Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with more iconoclastic insights and observations in SuperFreakonomics--the long awaited follow-up to their New York Times bestseller. Based on revolutionary research and original studies SuperFreakonomics promises to once again challenge your students' view of the way the world really works.
Levitt and Dubner mix smart thinking and captivating storytelling to show students the hidden side of everything with such questions as: - How is a street prostitute like a department-store Santa? - Why are doctors so bad at washing their hands? - How much good do car seats do? - What's the best way to catch a terrorist? "Thank goodness Levitt and Dubner] are back--with wisdom, wit and, most of all, powerful economic insight. . . . They] wryly, humorously and almost sadistically remind us that we are slaves to our own failures to parse situations into basic economic components."--Los Angeles Times
Автор: Stephen J. Dubner,Steven D. Levitt Название: Freakonomics ISBN: 0141030089 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141030081 Издательство: Random House Рейтинг: Цена: от 791.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть
Описание: Modern life can be baffling and chaotic. Is there any way of making sense of it? The answer, explains groundbreaking thinker Steven Levitt, lies in economics. Not ordinary economics, but freakonomics. It is at the heart of everything we see and do and the subjects that bedevil us daily: from parenting to crime, sport to politics, fat to cheating, fear to traffic jams. In Freakonomics Levitt turns conventional economics on its head, stripping away the jargon and calculations of the experts' to explore the riddles of everyday life and examine topics such as: how chips are more likely to kill you than murder or a terrorist attack; why sportsmen cheat and how fraud can be spotted; why violent crime can be linked not to gun laws, policing or poverty, but to abortion; why a road is more efficient when everyone travels at 20mph; how the name you give your child can give them an advantage in later life; and what really causes obesity epidemics. Ultimately, he shows us that economics is all about how people get what they want, and what makes them do it. Asking provocative and profound questions about human motivation and contemporary living and reaching some astonishing conclusions, Freakonomics will make you see the familiar world through a completely original lens.
Автор: Stephen J. Dubner,Steven D. Levitt Название: Freakonomics ISBN: 0141019018 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141019017 Издательство: Random House Рейтинг: Цена: 1715.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Assume nothing, question everything. This book is about crack dealers, cheating teachers and bizarre baby names that turned everyone`s view of the world upside-down and more.
Описание: The long-awaited paperback edition of FREAKONOMICS, with a new preface, additional material, and an exclusive Q &A with Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner.
Автор: Levitt,Dubner Название: Freakonomics ISBN: 0061131326 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780061131325 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Цена: 1910.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Cyril Levitt, Sabine Sander Название: Myth and Ideology ISBN: 1433172062 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781433172069 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 17845.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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This posthumously published work by Lawrence Krader surveys the study of myths from ancient times (in classical Greece and Rome, Egypt, Babylon, Akkad, Sumer, China), in the Biblical traditions, of the indigenous peoples of the Americas and Australia, and from Northeastern and Central Asia. It also covers the various approaches to the study of myth in Europe in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and Enlightenment, and the Romantic movement in the late eighteenth and early to mid-nineteenth century; it discusses evolutionist, structuralist, hermeneutic, and linguistic approaches. The book covers on the one hand the treatment of myth from the inside, that is from the experience of those committed to the myth, and on the other the perspective of those ethnologists, philosophers and other students of myth who are outsiders. Krader takes up the theme of esoteric and exoteric myths as he rejects some of the assumptions and approaches to the study of myth from the past while singling out others for approval and inclusion in his general theory of myth. The book includes a discussion of myth in science and in infinitesimal mathematics. It also considers the relationship between myth and ideology in the twentieth century in relation to politics and power. It both incorporates and broadens Krader’s theory of nature as a manifold consisting of different orders of space-time which he developed in his magnum opus Noetics: The Science of Thinking and Knowing.
Описание: * A married woman has a BDSM-tinged encounter at a work conference* Two young boys on a sleepover feel the first stirrings of desire* In an artificially generated afterlife, anything can be sexual if you want it to be* A young widow on a sleeper train shelters a criminal in her carriage* A bisexual woman cheats on her wife with a baker
Автор: Levitt B. Blake Название: Cell Towers-- Wireless Convenience? or Environmental Hazard? ISBN: 1450267750 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781450267755 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3157.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Cell towers and 'stealth' antennas are cropping up all over, despite vehement objections from communities. Health and safety questions arise, but are often dismissed by planners & zoners - the people entrusted to protect community welfare - who have been told they cannot consider such questions. But safety concerns about radiofrequency radiation (RF) used in all wireless technologies, span decades and have yet to be resolved, despite increasing exposures. Cell Towers... cuts through the rhetoric to address the complex issues. With chapters by prominent scientists, government officials, physicists, engineers, and attorneys, the book is the most comprehensive and balanced resource available today.
- Are the health concerns justified? What does the science say? - What are the roles of the lead government agencies: EPA? FCC? - Are the RF exposure standards reliable and current? - Are other species - such as birds - of concern? - What about property devaluation? Liability? Case law? - What can communities do? What are good zoning regulations? - Are we on an environmental collision course with ambient energy?
"Finally, a publication dealing with the very timely and important issue of cell towers. Following Levitt's excellent overview of the problem, the book takes us through relevant scientific and regulatory issues in a thorough, easy-to understand manner. This is essential reference work for laypersons, as well as those in science, policy development, regulation, and legislation."
- Jerry L. Phillips, Ph.D., Bioelectromagnetics Consultant, former Research Scientist, Cancer Therapy & Research Center in San Antonio, Texas, and Pettis Memorial VA Hospital in Loma Linda, California
Автор: Levitt Laura Название: The Objects That Remain ISBN: 027108782X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780271087825 Издательство: NBN International Рейтинг: Цена: 4433.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: A personal memoir and examination of the ways in which the material remains of violent crimes, from rape to genocide, inform our experience of, and thinking about, trauma and loss.
Описание: As the neoliberal order decays, we recall Polanyi`s warning against market domination and his trademark ideas: commodified money, the double movement, the US exception development, the reality of society, and socialism as freedom in a complex society. The contributors consider the links between Polanyi`s ideas and income inequality, world systems theory, and comparative political economy. -- .
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