A Coin Toss Determined My Future

A Coin Toss Determined My Future
Author: John A. Nichols
Publisher:
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2016-02-09
Genre: Universities and colleges
ISBN: 9780997227604
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John A. Nichols, retired professor of medieval history, earned his B.A. degree at Geneva College, M.A. at Fairleigh Dickinson University, and Ph.D. at Kent State University. After teaching at high schools for four years, he accepted a teaching position at Slippery Rock University where he stayed for 40 years. On retirement, Dr. Nichols accepted offers to share his historical expertize as a destination and/or special interest speaker on cruise ships. His autobiography traces a life from a rural township outside Pittsburgh, PA to that of a noted medieval historian who was at the forefront of writing and teaching about women?s history. His courses and publications laid the foundation to advance our understanding of the contributions of all women but especially medieval religious women.

Inferno: Part 2

Inferno: Part 2
Author: T.K. Leigh
Publisher: Carpe Per Diem, Inc.
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2018-07-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:
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A stolen glance across a darkened restaurant. A kiss under the Italian moon. A proposition I never would have made in my former life. Our story began just like all fairy tales do... Once upon a time. Once upon a time, a mysterious, passionate man opened my eyes to things I'd been blind to. My heart to feelings I never thought imaginable. My mind to endless possibilities. Once upon a time, I experienced something I didn't think existed in real life. Once upon a time, I learned how to fly. Little did I know it was with broken wings. How can we have a future when he’s still tormented by his past? How can I give him my heart when experience tells me to keep it guarded? How can I still love a man who would lie to me so recklessly? They say life is a series of roads, each fork a decision that can lead you to a different destination. Now I find myself faced with a decision of my own. Do I put my trust in Dante? Or do I turn back into the same sheltered Ellie I was when I boarded that plane? Only fate knows the answer… Inferno: Part 2 is the second installment in T.K. Leigh's epic romantic suspense saga of secrets, lies, and betrayal. Continue Dante and Ellie's story today. Topics: age gap romance, contemporary romance, political romance, series, romantic suspense series, mystery, modern romance, urban romance, Rome, Italy, Los Angeles, Italian romance, wealthy, USA today, USA today bestseller, steamy romance, suspenseful romance, hot romance, T.K. Leigh, T.K. Leigh romance, second chance romance, chef, murder, mystery, single father, page-turner, love, love books, kissing books, emotional journey, angst, alpha male, possessive, intrigue, dominant, contemporary, contemporary romance, romance series, long series, long romance series, lawyer, congress, senator, politics, security romance, private security romance, billionaire, billionaire romance, wealthy hero, protect, damsel in distress, assault, drama, action and adventure, action romance, tuscany, romantic, military, emotional, HEA, alpha, dom,strong female, sensual, angst, betrayal, fated love, psychological, tortured hero, corruption, crime, thriller, hot love story

The Future of Everything

The Future of Everything
Author: David Orell
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 460
Release: 2008-02-26
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0786732318
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Hurricane Katrina, the internet stock bubble, disease outbreaks -- are these predictable, preventable events, or are we merely the playthings of chaos? A compelling, irreverent, elegantly written history of our future that addresses the most important issues of our time, Apollo's Arrow examines such questions as: How well can we predict the future? Can past discoveries help us understand tomorrow's weather patterns, or tell us what our financial future will look like? Will scientists ever be able to forecast catastrophes, or will we always be at the mercy of Mother Nature, waiting for the next storm, epidemic, or economic crash to thunder through our lives? David Orrell looks back to show us how past scientists (and some charlatans) predicted the future, and where we are on the path to truly understanding what comes next. He asks how today's scientists can claim to predict future climate events when even three-day forecasts prove a serious challenge. Can we predict and control epidemics? Can we accurately foresee our financial future? Or will we only find out about tomorrow when tomorrow arrives?

What? Where? When? Why?

