Humor & Entertainment
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-10-20 | Author:Kurt Vonnegut

THE NICE LITTLE PEOPLE It was a hot, dry, glaring July day that made Lowell Swift feel as though every germ and sin in him were being baked out forever. ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-09-10 | Author:Gallo, Carmine [Gallo, Carmine]

It’s Like This . . . Another way to add zip to your language is to create analogies, comparing an idea or a product to a concept or product familiar ...
( Category: Running Meetings & Presentations March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1973-09-30 | Author:Tom Sharpe

Chapter 10 Kommandant van Heerden was not alone in suffering from the illusion that he was having hallucinations. In Piemburg Luitenant Verkramp’s efforts to extirpate subversive elements in the body ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2014 )
mobi | | | Author:Unknown

Back - New Search IS curve A curve showing where ex ante savings and investment are equal. This is a condition of equilibrium in macroeconomic models. The IS curve shows ...
( Category: Economics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2012-02-27 | Author:Charles Duhigg

In 1984, a visiting professor at UCLA named Alan Andreasen published a paper that set out to answer a basic question: Why do some people suddenly change their shopping routines? ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Dan Ariely

* * * “Dan, when we got this car last year I was ecstatic, but now it no longer makes me happy. What do you think about renovating the kitchen?” ...
( Category: Probability & Statistics March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2006-06-06 | Author:Clotaire Rapaille

WHAT’S COOKING? ANYTHING? Like the need for shelter, the biological scheme for dinner is fundamental: all human beings need nourishment. But what is the continuum between the biological requirement to ...
( Category: Workplace Culture March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-03-03 | Author:Dan Ariely

Reflections on the Challenges of Ownership In 2007 and 2008, home values across America plummeted as fast as George W. Bush’s approval ratings. Each month brought with it more bad ...
( Category: Consumer Behavior March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1981-01-02 | Author:James P. Othmer

I briefly worked on one other pharmaceutical account when I was asked to cover for a recently fired creative director on a campaign for a drug that treated something called ...
( Category: Business March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-25 | Author:Jeremy Clarkson

The world will never be safe until Scrabble is banned News from the dusty bit at the back of the toy shop. In the past twelve months, sales of Trivial ...
( Category: Humor March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-20 | Author:Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner

The legend held that thirty-eight people “remained at their windows in fascination” and “watched a killer stalk and stab a woman in three separate attacks” but “not one person telephoned ...
( Category: Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-07 | Author:Steven D. Levitt; Stephen J. Dubner

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 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-03-20 | Author:Michael Lewis

IT WASN’T LONG after a player was traded to Oakland before he realized that his new team ran differently from any of his previous ones, although it generally took him ...
( Category: Management March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Ben Ryder Howe

A WEEK OR so after the sauce delivery, Mother Nature decides that having inflicted one of her coldest winters ever on the East Coast, she needs to throw in a ...
( Category: Business & Professional March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-03-01 | Author:Jamie Reidy

CHAPTER Nine IT’S THE SALES, STUPID DESPITE BEING PRESENT for all my nonworking working hours, I was stunned to discover that my sales stank. I thought that doctors would find ...
( Category: Industrial Relations March 25,2014 )