A Business Week New York Times Business & USA Today Bestseller " Ambitious & readable an engaging introduction to the oddsmakers whom Bernstein regards as true humanists helping to release mankind from the choke holds of superstition & fatalism" -The New York Times " An extraordinarily entertaining & informative book" -The Wall Street Journal "A lively panoramic book Against the Gods sets up an ambitious premise & then delivers on it" -Business Week " Deserves to be & surely will be widely read" -The Economist "A challenging book one that may change forever the way people think about the world" -Worth " No one else could have written a book of such central importance with so much charm & excitement" -Robert Heilbroner author The Worldly Philosophers " With his wonderful knowledge of the history & current manifestations of risk Peter Bernstein brings us Against the Gods Nothing like it will come out of the financial world this year or ever I speak carefully no one should miss it" -John Kenneth Galbraith Professor of Economics Emeritus Harvard University In this unique exploration of the role of risk in our society Peter Bernstein argues that the notion of bringing risk under control is one of the central ideas that distinguishes modern times from the distant past Against the Gods chronicles the remarkable intellectual adventure that liberated humanity from oracles & soothsayers by means of the powerful tools of risk management that are available to us today " An extremely readable history of risk" -Barron's " Fascinating this challenging volume will help you understand the uncertainties that every investor must face" -Money "A singular achievement" -Times Literary Supplement " There's a growing market for savants who can render the recondite intelligibly-witness Stephen Jay Gould (natural history) Oliver Sacks (disease) Richard Dawkins (heredity) James Gleick (physics) Paul Krugman (economics)-and Bernstein would mingle well in their company" -The Australian ...

An account of all the new & surprising evidence now available for the beginnings of the earliest civilizations that contradict the standard narrative Why did humans abandon hunting & gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock & cereal grains & governed by precursors of today's states? Most people believe that plant & animal domestication allowed humans finally to settle down & form agricultural villages towns & states which made possible civilization law public order & a presumably secure way of living But archaeological & historical evidence challenges this narrative The first agrarian states says James C Scott were born of accumulations of domestications first fire then plants livestock subjects of the state captives & finally women in the patriarchal family-all of which can be viewed as a way of gaining control over reproduction Scott explores why we avoided sedentism & plow agriculture the advantages of mobile subsistence the unforeseeable disease epidemics arising from crowding plants animals & grain & why all early states are based on millets & cereal grains & unfree labor He also discusses the "barbarians" who long evaded state control as a way of understanding continuing tension between states & nonsubject peoples ...

An account of all the new & surprising evidence now available that contradicts the standard narrative for the beginnings of the earliest civilizations 336 pages 13 b-w illus Scott James C ...

The worst has happened Fleet is tearing Itself apart Some of the mutineers see injustice in the unequal spread of the rejuvenation drugs that offer virtual immortality to the rich; others are simply thirsty for power or for blood The Loyalists meanwhile fight desperately to preserve the rule of law In Familias Regnant space But when Esmay Suiza-Serrano Is unceremoniously booted out of Fleet the apparent victim of Family politics she has no Idea of the whirlwind of conflict Into which she is about to be drawn As the noose tightens on galactic civilization great battles will be fought & greater loves affirmed & old friends will meet their destinies ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play In one of the most harrowing true stories of World War II three US Navy airmen crash land their torpedo bomber in the South Pacific & find themselves on a tiny life raft surrounded by open ocean No food No water No hope of rescue Against incredible odds these three virtual strangers must survive storms sharks starvation & each other as they try to sail more than a thousand miles to safety ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play CJ Adams of The Odd Life Of Timothy Green stars as Zach Wade a mischievous kid who
- along with his younger sister Hannah (Erin Pitt of American Girl Isabelle Dances into the Spotlight & Camp Rock 2) & their devoted dog Chinook
- become lost in the wilderness when their small plane has engine problems & must make an emergency landing Their mom (Natasha Henstridge of She Spies & The Whole Nine Yards) & dad (Ted Whittall of Beauty & The Beast) are frantic & rescue teams are searching But for the next few days Zach Hannah & Chinook must learn how to combine their skills trust their instincts & navigate a terrain as beautiful as it is untamed John Tench (Tooth Fairy) co-stars in this exciting family adventure about loyalty bravery & surviving AGAINST THE WILD Actors Natasha Henstridge CJ Adams Erin Pitt Ted Whittall & John Tench Director Richard Boddington Year 2013

