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Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Riskby Peter L. BernsteinISBN 0471295639 (0-471-29563-9)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk'Book summary: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. [via]
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The Age of Anxietyby Roy Porter, Sarah DunantISBN 1860492134 (1-86049-213-4)
Hardcover, Virago
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Anxiety'Book summary:As we inch closer to a dark new millenium, anxieties rise. The sense of progress and promise that prevailed so powerfully in the 1960s has been replaced by a nervous pessimism, centering chiefly around uncertain realities - economic, political, environmental. This book takes this for granted and touches upon it, but its focus is the analysis of the anxiety itself: its nature, sources, substance, effects, and even cure. Its focus is primarily British/European and contributors include: Linda Grant on violence; Susie Orbach on psychoanalysis; Mary Midgely on ecology; and Michael Ignatieff on nationalism. [via]
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Aquachurchby Leonard I. SweetISBN 0764421514 (0-7644-2151-4)
Hardcover, Group Pub Inc
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The Barbarian Way: Uleash The Untamed Faith Withinby Erwin Raphael McManusISBN 0785264329 (0-7852-6432-9)
Hardcover, Thomas Nelson Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Barbarian Way: Uleash The Untamed Faith Within'Book summary:Two thousand years later the call to follow Christ has been repackaged to be smooth and trouble-free, filled with opportunity and promise but lacking risk, passion, and sacrifice. Is this really what Jesus died for? If He chose the way of the cross, where would He hesitate leading us? Is it possible that to follow Jesus is to choose the barbarian way?
Jesus never made a pristine call to a proper or safe religion. Jesus beckons His followers to a path that is far from the easy road. It is a path filled with adventure, uncertainty, and unlimited possibilitiesthe only path that can fulfill the deepest longings and desires of your heart.
This is the barbarian way: to give your heart to the only One who can make you fully alive. To love Him with simplicity and intensity. To unleash the untamed faith within. To be consumed by the presence of a passionate and compassionate God. To go where He sends you, no matter the cost.
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Beyond Fear : Thinking Sensibly about Security in an Uncertain Worldby Bruce SchneierISBN 0387026207 (0-387-02620-7)
Hardcover, Springer
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beyond Fear : Thinking Sensibly about Security in an Uncertain World'Book summary:Many of us, especially since 9/11, have become personally concerned about issues of security, and this is no surprise. Security is near the top of government and corporate agendas around the globe. Security-related stories appear on the front page everyday. How well though, do any of us truly understand what achieving real security involves? In Beyond Fear, Bruce Schneier invites us to take a critical look at not just the threats to our security, but the ways in which we're encouraged to think about security by law enforcement agencies, businesses of all shapes and sizes, and our national governments and militaries. Schneier believes we all can and should be better security consumers, and that the trade-offs we make in the name of security - in terms of cash outlays, taxes, inconvenience, and diminished freedoms - should be part of an ongoing negotiation in our personal, professional, and civic lives, and the subject of an open and informed national discussion. With a well-deserved reputation for original and sometimes iconoclastic thought, Schneier has a lot to say that is provocative, counter-intuitive, and just plain good sense. He explains in detail, for example, why we need to design security systems that don't just work well, but fail well, and why secrecy on the part of government often undermines security. He also believes, for instance, that national ID cards are an exceptionally bad idea: technically unsound, and even destructive of security. And, contrary to a lot of current nay-sayers, he thinks online shopping is fundamentally safe, and that many of the new airline security measure (though by no means all) are actually quite effective. A skeptic of much that's promised by highly touted technologies like biometrics, Schneier is also a refreshingly positive, problem-solving force in the often self-dramatizing and fear-mongering world of security pundits. Schneier helps the reader to understand the issues at stake, and how to best come to one's own conclusions, including the vast infrastructure we already have in place, and the vaster systems--some useful, others useless or worse--that we're being asked to submit to and pay for. Bruce Schneier is the author of seven books, including Applied Cryptography (which Wired called "the one book the National Security Agency wanted never to be published") and Secrets and Lies (described in Fortune as "startlingly lively...¦[a] jewel box of little surprises you can actually use."). He is also Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Counterpane Internet Security, Inc., and publishes Crypto-Gram, one of the most widely read newsletters in the field of online security. [via]
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Beyond Left and Right: The Future of Radical Politicsby Anthony GiddensISBN 0804724512 (0-8047-2451-2)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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A Biography: My Life As a Basset Houndby Ellen B. CollinsISBN 1413787762 (1-4137-8776-2)
Softcover, Publishamerica Inc
