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A study of the miscalculations of the figures for "world" history employed by statistically-minded historians. It is the product, primarily, of the resources of the Bodleian Library at Oxford, aiming to show the great misuse of numbers and the fragility of the conclusions derived from them.

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Limba Engleză ● Format PDF ● ISBN 9781349103003 ● Editura Palgrave Macmillan UK ● Publicat 1989 ● Descărcabil 3 ori ● Valută EUR ● ID 4973309 ● Protecție împotriva copiilor Adobe DRM

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