ABOUT THE BOOK

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    Accession Number

 B6747

    Title

 Super Freakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance

    Author

 Levitt, Steven D and Dubner, Stephen J

    Publisher

 Harper Collins Publishers

    ISBN

 978-0-06-194122-1

     Summary

With the illustrated edition, authors bring alive their smart thinking and great storytelling with an explosion of visual evidence, including: 1. A by-the-numbers tally of a high-priced call girls' career, and a tracking sheet from an intensive survey of Chicago street prostitutes. 2. A visual quiz that lets you pit your memory against the memory of a chess grand master. 3. Images of the hurricane killing machine and other geo-engineering inventories described in SuperFreakonomics. 4. A look into whether doctors are better at saving livesin TV dramas or in real hospitals. whether probing the intricacies of sex change operations, the effectiveness of child car seats, or what really motivates people to do good, the illustrated edition of Superfreakonomics employs photographs, drawings, and graphs that will lead readers to see the world in a bold fresh way.