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Beyond Coincidence

Amazing Stories of Coincidence and the Mystery and Mathematics Behind Them

Author: Martin Plimmer and Brian King

Beyond Coincidence

Beyond Coincidence

$11.99

About This Book

Ever wonder what the odds are of being struck by lightning?
Or winning the lottery?
Or meeting someone from Timbuktu...

Page Count
288
Genre
On Sale
09/10/2013

Book Details

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.

Imprint Publisher

Thomas Dunne Books

ISBN

9781466852297

In The News

“Collection of over 200 amazing stories of supposed coincidence that suggest a great, unexplained force might be screwing with us.” —Giant Magazine

“[A] terrific look at the failures of the law of probabibility... a fascinating fun analysis of the impossible happenings inside a chaotic world...” —Harriet Klausner

About the Creators

Beyond Coincidence

Beyond Coincidence

$11.99