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The Power of Nothing to Lose: The Hail Mary Effect in Politics, War, and Business, Silber William L.


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Автор: Silber William L.
Название:  The Power of Nothing to Lose: The Hail Mary Effect in Politics, War, and Business
ISBN: 9780063011526
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
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ISBN-10: 0063011522
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 256
Вес: 0.45 кг.
Дата издания: 17.08.2021
Язык: English
Размер: 210 x 140 x 23
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: The hail mary effect in politics, war, and business
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Following books by Malcolm Gladwell and Dan Ariely, noted economics professor William L. Silber explores the Hail Mary effect, from its origins in sports to its applications to history, nature, politics, and business.

A quarterback like Green Bays Aaron Rodgers gambles with a Hail Mary pass at the end of a football game when he has nothing to lose -- the risky throw might turn defeat into victory, or end in a meaningless interception. Rodgers may not realize it, but he has much in common with figures such as George Washington, Rosa Parks, Woodrow Wilson, and Adolph Hitler, all of whom changed the modern world with their risk-loving decisions.

In The Power of Nothing to Lose, award-winning economist William Silber explores the phenomenon in politics, war, and business, where situations with a big upside and limited downside trigger gambling behavior like with a Hail Mary. Silber describes in colorful detail how the American Revolution turned on such a gamble. The famous scene of Washington crossing the Delaware on Christmas night to attack the enemy may not look like a Hail Mary, but it was. Washington said days before his risky decision, If this fails I think the game will be pretty well up. Rosa Parks remained seated in the white section of an Alabama bus, defying local segregation laws, an act that sparked the modern civil rights movement in America. It was a life-threatening decision for her, but she said, I was not frightened. I just made up my mind that as long as we accepted that kind of treatment it would continue, so I had nothing to lose.

The risky exploits of George Washington and Rosa Parks made the world a better place, but demagogues have inflicted great damage with Hail Marys. Towards the end of World War II, Adolph Hitler ordered a desperate counterattack, the Battle of the Bulge, to stem the Allied advance into Germany. He said, The outcome of the battle would spell either life or death for the German nation. Hitler failed to change the wars outcome, but his desperate gamble inflicted great collateral damage, including the worst wartime atrocity on American troops in Europe.

Silber shares these illuminating insights on these figures and more, from Woodrow Wilson to Donald Trump, asylum seekers to terrorists and rogue traders. Collectively they illustrate that downside protection fosters risky undertakings, that it changes the world in ways we least expect.



Improvement

Автор: Silber Joan
Название: Improvement
ISBN: 1911630067 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781911630067
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Описание: A bold and piercing novel about a young single mother, her eccentric aunt and the decisions they make that have unexpected implications for the world around them.

This war ain`t over :

Автор: Silber, Nina,
Название: This war ain`t over :
ISBN: 1469646544 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469646541
Издательство: Turpin
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Описание: The New Deal era witnessed a surprising surge in popular engagement with the history and memory of the Civil War era. From the omnipresent book and film Gone with the Wind and the scores of popular theater productions to Aaron Copeland's ""A Lincoln Portrait,"" it was hard to miss America's fascination with the war in the 1930s and 1940s. Nina Silber deftly examines the often conflicting and politically contentious ways in which Americans remembered the Civil War era during the years of the Depression, the New Deal, and World War II. In doing so, she reveals how the debates and events of that earlier period resonated so profoundly with New Deal rhetoric about state power, emerging civil rights activism, labor organizing and trade unionism, and popular culture in wartime. At the heart of this book is an examination of how historical memory offers people a means of understanding and defining themselves in the present. Silber reveals how, during a moment of enormous national turmoil, the events and personages of the Civil War provided a framework for reassessing national identity, class conflict, and racial and ethnic division. The New Deal era may have been the first time Civil War memory loomed so large for the nation as a whole, but, as the present moment suggests, it was hardly the last.

White Hot Grief Parade: A Memoir

Автор: Silber Alexandra
Название: White Hot Grief Parade: A Memoir
ISBN: 1643132466 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781643132464
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Alexandra "Al" Silber seems to have everything: brilliance, beauty, and talent in spades. But when her beloved father dies after a decade-long battle with cancer when she is just a teenager, it feels like the end of everything. Lost in grief, Al and her mother hardly know where to begin with the rest of their lives.

