Didier describes and analyzes the work of New Deal agricultural economists and statisticians who traveled from farm to farm, in search of information that would be useful for planning by farmers and government agencies.
Presents short rhymes about numbers of objects from one through 100 and provides information about the Tennessee natural history and social studies topics that the objects represent.
Discusses the makeup of the U.S. population covering such issues as race, immigration, language, wealth, and sexuality.
From the Blue Ridge Mountains and Four Holes Swamp to Clemson Blue Cheese and Catawba Pottery, this fascinating counting book pays tribute to the great state of South Carolina.
And in similar fashion , it was disputed how many missionaries ( three to thirteen ) comprised the Franciscans ' advance party in Peru ; for this see Tibesar , Franciscan Beginnings , 11-16 . 27. López de Gómara , Conquista , 2 : 66 ...
In this sweeping account of how the invention of numbers sparked a revolution in human thought and culture, Caleb Everett draws on new discoveries in psychology, anthropology, and linguistics to reveal the many things made possible by ...
In his book Teach Us to Number Our Days, David Roper shows you why and how this season of your life can truly be the best.
The only other statistician in the department was former Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) President Edwin G. Olds who, despite being overshadowed in numbers by mathematicians for decades, was able to effectively make the case ...
From the conga line to West Side Story to Ricky Martin, how popular performance prompted American audiences to view Latinos as a distinct (and distinctly non-white) ethnic group
The Book of Numbers is a story of identity, wilderness, and God. Numbers continues the historical narrative begun in Exodus, the story of God's people newly freed from Egypt's shackles and wandering toward the promised land.