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Harley-Davidson 2009 Calendar»rank: 2643par: Motorbooks International
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance»rank: 15227par: Barack Obama
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Kandahar Tour: The Turning Point In Canada's Afghan Mission»rank: 692par: Lee Windsor, David Charters
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Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death»rank: 30034par: Joan Halifax
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Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk»rank: 28766par: Peter L. Bernstein
Chroniques et points de vue:From :With the stock market breaking records almost daily, leaving longtime market analysts shaking their heads and revising their forecasts, a study of the concept of risk seems quite timely. Peter Bernstein has written a comprehensive history of man's efforts to understand risk and probability, beginning with early gamblers in ancient Greece, continuing through the 17th-century French mathematicians Pascal and Fermat and up to modern chaos theory. Along the way he demonstrates that understanding risk underlies everything from game theory to bridge-building to winemaking. |
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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World»rank: 3318par: Niall Ferguson
Chroniques et points de vue:From :With the stock market breaking records almost daily, leaving longtime market analysts shaking their heads and revising their forecasts, a study of the concept of risk seems quite timely. Peter Bernstein has written a comprehensive history of man's efforts to understand risk and probability, beginning with early gamblers in ancient Greece, continuing through the 17th-century French mathematicians Pascal and Fermat and up to modern chaos theory. Along the way he demonstrates that understanding risk underlies everything from game theory to bridge-building to winemaking. |
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The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Edition»rank: 13672de: University Of Chicago Press
Chroniques et points de vue:From :With the stock market breaking records almost daily, leaving longtime market analysts shaking their heads and revising their forecasts, a study of the concept of risk seems quite timely. Peter Bernstein has written a comprehensive history of man's efforts to understand risk and probability, beginning with early gamblers in ancient Greece, continuing through the 17th-century French mathematicians Pascal and Fermat and up to modern chaos theory. Along the way he demonstrates that understanding risk underlies everything from game theory to bridge-building to winemaking. |
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Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association»rank: 1056par: American Psychological Association
Chroniques et points de vue:From :With the stock market breaking records almost daily, leaving longtime market analysts shaking their heads and revising their forecasts, a study of the concept of risk seems quite timely. Peter Bernstein has written a comprehensive history of man's efforts to understand risk and probability, beginning with early gamblers in ancient Greece, continuing through the 17th-century French mathematicians Pascal and Fermat and up to modern chaos theory. Along the way he demonstrates that understanding risk underlies everything from game theory to bridge-building to winemaking. |
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Groundswell»rank: 15594par: Charlene Li, Josh Bernoff
Chroniques et points de vue:From :With the stock market breaking records almost daily, leaving longtime market analysts shaking their heads and revising their forecasts, a study of the concept of risk seems quite timely. Peter Bernstein has written a comprehensive history of man's efforts to understand risk and probability, beginning with early gamblers in ancient Greece, continuing through the 17th-century French mathematicians Pascal and Fermat and up to modern chaos theory. Along the way he demonstrates that understanding risk underlies everything from game theory to bridge-building to winemaking. |
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The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating»rank: 2501par: Alisa Smith, J.B. Mackinnon
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:lt's not surprising that authors/partners Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon's attempt to eat locally for one year--that is, consume only foodstuffs cultivated and harvested within 100 miles of their Vancouver pad--became a sensation first on the web and then in book form. As the green movement catches fire worldwide, heaps of people are discovering with alarm (as the authors did) that most meals consumed by North Americans travel a planet-busting average of 1,500 miles from farm to plate. While no one denies that New Zealand lamb served with Peruvian asparagus, ... |