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Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive Youby Gerd GigerenzerISBN 0743254236 (0-7432-5423-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You'Book summary:In the tradition of Innumeracy by John Allen Paulos, German scientist Gerd Gigerenzer offers his own take on numerical illiteracy. "In Western countries, most children learn to read and write, but even in adulthood, many people do not know how to think with numbers," he writes. "I focus on the most important form of innumeracy in everyday life, statistical innumeracy--that is, the inability to reason about uncertainties and risk." The author wisely uses concrete examples from the real world to make his points, and he shows the devastating impact of this problem. In one example, he describes a surgeon who advised many of his patients to accept prophylactic mastectomies in order to dodge breast cancer. In a two-year period, this doctor convinced 90 "high-risk" women without cancer to sacrifice their breasts "in a heroic exchange for the certainty of saving their lives and protecting their loved ones from suffering and loss." But Gigerenzer shows that the vast majority of these women (84 of them, to be exact) would not have developed breast cancer at all. If the doctor or his patients had a better understanding of probabilities, they might have chosen a different course. Fans of Innumeracy will enjoy Calculated Risks, as will anyone who appreciates a good puzzle over numbers. --John Miller [via]
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Controversy: Politics Of Technical Desisionsby Dorothy NelkinISBN 0803944667 (0-8039-4466-7)
Hardcover, Sage Pubns
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Current Trends in Psychology: Readings from American Scientistby William W. LowranceISBN 0913232300 (0-913232-30-0)
Hardcover, William Kaufmann
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Deep Change: Discovering the Leader Withinby Robert E. QuinnISBN 0787902446 (0-7879-0244-6)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculationby Edward ChancellorISBN 0452281806 (0-452-28180-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation'Book summary:"The longest bull market in history" is a term that gets used a lot these days. Since 1990, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has risen some 8,000 points, from around 2,700 in January 1990 to nearly 11,000 today--a boom by anyone's standards, including Edward Chancellor's. In Devil Take the Hindmost, Chancellor takes an entertaining, albeit sobering, look at the history of speculative manias and the mass delusion that surrounds them.
Beginning with the "tulipomania" that gripped Holland in the 1630s, Chancellor chronicles the formations and irrational euphoria that can inflate markets, from shares of South Sea stock in England in the 1720s to real estate in Japan in the late 1980s. He characterizes the speculative spirit as one that
loves freedom, detests cant, and abhors restrictions. From the tulip Colleges of the seventeenth century to the Internet investment clubs of the late twentieth century, speculation has established itself as the most demotic of economic activities. Although profoundly secular, speculation is not simply about greed. The essence of speculation remains a Utopian yearning for freedom and equality which counterbalances the drab rationalistic materialism of the modern economic system with its inevitable inequalities of wealth.
But it's precisely such inevitability that always seems to win out, when "sharply rising prices followed by sudden panic without cause" bring speculative excess to an abrupt end.Chancellor makes Devil Take the Hindmost especially relevant to today's U.S. investors by using his analysis of past speculative manias as a lens through which to view the current bull-market binge. No matter what his or her current investment outlook is--bull or bear--anyone with capital to invest would do well to spend a thoughtful weekend with this book. Highly recommended. --Harry C. Edwards [via]
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Ecology of Fear : Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disasterby Mike DavisISBN 0805051066 (0-8050-5106-6)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ecology of Fear : Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster'Book summary:The 1990s have not been kind to Los Angeles. As Mike Davis writes, "The destructive February 1992, January 1993, and January 1995 floods ($500 million in damage) were mere brackets around the April 1992 insurrection ($1 billion), the October-November 1993 firestorms ($1 billion) and the January 1994 earthquake ($42 billion)." But, he argues, the increasing fear about nature's reign of terror in Southern California reflected in Hollywood's preoccupation with apocalypse--L.A. has been destroyed on screen by everything from lava (Volcano) to nukes (Miracle Mile) to alien death rays (Independence Day)--is in reality a strong case of denial. Again, Davis himself says it best: "For generations, market-driven urbanization has transgressed environmental common sense. Historic wildfire corridors have been turned into view-lot suburbs, wetland liquefaction zones into marinas, and floodplains into industrial districts and housing tracts. Monolithic public works have been substituted for regional planning and a responsible land ethic. As a result, Southern California has reaped flood, fire, and earthquake tragedies that were as avoidable, as unnatural, as the beating of Rodney King and the ensuing explosion in the streets."
As in City of Quartz, his earlier book about Los Angeles, Davis reveals the deeper ideological narratives behind historical events. Whether he's explaining the motivations behind the persistent refusal of civic leaders to admit that a tornado alley runs down the middle of the region, from Long Beach to Pasadena, or discussing, as one chapter refers to it, "the case for letting Malibu burn," he outlines his arguments with a fascinating amount of detail and a subtle sense of irony. There are wonderful chapters here, such as "Maneaters of the Sierra Madre," a zoology of the wild beasts Angelenos fear, including mountain lions that descend from the hills to eat joggers and small children, swarms of Africanized killer bees making their way across the deserts, and El Chupacabra, the "goat-sucking vampire" that joined L.A.'s roster of faddish icons in 1996.
