Prologue: U. S. congressional resolution of designate 2013 as the "international year of statistics"
The "Godliness" of statistics
The magnificence of the mean
Probability: the key to reason and religion
The "charms" of statistics
How statistics helped make biology a science
Darwin: the reluctant mathematician
Statistical view of the United States
The importance of statistics to the United States Census and the world
The first hundred years of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (1884-1984)
Statistics and government
How statistics helped desegregate America's public school system
The 1964 surgeon general's report on smoking
2013: the international year of ... statistics
The necessity of statistics in highway construction management: the case of Arkansas
Could a statistic on redistricting have a game-changing effect on American politics?
The importance of "Ag" estimates
Data inquiry and analysis for educational reform
Interview with Francesca Dominici
The joy of research discovery with statistics
Statistics, Moneyball, and "sabermetrics"
Data-driven equity in urban schools
Statistics and the fashion industry
Epilogue: The joy of perceiving that basic statistics is a "mean world"
A potpourri of quotations about statistics and statisticians.
