Steven D. Levitt and Steven J. Dubner's Freakonomics doesn't so much explore the hidden side of everything as challenge the angle at which we view it all.

Like the poor fool in Plato's cave, they offer to show how much of our reality is but a shadow. With a tilt of the head, things can be seen clearly, the Freakonomic way.

Click on for a bit of what created all the buzz in the first place.