94 results for 'pascal menorah'

Prominent linguist and widower Philipp Perlmann contemplates drastic measures when he faces exposure after plagiarizing a colleague's work for his keynote address at an important academic gathering...

Raimund Gregorius teaches classical languages at a Swiss lycée, and lives a life governed by routine. One day, a chance encounter with a Portuguese woman inspires him to question his life--and leads...

"When a new girl moves to Sweet Valley, the Wakefields are ready to welcome her to town--unfortunately for Jessica and Elizabeth, Brooke Dennis seems to want nothing to do with them. She's the...

When twins Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield are forbidden to go to a Johnny Buck concert, Jessica comes up with a plan to sneak out of the house and attend.

In her struggle to protect her best friend from getting hurt, Elizabeth finds herself torn between Amy, who is determined to join the Unicorn Club's cheering squad, and her twin sister Jessica, who...

Paperback. Good condition. Several bumps and a few scores on dust jacket. One or two minor scores on covers. Minor wear on spine ends. Upper leading corner of rear cover is a little creased,...

A collection of eight children's books by Toni Morrison, which includes retellings of some of Aesop's fables as well as stories of friendship and imagination.

Un alphabet illustré où des alligators se faufilent à chaque page pour faire rire en retenant les lettres. Un calendrier très spécial, fait d'une ode à la soupe de poule au riz qui revient à toutes...

Shortlisted for the second annual Nach Waxman Prize for Food and Beverage Scholarship "To call One Thousand Vines a groundbreaking masterpiece is to barely touch on the quality of this work, both in...

The year is 1908, the place, a small Greek island in the declining days of the crumbling Ottoman Empire. For twenty years Basil Pascali has spied on the people of his small community and secretly...

From the master of "micro-history" a reconstruction of two contrasting early-modern thinkersNevertheless comprises essays on Machiavelli and on Pascal. The ambivalent connection between the two parts...

The title of this book contains the words ALGORITHMIC LANGUAGE, in the singular. This is meant to convey the idea that it deals not so much with the diversity of program ming languages, but rather...

We live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, yet everywhere we see signs that our pursuit of happiness has proven fruitless. Dissatisfied, we seek change for the sake of change - even if it means...

Hailed as one of the greatest mathematical results of the twentieth century, the recent proof of Fermat's Last Theorem by Andrew Wiles brought to public attention the enigmatic problem-solver Pierre...

A compelling exploration of how our pursuit of happiness makes us unhappyWe live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, yet everywhere we see signs that our pursuit of happiness has proven fruitless...

Like the great speculators Augustine, Aquinas, and Pascal, Jonathan Edwards treated religious ideas as problems not of dogma, but of life. His exploration of self-love disguised as "true virtue" is...

Historical records show that there was no real concept of probability in Europe before the mid-seventeenth century although the use of dice and other randomizing objects was commonplace. Ian Hacking...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2023"The great voice of the Caribbean." -Jury, International Booker 2023"French novelist Condéeacute; (Waiting for the Waters to Rise)delivers an...