An Amazon Best Book of the Year in Business and Leadership
New York Times Bestseller
Foreword by Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of our Nature
Blending the informed analysis of The Signal and the Noise with the instructive iconoclasm of Think Like a Freak, a fascinating, illuminating, and witty look at what the vast amounts of information now instantly available to us reveals about ourselves and our world--provided we ask the right questions.
By the end of an average day in the early twenty-first century, human beings searching the internet will amass eight trillion gigabytes of data. This staggering amount of information--unprecedented in history--can tell us a great deal about who we are--the fears, desires, and behaviors that drive us, and the conscious and unconscious decisions we make. From the profound to the mundane, we can gain astonishing knowledge about the human psyche that less than twenty years ago, seemed unfathomable.
Everybody Lies offers fascinating, surprising, and sometimes laugh-out-loud insights into everything from economics to ethics to sports to race to sex, gender and more, all drawn from the world of big data. What percentage of white voters didn't vote for Barack Obama because he's black? Does where you go to school effect how successful you are in life? Do parents secretly favor boy children over girls? Do violent films affect the crime rate? Can you beat the stock market? How regularly do we lie about our sex lives and who's more self-conscious about sex, men or women?
Investigating these questions and a host of others, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz offers revelations that can help us understand ourselves and our lives better. Drawing on studies and experiments on how we really live and think, he demonstrates in fascinating and often funny ways the extent to which all the world is indeed a lab. With conclusions ranging from strange-but-true to thought-provoking to disturbing, he explores the power of this digital truth serum and its deeper potential--revealing biases deeply embedded within us, information we can use to change our culture, and the questions we're afraid to ask that might be essential to our health--both emotional and physical. All of us are touched by big data everyday, and its influence is multiplying. Everybody Lies challenges us to think differently about how we see it and the world.
Автор: Stephens John Название: The Emerald Atlas ISBN: 037587271X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780375872716 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 827.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: "A strong . . .
new trilogy, invoking just a littleHarry PotterandSeries of Unfortunate Eventsalong the way."Realms of Fantasy
Siblings Kate, Michael, and Emma have been in one orphanage after another for the last ten years, passed along like lost baggage.
Yet these unwanted children are more remarkable than they could possibly imagine. Ripped from their parents as babies, they are being protected from a horrible evil of devastating power, an evil they know nothing about.
Until now.
Before long, Kate, Michael, and Emma are on a journey through time to dangerous and secret corners of the world . .
. a journey of allies and enemies, of magic and mayhem. Andif an ancient prophesy is truewhat they do can change history, and it's up to them to set things right.
"A new Narnia for the tween set."TheNew York Times "[A]fast-paced, fully imagined fantasy."Publishers Weekly
"Echoes of other popular fantasy series, from "Harry Potter" to the "Narnia" books, are easily found, but debut author Stephens has created a new and appealing read .
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Автор: Stephens Mary Название: Gold Experience B2 SB +DVD ISBN: 144796196X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781447961963 Издательство: Pearson Education Рейтинг: Цена: 6887.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Gold Experience — курс для подготовки к экзаменам мотивирует подростков, благодаря интересным и соответствующим возрасту современным темам, а также богатым материалам из разных областей знаний, позволяющим преподавателям использовать межпредметные связи в обучении языку.Курс создан специально для подготовки к экзаменам Cambridge for Schools, а значит, учитывает особенности экзамена и позволяет максимально эффективно к нему подготовиться.Книга ресурсных материалов доступна только в электронном формате в режиме онлайн и на диске Teacher»s eText Disc. Для получения учительского доступа к MyEnglishLab или Resource Material with Testmasters необходимо обратиться в представительство Pearson.
Автор: Stephens, John Название: Fire Chronicle: The Books of Beginning 2 ISBN: 0857530852 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857530851 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Цена: 1715.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Stephens Helen (illus) Название: Bedtime For Baby ISBN: 1405019883 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781405019880 Издательство: Pan Macmillan Рейтинг: Цена: 576.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Babies will enjoy pointing out familiar objects and peeking behind the big flaps in this bedtime story. Simple integrated flaps and repetitive refrains are used throughout.
Автор: John Stephens Название: The Fire Chronicle: The Books of Beginning 2 ISBN: 0857530879 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857530875 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Цена: 1319.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Stephens Helen Название: How to Hide a Lion from Grandma ISBN: 1407170619 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781407170619 Издательство: Scholastic UK Рейтинг: Цена: 923.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Now available as a chunky board book, this warm and funny follow-up to the bestselling picture book, HOW TO HIDE A LION, is certain to be a winner with children everywhere. What can Iris do when Grandma comes to stay - can she keep her lion a secret? But Iris is sure Grandma has a secret of her own - what on earth is she hiding in her bedroom?
Автор: Stephens John Название: The Black Reckoning ISBN: 0375868720 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780375868726 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 1654.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: The final book in the bestselling Books of Beginning trilogy that began with The Emerald Atlas, which the New York Times called ';a new Narnia for the tween set.'
The adventures of siblings Kate, Michael, and Emma come to a stunning conclusion when they must find the last Book of Beginningthe Book of Deathbefore the Dire Magnus does, for when all three books are united, their combined power will be unstoppable.
Soon Emma is on a journey to places both worldly and otherworldly, confronting terrifying monsters and ghosts, and what is darkest within herself. As the fabric of time begins to fray, she becomes the final piece of an extraordinary puzzle.
Only if she can master the powers of this most dangerous book will she, Kate, and Michael be able to save the world from the dramatic, deadly final confrontation between magical and ordinary people that the Dire Magnus has in store.
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