Although this book is specifically about Los Angeles, its lessons about the relationship between urban developments and natural ecosystems and about the dangerous influence of class politics on environmental safety policy are applicable to any city. Anyone with a serious interest in natural history or urban policy should make a point of reading this book. --Ron Hogan [via]
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The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinctionby John LeslieISBN 0415184479 (0-415-18447-9)
Softcover, Routledge
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Enterprise Risk Management: From Incentives to Controlsby James LamISBN 0471430005 (0-471-43000-5)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Epidemology + Student Consult Online Accessby Leon GordisISBN 1416025308 (1-4160-2530-8)
Softcover, W B Saunders Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Epidemology + Student Consult Online Access'Book summary:This popular book applies the author's many years of clinical and teaching experience to make the principles and methods of epidemiology easy to understand and enjoyable to read about. A clear, concise writing style and just the right dose of humor explain the role of epidemiology in measuring disease in a community, estimating risks, and influencing public policy and ethical concerns. Line diagrams, cartoons, and review questions with answers reinforce the text.the smart way to study!elsevier titles with student consult will help you master difficult concepts and study more efficiently in print and online! perform rapid searches. Integrate bonus content from other disciplines. Download text to your handheld device. And a lot more. Each student consult title comes with full text online, a unique image library, case studies, usmle style questions, and online note-taking to enhance your learning experience.your purchase of this book entitles you to access www.studentconsult.com at no extra charge. This innovative web site offers you...access to the complete text and illustrations of this book.integration links to bonus content in other student consult titles.content clipping for your handheld.an interactive community center with a wealth of additional resources.the more student consult titles you buy, the more resources you can access online!look for the student consult logo on your favorite elsevier textbooks [via]
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Everyday Irrationality: How Pseudo-Scientists, Lunatics, and the Rest of Us Systematically Fail to Think Rationallyby Robyn DawesISBN 0813340268 (0-8133-4026-8)
Softcover, Westview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Everyday Irrationality: How Pseudo-Scientists, Lunatics, and the Rest of Us Systematically Fail to Think Rationally'Book summary:Robyn Dawes defines irrationality as adhering to beliefs that are inherently self-contradictory, not just incorrect, self-defeating, or the basis of poor decisions. Such beliefs are unfortunately common. Witness two examples: the belief that child sexual abuse can be diagnosed by observing symptoms typically resulting from such abuse, rather than symptoms that differentiate between abused and non-abused children; and the belief that a physical or personal disaster can be understood by studying it alone in-depth rather than by comparing the situation in which it occurred to similar situations where nothing bad happened. This book first demonstrates how such irrationality results from ignoring obvious comparisons. Such neglect is traced to associational and story-based thinking, while true rational judgment requires comparative thinking. Strong emotion--or even insanity--is one reason for making automatic associations without comparison, but as the author demonstrates, a lot of everyday judgment, unsupported professional claims, and even social policy is based on the same kind of irrationality.[via]More editions of Everyday Irrationality: How Pseudo-Scientists, Lunatics, and the Rest of Us Systematically Fail to Think Rationally:
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Extreme Value Distributions: Theory and Applicationsby Samuel Kotz, Saralees NadarajahISBN 1860942245 (1-86094-224-5)
Hardcover, World Scientific Pub Co Inc
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Fear: A Cultural Historyby Joanna BourkeISBN 1593761546 (1-59376-154-6)
Softcover, Shoemaker & Hoard
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fear: A Cultural History'Book summary:Fear the word, itself, conjures the appropriate response. With a dark cacophony of associations like fright, dread, horror, panic, alarm, anxiety, and terror, fear is universally understood as one of the most basic and powerful of human emotions, obtaining a nearly palpable and overwhelming substance in today's world.[via]
In this groundbreaking book, acclaimed historian and prize-winning author Joanna Bourke covers the landscape of fear over the past two hundred years: From the nineteenth century dread of being buried alive a subject dear to the heart of Edgar Allen Poe to the current worry over being able to die when one chooses; from the diagnoses of phobias and anxieties produced by psychotherapists and lovingly catalogued, to the role of popular culture and media in inciting panic and dread; from the horrors of the nuclear age to the fear of twenty-first century terrorism, Fear tells the story of anguish in modern times.
