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Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences
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Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its ConsequencesDozens of examples in innumeracy show us how it affects not only personal economics and travel plans, but explains mischosen mates, inappropriate drug-testing, and the allure of pseudo-science.

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 which depends so completely on mathematics and science and yet seems to indifferent to the innumeracy and scientific illiteracy of so many of its citizens."

But that is not all that drives him. The difference between our pretensions and reality is absurd and humorous, and the numerate can see this better than those who don't speak math.
 
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Double your Reading Speed in Ten Minutes - Paul Scheele
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Double your Reading Speed in Ten Minutes - Paul ScheeleOne CD, one promise: Listen to this 10-minute CD and you will immediately double your reading speed. Paul Scheele uses the latest in brain research to guide you through three easy steps that instantly result in increased reading speed, concentration and focus.
 
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Step By Step Guide To Reflexology Western Massage [DVDRip]
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Step By Step Guide To Reflexology Western Massage [DVDRip]A rival and feet through the point region to exert pressure and use of limbs and body coordination, to promote self-treatment system in the human body massage methods.
-Reflexology is a broad concept, but its main branch, foot reflexology is, on both feet for the application of parts of reflection.
-As biped in the human body is in a special position, so that foot reflexology a reflection of the important components of a reflection of the practice of induction courses and reflexology division of basic skills.
-It is the most basic understanding of the full reflection "medical treatment" therapy.
-Foot Reflexology effect.
-As the saying goes: "stop-gap measures feet" on foot reflexology, because there are both feet and viscera organ of the body corresponding to the various reflex, so be it headache, Jiaotong, low back pain , Or other organs of what illnesses are taken "doctors feet" approach, which is the area on foot to stimulate the reflection of the way.
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Answering Tough Interview Questions for Dummies
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Written for all job hunters – new entrants, mid-level people, very experienced individuals, and technical and non-technical job seekers – Answering Tough Interview Questions For Dummies is packed with the building blocks for show-stopping interviews.
 
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Encyclopedia of Folk Medicine: Old World and New World Traditions
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Encyclopedia of Folk Medicine: Old World and New World TraditionsMore than 240 entries representing folk medical practices used in North America, Britain, Ireland, and Scotland were gleaned from extensive research. Articles are followed by no less than a dozen scholarly references related to the study of superstition and folklore. Ranging from a concise paragraph to several pages in length, entries include the treating of ailments and conditions such as Insect bites and stings (applying spit, urine, soda, vinegar, or well-chewed tobacco); Palsy (ingesting cowslip, applying leeches, or holding a dying chicken); and wrinkles (drinking elderflower water, goat's milk, or an infusion of butterwort) and the supporting of contraception (using birch bark diaphragms, impotence-inducing Rhus trilobata, or eating heart ventricles). Other entries discuss the various uses of remedies such as dandelion and Holly. See also references follow each article, and an index completes the volume.
 
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