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  1. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

    by Edward R. Tufte

    A modern classic. Tufte teaches the fundamentals of graphics, charts, maps and tables. "A visual Strunk and White" (The Boston Globe). Includes 250 delightfullly entertaining illustrations, all beautifully printed.

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  2. The Drunkard's Walk

    by Leonard Mlodinow

    In this irreverent and illuminating book, acclaimed writer and scientist Leonard Mlodinow shows us how randomness, change, and probability reveal a tremendous amount about our daily lives, and how we misunderstand the significance of everything from a casual conversation to a major financial... (learn more about this book)

  3. A Random Walk Down Wall Street

    by Burton G. Malkiel

    The million-copy bestseller, revised and updated with new investment strategies for retirement and the insights of behavioral finance. Updated with a new chapter that draws on behavioral finance, the field that studies the psychology of investment decisions, here is the best-selling,... (learn more about this book)

  4. The Upside of Irrationality

    by Dan Ariely

    The provocative follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Predictably Irrational Why can large bonuses make CEOs less productive? How can confusing directions actually help us? Why is revenge so important to us? Why is there such a big difference between what we think will... (learn more about this book)

  5. Visual Explanations

    by Edward R. Tufte

    Describes design strategies - the proper arrangement in space and time of images, words, and numbers - for presenting information about motion, process, mechanism, cause, and effect. Examines the logic of depicting quantitative evidence.

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  6. Super Crunchers

    by Ian Ayres

    An international sensation—and still the talk of the relevant blogosphere—this Wall Street Journal and New York Times business bestseller examines the “power” in numbers. Today more than ever, number crunching affects your life in ways you might not even imagine. Intuition and experience... (learn more about this book)

  7. How to Lie With Statistics

    by Darrell Huff, Irving Geis

    Darrell Huff runs the gamut of every popularly used type of statistic, probes such things as the sample study, the tabulation method, the interview technique, or the way the results are derived from the figures, and points up the countless number of dodges which are used to fool rather than... (learn more about this book)

  8. Even You Can Learn Statistics: A Guide for Everyone Who Has Ever Been Afraid of Statistics

    by David M. Levine

    Now, there's an easy-to-use guide that will help you use statistics in youreveryday work or study. Experienced educators David Levine and DavidStephan help you learn statistics using plain English and with a minimum ofmathematics, but with many examples and worked-out problems.You'll benefit... (learn more about this book)

  9. A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper

    by 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 day. From the Senate, SATs, and sex, to... (learn more about this book)

  10. Cartoon Guide to Statistics

    by Larry Gonick, Woollcott Smith

    If you have ever looked for P-values by shopping at P mart, tried to watch the Bernoulli Trials on "People's Court," or think that the standard deviation is a criminal offense in six states, then you need The Cartoon Guide to Statistics to put you on the road to statistical literacy. The... (learn more about this book)

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