A blend of social and cultural history with psychology, philosophy, and popular science, this astonishing book exhaustively researched and beautifully written offers strikingly original insights into the mind and worldview of the long twentieth century from one of the most brilliant scholars of our time.More editions of Fear: A Cultural History:
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Financial Risk in Insuranceby Afir International Colloquium 1993 Rome, Italy), G. OttavianiISBN 3540661433 (3-540-66143-3)
Softcover, Springer Verlag
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Financial Risk in Insurance'Book summary:Published with the contribution of the Italian insurance company, INA, this volume contains the invited contributions presented at the 3rd International AFIR Colloquium. In the spirit of actuarial tradition, the colloquium paid attention to the link between the theoretical approach and the operative problems of financial markets and institutions, and insurance companies in particular. The book is thus an important reference work for students and researchers of actuarial sciences and finance, and is also recommended to practitioners with theoretical interests. [via]
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Fooled by Randomness Revision: The Hidden Role of Chance in the Markets and Lifeby Nassim Nicholas TalebISBN 1587991845 (1-58799-184-5)
Softcover, Cengage Learning College
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fooled by Randomness Revision: The Hidden Role of Chance in the Markets and Life'Book summary:If the prescriptions for getting rich that are outlined in books such as The Millionaire Next Door and Rich Dad Poor Dad are successful enough to make the books bestsellers, then one must ask, Why aren't there more millionaires? In Fooled by Randomness, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a professional trader and mathematics professor, examines what randomness means in business and in life and why human beings are so prone to mistake dumb luck for consummate skill. This eccentric and highly personal exploration of the nature of randomness meanders from the court of Croesus and trading rooms in New York and London to Russian roulette, Monte Carlo engines, and the philosophy of Karl Popper. Part of what makes this book so good is Taleb's ability to make seemingly arcane mathematical concepts (at least to this reviewer) entirely relevant in evaluating and understanding everything from the stock market to the success of those millionaires cited in the aforementioned bestsellers. Here's an articulate, wise, and humorous meditation on the nature of success and failure that anyone who wants a little more of the former would do well to consider. Highly recommended. --Harry C. Edwards [via]
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Fooled By Randomness: The Hidden Role Of Chance In Life And In The Marketsby Nassim TalebISBN 158799190X (1-58799-190-X)
Hardcover, Cengage Learning College
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets'Book summary:If the prescriptions for getting rich that are outlined in books such as The Millionaire Next Door and Rich Dad Poor Dad are successful enough to make the books bestsellers, then one must ask, Why aren't there more millionaires? In Fooled by Randomness, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a professional trader and mathematics professor, examines what randomness means in business and in life and why human beings are so prone to mistake dumb luck for consummate skill. This eccentric and highly personal exploration of the nature of randomness meanders from the court of Croesus and trading rooms in New York and London to Russian roulette, Monte Carlo engines, and the philosophy of Karl Popper. Part of what makes this book so good is Taleb's ability to make seemingly arcane mathematical concepts (at least to this reviewer) entirely relevant in evaluating and understanding everything from the stock market to the success of those millionaires cited in the aforementioned bestsellers. Here's an articulate, wise, and humorous meditation on the nature of success and failure that anyone who wants a little more of the former would do well to consider. Highly recommended. --Harry C. Edwards [via]
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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in the Markets and in Lifeby Nassim TalebISBN 1587990717 (1-58799-071-7)
Hardcover, Texere
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in the Markets and in Life'Book summary:If the prescriptions for getting rich that are outlined in books such as The Millionaire Next Door and Rich Dad Poor Dad are successful enough to make the books bestsellers, then one must ask, Why aren't there more millionaires? In Fooled by Randomness, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a professional trader and mathematics professor, examines what randomness means in business and in life and why human beings are so prone to mistake dumb luck for consummate skill. This eccentric and highly personal exploration of the nature of randomness meanders from the court of Croesus and trading rooms in New York and London to Russian roulette, Monte Carlo engines, and the philosophy of Karl Popper. Part of what makes this book so good is Taleb's ability to make seemingly arcane mathematical concepts (at least to this reviewer) entirely relevant in evaluating and understanding everything from the stock market to the success of those millionaires cited in the aforementioned bestsellers. Here's an articulate, wise, and humorous meditation on the nature of success and failure that anyone who wants a little more of the former would do well to consider. Highly recommended. --Harry C. Edwards [via]
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Foundations of the Economic Approach to Lawby Avery Wiener KatzISBN 1566629934 (1-56662-993-4)
Softcover, West Group
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Global Finance at Risk: The Case for International Regulationby John Eatwell, Lance TaylorISBN 1565845633 (1-56584-563-3)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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High and Mighty: Suvs--The World's Most Dangerous Vehicles and How They Got That Wayby Keith BradsherISBN 1586481231 (1-58648-123-1)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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How Institutions Thinkby Mary DouglasISBN 0815602065 (0-8156-0206-5)
Softcover, Syracuse Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How Institutions Think'Book summary:First published in 1986 Mary Douglas theory of institutions uses the sociological theories of Emile Durkheim and Ludwig Fleck to determine not only how institutions think, but also the extent to which thinking itself is dependent upon institutions. Different kinds of institutions allow individuals to think different kinds of thoughts and to respond to different emotions. It is just as difficult to explain how individuals come to share the categories of their thought as to explain how they ever manage to sink their private interests for a common good.
