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Media Ethics and Accountability Systems

By: Claude Jean Bertrand

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Media Ethics and Accountability Systems

By: Claude Jean Bertrand

Over the last few years, the O.J. Simpson case, then the Lewinsky-Clinton affair, and scores of minor scandals have dominated the US press, often taking precedence over important domestic and international issues. This tabloidization of the news media, both here and abroad, has proved that "the market" cannot insure media quality. In a democracy, for media to function well, they must be free of both political and economic muzzling. The only solution is to add self-regulation, or quality control, by professionals and public to the other two forces, the market and state regulation. In this controversial volume, Claude-Jean Bertrand sets out to define a set of accountability systems--democratic, efficient, and harmless--to insure true freedom and quality of media. This brief, highly literate volume focuses not on philosophical foundations of media ethics or case stories, but on what is now missing in the codes. Many books deal with media ethics but few deal with accountability. Media Ethics and Accountability Systems zeroes in on the many nongovernmental methods of enforcing "quality control," and on the difficulty of getting the media microcosm to accept such accountability. To remedy this lack, Bertrand proposes rethinking existing "media accountability systems," some 30 to 40 in number, and creation of new ones. He observes that existing systems are rooted in four basic approaches: training: the education of citizens in media use and the incorporation of ethics courses in journalistic education; evaluation: criticism (positive and negative) not only from politicians, consumerists, and intellectuals, but from media professionals themselves; monitoring: by independent, academic experts over extended periods of time into the long-term effects; and feedback: giving ear to the various segments of media users and their needs and tastes, rather than scrutinizing sales and ratings. Media Ethics will be of particular interest to academics in the fields of communication and journalism, as well as to the general reader with an interest in public issues and a civic concern for society. Claude-Jean Bertrand is professor emeritus, Institut franais de presse, Universit de Paris-2. He has taught British and US civilization in several French universities, gradually specializing in the study of U.S. media. He has edited or written seventeen books on various topics and lectured extensively.

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1412828341

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Quebec Since 1930

By: Paul-André Linteau,René Durocher,Jean-Claude Robert,François Ricard

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Quebec Since 1930

By: Paul-André Linteau,René Durocher,Jean-Claude Robert,François Ricard

List of Tables List of Maps List of Figures Preface PART 1: THE DEPRESSION AND THE WAR 1930-1945 Introduction Quebec in 1929 The Depression A Troubled Period The Second World War

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James Lorimer & Company

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1550282964

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9781550282962

Jean-Claude Grumberg

Three Plays

By: Jean-Claude Grumberg

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Jean-Claude Grumberg

Three Plays

By: Jean-Claude Grumberg

Winner of seven Molières, the Pulitzer Prize of France, Jean-Claude Grumberg is one of France’s leading dramatists and a distinguished voice of modern European Jewry after the Shoah. His success in portraying contemporary Parisian Jews on the stage represents a new development in European theater and a new aesthetic expression of European Jewish experience and sensibility of the Holocaust and its aftermath, a perspective quite different from either the American or the Israeli one. Grumberg’s Jews are French to their fingertips, yet they have been made more consciously Jewish by the war and the difficulties of reintegrating into a society in which too many neighbors denounced them or ignored their pleas to save their children. Affirming the new status of Jewish culture, Grumberg’s plays insist on the recognition of Jewish identity and uniqueness within the majority societies of Europe. This volume offers the first English translation of three of Grumberg’s prize-winning plays: The Workplace (L’Atelier, 1979), On the Way to the Promised Land (Vers toi Terre promise, 2006) and Mama’s Coming Back, Poor Orphan (Maman revient, pauvre orphelin, 1994). Presented in the order of the history they record and steeped in Grumberg’s personal experience and insights into contemporary Parisian life, these plays serve as documentary witnesses that begin with the immediate postwar reality and continue up to the end of the twentieth century. Seth Wolitz provides notes on the plays’ themes, structures, characters, and settings, along with an introduction that discusses Grumberg’s place within the emergence of French-Jewish drama and a translation of an interview with the playwright himself.