Into this grieving house burst Al's three friends from theatre camp, determined to help out as only drama students know how--and they're moving in for the duration. Over the course of that winter, the now five-strong household will do battle with everything Death can throw at them--meddling relatives, merciless bureaucracy, soul-sapping sadness, the endless Tupperware. They will learn (almost) everything about love and will eventually return to the world, altered in different ways by their time in a home by a river.

Told with raw passion, candor and wit, White Hot Grief Parade is an ode to the restorative power of family and friendship--and the unbreakable bond, even in death, between father and daughter.


Improvement

Автор: Silber Joan
Название: Improvement
ISBN: 1911630075 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781911630074
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Описание: A bold and piercing novel about a young single mother, her eccentric aunt and the decisions they make that have unexpected implications for the world around them.

Leben Oliver Cromwell`s, Protectors Von England; Volume 1

Автор: Silber Benjamin
Название: Leben Oliver Cromwell`s, Protectors Von England; Volume 1
ISBN: 0343463814 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780343463816
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Автор: John Silber
Название: Kant`s Ethics: The Good, Freedom, and the Will
ISBN: 161451075X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781614510758
Издательство: Walter de Gruyter
Цена: 210690.00 T
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Описание: Kant is commonly regarded as a deontologist, and duty, rather than the good, is placed at the center of his ethics. By a comprehensive examination of Kant's views of the good, freedom and the will, this book aims to dispel this common misconception of Kant's ethics and to replace it with a richer understanding that gives proper emphasis to the central importance of the good, restoring the balanced relationship Kant intended between duty and the good. The Enlightenment, by undermining the religious foundations of morality, prompted Kant to offer a new foundation for ethics based not on religion but on reason. This book is highly relevant to the contemporary discussion of Kant. Its emphasis on the importance of the concept of the good in Kant's ethics represents an important alternative to most interpretations advanced today.

Gender and the Sectional Conflict

Автор: Nina Silber
Название: Gender and the Sectional Conflict
ISBN: 1469627078 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469627076
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: In an insightful exploration of gender relations during the Civil War, Nina Silber compares broad ideological constructions of masculinity and femininity among Northerners and Southerners. She argues that attitudes about gender shaped the experiences of the Civil War's participants, including how soldiers and their female kin thought about their ""causes"" and obligations in wartime. Despite important similarities, says Silber, differing gender ideologies shaped the way each side viewed, participated in, and remembered the war.Silber finds that rhetoric on both sides connected soldiers' reasons for fighting to the women left at home. Consequently, although in different ways, women on both sides took up new roles to advance the wartime agenda. At the same time, both Northern and Southern women were accused of waning patriotism as the war dragged on, but their responses to such charges differed. Finally, noting that our postwar memories are often dominated by images of Southern belles, Silber considers why Northern women, despite their heroic contributions to the Union cause, have faded from Civil War memory. Silber's investigation offers a new understanding of how Unionists and Confederates perceived their reasons for fighting, of the new attitudes and experiences that women - black and white - on both sides took up, and of the very different ways that Northern and Southern women were remembered after the war ended.

Kant`s Ethics: The Good, Freedom, and the Will

Автор: John Silber
Название: Kant`s Ethics: The Good, Freedom, and the Will
ISBN: 1614510717 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781614510710
Издательство: Walter de Gruyter
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Описание: By a comprehensive examination of Kant`s views of the good, freedom and the will, this book aims to dispel this common misconception of Kant`s ethics and to replace it with a richer understanding that gives proper emphasis to the central importance of the good, restoring the balanced relationship Kant intended between duty and the good.

The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World

Автор: Silber William
Название: The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World
ISBN: 0691175381 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691175386
Издательство: Wiley
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How silver influenced two hundred years of world history, and why it matters today

This is the story of silver's transformation from soft money during the nineteenth century to hard asset today, and how manipulations of the white metal by American president Franklin D. Roosevelt during the 1930s and by the richest man in the world, Texas oil baron Nelson Bunker Hunt, during the 1970s altered the course of American and world history. FDR pumped up the price of silver to help jump start the U.S. economy during the Great Depression, but this move weakened China, which was then on the silver standard, and facilitated Japan's rise to power before World War II. Bunker Hunt went on a silver-buying spree during the 1970s to protect himself against inflation and triggered a financial crisis that left him bankrupt.

