A set of lovely wooden dice including the history of dice games & an instruction sheet with lots of different traditional games
...Have hours of fun piecing together this beautiful Dickensian House image!
This picture perfect puzzle
Details: As troubling as we pattern-seeking humans may find it, modern science has repeatedly shown us that randomness is the underlying heartbeat of nature. In Dice World, acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg takes readers on an incredible trip around our random universe, uncovering the truths & lies behind probability & statistics, explaining how chaotic intervention is behind every great success in business, & demonstrating the possibilities quantum mechanics has given us for creating unbreakable ciphers & undergoing teleportation. He explores how the 'clockwork universe' imagined by Newton, in which everything could be predicted given enough data, was disproved bit by bit, to be supplanted by chaos theory & quantum physics. Clegg reveals a world in which not only is accurate forecasting often impossible but probability is the only way for us to understand the fundamental nature of things. Forget the clockwork universe. Welcome to Dice World, a unique portrait of a startlingly complex cosmos, from the bizarre microscopic world of the quantum to the unfathomable mechanics of planetary movements, where very little is as it seems... Ideal for: People with an interest the astrology & the universe. This paperback book has 274 pages & measures: 21.5 x 13.5 x 2.2cm