Taking Chances

  • Taking Chances: A Good Story to Tell
    By Daryl "The Kid" Shaffer

    If we did not hunt the animals to help create the balance, that elk herd would be eating most, if not all, ... So the dogs and l, at a distance, move them back to where the grass is better and the pairs get to have more grass to eat.

  • Taking Chances
    By Susan Lewis

    Torn loyalties, male pride and female desires turn the movie into a terrifying trap of death threats and destruction . . . From the Paperback edition.

  • Taking Chances: Essays on Rational Choice
    By Jordan Howard Sobel

    In this volume of essays, Sobel explores the Bayesian idea that rational actions maximize expected values, where an actions's expected value is a weighted average of its agent's values for its possible total outcomes.

  • Taking Chances
    By King William

    Flawless was born into a life of addiction, fast money, and bad decisions.

  • Taking Chances: Winning with Probability
    By John Haigh

    David Appleton made a statistical comparison of several formats. He assumed that each player had some rating, the higher the better. When two players met, the bigger the difference in their ratings, the bigger the chance the higher ...

  • Taking Chances: The Psychology of Losing and how to Profit from it
    By Robert T. Lewis

    General Robert E. Lee is most famous for his surrender to General Grant at Appomattox . He is also noted for his defeat at Gettysburg , which is generally considered the turning point for the North in the Civil War .

  • Taking Chances
    By Molly McAdams

    Her first year away is turning out to be near perfect, but one weekend of giving in to heated passion will change everything.

  • Taking Chances: The Coast After Hurricane Sandy
    By Karen M. O'Neill, Daniel J. Van Abs

    It also provides an opening as we look to a future in which we know that whether or not coastal armor or ... George E. Thomas, “Cape May, an American Resort,” in Cape May: Queen of the Seaside Resorts, by George E. Thomas and Carl E.

  • Taking Chances
    By Grace Ryan

    The holidays threw a kink into our filming.” “Thank God for the holidays.” He kisses the top of my head and we fall asleep wrapped in each other's arms. The next morning I wake up before he does. Trying not to wake him I slide out of ...

  • Taking Chances
    By Brenda Guiton

    A holiday rep was herding people onto a coach. Emma watched in disbelief as a young woman struggled helplessly with the suitcases, child in tow, while her husband stood by, casually smoking a cigarette, seemingly indifferent to the ...

  • Taking Chances: On a New Life in Canada
    By Otto Schmalz

    I had gotten into the habit of taking pictures at the Botanical Garden in Montréal as well as views of the city from ... Over the Christmas holidays, Hans and his son, Johnny, came to visit, while his wife, who had to work, stayed home.

  • Taking Chances: A Love Story
    By Mia Semuta

    It was a perfect holiday, what holiday should be. Full of laughter and love and no one wanted it to end. He slipped upstairs to call his own family, told them honestly that he was having the time of his life. No time to explain, ...

  • Taking Chances
    By Lynne D. Pickens

    She wondered how Mabel had operated with Lou in the past. “I'm taking a holiday from the big city.” “Ah.” The dryness of that one syllable made Annie smile. “You could help me with something, Mabel. My father mentioned 236 Taking ...

  • Taking Chances
    By Janelle Taylor

    When you want something, you speak right up.” “You have only yourself to blame, Doctor Harrison. It has nothing to do with independence or liberation. Since I'm on vacation and time is short, I can't be coy or conservative.

  • Taking Chances
    By Erin McKenzie

    For the first couple of years after I left New York City, I would drive down for holidays. I felt like I had to because they were my family. But when they barely acknowledged Emma, I was done. I couldn't let them suck the soul out of me ...

  • Taking Chances
    By Mike Hellaby

    Within a few days the owners left for their holiday visit to Berlin. Mike had arranged to take a few days off so that he could impress his landlords by doing some of the worn paintwork, beginning with the front gate, not stopping until ...

  • Taking Chances
    By Aria Glazki

    There went any chance of being asked to play with Kane again, that was for sure. Liz Anne shut her eyes against the building frustration. Just another day with no good choices. And a holiday, to boot, so she had to find a way to make ...

  • Taking Chances
    By Lauren Brooke

    Amy's life has drastically changed.

  • Taking Chances
    By Deanna Frances

    A young life in jeopardy. A true love worth fighting for.

  • Taking Chances: The Coast after Hurricane Sandy
    By Karen M. O'Neill, Daniel J. Van Abs

    Will Sandy be a tipping point in coastal policy debates—or simply dismissed as a once-in-a-century anomaly? This thought-provoking collection of essays in Taking Chances makes an important contribution to this debate.