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|author=William Poundstone

|title=How to Predict the Unpredictable: The Art of Outsmarting Almost Everyone

|rating=4

|genre=Reference

|summary=William Poundstone believes that we are all in the business of predicting, whether it be something as minor as playing rock, paper, scissors to pay a bar bill though to anticipating how the housing or stock markets are going to move. Now, I'm not particularly competitive - if whatever it is means ''that'' much to someone else then I'd rather let them have it - so this book didn't appeal to me on the basis of doing better than someone else, but I was interested in how it might be possible to predict what is going to happen. So, care to predict how it stacked up?

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780744072</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|author=The Economist

|summary=Having recently read [[Pieces of Light: the New Science of Memory by Charles Fernyhough]], I expected something similar, judging only from the title of Theodore Dalrymple's ''The Pleasure of Thinking: a Journey Through the Sideways Leaps of Ideas''. Instead of being a book about how people think laterally, as I thought it might be, it turned out to be something rather different, but ultimately equally interesting.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190809608X</amazonuk>

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~~|author=IBPA Contributors~~

~~|title=The Book Publishers Toolkit: 10 Practical Pointers for Independent and Self Publishers Vol. 1~~

~~|rating=3.5~~

~~|genre=Reference~~

|summary=Ten articles originally published in the Independent Book Publishers Association magazine have been gathered together to provide useful advice to the small independent publisher or anyone looking to self-publish. The authors of the articles - Kate Bandos, Kimberley Edwards, Joel Friedlander, Steve Gillen, Abigail Goben, Tanya Hall, Brian Jud, Stacey Miller, Kathleen Welton, and David Wogahn are all acknowledged experts in their own fields and whilst much of it is more relevant in the USA it's all thought-provoking and worth consideration. Each piece is short, snappy and to the point and reading the entire book took me less than an hour.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00AAY8M7O</amazonuk>~~

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