| 1. |  | Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
from William Morrow
Price: $19.17
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Freakonomics' strongest asset is its blunt force mauling of conventional wisdom and the often unveering faith that journalists, experts and ordinary folks pay it, often only to serve (sadly) their own interests. When that is the authors' approach they deliver sound arguments. That, thankfully, is... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 2. |  | The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
from Pantheon
Price: $16.47
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"I have tried in this book to present the basic concepts of randomness, to illustrate how they apply to human affairs, and to present my views that its effects are largely overlooked in our interpretations of events and in our expectations and decisions. It may come as an epiphany merely... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 3. | ![]() | The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
from Your Coach in a Box
Price: $26.39
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"I have tried in this book to present the basic concepts of randomness, to illustrate how they apply to human affairs, and to present my views that its effects are largely overlooked in our interpretations of events and in our expectations and decisions. It may come as an epiphany merely... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 4. |  | Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
from Random House
Price: $17.82
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Nutshell review - This is an excellent book - well written, insightful, full of lessons for investing (and life) and eye-opening! Certainly if you are an investor, but also if you just want to understand just how large a role randomness plays in your life, then you need to read this book.... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 5. |  | Math Doesn't Suck: How to Survive Middle-School Math Without Losing Your Mind or Breaking a Nail
from Hudson Street Press
Price: $16.29
Customer Review:
I bought this book for my daughter who was struggling with math. I loved Danica on Wonder Years, so I figured it would at least be entertaining. My daughter loves this book, and also the fun quizzes, and the neat tricks she has for remembering functions. | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 6. |  | Kiss My Math: Showing Pre-Algebra Who's Boss
from Hudson Street Press
Price: $15.68
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We ran across this book at Costco originally. I purchased the book with the hope that it would help my daughter's confidence with her math.
To my delight...it has and so much more. My daughter struggled with math not because she was not able to do the homework but has a mental block about math... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 7. |  | Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 3rd Updated Edition (Book & CD-ROM)
from Addison Wesley
Price: $69.88
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I haven't read much of the book yet, but I have heard good things from classmates and instructors who have read it. | 3.5 / 5.0
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| 8. |  | The Princeton Companion to Mathematics
from Princeton University Press
Price: $71.28
Customer Review:
Even more than the program for the 2009 meeting of the American Mathematical Society, this book exhibits the Great Divide in today's mathematics.
On one side of the divide we have mathematicians playing a parlor game called Bourbaki with other mathematicians. The game goes like this. Think up... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 9. |  | The Basic Practice of Statistics w/CD-ROM
from W. H. Freeman
Price: $97.53
Customer Review:
. . .but it misses the mark by having too many flaws. As far as textbooks are concerned, it tries to do a good job making statistics assessable to those who do not yet grasp the subject but it fails to do so for a variety of reasons. Unfortunately, many of the concepts are not presented clearly and... more info | 3.5 / 5.0
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| 10. |  | Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
from Topeka Bindery
Price: $26.85
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This is a tour de force of explaining the great effort to unified all fields of physics through the superstring theory. Needless to say, it is an extremely difficult subject and requires a great deal of technical knowledge and imagination to understand. Compounding that difficulty is the fact that... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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