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$0 eBooks: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman; Outliers, The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell @ Booktopia

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$5 off, no minimum spend. Code can be used multiple times on one account.
Thanks to headphonejack for this deal.
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/424451

Other $0 eBooks:
Outliers, The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles by Martin Gardner
The Moscow Puzzles, 359 Mathematical Recreations by Boris A. Kordemsky

Description:

Daniel Kahneman, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his seminal work in psychology challenging the rational model of judgment and decision making, is one of the world's most important thinkers. His ideas have had a profound impact on many fields-including business, medicine, and politics-but until now, he has never brought together his many years of research in one book.

In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think and make choices. One system is fast, intuitive, and emotional; the other is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. Kahneman exposes the extraordinary capabilities-and also the faults and biases-of fast thinking, and reveals the pervasive influence of intuitive impressions on our thoughts and behaviour. The importance of properly framing risks, the effects of cognitive biases on how we view others, the dangers of prediction, the right ways to develop skills, the pros and cons of fear and optimism, the difference between our experience and memory of events, the real components of happiness-each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems work together to shape our judgments and decisions.

Drawing on a lifetime's experimental experience, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our professional and our personal lives-and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble. Thinking, Fast and Slow will transform the way you take decisions and experience the world.

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  • +12

    After reading this I no longer have arguments with people until after I've had a snack. That's the power of this book. Seriously though this is one everyone should read.

    • +2

      Have a Snickers.

  • Awesome

  • This is a really insightful book for anyone and everyone

  • Cool thanks OP. A little frustrating for sign up process etc. But for "Free" I guess I shouldn't complain :)

  • Awesome. One of the must read recommended by most finance professors.

    • finance professors

      Uh … who?

      • You know. Professors..

    • Right, so 'most' meaning that over 50% of all the finance professors recommend this book?

      • +4

        You're thinking of statistics professors.

        Finance professors are more concerned with macro-level trends, and less with hard numbers.

        • You're thinking of economics professors.

          Finance is applied statistics. The entire discipline is 'hard numbers'.

          • @jjcf: Yeah, but if I paid attention to details like the difference between finance and economics, then I wouldn’t be able to make a joke.

            Clearly I’m more of an economist. Broad brush strokes will do. Don’t sweat the details.

  • +1

    Best $0 book I've seen on OzBargain. Read!

    • +2

      When I saw it, I assumed it was going to be yet another "free" eBook largely consisting of text copied from websites, factual errors and all. But this is an actual book. I'm shocked.

  • +3

    The is the same Nobel Committee that gave Barack Obama, a man who launched 7 illegal wars, a "peace" prize right?

    I shouldn't be so cynical, Kahnemann is a good read.

    • And Niels Bohr, when all he did was theorize some nonsense about electron orbits. Lunatics!

    • +3

      Wouldn't expect the Nobel Peace Prize committee to be the same as the Economics Prize committee, but +1 for the comment. You must've been thinking fast and not slow when you posted it.

    • +1

      Yeah you should, about that peace prize process at least.

    • -1

      Orange man bad. Black man good

  • +4

    Adobe digital editions seems like a PITA to use, can anyone recommend another software to read this book?

    • +1. Installed ADE on PC, the formatting on the ebook comes up a total mess.
      Installed ADE on android, logged in with the same user/pass used for ADE on PC recently installed, the e-book doesn't come up (so sync failed)

  • Damn, literally just bought a copy of this yesterday haha.

    • i wouldnt feel too bad, still a great book.

  • that means all ebooks under 5$ are free using that code. perfect

  • +1

    A few other good books you can pick up for less than 5 using the code and get them for free are:
    - 1984 by George Orwell
    - Complete Tales of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
    - The Complete Novels of Jane Austen

  • how do i best read this on linux mint ?

    • Last time I checked, you needed to use WINE to install ADE.

      • Anything requiring the use of WINE is not l33t.

    • +2

      Stop being an isolationist neckbeard.

  • +1

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    Science fiction under $5: https://www.booktopia.com.au/ebooks/fiction-books/science-fi…

    There, I've removed the temptation of all those trashy romance novels.

    • +1

      Oh god it'll take forever to weed out the 99% crud from the 5,100+ SciFi books available under $5.

      • +1

        My neck just spontaneously grew a three inch beard from seeing the
        amount of trashy Star Trek novels on there.

        • +1

          It would take the rest of your life to read them all. Not because you can't read fast, but because the amount of eye rolling that would happen every chapter would force you to take breaks!

  • Top notch book.

  • Thanks to this deal I've built up a big library on booktopia of free <$5 ebooks

  • This is a great book that i'm actually reading in paperback

  • myanon - profit

  • This website is infuriating on mobile… can’t create an account and wants a shipping address even though I’ve selected one…

  • +2

    Thanks OP got the $4.99 ebook , used the Code "BTSAVE5" Total $0.00 also Cashrewards and got back .32c - what good Deal. Will try my luck again.

    • Oh really? Might need to buy 10,000 books then.

  • +2

    Here's all the (+)4-star e-books under $5. Some good titles :
    https://www.booktopia.com.au/search.ep?productType=917505&pr…

    • +1

      Good link! Found a couple of extra ones I'd wanted previously (ie. Jimmy Barnes' Working Class Man, and Jelena Dokic's autobiography).

  • +2

    Download the books before they get cancelled!

  • Best book I've ever read. Download the free ebook and then buy a printed copy for your shelf…

  • Now getting code not valid

  • Seems expired now

    • Looks like it

    • +1

      Your decision making was extra slow.

  • Now deleted from My Ebooks section …. List of orders still there but no ebooks in My Ebooks section. All downloaded files seems to adobe format (2kb) but not opening.

    • same, is your account new? ie. created just now?

  • +1

    all ebook purchased are gone

    • lucky downloaded mine ok

  • +1

    Yeah, all mine have disappeared from my eBooks section too. I even paid for some (after discount).

    Fortunately I downloaded them immediately, and they all still work fine on my Kobo.

    • The ones that actually cost me money are now back on my shelf.

  • Anyone having trouble reading this on Kindle Paperwhite?

    I clicked and dragged the epub file (after loading acsm file on ADE) into my Kindle folder, but it doesn't show up on my Kindle.

  • My library! :(

  • +3

    Deal wasn't honoured. I spent a fair amount of time getting shitload of books as well >:(

  • +1

    Damn order was canceled :(

    Someone should upload the file to spite them :P

  • +4

    the order was cancelled.

    geez could've provided at least an email saying they suffered up not having a min. spend etc.

  • What a miserable bunch of sods. If they won't honour a previously completed order, why would you trust them for anything at all? I'm going back to Kindle, they've never cancelled anything (and are cheaper for most books AFAICT).

  • +2

    Never buying anything from these weasels

  • :(

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