Douglas forewarns us that institutions do not think independently, nor do they have purposes, nor do they build themselves. As we construct our institutions, we are squeezing each others ideas into a common shape in order to prove their legitimacy by sheer numbers. She admonishes us not to take comfort in the thought that primitives may think through institutions, but moderns decide on important issues individually. Our legitimated institutions make major decisions, and these decisions always involve ethical principles.
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In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washingtonby Jacob Weisberg, Robert RubinISBN 0375757309 (0-375-75730-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington'Book summary:Robert Rubin was sworn in as the seventieth U.S. Secretary of the Treasury in January 1995 in a brisk ceremony attended only by his wife and a few colleagues. As soon as the ceremony was over, he began an emergency meeting with President Bill Clinton on the financial crisis in Mexico. This was not only a harbinger of things to come during what would prove to be a rocky period in the global economy; it also captured the essence of Rubin himself--short on formality, quick to get into the nitty-gritty.
From his early years in the storied arbitrage department at Goldman Sachs to his current position as chairman of the executive committee of Citigroup, Robert Rubin has been a major figure at the center of the American financial system. He was a key player in the longest economic expansion in U.S. history. With In an Uncertain World, Rubin offers a shrewd, keen analysis of some of the most important events in recent American history and presents a clear, consistent approach to thinking about markets and dealing with the new risks of the global economy.
Rubin's fundamental philosophy is that nothing is provably certain. Probabilistic thinking has guided his career in both business and government. We see that discipline at work in meetings with President Clinton and Hillary Clinton, Chinese premier Zhu Rongji, Alan Greenspan, Lawrence Summers, Newt Gingrich, Sanford Weill, and the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan. We see Rubin apply it time and again while facing financial crises in Asia, Russia, and Brazil; the federal government shutdown; the rise and fall of the stock market; the challenges of the post-September 11 world; the ongoing struggle over fiscal policy; and many other momentous economic and political events.
With a compelling and candid voice and a sharp eye for detail, Rubin portrays the daily life of the White House-confronting matters both mighty and mundane--as astutely as he examines the challenges that lie ahead for the nation. Part political memoir, part prescriptive economic analysis, and part personal look at business problems, In an Uncertain World is a deep examination of Washington and Wall Street by a figure who for three decades has been at the center of both worlds.
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In an Uncertain World : Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washingtonby Robert Rubin, Jacob WeisbergISBN 0375505857 (0-375-50585-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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From his early years in the storied arbitrage department at Goldman Sachs to his current position as chairman of the executive committee of Citigroup, Robert Rubin has been a major figure at the center of the American financial system. He was a key player in the longest economic expansion in U.S. history. With In an Uncertain World, Rubin offers a shrewd, keen analysis of some of the most important events in recent American history and presents a clear, consistent approach to thinking about markets and dealing with the new risks of the global economy.
Rubin's fundamental philosophy is that nothing is provably certain. Probabilistic thinking has guided his career in both business and government. We see that discipline at work in meetings with President Clinton and Hillary Clinton, Chinese premier Zhu Rongji, Alan Greenspan, Lawrence Summers, Newt Gingrich, Sanford Weill, and the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan. We see Rubin apply it time and again while facing financial crises in Asia, Russia, and Brazil; the federal government shutdown; the rise and fall of the stock market; the challenges of the post-September 11 world; the ongoing struggle over fiscal policy; and many other momentous economic and political events.
With a compelling and candid voice and a sharp eye for detail, Rubin portrays the daily life of the White House-confronting matters both mighty and mundane--as astutely as he examines the challenges that lie ahead for the nation. Part political memoir, part prescriptive economic analysis, and part personal look at business problems, In an Uncertain World is a deep examination of Washington and Wall Street by a figure who for three decades has been at the center of both worlds. [via]More editions of In an Uncertain World : Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington:
Infectious Greed: How Deceit and Risk Corrupted the Financial Marketsby Frank PartnoyISBN 0805075100 (0-8050-7510-0)
Softcover, Owl Books
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Innumeracyby John Allen PaulosISBN 0809058405 (0-8090-5840-5)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Innumeracy'Book summary:This is the book that made "innumeracy" a household word, at least in some households. Paulos admits that "at least part of the motivation for any book is anger, and this book is no exception. I'm distressed by a society which depends so completely on mathematics and science and yet seems to indifferent to the innumeracy and scientific illiteracy of so many of its citizens."
But that is not all that drives him. The difference between our pretensions and reality is absurd and humorous, and the numerate can see this better than those who don't speak math. "I think there's something of the divine in these feelings of our absurdity, and they should be cherished, not avoided."
Paulos is not entirely successful at balancing anger and absurdity, but he tries. His diatribes against astrology, bad math education, Freud, and willful ignorance are leavened with jokes, mathematical or the sort (he claims) favored by the numerate.
