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Product Description: Could you lose weight if you put $20,000 at risk? Would you finally set up your billing software if it meant that your favorite charity would earn a new contribution? If you’ve ever tried to meet a goal and came up short, the problem may not have been that the goal was too difficult or that you lacked the discipline to succeed...read more
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9780553807639, titled "Carrots and Sticks: Unlock the Power of Incentives to Get Things Done" | Bantam Dell Pub Group, September 21, 2010, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Could you lose weight if you put $20,000 at risk?

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9780307748959, titled "Carrots and Sticks: Unlock the Power of Incentives to Get Things Done" | Unabridged edition (Random House, September 21, 2010), cover price $35.00 | also contains Carrots and Sticks: Unlock the Power of Incentives to Get Things Done | About this edition: Could you lose weight if you put $20,000 at risk?

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Product Description: Could you lose weight if you put $20,000 at risk? Would you finally set up your billing software if it meant that your favorite charity would earn a new contribution? If you’ve ever tried to meet a goal and came up short, the problem may not have been that the goal was too difficult or that you lacked the discipline to succeed...read more
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Miscellaneous:

9780553907827 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, September 21, 2010, cover price $26.00

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9780307748959 | Unabridged edition (Random House, September 21, 2010), cover price $35.00 | also contains Carrots and Sticks: The New Science of High-powered Incentives | About this edition: Could you lose weight if you put $20,000 at risk?

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Product Description: Diversification provides a well-known way of getting something close to a free lunch: by spreading money across different kinds of investments, investors can earn the same return with lower risk (or a much higher return for the same amount of risk)...read more
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9780465018291 | Basic Books, May 4, 2010, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Diversification provides a well-known way of getting something close to a free lunch: by spreading money across different kinds of investments, investors can earn the same return with lower risk (or a much higher return for the same amount of risk).

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Product Description: Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Bringing together the best poems from Ayres's early verse (much of it written in houses of ill fame) to his erotic and darkly imaginative later pieces, this stunning collection also features his previously unpublished experiences with luminary legends such as Tennessee Williams, Allen Ginsberg, Yoko Ono, Edmund White and Quentin Crisp...read more
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9782914853101 | 2 rev exp edition (French Connection Pr, April 7, 2009), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Poetry.
9782914853040 | French Connection Pr, January 1, 2005, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: "Private Parts: The Early Poems of Ian Ayres" collects the best poems from Ayres' erotic early verse (much of it written in houses of ill fame) to his darkly imaginative later pieces.

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Product Description: An international sensation—and still the talk of the relevant blogosphere—this Wall Street Journal and New York Times business bestseller examines the “power” in numbers. Today more than ever, number crunching affects your life in ways you might not even imagine...read more
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9780553384734 | Reprint edition (Bantam Dell Pub Group, August 26, 2008), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: An international sensation—and still the talk of the relevant blogosphere—this Wall Street Journal and New York Times business bestseller examines the “power” in numbers.

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Product Description: Designed to meet the requirements of 4- and 3-credit hour courses, the Seventh Edition provides an overview of contract law, featuring updated information on Uniform Commercial Code revisions and current trends in contracts scholarship...read more
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9781599412559 | 7 edition (Foundation Pr, May 19, 2008), cover price $193.00 | About this edition: Designed to meet the requirements of 4- and 3-credit hour courses, the Seventh Edition provides an overview of contract law, featuring updated information on Uniform Commercial Code revisions and current trends in contracts scholarship.

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Beginning with examples of the mathematician who out-predicted wine buffs in determining the best vintages, and the sports scouts who use statistics rather than intuition to pick winners, this work exposes the world of data-miners, introducing the people and the techniques.
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9780719564635 | John Murray Pubs Ltd, September 6, 2007, cover price $29.25 | About this edition: Beginning with examples of the mathematician who out-predicted wine buffs in determining the best vintages, and the sports scouts who use statistics rather than intuition to pick winners, this work exposes the world of data-miners, introducing the people and the techniques.

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Touting the benefits of detailed statistical analysis, an economist explains how by sorting through mass quantities of easily stored and sorted information, businesses, governments, and consumers can achieve greater insight into human behavior and use it to predict future trends. 75,000 first printing.
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9780553805406 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, August 28, 2007, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Gone are the days of solely relying on intuition to make decisions.

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9780739354728 | Abridged edition (Random House, August 28, 2007), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Touting the benefits of detailed statistical analysis, an economist explains how sorting through mass quantities of easily stored information can offer greater insight into human behavior for businesses, governments, and consumers.

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Product Description: "Why Not?" is a primer for fresh thinking, for problem-solving with a purpose, for bringing the world a few steps closer to the way it should be. Idealistic? Yes. Unrealistic? According to "Why Not?"authors Barry Nalebuff and Ian Ayres, no...read more
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9781591391531, titled "Why Not: How to Use Everyday Ingenuity to Solve Problems Big and Small" | Harvard Business School Pr, October 1, 2003, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Offers guidelines for brainstorming and problem solving in order to solve new problems with existing solutions and to generate new solutions for existing problems.

