William Poundstone: 15 books
Carl Sagan
Una vida en el cosmos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 1, 2015
En esta cautivadora biografía de Carl Sagan, William Poundstone detalla cómo un joven astrónomo, apasionado por la ciencia y obsesionado con la búsqueda de vida en otros mundos, se transforma en una auténtica superestrella mediática. El Sagan inmediatamente reconocible, invitado imprescindible...
Rock Breaks Scissors
A Practical Guide to Outguessing and Outwitting Almost Everybody
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
A practical guide to outguessing everything from multiple-choice tests to the office football pool to the stock market.
People are predictable even when they try not to be. William Poundstone demonstrates how to turn this fact to personal advantage in scores of everyday situations, from playing...
Head in the Cloud
Why Knowing Things Still Matters When Facts Are So Easy to Look Up
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
The real-world value of knowledge in the mobile-device age.
More people know who Khloe Kardashian is than who Rene Descartes was. Most can't find Delaware on a map, correctly spell the word occurrence, or name the largest ocean on the planet. But how important is it to fill our heads with facts?...
by William Poundstone
Language: Turkish
Release Date: January 1, 2001
Language: Turkish
Release Date: January 1, 2001
"Fiyatlandırma, düşündüğünüzden daha zengin bir alan. Karşılaştığınız bir pazarlama hilesi, Poundstone'un kitabında okuduğunuz bir şeyi hatırlattığı zaman yüzünüzde oluşan tebessüm? Paha biçilemez."
-Peter Coy, Bloomberg Business Week-
İnsanlar müziği...
Fortune's Formula
The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
In 1956, two Bell Labs scientists discovered the scientific formula for getting rich. One was mathematician Claude Shannon, neurotic father of our digital age, whose genius is ranked with Einstein's. The other was John L. Kelly Jr., a Texas-born, gun-toting physicist. Together they applied the science...
Priceless
The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage of It)
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Prada stores carry a few obscenely expensive items in order to boost sales for everything else (which look like bargains in comparison). People used to download music for free, then Steve Jobs convinced them to pay. How? By charging 99 cents. That price has a hypnotic effect: the profit margin of...
How Would You Move Mount Fuji?
Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle - How the World's Smartest Companies Select the Most Creative Thinkers
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
For years, Microsoft and other high-tech companies have been posing riddles and logic puzzles like these in their notoriously grueling job interviews. Now "puzzle interviews" have become a hot new trend in hiring. From Wall Street to Silicon Valley, employers are using tough and tricky questions...
Gaming the Vote
Why Elections Aren't Fair (and What We Can Do About It)
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
Our Electoral System is Fundamentally Flawed, But There's a Simple and Fair Solution
At least five U.S. presidential elections have been won by the second most popular candidate. The reason was a "spoiler"—a minor candidate who takes enough votes away from the most popular candidate...
Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?
Trick Questions, Zen-like Riddles, Insanely Difficult Puzzles, and Other Devious Interviewing Techniques You Need to Know to Get a Job Anywhere in the New Economy
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
Are you Smart Enough to Work at Google? guides readers through the surprising solutions to dozens of the most challenging interview questions. Learn the importance of creative thinking, how to get a leg up on the competition, what your Facebook page says about you, and much more.
You are shrunk to...
by 威廉．龐士東(William Poundstone)
Language: Chinese
Release Date: January 7, 2016
Language: Chinese
Release Date: January 7, 2016
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by William Poundstone
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
Should you watch public television without pledging?...Exceed the posted speed limit?...Hop a subway turnstile without paying? These questions illustrate the so-called "prisoner's dilemma", a social puzzle that we all face every day. Though the answers may seem simple, their profound implications...
The Doomsday Calculation
How an Equation that Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know About Life and the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
From the author of Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?, a fascinating look at how an equation that foretells the future is transforming everything we know about life, business, and the universe.
In the 18th century, the British minister and mathematician Thomas Bayes devised a theorem that...
The Recursive Universe
Cosmic Complexity and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
No winners, no losers, and no end — the Game of Life, also known simply as Life, is no ordinary computer game. Created by British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970, Life debuted in Scientific American, where it was hailed as the key to a new area of mathematical research, the field of cellular...
by William Poundstone
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
The Book That Gives the Inside Story on Hundreds of Secrets of American Life --Big Secrets.
Are there really secret backward messages in rock music, or is somebody nuts? We tested suspect tunes at a recording studio to find out.
What goes on at Freemason initiations? Here's the whole story,...
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