SuperFreakonomics

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<p>Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with more iconoclastic insights and observations in SuperFreakonomics—the long awaited follow-up to their New York Times bestseller. Based on revolutionary research and original studies SuperFreakonomics promises to once again challenge your students’ view of the way the world really works.<p></p>Levitt and Dubner mix smart thinking and captivating storytelling to show students the hidden side of everything with such questions as: <p></p>• How is a street prostitute like a department-store Santa? <p></p>• Why are doctors so bad at washing their hands? <p></p>• How much good do car seats do? <p></p>• What’s the best way to catch a terrorist? <p></p>“Thank goodness [Levitt and Dubner] are back—with wisdom, wit and, most of all, powerful economic insight. . . . [They] wryly, humorously and almost sadistically remind us that we are slaves to our own failures to parse situations into basic economic components.”—Los Angeles Times</p>