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9781422104347 | 1 edition (Harvard Business School Pr, December 30, 2006), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: "Why Not?
9781591396819 | Harvard Business School Pr, October 1, 2004, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Offers guidelines for brainstorming and problem solving in order to solve new problems with existing solutions and to generate new solutions for existing problems.

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Product Description: Volume 5 in this exciting series of anthologies, celebrates art, poetry, and the ultimate sex goddess of the 20th century, Marilyn Monroe. It includes a one-act play by Joyce Carol Oates that brings to life Marilyn's posing for her infamous nude calendar shot, new insights from Marilyn biographer Sarah Churchwell, plus never-before-revealed Marilyn memories by her personal masseur, Ralph Roberts, friend John Gilmore, and others who actually knew her...read more
By Ian Ayres (editor)
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Paperback:

9782914853071 | French Connection Pr, November 30, 2006, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Volume 5 in this exciting series of anthologies, celebrates art, poetry, and the ultimate sex goddess of the 20th century, Marilyn Monroe.

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Product Description: Spurred by the advances in option theory that have been remaking financial and economic scholarship over the past thirty years, a revolution is taking shape in the way legal scholars conceptualize property and the way it is protected by the law...read more
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9780226033464 | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 15, 2005, cover price $57.50 | About this edition: Spurred by the advances in option theory that have been remaking financial and economic scholarship over the past thirty years, a revolution is taking shape in the way legal scholars conceptualize property and the way it is protected by the law.

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Product Description: How can a promise be a lie? Answer: when the promisor never intended to perform the promise. Such incidences of promissory fraud are frequently litigated because they can result in punitive damages awards. And an insincere promisor can even be held criminally liable...read more
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9780300106756 | Yale Univ Pr, June 11, 2005, cover price $52.00 | About this edition: How can a promise be a lie?

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Two noted legal experts introduce a series of practical strategies for helping straight men and women advocate for and with the gay community, covering such issues as marriage rights, employment discrimination, gays in the military, exclusion from the Boy Scouts, and religious controversies over homosexuality.
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9780691121345 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 18, 2005, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: Two noted legal experts introduce a series of practical strategies for helping straight men and women advocate for and with the gay community, covering such issues as marriage rights, employment discrimination, gays in the military, exclusion from the Boy Scouts, and religious controversies over homosexuality.

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Product Description: In this provocative book, two leading law professors challenge the existing campaign reform agenda and present a new initiative that avoids the mistakes of the past. Bruce Ackerman and Ian Ayres build on the example of the secret ballot and propose a system of "secret donation booths" for campaign contributions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780300092622 | Yale Univ Pr, April 1, 2002, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: In this publication, two leading law professors challenge the existing campaign reform agenda in America and present an initiative that claims to avoid the mistakes of the past.

Paperback:

9780300101492 | Yale Univ Pr, February 1, 2004, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: In this provocative book, two leading law professors challenge the existing campaign reform agenda and present a new initiative that avoids the mistakes of the past.

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Product Description: In this thorough confrontation of discrimination in the marketplace, Ian Ayres reveals surprising evidence that in many different types of transactions, blacks and women are routinely put at a disadvantage—by unequal offers, unequal policies, and subtle forms of discrimination...read more
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Hardcover:

9780226033518 | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 29, 2001, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: If you're a woman and you shop for a new car, will you really get the best deal?

Paperback:

9780226033532 | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 15, 2003, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: In this thorough confrontation of discrimination in the marketplace, Ian Ayres reveals surprising evidence that in many different types of transactions, blacks and women are routinely put at a disadvantage—by unequal offers, unequal policies, and subtle forms of discrimination.

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Product Description: Volume 2 of this series with its cover painting by Vincent van Gogh, offers a knock-out array of fresh, exciting poems - Beat, Slam, Nuyorican, and Experimental, you name it - by such daring poets as Peter Orlovsky, Gayle Danley-Dooley, Pedro Pietri, and the list goes on...read more
By Ian Ayres (editor)
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Paperback:

9782914853019 | French Connection Pr, April 15, 2003, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Volume 2 of this series with its cover painting by Vincent van Gogh, offers a knock-out array of fresh, exciting poems - Beat, Slam, Nuyorican, and Experimental, you name it - by such daring poets as Peter Orlovsky, Gayle Danley-Dooley, Pedro Pietri, and the list goes on.

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Product Description: This book transcends current debate on government regulation by lucidly outlining how regulations can be a fruitful combination of persuasion and sanctions. The regulation of business by the United States government is often ineffective despite being more adversarial in tone than in other nations...read more
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Hardcover:

9780195070705 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, March 19, 1992, cover price $164.99 | About this edition: This book transcends current debate on government regulation by lucidly outlining how regulations can be a fruitful combination of persuasion and sanctions.

Paperback:

9780195093766 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, February 16, 1995), cover price $60.00 | About this edition: This book transcends current debate on government regulation by lucidly outlining how regulations can be a fruitful combination of persuasion and sanctions.

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