Charles Chapman

Whether you're interested in small lifehacks or significant global reforms, "Why Think Like a Freak" inspired by Levitt and Dubner offers a roadmap for an altogether new approach to problem-solving. Nothing is off-limits as usual. They cover a wide range of subjects with the aim of retraining your brain, including business, philanthropy, sports, and politics. Along the way, you'll discover how a Japanese hot dog eater won his competition, why an Australian doctor swallowed a batch of harmful bacteria, and why Nigerian e-mail scammers make a point of claiming to be from that country. Among the steps to adopting a Freakish mindset is: Put away your moral compass first because it's difficult to see an issue clearly if you've already made up your mind about how to solve it. Learn to say "I don't know" since it is nearly difficult to learn what you need to unless you can admit what you don't know. Think like a child because you'll have more original thoughts and better questions to ask. Learn all you can about incentives since, for better or worse, they control our world. Because right rarely wins the day, learn to persuade those who are unwilling to be persuaded. Learn to see the benefits of giving up because if you aren't willing to give up today's failure, you won't be able to fix tomorrow's issue. No one else clearly sees the world like Levitt and Dubner do. You may now, too. Never before have the writings of such iconoclastic philosophers been so illuminating and entertaining.

Why Think Like a Freak

The Ocean Waves: Travels by Land and Sea

Alexandra Brown

An account of the events surrounding the Windsor Castle fire of 1992 and its subsequent restoration with a brief history of the Castle.

The Windsor Castle Fire and Restoration

Windsor Ablaze!

The present work is an attempt to give in one volume the main features of Spanish history from the standpoint of America. It should serve almost equally well for residents of both the English-speaking and the Spanish American countries, since the underlying idea has been that Americans generally are concerned with the growth of that Spanish civilization which was transmitted to the new world. One of the chief factors in American life today is that of the relations between Anglo-Saxon and Hispanic America. They are becoming increasingly important. The southern republics themselves are forging ahead; on the other hand many of them are still dangerously weak, leaving possible openings for the not unwilling old world powers; and some of the richest prospective markets of the globe are in those as yet scantily developed lands. The value of a better understanding between the peoples of the two Americas, both for the reasons just named and for many others, scarcely calls for argument. It is almost equally clear that one of the essentials to such an understanding is a comprehension of Spanish civilization, on which that of the Spanish American peoples so largely depends. That information this volume aims to provide.

Charles Chapman

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