Authors@Google: Josh Piven

The @Google program welcomed author Josh Piven for an interactive discussion on how to decide between a very big rock and a really hard place.

About the Author:

Josh Piven is the author or co-author of more than a dozen non-fiction and humor books, including As Luck Would Have It (Villard), The Escape Artists (McGraw-Hill), and the worldwide best-selling The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook series (Chronicle Books). His current book, Bad Vs. Worse (Perigee) is the ultimate guide to making lose-lose decisions.

Piven is perhaps best known for his famously tongue-in-cheek worst-case books, books that offer readers real-world (though often hilarious) advice on surviving worst-case situations that they might—but hopefully won't—encounter: everything from "how to fend off a shark" and "how to wrestle and alligator" to "how to avoid the Freshman 15" and "how to determine if your date is an axe murderer" One recent reviewer said of the series: "We've finally found the WMDs: The Worst-Case books are Weapons of Mass Distraction!"

With more than 5 million copies in print since November 1999, the Worst-Case Scenario book series is the fastest-selling how-to book series in the history of publishing

About the Book:

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

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. 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.

This event took place that the Google NYC campus on December 18, 2007

Category:

Entertainment

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• Worst
• Case
• Scenario
• Josh
• Piven