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Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

Paperback • 1998 • English

Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

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About the book

A Business Week, New York Times Business, and USA Today Bestseller "Ambitious and readable ...an engaging introduction to the oddsmakers, whom Bernstein regards as true humanists helping to release mankind from the choke holds of superstition and fatalism." -The New York Times "An extraordinarily entertaining and informative book." -The Wall Street Journal "A lively panoramic book ...Against the Gods sets up an ambitious premise and then delivers on it." -Business Week "Deserves to be, and s...Show more

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ISBN

9780471295631

Publisher

John Wiley Sons

Published year

1998

Language

English

Original title

Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

Format

Paperback

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