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Starring Robert Beatty Jack Warner & Simone Signoret this is the story of a diverse group of people from very different backgrounds who were brought together in one of the strangest enterprises of the war Sabotage was their job; sabotage organised from London in the form of macabre practical jokes as ingenious as they were injurious to the enemy The work was over-clouded with the constant fear of discovery
- & what it would mean Actors Robert Beatty Simone Signoret Jack Warner Gordon Jackson Paul Dupuis Gisele Preville John Slater Peter Illing & James Robertson Justice Director Charles Crichton Certificate PGLanguages English Duration 1 hour & 34 minutes (approx)
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One of the greatest challenges Agamben presents to his readers is the vast & often bewildering range of sources he draws upon in his work Looking at figures including Michel Foucault St Paul Nietzsche the Marquis de Sade Simone Weil & Hannah Arendt this one-stop reference to Agamben's influences covers 30 thinkers his primary interlocutors his secondary references & the figures who lurk in the background of his arguments without being directly mentioned ...

None can defy the will of the gods but the gods themselves Driven by the ambition of their king the Greeks have arrived on the shores of Troy Some seek power some seek revenge while still others seek the great moment in battle that will define their place in history Agamemnon is a fast-paced strategy board game in which two players take on the roles of ancient Greek gods during the Trojan War By tactically deploying warriors to where they&re needed across the board each player may influence the final outcome of the battles famously detailed in Homer&s Iliad Some areas will be decided by the strength of the warriors others by sheer weight of numbers & some by the inspiration your heroes provide To begin the game Strings of Fate tiles are placed on their matching spaces on the board & each player receives one set of fifteen playing tiles These tiles come in three varieties Warriors with a numerical value marking their strength Leaders with both a letter rank & a strength value & Weavers who have no strength or rank but instead manipulate the Strings of Fate Each player will shuffle their tiles face down in front of them The first player flips over one of their tiles & places it on any available space If it’s a Weaver its effect immediately comes into play the Warp Weaver may swap two adjacent Strings of Fate whilst the Weft Weaver simply splits all strings it’s connected to After the first turn each player flips & plays two tiles on their turns Once all the tiles have been placed each string is resolved each Strength String is won by the player with the highest combined strength contained within it; each Leadership String is won by the player with the single highest ranked tile within the string; & Force Strings are won by the player with the most tiles including Weavers in the string Players claim all the tiles from Strings of Fate they have won & the player with the most tiles at the end wins Players 2 Playing time 20-30 minutes Ages 12 ...

One day the world was enveloped by a mysterious blinding light The destruction it caused was terrible even as the light itself was sublime in its beauty & it made those who witnessed the awesome display think of the unrestrained rage & fury of the divine The central continent from where the light is believed to have originated from went silent while at the same time demons began to spread throughout the world like a plague Amongst the survivors of the catastrophe that fateful day became known as the " Day of Light" Sometime after the events of the Day of Light a young man by the name of Weiss who had lost all memory of himself encounters an enigmatic woman named Eva who introduces herself as an Agent of the Divine It is from her that Weiss learns that he has committed the grievous sin of deicide & that in order for him to atone for his crime he is to become the " Vessel" in which the power of the divinity he had slaughtered will be stored For it will be that power that will be used to resurrect the one whose life he stole For those who betray the divine will pay for their sins in the space which separates salvation & damnation as will their progeny Battle your foes with a totally revamped active grid-based battle system Enjoy all character art movies & environments in glorious high definition Play Station Move compatible mini games Travel seamlessly across an all new Agarest universe with the Active Animation Adventure engine as featured in the Koei RPG & Trinity Universe& ...