Top dog: the science of winning and losing

Introduction: parachuters and ballroom dancers

The competition machine

What goes down when the stakes go up

How the worriers can beat the warriors

Even odds: why women need them and men don't

The utter importance of pillow fights

The difference between winning and not losing

How one night of blackjack sped up the world economy

The 'roid rage of chess

The hierarchy of teams

Michelangelo had an agent

How the Black Sox cleaned up Wall Street.