Hundred Percent Chance

Author : Robert Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1733159029

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Hundred Percent Chance by Robert Brown Pdf

Author : Steven Woloshin,Lisa Miriam Schwartz,Lisa M. Schwartz,H. Gilbert Welch
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780520252226

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Know Your Chances by Steven Woloshin,Lisa Miriam Schwartz,Lisa M. Schwartz,H. Gilbert Welch Pdf

Understanding risk -- Putting risk in perspective -- Risk charts : a way to get perspective -- Judging the benefit of a health intervention -- Not all benefits are equal : understand the outcome -- Consider the downsides -- Do the benefits outweight the downsides? -- Beware of exaggerated importance -- Beware of exaggerated certainty -- Who's behind the numbers?

Author : Margaret Stohl
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780316279789

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Idols by Margaret Stohl Pdf

The Icons came from the sky. They belong to an inhuman enemy. They ended our civilization, and they can kill us. Most of us. Dol, Ro, Tima, and Lucas are the four Icon Children, the only humans immune to the Icon's power to stop a human heart. Now that Los Angeles has been saved, things are more complicated - and not just because Dol has to choose between Lucas and Ro, the two great loves of her life. As she flees to a resistance outpost hidden beneath a mountain, Dol makes contact with a fifth Icon Child, if only through her visions. When Dol and the others escape to Southeast Asia in search of this missing child, Dol's dreams, feelings and fears collide in an epic showdown that will change more than just four lives -- and stop one heart forever. In this riveting sequel to Icons, filled with nonstop action and compelling romance, bestselling author Margaret Stohl explores what it means to be human and how our greatest weakness can be humanity's strongest chance at survival.

Author : United States. Soil Conservation Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Hydrology
ISBN : MINN:31951D01485233V

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SCS National Engineering Handbook, Section 4: Hydrology by United States. Soil Conservation Service Pdf

Author : Michael J. Neufeld,Michael Berenbaum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : PSU:000053420749

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The Bombing of Auschwitz by Michael J. Neufeld,Michael Berenbaum Pdf

Could the Allies have prevented the deaths of tens of thousands of Holocaust victims? Inspired by a conference held to mark the opening of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, this book brings together the key contributions to this debate.

Author : Morgan Housel
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780593332719

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Same as Ever by Morgan Housel Pdf

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Want to understand the changing world? Start with what stays the same. That’s the amazing conclusion of Morgan Housel’s fascinating, useful, and highly-entertaining book.” — Arthur C. Brooks, Professor, Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School, and #1 New York Times bestselling author From the author of the international blockbuster, THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MONEY, a powerful new tool to unlock one of life’s most challenging puzzles. Every investment plan under the sun is, at best, an informed speculation of what may happen in the future, based on a systematic extrapolation from the known past. Same as Ever reverses the process, inviting us to identify the many things that never, ever change. With his usual elan, Morgan Housel presents a master class on optimizing risk, seizing opportunity, and living your best life. Through a sequence of engaging stories and pithy examples, he shows how we can use our newfound grasp of the unchanging to see around corners, not by squinting harder through the uncertain landscape of the future, but by looking backwards, being more broad-sighted, and focusing instead on what is permanently true. By doing so, we may better anticipate the big stuff, and achieve the greatest success, not merely financial comforts, but most importantly, a life well lived.

Author : Dietmar Arthur Wehr
Publisher : Dietmar Arthur Wehr
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780994821713

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Rumors of Salvation by Dietmar Arthur Wehr Pdf

Rumors of Salvation is the 74,000 word conclusion to the System States Rebellion series of military science fiction that started with Rumors of Glory. With the System States Union now crushed and Trojan’s new Empire on the rise, former foes become allies in a desperate attempt to prevent not only the collapse of human civilization but also the complete extermination of Humanity at the hands of a diabolical new power player. Is salvation really possible or was it all just rumors? RoS contains strategic and tactical space battles as part of the grand vista of an interstellar war from the point of view of both high level strategy and up close and personal fighting.

Author : Zhuo Shiyi
Publisher : Singapore New Reading Technology Pte Ltd
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Invincible Blessing in Doomsday by Zhuo Shiyi Pdf

Everyone on the Blue Star had inexplicably come to a doomsday world littered with zombies.Everyone had only one goal, to survive.Those who lived to the tenth stage would go to the new world.Opening the game in order to extract basic supplies, Chen Que received Blessing's skill.Killed zombies, got flatbread, ten times blessings, and super meat pie.Killing a strange beast would result in a handgun and a hundredfold blessing, as well as a Fire God Gatling.To adopt a small snake, one had to receive a blessing a thousand times that of a normal dragon."Admit a cat, get 10,000 times blessings, and get a cat's mother."

Author : Anna Rhodes,Max Besbris
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781610449168

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Soaking the Middle Class by Anna Rhodes,Max Besbris Pdf

