John Allen Paulos
With the same user-friendly, quirky, and perceptive approach that made Innumeracy a bestseller, John Allen Paulos travels though the pages of the daily newspaper showing how math and numbers are a key element in many of the articles we read every ... [... more]
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Why can't farmers sell at a profit? John Allen Paulos, ...
Author: Linda Smith Binding: Digital Format: HTML Number Of Pages: 2 Publication Date: 2004-01-01 Release Date: 2005-08-01 [... more]
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The Ability to Choose and Its Transformation of ...
 How today's cornucopia of choices has transformed our lives and our culture, from the foundations of scientific theory to the anxiety of everyday decisions.--Gregg Easterbrook, author of The Progress Paradox--John Allen Paulos, author of Innumeracy and A [... more]
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Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments ...
Are there any logical reasons to believe in God? Mathematician and best-selling author John Allen Paulos thinks not..... [... more]
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The Gun Control Debate: You Decide
Columbine and other recent shootings have brought America's century-old gun debate to the forefront of public attention.Using selections from historians, criminologists, social scientists, public health specialists, and jurists, Lee Nisbet provides an in- [... more]
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A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper
With the same user-friendly, quirky, and perceptive approach that made Innumeracy a bestseller, John Allen Paulos travels though the pages of the daily newspaper showing how math and numbers are a key element in many of the articles we read every day. [... more]
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What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today's Leading Thinkers ...
A treasure of ideas from 108 of our most creative minds: (Plus Richard Dawkins, who writes an Afterword.) I'll give you some dangerous ideas. Take steps to reduce the human population worldwide to around a billion people and keep it there. Take the [... more]
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As Luck Would Have It: Incredible Stories, from Lottery ...
A fun read, but...: I checked this out of the library recently, and yes, it's fascinating to read about these people's lives and how they have coped with various kinds of luck. If you've got a plane ride in your future or a day at the beach, bring this [... more]
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Mathematics and Humor
serious study of jokes and their mathematical structure: Given the book's title I was surprised at its contents. It contains a lot of very good jokes, to be sure, but it is a serious study of the mathematical structure of certain kinds of jokes. The [... more]
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Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments ...
God is dead! Long live God!: God will exist as long as humans in their present form exist. God lives within the hearts and minds of humans. Whether God exists outside of our hearts and minds is what is at issue, and once again when the arguments are [... more]
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What Is Your Dangerous Idea?
A treasure of ideas from 108 of our most creative minds: (Plus Richard Dawkins, who writes an Afterword.) I'll give you some dangerous ideas. Take steps to reduce the human population worldwide to around a billion people and keep it there. Take the [... more]
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Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences
Amazon.com Review: This is the book that made "innumeracy" a household word, at least in some households. Paulos admits that "at least part of the motivation for any book is anger, and this book is no exception. I'm distressed by a society [... more]
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