Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with more iconoclastic insights and observations in SuperFreakonomics--the long awaited follow-up to their New York Times bestseller. Based on revolutionary research and original studies SuperFreakonomics promises to once again challenge your students' view of the way the world really works.
Levitt and Dubner mix smart thinking and captivating storytelling to show students the hidden side of everything with such questions as: - How is a street prostitute like a department-store Santa? - Why are doctors so bad at washing their hands? - How much good do car seats do? - What's the best way to catch a terrorist? "Thank goodness Levitt and Dubner] are back--with wisdom, wit and, most of all, powerful economic insight. . . . They] wryly, humorously and almost sadistically remind us that we are slaves to our own failures to parse situations into basic economic components."--Los Angeles Times
Автор: Stephen J. Dubner,Steven D. Levitt Название: Freakonomics ISBN: 0141030089 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141030081 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: от 791.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть
Описание: Modern life can be baffling and chaotic. Is there any way of making sense of it? The answer, explains groundbreaking thinker Steven Levitt, lies in economics. Not ordinary economics, but freakonomics. It is at the heart of everything we see and do and the subjects that bedevil us daily: from parenting to crime, sport to politics, fat to cheating, fear to traffic jams. In Freakonomics Levitt turns conventional economics on its head, stripping away the jargon and calculations of the experts' to explore the riddles of everyday life and examine topics such as: how chips are more likely to kill you than murder or a terrorist attack; why sportsmen cheat and how fraud can be spotted; why violent crime can be linked not to gun laws, policing or poverty, but to abortion; why a road is more efficient when everyone travels at 20mph; how the name you give your child can give them an advantage in later life; and what really causes obesity epidemics. Ultimately, he shows us that economics is all about how people get what they want, and what makes them do it. Asking provocative and profound questions about human motivation and contemporary living and reaching some astonishing conclusions, Freakonomics will make you see the familiar world through a completely original lens.
Автор: Stephen J. Dubner,Steven D. Levitt Название: Freakonomics ISBN: 0141019018 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141019017 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1451.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Assume nothing, question everything. This book is about crack dealers, cheating teachers and bizarre baby names that turned everyone`s view of the world upside-down and more.
Автор: Levitt, Greg Название: Depths of france ISBN: 1398447285 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781398447288 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1648.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: The story explores the lives of a French 'Yeoman' farming family and their village, from the beginning of the period of unprecedented prosperity, after World War II until today, in the depths of the French countryside far from any large towns.Through a series of hilarious events the story describes the hardships of their traditional daily life punctuated by the distractions which made their lives enjoyable.The novel revolves around the 'Fournier' family who live in the fictitious village of 'Nuilly', and in particular their son who becomes a teacher of English and develops a friendship with an English family. Through the Fournier family we also witness their rustic culture embracing hard physical work, milking cows 365 days of the year in winter temperatures as low as -20 Celsius, and their love of good food and wines much of which they produce themselves.Through the visits of their English friends we receive a sympathetic outside appreciation of their lives, but also follow the story of the family's triumphs, followed by sadness, as the family's fortunes decline as a result of financially driven farm expansion followed by a business fraud.The subsequent debt impoverishes the family.However, the son Jean-Luc refuses to leave the village and understands the current demise of rural France through the changes to his own village and its surroundings and he is sustained by memories of Candice, his lost love.
Автор: Levitt, Atma Jo Ann, M.a., R.n. Название: Pilgrim of love ISBN: 097493593X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780974935935 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 4137.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Brings together a wide range of information - ecology, fisheries, oceanography, mathematics, risk-assessment, resource economics, and institutional dynamics - to show how we can better understand, address trade-offs in, and implement successful management of marine resources. Provides useful tools and ideas to the fisheries scientific community, resource managers, policy makers, and stakeholders.
Автор: Levitt Mike Название: Rugby Rookies ISBN: 1459415744 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781459415744 Издательство: Sage Publications Цена: 4826.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: This is a story driven book about changing school culture from `me first` to `us` through curriculum and pedagogical change. Mr. Levitt addresses bullying, bystander behavior, shunning, and forgiveness, while emphasizing connections and mutuality of interest and suggesting real life opportunities to demonstrate how we are `All in it Together.`
Описание: This is a story driven book about changing school culture from `me first` to `us` through curriculum and pedagogical change. Mr. Levitt addresses bullying, bystander behavior, shunning, and forgiveness, while emphasizing connections and mutuality of interest and suggesting real life opportunities to demonstrate how we are `All in it Together.`
Автор: Cyril Levitt, Sabine Sander Название: Myth and Ideology ISBN: 1433172062 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781433172069 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 17845.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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This posthumously published work by Lawrence Krader surveys the study of myths from ancient times (in classical Greece and Rome, Egypt, Babylon, Akkad, Sumer, China), in the Biblical traditions, of the indigenous peoples of the Americas and Australia, and from Northeastern and Central Asia. It also covers the various approaches to the study of myth in Europe in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and Enlightenment, and the Romantic movement in the late eighteenth and early to mid-nineteenth century; it discusses evolutionist, structuralist, hermeneutic, and linguistic approaches. The book covers on the one hand the treatment of myth from the inside, that is from the experience of those committed to the myth, and on the other the perspective of those ethnologists, philosophers and other students of myth who are outsiders. Krader takes up the theme of esoteric and exoteric myths as he rejects some of the assumptions and approaches to the study of myth from the past while singling out others for approval and inclusion in his general theory of myth. The book includes a discussion of myth in science and in infinitesimal mathematics. It also considers the relationship between myth and ideology in the twentieth century in relation to politics and power. It both incorporates and broadens Krader’s theory of nature as a manifold consisting of different orders of space-time which he developed in his magnum opus Noetics: The Science of Thinking and Knowing.
Автор: Gainsley, Lisa Levitt Название: Book of lymph ISBN: 1529354439 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781529354430 Издательство: Hodder Рейтинг: Цена: 2275.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Book of Lymph harnesses the power of lymphatic massage for self-healing from renowned specialist Lisa Levitt Gainsley.
Описание: This book is about changing curriculum to align with school`s goals for culture change. Original stories about subjects such as vengeance, prejudice and self-respect provide entry points into ideas for prioritizing group learning, demonstrating the linkages between personal and social concerns and making clear how all actions have consequences.
Описание: This book is about changing curriculum to align with school`s goals for culture change. Original stories about subjects such as vengeance, prejudice and self-respect provide entry points into ideas for prioritizing group learning, demonstrating the linkages between personal and social concerns and making clear how all actions have consequences.
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