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University of Texas Press

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0292754574

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The Development of Postsecondary Education Systems in Canada

A Comparison between British Columbia, Ontario, and Québec, 1980-2010

By: Donald Fisher,Kjell Rubenson,Theresa Shanahan,Claude Trottier

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The Development of Postsecondary Education Systems in Canada

A Comparison between British Columbia, Ontario, and Québec, 1980-2010

By: Donald Fisher,Kjell Rubenson,Theresa Shanahan,Claude Trottier

Significant public investment and increased access to higher education lead to economic development - governments across the political and ideological spectrum believe this and have designed and implemented policy based on this understanding. The Development of Postsecondary Education Systems in Canada examines how these policies affect the structure and performance of postsecondary education. This comprehensive study compares the evolution and outcomes of higher education policy in British Columbia, Ontario, and Quebec over the past three decades. The authors begin with an understanding that in order to explain the role of postsecondary education in society, they must locate systemic change. Drawing on documentary analysis and interviews, the focus is on how policy priorities are reflected in "system" behaviours: performance, funding arrangements, design, and structural components. Current theories about the liberal-democratic state, academic capitalism, and marketization inform discussions of the changing role of higher education in a globalized knowledge society. The book presents policy and education as a multidimensional exchange between the postsecondary community, policy makers, and the behaviour and performance of educational systems and concludes that higher education is a key actor in the restructuring of the state. The Development of Postsecondary Education Systems in Canada shows how higher education policy has been driven by a changing political and economic imperative and examines the contradictions and unintended consequences of education policy. Contributors include Jean Bernatchez (Université du Québec à Rimouski), Robert Clift (PhD candidate, University of British Columbia), Donald Fisher (University of British Columbia), Glen A. Jones (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto), Jacy Lee (McMaster University), Madeleine MacIvor (University of British Columbia), John Meredith (independent consultant), Kjell Rubenson (University of British Columbia), Theresa Shanahan (York University), and Claude Trottier (emeritus, Université Laval).

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0773590439

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The Passions of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux

By: James David Draper,Edouard Papet,Elena Carrara,Nadège Horner,Laure de Margerie,Jean-Claude Poinsignon,Philip Ward-Jackson

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The Passions of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux

By: James David Draper,Edouard Papet,Elena Carrara,Nadège Horner,Laure de Margerie,Jean-Claude Poinsignon,Philip Ward-Jackson

Catalogus bij de tentoonstelling van het werk van de Franse beeldhouwer (1827-1875).

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Yale University Press

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0300204310

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Cahiers Jean - Claude Pecker n°1

By: Jean - Claude Pecker

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Cahiers Jean - Claude Pecker n°1

By: Jean - Claude Pecker

Les cahiers Jean - Claude Pecker se proposent de publier de nombreux textes ainsi que d'autres oeuvres la plupart du temps inedits. Le nombre de n a paraitre de ces cahiers ne peut etre defini a l'avance et j'espere symboliquement qu'il sera infini. Daniel Ziv, editeur. Kajeroj Jean - Claude Pecker intencas eldoni multaj tekstoj kaj aliaj verkoj de la plej inedito tempo. No La nombro de venontaj el tiuj kajeroj ne povas esti difinita en la anta

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1291764518

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Jean Cocteau

A Life

By: Claude Arnaud

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Jean Cocteau

A Life

By: Claude Arnaud

This passionate and monumental biography reassesses the life and legacy of one of the most significant cultural figures of the twentieth century Unevenly respected, easily hated, almost always suspected of being inferior to his reputation, Jean Cocteau has often been thought of as a jack-of-all-trades, master of none. In this landmark biography, Claude Arnaud thoroughly contests this characterization, as he celebrates Cocteau's "fragile genius--a combination almost unlivable in art" but in his case so fertile. Arnaud narrates the life of this legendary French novelist, poet, playwright, director, filmmaker, and designer who, as a young man, pretended to be a sort of a god, but who died as a humble and exhausted craftsman. His moving and compassionate account examines the nature of Cocteau's chameleon-like genius, his romantic attachments, his controversial politics, and his intimate involvement with many of the century's leading artistic lights, including Picasso, Proust, Hemingway, Stravinsky, and Tennessee Williams. Already published to great critical acclaim in France, Arnaud's penetrating and deeply researched work reveals a uniquely gifted artist while offering a magnificent cultural history of the twentieth century.

