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Think like a freak : the authors of Freakonomics offer to retrain your brain / Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2015Copyright date: ©2014Edition: First William Morrow paperback editionDescription: xiii, 286 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780062218346 (pbk.)
  • 0062218344 (pbk.)
Subject(s):
Contents:
What does it mean to think like a freak? -- The three hardest words in the English language -- What's your problem? -- Like a bad dye job, the truth is in the roots -- Think like a child -- Like giving candy to a baby -- What do King Solomon and David Lee Roth have in common? -- How to persuade people who don't want to be persuaded -- The upside of quitting.
Summary: Presents a decision-making handbook that analyzes one's decisions, plans, and morals, showing how insights can be applied to daily life to make smarter, harder, and better decisions.
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Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library NonFiction 153.43 L666 Available 33111008130540
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In this major national bestseller and follow-up to Superfreakonomics, the Freakonomics authors are back to take us behind the phenomenon and unveil the tools for thinking like a freak.

With their trademark blend of captivating storytelling and unconventional analysis, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner take us inside their thought process and teach us all how to think a bit more productively, more creatively, more rationally. In Think Like A Freak, they offer a blueprint for an entirely new way to solve problems, whether your interest lies in minor lifehacks or major global reforms. The topics range from business to philanthropy to sports to politics, all with the goal of retraining your brain. Along the way, you'll learn the secrets of a Japanese hot-dog-eating champion, the reason an Australian doctor swallowed a batch of dangerous bacteria, and why Nigerian e-mail scammers make a point of saying they're from Nigeria.

Levitt and Dubner plainly see the world like no one else. Now you can too. Never before have such iconoclastic thinkers been so revealing--and so much fun to read.

This paperback edition includes a new Q&A with the authors.

"With a new author Q & A"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-254) and index.

What does it mean to think like a freak? -- The three hardest words in the English language -- What's your problem? -- Like a bad dye job, the truth is in the roots -- Think like a child -- Like giving candy to a baby -- What do King Solomon and David Lee Roth have in common? -- How to persuade people who don't want to be persuaded -- The upside of quitting.

Presents a decision-making handbook that analyzes one's decisions, plans, and morals, showing how insights can be applied to daily life to make smarter, harder, and better decisions.

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