Social Sciences
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-04 | Author:Nate Silver

The other 94 percent of the time, the Lawyer starts out with a worse hand than ours. The problem is that there are five cards still left to come, and ...
( Category: Probability & Statistics March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-07-18 | Author:Edward S. Herman; Noam Chomsky

5.5.3. THE PARIS PEACE AGREEMENTS The Tet offensive convinced large sectors of elite opinion that the costs of the U.S. effort were too high. Lyndon Johnson stepped down. In what ...
( Category: Media & Internet March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-03-07 | Author:Daniel H. Pink

Bomeisler is a sympathetic teacher with the gentle manner of Mr. Rogers had Mr. Rogers done time on Paris’s left bank. During each drawing exercise, he glides around the room ...
( Category: African-American Studies 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 |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 | 2013-01-29 | Author:Al Gore

THIS CHAPTER BEGAN with a discussion of how we are, for the first time, changing the “being” in human being. We are also changing the other beings to which we ...
( Category: Systems & Planning March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-10-05 | Author:Steven Johnson

In the late nineties, a Stanford Business School professor named Martin Ruef decided to investigate the relationship between business innovation and diversity. Ruef was interested in the coffeehouse model of ...
( Category: Creativity & Genius March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-11-18 | Author:Malcolm Gladwell

CHAPTER SEVEN The Ethnic Theory of Plane Crashes "CAPTAIN, THE WEATHER RADAR HAS HELPED US A LOT." 1. On the morning of August 5, 1997, the captain of Korean Air ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-06-10 | Author:Clay Shirky

Kelly’s conclusion that defaults allow the designer to steer the system is critical. Defaults don’t drive the system, because they don’t create the motivations to use it. They simply steer ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-07-12 | Author:Alison Thompson

CHAPTER 9 By May, life in Peraliya was beginning to feel like something out of Lord of the Flies. We had to watch our backs, as some villagers had nothing ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-05-19 | Author:Pam Grout

* * * ANOTHER THOUGHTFUL, COMMITTED CITIZEN: IAN MCKILLOP After reading an article about international volunteering in Canada’s Globe and Mail, Ian McKillop, a risk analyst from Halifax, Nova Scotia, ...
( Category: Philanthropy & Charity March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2007-05-01 | Author:Monica Samuels; J. C. Conklin

* * * ATHLETIC RESOURCES • Luna tours offers beginning bicycle tours just for women, www.lunatours.com. • American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance gives a national overview ...
( Category: Job Hunting & Careers March 25,2014 )
mobi, azw, epub |eng | 2010-01-26 | Author:Seth Godin

When Did the Resistance Take Over Your Life? When you were a kid, beautiful art—questions, curiosity, and spontaneity—poured out of you. The resistance was only starting to figure out how ...
( Category: Motivation & Self-Improvement March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-25 | Author:Chip Heath

IT WAS PRECISELY THE fear of being overcome by emotion that led Andrew Hallam, a Canadian high-school English teacher, to invent his own car-buying process. Hallam was no ordinary teacher. ...
( Category: Decision-Making & Problem Solving March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2007-09-16 | Author:Stiglitz, Joseph E. [Stiglitz, Joseph E.]

What, then, is the advantage? It avoids setting national target levels. The reason that setting target levels is so difficult is that each country’s circumstances differ. The United States might ...
( Category: Economics March 25,2014 )