Life: The Odds: And How to Improve Them
by By Baer, Gregory
Category: Reference , General

The lowdown on life's most intriguing possibilities, in the bestselling, brain-tickling tradition of the Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook series.  Most of us have wondered about the likelihood of striking it rich, being audited by the IRS, or living to be one hundred years old. But how many of us have actually sat down and calculated the chances that we could marry a millionaire? Or that the earth could be destroyed by an asteroid?  Now, with Gregory Baer's Life: The Odds, you can find out the answers to these questions and more in a fun, freewheeling, and compulsively readable way. Baer not only gives startling stats but also advice for nudging fate in your favor. Readers will discover the odds of: * Bowling a perfect game  * Catching a ball at a Major League Baseball game * Being canonized as a saint * Picking a winning stock * Surviving a train crash * Getting away with murder (or getting convicted)  * Being well endowed (or poorly endowed) * Reaching the summit of Mount Everest  A great book with a great hook, Life: The Odds is a sure bet to make you laugh-and to make you think.