Actuarial Jokes, Memoirs and Other Minutiae

Author: Tony Batory
Publisher: Outskirts Press
ISBN: 9781478755128
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 110

Book Description
Who says actuaries are boring? Actuarial Jokes, Memoirs and Other Minutiae will convince otherwise. Tony has assembled a collection of anecdotes that find the humorous side to being an actuary. No profession may be more grounded in reality than being an actuary. That just makes actuaries fodder for an incredible collection of jokes. The anecdotes take turns being funny, irreverent, angry, thought-provoking and educational. Actuarial science may never be the same.

The Taming of Chance

Author: Ian Hacking
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521388849
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282

Book Description
This book combines detailed scientific historical research with characteristic philosophic breadth and verve.

The Late Age of Print

Author: Ted Striphas
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231148151
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
Here, the author assesses our modern book culture by focusing on five key elements including the explosion of retail bookstores like Barnes & Noble and Borders, and the formation of the Oprah Book Club.

The Blank Slate

Author: Steven Pinker
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101200324
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 532

Book Description
A brilliant inquiry into the origins of human nature from the author of Rationality, The Better Angels of Our Nature, and Enlightenment Now. "Sweeping, erudite, sharply argued, and fun to read..also highly persuasive." --Time Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Updated with a new afterword One of the world's leading experts on language and the mind explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. With characteristic wit, lucidity, and insight, Pinker argues that the dogma that the mind has no innate traits-a doctrine held by many intellectuals during the past century-denies our common humanity and our individual preferences, replaces objective analyses of social problems with feel-good slogans, and distorts our understanding of politics, violence, parenting, and the arts. Injecting calm and rationality into debates that are notorious for ax-grinding and mud-slinging, Pinker shows the importance of an honest acknowledgment of human nature based on science and common sense.

Late Postmodernism

Author: J. Green
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403980403
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 251

Book Description
Does the novel have a future? Questions of this kind, which are as old as the novel itself, acquired a fresh urgency at the end of the twentieth-century with the rise of new media and the relegation of literature to the margins of American culture. As a result, anxieties about readership, cultural authority and literary value have come to preoccupy a second generation of postmodern novelists. Through close analysis of several major novels of the past decade, including works by Don DeLillo, Philip Roth, Kathryn Davis, Jonathan Franzen and Richard Powers, Late Postmodernism examines the forces shaping contemporary literature and the remarkable strategies American writers have adopted to make sense of their place in culture.

Theory of Fundamental Processes

Author: Richard Feynman
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 0429961057
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 185

Book Description
This book considers the basic ideas of quantum mechanics, treating the concept of amplitude and discusses relativity and the idea of anti-particles and explains quantum electrodynamics. It provides experienced researchers with an invaluable introduction to fundamental processes.

The Licit Life of Capitalism

Author: Hannah Appel
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478004576
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 218

Book Description
The Licit Life of Capitalism is both an account of a specific capitalist project—U.S. oil companies working off the shores of Equatorial Guinea—and a sweeping theorization of more general forms and processes that facilitate diverse capitalist projects around the world. Hannah Appel draws on extensive fieldwork with managers and rig workers, lawyers and bureaucrats, the expat wives of American oil executives and the Equatoguinean women who work in their homes, to turn conventional critiques of capitalism on their head, arguing that market practices do not merely exacerbate inequality; they are made by it. People and places differentially valued by gender, race, and colonial histories are the terrain on which the rules of capitalist economy are built. Appel shows how the corporate form and the contract, offshore rigs and economic theory are the assemblages of liberalism and race, expertise and gender, technology and domesticity that enable the licit life of capitalism—practices that are legally sanctioned, widely replicated, and ordinary, at the same time as they are messy, contested, and, arguably, indefensible.

Adélaide Ristori

Author: Adelaide 1822-1906 Ristori
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781014208491
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
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The Snowball

Author: Alice Schroeder
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408807327
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 833

Book Description
Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Prize 2008 The Snowball is the first and will be the only biography of the world's richest man, Warren Buffett, written with his full cooperation and collaboration. Combining a unique blend of "The Sage of Omaha's" business savvy, life story and philosophy, The Snowball is essential reading for anyone wishing to discover and replicate the secrets of his business and life success. Warren Buffett is arguably the world's greatest investor. Even as a child he was fascinated by the concept of risk and probability, setting up his first business at the age of six. In 1964 he bought struggling Massachusetts textile firm Berkshire Hathaway and grew it to be the 12th largest corporation in the US purely through the exercise of sound investing principles - a feat never equalled in the annals of business. Despite an estimated net worth of around US$62 billion, Buffett leads an intriguingly frugal life taking home a salary of only £50,000 a year. His only indulgence is a private jet, an extravagance he wryly acknowledges by calling it "The Indefensible". In 2006, he made the largest charitable donation on record, with most of it going to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Snowball provides a comprehensive, richly detailed insight one of the world's most extraordinary and much loved public figures.

Lockdown America

Author: Christian Parenti
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781859843031
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
Lockdown America documents the horrors and absurdities of militarized policing, prisons, a fortified border, and the war on drugs. Its accessible and vivid prose makes clear the links between crime and politics in a period of gathering economic crisis.