Download or read book Finding Luck written by Kristin Earhart and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the grand opening of their family's bed-and-breakfast approaching, Willa and Ben are tired of helping their parents get ready for the big day and would much rather be helping their Grandma Edna reunite a foal with its missing mother.
Download or read book How Luck Happens written by Janice Kaplan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creator and host of the podcast The Gratitude Diaries and New York Times bestselling author Janice Kaplan examines the phenomenon of luck--and discovers the exciting ways you can grab opportunities and make luck for yourself every day. After spending a year researching and experiencing gratitude for The Gratitude Diaries, Janice Kaplan is back to tackle another big, mysterious influence in all our lives: luck. And this time she's joined on her journey by coauthor Dr. Barnaby Marsh, a renowned academic who guides her exploration. Together they uncover the unexpected, little-understood science behind what we call "luck," proving that many seemingly random events are actually under your--and everyone's--control. They examine the factors that made stars like Harrison Ford and Jonathan Groff so successful, and learn the real secrets that made Kate Spade and Warby Parker into global brands. Using original research, fascinating studies, and engaging interviews, Kaplan and Marsh reveal the simple techniques to create luck in love and marriage, business and career, and health, happiness, and family relationships. Their breakthrough insights prove that all of us--from CEOs to stay-at-home moms--can tip the scales of fortune in our favor. Through a mix of scientific research, conversations with famous and successful people--from academics like Dan Ariely and Leonard Mlodinow to actor Josh Groban--and powerful narrative, How Luck Happens uncovers a fascinating subject in accessible and entertaining style.
Download or read book The Journey Of Finding Luck written by Bernie Lattus and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-18 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you know the nature of luck? Do you know the characteristics of luck? Keep reading because while reading the contents of the book you discover that you have not approached adequately, or at all, most of the concepts developed in it, then you should definitely get this book. As stated in the introduction: "In no way do I claim to hold the truth about a subject as complex as luck, which, as we have seen, easily moves from philosophical ambiguity to metaphysical prohibition. But I would like to begin this journey and at the end of it I believe I will have constructed a view on luck, which will be completely different from the existing." The final objective is the definition of a Lucky Man which inevitably is unexpected since it debunks the view that wealth is the determining factor and incorporates the most advanced concepts reflected in the book.
Download or read book The Philosophy of Luck written by Duncan Pritchard and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first volume of its kind to provide a curated collection of cutting-edge scholarship on the philosophy of luck Offers an in-depth examination of the concept of luck, which has often been overlooked in philosophical study Includes discussions of luck from a range of philosophical perspectives, including ethics, epistemology, metaphysics, and cognitive science Examines the role of luck in core philosophical problems, such as free will Features work from the main philosophers writing on luck today
Download or read book Folk Beliefs of the Southern Negro written by Newbell Niles Puckett and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopaedia of Superstitions Folklore and the Occult Sciences of the World written by Cora Linn Morrison Daniels and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book To Prevent Good Luck written by Emily Martha Sorensen and published by Emily Martha Sorensen. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stealing other people's luck isn't a good thing, so Kendra goes to stop a magical girl who's been doing that. Maybe attacking the magical girl with luck powers wasn't such a good idea. Everything seems to be conspiring against Florence. But how do you stop rumors that threaten to ruin everything?
Download or read book Lucky Bob written by Francis James Finn and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Luck Theory written by Nicholas Rescher and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-22 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an original—the first-ever treatment of the mathematics of Luck. Setting out from the principle that luck can be measured by the gap between reasonable expectation and eventual realization, the book develops step-by-step a mathematical theory that accommodates the entire range of our pre-systematic understanding of the way in which luck functions in human affairs. In so moving from explanatory exposition to mathematical treatment, the book provides a clear and accessible account of the way in which luck assessment enters into the calculations of rational decision theory.
