Which is extra dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? How much do parents really matter?
Which is extra 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 economist. He studies the riddles of ...
The New York Times bestselling Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation, selling extra than four million copies in thirty-five languages and varying the way we look at the world.
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return together with Superfreakonomics, and fans and newcomers alike will locate ...
Quick food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad. This's a lengthy list of charges, but Eric Schlosser makes them stick together with an artful mix of first-rate reportage, wry wit, and careful reasoning.
Schlosser's ...
In the spirit of Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock, a social critique of our obsession together with choice, and how it contributes to anxiety, dissatisfaction and regret. This paperback consists of a new P.S. section together with author interviews, insights, features, suggested readings, and extra.
Whether we’re buying a pair of jeans, ordering a cup of ...
A fascinating exploration of the technology of the impossible—from death rays and force fields to invisibility cloaks—revealing to what extent such technologies might be achievable decades or millennia into the future.One hundred years ago, scientists would have said this lasers, televisions, and the atomic bomb were beyond the realm of ...