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  Barb_Oakley A Mind for Numbers

"VERDICT: Superb not only for those who are struggling or who are expert at math, but for readers who wish to think and comprehend more efficiently.” Library Journal Review

“A good teacher will leave you educated. But a great teacher will leave you curious. Well, Barbara Oakley is a great teacher. Not only does she have a mind for numbers, she has a way with words, and she makes every one of them count.”
—Mike Rowe, creator and host of Discovery Channel’s "Dirty Jobs" and CEO of mikeroweWORKS

“A wonderful book! How do you come to love math and science, and how do you come to learn math and science? Read A Mind for Numbers. Barbara Oakley is the magician who will help you do both.”
—Francisco J. Ayala, University Professor and Donald Bren Professor of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine, and former President and Chairman of the Board, American Association for the Advancement of Science

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“What a wonderful book! This is one of the few books in evolutionary biology I've read in the past ten years that taught me something completely new.”
—E. O. Wilson, Harvard University.
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  “Riveting and disturbing, an investigation into American-heartland pathos in which ‘guilt,’ ‘innocence,’ ‘victim,’ ‘perpetrator,’ come to seem almost hopelessly tangled. Barbara Oakley is to be commended for looking so hard and so closely at the motives, in some, that underlie acts of ‘kindness’ and ‘altruism’—suggesting that things are not always as they appear, and the phrase killed with kindness springs from the absolute bedrock of folk wisdom.”
—Joyce Carol Oates, professor of the arts at Princeton University;
Recipient of the National Book Award for her novel them;
Pulitzer Prize nominee for the novels Black Water, What I Lived For, and Blonde

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“A fascinating scientific and personal exploration of the roots of evil, filled with human insight and telling detail.”
—Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor, Harvard University
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“Always revealing, sometimes explosive, and often hilarious... a book any reader is sure to drink up.”
—Brian Arundel, National Fisherman
     
 

"I am very impressed with the enormous dedication and skill that created this major, highly-original contribution. I know of nothing like it."

—Dr. Bruce Alberts, President Emeritus of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and Co-chair of the InterAcademy Council.
     
 

“Delightful…the chapters are gems of precision and insight.”—Michael Spence, Nobel Prize Winner in Economics

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