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The Pebble Chance

Author : Marius Kociejowski

Publisher : Biblioasis

Page : 209 pages

File Size : 13,12 MB

Release : 2014-10-20

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1927428785

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"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.



Pebbles in the Pond (Wave Three)

Author : Christine Kloser

Publisher :

Page : 224 pages

File Size : 23,29 MB

Release : 2014-05-28

Category :

ISBN : 9780985140762

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What If Your Biggest Challenges, Struggles, and Heartbreaks Were Actually Preparing You for Your Greatest Transformation... and Contribution to the World? Can your most difficult moments be the ones that shed the greatest light in your life? These courageous visionaries say YES! Join bestselling authors Lisa Nichols, SARK, Christine Kloser, and many other Transformational Authors from around the world as they share their own touching, amazing, and deeply inspiring true stories of their trials, triumphs, and ultimate transformations. In this third wave of Pebbles in the Pond, you'll connect with a diverse group of messengers whose stories are unique, yet whose messages have a common thread of inspiration, hope, healing, transformation, and new possibilities. As they share their straight-from-the-heart experiences, they invite you to discover how to transform your own challenges into the greatest gifts and blessings in your life. You'll also discover how one transformed life can cause ripples of good that expand out into the world - just like a "pebble in the pond." Our hope is that you'll also be inspired to discover what your pebble is so you can create a wave of positive change too! As you'll discover on these pages, it doesn't matter where you came from or what you've been through... you are loved and you do make a difference!



The Book of Pebbles

Author : Christopher Stocks (Essayist)

Publisher :

Page : 115 pages

File Size : 30,62 MB

Release : 2019

Category : Pebbles

ISBN : 9780995524224

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The Creative Power of Chance

Author : Rémy Lestienne

Publisher : University of Illinois Press

Page : 220 pages

File Size : 18,6 MB

Release : 1998

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 9780252066863

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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.



Pebble in the Sky

Author : Isaac Asimov

Publisher : Macmillan

Page : 260 pages

File Size : 16,60 MB

Release : 2010-04-27

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1429968192

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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.



Pebble

Author : Nicole Snitselaar

Publisher :

Page : pages

File Size : 45,27 MB

Release : 2019-10

Category :

ISBN : 9781950416325

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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!



The Pebble Jar

Author : H. A. Robinson

Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Page : 412 pages

File Size : 43,42 MB

Release : 2017-04-07

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ISBN : 9781544773278

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At fifteen years old, Abigail Costa might not know much, but there are three things she's absolutely certain of: Her grandmother, Nonna, is a superhero and she wants to be just like her one day. The world is round and she wants to see absolutely every inch of it. And she and Elliot Peterson will be best friends for life. After over a decade of getting up to no good together and spending every possible moment in one another's company, it seems impossible that anything could ever change. Enter: the new girl. With perfect blonde hair and a body to die for, she's everything Abbi never realised she wanted to be. And as she starts to notice that something isn't right with Nonna, she finds that some of her certainties aren't quite so certain anymore, and loneliness forces her to dig deep for a strength she never knew she had.



Chance and the Eighteenth-Century Novel

Author : Jesse Molesworth

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 287 pages

File Size : 31,7 MB

Release : 2010-07-08

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 0521191084

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A study of the relationship between realism, probability and chance in eighteenth-century fiction.



Perilous Problems for Puzzle Lovers

Author : Alex Bellos

Publisher : The Experiment

Page : 288 pages

File Size : 50,83 MB

Release : 2020-10-27

Category : Games & Activities

ISBN : 1615197184

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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?



Quantitative and Statistical Approaches to Geography

Author : John A. Matthews

Publisher : Elsevier

Page : 219 pages

File Size : 19,67 MB

Release : 2013-10-22

Category : Travel

ISBN : 1483278808

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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.