From the renowned and entertaining behavioural economist and co-author of the seminal work Nudge, Misbehaving is an irreverent and enlightening look into human foibles. Traditional economics assumes that rational forces shape everything. Behavioural economics knows better. Richard Thaler has spent
Author's Note on the Revision of this Edition (1970) 1. Out of the Dead City (Captives of the Flame 1963; popr. 1968) 2. The Towers of Toron (1964; popr. 1968) 3. City of a Thousand Suns (1965; popr. 1969) Author's Afterword (1970) * Ilustracja na okładce: Kelly Freas
The Entryphone buzzer sounded and the gate swung open... my head began to feel heavy again and I felt once more that tingling in my cheeks and fingertips, as though thunder was in the air... Are Abi's eyes deceiving her or could the face at the window really be that of her long lost friend Jamie?
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Foreword by Malcolm Gladwell "Reveals how we can all surpass our perceived physical limits." — Adam Grant Limits are an illusion: a revolutionary account of the science and psychology of endurance, revealing the secrets of reaching the hidden extra
It's the season of giving in Tokyo, but Lory's granddaughter Maria is in no mood to celebrate. Kyoko, never one to sit out a challenge, finally gets Maria to admit what has her so soured on the holidays. It turns out December 24 is Maria's birthday--and the anniversary of her mother's death! Can
Shadow Moon gets out of jail only to discover his wife is dead. Defeated, broke and uncertain where to go from here, he meets the mysterious Mr. Wednesday, who employs him to serve as his bodyguard - thrusting Shadow into a deadly world where ghosts of the past come back from the dead, and a god
Nova Reed used to have dreams-of becoming a famous drummer, of marrying her true love. But all of that was taken away in an instant. Now she's getting by as best she can, though sometimes that means doing things the old Nova would never do. Things that are slowly eating away at her spirit. Every
