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9780465054725 | Basic Books, September 8, 2015, cover price $26.99

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9780465096213 | Basic Books, September 6, 2016, cover price $15.99

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Product Description: Can you outrun a bullet? How do you build an electronic brain? Could you slow down time? How do you unleash chaos? From Plato's classification of regular polyhedra to making a million on the stock market, How to Solve the Da Vinci Code gives you everything you need to understand how numbers work, and the impact they have on our lives every day...read more

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9780857388384 | Quercus, July 26, 2016, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Can you outrun a bullet?

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Product Description: We use addition on a daily basis―yet how many of us stop to truly consider the enormous and remarkable ramifications of this mathematical activity? Summing It Up uses addition as a springboard to present a fascinating and accessible look at numbers and number theory, and how we apply beautiful numerical properties to answer math problems...read more

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9780691170190 | Princeton Univ Pr, May 17, 2016, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: We use addition on a daily basis―yet how many of us stop to truly consider the enormous and remarkable ramifications of this mathematical activity?

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9780465051717 | Basic Books, May 5, 2015, cover price $27.50

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9780465097678 | Reprint edition (Basic Books, May 10, 2016), cover price $15.99
9780395342329, titled "Economics" | Houghton Mifflin School, January 1, 1984, cover price $7.00 | also contains Economics

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9781622316687 | Unabridged edition (Highbridge Co, May 5, 2015), cover price $34.99

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9780374275655 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, December 2, 2014, cover price $28.00

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9780374535636 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, November 24, 2015), cover price $16.00

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Product Description: It is one of the wonders of mathematics that, for every problem mathematicians solve, another awaits to perplex and galvanize them. Some of these problems are new, while others have puzzled and bewitched thinkers across the ages. Such challenges offer a tantalizing glimpse of the field's unlimited potential, and keep mathematicians looking toward the horizons of intellectual possibility...read more

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9780465022403 | Basic Books, March 5, 2013, cover price $26.99

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9780465064892 | Reprint edition (Basic Books, November 4, 2014), cover price $16.99 | About this edition: It is one of the wonders of mathematics that, for every problem mathematicians solve, another awaits to perplex and galvanize them.

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Product Description: Forget your classroom nightmares and discover how numbers can enhance your worldHow can math help you bet on horses or win in Vegas? What’s the foolproof way to solve Sudoku? How can probability teach you to calculate your chances of survival in Russian roulette?          In this irreverent and entertaining guide to mathematics, Lawrence Potter takes the fear out of everything from long division to percentages...read more

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9781605983769 | Pegasus Books, September 5, 2012, cover price $24.95

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9781605985176 | Pegasus Books, January 7, 2014, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Forget your classroom nightmares and discover how numbers can enhance your worldHow can math help you bet on horses or win in Vegas?

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9781615643165, titled "Speed Math: Speed Math" | Alpha Books, January 7, 2014, cover price $14.95

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Product Description: All the math basics you'll ever need! It's not too late to learn practical math skills! You may not need to use quadratic equations very often, but math does play a large part in everyday life. On any given day, you'll need to know how long a drive will take, what to tip a waiter, how large a rug to buy, and how to calculate a discount...read more

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9781440566431 | Adams Media Corp, December 6, 2013, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: All the math basics you'll ever need!

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Product Description: Richard Elwes is a writer, teacher and researcher in Mathematics, visiting fellow at the University of Leeds, and contributor to numerous popular science magazines. He is a committed and recognized popularizer of mathematics. Of Elwes, Sonder Books 2011 Standouts said, “Dr...read more

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9781623650544 | Quercus, December 3, 2013, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Richard Elwes is a writer, teacher and researcher in Mathematics, visiting fellow at the University of Leeds, and contributor to numerous popular science magazines.

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9781937548360 | Updated edition (Big Kid Science, November 1, 2013), cover price $25.00
9781936221431 | Roberts & Co, November 1, 2011, cover price $25.00

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9780547517650 | Houghton Mifflin, October 2, 2012, cover price $27.00

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9780544105850 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, October 1, 2013), cover price $15.95

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Product Description: In this lively volume, mathematician John Allen Paulos employs his singular wit to guide us through an unlikely mathematical jungle—the pages of the daily newspaper. From the Senate and sex to celebrities and cults, Paulos takes stories that may not seem to involve math at all and demonstrates how mathematical naïveté can put readers at a distinct disadvantage...read more

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9780465043620 | Basic Books, April 1, 1995, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Examines the mathematical perspective of societal violence, offering insight into the probability and randomness associated with any given scenario

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9780465089994 | Reprint edition (Basic Books, September 10, 2013), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: In this lively volume, mathematician John Allen Paulos employs his singular wit to guide us through an unlikely mathematical jungle—the pages of the daily newspaper.
9780385482547 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, April 1, 1996), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Examines the mathematical perspective of societal violence, offering insight into the probability and randomness associated with any given scenario

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9780606207874, titled "Mathematician Reads the Newspaper" | Demco Media, February 1, 2002, cover price $22.29 | About this edition: Examines the mathematical perspective of societal violence, offering insight into the probability and randomness associated with any given scenario

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9781417737994, titled "Mathematician Reads the Newspaper" | Turtleback Books, April 19, 1996, cover price $25.70 | About this edition: Examines the mathematical perspective of societal violence, offering insight into the probability and randomness associated with any given scenario

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Product Description: Japan is a tiny country that occupies only 0.25% of the world’s total land area. However, this small country is the world’s third largest in economy: the Japanese GDP is roughly equivalent to the sum of any two major countries in Europe as of 2012...read more

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9784431543459 | Springer Verlag, May 31, 2013, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Japan is a tiny country that occupies only 0.

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9784431546818 | Springer Verlag, March 17, 2013, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Japan is a tiny country that occupies only 0.

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9780071790130 | 2 edition (McGraw-Hill, July 24, 2012), cover price $17.00
9780071431194 | McGraw-Hill, June 1, 2004, cover price $19.95

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Hardcover:

9780883855768 | Mathematical Assn of Amer, November 28, 2011, cover price $63.95

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Paperback:

9781848312975 | Reprint edition (Icon Books, November 15, 2011), cover price $9.95

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