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Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average
Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average

We forget our passwords. We pay too much to go to the gym. We think we’d be happier if we lived in California (we wouldn’t), and we think we should stick with our first answer on tests (we shouldn’t). Why do we make mistakes? And could we do a little better?

We human beings have design flaws.
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Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart
Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart

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 new book, economist Ian Ayres
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49: Epidemiology of Pediatric Sports Injuries: Team Sports (Medicine and Sport Science, Vol. 49)
49: Epidemiology of Pediatric Sports Injuries: Team Sports (Medicine and Sport Science, Vol. 49)

Is the risk of injury greater in some sport activities than in others? What types of injuries are most common? Are some children prone to sports injury? Are some physical, psychological, or sport-related factors associated with an increased risk of injury? Can injury be prevented and if so, how? Epidemiology of Pediatric Sport Injuries...

Adrenaline and the Inner World: An Introduction to Scientific Integrative Medicine
Adrenaline and the Inner World: An Introduction to Scientific Integrative Medicine

This accessible work is the first in more than seventy-five years to discuss the many roles of adrenaline in regulating the "inner world" of the body. David S. Goldstein, an international authority and award-winning teacher, introduces new concepts concerning the nature of stress and distress across the body's regulatory...

The Hacker Playbook: Practical Guide To Penetration Testing
The Hacker Playbook: Practical Guide To Penetration Testing

Just as a professional athlete doesn’t show up without a solid game plan, ethical hackers, IT professionals, and security researchers should not be unprepared, either. The Hacker Playbook provides them their own game plans. Written by a longtime security professional and CEO of Secure Planet, LLC, this step-by-step guide to the...

Sport (The Art of Living)
Sport (The Art of Living)

Whether it's conkers in the schoolyard, kicking a football in the park, or playing tennis on Wimbledon Centre Court, sport impacts all of our lives. But what is sport and why do we do it? Colin McGinn, renowned philosopher (and kiteboarder), reflects on our love of sport and explores the value it has for us and the part it plays in a life...

Statistics Hacks : Tips &Tools for Measuring the World and Beating the Odds
Statistics Hacks : Tips &Tools for Measuring the World and Beating the Odds

Want to calculate the probability that an event will happen? Be able to spot fake data? Prove beyond doubt whether one thing causes another? Or learn to be a better gambler? You can do that and much more with 75 practical and fun hacks packed into Statistics Hacks. These cool tips, tricks, and...

Game Day: A Rollicking Journey to the Heart of College Football
Game Day: A Rollicking Journey to the Heart of College Football

The popular college football analyst weighs in on the craziness of college football and the 2008 season

If television's college football analysts had a Hall of Fame, Craig James would definitely be in it. His opinion and insight on ABC and ESPN-not to mention occasional jabs of sharp humor and Texas charm-are as addictive as the games...

Northern Lights: One Woman, Two Teams, and the Football Field That Changed Their Lives
Northern Lights: One Woman, Two Teams, and the Football Field That Changed Their Lives

Life is hard in Barrow, Alaska. Football mom Cathy Parker first caught a glimpse of this far-away reality from the comfort of her Jacksonville, Florida, living room while watching a 2006 ESPN report on the Barrow Whalers, a high school football team consisting mostly of Alaskan Inupiat Eskimo natives playing in the most difficult of...

My Life in Football - The Autobiography
My Life in Football - The Autobiography
Kevin Keegan’s illustrious career in professional football has marked him out as one of the most charismatic, talented and decorated men in the history of the sport. As a player, he is best known for a legendary 1970s spell at Liverpool under Bill Shankly then Bob Paisley. In six seasons Keegan played a pivotal role in Liverpool winning...
Football Traumatology: Current Concepts: from Prevention to Treatment
Football Traumatology: Current Concepts: from Prevention to Treatment

Football is probably the most widespread sport in the world. Like many other sports football has undergone major changes. It has increased in intensity, speed, and other factors contributing to increased risks of traumatic injury. Footballers, trainers, and the sport's medical staff are asking for greater information on the traumatic...

With Clough, By Taylor
With Clough, By Taylor

Brian Clough famously remarked. "I'm not equipped to manage successfully without Peter Taylor. I am the shop window and he is the goods in the back."

Originally published in 1980, With Clough, By Taylor is the definitive account of the relationship that revolutionised English football and the trade...

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