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Everything Is Predictable

How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World


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...

$14.99 USD

also available as audiobook

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.

2016

EN

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.


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...

$9.99 USD

The Rationalist's Guide to the Galaxy

Superintelligent AI and the Geeks Who Are Trying to Save Humanity's Future

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'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?

$5.99 USD

also available as audiobook

2023

EN

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 ...

$3.99 USD

Everything Is Predictable

How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World

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...

$24.99 USD

also available as ebook

The Rationalist's Guide to the Galaxy

Superintelligent AI and the Geeks Who Are Trying to Save Humanity's Future


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 ...

$24.99 USD

also available as ebook

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The History of Money

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"David McWilliams is a terrifically energetic narrator with a perfect Irish lilt."—KirkusIn this fresh, eye-opening global history, economist David McWilliams charts the relationship between humans and money—from clay tablets in Mesopotamia to cryptocurrency in Silicon Valley. This program is read by the author.This program includes a foreword written and read by Michael Lewis, author of Moneyball and T...

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Every Monument Will Fall

A Story of Remembering and Forgetting

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**Brought to you by Penguin.The culture war is over. If you want it to be. It wasn’t even a culture war; it was a war on culture. A sustained attack, Dan Hicks argues, in the form of the weaponisation of civic museums, public art, and even universities — and one that has a deeper history than you might think.**Tracing the origins of contemporary conflicts over art, heritage, memory, and colonialism, Every Monument Will Fall joins the dots between the building of st...

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The History of Money

A Story of Humanity

2025

EN

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"Learned, lively and often irreverent, David McWilliams’s The History of Money is rich with surprising details about currency, then and now."—The New York TimesIn this fresh, eye-opening global history, economist David McWilliams charts the relationship between humans and money—from clay tablets in Mesopotamia to cryptocurrency in Silicon Valley.The story of humanity is inextricable from that of money. No innovation...

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Penelope’s Bones

A New History of Homer’s World through the Women Written Out of It


2025

EN

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Weaving together literary and archaeological evidence, Emily Hauser illuminates the rich, intriguing lives of the real women behind Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey.Achilles. Agamemnon. Odysseus. Hector. The lives of these and many other men in the greatest epics of ancient Greece have been pored over endlessly in the past three millennia. But these are not just tales about heroic men. There are scores of women as well—complex, fascinating women whose st...

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