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Free Download John Watson, "Politics, policy & the chance of change: The Conversation Yearbook 2015"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0522869815 | EPUB | pages: 288 | 0.5 mb
Continued political and economic turbulence, pervasive threats of terrorism and climate change: 2015 was a testing year. Even Australia’s charmed run as ‘the lucky country’ threatened to come to an end. The pressures of government resulted in Malcolm Turnbull ousting Tony Abbott to become the country’s fifth prime minister in five years. Will this prove to be a case of history repeating itself, or a turning point?

Free Download David Manuel-Navarrete, "Climate Change and the Crisis of Capitalism: A Chance to Reclaim, Self, Society and Nature"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0415676940 | EPUB | pages: 212 | 0.6 mb
Are established economic, social and political practices capable of dealing with the combined crises of climate change and the global economic system? Will falling back on the wisdoms that contributed to the crisis help us to find ways forward or simply reconfigure risk in another guise? This volume argues that the combination of global environmental change and global economic restructuring require a re-thinking of the priorities, processes and underlying values that shape contemporary development aspirations and policy.

Free Download Gabrielle A. Brenner, "A World of Chance: Betting on Religion, Games, Wall Street"
English | 2008 | pages: 359 | ISBN: 0521884667, 0521711576 | PDF | 1,7 mb
Although financial markets often try to distance themselves from gambling, the two factors have far more in common than usually thought. When, historically there were no financial institutions such as banks, lotteries constituted the ways by which expensive items were disposed of, and governments raised money quickly. Gambling tables fulfilled roles that venture capital and banking do today. "Gamblers" created clearinghouses and sustained liquidity. When those gamblers bet on price distributions in futures markets, they were redefined as "speculators." Today they are called "hedge fund managers" or "bankers." Though the names have changed, the actions undertaken have essentially stayed the same. This book shows how discussion on "chance," "risk," "gambling," "insurance," and "speculation" illuminates where societies stood, where we are today, and where we may be heading.

Free Download Sustainability als Chance: Wie Nachhaltigkeit Spaß macht und zur Mitarbeit verführt
Deutsch | 2024 | ISBN: 3648175572 | 272 Pages | PDF (True) | 5 MB
Der Nutzen von Nachhaltigkeit für Unternehmen ist unbestritten. Jedoch sollte Sustainability nicht als lästige Pflicht empfunden werden, sondern vor allem Spaß machen und Lust auf mehr wecken. Mit diesem Ansatz schlagen Susanne Kaldschmidt und Birgit Behrens-Otto zwei konkrete Wege vor, wie Unternehmen kurz- bzw. langfristig Nachhaltigkeit in ihre Organisation integrieren können. Zum einen über den schnellen Weg des Nachhaltigkeitsberichts, in dem die bestehende Unternehmenspraxis dokumentiert und kommuniziert wird. Zum anderen über einen Roadtrip, bei dem Nachhaltigkeit Schritt für Schritt kontinuierlich entwickelt wird.

Free Download Chance Encounters: A Bioethics for a Damaged Planet by Kristien Hens, Christina Stadlbauer, Bart H M Vandeput
English | November 21, 2022 | ISBN: 1800648502 | 268 pages | PDF | 15 Mb
In this rigorous and necessary book, Kristien Hens brings together bioethics and the philosophy of biology to argue that the role of the philosopher in scientific research is ethically necessary, and that it can also improve the quality and coherence of the research itself, ensuring that concepts employed, be it genes or autism or development, are used consistently and thoughtfully across interdisciplinary projects. She argues that chance and uncertainty play a central role in bioethics, and we must therefore focus as much on what we know as on what we create: in describing organisms and practices we make the world. As such, this is necessarily an ethical activity.

Free Download A Second Chance: A Federal Judge Decides Who Deserves It by Judge Frederic Block
English | September 17th, 2024 | ISBN: 1620978873 | 256 pages | True EPUB | 0.44 MB
A sitting federal judge’s lively and provocative recounting of six cases, to make the argument for revisiting overly punitive sentences

Free Download The Second Chance in Life (Motivation and Life Skills) by Dr Bhaskar Bora
English | March 14, 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09VKCNXC7 | 300 pages | EPUB | 1.40 Mb
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Free Download The Design Inference: Eliminating Chance through Small Probabilities by William A Dembski, Winston Ewert
English | November 16, 2023 | ISBN: 1637120346 | 583 pages | PDF | 16 Mb
A landmark of the intelligent design movement, The Design Inference revolutionized our understanding of how we detect intelligent causation. Originally published twenty-five years ago, it has now been revised and expanded into a second edition that greatly sharpens its exploration of design inferences. This new edition tackles questions about design left unanswered by David Hume and Charles Darwin, navigating the intricate nexus of chance, probability, and design, and thereby offering a novel lens for understanding the world. Using modern concepts of probability and information, it exposes the inadequacy of undirected causes in scientific inquiry. It lays out how we infer design via events that are both improbable and specified. Amid controversial applications to biology, it makes a compelling case for intelligent design, challenging the prevalent neo-Darwinian evolutionary narrative. Dembski and Ewert have written a groundbreaking work that doesn’t merely comment on contemporary scientific discourse but fundamentally transforms it.

Free Download Frederic Block, "A Second Chance: A Federal Judge Decides Who Deserves It"
English | ISBN: 1620978873 | 2024 | 256 pages | EPUB | 441 KB
A sitting federal judge’s lively and provocative recounting of six cases, to make the argument for revisiting overly punitive sentences

Free Download The Random Factor: How Chance and Luck Profoundly Shape Our Lives and the World around Us by Prof. Mark Robert Rank
English | April 23, 2024 | ISBN: 0520390962 | 302 pages | MOBI | 0.85 Mb
Upending notions of predictability and rugged individualism to reveal how truly random the world is.