SuperFreakonomics CD: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life InsuranceGlobal Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
The New York Times bestselling Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation, selling more than four million copies in thirty-five languages and changing the way we look at the world. Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with Superfreakonomics, and fans and newcomers alike will find that the freakquel is even bolder, funnier, and more surprising than the first.
Fantasy is one of the most popular types of fiction. Fantasy stories- from The Wizard of Oz to Harry Potter- feature characters, places, and events that are beyond what is possible in our world. These stories make amazing, surprising, and fantastic things seem completely real, and these tales hold readers in their grip from beginning to end.
Venice, of all the world’s great cities, is said to be the one most present in the popular imagination: even those who have never been there feel they already have. As the most photographed and filmed city for the purposes of advertising, our apparent familiarity with the city isn’t surprising. Add to this flms such as Death in Venice, Don’t Look Now and The Wings of the Dove and the fctions they were based on, and it isn’t surprising that Venice already exists in our heads.
Origami is the art of folding uncut sheets of paper into interesting and beautiful shapes. Within this text, the author presents a variety of techniques for origami geometric constructions. The field is rich and varied, with surprising connections to other branches of mathematics.
Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World
Over the past decade there has been a growing public fascination with the complex connectedness of modern society. This connectedness is found in many incarnations: in the rapid growth of the Internet, in the ease with which global communication takes place, and in the ability of news and information as well as epidemics and financial crises to spread with surprising speed and intensity.
