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Hardcover:
9780316099974 | Little Brown & Co, January 4, 2012, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and thrown in a blender.
Paperback:
9780316099981 | Little Brown & Co, September 4, 2012, cover price $16.00
9780316187671 | Hachette Book Group USA, January 1, 2012, cover price $12.99
Hardcover:
9780688022198 | William Morrow & Co, October 1, 1983, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A compendium of top-secret information reveals the truth about the Rorschach tests, lie detectors, secret ingredients in Coca-Cola and Kentucky Fried Chicken, mysterious initiation rites, magicians' tricks, and others
Paperback:
9780688048303 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, May 1, 1985), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A compendium of top-secret information reveals the truth about the Rorschach tests, lie detectors, secret ingredients in Coca-Cola and Kentucky Fried Chicken, mysterious initiation rites, magicians' tricks, and others
Paperback:
9780395530085 | Reissue edition (Mariner Books, November 1, 1989), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: A compilation of important and banal inside information such as the secret recipe for Oysters Rockefeller and the phone company's own unlisted numbers
Hardcover:
9780688115296 | 1st edition (William Morrow & Co, May 1, 1993), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A look at the truth behind some of the world's heretofore well-kept secrets
Paperback:
9780688137922 | Quill, September 1, 1994, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: From the author of the mega-selling Big Secrets comes the equally entertaining sequel which unveils the truth about all sorts of things you are never supposed to know.
Hardcover:
9780805057669 | Henry Holt & Co, October 1, 1999, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Chronicles the astronomer's rise to scientific celebrity, describing his gift of enthusiastic communication and his conflicts with the academic establishment
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9780805057676 | Henry Holt & Co, October 1, 2000, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A biography of a famous scientist, author, and television personality describes Sagan's rise to fame, his fractured personal life, and his relationship with the rest of the scientific community.
Paperback:
9788420658407, titled "El Dilema Del Prisionero / The Prisioner Dilemma: John Von Neumann, La Teoria De Juegos Y La Bomba" | Poc edition (Alianza Editorial Sa, June 30, 2005), cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Los dilemas de la vida real surgen gracias a las diversas maneras con las que nuestros intereses individuales se contraponen a los de los demás y a los de la sociedad en general.
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9788415431077, titled "¿Es lo bastante inteligente como para trabajar en Google? / Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?: Preguntas, trucos y estrategias de seleccion de las empresas mas exigentes del mundo / Trick Questions, Zen-like Riddles, Insanely Difficult Puzzles," | Italian edition edition (Random House Espanol, April 26, 2012), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Descubra los códigos para destacar en las entrevistas y conseguir el trabajo que desea en la nueva economÃa.
Miscellaneous:
9780374707088 | 1 edition (Hill & Wang Pub, June 1, 2010), cover price $9.99
Hardcover:
9780809046379 | Hill & Wang Pub, September 14, 2005, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Examines how two research scientists utilized information theory to make large sums of money gambling in Las Vegas and went on to amass even greater wealth applying their theory to Wall Street.
Paperback:
9780809045990 | Hill & Wang Pub, September 19, 2006, cover price $16.95
Hardcover:
9780809048939, titled "Gaming the Vote: Why Elections Aren't Fair (and What We Can Do About It)" | 1 edition (Hill & Wang Pub, February 5, 2008), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Assesses fundamental flaws in the American electoral system, looking at how a minor 'spoiler' candidate can affect the election, and proposes a simple but fair solution designed to transform the electoral system.
Paperback:
9780809048922, titled "Gaming the Vote: Why Elections Aren't Fair (And What We Can Do About It)" | 1 edition (Hill & Wang Pub, February 17, 2009), cover price $23.00
Paperback:
9780316395069 | Little Brown & Co, July 19, 2016, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: The real-world value of knowledge in the mobile-device age.
Hardcover:
9780316256544 | Little Brown & Co, July 19, 2016, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: The real-world value of knowledge in the mobile-device age.
Hardcover:
9780316919166 | 1 edition (Little Brown & Co, May 1, 2003), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Discusses the puzzle questions asked by Microsoft and other Fortune 500 companies of potential employees.
Miscellaneous:
9780759598317, titled "How Would You Move Mount Fuji?: Microsofts Cult of the Puzzle" | Little Brown & Co, May 1, 2003, cover price $9.99
Paperback:
9780316778497 | Reprint edition (Little Brown & Co, April 2, 2004), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Microsoft's interview process is a grueling sequence of brain-busting questions that separate the most creative thinkers from the merely brilliant.
Paperback:
9780316005302 | Back Bay Books, October 1, 2007, cover price $7.99
Hardcover:
9780385242615 | Doubleday, October 1, 1988, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Explores the timeless question of how we know what we know by rethinking the paradoxes guiding our understanding in areas such as matter and antimatter, black holes and time travel
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9780385242714 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, January 1, 1990), cover price $22.45 | About this edition: Explores the timeless question of how we know what we know by rethinking the paradoxes guiding our understanding in areas such as matter and antimatter, black holes and time travel
Hardcover:
9780809094691 | Hill & Wang Pub, January 5, 2010, cover price $26.99
Miscellaneous:
9781429943932, titled "Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value and How to Take Advantage of It" | 1 edition (Hill & Wang Pub, January 5, 2010), cover price $12.99
Hardcover:
9780385415675 | Doubleday, February 1, 1992, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: A biography of one of the most influential thinkers of the century tells how John von Neumann invented the digital computer and constructed a game theory called prisoner's dilemma, which was often used as an allegory for the nuclear arms race
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9780385415804 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, February 1, 1993), cover price $17.00
Hardcover:
9780688039752 | William Morrow & Co, November 1, 1984, cover price $3.98 | About this edition: Offers three simple rules which, when applied consistently, provide insight into the mysteries which govern the universe
Paperback:
9780486490984 | Reprint edition (Dover Pubns, June 19, 2013), cover price $16.95
9780688072902, titled "Recursive Universe: Cosmic Complexity and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge" | William Morrow & Co, September 1, 1996, cover price $30.00
9780809252022 | Contemporary Books, September 1, 1985, cover price $11.95
Hardcover:
9780316228060 | Little Brown & Co, June 3, 2014, cover price $26.00
Paperback:
9780316228053 | Reissue edition (Little Brown & Co, September 8, 2015), cover price $15.99
9780425104194, titled "Slocum and the Cherokee Manhunt" | Berkley Pub Group, October 1, 1987, cover price $2.75 | also contains Slocum and the Cherokee Manhunt | About this edition: western
Hardcover:
9780385242608 | Doubleday, October 1, 1990, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Presents a compilation of trivia questions and answers that responds to the debate over such issues as the scariest amusement park ride, the most difficult tongue twister, and the most profitable investment
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9780385242707 | Reissue edition (Main Street Books, September 1, 1991), cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Presents a compilation of trivia questions and answers that responds to the debate over such issues as the scariest amusement park ride, the most difficult tongue twister, and the most profitable investment
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