Zero Chance

Zero Chance
Author: Jason; JM; Anthus Williams
Publisher: Author House
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2009-05-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1438983972

When religion and family turn on you, what is left? This is the amazing story of a young man willing to do whatever is necessary to maintain a relationship with his children. After growing up in a polygamist family and life-style, Jason Williams is given zero chance for salvation from the leaders of the FLDS. His wife and children are kidnapped from him and he is instructed to have nothing to do with them. Instead of giving in, read the true story of how Jason took on the FLDS leaders and saved his children.

Zero Chance

Zero Chance
Author: Mocha VonBee
Publisher: Indie Ink
Total Pages: 71
Release: 2023-04-18
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN:

Love or Music… Which should they choose and what price do they have to pay? If bad boy, Mac Whitehead believed in ancient legends, he’d know exactly what to choose, no matter the cost… Meanwhile, despite hot rockstar looks and a raspy voice, nothing is going his way. Mac blames Tully for his run of bad luck. And he’s convinced Kit is the solution to all his problems. But Mac has never paid any attention to Kit before, not even when she had a crush on him. She knows it can mean only one thing. He wants something. But what could possibly persuade Kit to help arch-enemy, Mac Whitehead? What Early Readers Say… Reading Mac's story— I feel like I understand him better now. Despite how poorly Mac treats and uses the people around him— this book has added a lot of emotional complexity to his character. It was great to see the other characters again! It felt like visiting with old friends. I applaud Mocha's ability to help us better understand Mac and to comprehend his personal struggles despite his terrible behavior and very flawed characteristics as a person. I highly recommend this book and series! (Goodreads Review) Another winner in the Kit and Tully series, it was a strong fourth book in this series. I enjoyed the previous three books and this was just as good. (NetGalley Review) The story was brilliant with a great mix of characters and short enough to read in one sitting. I loved this book as much as the other 3 books in the series and really look forward to reading more by Mocha. (Goodreads Review) This short book is an interesting insight into the Kit and Tully universe. I haven't read the other books in the series, but this one can be read as a standalone story. (Goodreads Review) As with the rest of this series so far, I absolutely loved this one! While I'm still not a particularly big Mac fan, I did love getting a short stay inside his head, seeing what he thought of everything. I think I loved this one even more than the last one and I'm looking forward to seeing how the next one goes and whose side we get to hear it from. (Goodreads Review) We are back in the Kit and Tully world and boy was I glad to be back, even though we were following my least favorite character Mac. He has rock star personality but does not want to put in the work to be a rock star. I can't wait to see how this series goes though, I will definitely be keeping an eye out for the next book. (Goodreads Review)

Zero Percent Chance

Zero Percent Chance
Author: Major Jon Turnbull
Publisher: WestBow Press
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2021-09-13
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1664243305

An American special operations team leads the fight to remove ISIS from Manbij and the surrounding region in Syria in this account told through the eyes of Army Capt. Jonathan Turnbull. After multiple heroic operations, returning electricity to 400,000 civilians, and helping thousands of girls return to school, ISIS did everything it could to thwart the offensive. Turnbull is injured in a suicide bombing and given no chance of surviving. When Samantha met the lead trauma surgeon overseas, she found out her husband had lost his right eye, had no skin or tissue on the right side of his face, had multiple skull fractures, and numerous other injuries. They told her he’d likely be paralyzed on one side and may not remember much of anything, including her and their son. The couple was finally reunited, but it was not the meeting either had planned for—and it was the hardest thing in the world. Samantha was happy to see him alive but heartbroken to see him in such a condition. Find out how God stepped in to work miracles in the life of a soldier who was given a zero percent chance of surviving in this book that celebrates freedom, faith, and heroes.

Zero Chance of Passage

Zero Chance of Passage
Author: Ember Reichgott Junge
Publisher: Beavers Pond Press
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2012
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781592984763

Chronicles the passage of Minnesota's first chartered school law in 1991, describing its origins, the legislative battles, the author's initial reaction to the new legislation, and how it impacted national politics.

Probability

Probability
Author: D. H. Mellor
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2005
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780415282505

This work presents the basic concepts of probability to philosophy students who are new to this area of the subject.

Games of No Chance 4

Games of No Chance 4
Author: Richard J. Nowakowski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2015-04-16
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1107011035

Combinatorial games are the strategy games that people like to play, for example chess, Hex, and Go. They differ from economic games in that there are two players who play alternately with no hidden cards and no dice. These games have a mathematical structure that allows players to analyse them in the abstract. Games of No Chance 4 contains the first comprehensive explorations of misère (last player to move loses) games, extends the theory for some classes of normal-play (last player to move wins) games and extends the analysis for some specific games. It includes a tutorial for the very successful approach to analysing misère impartial games and the first attempt at using it for misère partisan games. Hex and Go are featured, as well as new games: Toppling Dominoes and Maze. Updated versions of Unsolved Problems in Combinatorial Game Theory and the Combinatorial Games Bibliography complete the volume.

Physics and Chance

Physics and Chance
Author: Lawrence Sklar
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 458
Release: 1993
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521558815

Lawrence Sklar offers a comprehensive, non-technical introduction to statistical mechanics and attempts to understand its foundational elements.

Lewisian Themes

Lewisian Themes
Author: Frank Jackson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780199274550

David Lewis's untimely death on 14 October 2001 deprived the philosophical community of one of the outstanding philosophers of the 20th century. As many obituaries remarked, Lewis has an undeniable place in the history of analytical philosophy. His work defines much of the current agenda in metaphysics, philosophical logic, and the philosophy of mind and language. This volume, an expanded edition of a special issue of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, covers many of the topics for which Lewis was well known, including possible worlds, counterpart theory, vagueness, knowledge, probability, essence, fiction, laws, conditionals, desire and belief, and truth. Many of the papers are by very established philosophers; others are by younger scholars including many he taught. The volume also includes Lewis's Jack Smart Lecture at the Australian National University, "How Many Lives has Schrödinger's Cat?," published here for the first time. Lewisian Themes will be an invaluable resource for anyone studying Lewis's work, and a major contribution to the many topics that he mastered.

A Chance for Possibility

A Chance for Possibility
Author: Alexander Steinberg
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2013-10-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3110338238

A Chance for Possibility defends the view that the objective modal realm is tripartite: truths about possible worlds supervene on modal truths, which in turn supervene on truths about objective chances. An understanding of supervenience in terms of grounding is developed which — unlike the standard modal characterization — allows the question of what modal truths supervene on to have a non-trivial answer. Relying on this understanding, a negative result is established: modal truths do not supervene on truths about possible worlds, whether possible worlds are conceived of as Lewisian concreta or as abstract objects of some kind. Instead, a conception of pleonastic possible worlds is developed that reverses the direction of supervenience. On the basis of linguistic considerations concerning our use of natural language ‘might’ and ‘might have’ sentences, Steinberg finally argues that truths about objective chances are able to provide a supervenience base for modal truths. A Chance for Possibility is an investigation in analytic metaphysics, drawing on related work in the philosophy of logic and language as well as linguistics. It provides a detailed case study for the fruitful use of a notion of grounding in the clarification and evaluation of longstanding philosophical issues.