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The phrase "skin in the game" is one we have often heard but have rarely stopped to truly dissect. It is the backbone of risk management, but it's also an astonishingly complex worldview that, as Nassim Nicholas Taleb shows in this book, applies to literally all aspects of our lives. In his inimitable style, Taleb pulls on everything from Antaeus the Giant to Hammurabi to Donald Trump to Seneca to the ethics of disagreement to create a jaw-dropping...
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Kandoo Films, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Abducted off the sidewalk of suburban America, fifteen-year-old Dani finds herself submerged in the horrific underground world of human trafficking. With no initial assistance from the police, Dani's mother and an ex-prostitute take to the streets in an effort to find her before it is too late.
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Stephanie Plum mysteries volume 20
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English
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"New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum knows better than to mess with family. But when powerful mobster Salvatore 'Uncle Sunny' Sunucchi goes on the lam in Trenton, it's up to Stephanie to find him. Uncle Sunny is charged with murder for running over a guy (twice), and nobody wants to turn him in--not his poker buddies, not his bimbo girlfriend, not his two right-hand men, Shorty and Moe. Even Trenton's hottest cop, Joe Morelli, has skin in the...
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King Oliver novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"When friend of the family and multi-billionaire Roger Ferris comes to Joe with an assignment, he's got no choice but to accept, even if the case is a tough one to stomach. White nationalist Alfred Xavier Quiller has been accused of murder and the sale of sensitive information to the Russians. Ferris has reason to believe Quiller has been set-up and he needs King to see if the charges hold. This seemingly linear assignment becomes a winding quest...
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2022.
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English
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"Most of what we say about books is really about the words inside them: the rosy nostalgic glow for childhood reading, the lifetime companionship of a much-loved novel. But books are things as well as words, objects in our lives as well as worlds in our heads. And just as we crack their spines, loosen their leaves and write in their margins, so they disrupt and disorder us in turn. All books are, as Stephen King put it, 'a uniquely portable magic'....
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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After signing a plea deal to spare his colleagues at Pearson Specter Litt, Mike faces the harsh realities of prison life as he starts his two-year sentence. Meanwhile, the once bustling PSL offices are now a ghost town. The partners have defected, leaving Harvey, Jessica, Louis, Donna, and Rachel to pick up the pieces. With the firm facing numerous lawsuits as fallout of the plea deal, and Harvey on a mission to get Mike released from prison, PSL's...
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Dead Oceans
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Slowdive's fifth record is exactly what the title suggests: an exploration into the shimmering nature of life and the universal touch points within it. While there are parts of this record that could sit neatly next to the atmospheric quality of 1995's Pygmalion; "Everything Is Alive" also manages to break down the boundaries of what's come before it. Spanning psychedelic soundscapes, pulsating '80s electronic elements and John Cale inspired journeys,...
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Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2019
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English
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The Black Swan is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, Antifragile, Skin in the Game, and The Bed of Procrustes.
A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics:...
A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics:...
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Kodansha USA Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"It's a battle of the brushes! The president of the Art Club has challenged Senpai to an art competition, and if Senpai loses, his precious club will be no more. Nagatoro and her friends also have skin in the game since they'll be losing the one place where they can torture Senpai without interruption, but do they stand a chance against the club president's talent and her erotic assault on the senses?" --