Bad vs. Worse: The Ultimate Guide to Making Lose-Lose Decisions

by Joshua Piven

Overview

Skim or whole milk? Aisle or window seat? Easy. Don Corleone or Darth Vader as your father? Not so much.

Welcome to the pinnacle of lose-lose decision-making, courtesy of the bestselling author of The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook series.

In Bad vs. Worse, readers are presented with a series of impossible choices, as well as the facts, figures, stats, and tips they need to make a decision when the only choices are worse or "worser." Rats or Rambo? Neanderthals or ninjas? In Bad vs. Worse, readers will get to decide between a very big rock and a really hard place.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781101221105
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	10/02/2007
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	821 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Joshua Piven is a New York Times bestselling writer; an award-winning speechwriter; a television writer and producer; a playwright; and the author or co-author of more than twenty-five non-fiction and humor books, including the worldwide best-selling Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook series.

Editorial Reviews

From the author who brought us the best-selling The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbookand its several spin-offs comes this goof of a psychology book. Piven pits two equally bad options, people, situations, or activities against each other-e.g., "Who would you rather have catering your party, neanderthals or ninjas?" and "Which would be worse, ten hours in Baghdad or Baltimore?"-and readers must decide which option would be worse. After each scenario is staged, the author offers up useful history, information, and facts about the people or things involved. There is a chart in the back to log your decisions, as well as other lose-lose options to consider and a place to create one's own bad vs. worse scenarios. The highly descriptive table of contents allows for easy navigation. An amusing read, this latest entry in the series would be fun to use as a conversation starter among close friends, although some scenarios are undeniably unfair or biased. Recommended for libraries with an interest in pop culture and what-if books.
—Angela Milock

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