Author: Peter J. Bentley
Publisher: Firefly Books
Keywords: numbers, world, changed, secret, book
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2008-02-15
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1554073618
ISBN-13: 9781554073610

Unraveling the secrets of numbers, from the discovery of zero to infinity. In clear language, The Book of Numbers cuts through the mystery and fear surrounding numbers to reveal their fascinating nature and roles in architecture, quantum mechanics, computer technology, biology, commerce, philosophy, art, music, religion and more. Indeed, numbers are part of every discipline in the sciences and the arts. With 350 illustrations, including diagrams, photographs and computer imagery, the book chronicles the centuries-long search for the meaning of numbers by famous and lesser-known mathema

Authors:Carol S. Carson, Charles Enoch, Claudia Dziobek,
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Keywords: right, numbers, getting, targeting, implications, inflation, statistical
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2002-01-01
List price: $42.50
ISBN-10: 1589061322
ISBN-13: 9781589061323

This book brings together the experience of central banks and national statistical agencies in countries with explicit or implicit inflation-targeting regimes. Inflation targeting has led to a close interface between these two sets of institutions. When the performance of a central bank is measured in terms of specified price indices, which are usually compiled and disseminated by the national statistical agency, the role of national statistical agencies becomes central to the credibility of monetary policy. Data needs and uses have also shifted, with implications for national and internationa

Authors:Michael Blastland, Andrew Dilnot,
Publisher: Gotham
Keywords: numbers, politics, inlife, news, guide, game, commonsense, understanding
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2008-12-26
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 1592404235
ISBN-13: 9781592404230

The Strunk & White of statistics team up to help the average person navigate the numbers in the news. Drawing on their hugely popular BBC Radio 4 show More or Less,, journalist Michael Blastland and internationally known economist Andrew Dilnot delight, amuse, and convert American mathphobes by showing how our everyday experiences make sense of numbers. The radical premise of The Numbers Game is to show how much we already know, and give practical ways to use our knowledge to become cannier consumers of the media. In each concise chapter, the authors take on a different theme?such as size, cha

Author: John Rechy
Publisher: Grove Pre
Keywords: numbers
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1994-01-13
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0802151981
ISBN-13: 9780802151988

Book jacket/back: Johnny Rio, a handsome narcissist but no longer a pretty boy, travels to Los Angeles, the site of past sexual conquest and remembered youthful radiance, in a frenzied attempt to recreate his younger self. Johnny has ten precious days to draw the "numbers," the men who will confirm his desirability, and with the hungry focus of a man on borrowed time, he stalks the dark balconies of all-night theaters, the hot sands of gay beaches, and shady glens of city parks, attempting to attract shadowy sex-hunters in an obcessive battle against the passing of his youth.

Author: Rachel Ward
Publisher: The Chicken House
Keywords: numbers
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2010-02-01
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 0545142997
ISBN-13: 9780545142991

Ever since she was child, Jem has kept a secret: Whenever she meets someone new, no matter who, as soon as she looks into their eyes, a number pops into her head. That number is a date: the date they will die. Burdened with such awful awareness, Jem avoids relationships. Until she meets Spider, another outsider, and takes a chance. The two plan a trip to the city. But while waiting to ride the Eye ferris wheel, Jem is terrified to see that all the other tourists in line flash the same number. Today’s number. Today’s date. Terrorists are going to attack London. Jem’s world is

Author: Sepharial
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Keywords: numbers, kabala
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2005-11-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1596054042
ISBN-13: 9781596054042

[T]here is a system of interpretation in numerology which is supported by experience, but has its origin beyond the realm of the phenomenal worlds. If no such system existed, it would be impossible to prove the geometrical relations of thought. But this is done daily by those who make use of numbers for purposes of divination. -from "Chapter II: Geometrical Relations of Thought" Originally published in two volumes in 1913, this classic of the art of numerology builds upon the work of the ancient Greeks, Aryans, and Egyptians to describe the dramatic effect that numbers exert upon the world

Author: Alain Badiou
Publisher: Polity
Keywords: numbers, number
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2008-05-27
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0745638791
ISBN-13: 9780745638799

The political regime of global capitalism reduces the world to an endless network of numbers within numbers, but how many of us really understand what numbers are? Without such an understanding, how can we challenge the regime of number? In Number and Numbers Alain Badiou offers an philosophically penetrating account with a powerful political subtext of the attempts that have been made over the last century to define the special status of number. Badiou argues that number cannot be defined by the multiform calculative uses to which numbers are put, nor is it exhausted by the various species d