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The Boy With Two Belly Buttonsby Stephen J. Dubner , Christoph NiemannISBN 0061134023 (0-06-113402-3)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Confessions of a Hero-Worshiperby Stephen J. DubnerISBN 0061132985 (0-06-113298-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Faith Between Us: A Jew and a Catholic Search for the Meaning of Godby Peter Bebergal, Scott Korb, Stephen J. DubnerISBN 1596911433 (1-59691-143-3)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
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Freakonomicsby David Leavitt, Stephen J. DubnerISBN 0141035307 (0-14-103530-7)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everythingby Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. DubnerISBN 006089637X (0-06-089637-X)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything'Book summary:Economics is not widely considered to be one of the sexier sciences. The annual Nobel Prize winner in that field never receives as much publicity as his or her compatriots in peace, literature, or physics. But if such slights are based on the notion that economics is dull, or that economists are concerned only with finance itself, Steven D. Levitt will change some minds. In Freakonomics (written with Stephen J. Dubner), Levitt argues that many apparent mysteries of everyday life don't need to be so mysterious: They could be illuminated and made even more fascinating by asking the right questions and drawing connections. For example, Levitt traces the drop in violent crime rates to a drop in violent criminals and, digging further, to the Roe v. Wade decision that preempted the existence of some people who would be born to poverty and hardship. Elsewhere, by analyzing data gathered from innercity Chicago drug-dealing gangs, Levitt outlines a corporate structure much like McDonald's, where the top bosses make great money while scores of underlings make something below minimum wage. And in a section that may alarm or relieve worried parents, Levitt argues that parenting methods don't really matter much and that a backyard swimming pool is much more dangerous than a gun. These enlightening chapters are separated by effusive passages from Dubner's 2003 profile of Levitt in The New York Times Magazine, which led to the book being written. In a book filled with bold logic, such back-patting veers Freakonomics, however briefly, away from what Levitt actually has to say. Although maybe there's a good economic reason for that too, and we're just not getting it yet. --John Moe
Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner Answer The Amazon.com Significant Seven
Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, author and co-author of this season's bestselling quirky hit, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, graciously answered the Amazon.com Significant Seven questions that we like to run by every author.
Levitt and Dubner answer the Amazon.com Significant Seven questionsMore editions of Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything:
- Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything: ISBN 0141019018 (0-14-101901-8)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited - Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything: ISBN 006073132X (0-06-073132-X)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers - Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything: ISBN 071399908X (0-7139-9908-X)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited - Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything: ISBN 006089637X (0-06-089637-X)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
- Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything: ISBN 0141019018 (0-14-101901-8)
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everythingby Stephen J. Dubner , Steven D. LevittISBN 0060731338 (0-06-073133-8)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything'Book summary:Economics is not widely considered to be one of the sexier sciences. The annual Nobel Prize winner in that field never receives as much publicity as his or her compatriots in peace, literature, or physics. But if such slights are based on the notion that economics is dull, or that economists are concerned only with finance itself, Steven D. Levitt will change some minds. In Freakonomics (written with Stephen J. Dubner), Levitt argues that many apparent mysteries of everyday life don't need to be so mysterious: They could be illuminated and made even more fascinating by asking the right questions and drawing connections. For example, Levitt traces the drop in violent crime rates to a drop in violent criminals and, digging further, to the Roe v. Wade decision that preempted the existence of some people who would be born to poverty and hardship. Elsewhere, by analyzing data gathered from innercity Chicago drug-dealing gangs, Levitt outlines a corporate structure much like McDonald's, where the top bosses make great money while scores of underlings make something below minimum wage. And in a section that may alarm or relieve worried parents, Levitt argues that parenting methods don't really matter much and that a backyard swimming pool is much more dangerous than a gun. These enlightening chapters are separated by effusive passages from Dubner's 2003 profile of Levitt in The New York Times Magazine, which led to the book being written. In a book filled with bold logic, such back-patting veers Freakonomics, however briefly, away from what Levitt actually has to say. Although maybe there's a good economic reason for that too, and we're just not getting it yet. --John Moe
Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner Answer The Amazon.com Significant Seven
Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, author and co-author of this season's bestselling quirky hit, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, graciously answered the Amazon.com Significant Seven questions that we like to run by every author.
Levitt and Dubner answer the Amazon.com Significant Seven questionsMore editions of Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything:
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything: ISBN 0061245135 (0-06-124513-5)
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Hardcover, Harpercollins - Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything: ISBN 0060731338 (0-06-073133-8)
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- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything: ISBN 0061245135 (0-06-124513-5)
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Freakonomics Intl Pb: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everythingby Stephen J. Dubner , Steven D. LevittISBN 0061131326 (0-06-113132-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Turbulent Souls: A Catholic Son's Return to His Jewish Familyby Stephen J. DubnerISBN 0061132993 (0-06-113299-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Turbulent Souls: A Catholic Son's Return to His Jewish Family'Book summary:"Choosing My Religion," Stephen Dubner's 1996 cover story for The New York Times Magazine, described his conversion from Catholicism to Judaism. The drama and complexity of Dubner's conversion were intensified by the author's unusual religious history: before Dubner was born, his parents had made an equal and opposite conversion from Judaism to Catholicism. Dubner's memoir, Turbulent Souls, expands the story he first told in the Times essay. In the book's prelude, Dubner explains that he began his wandering toward conversion in the 1980s when he moved to New York City, "the most Jewish city outside of Israel."
There a certain disquietude began to take root inside me. I could not name this force, but neither could I make it leave me. And so I followed the noise inside my soul, and before long it led me back to my parents. I became consumed with a desire to know how a pair of young Jews named Florence Greenglass and Sol Dubner had become my Catholic parents.
Turbulent Souls is full of loving, witty anecdotes about his childhood in rural New York state (he refers to Mrs. Ferry, a catechism teacher who gave him Doublemint gum, as "Blessed Angel of the Sugar Deprived") and his efforts in adulthood to reconstruct both his and his parents' pasts. The best reason to read this book is Dubner's well-balanced thirst for explanation and reverence for mystery; it's a model of the equilibrium every one of us has to attain if we want to make peace with our families, our home towns, and our selves. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]More editions of Turbulent Souls: A Catholic Son's Return to His Jewish Family:
- Turbulent Souls: A Catholic Son's Return to His Jewish Family: ISBN 038072930X (0-380-72930-X)
Softcover, Bard - Turbulent Souls : A Catholic Son's Return to His Jewish Family: ISBN 0688151809 (0-688-15180-9)
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Freakonomics: Un Economista Polfticamente Incorrecto Explora El Lado Oculta De Lo Que Nos Afectaby Stephen J. Dubner , Steven D. LevittISBN 8466625127 (84-666-2512-7)
Softcover, Ediciones B
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Freakonomicsby Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. DubnerISBN 2894723008 (2-89472-300-8)
Hardcover, BPR Publishers
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