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The Maths of Life and Death - Kit Yates - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The Maths of Life and Death - Kit Yates - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

"This is an exquisitely interesting book. It''s a deeply serious one too and, for those like me who have little maths, it''s delightfully readable" - IAN MCEWAN "Kit Yates is a natural storyteller. Through fascinating stories and examples, he shows how maths is the beating heart of so much of modern life. An exciting new voice in the world of science communication" - MARCUS DU SAUTOY "Used wisely, mathematics can save your life. Used unwisely, it can ruin it. A lucid and enthralling account of why maths matters in everyone''s life. A real eye-opener." - Prof Ian Stewart FRS, author of Do Dice Play God? __________ Maths is the story of the world around us, and the wisdom it gives us can be the difference between success and disaster. We are all doing maths all the time, from the way we communicate with each other to the way we travel, from how we work to how we relax. Many of us are aware of this. But few of us really appreciate the full power of maths - the extent to which its influence is not only in every office and every home, but also in every courtroom and hospital ward.In this eye-opening and extraordinary book, Yates explores the true stories of life-changing events in which the application - or misapplication - of mathematics has played a critical role: patients crippled by faulty genes and entrepreneurs bankrupted by faulty algorithms; innocent victims of miscarriages of justice and the unwitting victims of software glitches. We follow stories of investors who have lost fortunes and parents who have lost children, all because of mathematical misunderstandings.Along the way, Yates arms us with simple mathematical rules and tools that can help us make better decisions in our increasingly quantitative society. You will discover why it''s always sensible to question a statistic, often vital to ask for a second opinion and sometimes surprisingly handy to stick to the 37% rule...

DKK 127.00
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The Last House - R. G. Adams - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The Last House - R. G. Adams - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

''I''m completely hooked. Adams is a skilled and engaging writer'' Alex Marwood THREE GENERATIONS OF SECRETS Social worker Kit Goddard is convinced that Sandbeach Child Services have let an injured seventeen-year-old boy down, just like they''d done to her brother ten years earlier. Since the referral came in, it had been passed between departments, her own manager Georgia and colleague Tim brushing it off as a low risk, low priority case. But Kit can''t shake the feeling that something isn''t quite right. Scanning the referral, she notices that the house seventeen-year-old Dylan Meredith lives in with his ''weird'' mother had been described as decrepit. The anonymous caller said he was injured, frightened and afraid to tell the truth. As Kit begins to look deeper into the history of the family, she learns that Dylan''s grandmother had been an inpatient at Penlan psychiatric hospital and had died there in 2012. But as her colleague Tim had stressed, this was not a case for psychiatric services. In a bid to trace the anonymous caller for more information, Kit sets off to the small coastal town of Rock. Only to be confronted with the sense of strangeness that surrounds the Meredith family and the rumours that have troubled this small community for years. An intense psychological thriller, The Last House shows that the darkest secrets are hidden within the walls. But no matter how big you build them the truth will always find a way of breaking out.

DKK 182.00
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50 Genetics Ideas You Really Need to Know - Mark Henderson - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

How to Expect the Unexpected - Kit Yates - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

How to Expect the Unexpected - Kit Yates - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

A Waterstones Best Popular Science Book of 2023 ''Delightfully clear and vivid to read...A splendid book! Philip Pullman ''Absolutely fascinating'' James O''Brien ''An exceptional book - readable, funny and more needed than ever'' Dr Chris van Tulleken, bestselling author of Ultra-Processed People · Are you more likely to become a professional footballer if your surname is Ball?· How can you be one hundred per cent sure you will win a bet?· Why did so many Pompeiians stay put while Mount Vesuvius was erupting?· How do you prevent a nuclear war?Ever since the dawn of human civilisation, we have been trying to make predictions about what''s in store for us. We do this on a personal level, so that we can get on with our lives efficiently (should I hang my laundry out to dry, or will it rain?). But we also have to predict on a much larger scale, often for the good of our broader society (how can we spot economic downturns or prevent terrorist attacks?). For just as long, we have been getting it wrong. From religious oracles to weather forecasters, and from politicians to economists, we are subjected to poor predictions all the time. Our job is to separate the good from the bad. Unfortunately, the foibles of our own biology - the biases that ultimately make us human - can let us down when it comes to making rational inferences about the world around us. And that can have disastrous consequences. How to Expect the Unexpected will teach you how and why predictions go wrong, help you to spot phony forecasts and give you a better chance of getting your own predictions correct.

