Follow us on Twitter, , and listen for Hidden Brain stories every week on your local public radio station. The Hidden Brain Podcast is hosted by Shankar Vedantam and produced by Kara McGuirk-Alison and Maggie Penman. This episode, we bring you the best parts from that conversation: They talk about why it's so hard to find a cab on a rainy day, how marshmallows can predict the future and why where we get our money influences how we spend it. Shankar Vedantam sat down with Thaler a few months ago for an event at the Willard InterContinental Hotel in Washington, D.C. If you've read Thaler's previous book, Nudge, you know he's is an economist who studies why people predictably don't act the way traditional economists say they will. That's the title of Richard Thaler's new book: Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics. We use the tickets we bought to a concert even though we're sick. We order dessert when we're supposed to be dieting. We don't always act like we're supposed to. NPR's Weekend in Washington session at the Willard InterContinental Hotel in Washington, D.C., on Oct. THALER: WINNER OF THE 2017 NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICSShortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year AwardECONOMIST, FINANCIAL TIMES and EVENING STANDARD books of the yearFrom the renowned and entertaining behavioural economist and co-author of the seminal work Nudge, Misbehaving is an irreverent and enlightening look into human foibles.
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*Features an illustrated map of 1940s Paris as full color endpapers. New York Times bestselling author Cara Black is at her best as she brings Occupation-era France to vivid life in this masterful, pulse-pounding story about one young woman with the temerity-and drive-to take on Hitler himself. When Kate misses her mark and the plan unravels, Kate is on the run for her life-all the time wrestling with the suspicion that the whole operation was a set-up. Thrust into the red-hot center of the war, a country girl from rural Oregon finds herself holding the fate of the world in her hands. But other than rushed and rudimentary instruction, she has no formal spy training. Wrecked by grief after a Luftwaffe bombing killed her husband and infant daughter, she is armed with a rifle, a vendetta, and a fierce resolve. Kate Rees, a young American markswoman, has been recruited by British intelligence to drop into Paris with a dangerous assignment: assassinate the Führer. In June of 1940, when Paris fell to the Nazis, Hitler spent a total of three hours in the City of Light-abruptly leaving, never to return. They tell secrets that the living can’t know about the cracks already forming in the mobs’ truce. Davidson, two ruthless mob bosses, have reached a fragile peace-one maintained by “razor men.” Kelpie, orphaned and homeless, is blessed (and cursed) with the ability to see Razorhurst’s many ghosts. Sydney’s deadly Razorhurst neighborhood, 1932. The notoriously bloody history of a mob-run Sydney, Australia neighborhood is fertile ground for this historical thriller with a paranormal twist: two girls' ability to see the many ghosts haunting Razorhurst. #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert "Vivid and bloody and bold and fast-I feel like Razorhurst is in my bones now." This is an atypical love story born out of an unimaginable nightmare and held together by all that is positive in a human soul. Although she is frightened by the strong, sadistic, and arrogant man who holds her prisoner, what keeps Olivia awake in the dark is her unwelcome attraction to him. She has a dark sensuality that cannot be hidden or denied, though she tries to accomplish both. Olivia is young, beautiful, naïve and willful to a fault. His name is Caleb, though he demands to be called Master. Blindfolded and bound, there is only a calm male voice to welcome her. If Caleb is to get close enough to strike, he must become the very thing he abhors and kidnap a beautiful girl to train her to be all that he once was.Įighteen-year-old Olivia Ruiz has just woken up in a strange place. Finally, the architect of his suffering has emerged with a new identity, but not a new nature. For twelve years he has immersed himself in the world of pleasure slaves searching for the one man he holds ultimately responsible. Kidnapped as a young boy and sold into slavery by a power-hungry mobster, he has thought of nothing but vengeance. Caleb is a man with a singular interest in revenge. She goes to Le Sommat with her boyfriend Will for her estranged brother’s engagement party. Elin Warner is an English detective who is on leave from her job. Le Sommat is a former TB Sanatorium that has been turned into a resort in the Swiss Alps. And she’s the only one who could have warned them just how much danger they are all in… Review: With the storm closing off all access to the hotel, the longer Laure stays missing, the more the remaining guests start to panic.Įlin is under pressure to find Laure, but no one has realized yet that another woman has gone missing. And when they wake the following morning to discover Laure is missing, Elin must trust her instincts if they hope to find her. But Elin’s taken time off from her job as a detective, so when her estranged brother, Isaac, and his fiancée, Laure, invite her to celebrate their engagement at the hotel, Elin really has no reason not to accept.Īrriving in the midst of a threatening storm, Elin immediately feels on edge–there’s something about the hotel that makes her nervous. Long plagued by troubling rumors, the former abandoned sanatorium has since been renovated into a five-star minimalist hotel.