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Breakdown of Will Hardcover - 2001 - 1st Edition

by George Ainslie


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There have been plenty of books and articles that describe how irrational we are - in consuming drugs and alcohol and cigarettes, in gambling, in forming destructive relationships, in failing to carry out our own plans, even in boring ourselves and procrastinating.

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  • Title Breakdown of Will
  • Author George Ainslie
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, West Nyack, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 2001-03-19
  • ISBN 9780521593007 / 052159300X
  • Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.75 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.91 cm)
  • Reading level 1470
  • Library of Congress subjects Choice (Psychology), Self-defeating behavior
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00058604
  • Dewey Decimal Code 153.8
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