Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? What kind of impact did Roe v. Wade have on violent crime?
These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much heralded scholar who studies the stuff and riddles of everyday life—from cheating and crime to sports and child rearing—and whose conclusions regularly turn the conventional wisdom on its head. He usually begins with a mountain of data and a simple, unasked question. Some of these questions concern life-and-death issues; others have an admittedly freakish quality. Thus the new field of study contained in this book: freakonomics.
Through forceful storytelling and wry insight, Levitt and co-author Stephen J. Dubner show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives—how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing. In Freakonomics, they set out to explore the hidden side of ... well, everything. The inner workings of a crack gang. The truth about real-estate agents. The myths of campaign finance. The telltale marks of a cheating schoolteacher. The secrets of the Ku Klux Klan.
What unites all these stories is a belief that the modern world, despite a surfeit of obfuscation, complication, and downright deceit, is not impenetrable, is not unknowable, and—if the right questions are asked—is even more intriguing than we think. All it takes is a new way of looking. Steven Levitt, through devilishly clever and clear-eyed thinking, shows how to see through all the clutter.
Freakonomics establishes this unconventional premise: If morality represents how we would like the world to work, then economics represents how it actually does work. It is true that readers of this book will be armed with enough riddles and stories to last a thousand cocktail parties. But Freakonomics can provide more than that. It will literally redefine the way we view the modern world.

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Business & Money

Levitt, Steven D.

Dubner, Stephen J.

Economics

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THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE

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Meyer,Michael

Literary

A contemporary introduction to urban geography by a renowned scholar in the field. As the growing world population increasingly comes to live in cities, the field of urban geography will continue to expand in numbers and significance. This book encompasses both systems of cities and the internal geography of metro areas. * Offers a good balance of theory, concepts and empirical examples. * Primary focus in the United States, with a chapter on global cities and three chapters on cities around the world. * Oriented directly to pressing urban issues such as restructuring, blight, sprawl, and segregation.

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Wheeler, James O.

Holloway, Steven

Kaplan, Dave H.

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Frogs At Bar

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Lees, Chris

Comic Strips

All he wanted was to love... But falling in love was his one mistake. Dumped by his fiancee, self made art entrepreneur, Jasson Vaughn, hides behind his work until his best friend, Ramon introduces him to beautiful hotel executive, Marisa Saunders. But the passionate love affair soon becomes a race against time when his new love is kidnapped. Now Jasson must decide to help drug enforcement agents or give a ruthless drug lord what he wants. With the help of his best friend, Jasson sets out to save the woman he loves. Circumstances however, are not what they seem as Jasson comes face to face again with love's treachery.

The Sorcerer's Mask

Black, Jvictor

Action & Adventure

A composite layering of flavors-Moon On A Platter takes the reader though a series of vignettes detailing the career of a woman Chef and her dreams of success in a male dominated field.

Moon On A Platter

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Ami, Gigi Mon

Professionals & Academics

From the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California to the dark, steaming jungles of Laos in Southeast Asia in the 1960s, Mantracker tells the story of Mike Wa-Heakley, whose outdoor exploits as a child lead to a life of adventure and intrigue, love and loss.Raised by his grandfather on California's North Fork Indian reservation, Mike learns the Indian ways and the history of the tribe. But it is his special gift of tracking animals and covering his trail that will play a pivotal role in his future. Mike's grandfather has been preparing him to enter a world wholly different from anything he's ever known: a fearsome world where men live without honor, women sin, and people use machines to travel and fly.In his early twenties, Mike lands a civil service job as a helicopter mechanic for Southern Airways, first in the United States, then in Laos. He is quickly swept into the murky world of military intelligence, where he earns his Indian name: Mantracker. In what turns out to be the most turbulent period of his existence, Mike risks his life-and his heart-for a chance to live on his own terms.

Mantracker

Ray, Mike

Genre Fiction

Imagine a world without eBay...unthinkable! How would you get that Farrah Fawcett poster, retired Beanie Baby, or first-edition pet rock? Handling over a gazillion (OK, we exaggerate--it's actually only 1 billion) page views each day, server-side Java makes eBay work. Isn't it time you learned the latest (J2EE 1.4) versions of Servlets &amp; JSPs? This book will get you way up to speed on the technology you'll know it so well, in fact, that you can pass the Sun Certified Web Component Developer (SCWCD) 1.4 exam. If that's what you want to do, that is. Maybe you don't care about the exam, but need to use Servlets &amp; JSPs in your next project. You're working on a deadline. You're over the legal limit for caffeine. You can't waste your time with a book that makes sense only AFTER you're an expert (or worse one that puts you to sleep). No problem. Head First Servlets and JSP's brain-friendly approach drives the knowledge straight into your head (without sharp instruments). You'll interact with servlets and JSPs in ways that help you learn quickly and deeply. It may not be The Da Vinci Code, but quickly see why so many reviewers call it "a page turner". Most importantly, this book will help you use what you learn. It won't get you through the exam only to have you forget everything the next day. Learn to write servlets and JSPs, what makes the Container tick (and what ticks it off), how to use the new JSP Expression Language (EL), what you should NOT write in a JSP, how to write deployment descriptors, secure applications, and even use some server-side design patterns. Can't talk about Struts at a cocktail party? That'll change. You won't just pass the exam, you will truly understand this stuff, and you'll be able to put it to work right away. This new exam is tough--much tougher than the previous version of the SCWCD. The authors of Head First Servlets and JSP know: they created it. (Not that it EVER occurred to them that if they made the exam really hard you'd have to buy a study guide to pass it.) The least they could do is give you a stimulating, fun way to pass the thing. If you're one of the thousands who used Head First EJB to pass the SCWCD exam, you know what to expect!

Head First Servlets and JSP: Passing the Sun Certified Web Component Developer Exam (SCWCD)

Computers & Technology

Bert Bates

Kathy Sierra

Bryan Basham

Certification

Money! You always need it but never have it, right? Well, now you're an up-and-coming adult, so it's time to get a new financial plan all your own. Cash, Cars and College will give you that plan. This short book will provide a step-by-step system for making, saving, and spending money - one that will have you started down the road to real riches before you finish college. These simple steps have been used successfully by hundreds of my young adult students (ages 12 to 20) to create cash and win wealth. So hop on the gravy train for yourself, and enjoy the ride!

Cash, Cars and College

Bolon, Janine

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