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ERROR: type should be string, got "https://www.chron.com/business/article/BOOK-REVIEWS-Is-being-a-little-monster-a-good-1553143.php\nBOOK REVIEWS: Is being a little monster a good negotiating tool?\nSTEVE POWERS, For The Chronicle\nPublished 6:30 am CST, Sunday, November 13, 2005\nEVER have days when you wish you could act like a little kid? Times when you'd like to engage in childlike actions to get your way? But no, those days are gone. You have to act like an adult now. Or do you? Bill Adler Jr. says you don't.\nAdler, a book packaging executive in Washington, D.C., has written a book designed to show readers how to release their inner child to get desired results. The subtitle, Unleash the Little Monster Within to Get EVERYTHING You Want, along with a petulant-looking child on the cover, is intriguing.\nAdler has written a series of short, snappy chapters that illustrate ways of conducting business as a particularly persuasive child.\nTitles include, \"Throw a Tantrum,\" the longest chapter, where Adler points out that \"we often give into the demands of the tantrum thrower,\" \"Act Forlorn,\" in which the author advises readers to angle for sympathy as a \"pure business strategy,\" and \"Give Yourself a Timeout,\" where Adler counsels readers that they \"may need to let somebody else do the heavy lifting until things get better for you.\"\nEspecially delightful is the chapter \"Ask the Person Who's Most Likely to Say Yes,\" in which the pitting-the-parents-against-one-another strategy often used by kids is shown to be an effective tool in business negotiations.\nThis is a short book that's a breeze to read. But it still contains many little nuggets of wisdom.\nUndercover and understood\nTim Harford writes the \"Dear Economist\" column for Financial Times magazine ; this column is a tongue-in-cheek one in which he answers readers' questions on economic issues related to their personal dilemmas.\nThe Undercover Economist goes a step further than the column. Harford takes the basic underlying ideas of economics to demonstrate how they can be applied to every aspect of the world. Seems like a stretch, but Harford shoehorns in many freewheeling discussions with much wit and wisdom.\nFor instance, in \"What Supermarkets Don't Want You to Know,\" Harford explores the many-faceted levels of pricing most consumers are blithely unaware of as they shop. For instance, he details an instance of two Marks and Spencer food stores in London, about 1,500 feet apart, where certain items are priced differently. One of the stores, near a train station, prices items such as salads and sandwiches 15 percent higher because management knows travelers are not likely to walk a bit farther to save a relatively small amount of money.\nThe best thing about Harford's explanations is that you can actually understand them without developing a serious headache from trying to deal with complicated economic theories. Harford steers far away from technical language. In this book he explains economics from a layman's point of view using plain English.\nHarford's determination to keep the book on a basic level is one of its appeals, but by no means its only one. It's an excellent study for those who have little knowledge of economics as it applies to the world around us but would like to gain some understanding without too much strain on their noggin.\nSteve Powers reviews business books for the Chronicle. If you have suggestions or feedback, e-mail him at spowers@tigerbyte.net.\nInfants with mothers living near oil and gas production at...\nOilman already sentenced 18 years faces new indictment in...\nHouston home prices 54 percent above pre-recession peak\nKohl's now hiring seasonal workers\nCrush your debt: refinance to a 15 yr fixed\nRefinance rates are near historic lows. Don't miss out.\nRates now at 4.12% APR - $225K mortgage for $1,664/mo\nExperts are urging Americans to refinance in 2018\nHouston-area mom uses prosthetic finger to coax baby to sleep\nWatch this fish eat an entire shark in rare moment captured by NOAA Okeanos Explorer"