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Chance and Consequence

Author : Sylvia Smoller
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532057407
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Chance and Consequence written by Sylvia Smoller and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-10-19 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How much of our lives are determined by coincidences, how much by the choices we make? And how do those choices reverberate through time to affect those we love? This sweeping, historically accurate novel tells the story of people caught in the momentous upheavals of World War II, their destinies driven by chance, by the force of their characters and by the courage of a Japanese diplomat. Set in the period from 1918 to 1945, the story explores the impact of historical and political events on individual lives, on friendship, family ties and love. Against the backdrop of Poland, London, Moscow, Japan and America, consumed by her opposing desires — to be independent yet be taken care of - Rachel, the central character, must hold love in the balance and find her own answer to Freud’s famous question: What do women want?

Chance and Consequence: A Historical Novel of Life, Love, and WWII

Author : Sylvia Smoller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781532057397
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (573 download)

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Download or read book Chance and Consequence: A Historical Novel of Life, Love, and WWII written by Sylvia Smoller and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-19 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How much of our lives are determined by coincidences, how much by the choices we make? And how do those choices reverberate through time to affect those we love? This sweeping, historically accurate novel tells the story of people caught in the momentous upheavals of World War II, their destinies driven by chance, by the force of their characters and by the courage of a Japanese diplomat. Set in the period from 1918 to 1945, the story explores the impact of historical and political events on individual lives, on friendship, family ties and love. Against the backdrop of Poland, London, Moscow, Japan and America, consumed by her opposing desires -- to be independent yet be taken care of - Rachel, the central character, must hold love in the balance and find her own answer to Freud's famous question: What do women want?

Low-Probability High-Consequence Risk Analysis

Author : Ray Waller
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1475718187
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (757 download)

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Book Synopsis Low-Probability High-Consequence Risk Analysis by : Ray Waller

Download or read book Low-Probability High-Consequence Risk Analysis written by Ray Waller and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years public attention has focused on an array of low-probability/high-consequence (LC/HC) events that pose a signif icant threat to human health, safety, and the environment. At the same time, public and private sector responsibilities for the assessment and management of such events have grown because of a perceived need to anticipate, prevent, or reduce the risks. In attempting to meet these responsibilities, legislative, judicial, regulatory, and private sector institutions have had to deal with the extraordinarily complex problem of assessing and balancing LP/ HC risks against the costs and ben if its of risk reduction. The need to help society cope with LP/HC events such as nuclear power plant accidents, toxic spills, chemical plant explosions, and transportation accidents has given rise to the development of a new intellectual endeavor: LP/HC risk analysis. The scope and complexity of these analyses require a high degree of cooperative effort on the part of specialists from many f~elds. Analyzing technical, social, and value issues requires the efforts of physicists, biologists, geneticists, statisticians, chemists, engineers, political scientists, sociologists, decision analysts, management scientists, economists, psychologists, ethicists, lawyers, and policy analysts. Included in this volume are papers by authors in each of these disciplines. The papers share in common a focus on one or more of the following questions that are generic to the analysis of LP/HC risks.

Rachel and Aleks

Author : Sylvia Smoller
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9781462095766
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (957 download)

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Download or read book Rachel and Aleks written by Sylvia Smoller and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-10-17 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holding love in the balance is hard enough. What happens to the most profound relationships when historical events shatter the world and your place in it? This sweeping, historically-accurate novel tells the story of people caught in the momentous upheavals of World War II, their destinies driven by the force of their characters and the courage of a Japanese diplomat. Set in the period from 1918 to 1945, Rachel and Aleks juxtaposes the impact of historical and political events on individual lives, on friendship, family ties and love. Against the backdrop of London, Moscow, Japan and America, consumed by her opposing desires to be independent yet be taken care of by a man Rachel must find her own answer to Freuds famous question: What do women want?