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0300170572

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9780300170573

Positive Alpha Generation

Designing Sound Investment Processes

By: Claude Diderich

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Positive Alpha Generation

Designing Sound Investment Processes

By: Claude Diderich

Diderich describes tools and techniques, which can be used to develop quantitative models for actively managing investment products, and focuses on how theoretical models can and should be used in practice. He describes the interaction between different elements of an investment process's value chain in a single and consistent framework. A key focus is placed on illustrating the theory with real world examples. At the end of the book the reader will be capable of designing or enhancing an investment process for an investment or portfolio managers products from start to finish. * Increased pressure to add value through investments makes this a hot topic in the investment world * Combined theoretical and practical approach makes this book appealing to a wide audience of quants and investors * The only book to show how to design and implement quantitative models for gaining positive alpha

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0470742879

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Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country

By: Carl A. Brasseaux,Claude F. Oubre,Keith P. Fontenot

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Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country

By: Carl A. Brasseaux,Claude F. Oubre,Keith P. Fontenot

Creoles of Color are rightfully among the first families of southwestern Louisiana. Yet in both antebellum and postbellum periods they remained a people considered apart from the rest of the population. Historians, demographers, sociologists, and anthropologists have given them only scant attention. This probing book, focused on the mid-eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, is the first to scrutinize this multiracial group through a close study of primary resource materials. During the antebellum period they were excluded from the state's three-tiered society—white, free people of color, and slaves. Yet Creoles of Color were a dynamic component in the region's economy, for they were self-compelled in efforts to become an integral part of the community. Though not accepted by white society, they were unwilling to be classified as black. Imitating their white neighbors, many were Catholic, spoke the French language, and owned slaves. After the Civil War, some Creoles of Color, being light-skinned, passed for white. Others relocated to safe agricultural enclaves, becoming even more clannish and isolated from general society.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1628468181

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Advanced Introduction to New Institutional Economics

By: Ménard, Claude,Shirley, Mary M.

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Advanced Introduction to New Institutional Economics

By: Ménard, Claude,Shirley, Mary M.

New institutional economics (NIE) is a powerful tool for understanding real world phenomena. This Advanced Introduction explores NIE’s answers to fundamental questions about the organization, growth and development of economies, such as why are some countries rich and others poor? Why are activities organized as firms or markets or through alternative organizational solutions? When are shared resources overexploited?

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1789904498

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Claude La Colombière Sermons

Christian Conduct

By: Claude La Colombière

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Claude La Colombière Sermons

Christian Conduct

By: Claude La Colombière

This volume presents for the first time English-language translations of twelve sermons by St. Claude La Colombière. Canonized in 1992 by Pope John Paul II, Claude was a 17th-century Jesuit priest who authenticated the visions of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque and promoted devotion to the Sacred Heart. Like St. Francis of Assisi, Claude had been a man of privilege, and was a literary figure with a reputation as a master of Christian eloquence. He died a martyr at the age of forty-one. Each sermon in this volume addresses a different issue under the general theme of Christian conduct. Together these sermons present the notions central to Claude's preaching and general attitude, above all the ideas of habituation and confidence in God. Preaching during Claude's lifetime developed under a variety of influences, most notably the thematic sermons of the late medieval period and the humanistic retrieval of classical letters during the Renaissance. Claude worked within and helped to create the stylistic conventions of the day by drawing on scripture and the Church Fathers in an attempt to convert his listeners. Taking a hybrid approach to his craft, he brought a balanced use of rhetorical art into the pulpit so as to please as well as to instruct and move his audience, hereby promoting the development of French classicism in the second half of the seventeenth century. In his commentary on the sermons William O'Brien examines the dynamic vision of the human person that emerges from St. Claude's preaching and considers what this might mean for readers of today. While offering a historical-literary study of his preaching, the work is located firmly in the contemporary quest for a new unity between the theoretical and the practical in Christianity. What results is a book with a unique appeal. General readers interested in their own spiritual growth, as well as scholars and students of religious history, theology, and French literature, will find this book to be a valuable resource.

