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Edward Thorp ist eine lebende Legende – auf dem Gebiet des Glücksspiels UND im Bereich der Finanzmärkte. In den 60er-Jahren veränderte der Mathematikprofessor Blackjack für immer, weil er eine Strategie entdeckte, mittels der die Bank zu schlagen war: Seinetwegen wurden die Spielregeln geändert. Ende der 60er-Jahre entwickelte er eine Optionspreisformel, für deren nachfolgenden Beweis Myron Scholes und Robert Merton 1997 den Wirtschafts-Nobelp...

The history of African Americans in southern Appalachia after the Civil War has largely escaped the attention of scholars of both African Americans and the region. In Facing Freedom, Daniel Thorp relates the complex experience of an African American community in southern Appalachia as it negotiated a radically new world in the four decades following the Civil War.

A¿New York Times¿bestsellerIn a remarkable career, Edward O. Thorp rose up from nothing to become a professor at MIT, invented card counting and the world¿s first wearable computer, beat the casinos of Las Vegas at blackjack and roulette, then became a bestselling author and a hedge fund heavyweight, ushering in a revolution on Wall Street. Now he shares his incredible life story for the first time, revealing how he made his fortune and giving...

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Excerpt from Perspectives of the Spirit Inclusiveness Frustrations Storm and Stress Work and Play Courage Overcoming Evil The Latent Good Lending a Hand Friendship Sincerity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct th...

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Judd spielt Jessica Shepard, eine junge Polizistin, die gerade zum Inspector befoerdert wurde. Doch schon der erste Fall kostet Inspector Sheppard Fast den Kopf. Ein Serienkiller zieht eine blutige Spur quer durch San Francisco und bald stellt sich heraus, dass alle Opfer in intimen Kontakt zur Kommissarin standen. Ein Umstand, der bei ihren Kollegen Misstrauen hervorruft. Jessica droht unter dem Druck der Belastungen zu zerbrechen. Vertrauen...

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Why it is so difficult for liberal economic ideas to become generally accepted (that is socially 'embedded') in industrialising countries despite the universal support for liberal political ideas and a single global market system? Drawing on the results of a sustained and collaborative interdisciplinary research project, international scholars provide a perspective on previous shifts towards (and away from) economic liberalism within Latin Ame...

Medium Dog is just an average, everyday dog - not particularly tall or spotty or interesting in any way. So he dreams up a way to become extraordinary, a dog to be noticed at last! An exquisitely illustrated story about friendship and the desire to be 'more', from the creators of the Weasel Puffin Unicorn Baboon Pig Lobster Race book.

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Von Pflegepersonal werden in der Praxis zunehmend Kenntnisse in Pharmakologie gefordert. Die Autorin trägt dem Bedarf nach einem Lehrbuch Rechnung, das die Grundzüge der Pharmakologie verständlich und praxisnah erklärt, ohne tiefgründige Vorkenntnisse in Chemie oder Biologie vorauszusetzen. Sie vermeidet überflüssige und ausschweifende wissenschaftliche Erklärungen, stattdessen diskutiert sie relevante Fallstudien. Gleichermaßen geeignet für A...

In Engines of Innovation, Holden Thorp and Buck Goldstein make the case for the pivotal role of research universities as agents of societal change. They argue that universities must use their vast intellectual and financial resources to confront global challenges such as climate change, extreme poverty, childhood diseases, and an impending worldwide shortage of clean water. They provide not only an urgent call to action but also a practical gu...

A psychedelic children's picture book best described as "Doctor Dolittle" meets "Sergeant Pepper".

Chris' is a 50-something seasoned journalist who enjoys a good drink. After years away from the field, he returns to his first love, the copy desk, at a small newspaper in Maine. Shawn, a talented writer fresh out of journalism school, winds up at the same paper. He wants to hang around long enough to make a name for himself, get some clips and move on to a big-city paper. When a surgical deaths story at the local hospital is killed by newspap...

The authors explain why the discovery and development of natural resources is commonly associated with unstable and unequal development, and frequently with violence. They demonstrate the need for policies and institutions by reflecting on both successes and failures in case studies on Botswana, Nigeria and Niger as well as Bolivia, Chile and Peru.

This book builds on the cutting edge research presented in the previous edition that was the first of its kind to present the technology behind an emerging power systems management tool still in the early stages of commercial roll-out. In the intervening years, synchrophasors have become a crucial and widely adopted tool in the battle against electricity grid failures around the world.  Still the most accurate wide area measurement (WAMS) tech...

Excerpt from The Destinies of the British Empire, and the Duties of British Christians at the Present Crisis The argument of the Work is to show, not merely the predicted downfall of all temporal governments, as a general fact, preparatory to the establishment of Messiah's kingdom, but in particular, that Britain is probably included in the threat enings denounced against Papal Rome, as being a part of the image in Daniel's Vision. It must be...

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