The Campus Bookstore has selected is The Signal And The Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail--but Some Don't by Nate Silver, as its Book of the Week.

Silver is an American statistician, who specializes in baseball and political statistics. As a reporter for the New York Times, his extremely accurate predictions about the 2008 election brought him new fame and prominence. He now runs FiveThirtyEight.com

The book’s list price is $19.00; the Campus Bookstore will sell it for $14.14 from August 4 to August 9.

Marketing coordinator Martin Deck reminds patrons that the store will match the price of all books with those offered by amazon.ca and chapters.indigo.ca. Read more on the Campus Bookstore website