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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions By :Dan Ariely
Publisher : HarperCollins
Price : $15.57
When we make decisions we think we're in control, making rational choices. But are we? Entertaining and surprising, Ariely unmasks the subtle but powerful tricks that our minds play on us. This book deals with popular economics… Dan Ariely enters into the land of the quirky human mind and shows us that when something is Free! we get excited and as a consequence we are willing to give up better deals — not to mention our time, money, etc. The book is uniformly insightful and even fun.
Source: www.predictablyirrational.com |
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The Emperor's Children
By : Claire Messud
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Price: $25
This is the story of three friends, Marina Thwaite, Danielle Minkoff and Julian Clarke. As they all near 30, Danielle is struggling as a TV documentary maker, and Julius is barely surviving financially as a freelance critic. Marina, the startlingly beautiful daughter of a celebrated social activist, journalist and hob-nobber Murray Thwaite, is living with her parents on the Upper West Side, unable to finish her book titled The Emperor's Children Have No Clothes (on how changing fashions in children's clothes mirror changes in society). Claire Messud remains very observant of pretensions—intellectual, class and gender. Her writing is fluid, and her plot cleverly constructed. Source:www.nytimes.com
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
By: Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Price: $8.97
It's a book about change that presents a new way of understanding why change so often happens as quickly and as unexpectedly as it does. For example, How does a novel written by an unknown author end up as national bestseller? Why do teens smoke in greater and greater numbers, when every single person in the country knows that cigarettes kill? Why is word-of-mouth so powerful? The book makes the point that ideas and behavior and messages and products sometimes behave just like outbreaks of infectious disease. They are social epidemics. The Tipping Point is an examination of the social epidemics that surround us.
Source:www.amazon.com
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Water for Elephants: A Novel
By: Sara Gruen
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Price:
Sara Gruen mines fertile territory in Water for Elephants: the chronic miseries of advancing old age and the terrible years of the Great Depression, when people wandered the country in search of work, their homes and failed business left behind. Related in the somber tones of the Depression, the novel addresses the hardscrabble and often unscrupulous practices of a traveling circus, the rowdy carnie atmosphere and the antiseptic corridors of the assisted living home, all viewed through the protagonist, Jacob’s perspective who dwells in both worlds, revealing the wounds of the past and the sorrows of the present. The book leaves the reader richer for having met this raggedy tribe of miscreants and lost souls.
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1.The Appeal,
by John Grisham,
Publisher: Doubleday,
Price: $27.95
|  | 1. Mistaken Identity
by Don Van Ryn, Don &. Vanryn et al
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Price: $21.99
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2.Strangers In Death
by J.D. Robb,
Publisher: Putnam,
Price: $25.95
|  | 2.Beautiful Boy
by David Sheff
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Price: $24.
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3. 7th Heaven,
by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro,
Publisher: Little Brown
Price: $27.99
|  | 3.Unaccustomed Earth
by Jhumpa Lahiri,
Publisher: Random House,
Price: $25.
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4. Lady Killer
by Lisa Scottoline;
Publisher: Harper,
Price: $25.95
|  | 4.In Defense Of Food
by Michael Pollan
Publisher: Penguin Press,
Price: $21.95
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5. Duma Key,
by Stephen King.
Publisher: Scribner,
Price: $28.
|  | 5. sTori Telling ,
by Tori Spelling with Hilary Liftin.
Publisher: Simon Spotlight,
Price: $24
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Source: http://query.nytimes.com |
Source: http://www.bookcourt.org/ |
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