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Download or read book The Death Bet written by A. K. Price and published by . This book was released on 2014-02-24 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Granite Mutual Life Insurance Company is involved in life settlements, a fast growing business in which the insurer buys large insurance policies with borrowed money and waits for people to die to collect the death benefits. When people don't die as quickly as anticipated, executives take matters into their own hands. By relieving elderly people of their suffering, allowing them to die earlier than they would otherwise, the executives are able to boost profits and prepare the company for an upcoming initial public offering. It is up to Blaine Stone, an ordinary analyst on the verge of retirement, to confront the individuals behind the suspicious deaths. After Blaine uncovers a twisted, unthinkable plot involving an ancient, secret society and pirate ghosts, he finds nobody believes him. The stakes could not be higher, and he is on his own, other than some help from a high-tech, rebel teenage girl.
Book Synopsis The Death Bet by : Debra Griffin Mitchell
Download or read book The Death Bet written by Debra Griffin Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 2009-07-14 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet by : Michael Meyer
Download or read book Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet written by Michael Meyer and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible story of Benjamin Franklin’s parting gift to the working-class people of Boston and Philadelphia—a deathbed wager that captures the Founder’s American Dream and his lessons for our current, conflicted age. Benjamin Franklin was not a gambling man. But at the end of his illustrious life, the Founder allowed himself a final wager on the survival of the United States: a gift of two thousand pounds to Boston and Philadelphia, to be lent out to tradesmen over the next two centuries to jump-start their careers. Each loan would be repaid with interest over ten years. If all went according to Franklin’s inventive scheme, the accrued final payout in 1991 would be a windfall. In Benjamin Franklin’s Last Bet, Michael Meyer traces the evolution of these twin funds as they age alongside America itself, bankrolling woodworkers and silversmiths, trade schools and space races. Over time, Franklin’s wager was misused, neglected, and contested—but never wholly extinguished. With charm and inquisitive flair, Meyer shows how Franklin’s stake in the “leather-apron” class remains in play to this day, and offers an inspiring blueprint for prosperity in our modern era of growing wealth disparity and social divisions.
Download or read book The Bet written by Anton Chekhov and published by . This book was released on 1958-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Deadly Bet written by Walter LaFeber and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lyndon Johnson made a life or death bet during his Presidential term, and lost. Intent upon fighting an extended war against a determined foe, he gambled that American society could also endure a vast array of domestic reforms. The result was the turmoil of the 1968 presidential election--a crisis more severe than any since the Civil War. With thousands killed in Vietnam, hundreds dead in civil rights riots, televised chaos at the Democratic National Convention, and two major assassinations, Americans responded by voting for the law and order message of Richard Nixon. In The Deadly Bet, distinguished historian Walter LaFeber explores the turbulent election of 1968 and its significance in the larger context of American history. Looking through the eyes of the year's most important players--including Robert F. Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy, Martin Luther King, Hubert Humphrey, Richard Nixon, George Wallace, Nguyen Van Thieu, and Lyndon Johnson--LaFeber argues that the domestic upheaval had more impact on the election than the war in Vietnam. Clear, concise, and engaging, this work sheds important light on the crucial year of 1968.
Download or read book Thinking in Bets written by Annie Duke and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Wall Street Journal bestseller, now in paperback. Poker champion turned decision strategist Annie Duke teaches you how to get comfortable with uncertainty and make better decisions. Even the best decision doesn't yield the best outcome every time. There's always an element of luck that you can't control, and there's always information hidden from view. So the key to long-term success (and avoiding worrying yourself to death) is to think in bets: How sure am I? What are the possible ways things could turn out? What decision has the highest odds of success? Did I land in the unlucky 10% on the strategy that works 90% of the time? Or is my success attributable to dumb luck rather than great decision making? Annie Duke, a former World Series of Poker champion turned consultant, draws on examples from business, sports, politics, and (of course) poker to share tools anyone can use to embrace uncertainty and make better decisions. For most people, it's difficult to say "I'm not sure" in a world that values and, even, rewards the appearance of certainty. But professional poker players are comfortable with the fact that great decisions don't always lead to great outcomes, and bad decisions don't always lead to bad outcomes. By shifting your thinking from a need for certainty to a goal of accurately assessing what you know and what you don't, you'll be less vulnerable to reactive emotions, knee-jerk biases, and destructive habits in your decision making. You'll become more confident, calm, compassionate, and successful in the long run.
Book Synopsis Don't Bet the Farm by : Liam O'Brien
Download or read book Don't Bet the Farm written by Liam O'Brien and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive reference book on betting and gambling on the market with over 1200 cross referenced entries. It explores the history, systems, theory, law, word origins and slang as well the scandals, scams and the huge array of unforgettable characters and audacious coups.
