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Alex Through the Looking-Glass: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life |
This is a book aimed at people like me who can't quite get their heads around the alien world of maths and numbers. How can everything just be reduced to an equation? But perhaps reduced is the wrong word, perhaps it should be expanded? Not ideal bed-time reading, you need to concentrate and you might need a pencil and paper, so best taken in stages and gradually you will feel your understanding stretching.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 73 Summer 2014) |
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Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Life
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The Brazilians felt that 'Football ' was too anglicised so they invented their own name - and game! Don't worry though if you don't like football, this is a fascinating journey through a country's culture and psyche that asks why it is that this particular part of the world manages to gauge its national well-being on the performance of eleven men on a sports field - producing a totally absorbing and entertaining read in the process.
(Clive Yelf - bwl 52 July 2009) |
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