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  • How Math Can Save Your Life

    (And Make You Rich, Help You Find The One, and Avert Catastrophes)

    by James D. Stein ...
    How to make lots of money, keep yourself safe, and even save the world-all by using a little simple mathForget the dull, boring math you learned in school. This book shows you the powerful things math can do for you, with applications no teacher ever taught you in algebra class. How can you make money off credit card companies? Will driving a hybrid save you money in the long run? How do you know ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How Math Explains the World

    A Guide to the Power of Numbers, from Car Repair to Modern Physics

    by James D. Stein ...
    "Explores the application of math to problem solving in the everyday. . . . [W]ill appeal to both casual and serious fans of math or physics." — Publishers WeeklyIn How Math Explains the World, mathematician Stein reveals how seemingly arcane mathematical investigations and discoveries have led to bigger, more world-shaking insights into the nature of our world. In the four main sections of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Right Decision : A Mathematician Reveals How the Secrets of Decision Theory: A Mathematician Reveals How the Secrets of Decision Theory

    A Mathematician Reveals How the Secrets of Decision Theory

    by James Stein ...
    CAN YOU EVER BE SURE YOU'RE MAKING THE RIGHT DECISION?Should you stay in a comfy job with little chance of advancement-or take a riskier one in which you could make lots of money but also wind up on the street?Should you listen to a doctor who advises surgery-or trust another who tells you to wait and see if your condition improves?Should you remain in a cozy relationship without much spark-or cut ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Milestones of Science

    How We Came to Understand the Universe

    by James D. Stein ...
    If we were to judge humanity’s greatest accomplishments, science is almost certainly at the top of the list. The Milestones of Science is a collection of the most important and impressive breakthroughs in the history of science – as well as the scientists behind him – from the ancient world to what the future of science may hold.Comprised of riveting and readable stories from along the path of ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Mathematics: The Quest for Truth and Beauty

    by James D Stein ...
    Series Book 38 - Problem Solving in Mathematics and Beyond
    This book tells the stories of some of the great quests of mathematics, such as the centuries-long pursuit for the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. These quests are searches for difficult-to-discover universal truths, pursued with passion not only by mathematicians and scientists, but by kings, emperors and even Jean-Luc Picard, the captain of Star Trek's Starship Enterprise. Some of their exploits ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Fate Of Schrodinger's Cat, The: Using Math And Computers To Explore The Counterintuitive

    by James D Stein ...
    Series Book 17 - Problem Solving In Mathematics And Beyond
    Can we correctly predict the flip of a fair coin more than half the time — or the decay of a single radioactive atom? Our intuition, based on a lifetime of experience, tells us that we cannot, as these are classic examples of what are known to be 50-50 guesses.But mathematics is filled with counterintuitive results — and this book discusses some surprising and entertaining examples. It is possible ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • L.A. Math

    Romance, Crime, and Mathematics in the City of Angels

    by James D. Stein ...
    A collection of detective stories using math to solve crimesMove over, Sherlock and Watson—the detective duo to be reckoned with. In the entertaining short-story collection L.A. Math, freelance investigator Freddy Carmichael and his sidekick, Pete Lennox, show how math smarts can crack even the most perplexing cases. Freddy meets colorful personalities throughout Los Angeles and encounters ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Cosmic Numbers

    The Numbers That Define Our Universe

    by James D Stein ...
    Our fascination with numbers begins when we are children and continues throughout our lives. We start counting our fingers and toes and end up balancing checkbooks and calculating risk. So powerful is the appeal of numbers that many people ascribe to them a mystical significance. Other numbers go beyond the supernatural, working to explain our universe and how it behaves.Cosmic Numbers, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Seduced by Mathematics

    The enduring fascination of mathematics

    by James D Stein ...
    Series Book 28 - Problem Solving in Mathematics and Beyond
    Seduction is not just an end result, but a process — and in mathematics, both the end results and the process by which those end results are achieved are often charming and elegant.This helps to explain why so many people — not just those for whom math plays a key role in their day-to-day lives — have found mathematics so seductive. Math is unique among all subjects in that it contains end results ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Give YourSelf Permission Anthology

    44 Inspirational & Insightful True Stories of Risk-Taking, Life Changes & Successful Outcomes

    by Priya Rana Kapoor, Nanette Stein ...
    Everybody has a story, people just want to be heard and most want to know they are not alone.Do you need inspiration or motivation? Want to know how others have made changes for themselves and where they are now? Need to give yourself permission to live your life the way you want to, but still maintain healthy relationships? Know someone who needs a little emotional boost?Find out how others have ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Cold Cases

    Evaluation Models with Follow-up Strategies for Investigators, Second Edition

    by James M. Adcock, Sarah L. Stein ...
    Series series Advances in Police Theory and Practice
    Because the investigation of cold cases is usually an arduous and time-consuming task, most law enforcement agencies in the United States are not able to dedicate the resources necessary to support the cold case investigation process. However, when those cases are fully pursued and prosecuted, they often result in convictions and lengthy prison terms. Cold Cases: Evaluation Models with Follow-up ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Native Sons

    by James Baldwin, Sol Stein ...
    James Baldwin was beginning to be recognized as the most brilliant black writer of his generation when his first book of essays, Notes of a Native Son,established his reputation in 1955. No one was more pleased by the book’s reception than Baldwin’s high school friend Sol Stein. A rising New York editor, novelist, and playwright, Stein had suggested that Baldwin do the book and coaxed his old ... Read more

    $9.99 USD