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Cornell University Press

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1609090926

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The Brothers Le Nain

Painters of Seventeenth-century France

By: Esther Susan Bell,Claude Douglas Dickerson,Nicolas Milavanovic,Alain Tallon

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The Brothers Le Nain

Painters of Seventeenth-century France

By: Esther Susan Bell,Claude Douglas Dickerson,Nicolas Milavanovic,Alain Tallon

A beautiful volume that brings to light the forgotten Le Nain brothers, a trio of 17th-century French master painters who specialized in portraiture, religious subjects, and scenes of everyday peasant life In France in the 17th century, the brothers Antoine (c. 1598-1648), Louis (c. 1600/1605-1648), and Mathieu (1607-1677) Le Nain painted images of everyday life for which they became posthumously famous. They are celebrated for their depictions of middle-class leisure activities, and particularly for their representations of peasant families, who gaze out at the viewer. The uncompromising naturalism of these compositions, along with their oddly suspended action, imparts a sense of dignity to their subjects. Featuring more than sixty paintings highlighting the artists' full range of production, including altarpieces, private devotional paintings, portraits, and the poignant images of peasants for which the brothers are best known, this generously illustrated volume presents new research concerning the authorship, dating, and meaning of the works by well-known scholars in the field. Also groundbreaking are the results of a technical study of the paintings, which constitutes a major contribution to the scholarship on the Le Nain brothers.

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0300218885

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9780300218886

Under the Whispering Filaos

By: Jean-Claude Perdriel

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Under the Whispering Filaos

By: Jean-Claude Perdriel

In October 1957, Jeremy left his island paradise to become a pilot in the Fleet Air Arm, leaving behind, Maureen, the young girl he intended to marry as soon as he had completed his training. Unbeknown to him, family quarrels instigated by his controlling mother caused a breakdown in communication as their letters went undelivered, leaving the young couple to think that the other had broken the vow. Finding herself pregnant, Maureen leaves the island to live with her married sister in South Africa so as not to bring shame to her family. The Cold War is in full swing and the “Wind of Change” about to sweep the continent, soon bringing with it some of the toughest battles since WW2, on the borders of the country. Maureen, married and now widowed, returns to her island with her married son and small family. What had become of him, she often wonders. Did he ever think about her and their child? Had time erased his love for her?

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1398481319

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THE NEZAT AND ALLIED FAMILIES 1630 - 2019

By: Jack Claude Nezat

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THE NEZAT AND ALLIED FAMILIES 1630 - 2019

By: Jack Claude Nezat

Pierre Nezat was born 1736 in Layrac, France. As a teenager, he learned the trade of his father, a carpenter, and at the age of 19 volunteered for the account of a colonist. He left Layrac and France for the West Indies on the traces of Jean Roy, Jean Hebert and Guillaume Barre...He settled in Louisiana and met Magdelaine Provost, Frenchwoman born in Fort de Chartres, Illinois. Both are the founders of a very great family. The book, about the Nezat and allied families, includes the history, portraits of descendants as well as a family tree with index from 1630 to May 2007. Allied families are, amon others: Roy, Barre, Hebert, Chachere, Begnaud, Robin, Mouton, Thibodeaux, Brocato, Devillier, Friloux, Prejean, Broussard, Arceneaux, Carlile, Anderson, Granger, Latiolais, Comeau, Chiasson, Stelly, Quebedeaux, Carriere, Zeringue, Patin, Sonnier, Martin, Lowe, Peery, Dupuy, Provost, Smith, Holland, Spainhour, Marcel, Trahan, Sullivan, Stout, Vidrine, Dejean, Brown and Wallace

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0615150012

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9780615150017

L'épée et la mitre au service du roi. Les quatre frères Du Bellay, gloires du Maine au 16ème siècle.

