Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes

by Maria Konnikova

Book Overview

The New York Times bestselling guide to thinking like literature's greatest detective. "Steven Pinker meets Sir Arthur Conan Doyle" (Boston Globe), by the author of The Confidence Game. No fictional... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670026573
• ISBN13: 9780670026579
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Viking Books
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Eye-opening to the reality of better observation and deduction

This book goes through the scientific explanations of how a person can think like Sherlock Holmes. Filled with examples from old Holmes stories, psychology studies and a small amount of “games,” the reality of thinking like Sherlock Holmes is shown. Would recommend to any student, professor, or lover of knowledge.