How We Know What Isn't So, Paperback - Thomas Gilovich

Thomas Gilovich offers a wise and readable guide to the fallacy of the obvious in everyday life. When can we trust what we believe--that "teams and...

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Popular podcaster and author Knox McCoy offers readers a unique blend of humor, Bible stories, pop culture references, and personal stories that sh...

Reducere. An in-depth look at the intersection of judgment and statistics in baseball Scouting and scoring are considered fundamentally different ways of asc...

Reducere. DescriptionGrading is one of the most hotly debated topics in education, and grading practices themselves are largely based on tradition, instinct,...

Reducere. Are you the parent of a cherished young child, and tired, possibly frustrated, and even doubting yourself--or them? Are you worried about their beh...

Reducere. Historical Jesus asks two primary questions: What does "historical" mean? and How should we apply this to Jesus? Anthony Le Donne begins with the u...

Reducere. This book examines how individual, social, scientific, and ideological "realities" are constructed, after which we naively assume they are the "rea...

"The wise man knows he doesn't know. The fool doesn't know he doesn't know. - Lao Tzu. What's the most important step in fixing a puncture? It isn'...

Reducere. What is a true learning organization, and how can your school become one?To excel, schools must embrace continuous school improvement and evaluatio...

Paleontologist Dr David Horne explores the frontiers of dinosaur discovery.Publisher: Hodder & StoughtonAuthor(s): David HoneIllustration(s): Black...

Definitive pop science from a world expert.

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The first new children's Britannica encyclopedia to be published in more than eight years, with all-new material, specially commissioned illustrati...

Reducere. The leading experts on parent-child communication show parents and teachers how to motivate kids to learn and succeed in school. Using the unique c...

The aim of this book is to explain in simple language what we know and what we do not know about information and entropy -- two of the most frequen...

What Do We Know and What Should We Do About The Future of Work? is part of a new book series offering short, up-to-date overviews of key issues oft...

What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Immigration? Is part of a new book series offering short, up-to-date overviews of key issues often misr...

How do you predict something that has never happened before?

How do you predict something that has never happened before?

Reducere. Explore the intriguing answers to more than 200 questions about the past in this absorbing encyclopedia of world history for kids. Where did the fi...

Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of...

A short, innovative book that outlines what we know about the declining state of social mobility in the UK and proposes what we should do to revers...

Paul Bernal addresses the issue of privacy on the internet and how it is challenged in a wide variety of ways - from large social media companies, ...

This book reviews what is known about the issue of slavery, and argues that the concept of "afterlives" is more helpful than that of "modern slaver...

Reducere. "What is an addiction?"This is a difficult question even for adults to fully understand and answer. Imagine being the child of an addict, confused ...

Reducere. DescriptionWe need a coherent picture of our world. Life's realities won't let us ignore its fundamental questions, but with so many opposing views...

Reducere. Anxiety is real--but it isn't the end of your story.Dr. John Delony knows what anxiety feels like. He's walked that dark road himself, but he found...

Lucy and Jo are preparing a meal together. Suddenly Jo disappears - Some time later, Lucy is giving a dinner party for three people who helped her ...

Although marriage is for grown-ups, very few of us are grown up when we marry. Here, the bestselling author of Suddenly Sixty and Necessary Losses ...

Reducere. The most dangerous lies are the ones we tell ourselves. Exiled in the middle of nowhere at a boarding school in Vermont, Lana is being tormented by...

For more than three decades, Dr John Bargh has been conducting revolutionary research into the unconscious mind - not Freud's dark, malevolent unco...

Reducere. In this new revised edition of his groundbreaking work, Professor J. Budziszewski questions the modern assumption that moral truths are unknowable....

Reducere. The Wisest One in the Room: How You Can Benefit from Social Psychology's Most Powerful Insights Renowned psychologists describe the five most usefu...

A twelve step guide to surviving the wars of the future, attending to the changing nature of war and the effect of this on politics, culture and ec...

Voters need to be informed to make political decisions, but what if their media diet not only prevents them from getting the information they need,...

The Irish border is a manifestation of the relationship between Britain and Ireland. When that relationship has been tense, we have seen the worst ...

A short, innovative book that uses examples and evidence from around the world to analyse the concept of fake news and outline what we know about i...

A short, innovative book that outlines what we know about the declining state of social mobility in the UK and proposes what we should do to revers...

This book reviews what is known about the issue of slavery, and argues that the concept of "afterlives" is more helpful than that of "modern slaver...

DescriptionJudgment pervades human experience. Do I have a strong enough case to go to trial? Will the Fed change interest rates? Can I trust this ...

Reducere. The most dangerous lies are the ones we tell ourselves. Exiled at a boarding school in Vermont, Lana is tormented by cryptic messages and pictures ...

Reducere. Many ask, what does it mean to be Equally Yoked in marriage? Did I marry the right person? Why isn't my marriage working? Why do so many marriages ...

The What Do We Know About? series explores the mysterious, the unknown, and the unexplained. Is the hairy cryptid of the forest fact, myth, or lege...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Liz DavidsonNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 235 x 161 x 26Cover type: HardbackRedescopera ...