By: Claude DUBOIS-GEOFFROY

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L'épée et la mitre au service du roi. Les quatre frères Du Bellay, gloires du Maine au 16ème siècle.

By: Claude DUBOIS-GEOFFROY

Du Bellay. Chacun a retenu les vers de Joachim, mais qui se souvient de ses glorieux cousins, si connus en leur temps par la rare competence mise dans leurs multiples fonctions? Guillaume, Jean, Martin et Rene Du Bellay, quatre freres au service du roi, promoteurs des valeurs de tolerance et d'humanisme en cette premiere moitie du XVIeme siecle troublee mais feconde en idees nouvelles. Nous les suivons un a un, a travers le Maine, l'Anjou et l'Europe: Guillaume, gentilhomme zele et ambassadeur de Francois Ier, Jean, grand ecclesiastique de l'Eglise gallicane, orateur lettre, successeur de Rene sur la cathedre mancelle, Martin, grand capitaine des chevau-legers du roi, Rene, eveque du Mans, protecteur du naturaliste Pierre Belon comme du savant lettre Jacques Peletier... Claude Dubois-Geoffroy a reussi, en un ouvrage accessible a tous, a livrer la synthese indispensable a tout un chacun desireux de connaitre les artisans de l'Europe de la Renaissance.

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2954328614

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Wild Thought

A New Translation of “La Pensée sauvage”

By: Claude Lévi-Strauss

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Wild Thought

A New Translation of “La Pensée sauvage”

By: Claude Lévi-Strauss

As the most influential anthropologist of his generation, Claude Lévi-Strauss left a profound mark on the development of twentieth-century thought. Through a mixture of insights gleaned from linguistics, sociology, and ethnology, Lévi-Strauss elaborated his theory of structural unity in culture and became the preeminent representative of structural anthropology. La Pensée sauvage, first published in French in 1962, was his crowning achievement. Ranging over philosophies, historical periods, and human societies, it challenged the prevailing assumption of the superiority of modern Western culture and sought to explain the unity of human intellection. Controversially titled The Savage Mind when it was first published in English in 1966, the original translation nevertheless sparked a fascination with Lévi-Strauss’s work among Anglophone readers. Wild Thought rekindles that spark with a fresh and accessible new translation. Including critical annotations for the contemporary reader, it restores the accuracy and integrity of the book that changed the course of intellectual life in the twentieth century, making it an indispensable addition to any philosophical or anthropological library.

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University of Chicago Press

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022641311X

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9780226413112

A Desert Named Peace

The Violence of France's Empire in the Algerian Sahara, 1844-1902

By: Benjamin Claude Brower

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A Desert Named Peace

The Violence of France's Empire in the Algerian Sahara, 1844-1902

By: Benjamin Claude Brower

In the mid-nineteenth century, French colonial leaders in Algeria started southward into the Sahara, beginning a fifty-year period of violence. Lying in the shadow of the colonization of northern Algeria, which claimed the lives of over a million people, French empire in the Sahara sought power through physical force as it had elsewhere; yet violence in the Algerian Sahara followed a more complicated logic than the old argument that it was simply a way to get empire on the cheap. A Desert Named Peace examines colonial violence through multiple stories and across several fields of research. It presents four cases: the military conquests of the French army in the oases and officers' predisposition to use extreme violence in colonial conflicts; a spontaneous nighttime attack made by Algerian pastoralists on a French village, as notable for its brutality as for its obscure causes; the violence of indigenous forms of slavery and the colonial accommodations that preserved it during the era of abolition; and the struggles of French Romantics whose debates about art and politics arrived from Paris with disastrous consequences. Benjamin Claude Brower uses these different perspectives to reveal the unexpected causes of colonial violence, such as France's troubled revolutionary past and its influence on the military's institutional culture, the aesthetics of the sublime and its impact on colonial thinking, the ecological crises suffered by Saharan pastoralists under colonial rule, and the conflicting paths to authority inherent in Algerian Sufism. Directly engaging a controversial history, A Desert Named Peace offers an important backdrop to understanding the Algerian war for independence (1954-1962) and Algeria's ongoing internal war, begun in 1992, between the government and armed groups that claim to fight for an Islamist revolution.

