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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.

Free Download Take a Chance!: 101 Entrepreneurial Lessons for Making It Big (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D2LM2817 | 2024 | 9 hours and 41 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 274 MB
Author: Larry Gaynor
Narrator: Trevor Lawless
You’re An Entrepreneur. You’ve either started or are thinking of starting your own business. Or you’re all in and need to take a chance. Then this book is for you. Starting a business is brutal. 70% of businesses fail after five years and only 25% of businesses make it to 15 years or more. What if you had a crystal ball to guide you through your business cycle so you didn’t make the same mistakes as everyone else? Larry Gaynor is a serial beauty entrepreneur still running TNG Worldwide since 1985. He has dealt with the biggest companies including LOréal, Unilever, Amazon and Walmart.

Free Download Chance Encounters: A Bioethics for a Damaged Planet by Kristien Hens
English | December 9th, 2022 | ISBN: 1800648502 | 268 pages | True EPUB | 12.24 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 Cecily Von Ziegesar, "Take a Chance on Me"
English | 2009 | pages: 240 | ISBN: 0316020664 | EPUB | 0,6 mb
The Carlyle triplets have made a lot of new friends in Manhattan-and more than a few enemies. O stole his best friend’s girlfriend, and A dethroned the queen bee. Now a line has been drawn down Fifth Avenue, and it’s all-out war. Only here, the battles are fought with icy glares and vicious rumors. It’s the Upper East Side, and all’s fair in love and scandal…

Free Download Brian Klaas, "Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters"
English | ISBN: 1668006529 | 2024 | 336 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This "captivating illustration of the follies of trying to model and forecast the unpredictable world" (Financial Times) is both "empowering" (The New Statesman, UK) and "compelling" (New Scientist) as it challenges our most fundamental assumptions-by social scientist and Atlantic writer Brian Klaas.

Free Download Ruhestand als Chance: Die späte Lebensphase entdecken
Deutsch | 2024 | ISBN: 3658434880 | 281 Pages | PDF (True) | 1.6 MB
Dieses Buch richtet sich an alle, die sich frühzeitig mit dem Ruhestand und seinen Herausforderungen und Chancen beschäftigen und sich auf diese vorbereiten möchten. Die „neuen Alten", die heute und in den nächsten Jahren in den Ruhestand gehen, leben länger und gesünder als je zuvor und stehen gleichzeitig vor größeren Herausforderungen und Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten als noch ihre Eltern. Sabine Schröder-Kunz zeigt auf, dass das Alter eine eigene, ganz wichtige Lebensphase ist, die es aktiv zu gestalten gilt.

Free Download Quantum Chance: Nonlocality, Teleportation and Other Quantum Marvels by Nicolas Gisin
English | PDF (True) | 2014 | 122 Pages | ISBN : 3319054724 | 1.7 MB
Quantum physics, which offers an explanation of the world on the smallest scale, has fundamental implications that pose a serious challenge to ordinary logic. Particularly counterintuitive is the notion of entanglement, which has been explored for the past 30 years and posits an ubiquitous randomness capable of manifesting itself simultaneously in more than one place.

Free Download The Random Factor: How Chance and Luck Profoundly Shape Our Lives and the World Around Us (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CYDSF5WZ | 2024 | 8 hours and 10 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 234 MB
Author: Mark Robert Rank
Narrator: Donald Corren
It’s comforting to think that we can be successful because we work hard, climb ladders, and get what we deserve, but each of us has been profoundly touched by randomness. Chance is shown to play a crucial role in shaping outcomes across history, throughout the natural world, and in our everyday lives. In The Random Factor, Mark Robert Rank draws from a wealth of evidence, including interviews and research, to explain how luck and chance play out and reveals how we can use these lessons to guide our personal lives and public policies. This book traverses luck from macro to micro, from events like the Cuban Missile Crisis to our personal encounters and relationships. Rank also delves into the class and race dynamics of chance, emphasizing the stark disparities it brings to light. This transformative book prompts a new understanding of the twists and turns in our daily lives and encourages listeners to fully appreciate the surprising world of randomness in which we live.

Free Download Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CBCTCJ7P | 2024 | 8 hours and 42 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 252 MB
Author: Brian Klaas
Narrator: Brian Klaas
If you could rewind your life to the very beginning and then press play, would everything turn out the same? Or could making an accidental phone call or missing an exit off the highway change not just your life, but history itself? And would you remain blind to the radically different possible world you unknowingly left behind? In Fluke, myth-shattering social scientist Brian Klaas dives deeply into the phenomenon of random chance and the chaos it can sow, taking aim at most people’s neat and tidy storybook version of reality. The book’s argument is that we willfully ignore a bewildering truth: but for a few small changes, our lives-and our societies-could be radically different.

Free Download Erde 2.0 – Technologische Innovationen als Chance für eine Nachhaltige Entwicklung? By Albrecht Rittmann (auth.), Stefan Mappus MdL (eds.)
2005 | 335 Pages | ISBN: 3540213279 | PDF | 7 MB
Innovationen sind die Triebkräfte unserer Entwicklung. Energie- und rohstoffbezogene Technologien werden unser Leben in Zukunft maßgeblich beeinflussen. Angesichts der zur Neige gehenden Rohstoffe auf der Erde, des Klimawandels, der zunehmenden weltweiten Vernetzung und wirtschaftlichen Globalisierung bei gleichzeitigem Auseinanderdriften von Nord und Süd benötigen wir in diesem Bereich Innovationen, die Lösungen für diese Herausforderungen anbieten.Dieses Buch geht der Frage nach, welche zentralen technologischen Entwicklungen uns in Richtung Nachhaltigkeit und Zukunftsfähigkeit weltweit voranbringen. Dargestellt werden Trends und Visionen für die kommenden 20 Jahre. Es werden u.a. Antworten gesucht auf die Fragen welche Wechselwirkungen zwischen den technologischen Entwicklungen bestehen, welche Umweltbelastungen und -entlastungen mit ihnen verbunden sind, vor allem aber welche Anforderungen aus Sicht einer weltweiten nachhaltigen Entwicklung an diese neuen Technologien gestellt werden.