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Author : Joseph Mazur
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1780749015
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fluke written by Joseph Mazur and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-06-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the chances?! This exclamation greets the scarcely believable coincidence – you’re picked up by the same taxi driver several years and thousands of miles apart or, in a second-hand bookshop far from home, you find your own childhood copy of Winnie-the-Pooh on the shelf. But the unlikely is more probable than you think. Against every fibre of common sense, the fact is that it’s quite likely that some squirrel, somewhere, will be struck by lightning as it crosses the road. The chaos and unpredictability of our lives is an illusion. There is a rational order to the universe, and it’s called mathematics. Fluke is a fascinating investigation into the true nature of chance, a must-read for maths enthusiasts and avid storytellers alike, it tears down the veil of improbability to reveal the wonderfully possible.

Author : Robert Mazur
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316080373
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Infiltrator written by Robert Mazur and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2009-07-27 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The electrifying true story of Robert Mazur's life as an undercover agent who infiltrated one of the world's largest drug cartels by posing as a high-level money launderer -- the inspiration for the major motion picture The Infiltrator. Robert Mazur spent years undercover infiltrating the Medellín Cartel's criminal hierarchy. The dirty bankers and businessmen he befriended -- some of whom still shape power across the globe -- knew him as Bob Musella, a wealthy, mob-connected big shot living the good life. Together they partied in $1,000-per-night hotel suites, drank bottles of the world's finest champagne, drove Rolls-Royce convertibles, and flew in private jets. But under Mazur's Armani suits and in his Renwick briefcase, recorders whirred silently, capturing the damning evidence of their crimes. The Infiltrator is the story of how Mazur helped bring down the unscrupulous bankers who manipulated complex international finance systems to serve drug lords, corrupt politicians, tax cheats, and terrorists. It is a shocking chronicle of the rise and fall of one of the biggest and most intricate money-laundering operation of all time-an enterprise that cleaned and moved hundreds of millions of dollars a year. Filled with dangerous lies, near misses, and harrowing escapes, The Infiltrator is as bracing and explosive as the greatest fiction thrillers -- only it's all true.

Author : Gail Mazur
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022634973X
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forbidden City written by Gail Mazur and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: from “Mount Fuji” A draughtsman’s draughtsman, Hokusai at 70 thought he’d begun to grasp the structures of birds and beasts, insects and fish, of the way plants grow, hoped that by 90 he’d have penetrated to their essential nature. And more, by 100, I will have reached the stage where every dot, every mark I make will be alive. You always loved that resolve, you’d repeat joyfully—Hokusai’s utterance of faith in work’s possibilities, its reward, that, at 130, he’d perhaps have learned to draw. Gail Mazur’s poems in Forbidden City build an engaging meditative structure upon the elements of mortality and art, eloquently contemplating the relationship of art and life—and the dynamic possibilities of each in combination. At the collection’s heart is the poet’s long marriage to the artist Michael Mazur (1935–2009). A fascinating range of tone infuses the book—grieving, but clear-eyed rather than lugubrious, sometimes whimsical, even comical, and often exuberant. The note of pleasure, as in an old tradition enriched by transience, runs through the work, even in the final poem, “Grief,” where “our ravenous hold on the world” is a powerful central element.

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summary of Robert Mazur's The Infiltrator written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-07-23T22:59:00Z with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 My grandfather, who worked for a moving company, took me to the Friendly Club to show me off to his friends. I was five years old at the time. Everyone listened while I played the accordion, and my grandfather couldn’t wait to sit me up on the bar. #2 I was excited to be working for the IRS, but I was shocked by how un exciting it was. It felt like I had been sold a bill of goods. Later that day, Tony Carpinella rescued me, explaining that the office had two factions: desk jockeys like Skolnick, and guys like himself who got things done. #3 I was a special agent in New York City, and I was transferred to Tampa to help combat the drug trade and money laundering. I enjoyed the position, and it was exactly where I wanted to be. #4 I developed a undercover identity for my first undercover assignment, the Tampa Greenback task force had teamed up with the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Agency to infiltrate a huge maritime marijuana smuggling ring.

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summary of Joseph Mazur's The Motion Paradox written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-06-10T22:59:00Z with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Zeno’s paradoxes are a series of arguments that contradict common sense and have been misunderstood for more than two and a half millennia. They raise a fundamental question about the universe: Are time and space continuous like an unbroken line, or do they come in discrete units, like a string of beads. #2 Zeno’s paradoxes were absurd, and many thought so. They were considered embarrassments to mathematicians’ investigations of infinity and the continuum, and the Greeks abandoned such investigations. #3 The paradox of the dichotomy is a demonstration that our understanding of motion is intricately tangled between the discrete and continuous impressions of time and space. We measure time as a duration and think of motion as continuous. #4 Zeno of Elea, a philosopher who came to Athens from Croton in southern Italy, was reading from his famous book on philosophy. He argued that if a thing can be divided, its divided parts can also be divided and such divisions can continue indefinitely. From this, he concluded that change is not possible.

Author : Mary Ann Shaffer
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408803313
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society written by Mary Ann Shaffer and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-05-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beloved, life-affirming international bestseller which has sold over 5 million copies worldwide - now a major film starring Lily James, Matthew Goode, Jessica Brown Findlay, Tom Courtenay and Penelope Wilton To give them hope she must tell their story It's 1946. The war is over, and Juliet Ashton has writer's block. But when she receives a letter from Dawsey Adams of Guernsey – a total stranger living halfway across the Channel, who has come across her name written in a second hand book – she enters into a correspondence with him, and in time with all the members of the extraordinary Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Through their letters, the society tell Juliet about life on the island, their love of books – and the long shadow cast by their time living under German occupation. Drawn into their irresistible world, Juliet sets sail for the island, changing her life forever.

Author : Laura Mazur
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470687509
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Marketing Masters written by Laura Mazur and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-08-11 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conversations with Marketing Masters offers new insights by gathering the collected wisdom of the most influential marketing thinkers of our age, each of whom has given a structured interview. Covering a wide range of issues and illustrating concepts with cases of success and failure, these seminal dialogues offer a rare look at what made each master great – and a glimpse of the marketing future. The Marketing Masters featured are Philip Kotler, David Aaker, Jean-Claude Larreche, Regis McKenna, Don Peppers, John Quelch, Al Ries, Martha Rogers, Don Schultz, Patricia Seybold, Jack Trout and Lester Wunderman. The conversations are free-flowing dialogues in which each personality is allowed to shine through.

Author : T. Victoria Hansen
Publisher : Hudson Hills
ISBN 13 : 9781555951610
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prints of Michael Mazur with a Catalogue Raisonné 1956-1999 written by T. Victoria Hansen and published by Hudson Hills. This book was released on 2000 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This magnificent volume brings together essays from four different leading authorities, covering various aspects of Mazur's life and career, along with a comprehensive catalogue raisonne of his prints. 44 colour& 121 b/w illustrations

Author : Joseph Mazur
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691138907
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What's Luck Got to Do with It? written by Joseph Mazur and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-06 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mathematician Mazur traces the history of gambling from the earliest known archaeological evidence of dice-playing among Neolithic peoples to the first systematic mathematical games of change during the Renaissance, and explains the mathematics behind gambling--including the laws of probability, statistics, and betting against expectations. Photos.

Author : Kevin Mazur
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108843271
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revolution in Syria written by Kevin Mazur and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing local trajectories of conflict, Mazur explains how the Syrian uprising became a civil war fought largely along ethnic lines.