Extreme weather is increasing in scale and severity as global warming worsens. While poorer communities are typically most vulnerable to the negative effects of climate change, even well-resourced communities are increasingly vulnerable as climate-related storms intensify. Yet little is known about how middle-class communities are responding to these storms and the resulting damage. In Soaking the Middle Class, sociologists Anna Rhodes and Max Besbris examine how a middle-class community recovers from a climate-related disaster and how this process fosters inequality within these kinds of places. In 2017, Hurricane Harvey dropped record-breaking rainfall in Southeast Texas resulting in more than $125 billion in direct damages. Rhodes and Besbris followed 59 flooded households in Friendswood, Texas, for two years after the storm to better understand the recovery process in a well-resourced, majority-White, middle-class suburban community. As such, Friendswood should have been highly resilient to storms like Harvey, yet Rhodes and Besbris find that the recovery process exacerbated often-invisible economic inequality between neighbors. Two years after Harvey, some households were in better financial positions than they were before the storm, while others still had incomplete repairs, were burdened with large new debts, and possessed few resources to draw on should another disaster occur. Rhodes and Besbris find that recovery policies were significant drivers of inequality, with flood insurance playing a key role in the divergent recovery outcomes within Friendswood. Households with flood insurance prior to Harvey tended to have higher incomes than those that did not. These households received high insurance payouts, enabling them to replace belongings, hire contractors, and purchase supplies. Households without coverage could apply for FEMA assistance, which offered considerably lower payouts, and for government loans, which would put them into debt. Households without coverage found themselves exhausting their financial resources, including retirement savings, to cover repairs, which put them in even more financially precarious positions than they were before the flood. The vast majority of Friendswood residents chose to repair and return to their homes after Hurricane Harvey. Even this devastating flood did not alter their plans for long-term residential stability, and the structure of recovery policies only further oriented homeowners towards returning to their homes. Prior to Harvey, many Friendswood households relied on flood damage from previous storms to judge their vulnerability and considered themselves at low risk. After Harvey, many found it difficult to assess their level of risk for future flooding. Without strong guidance from federal agencies or the local government on how to best evaluate risk, many residents ended up returning to potentially unsafe places. As climate-related disasters become more severe, Soaking the Middle Class illustrates how inequality in the United States will continue to grow if recovery policies are not fundamentally changed.

Author : Ian Billinghurst
Publisher : Dogwise Publishing
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Dogs
ISBN : 9781617811005

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Give Your Dog a Bone by Ian Billinghurst Pdf

"'Give your dog a bone' deals exclusively with feeding dogs. It is writtenb for people who want easy to read, commonsense guidance on feeding their dogs for maximum health, least cost and least impact on our environment"--Publisher's description.

Author : Robert K. Brown
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1793431493

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Hundred Percent Chance by Robert K. Brown Pdf

Hundred Percent Chance follows the story of a twenty-year old college student who was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of leukemia in 1990 while studying overseas in Lancaster, England. He notices - and then ignores - obvious early symptoms, as you might expect from someone at that age so far from home.This memoir is funny and angry and hopeful and sad and realistic. A coming-of-age story with cancer, it does not pretend that the path to lasting health comes easily, or that a sunny disposition is all you need for everything to work out. It is about much more than just surviving leukemia: tackling adversity through patience and perseverance, stumbling often and getting back up anyway, leaning on humor and love to make it through the worst of times.

Author : Sarah A. Binder,Forrest Maltzman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815703914

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Advice and Dissent by Sarah A. Binder,Forrest Maltzman Pdf

For better or worse, federal judges in the United States today are asked to resolve some of the nation's most important and contentious public policy issues. Although some hold onto the notion that federal judges are simply neutral arbiters of complex legal questions, the justices who serve on the Supreme Court and the judges who sit on the lower federal bench are in fact crafters of public law. In recent years, for example, the Supreme Court has bolstered the rights of immigrants, endorsed the constitutionality of school vouchers, struck down Washington D.C.'s blanket ban on handgun ownership, and most famously, determined the outcome of the 2000 presidential election. The judiciary now is an active partner in the making of public policy. Judicial selection has been contentious at numerous junctures in American history, but seldom has it seemed more acrimonious and dysfunctional than in recent years. Fewer than half of recent appellate court nominees have been confirmed, and at times over the past few years, over ten percent of the federal bench has sat vacant. Many nominations linger in the Senate for months, even years. All the while, the judiciary's caseload grows. Advice and Dissent explores the state of the nation's federal judicial selection system—a process beset by deepening partisan polarization, obstructionism, and deterioration of the practice of advice and consent. Focusing on the selection of judges for the U.S. Courts of Appeals and the U.S. District Courts, the true workhorses of the federal bench, Sarah A. Binder and Forrest Maltzman reconstruct the history and contemporary practice of advice and consent. They identify the political and institutional causes of conflict over judicial selection over the past sixty years, as well as the consequences of such battles over court appointments. Advice and Dissent offers proposals for reforming the institutions of judicial selection, advocating pragmatic reforms that seek

Author : Gary E. Schwartz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780743477413

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The G.O.D. Experiments by Gary E. Schwartz Pdf

Can science lead to God? Esteemed scientist and theoretician Dr. Gary Schwartz tackles this question as he takes readers on a journey of discovery to the miraculous place where science and spirituality meet. Illustrations throughout.

Author : Karen Romano Young
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781452143644

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Hundred Percent by Karen Romano Young Pdf

The last year of elementary school is big for every kid. In this novel, equal parts funny and crushing, utterly honest and perfect for boys and girls alike, Christine Gouda faces change at every turn, starting with her own nickname—Tink—which just doesn't fit anymore. Readers will relate to this strong female protagonist whose voice rings with profound authenticity and absolute novelty, and her year's cringingly painful trials in normalcy—uncomfortable Halloween costumes, premature sleepover parties, crushed crushes, and changing friendships. Throughout all this, Tink learns, what you call yourself, and how you do it, has a lot to do with who you are. This book marks beloved author Karen Romano Young's masterful return to children's literature: a heartbreakingly honest account of what it means to be between girl and woman, elementary and middle school, inside and out—and just what you name that in-between self.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1388 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015035795676

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Hearings by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations Pdf