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BEYOND COINCIDENCE
by Martin Plimmer & Brian King 

Stories of amazing coincidences and the mystery and mathematics that lie behind them

Laura Buxton, aged ten, releases a balloon from her garden in Staffordshire. It lands 140 miles away in Wiltshire, in the garden of another Laura Buxton, aged ten.

Coincidence? Or something beyond coincidence?

Two sisters in Alabama decide, independently, to visit the other. En route, their identical jeeps collide and both are killed.

Is someone playing snap with our lives? Could it be the hand of God? Or magic? Or are we, as some scientists have suggested, being granted an insight into a hyper-connected universe whose ubiquitous web-like workings we can only dimly discern?

Sceptics see only the laws of probability at work. But what are the odds against mathematician Ian Stewart being struck by a meteorite moments after discussing the odds of such a thing happening?

Beyond Coincidence is a celebration of the Universe's most beguiling phenomenon, containing more than 200 amazing stories of coincidence and many intriguing insights into its workings. From sympathetic magic to the science of probability, from the vicissitudes of gamblers to the mysterious communions of sub-atomic particles, this book chases coincidence in all its many guises, analysing how it affects every aspect of our lives and why it means so much to even the most sceptical of us.

Next time you bump into your bank manager in the Amazonian rainforest, you may understand why. 

MARTIN PLIMMER is a journalist, broadcaster and author of the fictionalised memoir King of the Castle. Once, while in the waiting room of a hospital after banging his head, Martin found a two-year-old magazine open at an article he had written on the subject of headaches.

BRIAN KING is an award-winning pioneer of radio fly-on-the-wall documentaries; the producer of hundreds of programmes for BBC Radio 4, including the long-running series On the Ropes and also, coincidentally, a series about coincidence, presented by Martin Plimmer.

Condition - Excellent 
Hardcover 
Published in 2003 by Icon Books 
ISBN : 1-84046-534-4
Length - 292 pages

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