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A comprehensive shot-by-shot instructional guide from billiards expert Robert Byrne

Ranging from tickys and double-kisses to jump shots and diamond systems, "Byrne's Complete Book of Pool Shots" takes players on an accelerated trip from pool kindergarten to graduate school. Players of every skill level will find ways to improve their game and get ahead of their opponents with 350 of Byrne's clever and intricately diagrammed moves many of which are outlined here for the first time by one of the game's most masterful players and teachers."

A fresh selection of sharp, witty zingers gathered from both famous and utterly unknown (but very quotable) sources, by the editor of the popular The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said

Robert Byrne's quote books are widely praised as authoritative and accessible sources of sayings for any and all occasions. Byrne's own wit, diligent research, and creativity combine to form a fresh go-to...

Located on a prominent site overlooking Galway Bay in the west of Ireland, Tyrone House was once one of the country's finest Georgian mansions. Dating from the 1770s, the building was home to generations of the French and St George families, a powerful symbol of their wealth and power. The interior of the house was lavishly decorated and furnished, beginning with the entrance hall, dominated by a life-size marble statue of Lord St George. But despite their advantages, over the course of the nineteenth century, the family went into irreversible decline and eventually forsook their great...

Despite decades of effort and billions of dollars spent, two thirds of people in sub-Saharan Africa still lack access to electricity, a vital pre-cursor to economic development and poverty reduction. Ambitious international policy commitments seek to address this, but scholarship has failed to keep pace with policy ambitions, lacking both the empirical basis and the theoretical perspective to inform such transformative policy aims. "

Sustainable Energy for All" aims to fill this gap. Through detailed historical analysis of the Kenyan solar PV market the book demonstrates the value of a...

Philosophie überraschend einfach!
Visueller kann Wissen nicht sein: SIMPLY Philosophie ist die perfekte Einführung in die theoretischen Grundlagen und praktischen Anwendungen der Philosophie für alle, die wenig Zeit haben, aber hungrig nach Wissen sind! Mittels origineller Grafiken und kurzer Texterläuterungen werden philosophische Inhalte auf das Wesentliche reduziert und die wichtigsten Philosoph*innen vorgestellt von Aristoteles und Sokrates zu Kant und Nietzsche.

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In recent years, exchanges on both sides of the Atlantic have been extensively reengineered, and their organizational structures have changed from non-profit, membership organizations to for-profit, demutualized organizations. Concurrently, new alternative trading systems have emerged and the traditional functions of broker/dealer firms have evolved. How have these changes affected the delivery of that mission? How has the efficiency of capital raising in the IPO market been impacted? These are among the key questions addressed in this book, titled after the Baruch College Conference,...

Competition between market centers is a driving force for innovation, dynamic growth, and reasonable pricing structures. Consolidating the order flow amasses liquidity, sharpens price discovery, and lowers trading costs. Can competition remain vibrant in a consolidated environment? How does inter-market competition play out with respect to trading decisions and listing decisions? What will the primary sources of competition be in the future? What impacts will follow from the NYSE s acquisition of Archipelago, and NASDAQ s acquisition of INET? Will exchanges further consolidate in Europe?...