeat the experiment and ask around at the next gathering, picnic, or pre-riot congregation what’s the antonym of fragile (and specify insistently that y...
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What do readers say about Fooled by Randomness?
advance uncorrected proofpointless and meanderingvery insightful bookphilosophy and scienceFooled by Randomness is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don't understand. The other books in the s... Read more about Fooled by Randomness
An illustration of the effect of randomness on social pecking order and jealousy, through two characters of opposite attitudes. On the concealed rare event. How things in modern life may change rather...
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What do readers say about The Walls Around Us?
prison and balletsupernatural horror novelweird, circuitous stylea ghost storyA #1 New York Times Bestseller
An NPR Best Book of 2015
A Boston Globe Best Book of 2015
A Chicago Public Library Best Teen Fiction of 2015... Read more about The Walls Around Us
WE WENT WILD that hot night. We howled, we raged, we screamed. We were girls—some of us fourteen and fifteen; some sixteen, seventeen—but when the locks came undone, the doors of our cells gaping open...
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What do readers say about The Millionaire Next Door?
financial literacy bookswhat wealth meanspretty darned empoweringthe true rich"Why aren't I as wealthy as I should be?" Many people ask this question of themselves all the time. Often they are hard-working, well educated middle- to high-income people. Why, then, are so few affluent. For nearly two decades the answer has been f... Read more about The Millionaire Next Door
A reporter recently asked me about the changes I have noticed among the American millionaire population since the current economic meltdown. She wanted to know if the millionaire market is dead given ...
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What do readers say about Thinking, Fast and Slow?
repetitive and somewhat dryerrors in decision makingfaith vs. rationalityconjecture 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 Outliers?
well researched and thought-outpop-academia is irresistibleextremely thought provokingclear 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 The Intelligent Investor?
built on real analysisit's so malewell written and interestingfantastically helpful"By far the best book on investing ever written." - Warren Buffett
The greatest investment advisor of the twentieth century, Benjamin Graham taught and inspired people worldwide. Graham's philosophy of "value investing"-which shields investors from ... Read more about The Intelligent Investor
This chapter will outline the viewpoints that will be set forth in the remainder of the book. In particular we wish to develop at the outset our concept of appropriate portfolio policy for the individ...
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What do readers say about Freakonomics?
casual and straightforward storytellingeverything on the planethard evidence based analysisinteresting and informativeWhich is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool?
What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common?
How much do parents really matter?
These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical ... Read more about Freakonomics
Imagine for a moment that you are the manager of a day-care center. You have a clearly stated policy that children are supposed to be picked up by 4 p.m. But very often parents are late. The result: a...
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What do readers say about The Omnivore's Dilemma?
well written bookinformative and enjoyable readvery accessible and often humorousa fascinating and important bookWhat should we have for dinner? Ten years ago, Michael Pollan confronted us with this seemingly simple question and, with The Omnivore’s Dilemma, his brilliant and eye-opening exploration of our food choices, demonstrated that how we answer it today ... Read more about The Omnivore's Dilemma
Corn is in places you would never think to look. It’s in the wax that coats the other vegetables in the produce section. It goes into the coating that makes the cover of a magazine shine. It’s even pa...
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What do readers say about Predictably Irrational?
it reads easysystematic and predictablewittily and without fanfareinteresting 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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