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William Poundstone

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American writer

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  • Cover of: How Do You Fight a Horse-Sized Duck?: And Other Perplexing Puzzles from the Toughest Interviews in the World

    First published in 2021 — 7 editions
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  • Cover of: Priceless: the myth of fair value (and how to take advantage of it)

    Cover of edition pricelesshiddenp0000poun First published in 2010 — 6 editions
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  • Cover of: Big secrets

    Cover of edition bigsecretsuncens00poun Cover of edition bigsecretsuncens0000poun First published in 1983 — 5 editions
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  • Cover of: The Recursive Universe: Cosmic Complexity and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge

    First published in 1984 — 5 editions
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  • Cover of: How Would You Move Mount Fuji?: Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle -- How the World's Smartest Companies Select the Most Creative Thinkers

    Cover of edition howwouldyoumovem00poun_354 First published in 2003 — 5 editions
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  • Cover of: Labyrinths of reason: paradox, puzzles, and the frailty of knowledge

    Cover of edition labyrinthsofreas00poun First published in 1988 — 5 editions
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  • Cover of: How Would You Move Mount Fuji?: Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle - How the World's Smartest Companies Select the Most Creative Thinkers

    First published in 2003 — 4 editions
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  • Cover of: Recursive Universe: Cosmic Complexity and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge

    First published in 1924 — 4 editions
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  • Cover of: Head in the cloud: why knowing things still matters when facts are so easy to look up

    Cover of edition headincloudpower0000poun First published in 2016 — 4 editions
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  • Cover of: Are you smart enough to work at Google?: fiendish puzzles and impossible interview questions from the world's top companies

    Cover of edition areyousmartenoug0000poun_z6w9 First published in 2012 — 4 editions
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  • Cover of: How to Predict Everything: The Formula Transforming What We Know about Life and the Universe

    First published in 2019 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Bigger secrets: more than 125 things they prayed you'd never find out

    Cover of edition biggersecretsmor0000poun_g6u5 First published in 1986 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Carl Sagan: a life in the cosmos

    First published in 1999 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Doomsday Calculation: How an Equation That Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know about Life and the Universe

    First published in 2019 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Rock breaks scissors: a practical guide to outguessing and outwitting almost everybody

    First published in 2014 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street

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  • Cover of: Prisoner's dilemma

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  • Cover of: How Would You Move Mount Fuji?: Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle - How the World's Smartest Companies Select the Most Creative Thinkers

    First published in 2003 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Rock Breaks Scissors: A Practical Guide to Outguessing and Outwitting Almost Everybody

    First published in 2014 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Gaming the Vote: Why Elections Aren't Fair

    First published in 2008 — 2 editions
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We need a photo of William Poundstone

American writer

Subjects

Employment interviewing, Employee selection, Curiosities and wonders, History, Knowledge, theory of, Miscellanea, Popular culture, Secrecy, Handbooks, vade-mecums, Human behavior, Microsoft Corporation, Pricing, Social life and customs, Theory of Knowledge, Trade secrets, Accès à l'emploi, Biography, Choice (Psychology), Cosmology, Développement d'aptitudes, Elections, united states, Game theory, Machine theory, Manners and customs, New York Times reviewed

Places

United States, Los Vagas, New York City, Reno

People

Brandon Carter, Carl Sagan (1934-1996), Claude Shannon, Edward Thorpe, Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), J. Richard Gott, John Kelly Jr., John Leslie, John Von Neumann (1903-1957), Max Tegmark, Nick Bostrom, Thomas Bayes (d. 1761)

Time

20th century, 1950-2016, 1971-, the last quarter of the 20th century

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September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
March 31, 2017 Edited by MARC Bot add VIAF and wikidata ID
October 27, 2013 Edited by lib adding link to author's home page
September 11, 2008 Edited by RenameBot fix author name
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import