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Love Triangle
the Life-changing Magic of Trigonometry
2024 || Paperback || Matt Parker || Allen Lane
Why do mobile phones work when you're on a train? What happens when you pull a pop song apart into pure sine waves and play it back on a piano? And what did mathematicians have to do with the great pig stampede of 2012? The answer to each of these questions can be found in the triangle.
Humans have been using triangles for thousands of years to build structures, measure the earth, make music, paint vanishing points, pot snooker balls and much, much more. But trigonometry is not a thing of the...
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The Russo-Ukrainian War
the Return of History
2023 || Paperback || Serhii Plokhy || Allen Lane
A 2023 HIGHLIGHT FOR: SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE * FINANCIAL TIMES * THE TIMES
'The world's foremost historian of Ukraine. . . the chronicler of a country on the front lines of a seismic European war' Financial Times
On 24 February 2022, Russia stunned the world by launching an invasion of Ukraine. In the midst of checking on the family and friends who were now on the front lines of Europe's largest conflict since the outbreak of the Second World War, acclaimed Ukrainian-American historian Serhii P...
On the Edge
the Art of Risking Everything
2024 || Paperback || Nate Silver || Allen Lane
NAMED A MOST-ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024 BY THE FT, THE GUARDIAN, AND THE SUNDAY TIMES
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our era of risk―and the players raising the stakes
In the bestselling The Signal and the Noise, Nate Silver showed how forecasting would define the age of Big Data. Now, in this timely and riveting new book, Silver investigates "The River," or those whose mastery of risk allows them to shape―and dominate―so mu...
We Who Wrestle With
2024 || Paperback || Jordan B. Peterson || Allen Lane