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The Drunkard's Walk
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Leonard Mlodinow |
In this irreverent and illuminating book, acclaimed writer and scientist Leonard Mlodinow shows us how randomness, change, and probability reveal a tremendous amount about our daily lives, and how we… |
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Bad luck Brad
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Gail Herman |
On the last day of school Brad keeps running into bad luck, but by the end of the day he realizes that there is always a chance things will get better. |
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The riddled chain
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Jeffrey Kevin McKee |
"Jeffrey K. McKee argues that if we were to turn back the clock to our split from ancestral apes, evolution would proceed differently. Ever since our ancestors first stood up on two feet, natural sel… |
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Fancy Nancy Just My Luck
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Jane O'Connor |
Lorsque Clara présente un trèfle à quatre feuilles en classe, Mademoiselle Nancy apprend à distinguer les objets qui portent chance de ceux qui portent malheur. Mais la liste des objets qui portent m… |
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Dance with chance
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Spyros G. Makridakis |
"Makridakis, Hogarth and Gaba-business professors and risk management experts-explore the powerful role of luck in our lives. For example, it's commonly accepted that to live a long, healthy life, we… |
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Luck!
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James Sasse |
Discusses the nature of luck, how it can relate to numbers or the stars, how good luck can be attracted and bad luck avoided, and how luck can be rated. |
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Chance Discovery
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Yukio Ohsawa |
Chance discovery means discovering chances -- the breaking points in systems, the marketing windows in business, etc. It involves determining the significance of some piece of information about an ev… |
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What Is Random?
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Edward Beltrami |
(Not for distribution) We all know what randomness is. We sometimes choose between options "at random", and if we toss a coin we know it will land heads or tails at random. But are events like these … |
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Darwin's dice
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Curtis N. Johnson |
"For evolutionary biologists, the concept of chance has always played a significant role in the formation of evolutionary theory. As far back as Greek antiquity, chance and "luck" were understood to … |
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What the luck?
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Gary Smith |
Explores the role of luck, specifically the concept of "regression to the mean," in everyday life, exploring how failures to understand chance and random variations influence choices and perceptions … |
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Je suis la plus (mal)chanceuse de l'école!
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Karen McCombie |
Les aventures quotidiennes d'Indie Kidd, une pétillante et généreuse rouquine de dix ans qui partage son temps entre l'école, ses meilleures copines So et Phie, la demeure de sa mère, une ex-mannequi… |
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Motif
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Marianne Worthington |
Each submission in this collection takes chance as a motif, either prominently or in subtle ways. The anthology includes fiction, nonfiction and poetry. |
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Quel dégât, Sun Yu!
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Sally Rippin |
Fang always makes a mess when she eats wontons. She needs some special magic to help her be neat and clean. |
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Smith
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Leon Garfield,Leon Garfield |
A young pickpocket in eighteenth century London takes a document he cannot read from a man's pocket and a moment later sees the man murdered by two men who want the document. |
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Touch wood
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Joseph Ashby Porter |
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Serendipity
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Tobi Tobias |
A child ponders the pleasant results of serendipity, such as getting extra pieces from the gumball machine, having a peanut in your pocket when you meet a squirrel, or finding a five-dollar bill. |
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Could it be true?
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Allan Zullo |
Twelve accounts of the roles of coincidence and fate in day-to-day life, including the case of two teenagers discovering they are twins after separate skiing accidents bring them to the same hospital. |
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Understanding Probability
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Henk Tijms |
In this fully revised second edition of Understanding Probability, the reader can learn about the world of probability in an informal way. The author demystifies the law of large numbers, betting sys… |
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