Choice and Consequence

Author : Thomas C. Schelling
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674255976
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Choice and Consequence written by Thomas C. Schelling and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1985-10-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Schelling is a political economist “conspicuous for wandering”—an errant economist. In Choice and Consequence, he ventures into the area where rationality is ambiguous in order to look at the tricks people use to try to quit smoking or lose weight. He explores topics as awesome as nuclear terrorism, as sordid as blackmail, as ineffable as daydreaming, as intimidating as euthanasia. He examines ethical issues wrapped up in economics, unwrapping the economics to disclose ethical issues that are misplaced or misidentified. With an ingenious, often startling approach, Schelling brings new perspectives to problems ranging from drug abuse, abortion, and the value people put on their lives to organized crime, airplane hijacking, and automobile safety. One chapter is a clear and elegant exposition of game theory as a framework for analyzing social problems. Another plays with the hypothesis that our minds are not only our problem-solving equipment but also the organ in which much of our consumption takes place. What binds together the different subjects is the author’s belief in the possibility of simultaneously being humane and analytical, of dealing with both the momentous and the familiar. Choice and Consequence was written for the curious, the puzzled, the worried, and all those who appreciate intellectual adventure.

The Consequence of Chance

Author : R. A. Finley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733409100
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Consequence of Chance written by R. A. Finley and published by . This book was released on 2024-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chance, Love, and Logic

Author : Charles Sanders Peirce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Chance, Love, and Logic written by Charles Sanders Peirce and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Time and Chance

Author : David Z Albert
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674020138
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Time and Chance written by David Z Albert and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2003-02-28 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an attempt to get to the bottom of an acute and perennial tension between our best scientific pictures of the fundamental physical structure of the world and our everyday empirical experience of it. The trouble is about the direction of time. The situation (very briefly) is that it is a consequence of almost every one of those fundamental scientific pictures--and that it is at the same time radically at odds with our common sense--that whatever can happen can just as naturally happen backwards. Albert provides an unprecedentedly clear, lively, and systematic new account--in the context of a Newtonian-Mechanical picture of the world--of the ultimate origins of the statistical regularities we see around us, of the temporal irreversibility of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, of the asymmetries in our epistemic access to the past and the future, and of our conviction that by acting now we can affect the future but not the past. Then, in the final section of the book, he generalizes the Newtonian picture to the quantum-mechanical case and (most interestingly) suggests a very deep potential connection between the problem of the direction of time and the quantum-mechanical measurement problem. The book aims to be both an original contribution to the present scientific and philosophical understanding of these matters at the most advanced level, and something in the nature of an elementary textbook on the subject accessible to interested high-school students.

Consequence

Author : Robin Van Auken
Publisher : Madeline Sloane
ISBN 13 : 1452420742
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Consequence written by Robin Van Auken and published by Madeline Sloane. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Syndicated columnist Bridget Cormac has built a comfy lifestyle writing about history?s mysteries. When Police Chief Alec Boone drops a 50-year-old murder case in her lap, she?s eager to assist. Friendship kindles into a passionate affair, but their relationship is tested when the two professionals butt heads over the outcome of their findings. An ivory tower researcher, Bridget seeks fame. An honorable lawman, Boone seeks justice. When Boone uses her research to arrest the culprit, an abused woman who killed to protect her child, Bridget is filled with remorse. Can she live with the consequences of her ego-driven quest? Bridget may have to decide which is more important: Her new assignment or her new love.

Biostatistics and Epidemiology

Author : Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1475738870
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (757 download)

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Book Synopsis Biostatistics and Epidemiology by : Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller

Download or read book Biostatistics and Epidemiology written by Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biostatistics and Epidemiology/A Primer for Health Professionals offers practical guidelines and gives a concise framework for research and interpretation in the field. In addition to major sections covering statistics and epidemiology, the book includes a comprehensive exploration of scientific methodology, probability, and the clinical trial. The principles and methods described in this book are basic and apply to all medical subspecialties, psychology and education. The primer will be especially useful to public health officials and students looking for an understandable treatment of the subject.

Flood Risk Science and Management

Author : Gareth Pender
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 144434076X
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book Flood Risk Science and Management written by Gareth Pender and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaches to avoid loss of life and limit disruption and damage from flooding have changed significantly in recent years. Worldwide, there has been a move from a strategy of flood defence to one of flood risk management. Flood risk management includes flood prevention using hard defences, where appropriate, but also requires that society learns to live with floods and that stakeholders living in flood prone areas develop coping strategies to increase their resilience to flood impacts when these occur. This change in approach represents a paradigm shift which stems from the realisation that continuing to strengthen and extend conventional flood defences is unsustainable economically, environmentally, and in terms of social equity. Flood risk management recognises that a sustainable approach must rest on integrated measures that reduce not only the probability of flooding, but also the consequences. This is essential as increases in the probability of inundation are inevitable in many areas of the world due to climate change, while socio-economic development will lead to spiralling increases in the consequences of flooding unless land use in floodplains is carefully planned. Flood Risk Science and Management provides an extensive and comprehensive synthesis of current research in flood management; providing a multi-disciplinary reference text covering a wide range of flood management topics. Its targeted readership is the international research community (from research students through to senior staff) and flood management professionals, such as engineers, planners, government officials and those with flood management responsibility in the public sector. By using the concept of case study chapters, international coverage is given to the topic, ensuring a world-wide relevance.