Silver has been the preferred shelter against government defaults, political instability, and inflation for most people in the world because it is cheaper than gold. The white metal has been the place to hide when conventional investments sour, but it has also seduced sophisticated investors throughout the ages like a siren. This book explains how powerful figures, up to and including Warren Buffett, have come under silver's thrall, and how its history guides economic and political decisions in the twenty-first century.


Create: Tools from Seriously Talented People to Unleash Your Creative Life

Автор: Silber Marc
Название: Create: Tools from Seriously Talented People to Unleash Your Creative Life
ISBN: 1633539822 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781633539822
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Цена: 18380.00 T
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Описание: Find Your Creative Artist Within

Creative conversations from some of the world's top photographers, filmmakers, Grammy award winners, TED presenters, actors, CEOs and more

Time for a new mindset. Many of us think of creativity as something distant and incompatible with daily life--a skill that artists get to use, but not the rest of us. Maybe you feel like a land-locked surfer, yearning for exhilarating rides. Or maybe you live for the few hours a week when you can take photographs, paint, or write. It's time for a new mindset. Create shows you how to rediscover the artist within you.

Live a more creative life. People who make a living in the creative arts know that there is a cycle to unlocking the imagination. Visualize, know your tools, work your craft, refine, share. When you tap into this cycle, you'll find ways to operate at your highest state in all aspects of life.

Find your creative purpose. Overcoming the barriers to innovation is easier than you think. Marc Silber, best selling author, award-wining creative and educator, shows you how to avoid the traps of procrastination, overthinking, and self-doubt. The exercises in Create are specifically designed to help you find certainty and confidence in self-expression.

Learn how to:

  • Master the techniques of visualization
  • Draw inspiration from the world around you
  • Collaborate with people who can further your vision
  • Share with others to spread the joy

If you enjoyed motivational books like The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, and Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition, you'll love Create.


Pentateuch with Targum Onkelos and Rashi`s Commentary: Torah the Book of Devarim, Volume V (Hebrew / English)

Автор: Rabbi M. Silber
Название: Pentateuch with Targum Onkelos and Rashi`s Commentary: Torah the Book of Devarim, Volume V (Hebrew / English)
ISBN: 1607963000 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781607963004
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Adaptive Project Management: Leading Complex and Uncertain Projects

Автор: Silber Andy
Название: Adaptive Project Management: Leading Complex and Uncertain Projects
ISBN: 163492150X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781634921503
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Описание: This is the Digital Practitioner Foundation Study Guide for the DPBoK Part 1Examination. It gives an overview of every learning objective included in the DigitalPractitioner Foundation syllabus, and provides in-depth coverage on preparing andtaking the DPBoK Part 1 Examination. It is specifically designed to help individualsprepare for certification.This Study Guide is excellent material for:¢ Senior digital business professionals who need an increased awareness of digitalpractices¢ Mid-career IT professionals who need to stay relevant and validate their digitalSubject Matter Expert (SME) status in specific domain areas¢ Entry-level computing and digital business professionals¢ College-level students and computing and digital business majorsIt covers the following topics:¢ An introduction to DPBoK Foundation certification, including the DPBoK Part 1Examination¢ Key terminology, key concepts, and the structure of the Body of Knowledge¢ Basic concepts employed by the Digital Practitioner¢ The capabilities of digital infrastructure and initial concerns for its effective, efficient,and secure operation¢ The objectives and activities of application development¢ Why product management is formalized as a company or team grows, and thedifferences between product and project management¢ The key concerns and practices of work management as a team increases in size¢ The basic concepts and practices of operations management in a digital/IT context¢ How to coordinate as the organization grows into multiple teams and multipleproducts¢ IT investment and portfolio management¢ Organizational structure, human resources, and cultural factors¢ Governance, risk, security, and compliance¢ Information and data management on a large scale¢ Practices and methods for managing complexity using Enterprise Architecture


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