What? Where? When? Why?
Author: R. McLaughlin
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 940097731X
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Only in fairly recent years has History and Philosophy of Science been recog nised - though not always under that name - as a distinct field of scholarly endeavour. Previously, in the Australasian region as elsewhere, those few individuals working within this broad area of inquiry found their base, both intellectually and socially, where they could. In fact, the institutionalisation of History and Philosophy of Science began comparatively early in Australia. An initial lecturing appointment was made at the University of Melbourne immediately after the Second World War, in 1946, and other appointments followed as the subject underwent an expansion during the 1950s and '60s similar to that which took place in other parts of the world. Today there are major Departments at the University of Melbourne, the University of New South Wales and the University of Wollongong, and smaller groups active in many other parts of Australia, and in New Zealand.

Research Handbook on the Economics of Criminal Law

Research Handbook on the Economics of Criminal Law
Author: Alon Harel
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0857930656
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Jeremy Bentham and Gary Becker established the tradition of analyzing criminal law in utilitarian and economic terms. This seminal book continues that tradition with specially commissioned, original papers that span the philosophical foundations of the use of economics in criminal law, both traditional economic perspectives and behavioral and experimental approaches to the discipline. The contributors examine and evaluate the optimal design of criminal law norms as well as the ideal structure of law enforcement institutions. They delineate what wrongs ought to be criminalized, identify the boundaries between criminal law and tort, and determine the optimal size of sanctions given the differential vulnerability of victims. They also analyze the special considerations that apply to the regulation of corporate crime, the effects of technology on crime, and the effects of the distribution of wealth on sentencing. This essential Handbook provides students and scholars of criminal law and law and economics the opportunity to explore the diversity of contemporary approaches to the economics of crime. Criminologists, sociologists and policymakers will also find it a valuable addition to their collections.

Introduction to Option-Adjusted Spread Analysis

Introduction to Option-Adjusted Spread Analysis
Author:
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2010-05-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0470885157
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Top traders, investors, and analysts agree that one method, option-adjusted spread (OAS) analysis, is the most useful way to compare and value securities with options. Nearly every day the bond market figures out a new way to structure securities, most of which involve options. This book explains OAS analysis in plain English, presenting each step in the method clearly and concisely. Topics covered include: Why yield-based analysis breaks down for nonbullet bonds How to model put and call provisions as embedded options How to distinguish the intrinsic and time components of option value How to model interest-rate volatility, future interest rates, and future bond prices How to calculate option-free price and yield How to estimate the "fair value" of a bond How to calculate implied spot and forward rates Salespeople, traders, and investors will want to read this book and keep it on their desks.

Freedom and Responsibility

Freedom and Responsibility
Author: Hilary Bok
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2022-03-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1400822734
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Can we reconcile the idea that we are free and responsible agents with the idea that what we do is determined according to natural laws? For centuries, philosophers have tried in different ways to show that we can. Hilary Bok takes a fresh approach here, as she seeks to show that the two ideas are compatible by drawing on the distinction between practical and theoretical reasoning. Bok argues that when we engage in practical reasoning--the kind that involves asking "what should I do?" and sifting through alternatives to find the most justifiable course of action--we have reason to hold ourselves responsible for what we do. But when we engage in theoretical reasoning--searching for causal explanations of events--we have no reason to apply concepts like freedom and responsibility. Bok contends that libertarians' arguments against "compatibilist" justifications of moral responsibility fail because they describe human actions only from the standpoint of theoretical reasoning. To establish this claim, she examines which conceptions of freedom of the will and moral responsibility are relevant to practical reasoning and shows that these conceptions are not vulnerable to many objections that libertarians have directed against compatibilists. Bok concludes that the truth or falsity of the claim that we are free and responsible agents in the sense those conceptions spell out is ultimately independent of deterministic accounts of the causes of human actions. Clearly written and powerfully argued, Freedom and Responsibility is a major addition to current debate about some of philosophy's oldest and deepest questions.

