By popular demand we have an updated edition to this classic pithy guide to understanding how we are confused by numbers. In a new introduction Joel Best uses examples from recent policy debates to reflect on the challenges to improving statistical literacy.

The woman on the bed was barely out of her teens. She wasn't exactly beautiful, but she'd tried to make the most of her looks. And now, alone in a seedy beachfront motel, she was dead.

"The bestselling author of Fire and Fury is once again coming for some of the largest power brokers in America as he brings to light their lives, careers, and always equivocal end games"--

When vampire slayer Anita Blake meets with Jean Claude at his newest club, Circus of the Damned, she is confronted by shape-shifters, a master vampire, and a giant snake.

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After 6000 years of stillness, Akasha, mother of vampires and Queen of the Damned has risen from her sleep. Her monstrous plan of ruling the worlds of the living and the undead must be stopped. The challenge is left to the vampire Lestat, for it was he who woke her from her sleep.

"It's June 1814, and the royal families of Austria, Russia, and the German states have gathered in London at the Prince Regent's invitation to celebrate the defeat of Napoléon and the restoration of monarchical control throughout Europe. But the festive atmosphere is marred one warm summer evening by the brutal murder of a disgraced British nobleman long thought dead ... Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, is drawn into the investigation by his valet,...

"A pharaoh made immortal by a mysterious and powerful elixir, Ramses the Great became counselor and lover to some of Egypt's greatest and most powerful rulers before he was awakened from centuries of slumber to the mystifying and dazzling world of Edwardian England. Having vanquished foes both human and supernatural, he's found love with the beautiful heiress Julie Stratford, daughter of Lawrence Stratford, the slain archeologist who discovered his...

Religion matters deeply to many Americans, shaping their views on numerous controversial issues, including abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, vouchers for parochial school students, and the importance of the faith of presidential candidates. Is it appropriate for religion to influence political discourse and affect public policy? Or is it inappropriate, evidence that America is too religious?