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  title info:
    title: Top dog
    sub title: the science of winning and losing
  name:
    name part: Bronson, Po
    name part: 1964-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Merryman, Ashley.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2013
    edition: 1st ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vi, 335 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Studying competitive arenas from the workplace, the stock market, sports, politics, the military and schools and using the latest findings in genetics, neuroscience and behavioral psychology, Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman unveil the astounding, often counter-intuitive truths about how we compete and the crucial ingredients that sometimes stand between winning and losing.
  table of contents: Part I: Foundations. Introduction: parachutists and ballroom dancers ; The competition machine ; What goes down when the stakes go up -- Part II: Formation. How the worriers can beat the warriors ; Even odds: why women need them and men don't ; The utter importance of pillow fights -- Part III: Individual. The difference between winning and not losing ; How one night of blackjack sped up the world economy ; The 'roid rage of chess -- Part IV: Collective. The hierarchy of teams ; Michelangelo had an agent ; How the Black Sox cleaned up Wall Street.
  note: Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-319) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Competition (Psychology)
  subject:
    topic: Success
    topic: Psychological aspects
  subject:
    topic: Failure (Psychology)
  classification: BF637.C47 B76 2013
  classification: 302/.14
  identifier: 9781455515158 (hbk.) :
  identifier: 1455515159 (hbk.)
  identifier: 9781455529551 (hbk. : lg. print)
  identifier: 1455529559 (hbk. : lg. print)
  identifier: 9781455515141 (pbk.)
  identifier: 1455515140 (pbk.)
  identifier: 9781455515165 (ebk.)
  identifier: 1455515167 (ebk.)
  identifier: 9781611130126 (audiobook)
  identifier: 1611130123 (audiobook)
  identifier: 2012033767
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 120823
    record change date: 20151203092938.0
    record identifier: in00002792413
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng