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OK, Everybody already knows about this book and you could buy it off Ann's
site and get an extra thrill from that. But I just wanted to take the opportunity to recommend the audio CD version.
Listening to some authors read their own work reminds you of why they are paid to write, and not narrate. Ann Coulter,
on the other hand, has a wonderful voice and one of her real appeals as a commentator is the passion she brings to her work.
Passion is very hard to convey with a keyboard. It's much easier to convey with a blood soaked quill making great slashing
strokes against the paper, but that is not yet a digital format. Anyway, the point is: listening to Miss Coulter read
her own work is more fun than reading it yourself, which is pretty darn fun. It's also much safer for pedestrians in
your path. Buy this and listen to Ann in traffic. You're angry then anyway.
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This book is the most exciting history of statistical probability ever written.
And no, that wasn't just a wise crack. This is a wonderful book. Statistics is the most useful and revealing branch
of mathematics (in my opinion, anyway). Few people appreciate its role in science and business. The discovery
of the means to tease out the non-random from the random contributed more to the accumulation of systematic knowledge than
anything. This book is a lively narrative of the origins of statistical knowledge in primitive gambling contests,
through the rise of science, to its modern usage in business. If you have a high school student whining about his math
homework being too abstract with no application to the real world, buy him this book -then take him to Vegas (which might
be illegal -hold off on that). And no, you don't need to know a lot of math to enjoy the book. A fun read,
trust me.
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