Induction

Author : Alexander Bain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book Induction written by Alexander Bain and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chance Or Consequence

Author : Gabriel Bush
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781545019061
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Chance Or Consequence written by Gabriel Bush and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chance, a talented high school senior destined to be an NBA superstar, is left with some tough choices when his girlfriend, Naomi, announces that she is pregnant. Chance realizes quickly, that his life and his dreams of the NBA are being unhinged. After consulting with his parents, and other adults, his life is takes a dark turn after consulting with Naomi. His life is irreparably altered after a series of events leaves his world shattered. Lies, Betrayal, and Deceit all come together in a story that is sure to keep you enthralled from the time the first page is turned. Was it Chance or was it Consequence?

Real-Life Decision-Making

Author : Mats Danielson
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000936899
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Real-Life Decision-Making written by Mats Danielson and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-08-08 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever experienced a decision situation that was hard to come to grips with? Did you ever feel a need to improve your decision-making skills? Is this something where you feel that you have not learned enough practical and useful methods? In that case, you are not alone! Even though decision-making is both considered and actually is a very important skill in modern work-life as well as in private life, these skills are not to any reasonable extent taught in schools at any level. No wonder many people do indeed feel the need to improve but have a hard time finding out how. This book is an attempt to remedy this shortcoming of our educational systems and possibly also of our common, partly intuition-based, decision culture. Intuition is not at all bad, quite the contrary, but it has to co-exist with rationality. We will show you how. Methods for decision-making should be of prime concern to any individual or organisation, even if the decision processes are not always explicitly or even consciously formulated. All kinds of organisations, as well as individuals, must continuously make decisions of the most varied nature in order to prosper and attain their objectives. A large part of the time spent in any organisation, not least at management levels, is spent gathering, processing, and compiling information for the purpose of making decisions supported by that information. The same interest has hitherto not been shown for individual decision-making, even though large gains would also be obtained at a personal level if important personal decisions were better deliberated. This book aims at changing that and thus attends to both categories of decision-makers. This book will take you through a journey starting with some history of decision-making and analysis and then go through easy-to-learn ways of structuring decision information and methods for analysing the decision situations, beginning with simple decision situations and then moving on to progressively harder ones, but never losing sight of the overarching goal that the reader should be able to follow the progression and being able to carry out similar decision analyses in real-life situations. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Probability and Statistics

Author : Cain Mckay
Publisher : Scientific e-Resources
ISBN 13 : 1839473304
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Probability and Statistics written by Cain Mckay and published by Scientific e-Resources. This book was released on 2019-01-30 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Loglan 4

Author : James Cooke Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Loglan 4 written by James Cooke Brown and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Nuclear Lion

Author : John Jagger
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1489927840
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (899 download)

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Download or read book The Nuclear Lion written by John Jagger and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: . . . human kind cannot bear very much reality. T. S. ELIOT, Four Quartets When I was a little child, I lived in an old and somewhat rickety house by the sea. When the winter wind blew, the house would shake and tremble, and cold drafts would whistle through cracks in the walls. You might have thought that lying in bed in a dark room on such cold, windy nights would have frightened me. But it had just the opposite effect: having known this en vironment since birth, I actually found the shaking of the house, the whistling of the wind, and the crashing of the sea to be comforting, and I was lulled to sleep by these familiar sounds. They signaled to me that all was right with the world and that the forces of nature were operating in the normal way. But I did have a problem. On the dimly lit landing of the staircase leading up to my bedroom, there was a large and dark picture of a male lion, sitting as such lions do with his massive paws in front of him and his head erect, turned slightly to the right, and staring straight out at you with yellow blazing eyes. I had great difficulty getting past that lion. Someone would have to hold my hand and take me up to bed, past the dreaded picture.