Download or read book The Myth of Luck written by Steven D. Hales and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanity has thrown everything we have at implacable luck-novel theologies, entire philosophical movements, fresh branches of mathematics-and yet we seem to have gained only the smallest edge on the power of fortune. The Myth of Luck tells us why we have been fighting an unconquerable foe. Taking us on a guided tour of one of our oldest concepts, we begin in ancient Greece and Rome, considering how Plato, Plutarch, and the Stoics understood luck, before entering the theoretical world of probability and exploring how luck relates to theology, sports, ethics, gambling, knowledge, and present-day psychology. As we travel across traditions, times and cultures, we come to realize that it's not that as soon as we solve one philosophical problem with luck that two more appear, like heads on a hydra, but rather that the monster is altogether mythological. We cannot master luck because there is nothing to defeat: luck is no more than a persistent and troubling illusion. By introducing us to compelling arguments and convincing reasons that explain why there is no such thing as luck, we finally see why in a very real sense we make our own luck, that luck is our own doing. The Myth of Luck helps us to regain our own agency in the world - telling the entertaining story of the philosophy and history of luck along the way.
Download or read book Get Opinionated written by Amanda Marcotte and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For those who like their politics blunt, raw, and uncompromising comes Get Opinionated—a guide to the issues you care about: environmentalism, reproductive rights and access, taxes and public wealth, GLBTQ rights, health care, the War on Terror, the War on Drugs, and the Culture Wars. Get Opinionated will help you find your political voice and galvanize you into action—or at least help you understand which issues you care about (or which ones most piss you off)—and why.
Download or read book How to Get Lucky Harriman Classics written by Max Gunther and published by Harriman House Limited. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Max Gunther's lost classic, now in a new Classics edition. Some people think you're either born lucky or not. But what if you could actively get lucky? As Max Gunther shows in this page-turning classic, some people really are luckier than others - and not by accident. Lucky people arrange their lives in characteristic patterns. They tend to position themselves in the path of onrushing luck; they tend to go where events are moving fastest and where they can find their lucky break Lucky people take risks but not silly ones. They stick with a cause, a job, or a partner, but not when all hope is lost. In short, they move with life, not against it. This book gives you 13 different techniques by which you can discover and take advantage of life's good breaks, while minimising the effects of its bad ones.
Download or read book Effective Fund Finding in International Schools written by Gillian Horsley and published by John Catt Educational Ltd. This book was released on 1999 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide provides examples and practical suggestions on different aspects of fundraising techniques.
Download or read book Modern Luck written by Robert S. C. Gordon and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2023-01-16 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beliefs, superstitions and tales about luck are present across all human cultures, according to anthropologists. We are perennially fascinated by luck and by its association with happiness and danger, uncertainty and aspiration. Yet it remains an elusive, ungraspable idea, one that slips and slides over time: all cultures reimagine what luck is and how to tame it at different stages in their history, and the modernity of the ‘long twentieth century’ is no exception to the rule. Apparently overshadowed by more conceptually tight, scientific and characteristically modern notions such as chance, contingency, probability or randomness, luck nevertheless persists in all its messiness and vitality, used in our everyday language and the subject of studies by everyone from philosophers to psychologists, economists to self-help gurus. Modern Luck sets out to explore the enigma of luck’s presence in modernity, examining the hybrid forms it has taken on in the modern imagination, and in particular in the field of modern stories. Indeed, it argues that modern luck is constituted through narrative, through modern luck stories. Analysing a rich and unusually eclectic range of narrative taken from literature, film, music, television and theatre – from Dostoevsky to Philip K. Dick, from Pinocchio to Cimino, from Curtiz to Kieślowski – it lays out first the usages and meanings of the language of luck, and then the key figures, patterns and motifs that govern the stories told about it, from the late nineteenth century to the present day.
Download or read book Luck is Everything Or The Adventures of Brian O Linn written by William Hamilton Maxwell and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How to Get Run Over by a Truck written by Katie C McKenna and published by Inkshares. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a body that was crushed by an eighteen-wheel truck and of a spirit that refused to be.
Download or read book Finding Luck written by Kristin Earhart and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the grand opening of their family's bed-and-breakfast approaching, Willa and Ben are tired of helping their parents get ready for the big day and would much rather be helping their Grandma Edna reunite a foal with its missing mother.
