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Author: Kathryn B. Hull Publisher: Tate Publishing ISBN: 1617771945 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 200
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What would you do for buried treasure? Best friends Randy and Jennifer are confronted with that very question inPure Luck.It all began with the metal detector they received for their twelfth birthdays. The two old coins they find on the beach lead them on a fantastical treasure hunt ending in a treacherous cave at the edge of the ocean. They enlist the help of a trusted teacher to retrieve the chest they find there. Assailed by rising tides, a storm that floods the cave, and an injury leaving their trusted teacher with amnesia, the two best friends soon find themselves in a pickle trying to juggle all their secrets. It wasPure Luckthat they found the treasure chest, but now Jennifer and Randy are asking themselves was that good luck or bad?
Author: Kathryn B. Hull Publisher: Tate Publishing ISBN: 1617771945 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 200
Book Description
What would you do for buried treasure? Best friends Randy and Jennifer are confronted with that very question inPure Luck.It all began with the metal detector they received for their twelfth birthdays. The two old coins they find on the beach lead them on a fantastical treasure hunt ending in a treacherous cave at the edge of the ocean. They enlist the help of a trusted teacher to retrieve the chest they find there. Assailed by rising tides, a storm that floods the cave, and an injury leaving their trusted teacher with amnesia, the two best friends soon find themselves in a pickle trying to juggle all their secrets. It wasPure Luckthat they found the treasure chest, but now Jennifer and Randy are asking themselves was that good luck or bad?
Author: Paul Wattenberg Publisher: ISBN: 9780615455792 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 306
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AMERICAN SUCCESS STORY Told in his own voice, this is the story of a remarkable man who, despite the tragedy of his family's past, is by nature an eternal optimist. His is an American success story. It is also a story of love and remembrance, and, perhaps most importantly, a plea to future generations to "never forget."
Author: Michael J. Mauboussin Publisher: Harvard Business Press ISBN: 1422184234 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 312
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In this provocative book, Michael Mauboussin offers the structure needed to analyze the relative importance of skill and luck, offering concrete suggestions for making these insights work to your advantage by making better decisions.
Author: Ishtiyaque Haji Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190493569 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 376
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Something is subject to luck if it is beyond our control. In this book, Haji shows that luck detrimentally affects both moral obligation and moral responsibility. He argues that factors influencing the way we are, together with considerations that link motivation and ability to perform intentional actions, frequently preclude our being able to do otherwise. Since obligation requires that we can do otherwise, luck compromises the range of what is morally obligatory for us. This result, together with principles that conjoin responsibility and obligation, is then exploited to derive the further skeptical conclusion that behavior for which we are morally responsible is limited as well. Throughout these explorations, Haji makes extensive use of concrete cases to test the limits of how we should understand free will moral responsibility, blameworthiness, determinism, and luck itself.
Author: Sunny Abakwue Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 0595161693 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 130
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The book, DEJE, WHY DID YOU DIE? is divided into five sections, namely, Section A, Section B, Section C, Section D, and, Section E. Section A is composed of sixteen dangerous poems; they are "dangerous" in that they embody the mourning voice of a grieving heart. Section B is the first Immortal Play: Among other things, this is a clear depiction of the past African-Igbo traditional heritage...a true legacy of the African subculture, prior to the arrival of the great "white woman", who fought to abolish the institution in which twin babies were destroyed as an abomination. In Section C, however, are twenty-four social poems. They embody the variable aspects of human ways, among them, the human heritage, and the global traditions. While Section D is another literary script, THE ROYAL WHORE. The Royal Whore describes an African Prince who came to America; while in America, he saw a wonderful world of women, the great wealth of the great land, the power of the white men, the real gods of the American riches, including the terrible power of the American greed... And, Section E is devoted to the African living tradition: Marriage in Iboland. It describes the matrimonial process, right from the INITIAL INQUIRY to the NIGHT OF BRIDE PRICE.
Author: Nicholas Rescher Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030637808 Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 113
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This book is an original—the first-ever treatment of the mathematics of Luck. Setting out from the principle that luck can be measured by the gap between reasonable expectation and eventual realization, the book develops step-by-step a mathematical theory that accommodates the entire range of our pre-systematic understanding of the way in which luck functions in human affairs. In so moving from explanatory exposition to mathematical treatment, the book provides a clear and accessible account of the way in which luck assessment enters into the calculations of rational decision theory.
Author: Gerald Lang Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0198868502 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 301
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Gerald Lang examines the role of luck in moral and political philosophy. He argues that luck plays a positive role in determining the moral character of acts and also of agents. In political questions of justice, he argues against attempts to neutralise luck, and in favour of an alternative approach that emphasises fairness.
Author: Steven D. Hales Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1350149314 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 241
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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.
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