Danger Ahead

The Risks You Really Face on Life's Highway

Larry Laudan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

204 Seiten

1997
John Wiley & Sons Inc (Verlag)
978-0-471-13440-4 (ISBN)

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In the lighthearted tradition of the "Harper's Index", this book analyzes statistics about the chances people face in their daily activities. Charts and graphs illustrate the text and there are over 40 sidebars giving extra quirky facts.

This quirky reference in the tradition of Harper's Index analyzes statistics about the chances we face in our daily activities. It covers a wide variety of subjects, such as the chance that your business or your family will go bankrupt, that you will be sued in your lifetime, that you will win the lottery, that your child will get into an Ivy league school, that your new car will be a lemon, and many more.

LARRY LAUDAN, Ph.D., is a professor of philosophy at the University of Hawaii. An expert in the logic of scientific inference, he has taught at the Universities of London, Pittsburgh, and Illinois. He is the author of four scholarly books as well as The Book of Risks (also published by Wiley).

Laws for Avoiding Risk-Lock. Jobs and Money: What You Didn't Learn in Economics. 101. Sex, Through the Eyes of a Risk Theorist. Eat, Drink, and Be Wary. Beating the Odds on Disease. The House from Hell--Probably Yours. The Maiming Fields, or No Pain No Gain. Love, Marriage, and the Consequences. A Potpourri of Risks. Sources. Indexes.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.10.1997
Zusatzinfo	charts, graphs
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 228 mm
Gewicht	312 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Spielen / Raten
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik
ISBN-10	0-471-13440-6 / 0471134406
ISBN-13	978-0-471-13440-4 / 9780471134404
Zustand	Neuware