About this title: Innumeracy meets the Harper's Index in a visually intriguing book that allows us to experience the number one million, devilishly devised by the executive editor of The New Yorker. Hertzberg invites us to challenge our visceral--and visual--sense of numbers too huge for the intellect to comprehend. A dream come true for millions of fans of lists and facts, puzzles and numbers.
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Description: Good. Only lightly used. Book has minimal wear to cover and binding. A few pages may have small creases and minimal underlining. Book selection as BIG as Texas. read more
Description: Like New. 2009-Paperback-May contain minor shelf-wear. Otherwise, volume un-read and in "As-New" condition. -Used-Like New-Hall Street Books proudly ships from Brooklyn, NY. All orders are processed and shipped within 24 hours, M-F. 100% money back No-Worry guarantee with expedited delivery and delivery confirmation available. read more
Edition: REV UPD
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HARRY N ABRAMS INC
Date published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780810978454ISBN:0810978458
Description: Originally published in 1970, One Million has been out of print for some time, and its author, the highly esteemed New Yorker editor and columnist Hendrik Hertzberg, has been prompted by fans to create a new edition. Originally, the project was inspi... read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Simon and Schuster, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date published: 1970
ISBN-13:9780671207540ISBN:0671207547
Description: Very Good in Pictorial Cover jacket. Paperback. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Clean, bright and tight. Minor shelfwear, mainly on edges of cover; two small scratches/indentations on front cover. Excellent condition. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA)
Date published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780812920994ISBN:0812920996
Description: Fine; Collectible. Stated first edition with full number line. Tight binding. No writings/underlines/highlights. Pages are very nice and clean. Free track! Satisfaction guarenteed! Fast ing! read more
"What a neat gimmick for a book. Two hundred pages, five thousand dots per page, one million dots in total. Each page has several marginal notes illustating some of the numbers, for example , two people in the Garden of Eden, 9,602 handgun deaths in America between 1988-90 (page 2), 63,360 inches per mile (page 13), 291,557 Americans killed in WWII (page 59), 657,000 hours of life if you live to reach 75 (page 132), 997,230 days since Isaiah preached, Homer sang and Rome was founded, as of January 1, 1993. The last is the book's only real drawback, in that many of the notes refer to the amount of time passed since some historical event or the numer of people of products produced in a particular region. But otherwise the book is filled with interesting tidbits and trivia. Open the book anywhere and see for yourself how big, and how small, one million really is."
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