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Now out in paperback - a fascinating exploration of the uncanny world of coincidence, it includes nearly 250 incredible stories, of which 40 are new to this edition.
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Ever wonder what the odds are of being struck by lightning?
Or winning the lottery?
Or meeting someone from Timbuktu with the same middle name as you?
BEYOND COINCIDENCE recounts and analyzes over 200 amazing stories of synchronicity, the likes of:
Laura Buxton, age ten, releases a balloon from her back yard. It lands 140 miles away in the backyard of another Laura Buxton, also age ten. Two sisters in Alabama decide, independently, to visit the other. En route, their identical jeeps collide and both sisters are killed. A British cavalry officer was fighting in the last year of World War One when he was knocked off his horse by a flash of lightning. He was paralyzed from the waist down. The man moved to Vancouver, Canada where, six years later, while fishing in a river, lightning struck him again, paralyzing his right side. Two years later, he was sufficiently recovered to take walks in a local park when, in 1930, lightning sought him out again, this time permanently paralyzing him. He died soon after. Four years later, lightning destroyed his tomb. "Here is a veritable cornucopia of amazing coincidences. It makes one wonder!"
--Nicholas Rescher, author of LUCK: The Brilliant Randomness of Everyday Life
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Or winning the lottery?
Or meeting someone from Timbuktu with the same middle name as you?
BEYOND COINCIDENCE recounts and analyzes over 200 amazing stories of synchronicity, the likes of:
Laura Buxton, age ten, releases a balloon from her back yard. It lands 140 miles away in the backyard of another Laura Buxton, also age ten. Two sisters in Alabama decide, independently, to visit the other. En route, their identical jeeps collide and both sisters are killed. A British cavalry officer was fighting in the last year of World War One when he was knocked off his horse by a flash of lightning. He was paralyzed from the waist down. The man moved to Vancouver, Canada where, six years later, while fishing in a river, lightning struck him again, paralyzing his right side. Two years later, he was sufficiently recovered to take walks in a local park when, in 1930, lightning sought him out again, this time permanently paralyzing him. He died soon after. Four years later, lightning destroyed his tomb. "Here is a veritable cornucopia of amazing coincidences. It makes one wonder!"
--Nicholas Rescher, author of LUCK: The Brilliant Randomness of Everyday Life
Coincidence?
Or something beyond coincidence?
Is someone playing with us?
Could it be God?
Or are we, as some scientists have suggested, hyper-aware of our hyper-connected universe whose web-like workings we can only dimly discern?
From magic and religion to subatomic particles and the laws of probability, BEYOND COINCIDNECE deeply explores the roots of luck, odds and circumstance while telling amazing stories that will have you shaking your head
Or something beyond coincidence?
Is someone playing with us?
Could it be God?
Or are we, as some scientists have suggested, hyper-aware of our hyper-connected universe whose web-like workings we can only dimly discern?
From magic and religion to subatomic particles and the laws of probability, BEYOND COINCIDNECE deeply explores the roots of luck, odds and circumstance while telling amazing stories that will have you shaking your head
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- PublisherIcon Books
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1840466189
- ISBN 13 9781840466188
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