Levitt (economics, U. of Chicago) and writing collaborator Dubner (a writer for the New York Times and The New Yorker) dub the material in this work 'freakonomics' because Levitt uses analytical tools from economics to address a range...

A personal account of the author’s discovery that his devoutly Catholic parents were in fact Jews, along with the details of his spiritual journey and identity transformation. The result of an overwhelmingly well-received "...

In its review of Turbulent Souls, the New York Times wrote: 'While it is clearly better for Stephen Dubner if his turbulent soul stays quiet, I think readers of this wonderful book will rather hope that a continued measure of unsettle...