Luck: A Personal Account of Fortune, Chance and Risk in Thirteen Investigations 9780008245207, 9780008245177, 0008245207

Darwin's Luck : Chance and Fortune in the Life and Work of Charles Darwin 9781441181695, 9781847251503

One might make a case for saying that Darwin's life was dogged by bad luck. His mother died when he was seven; he w

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Luck, Fate and Fortune: Antiquity and Its Legacy 9780755697182, 9781845118426

The impulse to try to anticipate the future, and make sense of apparently random events, is irrepressible. Why and how t

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Political Prisoner: A Personal Account

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Personal Account 9781773055732, 9781773055749

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Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy 9781400880270

From New York Times bestselling author and economics columnist Robert Frank, a compelling book that explains why the ric

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The Myth of Luck: Philosophy, Fate, and Fortune 9781350149281, 9781350149298, 9781350149328, 9781350149304

Luck is a golden thread woven through the tapestry of the history of ideas, uniting gods and gamblers, philosophers and

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The Phantom of Chance: From Fortune to Randomness in Seventeenth-Century French Literature 9780748645169

How the classical and medieval conceptions of Fortune shifted to the modern notion of chance Is chance nothing more tha

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How Change and Identity Coexist in Personal Individuality: A Phenomenological Account of Self-Shaping 3030814505, 9783030814502

This book purports to devise a pattern of the self that accounts for the role that change and identity play in self-shap

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Chance: the science and secrets of luck, randomness and probability 9781473642652, 1473642655

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Freaks of fortune: the emerging world of capitalism and risk in America 9780674047488, 9780674067202, 9780674736351

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