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  • Swiss Finance
    Henri B. Meier / John E. Marthinsen / Pascal A. Gantenbein
    How could a small country in the middle of Europe, surrounded by much bigger countries and economic giants like Germany and France and in direct competition with North American and Asian rivals, develop world-class, cutting-edge financial markets? Swiss Finance answers this question, separating myth from reality, by explaining how Switzerland managed dramatic pressures brought ...
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    63,68 €

  • Performing for Motion Capture
    John Dower / Pascal Langdale
    Want to be the next Andy Serkis as Gollum in Lord of the Rings? Or Zoe Saldana in Avatar? How about Seth MacFarlane in Ted? Or do you want to star in video games such as Fortnite, Call of Dutyor Halo? If so, this book will tell you everything you need to know about acting for motion capture. This is the first book to provide an invaluable resource for the education of the next ...
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    34,08 €

  • Pensees
    Blaise Pascal / John Warrington
    2019 Reprint of 1960 Edition.  Edited with an introduction and notes by Louis Lafuma.  Translated by John Warrington.  Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software.  The Pensees ("Thoughts") is a collection of fragments on theology and philosophy written by 17th-century philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal. Pascal's religio...
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    16,00 €

  • Great Shorter Works of Pascal
    Blaise Pascal / Emile Cailliet / John C. Blankenagel / John CBlankenagel
    The purpose in offering the Great Shorter Works is ''to make essential classical Pascalian literature, other than the Provincial Letters and the Pensees, available to discriminating readers who might find the original texts difficult and discouraging.''Preceded by a valuable introduction, forty-five letters are presented, beginning with a letter written when Pascal was a precoc...
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    25,69 €

  • The Shaggy Dog & Other Stories
    John Pascal
    Here is John Pascal once again, with a new book of entertaining fiction?a collection of sixteen ?Shaggy Dog? stories and four more traditional tales, one a novelette. Saki (H.H. Munro) and O. Henry (William Sidney Porter) wrote short stories with surprise endings, but mainly satirical, not comedic. As Pascal tells us in his Preface to them: ?All Shaggy Dog tales are comedies, h...
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    16,08 €

  • Fertility and Family Planning in the United States
    Arthur A. Campbell / Arthur ACampbell / John E. Patterson / John EPatterson / Pascal Kidder Whelpton
    In 1955 the Scripps Foundation for Research in Population Problems conducted a survey to determine the number of pregnancies and births wives had had, the number of children wanted expected etc. In 1960 a similar study was made, and the results are presented here. Projections on births and population for the US to 1985 are presented.Originally published in 1966.The Princeton Le...
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    100,14 €

  • Artemus Ward
    John R. Pascal
    Charles Ferrar Browne, also known as Artemus Ward,was arguably the first humorist in the United Stateswith a national reputation. Even Mark Twain himselfcalled Ward 'America’s greatest humorist' anddescribed his 1863 'Babes in the Wood' lecture as thefunniest thing he had ever heard. W.D. Howells alsoidentified Ward as the person 'who first gave theworld a taste of the humor ...
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    60,05 €

  • Handbook Of Street-Railroad Location (1897)
    John Pascal Brooks
    The Handbook of Street-Railroad Location, written by John Pascal Brooks and published in 1897, is a comprehensive guide to the planning and construction of street railways. The book covers various aspects of street railway location, including the legal requirements, the different types of tracks, the methods of laying tracks, and the principles of grading and drainage. It also ...
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    26,94 €

  • The Resurrection of Charles Witchway
    John Pascal
    Some critic once said that a detective story or a thriller should contain nothing that distracts from the plot; that nothing should be included which doesn’t further the story line. The Resurrection of Charles Witchway is a travelogue, a gastronomical guide, and a socio-political commentary; it also is a romance novel, a thriller, and a mystery; and it is, to some extent, autob...
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    21,67 €

  • The Imposture and Other Tales
    John Pascal
    A complete collection of all the short stories by John Pascal, some related, some not, about people and events in places around the world; stories of passion and pathos, love and hatred, vengeance and intrigue - in short 'the human condition'- which reveal the well-traveled John Pascal’s intimacy with those places and with the men and women, and even the animals who inhabit the...
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    26,18 €

  • Travels with My Ass
    John Pascal
    A small but pure and highly polished gem; as always John Pascal’s sense of people and place is flawless.When asked what Graham Greene (Travels With My Aunt) and John Steinbeck (Travels With Charley) might have to say about this book’s title or its content John Pascal replied: 'Well, if they could have read it I don’t think they would have had any objection - in fact, I think t...
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    13,30 €

  • Antipodes 20
    John Pascal
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    21,89 €