Business & Economics:

The Healthcare Cure
How Sharing Information Can Make the System Work Better
Written by Jeff Margolis

Format: Trade Paperback, 226 pages
On Sale: November 22, 2011
Price: $21.00

More than 250 million Americans have health insurance coverage. Yet the majority of these healthcare consumers have little understanding of how the healthcare system works or their role in it. They often experience confusion and frustration when they try to navigate their way through the tangled web of benefits and care... Read more >

Super Crunchers
Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way To Be Smart
Written by Ian Ayres

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: August 26, 2008
Price: $16.00

An international sensation—and still the talk of the relevant blogosphere—this Wall Street Journal and New York Times business bestseller examines the “power” in numbers. Today more than ever, number crunching affects your life in ways you might not even imagine. Intuition and experience are no longer enough to make the grade... Read more >

Super Crunchers
Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart
Written by Ian Ayres

Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: August 28, 2007
Price: $26.00

Why would a casino try and stop you from losing? How can a mathematical formula find your future spouse? Would you know if a statistical analysis blackballed you from a job you wanted?

Today, number crunching affects your life in ways you might never imagine. In this lively and groundbreaking... Read more >

Super Crunchers
Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart
Written by Ian Ayres
Read by James Lurie

Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: August 28, 2007
Price: $14.98

Why would a casino try and stop you from losing? How can a mathematical formula find your future spouse? Would you know if a statistical analysis blackballed you from a job you wanted?

Today, number crunching affects your life in ways you might never imagine. In this lively and groundbreaking... Read more >

Super Crunchers
Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart
Written by Ian Ayres

Format: eBook
On Sale: August 28, 2007
Price: $13.99

Why would a casino try and stop you from losing? How can a mathematical formula find your future spouse? Would you know if a statistical analysis blackballed you from a job you wanted?

Today, number crunching affects your life in ways you might never imagine. In this lively and groundbreaking... Read more >

Super Crunchers
Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart
Written by Ian Ayres
Read by Michael Kramer

Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: August 28, 2007
Price: $20.00

Why would a casino try to stop a gambler from losing? How can a mathematical formula find your future spouse? Would you know if statistical analysis blackballed you from a job you wanted?

Economist Ian Ayres has spent the better part of his career examining the power in numbers. Decisions used to... Read more >

The Geek Gap
Why Business And Technology Professionals Don't Understand Each Other And Why They Need Each Other to Survive
Written by Bill Pfleging

Format: Hardcover, 251 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2006
Price: $26.99

Business managers (suits) and technology professionals (geeks) have become warring camps in too many companies. While both groups have no trouble following the lingo of their own specialties, when they have to communicate with each other, neither side fully understands — or wants to understand — the other. And that’s a... Read more >