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Unconventional Wisdom
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January 2010
Compiled by Susan McGowan
of the Morton Grove Public Library from contributions by the members of Fiction_L
(To use this list in your library, book club, etc., please include the following credit line: "Compiled by the subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list." This list may not be used for commercial purposes.)
Anderson, Chris. Free: The Future of a Radical Price.
Ariely, Dan. Predictably Irrational.
Bronson, Po and Ashley Merryman. NurtureShock.
Ehrenreich, Barbara. Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America;
Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting by in America.
Gladwell, Malcolm. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking; Outliers.
Hallinan, Joseph. Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average.
Iacoboni, Marco. Mirroring People : The New Science of How We Connect with Others.
Isaacson, Walter. Einstein: His Life and Universe.
Johnson, Steven. Everything Bad Is Good for You; The Ghost Map : The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic-- and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World.
Kaplan, Michael. Bozo Sapiens.
Kohn, Alfie. Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes.
Levitt, Steven. Freakonomics; Superfreakonomics.
Lindstrom, Martin. Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy and the New Science of Desire.
McDougall, Christopher. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen.
Meyers, Herbert and Richard Gerstman, editors. Creativity: Unconventional Wisdom from 20 Accomplished Minds.
Owen, David. Green Metropolis: What the City Can Teach the Country About True Sustainability.
Shell, Ellen Ruppel. Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture.
Skenazy, Lenore. Free Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts With Worry.
Stolzenberg, Will. Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators.
Taleb, Nassim. The Black Swan : The Impact of the Highly Improbable.
Valenti, Jessica. The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women.
Vanderbilt, Tom. Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (And What It Says About Us).
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