Sociology
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Rebecca Solnit
Part III LIVES OF THE STREETS * * * * * * There are few greater delights than to walk up and down them in the evening alone with thousands ...
( Category:
Running & Jogging
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-28 | Author:Jonathan Kozol [Kozol, Jonathan]
– II – Pineapple’s years at P.S. 65 were nearly at an end. During the spring, the pastor of St. Ann’s began to probe the possibilities of winning her admission ...
( Category:
Urban
March 26,2014 )
epub | | 2010-06-03 | Author:Levitt, Steven [Steven, Levitt,]
FREAKONOMICS: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Chapter 5 What Makes a Perfect Parent? Has there ever been another art so devoutly converted into a science as ...
( Category:
Probability & Statistics
March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-07-04 | Author:Ori Brafman [Brafman, Ori]
CHAPTER 5 The Seductive Power of Similarity Twenty-year-old Kelly Hildebrandt1 came home from work one day in February 2008, sat at her computer, and indulged in a guilty pleasure: conducting ...
( Category:
Interpersonal Relations
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gladwell, Malcolm
FOUR The Power of Context (Part One) BERNIE GOETZ AND THE RISE AND FALL OF NEW YORK CITY CRIME On December 22, 1984, the Saturday before Christmas, Bernhard Goetz left ...
( Category:
Social Psychology & Interactions
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-06 | Author:Malcolm Gladwell [GLADWELL, MALCOLM]
It had only been about twenty minutes since they had arrived at the party when Jill pulled Steve aside, obviously bothered about something. “What’s wrong?” asked Steve. “It’s Larry. I ...
( Category:
General
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-04 | Author:Paul Tough [Tough, Paul]
The first day and a half was pretty bad. I was on a complete rampage, going over every game and being a huge bitch all the time: saying things like ...
( Category:
Reform & Policy
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Thomas Sowell [Sowell, Thomas]
ECONOMIC "PLANNING" Economic "planning" is one of many politically misleading expressions. Every economic activity under every conceivable form of society has been planned. What differs are the decision making units ...
( Category:
Decision-Making & Problem Solving
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-28 | Author:Carl Honore [Honore, Carl]
CHAPTER NINE CROWDSOURCE: The Wisdom of the Masses Two heads are better than one. Proverb “Thetta reddast” is an expression you hear in Iceland a lot these days. It roughly ...
( Category:
Cognitive Psychology
March 26,2014 )
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, pdf |eng | 2004-03-25 | Author:Lawrence Lessig [Lessig, Lawrence]
Derivative works were now regulated by copyright law—if published, which again, given the economics of publishing at the time, means if offered commercially. But noncommercial publishing and transformation were still ...
( Category:
Communication & Media Studies
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, mobi |eng | 2011-03-25 | Author:Paul Gilding
Let no waste go to waste Ensure that all used materials are recycled and reused, at the very least to recover the embedded energy. To force this, limit production of ...
( Category:
Economics
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-19 | Author:Edward Humes [Humes, Edward]
TRASHY DELUSIONS From a Garbage Project study for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, on the Lean Cuisine syndrome (how people overestimate and underestimate their consumption of certain foods based on ...
( Category:
Environmental
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 )
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