Author: Charles Tenney JacksonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Loser's Luck
Author: Charles Tenney JacksonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Luck of the Draw
Author: Chris GudgeonPublisher: arsenal pulp press
ISBN: 9781551520827
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Luck of the Draw profiles past winners of big lotteries, and how their windfalls impacted their lives, mostly for the better, but sometimes for the worse, such as the Florida widow who won $5 million in 1984: three years later, she lost her mansion and fancy cars, and owed the IRS $500,000 in back taxes, and was eventually arrested for trying to hire a contract killer for her daughter-in-law, whom she blamed for her lottery misfortune.
Loser Goes First
Author: Dan KennedyPublisher: Crown
ISBN: 9780609610367
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From tearing up the pages of "McSweeney's" and "Bookforum" to his first "self un-help" book, Kennedy presents a memoir of the spectacular failures, hilarious humiliations, and dumb choices that have dogged his 33 years.
World Series of Murder
Author: John VorhausPublisher: John Vorhaus
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Ever wonder about the origins of Vic Mirplo, Radar Hoverlander's outrageously flaky sidekick in The California Roll and Albuquerque Turkey? Wonder no more! Join Vic as he teams up with poker goddess Megan Moore and Las Vegas' number one obsessive collector Jim Rafferty to unravel a secret conspiracy to control the wealth of Sin City -- no matter how high the body count goes! Poker, murder, Mirplovian hijinks...it's all there for the asking in World Series of Murder! Also included, the bonus novella Surf Las Vegas, in which Meg and Jim take on Vegas hard guy Jack "the Hack" Aldrete.
The Luck Factor (Harriman Classics)
Author: Max GuntherPublisher: Harriman House Limited
ISBN: 0857198815
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
Max Gunther's classic text with a new foreword by Gautam Baid. Luck. We can't see it, or touch it, but we can feel it. We all know it when we experience it. But does it go deeper than this? And if it goes deeper, does it do so in any way which we can harness to our own and others' advantage? Taking us on a fascinating tour through the more popular theories and histories of luck - from pseudoscience to paganism, mathematicians to magicians - Max Gunther arrives at a careful set of scientific conclusions as to the true nature of luck, and the possibility of managing it. Drawing out the logical truths hidden in some examples of outrageous fortune (and some of the seemingly absurd theories of its origins), he presents readers with the concise formulae that make up what he calls the 'Luck Factor' - the five traits that lucky people have in common - and shows how anyone can improve their luck.
The Bohemian
Author: Bulletin
Author: Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore CityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The Myth of Luck
Author: Steven D. HalesPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350149306
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Humanity has thrown everything we have at implacable luck-novel theologies, entire philosophical movements, fresh branches of mathematics-and yet we seem to have gained only the smallest edge on the power of fortune. The Myth of Luck tells us why we have been fighting an unconquerable foe. Taking us on a guided tour of one of our oldest concepts, we begin in ancient Greece and Rome, considering how Plato, Plutarch, and the Stoics understood luck, before entering the theoretical world of probability and exploring how luck relates to theology, sports, ethics, gambling, knowledge, and present-day psychology. As we travel across traditions, times and cultures, we come to realize that it's not that as soon as we solve one philosophical problem with luck that two more appear, like heads on a hydra, but rather that the monster is altogether mythological. We cannot master luck because there is nothing to defeat: luck is no more than a persistent and troubling illusion. By introducing us to compelling arguments and convincing reasons that explain why there is no such thing as luck, we finally see why in a very real sense we make our own luck, that luck is our own doing. The Myth of Luck helps us to regain our own agency in the world - telling the entertaining story of the philosophy and history of luck along the way.
Public Documents
Author: Washington (State)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Washington (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 1352
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