To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II, the Central Statistical Office have reprinted tables from the 1951 publication Statistical Digest of War and added new text, photographs and charts. Retitled Fighting with Figures this new publication provides the main statistical series illustrating the war effort of the United Kingdom. Anthony Montague Brown, Churchill's Private Secretary from 1952 to 1965, has written the foreword, and text for each chapter has been provided by Dr Peter Howlett from the London School of Economics. Fighting with Figures provides a definitive economic and social reference for Britain and its society during the traumatic years of the World War II.

Fighting With Figures

History

Howlett, Peter

Military

The Stationery Office/Tso

Why write about facts? Facts are everywhere. They litter the utterances of public life as much as the private conversations of individuals. They frequent the humanities and the sciences in equal measure. But their very ubiquity tells us not only why it is difficult to form general but sensible answers in response to seemingly simple questions about facts, but also why it is important to do so. This book discusses how facts travel, and when and why they sometimes travel well enough to acquire a life of their own. Whether or not facts travel in this manner depends not only on their character and ability to play useful roles elsewhere, but also on the labels, packaging, vehicles, and company that take them across difficult terrains and over disciplinary boundaries. These diverse stories of traveling facts, ranging from architecture to nanotechnology and from romance fiction to climate science, change the way we see the nature of facts. Facts are far from the bland and rather boring but useful objects that scientists and humanists produce and fit together to make narratives, arguments, and evidence. Rather, their extraordinary abilities to travel well - and to fly flags of many different colors in the process - shows when, how, and why facts can be used to build further knowledge beyond and away from their sites of original production and intended use.

How Well Do Facts Travel?: The Dissemination of Reliable Knowledge

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Cambridge University Press

When Little Daruma, a playful Japanese doll, visits his friend Little Tiger, the painter's son, in Tiger Town, they take some of Little Tiger's father's equipment and start painting everything red and yellow, to the delight of the townspeople.

Little Daruma and Little Tiger: A Japanese Children's Tale

Children's Books

Kako, Satoshi

McNamara, Richard

Action & Adventure

Tuttle Pub

Little Daruma, a playful Japanese doll, likes the magical mallet his friend, Little Daikoku, uses to make his wishes come true so much that he makes one for himself.

Little Daruma and Little Daikoku: A Japanese Children's Tale

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Mice Guri and Gura celebrate each month of the year with fun activities like sledding in February and camping in August.

Guri and Gura's Playtime Book of Seasons

Nakagawa, Rieko

Holidays & Celebrations

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