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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 teasersEach year about 28 million Americans begin a search for a new job. Many more live
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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 t
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William Poundstone
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 mathem
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William Poundstone
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.
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William Poundstone
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
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William Poundstone
The real-world value of knowledge in the mobile-device age. More people know who Khloe Kardashian is than who Rene Descartes was. Most can't find Delaware on a map, correctly spell the word occurrence, or name the largest ocean on the planet. But how
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William Poundstone
What's the point of knowing anything when facts are so easy to look up? Just reach for your computer, tablet or mobile and ask the sky. We're living in the golden age of rational ignorance where more people know who Khloe Kardashian is than who René
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William Poundstone
En esta cautivadora biografía de Carl Sagan, William Poundstone detalla cómo un joven astrónomo, apasionado por la ciencia y obsesionado con la búsqueda de vida en otros mundos, se transforma en una auténtica superestrella mediática. El Sagan i
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William Poundstone
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 Tversk
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William Poundstone
A practical guide to outguessing everything, from multiple-choice tests to the office football pool to the stock market. People are predictable even when they try not to be. William Poundstone demonstrates how to turn this fact to personal advantage