Faint Praise

Faint Praise
Author: Gail Pool
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2007-07-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 0826217273

"Pool's behind-the-scenes look at the institution of book reviewing analyzes how it works and why it often fails, describes how editors choose books for review and assign them to reviewers, examines the additional roles played by publishers, authors, and readers and contrasts traditional reviewing with newer, alternative book coverage"--Provided by publisher.

Plight of the Living Dead

Plight of the Living Dead
Author: Matt Simon
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2018-10-02
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1524705144

A brain-bending exploration of real-life zombies and mind controllers, and what they reveal to us about nature—and ourselves Zombieism isn’t just the stuff of movies and TV shows like The Walking Dead. It’s real, and it’s happening in the world around us, from wasps and worms to dogs and moose—and even humans. In Plight of the Living Dead, science journalist Matt Simon documents his journey through the bizarre evolutionary history of mind control. Along the way, he visits a lab where scientists infect ants with zombifying fungi, joins the search for kamikaze crickets in the hills of New Mexico, and travels to Israel to meet the wasp that stings cockroaches in the brain before leading them to their doom. Nothing Hollywood dreams up can match the brilliant, horrific zombies that natural selection has produced time and time again. Plight of the Living Dead is a surreal dive into a world that would be totally unbelievable if very smart scientists didn’t happen to be proving it’s real, and most troublingly—or maybe intriguingly—of all: how even we humans are affected. “Fantastic . . . You'll be thinking about this book long after you're done reading it.” —Kelly Weinersmith, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Soonish

Plight of the Fortune Tellers

Plight of the Fortune Tellers
Author: Riccardo Rebonato
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2007-09-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1400824370

Today's top financial-risk professionals have come to rely on ever-more sophisticated mathematics in their attempts to come to grips with financial risk. But this excessive reliance on quantitative precision is misleading--and it puts us all at risk. This is the case that Riccardo Rebonato makes in Plight of the Fortune Tellers--and coming from someone who is both an experienced market professional and an academic, this heresy is worth listening to. Rebonato forcefully argues that we must restore genuine decision making to our financial planning, and he shows us how to do it using probability, experimental psychology, and decision theory. This is the only way to effectively manage financial risk in a manner congruent with how human beings actually react to chance. Rebonato challenges us to rethink the standard wisdom about probability in financial-risk management. Risk managers have become obsessed with measuring risk and believe that these quantitative results by themselves can guide sound financial choices--but they can't. In this book, Rebonato offers a radical yet surprisingly commonsense solution, one that seeks to remind us that managing risk comes down to real people making decisions under uncertainty. Plight of the Fortune Tellers is not only a book for the decision makers of Wall Street, it's a must-read for anyone concerned about how today's financial markets are run. The stakes have never been higher--can you risk it?

The Plight of Feeling

The Plight of Feeling
Author: Julia A. Stern
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2008-04-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0226773094

American novels written in the wake of the Revolution overflow with self-conscious theatricality and impassioned excess. In The Plight of Feeling, Julia A. Stern shows that these sentimental, melodramatic, and gothic works can be read as an emotional history of the early republic, reflecting the hate, anger, fear, and grief that tormented the Federalist era. Stern argues that these novels gave voice to a collective mourning over the violence of the Revolution and the foreclosure of liberty for the nation's noncitizens—women, the poor, Native and African Americans. Properly placed in the context of late eighteenth-century thought, the republican novel emerges as essentially political, offering its audience gothic and feminized counternarratives to read against the dominant male-authored accounts of national legitimation. Drawing upon insights from cultural history and gender studies as well as psychoanalytic, narrative, and genre theory, Stern convincingly exposes the foundation of the republic as an unquiet crypt housing those invisible Americans who contributed to its construction.

Plight of the Fortune Tellers

Plight of the Fortune Tellers
Author: Riccardo Rebonato
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2010-11-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1400836395

Today's top financial professionals have come to rely on ever-more sophisticated mathematics in their attempts to come to grips with financial risk. But this excessive reliance on quantitative precision is misleading--and puts everyone at risk. In Plight of the Fortune Tellers, Riccardo Rebonato forcefully argues that we must restore genuine decision making to our financial planning. Presenting a financial model that uses probability, experimental psychology, and decision theory, Rebonato challenges us to rethink the standard wisdom about risk management. He offers a radical yet surprisingly commonsense solution: managing risk comes down to real people making decisions under uncertainty. Plight of the Fortune Tellers is a must-read for anyone concerned about how today's financial markets are run. In a new preface, Rebonato explains how the ideas presented in this book fit into the context of the global financial crisis that followed its original publication. He argues that risk managers are still stuck in a probabilistic rut, and need to engage with the structural causes of real events.

The Plight of Religious Minorities

The Plight of Religious Minorities
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights, and International Operations
Publisher:
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN:

The Plight of My Life

The Plight of My Life
Author: Hazira Tabaz
Publisher: Educreation Publishing
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2019-02-20
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN:

The plight of my life evinces the importance on seeing the things and people around you in impute way. Accusing the bygone or thorny about the future will not let one to review the presence. The present moment is a sanctification that has been bestowed upon us to exploit our inlet Endowed as you are with a unique personality, nobody is proficient of being you likewise a girl in this story has unfortunate situation solemnly provoking the crooked society and overcoming certain obstacles, pursuing her rights fearlessly at her young age. Humanity will receive much more blessings, understand your true nature nourish and nurture the good in you. Many of us give up just before reaching the goals hope by virtue of these real story many more people can be percept plight of my life No matter what the other say one should believe themselves, we shall have to comfort ourselves with the thoughts that everyone could be doing something even stupider with our life than to be judge. Love yourself and live a life like there is no tomorrow, let all your bad past fades up and start a new trend with cheerful mind I knew it's difficult to overcome such challenges, but it is the only sources of finding peace to our eternal soul. These words are simple to express where nobody believe until we face those difficulties in our life then we turn to be experienced one so as everyone say human can have error but don't repeat those error. It's all up to you and your challenges to set the desire goal where I wish rather than choosing one for your life, build your self-confidence and believe yourself that you came alone and also exist lone because there is no relationship exist together