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Practical Occupational Medicine
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Practical Occupational MedicinePractical Occupational Medicine

The second edition of Practical Occupational Medicine bridges the gap between day-to-day clinical practice, concerned primarily with diagnosis and treatment of disease, and occupational health practice which is concerned with the prevention of work-related disease and the management of ill health in relation to the workplace.
 
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What's Luck Got to Do with It?: The History, Mathematics, and Psychology of the Gambler's Illusion
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What's Luck Got to Do with It?: The History, Mathematics, and Psychology of the Gambler's Illusion

Why do so many gamblers risk it all when they know the odds of winning are against them? Why do they believe dice are "hot" in a winning streak? Why do we expect heads on a coin toss after several flips have turned up tails? What's Luck Got to Do with It? takes a lively and eye-opening look at the mathematics, history, and psychology of gambling to reveal the most widely held misconceptions about luck. It exposes the hazards of feeling lucky, and uses the mathematics of predictable outcomes to show when our chances of winning are actually good.
 
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The Pardoner's Tale (Canterbury Tales )
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The pardoner's tale (canterbury tales )The pardoner's tale (canterbury tales )
"The Pardoner's Tale" (Middle English: The Pardoners Tale) is one of the The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. The story is in the form of an exemplum: the Pardoner first explains the theme he will address, then tells his story and finally draws the conclusion he had already mentioned in his introduction.
The old man mirrors the hypocrisy of the Narrator himself in the way he deceives the three men.
The Pardoner’s work is also based on deceit, selling relics to the unwary.
 
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Numbers Rule Your World: The Hidden Influence of Probabilities and Statistics on Everything You Do
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Numbers Rule Your World: The Hidden Influence of Probabilities and Statistics on Everything You DoNumbers Rule Your World: The Hidden Influence of Probabilities and Statistics on Everything You Do

In the popular tradition of eye-opening bestsellers like Freakonomics, The Tipping Point, and Super Crunchers, this fascinating book from renowned statistician and blogger Kaiser Fung takes you inside the hidden world of facts and figures that affect you every day, in every way.
 
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The Reeve's Tale (Canterbury Tales)
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The reeve's tale (canterbury tales)The reeve's tale (canterbury tales)
The Reeve's Tale is the third story told in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.The reeve, named Oswald in the text, is the manager of a large estate who reaped incredible profits for his master and himself. He is described in the Tales as skinny and bad-tempered. The Reeve had once been a carpenter, a profession mocked in the previous Miller's Tale. Oswald responds with a tale that mocks the Miller's profession.
 
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