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245	1		_aAgainst the gods : _bthe remarkable story of risk / _cPeter L. Bernstein.
100			_aBernstein, Peter L.
260			_aNew York : _bJohn Wiley & Sons, Inc., _c1998.
300			_axi, 383 pages: _billustrations
300			_c24 cm
500			_aIncludes bibliographic references and index
020			_a978-0-471-29563-1
650			_aRisk management
650			_aDecision making
944			_aCIR
050			_a368 B45a 1998
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953			_pHED6232
546			_ain English
953			_cCollege Library
505			_aTo 1200: beginnings -- The winds of the Greeks and the role of the dice -- As easy as 1,2,3 -- 1200-1700: a thousand outstanding facts -- The Renaissance gambler -- The French connection -- The remarkable notions of the remarkable notions man -- 1700-1900:measurement unlimited -- Considering the nature of man -- The search for moral certainty -- The supreme law of unreason -- The man with the sprained brain -- Peapods and perils -- The fabric of felicity -- 1900-1960: clouds of vagueness and the demand for precision -- The measure of our ignorance -- The radically distinct notion -- The man who counted everything except calories -- The strange case of the anonymous stockbroker -- Degrees of belief: exploring uncertainty -- The failure of invariance -- The theory police -- The fantastic system of side bets -- Awaiting the wildness.
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336			_atext
337			_aunmediated
338			_avolume
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