Which is more dangerous: a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? How did the legalization of abortionaffect the rate of violent crime?
These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a muchheralded scholar who studies the riddles of everyday life, from cheating and crime to sports and childrearing, and whose conclusions turn the conventional wisdom on its head. Thus the new field of study contained in this audiobook: Freakonomics.
Levitt and coauthor Stephen J. Dubner 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. In Freakonomics, they explore the hidden side of...well, everything. The inner working of a crack gang....The truth about realestate agents....The secrets of the Klu Klux Klan.
What unites all these stories is a belief that the modern world is even more intriguing than we think. All it takes is a new way of looking, and Freakonomics will redefine the way we view the modern world.
Yale professor Dr. Edward Kender's father is undergoing chemotherapy when the supply of a critical accompanying drug, Culovort, suddenly runs out. ....
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Susan B. Anthony Rabinowitz Gersten assumed her marriage was great and why not? Jonah Gersten, M.D., a Park Avenue plastic surgeon, clearly adored her....
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A paradigmchanging examination of what truly motivates us and how to harness that knowledge to find greater satisfaction in our lives and our work....
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Sixth grader Greg Heffley doesn't understand his annoying younger brother, obnoxious older one, or wellmeaning parents....
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Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man is an utterly compelling narrativelyrical, irresistible, harsh, honest, and beautifully writtenfrom which you simply cannot look away....
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Innocent continues the story of Rusty Sabich and Tommy Molto who are, once again, 20 years later, pitted against each other in a riveting psychological match.....
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Two Pulitzer Prize winners expose the most pervasive human rights violation of our era the oppression of women in the developing world and tell us what we can do about it....
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Once again, Bourdain pulls back the curtain, but never pulls his punches, on the modern gastronomical revolution, as only he can....
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Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of its monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul.
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Scott Brick, Cassandra Campbell, Kim Mai Guest, Kirby Heyborne, John Lee, and Richard Matthews
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In his captivating third novel, David Mitchell erases the boundaries of language, genre, and time to offer a meditation on humanity's dangerous will to power, and where it may lead us....
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Last Call is capacious, meticulous, and thrillingly told. It stands as the most complete history of Prohibition ever written and confirms Daniel Okrent's rank as a major American writer....
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In his new nonfiction book, Zeitoun, New York Times bestselling author Dave Eggers tells a Hurricane Katrina story unlike any written before....
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The police can't help you. The press will destroy you. Only one place to turn: the renowned investigation company called Private....
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Something terrible has happened in the snowbound village of Kingdom Come, Wyoming, where 12 eerily identical houses stand dark and abandoned....
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Audible by Alan Twigg
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