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| Author | : Michael Rota |
| Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
| Total Pages | : 254 |
| Release | : 2016-04-21 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0830899995 |
Blaise Pascal's wager argues that since there is much to gain and relatively little to lose, the wise decision is to seek a relationship with God and live a Christian life. Michael Rota explores the dynamics of doubt, evidence and decision-making in order to consider what is necessary for people to embrace the Christian faith—and the difference it makes in people's lives.
| Author | : Georg Potyka |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 172 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
Georg Potyka, an Austrian civil servant in the diplomatic service, has written a novel about a fictional colleague, Leopold Navratil. Since boyhood, Navratil has been emboldened by his fantasy to fight evil and strive for good. An unspoken wager with a comrade is to determine which of them remains honourable to the end. However, to avoid conflict within the Third Reich, Navratil must struggle with his conscience and attempt to avoid compromising his ideals, as represented by the wager, while still safeguarding his family and his own existence. Though Leopold Navratil survives the war, he does not survive the peace.
| Author | : Sean Michaels |
| Publisher | : Tin House Books |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2020-01-21 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1947793640 |
From Giller-Prize-winning author Sean Michaels, The Wagers is a wild and magical novel about what it means to not only chase luck, but find it. When Theo Potiris performed his stand-up comedy act on Conan at 25, he thought he’d hit it big. But ten years later, he's still spending his days working at his parents’ grocery store, bicycling to the local open mic, and writing letters to a girlfriend who lives halfway around the world. Theo’s desperate for a break. But when he brings his thirteen-year-old niece to the horse track to place a birthday bet—a Potiris family tradition—the goddess of good luck strikes her instead, in the form of a small fortune. Try as he might to be happy for her, Theo’s shock and envy finally push him out of the family nest, away from his comedy dreams and toward a new calling. First: a mysterious corporation called The Rabbit’s Foot, which carefully quantifies and cashes in on luck. Then: to a gang of vigilantes, who recruit Theo to help them steal luck from those who carry more than their fair share. The Wagers is a literary motorcycle chase, carried by stylish prose and delightful invention. But it’s also an investigation of work and purpose, happiness and art, the randomness of good fortune, and all the ways we choose to wage our lives.
| Author | : Donna Jo Napoli |
| Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2010-04-22 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1429946814 |
Don Giovanni was once the wealthiest and handsomest young man in Messina. Then a tidal wave changed everything. When a well-dressed stranger offers him a magical purse, he knows he shouldn't take it. Only the devil would offer a deal like this, and only a fool would accept. Don Giovanni is no fool, but he is desperate. He takes the bet: he will not bathe for 3 years, 3 months, and 3 days. Beauty is a small price to pay for worldly wealth, isn't it? Unless he loses the wager—and with it his soul. Set against the stunning backdrop of ancient Sicily, Donna Jo Napoli's new novel is a powerful tale about discovering what truly matters most.
| Author | : Thomas S. Hibbs |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : Apologetics |
| ISBN | : 9781481306386 |
Pascal thus wagers all on the irony of a God who both startles and astonishes wisdom's true lovers.
| Author | : Tessa Dawn |
| Publisher | : Ghost Pines Publishing LLC |
| Total Pages | : 384 |
| Release | : 2013-11-23 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1937223116 |
He is a lethal vampire, bound by an ancient curse. She is an agent of homeland security, investigating a dangerous cult. Theirs is a Blood Destiny about to unfold… Descended from the progeny of Celestial Gods and humans, Nathaniel Silivasi is handsome, seductive, and powerful beyond measure: a lethal vampire. Belonging to an ancient civilization that sacrificed its females to the verge of extinction, he is also cursed. Like all the sons of Jadon, he is incapable of producing female offspring and required to sacrifice a first born son as atonement for the sins of his forefathers. While he belongs to a modern civilization, he is bound by primeval law. When Jocelyn Levi stumbles upon Nathaniel's pristine mountain valley, she is not prepared for the collision of worlds she is about to encounter. As an agent of the homeland security department, ICE, the beautiful, defiant female has an agenda of her own: to stop the ritualistic slaughter of innocent young women by a human trafficking ring. Little does she know, the evil she seeks is unlike anything she has ever witnessed. She has entered a world of warriors, code, and mystery, where the predators are divided only by degrees of light and shadow, and the dark handsome stranger who has come to her aid is the most dangerous of all. What would you do if the moon turned red, and your life was no longer your own?
| Author | : Richard O. Davies |
| Publisher | : Ohio State University Press |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Games & Activities |
| ISBN | : 9780814208809 |
A study of gambling, particularly sports gambling, and how it has thrived in American culture. According to Davies and Abram, the culture of betting results from two complementary influences in American society: risk-taking and speculation. This is the first effort by academic writers to describe and interpret the history of sports wagering in the United States. Although many books have been written about 3how to bet and win, 4 Betting the Line presents a serious history of this popular activity in Colonial and Civil War eras to today, from early betting on horse racing and baseball to the modern venues of basketball and football. By considering topics as diverse as the business of a bookie, the expansion of legalized gambling, and the increase in popularity of televised sports, the authors offer readers an insightful look into a practice that has become commonplace in American popular culture. In a mere seventy years, the number of states where gambling is legal jumped from one to forty-eight. Yet Nevada remains the only state where sports betting is legal. This book challenges many long-standing myths and stereotypes that revolve around the enterprise, arguing that sports gambling is reflective of the American free enterprise culture.
| Author | : Geoffrey Wilson Clark |
| Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
| Total Pages | : 266 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780719056758 |
By examining the rise of life insurance institutions in 18th-century England, this book offers fresh insight into the history of a commercial society learning to apply speculative techniques to the management of risk.
| Author | : Sami Hamid |
| Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
| Total Pages | : 77 |
| Release | : 2024-09-04 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 3711563732 |
In a far away land and in a distant time, the writer Jean Voltaire is sentenced to exile for the crime of blasphemy and apostasy. In an attempt to convert him, his friend, Blaise Paschalis, presents him with an argument for belief in God, which takes the form of a wager: if God exists and one believes, the reward is infinite. If God does not exist, the loss is minimal. Conversely, if one does not believe and God exists, the potential loss is infinite. Therefore, it is rational to believe in God, as the potential gains outweigh the losses. What could be wrong with that?
| Author | : Raymond Barfield |
| Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 142 |
| Release | : 2017-03-21 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1498292100 |
How do humans explore beauty, virtue, love, justice, and goodness? This book argues that philosophical attention to our lives, shaped in part by our choices, is our instrument for investigating these parts of reality. Constructing a life is a philosophical act. Philosophical acts that are shaped by a life, and that shape a life, constitute philosophical style. Everyone has a philosophical style, which is fundamentally about the way we live in the world through our bodies, our reason, our imagination, and our virtue. It is about what we love and how we are loved. Beauty, suffering, and being in the world are placeholders for everything that makes up our lived experience. As we live our lives between beauty and suffering, we learn most about being in the world. The argument of the book moves from a discussion of philosophical style, through the three placeholders for human experience as they are affected by philosophy (beauty, suffering, and being in the world), arriving at a reworking of Pascal's wager about living in relationship to the presence or absence of God as a way of understanding the commitments that are our only way into the truth of our life.
