[PDF] Rules For 50 50 Chances eBook

Author : Kate McGovern
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 43,12 MB
Release : 2015-11-24
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0374301603

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Seventeen-year-old Rose Levenson has a decision to make: Does she want to know how she's going to die? Because when Rose turns eighteen, she can take the test that tells her if she carries the genetic mutation for Huntington's disease, the degenerative condition that is slowly killing her mother. With a fifty-fifty shot at inheriting her family's genetic curse, Rose is skeptical about pursuing anything that presumes she'll live to be a healthy adult-including her dream career in ballet and the possibility of falling in love. But when she meets a boy from a similarly flawed genetic pool and gets an audition for a dance scholarship across the country, Rose begins to question her carefully laid rules.

Author : Kate McGovern
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,56 MB
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0374305471

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Everyone has a fear of missing out on something—a party, a basketball game, a hangout after school. But what if it’s life that you’ll be missing out on? When Astrid learns that her cancer has returned, she hears about a radical technology called cryopreservation that may allow her to have her body frozen until a future time when—and if—a cure is available. With her boyfriend, Mohit, and her best friend, Chloe, Astrid goes on a road trip in search of that possibility. To see if it’s real. To see if it’s worth it. For fear of missing out on everything.

Author : Kate McGovern
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 26,29 MB
Release : 2015-11-24
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0374301581

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"Seventeen-year-old Rose Levenson must decide whether or not she wants to take the test to find out if she has Huntington's disease, the degenerative disease that is slowly killing her mother"--

Author : Leonard Mlodinow
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 26,63 MB
Release : 2008-05-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 0307377547

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the classroom to the courtroom and from financial markets to supermarkets, an intriguing and illuminating look at how randomness, chance, and probability affect our daily lives that will intrigue, awe, and inspire. “Mlodinow writes in a breezy style, interspersing probabilistic mind-benders with portraits of theorists.... The result is a readable crash course in randomness.” —The New York Times Book Review With the born storyteller's command of narrative and imaginative approach, Leonard Mlodinow vividly demonstrates how our lives are profoundly informed by chance and randomness and how everything from wine ratings and corporate success to school grades and political polls are less reliable than we believe. By showing us the true nature of chance and revealing the psychological illusions that cause us to misjudge the world around us, Mlodinow gives us the tools we need to make more informed decisions. From the classroom to the courtroom and from financial markets to supermarkets, Mlodinow's intriguing and illuminating look at how randomness, chance, and probability affect our daily lives will intrigue, awe, and inspire.

Author : United States Chess Federation
Publisher : Random House Incorporated
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 47,88 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Games
ISBN : 0812935594

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Explains all legal chess moves, and discusses the regulations governing tournaments, lifetime rankings, and tournament director certification.

Author : Brian Christian
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 44,78 MB
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1627790365

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'Algorithms to Live By' looks at the simple, precise algorithms that computers use to solve the complex 'human' problems that we face, and discovers what they can tell us about the nature and origin of the mind.

Author : Frederick Mosteller
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 11,72 MB
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0486134962

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Remarkable puzzlers, graded in difficulty, illustrate elementary and advanced aspects of probability. These problems were selected for originality, general interest, or because they demonstrate valuable techniques. Also includes detailed solutions.

Author : Joseph K. Blitzstein
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 25,89 MB
Release : 2014-07-24
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1466575573

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Developed from celebrated Harvard statistics lectures, Introduction to Probability provides essential language and tools for understanding statistics, randomness, and uncertainty. The book explores a wide variety of applications and examples, ranging from coincidences and paradoxes to Google PageRank and Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). Additional application areas explored include genetics, medicine, computer science, and information theory. The print book version includes a code that provides free access to an eBook version. The authors present the material in an accessible style and motivate concepts using real-world examples. Throughout, they use stories to uncover connections between the fundamental distributions in statistics and conditioning to reduce complicated problems to manageable pieces. The book includes many intuitive explanations, diagrams, and practice problems. Each chapter ends with a section showing how to perform relevant simulations and calculations in R, a free statistical software environment.

Author : Kate McGovern
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 31,54 MB
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1536218278

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Maple is in fifth grade—again. Now everyone will find out she struggles with reading—or will they? An engaging read for anyone who has ever felt different. Maple Mehta-Cohen has been keeping a secret: she can’t read all that well. She has an impressive vocabulary and loves dictating stories into her recorder—especially the adventures of a daring sleuth who’s half Indian and half Jewish like Maple herself—but words on the page just don’t seem to make sense to her. Despite all Maple’s clever tricks to hide her troubles with reading, her teacher is on to her, and now Maple has to repeat fifth grade. Maple is devastated—what will her friends think? Will they forget about her? She uses her storytelling skills to convince her classmates that she's staying back as a special teacher’s assistant (because of budget cuts, you know). But as Maple navigates the loss of old friendships, the possibility of new ones, and facing her reading challenges head-on, her deception becomes harder to keep up. Can Maple begin to recognize her own strengths, and to love herself—and her brain—just the way she is? Readers who have faced their own trials with school and friendships will enjoy this heartwarming story and its bright, creative heroine.