Steven D. Levitt, Author, Stephen J. Dubner, Author . Morrow $25.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-073132-8
Forget your image of an economist as a crusty professor worried about fluctuating interest rates: Levitt focuses his attention on more intimate real-world issues, like whether reading to your baby will make her a better student. Recognition by...
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Steven D. Levitt, Author, Stephen J. Dubner, Author , read by Dubner. Harper Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-077613-8
Though the idea of listening to an economics text may bring to mind nightmarish visions of incomprehensible facts, figures and graphs, this audiobook is refreshingly accessible and engrossing. Journalist Dubner reads with just the right mix of...
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Steven D. Levitt, Author, Stephen J. Dubner, Author . Morrow $26.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-088957-9
Economist Levitt and journalist Dubner capitalize on their megaselling Freakonomics
with another effort to make the dismal science go gonzo. Freaky topics include the oldest profession (hookers charge less nowadays because the sexual revolution has
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Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. Morrow, $28.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-221833-9
The bestselling bards of gonzo economics return with this new compendium of nifty, if occasionally shallow contrarian mind-warps. This time University of Chicago economist Levitt and journalist Dubner clothe their Freakonmics schtick in flimsy self-h
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Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. Morrow, $25.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06238532-1
As coauthors Levitt and Dubner explain at the start of this delightful collection, a decade ago, concurrent with the publication of their book Freakonomics, they decided to start a blog with the same name. Eight thousand posts later, they're still...
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Stephen J. Dubner, Author . Morrow $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-688-17365-4
In a candid yet somewhat disjointed account, Dubner (Turbulent Souls) explores the causes and effects of his devotion to a childhood hero. Dubner's father died when he was relatively young, and Dubner, growing up in rural New York, latched onto...
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Stephen J. Dubner, Author William Morrow & Company $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-688-15180-5
Dubner takes a searing and poignant look at his upbringing in a large, boisterous and fiercely devout Catholic family and his subsequent conversion to Judaism--the faith his parents discarded in their youth in favor of Catholicism. His parents'...
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Stephen J. Dubner, Author, Christoph Niemann, Illustrator , illus. by Christoph Niemann. HarperCollins $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06113402-9
Freakonomics
co-author Dubner’s debut children’s book stars young Solomon, who is distraught about his extra belly button, especially after his mother tells him, “One is the right number of belly buttons.” He can’t...
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