Title Luck : the brilliant randomness of everyday life / Nicholas Rescher.

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New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995.

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Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department	123 RES	Check Shelf
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Edition	1st ed.
Description	ix, 237 pages ; 19 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-231) and index.
Contents	I. Enigmas of Chance -- II. Failures of Foresight -- III. Different Faces of Luck -- IV. Infinity of Accidents -- V. Visions of Sugarplums -- VI. Philosophers of Gambling -- VII. Musings of Moralists -- VIII. Can the Tiger Be Tamed? -- IX. Life in a Halfway House -- Appendix: Taking Luck's Measure.
Summary	The author, a philosopher, offers examples from antiquity to the present of how luck or chance influences life and of how to come to terms with life in a chaotic world.
Subject	Chance.
	Fortune.
	Fate and fatalism.
	Luck.
	Chance. (OCoLC)fst00852032
	Fate and fatalism. (OCoLC)fst00921813
	Fortune. (OCoLC)fst00933058
	Toeval.
	Schicksal (DE-588)4052333-0
	Glück (DE-588)4021325-0
	Philosophie (DE-588)4045791-6
	Zufall (DE-588)4068050-2
	Glück.
ISBN	0374194289 (alk. paper)
	9780374194284 (alk. paper)

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