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Debtor Nation traces the evolution of debt over the course of the twentieth century. How did banks begin making personal loans to consumers during the Great Depression? Why did the government invent mortgage-backed securities? Who invented the credit card? From the origins of car financing to the creation of subprime lending, Debtor Nation presents a nuanced history of consumer credit practices in the United States and shows how little loans became big business.

Soon astronomers expect to find alien Earths by the dozens in orbit around distant suns. Before the decade is out, telltale signs that they harbor life may be found. Jayawardhana brings news from the front lines of the epic quest to find planets--and alien life--beyond our solar system. He reveals how technology is rapidly advancing to support direct observations of Jupiter-like gas giants and super-Earths--rocky planets with several times the mass of our own planet--and how astronomers use biomarkers to seek possible life on other worlds.

Jeffrey Hunker, an expert in cyber-security and counter-terrorism policy, argues that the Internet of today is, in many ways, equivalent to the burgeoning cities of the early Industrial Revolution: teeming with energy but also with new, unimagined dangers and lacking the infrastructures to deal with these problems. He takes a close look at the "creeping failures" that have kept us in a state of cyber insecurity and proposes dramatic measures to fix them.

Drawing on ecology and biology, math and physics, the author offers four fundamental tools that scientists and engineers use to forecast the likelihood of sudden change: stability, catastrophe, complexity, and game theories.

This book "reads like a collection of math recipes to help us blend problems, principles, and approaches in creating our own lineup of splendid math cuisine. ... Fine-tune your numerical mindset with a quantitative review that serves as a refresher course and as a tool for perceiving math in a new way." (from back cover of book)

The bestselling author of "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Number" shows how mathematical misinformation pervades—and shapes—our daily lives.

Journalist Szpiro combines history, biography, and mathematics as he takes the general reader on a tour of the mathematical puzzles and paradoxes inherent in voting systems and traces the epic quest by renowned thinkers to create a more perfect democracy and adapt to the ever-changing demands that each new generation places on our democratic institutions.

Bellos has traveled all around the globe and plunged into history to uncover stories of mathematical achievement, from the breakthroughs of Euclid to the creations of the Zen master of origami.

Presenting essential concepts in thirty-four brief stories, Vickers blends insightful explanations and humor, with minimal math, to help readers understand and interpret the statistics they read every day.

Ouellette recounts her year spent confronting her math phobia. With wit and verve, she shows how she learned to apply calculus to everything from gas mileage to dieting, from the rides at Disneyland to shooting craps in Vegas; proving that even the mathematically challenged can learn the fundamentals of the universal language.

For students possessing knowledge of high school algebra and instructors seeking examples, this text presents exercises from card tricks, football, and other games that illustrate principles of probability, linear equations, and other areas of mathematics.