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. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! 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
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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