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Fortune's Formula
The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street (Expanded 20th Anniversary Edition)
Häftad, 2025
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
239 kr
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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 …
Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?
Häftad, 2012
266 kr
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You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and thrown in a blender. The blades start moving in 60 seconds. What do you do? If you want to work at Google, or any of America's best companies, you need to have an answer to this and other puzzling questions. Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google? guides …
Big Secrets
The Uncensored Truth about All Sorts of Stuff You Are Never Supposed to Know
E-bok, 2023
84 kr
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The inside story on institutional secrets, including the formula for Coca-Cola, how to beat a lie detector, currency conspiracies, and other hidden facts.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 …
The Doomsday Calculation
Häftad, 2020
296 kr
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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 …
Prisoner's Dilemma
E-bok, 2011
141 kr
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Critical Acclaim for Prisoner''s Dilemma "The real originality of PRISONER''S DILEMMA lies in its colorful synthesis of logical material and historical and biographical narration [which] takes us in parallel lines through cold war history, strategic games of the nuclear age and the life of von …
Labyrinths of Reason
Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge
E-bok, 2011
176 kr
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This sharply intelligent, consistently provocative book takes the reader on an astonishing, thought-provoking voyage into the realm of delightful uncertainty--a world of paradox in which logical argument leads to contradiction and common sense is seemingly rendered irrelevant. From the Trade …
Rock Breaks Scissors: A Practical Guide to Outguessing and Outwitting Almost Everybody
Häftad, 2015
288 kr
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Head in the Cloud: Why Knowing Things Still Matters When Facts Are So Easy to Look Up
Häftad, 2017
240 kr
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How Do You Fight a Horse-Sized Duck?
Secrets to Succeeding at Interview Mind Games and Getting the Job You Want
Inbunden, 2021
210 kr
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Learn how to succeed at interview mind games and win job offers at A‑list companies, with more than eighty difficult and devious questions, puzzles, and brain teasers Each year about 28 million Americans begin a search for a new job. Many more live in the age of the permanent job search, their …
How Would You Move Mount Fuji?
Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle
Häftad, 2004
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
305 kr
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Microsoft's interview process is a notoriously gruelling sequence of brain-busting questions that separate the most creative thinkers from the merely brilliant. So effective is their technique that other leading corporations - from the high-tech industry to consulting and financial services - are …
Fortune's Formula
The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
E-bok, 2010
191 kr
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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 …
The Recursive Universe: Cosmic Complexity and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge
Häftad, 2013
231 kr
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Gaming the Vote: Why Elections Aren't Fair (and What We Can Do about It)
Häftad, 2009
302 kr
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Priceless
The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage of It)
Häftad, 2011
225 kr
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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 Do You Fight a Horse-Sized Duck?
And Other Perplexing Puzzles from the Toughest Interviews in the World
E-bok, 2021
120 kr
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‘An entertaining book we can all enjoy… highly informative and amusing.’ Daily Mail ‘Full of valuable insight…this is a must-read for those looking to nail their next interview.’ Publishers Weekly How Do You Fight a Horse-Sized Duck? explores the new world of interviewing at A-list employers like …
How Do You Fight a Horse-Sized Duck?
And Other Perplexing Puzzles from the Toughest Interviews in the World
Häftad, 2022
116 kr
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‘An entertaining book we can all enjoy… highly informative and amusing.’ Daily Mail‘Full of valuable insight…this is a must-read for those looking to nail their next interview.’ Publishers WeeklyHow Do You Fight a Horse-Sized Duck? explores the new world of interviewing at A-list employers like …
Fortune's Formula
The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
Ljudbok, 2017
397 kr
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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 …
Priceless
The Hidden Psychology of Value
E-bok, 2011
106 kr
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The first book to reveal how everday pricing strategies manipulate us Why do text messages cost money while emails are free? Why do cereal packets keep getting smaller? Why do department stores have a few extortionate goods that no one will buy? Why do so many prices end in 9? In Priceless, …
Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?
Fiendish Interview Questions and Puzzles from the World’s Top Companies
E-bok, 2012
106 kr
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Pit your brains against the taxing riddles used by the world's best companies to select their staffTHE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Subtle and sophisticated... you will love this book.' ObserverYou are shrunk to the height of a penny and thrown in a blender. The blades start moving in sixty seconds. …
How to Predict the Unpredictable
The Art of Outsmarting Almost Everybody
E-bok, 2014
104 kr
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We are hard-wired to believe that the world is more predictable than it is. We chase ‘winning streaks’ that are often just illusions, and we are all too predictable exactly when we try hardest not to be. In the 1970s, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky coined the phrase ‘representativeness’ to …
How to Predict the Unpredictable
The Art of Outsmarting Almost Everyone
Häftad, 2015
120 kr
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We are hard-wired to believe that the world is more predictable than it is. We chase ‘winning streaks’ that are often just illusions, and we are all too predictable exactly when we try hardest not to be.In the 1970s, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky coined the phrase ‘representativeness’ to …
Head in the Cloud
Dispatches from a Post-Fact World
Häftad, 2017
103 kr
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Never before have we had so much information at our fingertips. You might think that we are better-informed than ever, but there’s one thing we can’t ask Google: ‘What should I be googling?’The way we consume information in the digital age has been blamed for driving political polarisation and …
Head in the Cloud
Dispatches from a Post-Fact World
E-bok, 2017
104 kr
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Never before have we had so much information at our fingertips. You might think that we are better-informed than ever, but there’s one thing we can’t ask Google: ‘What should I be googling?’ The way we consume information in the digital age has been blamed for driving political polarisation and …
How to Predict Everything
The Formula Transforming What We Know About Life and the Universe
E-bok, 2019
104 kr
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How do you predict something that has never happened before? There’s a useful calculation being employed by Wall Street, Silicon Valley and maths professors all over the world, and it predicts that the human species will become extinct in 760 years. Unfortunately, there is disagreement over how to …
How to Predict Everything
The Formula Transforming What We Know About Life and the Universe
Häftad, 2020
113 kr
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How do you predict something that has never happened before?There's a useful calculation being employed by Wall Street, Silicon Valley and maths professors all over the world, and it predicts that the human species will become extinct in 760 years. Unfortunately, there is disagreement over how to …
Priceless
The Hidden Psychology of Value
Häftad, 2011
130 kr
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Discover how everyday pricing strategies are designed to manipulate us – and how to fight back'An instructive and entertaining romp.' DANIEL KAHNEMAN, AUTHOR OF THINKING, FAST AND SLOW'Poundstone is your savvy, witty guide to saving the pound in your purse.' THE TIMESIn Priceless, bestselling …
Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?
Fiendish Interview Questions and Puzzles from the World’s Top Companies
Häftad, 2013
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
128 kr
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Pit your brains against the taxing riddles used by the world's best companies to select their staffTHE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Subtle and sophisticated... you will love this book.' ObserverYou are shrunk to the height of a penny and thrown in a blender. The blades start moving in sixty seconds. …