Īn imposing, isolated getaway spot high up in the Swiss Alps is the last place Elin Warner wants to be. Half hidden by forest and overshadowed by threatening peaks, Le Sommet has always been a sinister place. Title: The Sanatorium (Detective Elin Warner #1) In this world, Hematoi are descendents of half-gods and considered pure-bloods. Half-Blood by Jennifer L Armentrout is an urban mythology set in North Carolina (I believe, don’t hate me if I’m wrong). And y’all I could kick myself for how long I waited to read it. This is one of those books that has been on my TBR forever! Thanks to #coyer book club, I finally got around to reading it last month. If she fails in her duty, she faces a future worse than death or slavery: being turned into a daimon, and being hunted by Aiden. But falling for Aiden isn't her biggest problem-staying alive long enough to graduate the Covenant and become a Sentinel is. Unfortunately, she's crushing hard on the totally hot pure-blood Aiden. Alex has problems with them all, but especially rule #1: Relationships between pures and halfs are forbidden. There are several rules that students at the Covenant must follow. Seventeen-year-old Alexandria would rather risk her life fighting than waste it scrubbing toilets, but she may end up slumming it anyway. Half-bloods only have two options: become trained Sentinels who hunt and kill daimons or become servants in the homes of the pures. Children of Hematoi and mortals-well, not so much. The Hematoi descend from the unions of gods and mortals, and the children of two Hematoi-pure-bloods-have godlike powers. The Inner Self has been organized and is being presented by Outside In, a program associated with Pallant House Gallery, a museum in Chichester. Finding it can entail a bit of a trek, but the payoff is substantial. The Inner Self: Drawings from the Subconscious is a group show on view at CGP London, The Gallery, a kind of community art center, whose gallery/café is located in Southwark Park, in southeastern London. One has been assembled by a non-profit organization, the other by one of the international art market’s most blue-chip vendors. Now, two recently opened exhibitions, on display at two different kinds of venues, offer some very satisfying discoveries in this field. Hannah Swain, “Putti” (2014), pencil on paper, dimensions variable (courtesy of Outside In/Pallant House Gallery, Chichester) The Moomins also spun off to a comic strip, initially created by Jansson herself, and in 2016 Jansson was included in The Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame. For her work as a children's writer she received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1966. The next two books, Comet in Moominland and Finn Family Moomintroll, published in 19 respectively, were highly successful in sales, adding to sales of the first book. Jansson wrote the Moomin books for children, starting in 1945 with The Moomins and the Great Flood. She continued to work as an artist and a writer for the rest of her life. At the same time, she was writing short stories and articles for publication, as well as creating the graphics for book covers and other purposes. Her first solo art exhibition was in 1943. Brought up by artistic parents, Jansson studied art from 1930 to 1938 in Stockholm, Helsinki and Paris. Tove Marika Jansson ( Swedish pronunciation: ( listen) 9 August 1914 – 27 June 2001) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish author, novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author. Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire Jansson in 1956 with moomintroll dolls made by Atelier Fauni With new information on the important contributions of women to church history as well as the latest information on Christianity in developing countries, Gonzalez's richly textured study discusses the changes and directions of the church up to the twenty-first century. From the monk Martin Luther, who dared to stand up to a corrupt pope, to the surprising spread and growing vitality of today's church in Africa, Asia, and South America, The Story of Christianity offers a complete and up-to-date retelling of this amazing history. Award-winning historian Justo Gonzalez bring to life the people, dramatic events, and theological debates that have shaped Protestantism, Catholicism, and Orthodoxy. Beginning with the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century, this fully revised and updated second volume of The Story of Christianity continues the marvelous history of the world's largest religion. Goff began her career writing non-fiction, penning columns for several local newspapers in Summit County, Colorado, as well as articles for regional and national publication. Manhattan Book Review called it "Absolutely masterful." Her series debut, Dark Waters, was dubbed "a sure bet for fans of international thrillers" by Booklist, nominated for the 2016 Colorado Book Award, the 2016 Anthony Award for Best Crime Fiction Audiobook, and published internationally. Red Sky, her most recent book, came out in June 2017 to critical acclaim and was a finalist for a 2018 Colorado Book Award. There are currently two books in Goff's international thriller series. Tony Hillerman, the New York Times bestselling author of the Navajo mystery series, said, "You don't have to be a bird lover to fall in love with Christine Goff's charming Birdwatcher's Mysteries " while David Morrell, the New York Times bestselling author of Murder as a Fine Art, called it "a wonderfully clever, charming, and addictive series." The series is currently published by Sharpe Books. Her bestselling Birdwatcher's Mysteries have been nominated for several WILLA Literary Awards and a Colorado Authors' League Awards. Chris Goff is an award-winning author of eight novels-six based on environmental themes and two in a new international thriller series. |