{"product_id":"counting-by-deborah-stone-9781324091066","title":"Counting","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a post-Trumpian world where COVID rates soar and Americans wage near-civil war about election results, Deborah Stone's \u003cem\u003eCounting\u003c\/em\u003e promises to transform how we think about numbers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eContrary to what you learned in kindergarten, counting is more art than arithmetic. In fact, numbers are just as much creatures of the human imagination as poetry and painting; the simplest tally starts with judgments about what counts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn a nation whose Constitution originally counted a slave as three-fifths of a person and where algorithms disproportionately consign Black Americans to prison, it is now more important than ever to understand how numbers can be both weapons of the powerful and tools of resistance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith her \u003cem\u003esignature brilliance\u003c\/em\u003e (Robert Kuttner), eminent political scientist Deborah Stone delivers a \u003cem\u003emind-altering\u003c\/em\u003e work (Jacob Hacker) that shows \"how being in thrall to numbers is misguided and dangerous\" (\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47362542862572,"sku":"9781324091066","price":31.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/11595053482659.jpg?v=1772890649","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/counting-by-deborah-stone-9781324091066","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}