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  • The Why Axis

    Hidden Motives and the Undiscovered Economics of Everyday Life

    by Uri Gneezy, John List ...
    Can economics be passionate? Can it center on people and what really matters to them day-in and day-out. And help us understand their hidden motives for why they do what they do in everyday life?Uri Gneezy and John List are revolutionaries. Their ideas and methods for revealing what really works in addressing big social, business, and economic problems gives us new understanding of the motives ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Scale-Up Effect in Early Childhood and Public Policy

    Why Interventions Lose Impact at Scale and What We Can Do About It

    Edited by John List, Dana Suskind, Lauren Supplee ...
    This critical volume combines theoretical and empirical work across disciplines to explore what threatens scalability—and what enables it—in the early childhood field. Authors and editors provide specific recommendations to help professionals refine and apply the science of scaling in their programs, research, and decision making.Written by leading experts in early childhood, economics, psychology ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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    A Very Short Introduction

    by Baruch Fischhoff, John Kadvany ...
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    We find risks everywhere--from genetically modified crops, medical malpractice, and stem-cell therapy to intimacy, online predators, identity theft, inflation, and robbery. They arise from our own acts and they are imposed on us. In this Very Short Introduction, Baruch Fischhoff and John Kadvany draw on the sciences and humanities to explore and explain the many kinds of risk. Using simple ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Gift of Adversity

    The Unexpected Benefits of Life's Difficulties, Setbacks, and Imperfections

    by Norman E Rosenthal MD ...
    Now in paperback—this acclaimed book from Norman Rosenthal, the New York Times–bestselling author and research psychiatrist, shows how life’s disappointments and difficulties provide us with the lessons we need to become happier and more resilient human beings.Winner of the 2014 Nautilus Award represents “Better Books for a Better World”—the Silver Award in the category of Heroic Journeys ... Read more

    Was $11.99 USD Now $6.99 USD

  • Moral Tribes

    Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them

    by Joshua Greene ...
    “Surprising and remarkable…Toggling between big ideas, technical details, and his personal intellectual journey, Greene writes a thesis suitable to both airplane reading and PhD seminars.”—The Boston GlobeOur brains were designed for tribal life, for getting along with a select group of others (Us) and for fighting off everyone else (Them). But modern times have forced the world’s tribes into a ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Practical Wisdom

    The Right Way to Do the Right Thing

    by Barry Schwartz, Kenneth Sharpe ...
    A reasoned yet urgent call to embrace and protect the essential, practical human quality that has been drummed out of our lives: wisdom.It's in our nature to want to succeed. It's also human nature to want to do right. But we've lost how to balance the two. How do we get it back?Practical Wisdom can help. "Practical wisdom" is the essential human quality that combines the fruits of our individual ... Read more

    Was $13.99 USD Now $7.99 USD

  • Dark Territory

    The Secret History of Cyber War

    by Fred Kaplan ...
    “An important, disturbing, and gripping history” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), the never-before-told story of the computer scientists and the NSA, Pentagon, and White House policymakers who invent and employ cyber wars—where every country can be a major power player and every hacker a mass destroyer.In June 1983, President Reagan watched the movie War Games, in which a teenager unwittingly ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • The Improbability Principle

    Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day

    by David J. Hand ...
    "Human beings are a superstitious lot; we see patterns everywhere. But as Hand makes clear in this enlightening book, it all comes down to the math." —Jennifer Ouellette, The New York Times Book ReviewA Success Magazine Best Book of the YearIn The Improbability Principle, the renowned statistician David J. Hand argues that extraordinarily rare events are anythi... ... Read more

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  • Give and Take

    Why Helping Others Drives Our Success

    by Adam Grant ...
    A groundbreaking look at why our interactions with others hold the key to success, from the New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Potential, Think Again, and OriginalsFor generations, we have focused on the individual drivers of success: passion, hard work, talent, and luck. But in today’s dramatically reconfigured world, success is increasingly dependent on how we interact with others. In ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Death of Money

    The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System

    by James Rickards ...
    The next financial collapse will resemble nothing in history. . . . Deciding upon the best course to follow will require comprehending a minefield of risks, while poised at a crossroads, pondering the death of the dollar.The U.S. dollar has been the global reserve currency since the end of World War II. If the dollar fails, the entire international monetary system will fail with it. But optimists ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

    What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

    by Nicholas Carr ...
    Finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction: “Nicholas Carr has written a Silent Spring for the literary mind.”—Michael Agger, Slate“Is Google making us stupid?” When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life

    A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life

    by Avinash K. Dixit, Barry J. Nalebuff ...
    “I am hard pressed to think of another book that can match the combination of practical insights and reading enjoyment.”—Steven LevittGame theory means rigorous strategic thinking. It’s the art of anticipating your opponent’s next moves, knowing full well that your rival is trying to do the same thing to you. Though parts of game theory involve simple common sense, much is counterintuitive, and it ... Read more

    $13.69 USD