Download or read book What s Wrong with the Lottery written by Ron Baity and published by Sword of the Lord Publishers. This book was released on 2000-08 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What s Wrong written by David Boonin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's Wrong?: Applied Ethicists and Their Critics is a thorough and engaging introduction to applied ethics that covers virtually all of the issues in the field. Featuring more than ninety-five articles, it addresses standard topics--such as abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment, world hunger, and animal rights--and also delves into cutting-edge areas like cloning, racial profiling, same-sex marriage, prostitution, and slave reparations. The volume includes seminal essays by prominent philosophers (Robert Nozick, James Rachels, Peter Singer, and Judith Jarvis Thomson) alongside work by newer voices in the field. Employing a unique approach to teaching argumentation, editors David Boonin and Graham Oddie unify the wealth of material presented in this collection. Each chapter opens with a featured article that takes a strong stand on a particular issue; the essays that immediately follow offer objections and critical responses to the arguments put forth in the featured selection. This format helps students learn how to better engage in debates because it illustrates how philosophers argue with each other. In addition, a general introduction describes strategies for understanding and evaluating the different types of arguments contained in the readings, while detailed chapter introductions enable students to see precisely how the arguments presented in the various writings are related to one another. Discussion questions and suggestions for further reading are included for each chapter. Ideal for courses in introduction to ethics and applied ethics/contemporary moral problems, What's Wrong? can also be used in critical thinking courses that emphasize philosophical argumentation.
Download or read book The Lottery written by Shirley Jackson and published by The Creative Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A seemingly ordinary village participates in a yearly lottery to determine a sacrificial victim.
Download or read book State Lotteries written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Math with Bad Drawings written by Ben Orlin and published by Black Dog & Leventhal. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilarious reeducation in mathematics-full of joy, jokes, and stick figures-that sheds light on the countless practical and wonderful ways that math structures and shapes our world. In Math With Bad Drawings, Ben Orlin reveals to us what math actually is; its myriad uses, its strange symbols, and the wild leaps of logic and faith that define the usually impenetrable work of the mathematician. Truth and knowledge come in multiple forms: colorful drawings, encouraging jokes, and the stories and insights of an empathetic teacher who believes that math should belong to everyone. Orlin shows us how to think like a mathematician by teaching us a brand-new game of tic-tac-toe, how to understand an economic crises by rolling a pair of dice, and the mathematical headache that ensues when attempting to build a spherical Death Star. Every discussion in the book is illustrated with Orlin's trademark "bad drawings," which convey his message and insights with perfect pitch and clarity. With 24 chapters covering topics from the electoral college to human genetics to the reasons not to trust statistics, Math with Bad Drawings is a life-changing book for the math-estranged and math-enamored alike.
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 240 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 What s Wrong with Lottery written by Ruth Thompson Bernard and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Don t Let the Lottery Ruin Your Life written by Tracy Barton and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever wonder why there is a TV show called The Lottery Ruined My Life? How can winning the lottery ruin your life? Why are there people trying to sue the lottery commission because not only are they broke, but deeper in debt after winning a lottery jackpot? Why do many people who win the lottery go broke within the first year? Watching that show, and reading about these frivolous law suits got me curious about that very topic. I have done several years of research, and I have found several reasons—some very obvious and some not so obvious. The goal of this book is to prevent you from falling into the bankruptcy traps that have caught several people and allow you to truly enjoy the benefits of winning a lottery jackpot and not let it ruin your life.
Download or read book If I Won 25 Million Dollars in the Lottery written by Larry Steinhouse and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you ever wish you would win the lottery? Would it surprise you to know that you can win the lottery without buying a ticket? By using the metaphor of winning twenty-five million dollars in the lottery, author Larry Steinhouse will guide you to a better and more successful life in the areas of money, hope, and happiness. If I Won 25 Million Dollars in the Lottery describes several ways to take your destiny into your own hands. You will learn how to: Harness the power to put money aside for retirement, for investment, or for the right opportunity Understand the rules of money that will help you control your financial future Control your feelings and avoid distractions from your true meaning of life Make your pursuit of happiness a joyous pursuit Live a better life and break away from this recession Move forward and avoid any future recessions Have the power to control all that you want in your life Filled with real-life examples, Steinhouse, a self-described "regular" guy, shares the keys to his success and his future success and helps guide you to yours.
