Health, Fitness & Dieting
epub, mobi | | 2010-06-03 | Author:Levitt, Steven [Steven, Levitt,]

SuperFreakonomics CHAPTER 4 THE FIX IS IN—AND IT’S CHEAP AND SIMPLE It is a fact of life that people love to complain, particularly about how terrible the modern world is ...
( Category: Theory March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-02-26 | Author:Warner, Melanie [Warner, Melanie]

Something Fishy The science of dietary fats has got to be one of the most eye-glazing and head-spinning things in all of human nutrition. The whole business is laden with ...
( Category: Hospitality, Travel & Tourism March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-05-07 | Author:Jaron Lanier [Lanier, Jaron]

PART SIX Democracy CHAPTER 16 Complaint Is Not Enough Governments Are Learning the Tricks of Siren Servers A revolutionary narrative is common in digital politics. Broadly speaking, that narrative counterpoises ...
( Category: Popular Culture March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-05 | Author:Erik Qualman

Advertising within Social Networks Is Actually Effective Because social media lends itself to unobtrusive advertising, that advertising is effective. In a 2008 survey done by Razorfish—“The Razorfish Consumer Experience Report”—76 ...
( Category: Web Marketing March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-16 | Author:Michael Hyatt

130 THIRTY-FOUR Understand What’s Not Important Some time ago, in preparation for a meeting with one of my biggest clients, I visited his website. He wanted to extend the reach ...
( Category: E-Commerce March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-08-02 | Author:Doug Fine [Fine, Doug]

TWENTY-ONE How a Plastic Zip Tie Undergoes a 50,000 Percent Markup and Becomes an Insurance Policy The amount of marijuana available for distribution in the United States is unknown; an ...
( Category: Economic Conditions March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-14 | Author:John Coates [Coates, John]

THE WINNER EFFECT The euphoria, overconfidence and heightened appetite for risk that grip traders during a bull market may result from a phenomenon known in biology as ‘the winner effect’. ...
( Category: Decision-Making & Problem Solving March 26,2014 )
epub | | 2006-03-25 | Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nine • IT IS EASIER TO BUY AND SELL THAN FRY AN EGG Some technical extensions of the survivorship bias. On the distribution of “coincidences” in life. It is preferable ...
( Category: Statistics March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-10 | Author:James Montier

Figure 28.3 Top and bottom value decile performance using EBIT/EV plus ROC. Source: DrKW Macro research. WHAT ABOUT THE LONG/SHORT VIEW? So far we have really only concerned ourselves with ...
( Category: Applied Psychology March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-03-25 | Author:Page, Scott E. [Page, Scott E.]

THE DIVERSITY PREDICTION THEOREM Now that we’ve worked through an example, we’re ready to turn to the more general theorems that reveal the importance of diverse predictive models among the ...
( Category: Performing Arts March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-07-29 | Author:Kelly Coyne

Pickling via Lacto-Fermentation Back before the advent of canning, much less freezing, folks preserved their vegetable harvest via lacto-fermentation. This process, once commonplace, survives today mostly in the form of ...
( Category: Economics March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-25 | Author:Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett [Wilkinson, Richard & Pickett, Kate]

So social mobility is lower and geographical segregation greater in more unequal societies. It is as if greater inequality makes the social structure of society more rigid and movement up ...
( Category: Social Policy March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-31 | Author:Robert Frank [Frank, Robert]

Initially, Tim and Edra tried to keep the divorce civil and private. But like many divorces involving rich people, it quickly devolved into a spectacle of public attacks and money ...
( Category: Class March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-08 | Author:Henry, Todd

ISN’T ENERGY “RENEWABLE”? Few of us think much about how our energy level affects our ability to create. Energy consumption is more difficult to measure than time management and other ...
( Category: Creativity & Genius March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Matthew R. Fairholm & Gilbert W. Fairholm

Encourage High-Performingand Self-led Followers Bennis and Nanus(1985) describe a leader as one who commits people to action, who converts followers into leaders, and who may convert leaders into agents of ...
( Category: Occupational & Organizational March 26,2014 )