It remains to be seen if Innumeracy will indeed be able, as Hofstadter hoped, to "help launch a revolution in math education that would do for innumeracy what Sabin and Salk did for polio"--but many of the improvements Paulos suggested have come to pass within 10 years. Only time will tell if the generation raised on these new principles is more resistant to innumeracy--and need only worry about being incomputable. --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
Insurance Law and Regulation: Cases and Materialsby Kenneth S. AbrahamISBN 1566628989 (1-56662-898-9)
Hardcover, West Group
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Introduction to Mathematical Finance: Discrete Time Modelsby Stanley R. PliskaISBN 1557869456 (1-55786-945-6)
Hardcover, Blackwell Pub
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Irrational Exuberanceby Robert J. ShillerISBN 0767907183 (0-7679-0718-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Irrational Exuberance'Book summary:CNBC, day trading, the Motley Fool, Silicon Investor--not since the 1920s has there been such an intense fascination with the U.S. stock market. For an increasing number of Americans, logging on to Yahoo! Finance is a habit more precious than that morning cup of joe (as thousands of SBUX and YHOO shareholders know too well). Yet while the market continues to go higher, many of us can't get Alan Greenspan's famous line out of our heads. In Irrational Exuberance, Yale economics professor Robert J. Shiller examines this public fascination with stocks and sees a combination of factors that have driven stocks higher, including the rise of the Internet, 401(k) plans, increased coverage by the popular media of financial news, overly optimistic cheerleading by analysts and other pundits, the decline of inflation, and the rise of the mutual fund industry. He writes: "Perceived long-term risk is down.... Emotions and heightened attention to the market create a desire to get into the game. Such is irrational exuberance today in the United States."
By history's yardstick, Shiller believes this market is grossly overvalued, and the factors that have conspired to create and amplify this event--the baby-boom effect, the public infatuation with the Internet, and media interest--will most certainly abate. He fears that too many individuals and institutions have come to view stocks as their only investment vehicle, and that investors should consider looking beyond stocks as a way to diversify and hedge against the inevitable downturn. This is a serious and well-researched book that should read like a Stephen King novel to anyone who has staked his or her future on the market's continued success. --Harry C. Edwards [via]
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Land of Volcanic Ash: A Play in Two Partsby David G. Goodman, Kubo SakaeISBN 0939657406 (0-939657-40-6)
Softcover, Cornell Univ East Asia Program
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Low Risk, High Reward: Practical Prescriptions for Starting and Growing Your Businessby Jeffrey L. Cruikshank, Howard H. Stevenson, Bob ReissISBN 0971384800 (0-9713848-0-0)
Softcover, R & R
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Macro Markets: Creating Institutions for Managing Society's Largest Economic Risksby Robert J. ShillerISBN 0198294182 (0-19-829418-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Mathematical Finance and Probability: A Discrete Introductionby P. Koch Medina, Sandro MerinoISBN 3764369213 (3-7643-6921-3)
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Mathematical Methods in Risk Theoryby H. BuhlmannISBN 3540617035 (3-540-61703-5)
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A Mathematician Plays the Stock Marketby John Allen PaulosISBN 0465054811 (0-465-05481-1)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Mega-Projects: The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investmentby Alan A. Altshuler, David E. Luberoff, Lincoln Institute of Land PolicyISBN 0815701292 (0-8157-0129-2)
Softcover, Brookings Inst Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mega-Projects: The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investment'Book summary:Since the demise of urban renewal in the early 1970s, the politics of large-scale public investment in and around major American cities has received little scholarly attention. In MEGA-PROJECTS, Alan Altshuler and David Luberoff analyze the unprecedented wave of large-scale (mega-) public investments that occurred in American cities during the 1950s and 1960s; the social upheavals they triggered, which derailed large numbers of projects during the late 1960s and early 1970s; and the political impulses that have shaped a new generation of urban mega-projects in the decades since. They also appraise the most important consequences of policy shifts over this half-century and draw out common themes from the rich variety of programmatic and project developments that they chronicle. The authors integrate narratives of national as well as state and local policymaking, and of mobilization by (mainly local) project advocates, with a profound examination of how well leading theories of urban politics explain the observed realities. The specific cases they analyze include a wide mix of transportation and downtown revitalization projects, drawn from numerous regions --most notably Boston, Denver, Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Portland, and Seattle. While their original research focuses on highway, airport, and rail transit programs and projects, they draw as well on the work of others to analyze the politics of public investment in urban renewal, downtown retailing, convention centers, and professional sports facilities. In comparing their findings with leading theories of urban and American politics, Altshuler and Luberoff arrive at some surprising findings about which perform best and also reveal some important gaps in the literature as a whole. In a concluding chapter, they examine the potential effects of new fiscal pressures, business mobilization to relax environmental constraints, and security concerns in the wake of September 11. And they make clear their own views about how best to achieve a balance between developmental, environmental, and democratic values in public investment decisionmaking. Integrating fifty years of urban development history with leading theories of urban and American politics, MEGA-PROJECTS provides significant new insights into urban and intergovernmental politics. [via]
