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The Luck Factor: Why some people are luckier than others and how you can become one of them Entertainment_Gift_Guide My mate nearly diedMax Gunther's classic text with a new foreword by Gautam Baid. Luck. We can't see it, or touch it, but we can feel it. We all know it when we experience it. But does it go deeper than this? And if it goes deeper, does it do so in any way which we can harness to our own and others' advantage? Taking us on a fascinating tour through the more popular theories and histories of luck from pseudoscience to paganism, mathematicians to magicians Max Gunther