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Title: Useless Arithmetic
Author: Orrin Pilkey, Linda Pilkey-Jarvis
Narrator: Gabra Zackman
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-15-08
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: Science & Technology, Environment

Summary:
Writing for the general, nonmathematician reader, the authors begin with a riveting account of the extinction of the North Atlantic cod on the Grand Banks of Canada.
The book offers fascinating case studies depicting how the seductiveness of quantitative models has led to unmanageable nuclear waste-disposal practices, poisoned mining sites, unjustifiable faith in predicted sea level rise rates, bad predictions of future shoreline erosion rates, over-optimistic cost estimates of artificial beaches, and a host of other thorny problems.

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