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The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin, and Rewardby Benoit Mandelbrot, Richard L. HudsonISBN 0465043577 (0-465-04357-7)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Gameby Michael LewisISBN 078625968X (0-7862-5968-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Moral Panic: Biopolitics Risingby John Fekete, John FetekeISBN 1895854091 (1-895854-09-1)
Softcover, Studio 9 Books
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The New Financial Order: Risk In The 21st Centuryby Robert ShillerISBN 0691120110 (0-691-12011-0)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Normal Accidents: Living With High-Risk Technologiesby Charles PerrowISBN 0691004129 (0-691-00412-9)
Softcover, Princeton University Press
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Operational Resiliance: The Art of Risk Managementby Mike Brookbanks, Tony Gandy, Pierre PouqueryISBN 0852976917 (0-85297-691-7)
Hardcover, Stylus Pub Llc
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Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic Worldby Kevin KellyISBN 0201483408 (0-201-48340-8)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Out of Control: The Rise of Neo-Biological Civilizationby Kevin KellyISBN 0201577933 (0-201-57793-3)
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The Politics of Risk Societyby Institute for Public Policy Research (London, England), Jane FranklinISBN 0745619258 (0-7456-1925-8)
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The Politics of Uncertainty : Attachment in Private and Public Lifeby Peter MarrisISBN 0415131723 (0-415-13172-3)
Softcover, Routledge, Chapman & Hall, Incorporated
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Purity and Dangerby Mary DouglasISBN 0415066085 (0-415-06608-5)
Softcover, Routledge
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Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concept of Pollution and Tabooby Mary DouglasISBN 0415289955 (0-415-28995-5)
Softcover, Routledge
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Reflexive Modernization: Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Orderby Anthony Giddens, Scott Lash, Ulrich BeckISBN 0804724725 (0-8047-2472-5)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Riskby Deborah LuptonISBN 0415183340 (0-415-18334-0)
Softcover, Routledge
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Risk: The New Management Imperative in Financeby James T. GleasonISBN 1576600742 (1-57660-074-2)
Hardcover, Ingram Pub Services
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Riskby John AdamsISBN 1857280687 (1-85728-068-7)
Softcover, Ucl Pr Ltd
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Risk and Everyday Lifeby Deborah LuptonISBN 0761947590 (0-7619-4759-0)
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Risk Intelligence: Learning to Manage What We Don't Knowby David ApgarISBN 1591399548 (1-59139-954-8)
Hardcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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Risk Management: Concepts and Guidanceby Carl L. PritchardISBN 1890367303 (1-890367-30-3)
Softcover, E S I Intl
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Risk Society: Towards a New Modernityby Ulrich Beck, Mark RitterISBN 0803983468 (0-8039-8346-8)
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Risk Taking and Decisionmaking: Foreign Military Intervention Decisionsby Yaacov VertzbergerISBN 0804731683 (0-8047-3168-3)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Risk, Environment and Modernity: Towards a New Ecologyby Scott Lash, Brian Wynne, Bronislaw SzerszynskiISBN 080397938X (0-8039-7938-X)
Softcover, Sage Pubns
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Risk, Uncertainty and Profitby Frank Hyneman KnightISBN 1596052422 (1-59605-242-2)
Softcover, Cosimo Inc
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Risk, Uncertainty and Profitby Frank H. KnightISBN 1602060053 (1-60206-005-3)
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Runaway World: How Globalization Is Reshaping Our Livesby Anthony GiddensISBN 0415944872 (0-415-94487-2)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Runaway World: How Globalisation Is Reshaping Our Lives'Book summary:As director of the London School of Economics, Anthony Giddens is one of the world's foremost academics. He has served as an advisor to both President Bill Clinton and Prime Minister Tony Blair, and is closely tied to the center-left idea of "third-way" politics. In this brief book on globalization (drawn from a series of lectures delivered in 1999), Giddens writes, "We are living through a major period of historical transition." Globalization is reordering societies all over the planet, and although the results are sometimes unpredictable, they are heading in a generally positive direction. But not everybody agrees, as the author freely admits:
The battleground of the twenty-first century will pit fundamentalism against cosmopolitan tolerance. In a globalising world, where information and images are routinely transmitted across the globe, we are all regularly in contact with others who think differently, and live differently, from ourselves. Cosmopolitans welcome and embrace this cultural complexity. Fundamentalists find it disturbing and dangerous. Whether in the areas of religion, ethnic identity, or nationalism, they take refuge in a renewed and purified tradition--and, quite often, violence.
