Author: Elina Furman
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312976356
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Author: Steven E. Landsburg
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 1328489825
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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This entertaining way to learn economics “will delight and inform anyone who enjoys rigorous thinking and the unexpected conclusions it delivers” (Jamie Whyte, author of Crimes Against Logic). Can you outsmart an economist? Steven Landsburg, acclaimed author of The Armchair Economist and professor of economics, dares you to try. In this whip-smart, entertaining, and entirely unconventional economics primer, he brings together over one hundred puzzles and brain teasers that illustrate the subject’s key concepts and pitfalls. From warm-up exercises to get your brain working, to logic and probability problems, to puzzles covering more complex topics like inferences, strategy, and irrationality, Can You Outsmart an Economist? will show you how to do just that by expanding the way you think about decision making and problem solving. Let the games begin! “Ingenious…enables you to think like an economist without incurring a Keynesian headache or a huge student loan.” —George Gilder, author of Life After Google “Entertaining as well as edifying. Read it, expand your mind, and have fun!” —N. Gregory Mankiw, Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics, Harvard University

Author: Emma Casey
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134779682
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 156

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Drawing on a broad range of historical and sociological literature, this book traces the everyday gambling experiences of a diverse group of women. It provides fascinating and original insights into the pleasures afforded to women through their gambling participation and draws on a variety of feminist literature to understand women's motivations and experience of play, and to examine the ways in which women negotiate their right to gamble without reprimand. Since gambling tends to be framed within moral discourses of danger and excess, this book offers a defence of women's decisions to gamble against an often hostile backdrop. It rewrites claims that gambling is 'meaningless' and reckless spending, by pointing instead to the highly complex strategies that women who gamble employ. Importantly, it adds to contemporary feminist debates about women's leisure by showing how women seize control of their lives in order to carve out a time and space for the pursuit of pleasure.

Author: Brent Yamamoto
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 159858149X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 237

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Scott and Kelly are a couple of average, every day people, hard working, kind and decent. Then one night they receive a mysterious phone call informing them that they've just won a lottery they didn't know they were playing. It is an offer that no one could refuse, an offer that promises to fulfil all of their worldly dreams. It is only after that they realize nothing comes for free, and what they've won is nothing compared to what they might lose. And by then it might be too late. About the Author: I was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, and currently reside in Lethbridge, Alberta. I have a B.A. in English from the University of Lethbridge. This is my first published work.

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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 606

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Languages : en
Pages : 618

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Category : Current events
Languages : en
Pages : 772

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Author: Frank Leslie
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 782

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1262

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Languages : en
Pages : 780

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