Customer Review: No new information in this book. Friedman took the title from the last book he wrote and extended it to one that appears to love the earth.
Customer Review: This is a very different book that looks at the political and economic issues facing the twenty first century. If England dominated the world for over two centuries, clearly America had proved to the world's only superpower at the beginning of the twenty first century, especially after the collapse... more info
Customer Review: Economics and economists have the reputation of being dry, dusty old ideas and men with no more life to them than an Egyptian mummy on display in a museum. But Freakonomics brings fresh life to the subject and at the same time encourages its readers to think outside the box or break the mold of... more info
Customer Review: The world is flat? What do you meant the world is flat? I tried reading some of this book. All I could get out of it is that genius no longer excels, while dufuses abound all over cyberspace. Crap. I have seen the dufuses, the spammers, the porn sites, the trashy material. But I've also seen top... more info
Customer Review: Predictably Irrational is one book that satisfies so many audiences that it is simply amazing, and it does an awesome job at that. Without delving into the research that Dan Ariely and his group of eminent researchers/friends have carried out - that would take away the fun of discovering some of the... more info
Customer Review: I had great hopes for this book, but my hopes were doomed to disappointment. Very little is known about the Hemmingses, and it could all have been conveyed in about 200 pages. The 800 pages that one is forced to wade through are, sadly, not worth the effort. The extra pages of this book are... more info
Customer Review: This book is very helpful but confuses me at times since it has so many small mini indexes and sections, but besides that very helpful.
Customer Review: Howard Zinn was one of my favorite professors at university. This book presents with unflinching candor events that really happened in our history. And he is never boring!