Review:This book does not include an access to MyStatLab (access code required). If your class requires you to log in to MyStatLab, except to pay around $95 extra. With that, the price is only a little bit better then getting it from my college book store. Book came clean, new, and with a CD like expected. Read more

Review:The book left me encouraged about the progress outside the western world. I did not do well on the quiz. yet, I have seen the homeless in San Diego. Detroit slums are horrible. The water in Flint is deadly. The crime rate in St. Louis and Chicago is scary. Many small cities in the rural south have more adults on welfare than have jobs. The US is more divided than ever, it seems. There is more to life than global public health. While this book touched on many improvements around the globe, ... Read more

Review:Richard H. Thaler traces in this book the origin and the making of 'Behavioural Economics', where core premises of the classical economic theory and generally accepted hypotheses in matter of finance and markets, are questioned.

Core premises
Core premises of economic theory are that people choose by optimizing (rational choices) and that supply equals demand (price equilibrium). These premises assume that economic decisions are taken by a selfish and rational agent: the homo economicu... Read more

Review:I really enjoyed this book, It could use more examples, but all in all the problems in the chapter are more than enough! Definitely pick up a solution manual and you should be able to master diff eqs!!!!!!!!!!! Read more

Review:Dan Ariely has done it again! A fascinating book that will make you think and see the world differently! Highly recommend the book - especially if you like social sciences and behavioural economics :) Read more

Review:A well written introductory book on a topic as feared as statistics is something worth looking at. It's not an academic book, but it's a very nice first read for someone who will take any statistics course, or maybe just have an urge to learn more about statistics but doesn't want to get into all that math from the beginning. Here you'll learn broad concepts and uses. Read more

Review:Overall it fulfills the objective in the title, but there were some things that I think could be easily improved upon:

1. I found the overall organization of the book confusing, even though it is a short book. It's fine if you just read it beginning to end as I did, but if you are trying to figure out "Intro" vs. "Scenarios" in "Example Section 1" vs. "Example Section 2", etc., particularly with the amount of repetition within each section and between sections. Even the "Booklet Structu... Read more

Review:Taleb eplores of one of the least understood forces in all of our lives; mistaking luck for skill.

Here is a person with a single, but large topic, who spent his life exploring randomness vertically and horizontally, maturing it, getting into its most interesting wrinkles. The book is a feast to read and re-read. I laughed a lot while reading the book and had to think even more about Taleb's deep understanding of the philosophy of probability. He's amazingly articulated so you can see his... Read more

Review:The book is amazing, the people I bought from were not. When the used book arrived from Czars all the pages were coated in a dingy film. The book reeked of an odor I must assume was rat piss. Holding the book to read made me nauseous and ill. After teaching through chapter 1, I finally took it to a graphic arts place and had them photo copy all the pages so that I could throw it away. Read more

Review:This book replaces one that somebody "borrowed" from me at work. I gave it 4 stars only because, being copyrighted in 1954, the examples are very outdated. But it's a great book that should be required reading for anyone who watches the TV news or reads the newspaper. Read more