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Description

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. From the Senate, SATs, and sex, to... read more

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Vilified as a "quota queen" and hailed as an activist superwoman, Lani Guinier probably became a greater news presence than she would have if President Clinton's nomination of her as assistant attorney general for civil rights had been approved by the Senate.

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  1. John Allen Paulos (Author)
 

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