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Freakonomics Revised and Expanded Edition: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Stephen J. Dubner, Steven Levitt
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 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? How did the legalization of abortion affect the rate of 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 riddles of everyday life--from cheating and crime to sports and child-rear... more info>> (Published: 2006)
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Confessions of a Hero-Worshiper [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Stephen J. Dubner
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 As a boy, Stephen J. Dubner's hero was Franco Harris, the famed and mysterious running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers. When Dubner's father died, he became obsessed--he dreamed of his hero every night; he signed his school papers "Franco Dubner." Though they never met, it was Franco Harris who shepherded Dubner through a fatherless boyhood. Years later, Dubner journeys to meet his hero, certain that Harris will embrace him. And he is ... well, wrong. Told with the grit of a journalist and the ... more info>>
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