"Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? How did the legalization of abortion affect the rate of violent crime? These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much-heralded scholar who studies the riddles of everyday life--from...

Reveals how personal mindsets affect and control every aspect of one's life and offers advice on how to promote success and personal fulfillment.

Uncovers the hidden rules that shape the balance between the weak and the mighty and the powerful and the dispossessed.

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg looks at what women can do to help themselves and make the small changes in their lives that can effect change on a more universal scale. Drawing on her own experiences working in some of the world's most successful businesses, as well as academic research, she seeks practical answers to the problems facing women in the workplace.

Collects the best tools and tactics the author has learned from successful celebrities and thinkers who have appeared on his popular podcast.

The first and second editions of Repacking Your Bags helped people develop their own unique vision of the good life and take practical steps at home and at work to make sense of their lives and live in an authentically meaningful way. Written as a travel guide iIt helped people to put together a "trip checklist" that provided the elements of the good life: work, love, place, and purpose. But Leider and Shapiro came to realize that repacking is not...

Discusses how to get to the root of eating habits, and offers advice on improving body image, dealing with emotional eating, and exercise.

The author discusses how she was able to triumph over cancer with the help of the animals in her life, and shares the stories of other people whose lives have been touched by the loving energies of animals.

A fascinating excursion into the history behind the place we call home. Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part of England where nothing of any great significance has happened since the Romans decamped. Yet one day, he began to consider how very little he knew about the ordinary things of life as he found it in that comfortable home. To remedy this, he formed the idea of journeying about his house from room to room to “write...