DKK 241.00
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How to Expect the Unexpected - Kit Yates - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

How to Expect the Unexpected - Kit Yates - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

A Waterstones Best Popular Science Book of 2023 ''Delightfully clear and vivid to read...A splendid book! Philip Pullman ''Absolutely fascinating'' James O''Brien ''An exceptional book - readable, funny and more needed than ever'' Dr Chris van Tulleken, bestselling author of Ultra-Processed People · Are you more likely to become a professional footballer if your surname is Ball?· How can you be one hundred per cent sure you will win a bet?· Why did so many Pompeiians stay put while Mount Vesuvius was erupting?· How do you prevent a nuclear war?Ever since the dawn of human civilisation, we have been trying to make predictions about what''s in store for us. We do this on a personal level, so that we can get on with our lives efficiently (should I hang my laundry out to dry, or will it rain?). But we also have to predict on a much larger scale, often for the good of our broader society (how can we spot economic downturns or prevent terrorist attacks?). For just as long, we have been getting it wrong. From religious oracles to weather forecasters, and from politicians to economists, we are subjected to poor predictions all the time. Our job is to separate the good from the bad. Unfortunately, the foibles of our own biology - the biases that ultimately make us human - can let us down when it comes to making rational inferences about the world around us. And that can have disastrous consequences. How to Expect the Unexpected will teach you how and why predictions go wrong, help you to spot phony forecasts and give you a better chance of getting your own predictions correct.

DKK 168.00
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The Envoy - Edward Wilson - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The Envoy - Edward Wilson - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The brilliant opening novel of the Catesby series, by a former special forces officer and ''the thinking person''s John le Carre'' ''Edward Wilson seems poised to inherit the mantle of John le Carré'' Irish Independent ''More George Smiley than James Bond, Catesby will delight those readers looking for less blood and more intelligence in their spy thrillers'' Publishers Weekly London, 1956. The height of the Cold War. On the face of it, Kit Fournier is a senior diplomat at the US embassy in Grosvenor Square. But that''s not the full story. He is also CIA Chief of Station. With the nuclear arms race looming large, Kit goes undercover to meet with his KGB counterpart to pass on secret information about British spies. In a world where truth means deception and love means honey trap, sexual blackmail and personal betrayal are essential skills. As the H-bomb apocalypse hangs over London, Kit Fournier faces a crisis of the soul. The unveiling of his own dark personal secrets will prove more deadly than any of his coded dispatches. ''A glorious, seething broth of historical fact and old-fashioned spy story'' The Times ''A sophisticated, convincing novel that shows governments and their secret services as cynically exploitative and utterly ruthless'' Sunday Telegraph Praise for Edward Wilson: ''Stylistically sophisticated . . . Wilson knows how to hold the reader''s attention'' W.G. Sebald ''A reader is really privileged to come across something like this'' Alan Sillitoe

DKK 127.00
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All the Hollow of the Sky - Kit Whitfield - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

In the Heart of Hidden Things - Kit Whitfield - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

In the Heart of Hidden Things - Kit Whitfield - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

In the Heart of Hidden Things - Kit Whitfield - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

All the Hollow of the Sky - Kit Whitfield - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Hidden Strengths - Claire Lazebnik - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

User Experience Design - Mark Wells - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

How to Win a Grand Prix - Bernie Collins - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Death Awaits in Durham - Helen Cox - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

How to Win a Grand Prix - Bernie Collins - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

How to Win a Grand Prix - Bernie Collins - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Till Death Us Do Part - Penny Stephens - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Till Death Us Do Part - Penny Stephens - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Breaking Point - Olivier Norek - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare - Damien Lewis - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

He: Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka (riverrun editions) - Franz Kafka - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Chronic Pain Reset - Afton L. Hassett - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Laying Out the Bones - Kate Webb - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Laying Out the Bones - Kate Webb - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

A TERRIBLE CRIME WAITS TO BE UNEARTHED. The second twisty and atmospheric Wiltshire-set crime novel in the DI Lockyer Series. Perfect for fans of Ann Cleeves and Val McDermid. A long, hot summer in Wiltshire is broken by a sudden downpour. Flash floods bring something sinister to the surface - a human skeleton. When forensic testing matches the bones to a man named Lee Geary, reported missing nine years earlier, the case is passed to DI Matt Lockyer.Geary was a known drug user, so it could be a simple case of misadventure, but Lockyer isn''t so sure. Geary was a townie, and had learning disabilities, so what was he doing out on the Plain all alone? Lockyer soon learns that the year he disappeared, Geary was questioned in relation to another crime - the murder of a young woman named Holly Gilbert.With the help of DC Gemma Broad, Lockyer begins to dig deeper, and discovers that two other persons of interest in the Holly Gilbert case have also either died or disappeared in the intervening years. A coincidence? Or a string of murders that has gone undetected for nearly a decade...? ****************************** Praise for Laying Out The Bones ''Compassionate, transporting and intricately plotted . . . I''m a huge fan'' Emylia Hall, author of The Shell House Detectives ''Unputdownable . . . I didn''t want it to end'' Jenny Ashcroft, author of The Echoes of Love ''Twisty and satisfying'' Kate Riordan, author of Summer Fever

DKK 192.00
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