Don Quixote meets Who Framed Roger Rabbit in this slapstick epic about destiny, family demons, and revenge. In 1911, in a hockey game in Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula, local tough guy Billy Joe Pictou fires the puck into Monti Bouge's mouth. When Monti collapses with his head across the goal line, Victor Bradley, erstwhile referee and local mailman, rules that the goal counts. Monti's ensuing revenge for this injustice sprawls over three generations, one hundred years and dozens of alcohol-soaked tall tales, from treachery in northern gold-mining camps to the appearance of a legendary beast by turns playful and ferocious. It's up to Monti's grandson, François, to make sense of the vendetta between Monti and Bradley that has shaped the destiny of their town and everyone who lives there. In a sumptuous, unpredictable language and slapstick comedy, Christophe Bernard reveals himself as a master of epic storytelling.
Synonyme de sophistication, de haute technologie et de prix élevés, l’innovation cherche aujourd’hui ses ruptures dans des formes de valorisation de l’offre délaissées par la concurrence et l’accès à de nouveaux clients. L’épopée de la Logan constitue un archétype de ces nouvelles trajectoires de l’innovation et dessine de nouvelles frontières pour l’industrie.Pourquoi et comment une entreprise comme Renault s’est elle lancée dans cette aventure ? Comment a-t-elle surmonté les surprises et les obstacles qui l’ont jalonnée pour devenir l’une des success story les plus spectaculaires de ce début du XXIe siècle ? Quelles sont les suites possibles d’un succès qui déstabilise le modèle de développement traditionnel des entreprises industrielles européennes ? Au terme d’une enquête approfondie dans les coulisses de Renault et Dacia, les trois auteurs, économistes et gestionnaires spécialistes de l’industrie automobile, apportent des réponses à ces questions. Ils analysent la réalisation de ce projet, sous l’angle de la conception du produit, du développement industriel et de son déploiement commercial. Au travers d’entretiens exclusifs avec la plupart des acteurs de ce projet, en particulier, les trois dirigeants qui ont joué un rôle clé dans l’histoire du projet Logan, Louis Schweitzer, Jean-Marie Hurtiger et Gérard Detourbet, découvrez les secrets de cette success story. Illustré de nombreux graphiques et de documents inédits, l’ouvragemontre comment la stratégie Logan a émergé et s’est développée dans l’entreprise, comment elle a su percevoir les tendances des marchés émergents, relever des défis de conception jugés impossibles (réaliser une « vraie » voiture rentable à 5000€), construire et déployer des systèmes industriels et commerciaux, dotant l’entreprise d’une dimension internationale inédite jusque-là. Dans le contexte actuel, cet ouvrage apporte, bien au-delà de l’industrie automobile, des réponses à tous ceux qui s’interrogent sur la déstabilisation actuelle des équilibres économiques mondiaux et le rôle qu’y jouent les processus d’innovation des entreprises.
Return to a simpler time with a simpler person as Nostradumbass, the younger brother of the well known prophet Michel Nostradamus, takes us on the journey of his life. Enjoy the ride as he pulls back the veil to a more mysterious age, an age with no electricity, known as the dark ages. Get a more acurate picture of how inacurate prophecies were really created and discover some never before known facts about the man who said of himself, "I could be the most important person I know.
Au fond d’un gouffre : personne ne vous entend crier Trois jeunes amis passionnés de spéléo, Kévin, Caro et Emma, décident de partir explorer les ruines d’une mine désaffectée. Sur place, ils découvrent, baigné dans la lumière de l’aube, un décor apocalyptique et surréaliste, presque poétique... Un régal à explorer ! Mais à peine entrent-ils qu’ils font une chute vertigineuse à travers un puits mal scellé. Pris au piège au fond d’un gouffre où pas un rayon de lumière ne parvient, où il n’y a rien hormis de l’eau croupie, ils n’ont plus qu’une chose à faire : attendre les secours. Victimes de leur angoisse, ils commencent à perdre leurs repères. À un moment où la frontière entre peur et folie se fait mince : difficile de discerner la réalité de l’illusion... Un récit de survie angoissant qui confirme le talent déjà bien affirmé du scénariste Christophe Bec, servi par le noir et blanc redoutable de Bernard Khattou. Sunlight inaugure également la création de Flesh & Bones, une nouvelle collection de "one shot" en noir et blanc, couverture souple, dédiée aux récits de genre ! Au programme de Flesh & Bones : Sonar (Runberg / Chee Yang Ont) : Janvier 2016 Bikini Atoll (Bec / Khattou) : Janvier 2016 Le Signe (Thirault / Garcia) : Janvier 2016 Et ce n'est qu'un début...
The authors have put together a fascinating narrative of the creation process of one of the most successful example of frugal engineering in recent years. They bring out insightful details of what managerial, organizational and technological pathways were taken to come up with a disruptive innovation that has the potential to change the entry-level automobile market in India and other emerging markets. The book significantly deepens and extends the knowledge of disruptive and reverse innovation, as well as of strategic alliance management. The book keeps the reader captive and is a must read for all who have an interest in innovation.
