Book
Top dog : the science of winning and losing / Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781455515158 (hbk.)
- ISBN: 9781455515141 (trade pbk.)
- Physical Description: vi, 335 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Twelve, c2013.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-319) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: parachutists and ballroom dancers -- The competition machine -- What goes down when the stakes go up -- How the worriers can beat the warriors -- Even odds: why women need them and men don't -- The utter importance of pillow fights -- The difference between winning and not losing -- How one night of blackjack sped up the world economy -- The 'roid rage of chess -- The hierarchy of teams -- Michelangelo had an agent -- How the Black Sox cleaned up Wall Street. |
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| Subject: | Competition (Psychology) Success > Psychological aspects. Failure (Psychology) |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.
