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Everything is Predictable
Fusing biography, razor-sharp science communication and intellectual history, Everything Is Predictable is a captivating tour of Bayes’ theorem and its impact on modern life. From medical testing to artificial intelligence, Tom Chivers shows how a single compelling idea can have far-reaching consequences. Thomas Bayes was an eighteenth-century Presbyterian minister and amateur mathematician whose obscure life…
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Abroad in Japan
Abroad in Japan charts a decade of living in a foreign land and the chaos and culture clash that came with it. Packed with hilarious and fascinating stories, this book seeks out to unravel one the world’s most complex cultures. When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if…
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Llyfr Glas Nebo
Winner of the Prose Medal at the 2018 National Eisteddfod. This is the amazing story of Siôn, who is forced to grow up suddenly, his mother Rowenna and his young sister, Dwynwen. His story is recorded in a blue notebook as the family try to survive a nuclear accident that has a catastrophic effect on…
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A Catcher in the Rye
‘If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into…
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Politics on the Edge
Politics on the Edge is the searing inside story of our broken politics from the former Cabinet minister and co-host of The Rest Is Politics. Over the course of a decade, Rory Stewart went from being a political outsider to standing for prime minister – before being sacked from a Conservative Party that he had…
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Welsh Grammar You Really Need To Know
Welsh Grammar You Really Need to Know will help you gain the intuition you need to become a confident communicator in your new language. Comprehensive and clear explanations of key grammar patterns and structures are reinforced and contextualized through authentic materials. You will not only learn how to construct grammar correctly, but when and where…
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Nineteen Eighty-four: 75th Anniversary Edition
A deluxe 75th anniversary cloth-bound edition of the most iconic British novel of the twentieth century, with an introduction by Sandra Newman, author of Julia and exclusive archival material. George Orwell’s dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative has never been more essential reading. Winston Smith obeys the Party,…
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Before the Coffee Gets Cold
In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the cafe’s time-travelling offer, in order to: confront the man who left them, receive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken by Alzheimer’s, see their sister one last time, and meet the daughter…
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Penguin Book of Welsh Short Stories
In twenty-four short stories, written by Welsh men and women, for the most part about Welsh people, we are treated to depictions of valley and mountain, country and town, as well as offered powerful and moving insights into the nature of the people.