Inferno: The Complete Series

Inferno: The Complete Series
Author: T.K. Leigh
Publisher: Carpe Per Diem / Tracy Kellam
Total Pages: 781
Release: 2019-01-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:
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A suspenseful age gap romance from a USA Today bestselling author. I left my fiancé at the altar. It's not like we were marrying for love. Quite the opposite. So instead of fulfilling my legacy of being a successful politician's trophy wife, I boarded a flight to Rome. I never expected to meet him. Dante Luciano. Handsome. Seductive. Mysterious. And the perfect person to help me escape my former life. Until that former life somehow finds me and reveals exactly who Dante Luciano is. Maybe I should have dug deeper. Maybe I should have asked more questions. Maybe I should have realized the truth that's been staring at me all along. They say you can never escape your past. They were right... Inferno is an epic romantic suspense saga of secrets, lies, and betrayal. Grab your copy of this complete series today. Topics: contemporary romance, political romance, series, romantic suspense series, mystery, modern romance, urban romance, Rome, Italy, Los Angeles, Italian romance, wealthy, USA today, USA today bestseller, steamy romance, suspenseful romance, hot romance, T.K. Leigh, T.K. Leigh romance, second chance romance, chef, murder, mystery, single father, page-turner, love, love books, kissing books, emotional journey, angst, alpha male, possessive, intrigue, dominant, contemporary, contemporary romance, romance series, long series, long romance series, lawyer, congress, senator, politics, security romance, private security romance, billionaire, billionaire romance, wealthy hero, protect, damsel in distress, assault, drama, action and adventure, action romance, tuscany, romantic, military, emotional, HEA, alpha, dom,strong female, sensual, angst, betrayal, fated love, psychological, tortured hero, corruption, crime, thriller, hot love story

Physiology, Promiscuity And Prophecy At The Millennium: A Tale Of Tails

Physiology, Promiscuity And Prophecy At The Millennium: A Tale Of Tails
Author: Bruce J West
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 452
Release: 1999-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9814495093
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This book concerns the development of a theory of complex phenomena; using such concepts as fractals; chaos; and fractional derivatives; but; most important; the idea of an allometric control process is developed. In summary the theory attempts to explain why the distribution in the intensity of wars is the same as the relative frequency of the number of words used in languages and the number of species evolved over time from one or a few remote ancestors. The theory also describes the similarity in the variability of the number of births to teens in Texas to the number of sexual partners in homosexual liaisons. The data in both of the aforementioned categories are shown to have long-term memory; and it is this memory that also gives rise to inverse power laws in such physiological phenomena as the interbeat interval distribution of the human heart; the interstride interval distribution in the human gait; and memory in DNA sequences.

Applied Probability and Stochastic Processes

Applied Probability and Stochastic Processes
Author: Richard M. Feldman
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2009-11-27
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3642051588
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This book is a result of teaching stochastic processes to junior and senior undergr- uates and beginning graduate students over many years. In teaching such a course, we have realized a need to furnish students with material that gives a mathematical presentation while at the same time providing proper foundations to allow students to build an intuitive feel for probabilistic reasoning. We have tried to maintain a b- ance in presenting advanced but understandable material that sparks an interest and challenges students, without the discouragement that often comes as a consequence of not understanding the material. Our intent in this text is to develop stochastic p- cesses in an elementary but mathematically precise style and to provide suf?cient examples and homework exercises that will permit students to understand the range of application areas for stochastic processes. We also practice active learning in the classroom. In other words, we believe that the traditional practice of lecturing continuously for 50 to 75 minutes is not a very effective method for teaching. Students should somehow engage in the subject m- ter during the teaching session. One effective method for active learning is, after at most 20 minutes of lecture, to assign a small example problem for the students to work and one important tool that the instructor can utilize is the computer. So- times we are fortunate to lecture students in a classroom containing computers with a spreadsheet program, usually Microsoft’s Excel.