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天时地利人和LIFE: THE ODDS

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作 者:GregoryBaer 著

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出版时间:2003-12-1

I S B N:9781592400331

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This is an entertaining book that succeeds despite its author's missteps as a humorist. In presenting the odds of all manner of events both possible ("Dating a Supermodel") and improbable ("Becoming a Professional Athlete"), Baer (The Great Mutual Fund Trap) is clearly emulating the Worst-Case Scenario books, which have turned studying extreme real-life events into a cottage industry. Baer knows and expertly uses statistics and probabilities: it is fascinating to learn, for example, that the chances of dying by being hit by an asteroid are three times greater than dying in a train crash or an earthquake and are 250 times greater than dying from a shark attack. He also provides some revealing sidebars on certain topics, such as his look at how the odds of celebrity divorce are even worse than the already horrible odds of divorce for newly married couples ("about even money, 1 to 1"). Baer sometimes interrupts his statistical analyses with attempts at Dave Barry-style one-liners, but they fall flat, such as when he insults the livability of Cleveland or comments on the looks of Prince Charles's paramour Camilla Parker Bowles. Because of its range of topics, this book should gain some word-of-mouth praise, however, and will likely improve water-cooler conversations.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

作者简介

GREGORY BAER is the coauthor of The Great Mutual Fund Trap. He has served as
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Institutions and was formerly managing senior counsel at the Federal Reserve Board. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Harvard Law School, he is now a partner in a Washington, D.C., law firm.

目录

Introduction
A Brief Note on Terminology
Part 1:LOVE AND MARRIAGE
 Dating a Supermodel
 Being Poorly Endowed (or Romantically Linked to Someone Poorly Endowed)
 Marrying Royalty
 Marrying a Millionaire
 D-I-V-O-R-C-E
Part 2: CLIMBING THE LADDER OF SUCCESS
 Achieving Sainthood
 Secular Sainthood: Being Awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor
 Getting into an Ivy League College
 Winning a Rhodes Scholarship
 Writing a Best-selling Book
 Going into Space
 Winning an Academy Award
 Growing Up to Be President
Part 3: REALLY BAD STUFF
 Dying by Accident
 Being Struck by Lightning
 Being Possessed by Satan
 Destruction of the Earth
 Destruction of the Universe
Part 4: THE SPORTING LIFE
 Catching a Ball at a Major League Game
 Reaching the Summit of Mount Everest
 Hitting a Hole in One
 Bowling a Perfect Game
 Becoming a Professional Athlete
Part 5: MEDICAL MATTERS
 Getting Hemorrhoids
 Being Killed by Your Doctor
 Dying of the Plague
 Beating Cancer
Part 6: THE HUMAN CONDITION
 Being Six Degrees of Separation from Kevin Bacon (or Anyone Else)
Sharing a Birthday
 Being Overweight--and Losing Those Unwanted Pounds (For Good)!
Being Alone in the Universe
Giving Birth to a Girl
Part 7: VOLENCE AND TRICKERY
Part 8: THE COLOR OF MONEY
Part 9: PANDOM GOOD FORTUNE
Endnotes
Acknowledgments

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