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Harvard Book Store Presents...
Vintage Books
Price: $16.00
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TOM VANDERBILT
breaks down Traffic: Why We Drive
the Way We Do
(And What It Says About Us)
Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome design, technology, science, and culture writer TOM VANDERBILT for a discussion of his book Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (And What It Says About Us), which is now out in paperback. "Fascinating, illuminating, and endlessly entertaining as well. Vanderbilt shows how a sophisticated understanding of human behavior can illuminate one of the modern world's most basic and most mysterious endeavors. You'll learn a lot; and the life you save may be your own." —Cass R. Sunstein (Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness) "Somehow manages to plunge far more deeply than one would imagine a meditation on travel possibly could. Perhaps without intending to, Vanderbilt has narrowed in on the central question of our time.... His book asks us to consider how we can persuade human beings to behave more cooperatively than selfishly.” —Elaine Margolin, The Denver Post "A great, deep, multidisciplinary investigation of the dynamics and the psychology of traffic jams.... Anyone who spends more than 19 minutes a day in traffic should read this book." —Nassim Nicholas Taleb (The Black Swan)
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CONTACT:
General Info:
617.661.1515
Media:
617.661.1424 ex.1
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| DATE: |
Wednesday, September 9th |
| TIME: |
7:00 PM |
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Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge |
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This event is free; no tickets are required |
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Tom Vanderbilt writes on design, technology, science, and culture, among other subjects, for many publications, including Wired, Slate, The London Review of Books, Gourmet, The Wall Street Journal, Men’s Vogue, Artforum, The Wilson Quarterly, Travel and Leisure, Rolling Stone, The New York Times Magazine,Cabinet, Metropolis, and Popular Science. He is contributing editor to the design magazines I.D. and Print, and contributing writer of the popular blog Design Observer.
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