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In the style of The Tipping Point or Freakonomics, a groundbreaking booklet that changes the way you go through the world. The fearless Tina Rosenberg has put in her career tackling some of the world's hardest problems. The Haunted Land, her searing work on how Eastern Europe faced the offences of Communism, garnered both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Award. In Join the Golf club, she recognizes a brewing communal trend that is changing just how people live, based on harnessing the positive drive of peer pressure. Her reports of peer vitality in action show how it has reduced teen smoking in the United States, made villages in India healthier and even more successful, helped minority students get top levels in university calculus, and even led to the fall of Slobodan Milosevic. She talks about how creative communal entrepreneurs are starting to use peer pressure to accomplish goals as personal as losing weight and as global as preventing terrorism. Inspiring and engrossing, Join the Golf club explains how exactly we can better our world through humanity's most effective and abundant source of information: our links with each other.