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How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World
2024
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A “fascinating, witty, and perspective-shifting” (Oliver Burkeman, New York Times bestselling author) tour of Bayes’s theorem and its global impact on modern life from the acclaimed science writer and author of*The Rationalist’s Guide to the Galaxy*.At its simplest, Bayes’s theorem describes the probability of an event, based on prior knowledge of conditions that might be related to the event. But in Everything Is Predictable, Tom...
2016
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Did you know that an invisible mountain is rising above the streets of the capital - and, at over 1,400 metres, it is Britain's highest peak? This ingenious new book is an account of the ascent of Mount London by a hardened team of writers, poets and urban cartographers, each one scaling a smaller mountain within the city - from Crystal Palace (112m) to Primrose Hill (78m) - until the accumulative climb exceeds the height of Ben Nevis.Also available as an eBook here.
2013
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The Terrors is a sequence of imagined emails; poetic missives from the start of the 21st century to inmates at London's notorious Newgate Prison. Mimicking the tone of its primary source, The Newgate Calendar, The Terrors tacks from horror to humour, from moral disgust to the casual chitchat of the digital generation, all the time delineating London's violent urban undercurrent in bold, energetic and sometimes shocking language.
2023
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A Warhammer 40,000 AnthologyThe 41st Millennium is a dark and terrible era where you will find little comfort or hope. Forget the power of technology and science. Forget the promise of progress and advancement. Forget any notion of common humanity or compassion. There is no peace amongst the stars, for in the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war.READ IT BECAUSEFeaturing stories by some of Black Library's best-loved aut...
The Rationalist's Guide to the Galaxy
Superintelligent AI and the Geeks Who Are Trying to Save Humanity's Future
2019
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'A fascinating and delightfully written book about some very smart people who may not, or may, be about to transform humanity forever' JON RONSON'Beautifully written, and with wonderful humour, this is a thrilling adventure story of our own future' LEWIS DARTNELL, author of THE KNOWLEDGE and ORIGINSAre paperclips going to destroy life as we know it?What can Mickey Mouse teach us about how to programme AI?
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- Astra Militarum: Warhammer 40,000
2023
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An Astra Militarum Short StoryThe Astra Militarum stands as a redoubtable bulwark in the face of endless attacks on the Imperium from xenos empires and warp-born horrors alike. From Cadia to Catachan, Krieg, Mordian, and Armageddon, the Emperor's will wields the Imperial Guard in the defence of Humanity. This story is part of a series of 5 digital short stories celebrating everything Astra Militarum the perfect run-up to the launch of a host of new Astra Militarum ...
Everything Is Predictable
How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World
- Narrated by
- Tom Chivers
Unabridged
8 hours 7 min
2024
EN
A “fascinating, witty, and perspective-shifting” (Oliver Burkeman, New York Times bestselling author) tour of Bayes’s theorem and its global impact on modern life from the acclaimed science writer and author of*The Rationalist’s Guide to the Galaxy*.At its simplest, Bayes’s theorem describes the probability of an event, based on prior knowledge of conditions that might be related to the event. But in Everything Is Predictable, Tom...
The Rationalist's Guide to the Galaxy
Superintelligent AI and the Geeks Who Are Trying to Save Humanity's Future
- Narrated by
- Tom Chivers
Unabridged
8 hours 12 min
2019
EN
'A fascinating and delightfully written book about some very smart people who may not, or may, be about to transform humanity forever' JON RONSON'The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made of atoms which it can use for something else'This is a book about AI and AI risk. But it's also more importantly about a community of people who are trying to think rationally about intelligence, and the places that these thoughts are taking ...
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The Times (UK) book of the year!Meritocracy: the idea that people should be advanced according to their talents rather than their birth. While this initially seemed like a novel concept, by the end of the twentieth century it had become the world's ruling ideology. How did this happen, and why is meritocracy now under attack from both right and left?In The Aristocracy of Talent, esteemed journalist and historian Adrian Wooldridge traces th...
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Tales From the Worlds of WarhammerInquisitor Katarinya Greyfax recounts the tale of how she became part of a Necron Overlord's collection, radical inquisitor Otto Dagover hunts the heretic saint Ephrael Stern, and inquisitorial protégé Medea Betancore scours Queen Mab for an obscure text, among many other thrilling tales.READ IT BECAUSEThis collection of tales centring on the sinister Inquisition brings together short stories penned...
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**Named a Best Book of 2025 by BloombergFrom legendary filmmaker and author Werner Herzog, a compact, effervescent, and deeply personal exploration of art, philosophy, and history that unravels one of our most elusive and contested questions: What is truth—and how to find it in our “post-truth” era?**For over half a century, Werner Herzog has challenged, enriched, and expanded our understanding of the truth. His films and books have mixed fiction and nonfiction, do...











