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The Art of Statistics
Learning from Data
2020 || Paperback || David Spiegelhalter || Penguin Books Ltd
A statistical national treasure' Jeremy Vine, BBC Radio 2'Required reading for all politicians, journalists, medics and anyone who tries to influence people (or is influenced) by statistics. A tour de force' Popular ScienceDo busier hospitals have higher survival rates? How many trees are there on the planet? Why do old men have big ears? David Spiegelhalter reveals the answers to these and many other questions - questions that can only be addressed using statistical science. Statistics has p...
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All His Spies
The Secret World of Robert Cecil
2024 || Hardcover || Stephen Alford || Penguin Books Ltd
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Anniversary Edition
2025 || Hardcover || Carlo Rovelli || Penguin Books Ltd
What Went Wrong With Capitalism
2025 || Paperback || Ruchir Sharma || Penguin Books Ltd
A Field Guide to Lies and Statistics
A Neuroscientist on How to Make Sense of a Complex World
2018 || Paperback || Daniel Levitin || Penguin Books Ltd
A guide to critical thinking in the 'post-truth' era, from the author of Sunday Times best-seller The Organized Mind We live in a world of information overload. Facts and figures on absolutely everything are at our fingertips, but are too often biased, distorted, or outright lies. From unemployment figures to voting polls, IQ tests to divorce rates, we're bombarded by seemingly plausible statistics on how people live and what they think.
Daniel Levitin teaches us how to effectively ask oursel...
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
2022 || Paperback || Erving Goffman || Penguin Books Ltd
One of the defining works of twentieth-century sociology: a revelatory analysis of how we present ourselves to others'The self, then, as a performed character, is not an organic thing ... it is a dramatic effect'How do we communicate who we are to other people? This landmark work by one of the twentieth century's most influential sociologists argues that our behaviour in social situations is defined by how we wish to be perceived - resulting in displays startlingly similar to those of actors ...
Eichmann in Jerusalem
A Report on the Banality of Evil
2022 || Paperback || Hannah Arendt || Penguin Books Ltd
'Brilliant and disturbing' Stephen Spender, New York Review of BooksThe classic work on 'the banality of evil', and a journalistic masterpieceHannah Arendt's stunning and unnverving report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in the New Yorker in 1963. This edition includes material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt's postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account. A major journalistic triumph by an i...
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Rain of Ruin
Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan
2025 || Hardcover || Richard Overy || Penguin Books Ltd
A Moment of War
2025 || Paperback || Laurie Lee || Penguin Books Ltd