Book Synopsis The Alef-Bet of Death Dying as a Jew: A Guide for the Dying out of Jewish Traditional Sources by : Rabbi Ariel Stone
Download or read book The Alef-Bet of Death Dying as a Jew: A Guide for the Dying out of Jewish Traditional Sources written by Rabbi Ariel Stone and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Murder, She Wrote: You Bet Your Life by : Jessica Fletcher
Download or read book Murder, She Wrote: You Bet Your Life written by Jessica Fletcher and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A SETUP IN SIN CITY When her old friend Martha decided to get married in Las Vegas, Jessica Fletcher made the trip to watch her walk down the aisle. But what were the odds that she’d be back two years later—to watch Martha stand accused of her husband’s murder? Jessica’s never been one to gamble, but she’s willing to bet that Martha isn’t guilty. Martha’s husband was a high-rolling Las Vegas local with three ex-wives and plenty of jealous acquaintances. After joining Martha’s defense team, Jessica combs through the man’s past to find the real killer. But as the media attention grows—and Jessica is interviewed by the news anchors of Court TV—the stakes are raised, and Jessica learns how to play for keeps.
Download or read book Bet on Beers written by P. M. Larose and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh off a successful conclusion to a perplexing case at the home store in Minneapolis, Jim Biersovich is dispatched to Las Vegas to look into thefts at the La Scala casino store. The disappearance of an invaluable jade bathtub seems impossible until Beers and his amateur sleuth assistants begin to piece together the clues. This time, there's murder as a component, and survival in the gambling capital of the world is never a sure bet.
Book Synopsis The Revised Reports by : Frederick Pollock
Download or read book The Revised Reports written by Frederick Pollock and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Odds written by Chad Millman and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-03-05 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One gambler is a manic former cokehead with an Ivy League degree. The second is a college dropout trying to make a living at the only thing he enjoyed at school -- gambling. The third, one of Vegas's most respected bookmakers, is perilously close to burning out. The Odds follows the lives of these three professional gamblers through a college basketball season in a one-of-a-kind city struggling to reconcile its lawless past with its family-friendly makeover. With a wiseguy attitude and a faultless eye and ear for the sights and sounds of Vegas and its denizens, Chad Millman has created a portrait that the Wall Street Journal called "fascinating. . . often screamingly funny." The Las Vegas Review-Journal had just one word for the book: "Superb."
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Book Synopsis You Bet Your Life by : Paul A. Offit
Download or read book You Bet Your Life written by Paul A. Offit and published by . This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of America's top physicians, a "riveting," "fascinating," and "timely" (Nature) history of risk in medicine Every medical decision--whether to have chemotherapy, an X-ray, or surgery--is a risk, no matter which way you choose. In You Bet Your Life, physician Paul A. Offit argues that, from the first blood transfusions four hundred years ago to the hunt for a COVID-19 vaccine, risk has been essential to the discovery of new treatments. More importantly, understanding the risks is crucial to whether, as a society or as individuals, we accept them. Told in Offit's vigorous and rigorous style, You Bet Your Life is an entertaining history of medicine. But it also lays bare the tortured relationships between intellectual breakthroughs, political realities, and human foibles. As we have learned from the COVID pandemic--the debates over lockdowns, masks, and vaccines--it's all too easy to get everything wrong. Updated with a new introduction, You Bet Your Life is an essential read for getting the future a bit more right.
Download or read book The Perfect Bet written by Adam Kucharski and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An elegant and amusing account" of how gambling has been reshaped by the application of science and revealed the truth behind a lucky bet (Wall Street Journal). For the past 500 years, gamblers-led by mathematicians and scientists-have been trying to figure out how to pull the rug out from under Lady Luck. In The Perfect Bet, mathematician and award-winning writer Adam Kucharski tells the astonishing story of how the experts have succeeded, revolutionizing mathematics and science in the process. The house can seem unbeatable. Kucharski shows us just why it isn't. Even better, he demonstrates how the search for the perfect bet has been crucial for the scientific pursuit of a better world.
Download or read book Game Bet written by Richard Forrest and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping political thriller about a presidential assassination and the unlikely hero who holds the fate of the free world in his hands. He’s the finest shooter in the world, and in a few minutes, he’ll have an open shot at the president of the United States. He cuts a hole in the glass, assembles his rifle, and finds his target. Five days earlier, Cory Williams made a bet that could save his life or get him shot to pieces. Deep in debt to his bookie, he wagered $10,000 on a single crazy notion: that he could shoot the president right between the eyes. Of course, he doesn’t actually plan on doing it—he’ll win the money simply for sneaking the rifle through the herd of secret service agents, setting it up, and taking a picture through the scope. If anybody sees him carrying the gun, he’ll be shot on sight. If he survives, he’s a free man. But when a real assassin takes aim at the president, Cory finds himself caught in the middle of a deadly conspiracy with no choice but to shoot his way out. As compelling a piece of Cold War suspense fiction as The Manchurian Candidate, Game Bet grabs the reader on the first page and holds on tight. When it comes to political thrillers, no one does it better than Richard Forrest.
Book Synopsis The Final Bet by : ʻAbd al-Ilāh Ḥamdūshī
Download or read book The Final Bet written by ʻAbd al-Ilāh Ḥamdūshī and published by American Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first Arabic detective novel to be translated into English