Giddens is not coy about where he stands: "We can legitimately hope that a cosmopolitan outlook will win out." In what is sure to be a controversial chapter, he examines sex and family life through the prism of this fundamentalist-cosmopolitan divide. He is severely critical of what he calls the "traditional family," which he considers an aspect of fundamentalism the world over and an enemy of sexual equality: "I remember what my great aunt once said to me. She must have had one of the longest marriages of anyone, having been with her husband for over 60 years. She once confided that she had been deeply unhappy with him the whole of that time. In her day there was no escape." Runaway World is certain to provoke a lively debate--Giddens would surely have it no other way. --John J. Miller [via]More editions of Runaway World: How Globalization Is Reshaping Our Lives:
Software Reliabilityby Hoang PhamISBN 9813083840 (981-3083-84-0)
Hardcover, Springer Verlag
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Talentby Tom PetersISBN 0756610567 (0-7566-1056-7)
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To Beirut And Back: An American in the Middle Eastby Abe F. MarchISBN 1424138531 (1-4241-3853-1)
Softcover, Publishamerica Inc
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True Odds: How Risk Affects Your Everyday Lifeby James WalshISBN 1563431149 (1-56343-114-9)
Softcover, Silver Lake
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Understanding Insurance Lawby Robert H. JerryISBN 0820524670 (0-8205-2467-0)
Softcover, Lexis Nexis Matthew Bender
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The premise of this book's organization is that insurance law is best understood if its legal principles are arranged according to the various stages in the life of a contract. Part A considers the question "what is insurance law." Part B considers issues germane to the establishment of the contractual relationship between insurer and insured. Part C considers issues relevant to the performance of contractual obligations. Finally, Part D examines a few topics that defy easy categorization, including special problems in group insurance, special issues in automobile insurance, and issues in reinsurance. [via]
Value at Risk: The New Benchmark for Controlling Market Riskby Philippe JorionISBN 0786308486 (0-7863-0848-6)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Managementby Roger LowensteinISBN 0375758259 (0-375-75825-9)
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Lowenstein, a financial journalist and author of Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist, examines the personalities, academic experts, and professional relationships at LTCM and uncovers the layers of numbers behind its roller-coaster ride with the precision of a skilled surgeon. The fund's enigmatic founder, John Meriwether, spent almost 20 years at Salomon Brothers, where he formed its renowned Arbitrage Group by hiring academia's top financial economists. Though Meriwether left Salomon under a cloud of the SEC's wrath, he leapt into his next venture with ease and enticed most of his former Salomon hires--and eventually even David Mullins, the former vice chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve--to join him in starting a hedge fund that would beat all hedge funds.
LTCM began trading in 1994, after completing a road show that, despite the Ph.D.-touting partners' lack of social skills and their disdainful condescension of potential investors who couldn't rise to their intellectual level, netted a whopping $1.25 billion. The fund would seek to earn a tiny spread on thousands of trades, "as if it were vacuuming nickels that others couldn't see," in the words of one of its Nobel laureate partners, Myron Scholes. And nickels it found. In its first two years, LTCM earned $1.6 billion, profits that exceeded 40 percent even after the partners' hefty cuts. By the spring of 1996, it was holding $140 billion in assets. But the end was soon in sight, and Lowenstein's detailed account of each successively worse month of 1998, culminating in a disastrous August and the partners' subsequent panicked moves, is riveting.
The arbitrageur's world is a complicated one, and it might have served Lowenstein well to slow down and explain in greater detail the complex terms of the more exotic species of investment flora that cram the book's pages. However, much of the intrigue of the Long-Term story lies in its dizzying pace (not to mention the dizzying amounts of money won and lost in the fund's short lifespan). Lowenstein's smooth, conversational but equally urgent tone carries it along well. The book is a compelling read for those who've always wondered what lay behind the Fed's controversial involvement with the LTCM hedge-fund debacle. --S. Ketchum [via]
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The Zen of Gambling: The Ultimate Guide to Risking It All and Winning at Lifeby Paul Pease, Wayne Allyn RootISBN 1585424021 (1-58542-402-1)
Hardcover, J P Tarcher
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"Risk is what separates life's winners from losers-the survivors from the thrivers! Success all comes down to a series of gambles: your ability to make positive choices at pivotal moments and to thrive on challenge and high levels of stress. Sending out a resume; going on a job interview; asking that stranger on a date; the courage to pick up the phone and make a call that could change your life for the better-all of life's big decisions and defining moments require a talent for (and a willingness to) risk".
Turning popular conceptions of the chain-smoking, overweight, "down and out" Casino denizen on their head, Root shows readers how to cultivate tranquility in the face of the stressful, life-defining moments and to bring a Zen consciousness to taking risks. Presenting a unique Contrarian approach to gambling that involves never following the masses and always taking the lead in life, Wayne Allyn Root shows readers how to successfully navigate the many gambles in life. [via]More editions of The Zen of Gambling: The Ultimate Guide to Risking It All and Winning at Life:
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Aleatoriedadby Debora J. BennettISBN 8420657565 (84-206-5756-5)
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