200% of Nothing

200% of Nothing

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  • Author: A. K. Dewdney
  • Publisher: Wiley
  • ISBN: 9780471145745
  • Category : Mathematics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 192

Acclaim for "In today's world, 'innumeracy' is an even greater danger than illiteracy, and is perhaps even more common. Advertisers and politicians exploit it; intellectuals (self-styled) even flaunt it. I hope that this wise and witty book will provide cures where they are possible, and warnings where they are necessary. "It's also a lot of fun. I can guarantee that 100%."--Arthur C. Clarke "Dewdney retells with charm and wit magnificent morsels of mathematical mayhem discovered by his army of volunteer 'abuse detectives.' From 'sample trashing' to 'numerical terrorism,' from 'percentage pumping' to 'dimensional dementia,' 200% of Nothing plumbs the depths of innumeracy in daily life and reveals what ordinary people can do about it. A rich, readable, instructive, and persuasive book."--Lynn Arthur Steen, Professor of Mathematics, St. Olaf College


The Value of Nothing

The Value of Nothing

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  • Author: Raj Patel
  • Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
  • ISBN: 1429982624
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 24

"A deeply though-provoking book about the dramatic changes we must make to save the planet from financial madness."--Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine Opening with Oscar Wilde's observation that "nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing," Patel shows how our faith in prices as a way of valuing the world is misplaced. He reveals the hidden ecological and social costs of a hamburger (as much as $200), and asks how we came to have markets in the first place. Both the corporate capture of government and our current financial crisis, Patel argues, are a result of our democratically bankrupt political system. If part one asks how we can rebalance society and limit markets, part two answers by showing how social organizations, in America and around the globe, are finding new ways to describe the world's worth. If we don't want the market to price every aspect of our lives, we need to learn how such organizations have discovered democratic ways in which people, and not simply governments, can play a crucial role in deciding how we might share our world and its resources in common. This short, timely and inspiring book reveals that our current crisis is not simply the result of too much of the wrong kind of economics. While we need to rethink our economic model, Patel argues that the larger failure beneath the food, climate and economic crises is a political one. If economics is about choices, Patel writes, it isn't often said who gets to make them. The Value of Nothing offers a fresh and accessible way to think about economics and the choices we will all need to make in order to create a sustainable economy and society.


The Buy Nothing, Get Everything Plan

The Buy Nothing, Get Everything Plan

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  • Author: Liesl Clark
  • Publisher: Atria Books
  • ISBN: 1982113804
  • Category : House & Home
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 288

In the spirit of The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning and The Joy of Less, experience the benefits of buying less and sharing more with this accessible 7-step guide to decluttering, saving money, and creating community from the creators of the Buy Nothing Project. In their island community, friends Liesl Clark and Rebecca Rockefeller discovered that the beaches of Puget Sound were spoiled by a daily influx of plastic items and trash washing on shore. From pens and toothbrushes to toys and straws, they wondered, where did it all come from? Of course, it comes from us—our homes, our backyards, our cars, and our workplaces. And so, a rallying cry against excess stuff was born. In 2013, they launched the first Facebook Buy Nothing Project group in their small town off the coast of Seattle, and they never expected it to become a viral sensation. Today there are thousands of Buy Nothing groups all over the world, boasting more than a million members, and 5,000 highly active volunteers. Inspired by the ancient practice of gift economies, where neighbors share and pool resources,The Buy Nothing, Get Everything Plan introduces an environmentally conscious 7-step guide that teaches us how to buy less, give more, and live generously. At once an actionable plan and a thought-provoking exploration of our addiction to stuff, this powerful program will help you declutter your home without filling landfills, shop more thoughtfully and discerningly, and let go of the need to buy new things. Filled with helpful lists and practical suggestions including 50 items you never need to buy (Ziploc bags and paper towels) and 50 things to make instead (gift cards and salad dressing), The Buy Nothing, Get Everything Plan encourages you to rethink why you shop and embrace a space-saving, money-saving, and earth-saving mindset of buying less and sharing more.


Report

Report

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  • Author: Michigan Department of Labor (1883-1921).
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  • Category : Factory inspection
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 1408

Reports for 1898-1908 include the Report of state inspection of factories, 6th-16th.


Nothing Like a Puffin

Nothing Like a Puffin

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  • Author: Sue Soltis
  • Publisher: Candlewick Press
  • ISBN: 0763636177
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 35

A narrator sets out to prove that there is nothing exactly like a puffin but discovers that many things, including a newspaper and a helicopter, are a little bit like one and that a penguin is very much like a puffin.


Documents of the Senate of the State of New York

Documents of the Senate of the State of New York

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  • Author: New York (State). Legislature. Senate
  • Publisher:
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  • Category : Government publications
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 796


Guide to Federal Employees Health Benefits Plans for Federal Civilian Employees

Guide to Federal Employees Health Benefits Plans for Federal Civilian Employees

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  • Category : Government employees' health insurance
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 60


Technical Bulletin

Technical Bulletin

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  • Category : Agriculture
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 726


The Book of Nothing

The Book of Nothing

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  • Author: John D. Barrow
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • ISBN: 0307554813
  • Category : Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 386

What conceptual blind spot kept the ancient Greeks (unlike the Indians and Maya) from developing a concept of zero? Why did St. Augustine equate nothingness with the Devil? What tortuous means did 17th-century scientists employ in their attempts to create a vacuum? And why do contemporary quantum physicists believe that the void is actually seething with subatomic activity? You’ll find the answers in this dizzyingly erudite and elegantly explained book by the English cosmologist John D. Barrow. Ranging through mathematics, theology, philosophy, literature, particle physics, and cosmology, The Book of Nothing explores the enduring hold that vacuity has exercised on the human imagination. Combining high-wire speculation with a wealth of reference that takes in Freddy Mercury and Shakespeare alongside Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and Stephen Hawking, the result is a fascinating excursion to the vanishing point of our knowledge.


$2.00 a Day

$2.00 a Day

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  • Author: Kathryn Edin
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • ISBN: 0544303180
  • Category : Business & Economics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 239

The story of a kind of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don't even think exists--from a leading national poverty expert who "defies convention" (New York Times)