Author: Susan Adams
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789037427615
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 48
Book Description
Le grand livre des jeux super
Author: Susan Adams
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789037427615
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789037427615
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 48
Book Description
Le grand livre de jeux
Author: Duchesne, Lucie
Publisher: Montréal : Tormont
ISBN: 9782894291276
Category : Board games
Languages : fr
Pages : 14
Book Description
Publisher: Montréal : Tormont
ISBN: 9782894291276
Category : Board games
Languages : fr
Pages : 14
Book Description
Author:
Publisher: Editions Publibook
ISBN: 2342161670
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Publisher: Editions Publibook
ISBN: 2342161670
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Le grand livre de jeux
Author: Emanuela Bompiani
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Games
Languages : fr
Pages : 187
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Games
Languages : fr
Pages : 187
Book Description
Casanova's Lottery
Author: Stephen M. Stigler
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226820785
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The fascinating story of an important lottery that flourished in France from 1757 to 1836 and its role in transforming our understanding of the nature of risk. In the 1750s, at the urging of famed adventurer Giacomo Casanova, the French state began to embrace risk in adopting a new Loterie. The prize amounts paid varied, depending on the number of tickets bought and the amount of the bet, as determined by each individual bettor. The state could lose money on any individual Loterie drawing while being statistically guaranteed to come out on top in the long run. In adopting this framework, the French state took on risk in a way no other has, before or after. At each drawing the state was at risk of losing a large amount; what is more, that risk was precisely calculable, generally well understood, and yet taken on by the state with little more than a mathematical theory to protect it. Stephen M. Stigler follows the Loterie from its curious inception through its hiatus during the French Revolution, its renewal and expansion in 1797, and finally to its suppression in 1836, examining throughout the wider question of how members of the public came to trust in new financial technologies and believe in their value. Drawing from an extensive collection of rare ephemera, Stigler pieces together the Loterie’s remarkable inner workings, as well as its implications for the nature of risk and the role of lotteries in social life over the period 1700–1950. Both a fun read and fodder for many fields, Casanova's Lottery shines new light on the conscious introduction of risk into the management of a nation-state and the rationality of playing unfair games.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226820785
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The fascinating story of an important lottery that flourished in France from 1757 to 1836 and its role in transforming our understanding of the nature of risk. In the 1750s, at the urging of famed adventurer Giacomo Casanova, the French state began to embrace risk in adopting a new Loterie. The prize amounts paid varied, depending on the number of tickets bought and the amount of the bet, as determined by each individual bettor. The state could lose money on any individual Loterie drawing while being statistically guaranteed to come out on top in the long run. In adopting this framework, the French state took on risk in a way no other has, before or after. At each drawing the state was at risk of losing a large amount; what is more, that risk was precisely calculable, generally well understood, and yet taken on by the state with little more than a mathematical theory to protect it. Stephen M. Stigler follows the Loterie from its curious inception through its hiatus during the French Revolution, its renewal and expansion in 1797, and finally to its suppression in 1836, examining throughout the wider question of how members of the public came to trust in new financial technologies and believe in their value. Drawing from an extensive collection of rare ephemera, Stigler pieces together the Loterie’s remarkable inner workings, as well as its implications for the nature of risk and the role of lotteries in social life over the period 1700–1950. Both a fun read and fodder for many fields, Casanova's Lottery shines new light on the conscious introduction of risk into the management of a nation-state and the rationality of playing unfair games.
Catalogue of Printed Books
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
Book Description
Les Livres de L'année
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Le grand dictionnaire Hachette-Oxford
Author: Marie-Hélène Corréard
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0198614225
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 2084
Book Description
A book that lists French language words and gives their equivalent in English, and English language words with their equivalent in French.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0198614225
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 2084
Book Description
A book that lists French language words and gives their equivalent in English, and English language words with their equivalent in French.
Scenes of Parisian Modernity
Author: H. Hahn
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230101933
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Integrating the history of Paris with the history of consumption, the press, publicity, advertising and spectacle, this book traces the evolution of the urban core districts of consumption and explores elements of consumer culture such as the print media, publishing, retail techniques, tourism, city marketing, fashion, illustrated posters and Montmartre culture in the nineteenth century. Hahn emphasizes the tension between art and industry and between culture and commerce, a dynamic that significantly marked urban commercial modernity that spread new imaginary about consumption. She argues that Parisian consumer culture arose earlier than generally thought, and explores the intense commercialization Paris underwent.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230101933
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Integrating the history of Paris with the history of consumption, the press, publicity, advertising and spectacle, this book traces the evolution of the urban core districts of consumption and explores elements of consumer culture such as the print media, publishing, retail techniques, tourism, city marketing, fashion, illustrated posters and Montmartre culture in the nineteenth century. Hahn emphasizes the tension between art and industry and between culture and commerce, a dynamic that significantly marked urban commercial modernity that spread new imaginary about consumption. She argues that Parisian consumer culture arose earlier than generally thought, and explores the intense commercialization Paris underwent.