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The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - but Some Don't

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Nate Silver
• Narrated By Mike Chamberlain
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Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair’s breadth, and became a national sensation as a blogger - all by the time he was 30. The New York Times now publishes FiveThirtyEight.com, where Silver is one of the nation’s most influential political forecasters. Drawing on his own groundbreaking work, Silver examines the world of prediction, investigating how we can distinguish a true signal from a universe of noisy data.

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Malcolm Gladwell
• Narrated By Malcolm Gladwell

In his landmark best seller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant, in the blink of an eye, that actually aren't as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consistently inept?

Outliers: The Story of Success

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Malcolm Gladwell
• Narrated By Malcolm Gladwell
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In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing.

What Is Strategy?

• NONE (56 mins)
• By Michael E. Porter (C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School)

SuperFreakonomics

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
• Narrated By Stephen J. Dubner
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SuperFreakonomics challenges the way we think all over again, exploring the hidden side of everything with such questions as: How is a street prostitute like a department-store Santa? What do hurricanes, heart attacks, and highway deaths have in common? Can eating kangaroo save the planet? Levitt and Dubner mix smart thinking and great storytelling like no one else.

Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Charles Wheelan
• Narrated By Kerin McCue

In Naked Economics, journalist Charles Wheelan does “the impossible”—he makes economic principles relevant, interesting and fun. Brimming with scores of down-to-earth examples and sprinkled with humorous anecdotes, this comprehensive overview will keep listeners smiling and wide awake.

Thinking, Fast and Slow

• UNABRIDGED (20 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Daniel Kahneman
• Narrated By Patrick Egan
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The guru to the gurus at last shares his knowledge with the rest of us. Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman's seminal studies in behavioral psychology, behavioral economics, and happiness studies have influenced numerous other authors, including Steven Pinker and Malcolm Gladwell. In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman at last offers his own, first book for the general public. It is a lucid and enlightening summary of his life's work. It will change the way you think about thinking. Two systems drive the way we think and make choices, Kahneman explains....

Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 14 mins)
• By Michael Lewis
• Narrated By Dylan Baker
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The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering entire societies the chance to reveal aspects of their characters they could not normally afford to indulge. The Greeks wanted to turn their country into a pinata stuffed with cash and allow as many citizens as possible to take a whack at it. The Germans wanted to be even more German; the Irish wanted to stop being Irish.

Freakonomics: Revised Edition

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 55 mins)
• By Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
• Narrated By Stephen J. Dubner

Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much-heralded scholar who studies the riddles of everyday life, from cheating and crime to sports and child-rearing, and whose conclusions turn the conventional wisdom on its head. Thus the new field of study contained in this audiobook: Freakonomics. Levitt and co-author Stephen J. Dubner show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives: how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing.