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Author | : Marius Kociejowski |
Publisher | : Biblioasis |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2014-10-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1927428785 |
"Kociejowski draws on all these aspects of his life in these engaging, idiosyncratic personal essays ... [that] proffer the reader equal measures of autobiography, insight and quirky charm." —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post In the game of bocce, no matter how intensely you study the world's surface, there is always a chance an unseen pebble will knock your ball in an unexpected direction. In these essays, poet, antiquarian bookseller, and celebrated travel writer Marius Kociejowski chronicles serendipitous encounters with authors, manuscripts, and eccentrics, in which “the curious workings of fate” and “art's unbidden swerve” intervene to shift the course of fortune. Carried by keen wit, aphoristic prose, and a rich sense of characterization, and featuring chance meetings and comic misadventures with such figures as Bruce Chatwin, Zbigniew Herbert, and Javier Marías, The Pebble Chance is a sumptuous offering of belles lettres exploring the incandescent moments when skill and providence collide.
Author | : Nicole Snitselaar |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2019-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781950416325 |
Join lovable little penguin Pebble as he sneaks away from an important family visit! Will Pebble realize that it's much more fun to be with his family than on his own? Children will love to spot Pebble, with his heart-shaped tummy, in each scene!
Author | : Christopher Stocks (Essayist) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 115 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Pebbles |
ISBN | : 9780995524224 |
Author | : Rémy Lestienne |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780252066863 |
In 1859, Charles Darwin used chance to introduce random mutations and selection as the basis for his theory of evolution. Since then, chance has invaded every corner of scientific inquiry. French scientist Remy Lestienne argues that chance is a real creative force and cites scientific evidence for the presence of true chance in the world.
Author | : Isaac Asimov |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2010-04-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1429968192 |
One moment Joseph Schwartz is a happily retired tailor in Chicago, 1949. The next he's a helpless stranger on Earth during the heyday of the first Galactic Empire. Earth, as he soon learns, is a backwater, just a pebble in the sky, despised by all the other 200 million planets of the Empire because its people dare to claim it's the original home of man. And Earth is poor, with great areas of radioactivity ruining much of its soil--so poor that everyone is sentenced to death at the age of sixty. Joseph Schwartz is sixty-two. This is young Isaac Asimov's first novel, full of wonders and ideas, the book that launched the novels of the Galactic Empire, culminating in the Foundation series. This is Golden Age SF at its finest. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author | : Jesse Molesworth |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2010-07-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521191084 |
A study of the relationship between realism, probability and chance in eighteenth-century fiction.
Author | : Alex Bellos |
Publisher | : The Experiment |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2020-10-27 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 1615197184 |
Put your wits—and survival instincts—to the test! Publisher’s Note: Perilous Problems for Puzzle Lovers was previously published in the UK under the title So You Think You’ve Got Problems? In Perilous Problems for Puzzle Lovers, Alex Bellos collects 125 of the world’s greatest stumpers—many dangerous to your person, and all dangerous to your pride. Brace yourself to wrestle with wordplay, grapple with geometry, and scramble for survival. For example . . . Ten lions and a sheep are in a pen. Any lion who eats the sheep will fall asleep. A sleeping lion will be eaten by another lion, who falls asleep in turn. If the lions are all perfect logicians, what happens? Bellos pairs his fiendish brainteasers with fascinating history, so you’ll meet Alcuin, Sam Loyd, and other puzzle masters of yore—in between deranged despots and wily jailers with an unaccountable taste for riddles. Will you make it out alive? And what about the sheep?
Author | : John A. Matthews |
Publisher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2013-10-22 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1483278808 |
Quantitative and Statistical Approaches to Geography: A Practical Manual is a practical introduction to some quantitative and statistical techniques of use to geographers and related scientists. This book is composed of 15 chapters, each begins with an outline of the purpose and necessary mechanics of a technique or group of techniques and is concluded with exercises and the particular approach adopted. These exercises aim to enhance student's ability to use the techniques as part of the process by which sound judgments are made according to scientific standards while tackling complex problems. After a brief introduction to the principles of quantitative and statistical geography, this book goes on dealing with the topics of measures of central tendency; probability statements and maps; the problem of time-dependence, time-series analysis, non-normality, and data transformations; and the elements of sampling methodology. Other chapters cover the confidence intervals and estimation from samples, statistical hypothesis testing, analysis of contingency tests, and non-parametric tests for independent and dependent samples. The final chapters consider the evaluation of correlation coefficients, regression prediction, and choice and limitations of statistical techniques. This book is of value to undergraduate geography students.
Author | : William Steig |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 17 |
Release | : 2023-01-03 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1665927186 |
Sylvester the donkey finds a magic pebble and unthinkingly wishes himself a rock when frightened by a lion. Although safe from the lion, Sylvester cannot hold the pebble to wish himself into a donkey again. Caldecott Medal winner. Full-color illustrations.
Author | : Persi Diaconis |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2019-10-08 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 0691196397 |
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, gamblers and mathematicians transformed the idea of chance from a mystery into the discipline of probability, setting the stage for a series of breakthroughs that enabled or transformed innumerable fields, from gambling, mathematics, statistics, economics, and finance to physics and computer science. This book tells the story of ten great ideas about chance and the thinkers who developed them, tracing the philosophical implications of these ideas as well as their mathematical impact.