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Short Cuts: Maths
Navigate Your Way Through the Big Ideas
KATIE STECKLES
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Your expert guide to mastering the numbers behind the mysteries of modern mathematics
What with the mysteries of infinity and imaginary numbers, the power of mathematical modelling, and the logic and structures hiding behind reallife situations and digital worlds, the modern landscape of mathematics is an extraordinary place to explore. But how are you expected to navigate this enigmatic and abstract world?
Short Cuts: Maths provides the map you need to start exploring seriously big ideas. Puzzling questions prompt ‘short cut’ answers written by experts in their field, with each one the setting-off point for instructions to help you plot your path through the mathematical maze.
KATIE STECKLES is a mathematician who lectures in mathematics at Sheffield Hallam University. Since completing her PhD in 2011, she has talked about maths in schools, at science and music festivals and in theatre shows, and has appeared on BBC radio and TV programmes including QI Katie lives in Manchester, England.
Night Terrors
Troubled Sleep and the Stories We Tell About It
Alice Vernon
** AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK IN DECEMBER 2022 **
Alice Vernon often wakes up to find strangers in her bedroom.
Ever since she was a child, her nights have been haunted by nightmares of a figure from her adolescence, sinister hallucinations and episodes of sleepwalking. These are known as ‘parasomnias’ - and they’re surprisingly common.
Now a lecturer in Creative Writing, Vernon set out to understand the history, science and culture of these strange and haunting experiences.
Night Terrors examines the history of our relationship with bad dreams: how we’ve tried to make sense of and treat them, from some decidedly odd ‘cures’ like magical ‘mare-stones’, to research on how video games might help people rewrite their dreams.
Sunday Times
DR ALICE VERNON is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University, where she teaches students the fundamentals of storytelling. Her research focuses on representations of sleep in science and culture. This is her first book.
Territory: World
Translation rights: Icon Books/Marsh Agency
