Author: Darrell Huff
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: statistics, lie
Number of Pages: 142
Published: 1993-09
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0393310728
ISBN-13: 9780393310726

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 inform.

Author: Kip S. Thorne
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: commonwealth, fund, book, program, legacy, outrageous, holes, time, warps, einstein, black
Number of Pages: 619
Published: 1995-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0393312763
ISBN-13: 9780393312768

In this masterfully written and brilliantly informed work, Dr. Thorne, the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech, leads readers through an elegant, always human, tapestry of interlocking themes, answering the great question: what principles control our universe and why do physicists think they know what they know? Features an introduction by Stephen Hawking.

Author: Michael Lewis
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: game, unfair, winning, art, moneyball
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2003-05-10
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0393057658
ISBN-13: 9780393057652

The Oakland Athletics have a secret: a winning baseball team is made, not bought. I wrote this book because I fell in love with a story. The story concerned a small group of undervalued professional baseball players and executives, many of whom had been rejected as unfit for the big leagues, who had turned themselves into one of the most successful franchises in Major League Baseball. But the idea for the book came well before I had good reason to write it—before I had a story to fall in love with. It began, really, with an innocent question: how did one of the poorest teams in b

Author: National Commission on Terrorist Attacks
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: commission, report, indexed, authorized, states, hardcover, attacks, final, national, terrorist, united
Number of Pages: 604
Published: 2004-08-31
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0393060411
ISBN-13: 9780393060416

The authorized hardcover, indexed edition of the national bestseller. Nearly three thousand people died in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In Lower Manhattan, on a field in Pennsylvania, and along the banks of the Potomoc, the United States suffered the single largest loss of life from an enemy attack on its soil. In November 2002 the United States Congress and President George W. Bush established by law the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, also known as the 9/11 Commission. This independent, bipartisan panel was directed to examine the facts an

Author: Jared M. Diamond
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: human, societies, fates, steel, germs, guns
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 1999-04-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0393317552
ISBN-13: 9780393317558

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed religion --as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war --and adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the mode

Authors:Jane Austen, Donald J. Gray,
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: editions, critical, norton, prejudice, pride
Number of Pages: 413
Published: 2000-09
List price: $14.20
ISBN-10: 0393976041
ISBN-13: 9780393976045

A perennial favorite in the Norton Critical Editions series, Pride and Prejudice is based on the 1813 first edition text, which has been thoroughly annotated for undergraduate readers. "Backgrounds and Sources" includes biographical portraits of Austen by members of her family and by acclaimed biographers Claire Tomalin and David Nokes. Seventeen of Austen’s letters—eight of them new to the Third Edition—allow readers to glimpse the close-knit society that was Austen’s world, both in life and in her writing. Samples of Austen’s early writing—from the episto

Author: Burton G. Malkiel
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: street, wall, walk, random
Number of Pages: 461
Published: 1999-05
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0393047814
ISBN-13: 9780393047813

Tracking the latest risks and rewards on Wall Street, here’s the perennial bestseller offering the most reliable investment advice for the new century. This gimmick-free, irreverent, and vastly informative guide shows how to navigate the turbulence on Wall Street and beat the pros at their own game. Skilled at puncturing financial bubbles and other delusions of the Wall Street crowd, Burton Malkiel shows why a broad portfolio of stocks selected at random will match the performance of one carefully chosen by experts. Taking a shrewd look at the high-tech boom and its aftermath, Malkiel sh