Blaise: 191 books
by Blaise Pascal
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2008
Created by the seventeenth-century philosopher and mathematician Pascal, the essays contained in Human Happiness are a curiously optimistic look at whether humans can ever find satisfaction and real joy in life – or whether a belief in God is a wise gamble at best.
Throughout history, some...
Mindfulness for Borderline Personality Disorder
Relieve Your Suffering Using the Core Skill of Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
If you are like many others living with borderline personality disorder (BPD), you know what it’s like to be overwhelmed by intense and fluctuating emotions; to have difficulty with relationships; and to constantly struggle with troubling thoughts and behaviors. BPD can be especially difficult to...
Bloomington Days
Town and Gown in Middle America
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Frat boys who think Mario Lanza is an Italian sports car; journalists who consider "Man arrested for blowing mucus from nose at an officer" a news story . . . Welcome to Bloomington: a world of grey cells and limestone, catfish and cheerleaders, binge drinking and bigots, Ockham's razor...
by Blaise Pascal
Language: French
Release Date: March 25, 2009
Language: French
Release Date: March 25, 2009
Un naufragé est pris pour le roi d’une île sur laquelle il a échoué par hasard. Comment exercer le pouvoir souverain et incarner la fonction royale quand, au fond de soi-même, on sait que l’on n’est pas ce prince que les sujets reconnaissent en vous ? La parabole de Pascal dit l’origine...
by Blaise Pascal
Language: French
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: August 11, 2015
On peut avoir trois principaux objets dans l’étude de la vérité : l’un, de la découvrir quand on la cherche ; l’autre, de la démontrer quand on la possède ; le dernier, de la discerner d’avec le faux quand on l’examine. Je ne parle point du premier...
by Blaise Pascal
Language: French
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Pour entrer dans la véritable connoissance de votre condition, considérez-la dans cette image :
Un homme est jeté par la tempête dans une île inconnue, dont les habitans étoient en peine de trouver leur roi, qui s’étoit perdu ; et, ayant beaucoup...
by Blaise Pascal
Language: French
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: August 11, 2015
M. Pascal vint aussi, en ce temps-là, demeurer à Port-Royal-des-Champs. Je ne m'arrête point à dire qui était cet homme, que non seulement toute la France, mais toute l'Europe a admiré. Son esprit toujours vif, toujours agissant, était d'une étendue,...
by Blaise Pascal
Language: French
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Monsieur Pascal ayant quitté fort jeune l’étude des Mathématiques, de la Physique, & des autres sciences profanes, dans lesquelles il avait fait un si grand progrès, qu’il y a eu assurément peu de personnes qui aient pénétré plus avant...
Parenting Your Child with Autism
Practical Solutions, Strategies, and Advice for Helping Your Family
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Amid a bewildering range of treatments that promise to alleviate or even cure autism, even the leading researchers can’t predict what will work for your child. As a parent, you are in a unique position to become the practical expert on your child’s needs and strengths. Parenting Your Child with...
Hockey in Rochester
The Americans' Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2004
Rochester, New York, emerged courageously with its first professional hockey team in the fall of 1935: the Rochester Cardinals. However, the venture was short-lived due to the financial strain of the Great Depression. Finally, in 1956, thanks to local visionaries such as Sam Toth and Ed House, Rochester...
by Blaise Ganguin, John Bilardello
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2004
An up-to-date, accurate framework for credit analysis and decision making, from the experts at Standard & Poor's
"In a world of increasing financial complexity and shorter time frames in which to assess the wealth or dearth of information, this book provides an invaluable and easily...
This Phenomenal Life
The Amazing Ways We Are Connected with Our Universe
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Entertaining, colorful, and deceptively full of facts, This Phenomenal Life tells the story of the wondrous ways that humans are always completely at one with our surrounding world. From the vast galaxies above to the miniature microbes within, humans are organically connected to the complex cycles...
Coping with BPD
DBT and CBT Skills to Soothe the Symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
In this much-needed book, two renowned borderline personality disorder (BPD) experts offer simple, easy-to-use skills drawn from dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) and cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) to help you address the most common issues of BPD, such as intense feelings of anger, depression,...
Tard dans la nuit - Tome 01
La Révolte
Language: French
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Un petit village de l'Est du Québec bien particulier, isolé dans les bois... Une fois passé le tunnel de la superstition pour y accéder, on découvre une population frappée par l'hérédité consanguine... Tous les rejetons, orphelins, sont confiés au maire qui les exploite sans vergogne. Et...