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 ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2006-05-01 | Author:Daniel Gilbert

Onward Historians use the word presentism to describe the tendency to judge historical figures by contemporary standards. As much as we all despise racism and sexism, these isms have only ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Lingua Franca The theory of preferential attachment is ubiquitous in its applications: it can explain why city size is from Extremistan, why vocabulary is concentrated among a small number of ...

mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2007-04-02 | Author:Malcolm Gladwell

6. Millennium Challenge, Part Two For a day and a half after Red Team’s surprise attack on Blue Team in the Persian Gulf, an uncomfortable silence fell over the JFCOM ...

mobi | | 1994-11-07 | Author:Deepak Chopra

Table of Contents Acknowledgments .................................................................................... Introduction ....................................................................................... The law of pure potentiality ....................................................................... The Law of Giving .................................................................................. The law of “karma” or cause and effect.............................................................. The law of least ...

mobi |eng | 2012-09-15 | Author:Catherine Kaputa

LOOK AT YOUR NAME Do you have a good name? It may be unfair—after all, we don’t choose our names—but your name often creates the first impression people have of ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-03-23 | Author:Sean Aiken

Ian had been an entrepreneur his whole professional career. Before he developed the FIFO bottle, he invented Table Shox, a successful product for preventing wobbly tables. As an entrepreneur, Ian ...

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. ...

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 | 2008-09-29 | Author:Alice Schroeder

45 Call the Tow Truck Omaha • 1982–1989 Once disembarked from the QE II, Susie Buffett listened to her husband’s tales of Mrs. B or whatever his latest fixation might ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2003-10-14 | Author:Jon Meacham

WHEN CHURCHILL ARRIVED at Quebec from Hyde Park on Sunday morning, August 15, Clementine met the train. Mary found her “looking better,” but Mrs. Churchill had not greatly improved. Even ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-18 | Author:Robert Mason

There was a Christmas truce, but we flew anyway, taking patrols out to check on reported VC violations in our territory. I couldn’t get over how bizarre it was. We ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-01-29 | Author:David McCullough

• • • UNTIL A SUITABLE HOUSE could be found, the three Adamses were residing in the Bath Hotel in Piccadilly, where, after the quiet of Auteuil, the noise of ...

mobi, epub | | 2010-12-23 | Author:Randy Pausch;Jeffrey Zaslow

Take a time out. It’s not a real vacation if you’re reading email or calling in for messages. When Jai and I went on our honeymoon, we wanted to be ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-01 | Author:Chris Matthews

CHAPTER TWELVE CHARISMA How does Jack get them girls to squeal that way? —Senator Herman Talmadge of Georgia Jack Kennedy’s singular personal appeal was recognized by Ken O’Donnell for the ...