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 ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-07-15 | Author:Ken Auletta

CHAPTER ELEVEN Google Enters Adolescence (2007-2008) For all its democratic ethos, its belief in “the wisdom of crowds,” at Google the engineer is king, held above the crowd. The vaunted ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-09-16 | Author:Michael Blanding

Whether the company colluded with the violence against the union or just benefited from it, the union has been decimated by the constant threats and attacks. In 1993, when Panamco ...

mobi, pdf |eng | 2007-11-01 | Author:Taylor Clark

A Tale of Two Cities So let’s say your petition has failed, the protests you organized weren’t strident enough, and the carefully constructed leaflets you sent out — perhaps featuring ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:David Kirkpatrick

10 Privacy “You have one identity.” How much of ourselves should we show the world? It’s an important question Facebook forces us to confront. Do I want you to know ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-10-20 | Author:Malcolm Gladwell

3. Dershaw picked up a new X-ray and put it on the light box. It belonged to a forty-eight-year-old woman. Mammograms indicate density in the breast: the denser the tissue ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1999-07-15 | Author:Hunter S. Thompson

Willow Cove was a natural Dunkirk. I watched the two remaining deputies; the moment they left, I was leaving too. . . their departure could only mean that things had ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-03-15 | Author:Geoffrey Gray

A few days later, Richard wakes up for National Guard duty. It is dawn. He is putting on his military uniform. He hears pounding on the front door. He races ...

mobi |eng | 1979-12-31 | Author:Adam Parfrey

8) The Extended Weekend — There have been occasional three-day weekends before, but never like this. Long weekends are necessary to allow spending and recreational time while maintaining the illusion ...

mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:The Great Shark Hunt

206 wanted them, but evidence of any kind is always reassuring to have, and I felt that after two or three months of sleep I might be able to use ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1982-12-15 | Author:Hunter S. Thompson

Brazilshooting Rio DE JANEIRO. Brazilian police have a reputation for extreme leniency, and the Brazilian army is said to be the most stable and democratically inclined in all of Latin ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-15 | Author:Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

As the Chicago winter began to settle in, Ms. Bailey asked me to help her with a clothing drive. Tenants and squatters in her building needed winter coats, she said, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-20 | Author:Susan Orlean

Plant Crimes Plants disappear all the time in south Florida. So do most other living things. One day after my trip to Kerry’s Bromeliads, after all the Elaines had disappeared, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Hell's Angels

We were almost to Williams' store, and I suddenly remembered my burr-haired inquisitor with his high-powered language barrier. We made the turn at the bottom of the hill and I ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-03 | Author:Oswalt, Patton [Oswalt, Patton]

SPARKLING WINES CHEBORNEK VLAD ROMANIA VIN SPUMOS $14 Is bubbles! For faggots! SPEZZANIO FAMILY PIEDMONT, ITALY PROSECCO $15 Nino! oh God, Neeeeeee-no! DESSERT WINES MEINGUTENFUHRER ISSINWEIN GERMANY $15 The whitest, ...