Impressive statistics are thrown at us every day - the cost of health care; the size of an earthquake; the distance to the nearest star; the number of giraffes in the world. We know all these numbers are important - some more than others - and it's vaguely unsettling when we don't really have a clear sense of how remarkable or how ordinary they are. How do we work out what these figures actually mean? Are they significant, should we be worried, or excited, or impressed? How big is big, how small is small? With this entertaining and engaging book, help is at hand. Andrew Elliott gives us the tips and tools to make sense of numbers, to get a sense of proportion, to decipher what matters. It is a celebration of a numerate way of understanding the world. It shows how number skills help us to understand the everyday world close at hand, and how the same skills can be stretched to demystify the bigger numbers that we find in the wider contexts of science, politics, and the universe. Entertaining, full of practical examples, and memorable concepts, Is That A Big Number? renews our relationship with figures. If numbers are the musical notes with which the symphony of the universe is written, and you're struggling to hear the tune, then this is the book to get you humming again.

Is That a Big Number?

Science & Math

Elliott, Andrew

Mathematics

Oxford University Press

In Lung Soup Andrew Elliott draws the reader into a surreal and dangerously unstable world. This new collection blurs the boundaries between fact and fiction and dreams and reality to create a powerful portrait of the creative mind and to explore concepts of identity and individual agency.

Lung Soup

Literature & Fiction

Elloitt, Andrew

Poetry

Blackstaff Press

The Glorious Years: Peterborough's Golden Age of Architecture, 1840-1940

Borealis

The easy way to ensure your business is prepared for anything If disaster struck, could your business continue to operate? It might be a fire, flood, storm, technical failure, or a quality control failure - whichever way, how can you minimize the risk of disruption to your business?

Business Continuity For Dummies

Business & Money

Conway, Michael

The Cabinet Office

Sterling, Stuart

Payne, Anna

Duddridge, Brian

Insurance

For Dummies

Anamcara Bridge

Teen & Young Adult

Historical Fiction

Andrew Elliott

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