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Danger Ahead Larry Laudan

Danger Ahead von Larry Laudan

Danger Ahead Larry Laudan


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Zusammenfassung

In the lighthearted tradition of the "Harper's Index", this book analyzes statistics about the chances people face in their daily activities. Charts and graphs illustrate the text and there are over 40 sidebars giving extra quirky facts.

Danger Ahead Zusammenfassung

Danger Ahead: The Risks You Really Face on Life's Highway Larry Laudan

This quirky reference in the tradition of Harper's Index analyzes statistics about the chances we face in our daily activities. It covers a wide variety of subjects, such as the chance that your business or your family will go bankrupt, that you will be sued in your lifetime, that you will win the lottery, that your child will get into an Ivy league school, that your new car will be a lemon, and many more.

Über Larry Laudan

LARRY LAUDAN, Ph.D., is a professor of philosophy at the University of Hawaii. An expert in the logic of scientific inference, he has taught at the Universities of London, Pittsburgh, and Illinois. He is the author of four scholarly books as well as The Book of Risks (also published by Wiley).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Laws for Avoiding Risk-Lock. Jobs and Money: What You Didn't Learn in Economics. 101. Sex, Through the Eyes of a Risk Theorist. Eat, Drink, and Be Wary. Beating the Odds on Disease. The House from Hell--Probably Yours. The Maiming Fields, or No Pain No Gain. Love, Marriage, and the Consequences. A Potpourri of Risks. Sources. Indexes.

Zusätzliche Informationen

GOR013860994
9780471134404
0471134406
Danger Ahead: The Risks You Really Face on Life's Highway Larry Laudan
Gebraucht - Sehr Gut
Broschiert
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
1997-10-06
204
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