Download or read book The Bane and Antidote Or Bad and Good Associations written by Thomas Edward Bowkett and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prohibition on Use of Financial Institutions as Lottery Agencies Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions of 90 1 on H R 10595 August 18 1967 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prohibition on Use of Financial Institutions as Lottery Agencies written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency. Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How Not to Be Wrong written by Jordan Ellenberg and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Witty, compelling, and just plain fun to read . . ." —Evelyn Lamb, Scientific American The Freakonomics of math—a math-world superstar unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world and puts its power in our hands The math we learn in school can seem like a dull set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In How Not to Be Wrong, Jordan Ellenberg shows us how terribly limiting this view is: Math isn’t confined to abstract incidents that never occur in real life, but rather touches everything we do—the whole world is shot through with it. Math allows us to see the hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of our world. It’s a science of not being wrong, hammered out by centuries of hard work and argument. Armed with the tools of mathematics, we can see through to the true meaning of information we take for granted: How early should you get to the airport? What does “public opinion” really represent? Why do tall parents have shorter children? Who really won Florida in 2000? And how likely are you, really, to develop cancer? How Not to Be Wrong presents the surprising revelations behind all of these questions and many more, using the mathematician’s method of analyzing life and exposing the hard-won insights of the academic community to the layman—minus the jargon. Ellenberg chases mathematical threads through a vast range of time and space, from the everyday to the cosmic, encountering, among other things, baseball, Reaganomics, daring lottery schemes, Voltaire, the replicability crisis in psychology, Italian Renaissance painting, artificial languages, the development of non-Euclidean geometry, the coming obesity apocalypse, Antonin Scalia’s views on crime and punishment, the psychology of slime molds, what Facebook can and can’t figure out about you, and the existence of God. Ellenberg pulls from history as well as from the latest theoretical developments to provide those not trained in math with the knowledge they need. Math, as Ellenberg says, is “an atomic-powered prosthesis that you attach to your common sense, vastly multiplying its reach and strength.” With the tools of mathematics in hand, you can understand the world in a deeper, more meaningful way. How Not to Be Wrong will show you how.
Download or read book No One Wins The Lottery written by James Sager and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-04-12 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some people think that somewhere out there that there is a lucky lottery winner. They think it is just they themselves who lose because they do not have luck. It turns out, in the long run of 3 digit lottery players, not a single person ever wins any money. The average they lose is about $29,000. Start making money today by stopping playing the lottery!
Download or read book The Lottery Wars written by Matthew Sweeney and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-03-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the lottery in America cites its popularity in spite of unfavorable odds and laws that ban most forms of gambling, evaluates the role of lotteries in shaping Jamestown and other regions, and recounts lesser-known stories of legal disputes and financial ruin pertaining to lottery activity.
Download or read book The Letters of Shirley Jackson written by Shirley Jackson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bewitchingly brilliant collection of never-before-published letters from the renowned author of “The Lottery” and The Haunting of Hill House NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS • “This biography-through-letters gives an intimate and warm voice to the imagination behind the treasury of uncanny tales that is Shirley Jackson’s legacy.”—Joyce Carol Oates Shirley Jackson is one of the most important American authors of the last hundred years and among our greatest chroniclers of the female experience. This extraordinary compilation of personal correspondence has all the hallmarks of Jackson’s beloved fiction: flashes of the uncanny in the domestic, sparks of horror in the quotidian, and the veins of humor that run through good times and bad. i am having a fine time doing a novel with my left hand and a long story—with as many levels as grand central station—with my right hand, stirring chocolate pudding with a spoon held in my teeth, and tuning the television with both feet. Written over the course of nearly three decades, from Jackson’s college years to six days before her early death at the age of forty-eight, these letters become the autobiography Shirley Jackson never wrote. As well as being a bestselling author, Jackson spent much of her adult life as a mother of four in Vermont, and the landscape here is often the everyday: raucous holidays and trips to the dentist, overdue taxes and frayed lines of Christmas lights, new dogs and new babies. But in recounting these events to family, friends, and colleagues, she turns them into remarkable stories: entertaining, revealing, and wise. At the same time, many of these letters provide fresh insight into the genesis and progress of Jackson’s writing over nearly three decades. The novel is getting sadder. It’s always such a strange feeling—I know something’s going to happen, and those poor people in the book don’t; they just go blithely on their ways. Compiled and edited by her elder son, Laurence Jackson Hyman, in consultation with Jackson scholar Bernice M. Murphy and featuring Jackson’s own witty line drawings, this intimate collection holds the beguiling prism of Shirley Jackson—writer and reader, mother and daughter, neighbor and wife—up to the light.
Download or read book Lottery Corruption U S A written by Harold Rosen and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2023-01-30 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lottery Corruption, U.S.A. is very unique as compared to any other book written about the lotteries. There’s more than enough significant data and information to convince the reader that our state lotteries are definitely being manipulated and controlled, illegally. This book is informative, enlightening, educational, and entertaining, so enjoy reading it.
