Skin in the Game Tapa dura - 2018

Paperback. Very Good.

Paperback. Good.

Allen Lane, 2018. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Allen Lane, 2018. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Penguin. Hardcover. Used: Good.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. (1993). Hardcover. 0241247470 . No signatures. Foxing to top page edges. Price sticker on rear panel of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. A nice copy of this title.; Fourth edition. xii, [2], 353, [1 (blank)] pages. Burgundy cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 209 x 137mm. "For interested readers who have other vocational plans, its authors-experienced researchers themselves-provide an intimate view of the way professional scholars go about their specialized and challenging tasks.This extensively revised Fourth Edition takes full account of recent developments that have virtually revolutionized certain important areas of the discipline. The computer, as newly written pages demonstrate, not only has eliminated much of the drudgery formerly associated with the gathering, storage, and retrieval of raw data but has made possible many analytical and lexical operations… Leer más

UK: Allen Lane. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. (2018). Hardcover. 0241247470 . No signatures. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. A nice copy of this title.; Third printing. xiii, [1], 279, [11 (blank)] pages. Grey boards with black lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 234 x 151mm. "From the bestselling author of The Black Swan, a bold book that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibilityWhy should we never listen to people who explain rather than do? Why do companies go bust? How is it that we have more slaves today than in Roman times? Why does imposing democracy on other countries never work?The answer: too many people running the world don't have skin in the game. In his inimitable, pugnacious style, Nassim Nicholas Taleb shows that skin in the game applies to all aspects of our lives. It's about having something to lose and taking a risk. Citizens, lab experimenters, artisans,… Leer más