We call peacock an integrable process which is increasing in the convex order; such a notion plays an important role in Mathematical Finance. A deep theorem due to Kellerer states that a process is a peacock if and only if it has the same one-dimensional marginals as a martingale. Such a martingale is then said to be associated to this peacock. In this monograph, we exhibit numerous examples of peacocks and associated martingales with the help of different methods: construction of sheets, time reversal, time inversion, self-decomposability, SDE, Skorokhod embeddings. They are developed in eight chapters, with about a hundred of exercises.
This guide demonstrates how virtual build and test can be supported by the Discrete Event Systems Specification (DEVS) simulation modeling formalism, and the System Entity Structure (SES) simulation model ontology. The book examines a wide variety of Systems of Systems (SoS) problems, ranging from cloud computing systems to biological systems in agricultural food crops. Features: includes numerous exercises, examples and case studies throughout the text; presents a step-by-step introduction to DEVS concepts, encouraging hands-on practice to building sophisticated SoS models; illustrates virtual build and test for a variety of SoS applications using both commercial and open source DEVS simulation environments; introduces an approach based on activity concepts intrinsic to DEVS-based system design, that integrates both energy and information processing requirements; describes co-design modeling concepts and methods to capture separate and integrated software and hardware systems.
Discovered in the seventies, Black-Scholes formula continues to play a central role in Mathematical Finance. We recall this formula. Let (B ,t? 0; F ,t? 0, P) - t t note a standard Brownian motion with B = 0, (F ,t? 0) being its natural ?ltra- 0 t t tion. Let E := exp B? ,t? 0 denote the exponential martingale associated t t 2 to (B ,t? 0). This martingale, also called geometric Brownian motion, is a model t to describe the evolution of prices of a risky asset. Let, for every K? 0: + ? (t) :=E (K?E ) (0.1) K t and + C (t) :=E (E?K) (0.2) K t denote respectively the price of a European put, resp. of a European call, associated with this martingale. Let N be the cumulative distribution function of a reduced Gaussian variable: x 2 y 1 ? 2 ? N (x) := e dy. (0.3) 2? ?? The celebrated Black-Scholes formula gives an explicit expression of? (t) and K C (t) in terms ofN : K ? ? log(K) t log(K) t ? (t)= KN ? + ?N ? ? (0.4) K t 2 t 2 and ? ?
Première monographie d'envergure (plus de 300 illustrations couleur, deux essais et un entretien sur 360 pages) consacrée au travail à la fois engagé et subtil de l'artiste française d'origine marocaine, qui aborde avec finesse les questions de l'identité, de la culture, de l'histoire personnelle et collective, par le biais d'images, de situations et d'objets banals replacés au cœur d'un débat social et politique.
This easy-to-follow textbook provides an exercise-driven guide to the use of the Discrete Event Systems Specification (DEVS) simulation modeling formalism and the System Entity Structure (SES) simulation model ontology supported with the latest advances in software architecture and design principles, methods, and tools for building and testing virtual Systems of Systems (SoS). The book examines a wide variety of SoS problems, ranging from cloud computing systems to biological systems in agricultural food crops. This enhanced and expanded second edition also features a new chapter on DEVS support for Markov modeling and simulation. Topics and features: provides an extensive set of exercises throughout the text to reinforce the concepts and encourage use of the tools, supported by introduction and summary sections; discusses how the SoS concept and supporting virtual build and test environments can overcome the limitations of current approaches; offers a step-by-step introduction to the DEVS concepts and modeling environment features required to build sophisticated SoS models; describes the capabilities and use of the tools CoSMoS/DEVS-Suite, Virtual Laboratory Environment, and MS4 MeTM; reviews a range of diverse applications, from the development of new satellite design and launch technologies, to surveillance and control in animal epidemiology; examines software/hardware co-design for SoS, and activity concepts that bridge information-level requirements and energy consumption in the implementation; demonstrates how the DEVS formalism supports Markov modeling within an advanced modeling and simulation environment (NEW). This accessible and hands-on textbook/reference provides invaluable practical guidance for graduate students interested in simulation software development and cyber-systems engineering design, as well as for practitioners in these, and related areas.
Who exactly are the ‘intellectuals’? This term is so widely used today that we forget that it is a recent invention, dating from the late nineteenth century. In Birth of the Intellectuals, the renowned historian and sociologist Christophe Charle shows that the term ‘intellectuals’ first appeared at the time of the Dreyfus Affair, and the neologism originally signified a cultural and political vanguard who dared to challenge the status quo. Yet the word, expected to disappear once the political crisis had dissolved, has somehow endured. At times it describes a social group, and at others a way of seeing the social world from the perspective of universal values that challenges established hierarchies. But why did intellectuals survive when the events that gave rise to this term had faded into the past? To answer this question, it is necessary to show how the crisis of the old representations, the unprecedented expansion of the intellectual professions and the vacuum left by the decline of the traditional ruling class created favourable conditions for the collective affirmation of ‘intellectuals’. This also explains why the literary or academic avant garde traditionally reluctant to engage gradually reconciled themselves with political activists and developed new ways to intervene in the field of power outside of traditional political channels. Through a careful rereading of the petitions surrounding the Dreyfus Affair, Charle offers a radical reinterpretation of this crucial moment of European history and develops a new model for understanding the ways in which public intellectuals in France, Germany, Britain, and the United States have addressed politics ever since.
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