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0231154933

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9780231154932

Chamfort

A Biography

By: Claude Arnaud

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Chamfort

A Biography

By: Claude Arnaud

Sébastien Roch Nicolas Chamfort (1740-1794), whom Nietzsche called the "wittiest of all moralists," is now known for little more than brillian aphorisms that captivated a long line of thinkers, from Stendhal to Cioran, Schopenhauer to Camus. Yet the fascination of Chamfort's life is barely suggested by the fragments of writing that have survived him. In Claude Arnaud's captivating biography, Chamfort the libertine, playwright, journalist, and revolutionary stands revealed as the most telling emblem of his times.

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0226026973

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Insiders - Volume 3 - The Afghan Trap

By: Jean-Claude Bartoll,Renaud Garreta

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Insiders - Volume 3 - The Afghan Trap

By: Jean-Claude Bartoll,Renaud Garreta

Captured by neo-Taliban tribesmen along with French businessman Cordez, Najah is taken to Pashtun territory. Sam Nachez is looking for her, and French Intelligence are looking for Cordez, but none of them know precisely who took her or why. Nor do they know that Najah isn’t one to miss an opportunity to escape. Chance encounters, tribal politics, international finance... The justifications for Project Insider keep piling up–as do the threats to its only agent.

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1849189749

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Insiders - Volume 2 - Missiles for Islamabad

By: Jean-Claude Bartoll,Renaud Garreta

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Insiders - Volume 2 - Missiles for Islamabad

By: Jean-Claude Bartoll,Renaud Garreta

Najah Cruz has infiltrated the entourage of Sam Nachez, head of the international organised-crime ring known as the High Council. She’s an insider, working directly for the White House. And she’s been cut off from her bosses. While corrupt forces in Washington are trying to identify her and kill Project Insiders, Najah goes to Pakistan with Nachez to arrange the sale of French cruise missiles to the Pakistani Air Force. But not everyone in Nachez’s inner circle is convinced of her loyalty, and Pakistan is a troubled country in its own right...

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Ambitions Tamed

Urban Expansion in Pre-revolutionary Lyon

By: Pierre-Claude Reynard

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Ambitions Tamed

Urban Expansion in Pre-revolutionary Lyon

By: Pierre-Claude Reynard

Entrepreneurship and the promise of a better city in an age of powerful ideas, eager moves, and mixed results.

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077353492X

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My Life in America

A Long, Long Question

By: Claude Pierre

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My Life in America

A Long, Long Question

By: Claude Pierre

My Life in America is the startling story of a young man who had left his native land with the hopes of finding a new life in a foreign land where dreams become reality, and where opportunity bestows to all. However, in the process of finding his way and pursuing his dreams, he became blinded by the lures of his new home which therefore led him to a long, long state of confusion and torment, and therefore, he was doomed to become the object of a materialistic society whereas immorality is extolled and morality is overwhelmingly depreciated, and thus, he, nevertheless, became to conform to the society in which he found himself. However, with the promises he made to himself to never forget his country and his dreams, he later forsook the life of futility and then embrace a new life where he reinvented himself.

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1438987196

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Working with Napoleon

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte by His Private Secretary

By: de Claude-François

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Working with Napoleon

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte by His Private Secretary

By: de Claude-François

Napoleon always sells very well. A classic of the genre. Long out of print with a complete index of names.

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1936274205

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9781936274208

My Turn at Bat

The Sad Saga of the Montreal Expos

By: Claude Brochu

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My Turn at Bat

The Sad Saga of the Montreal Expos

By: Claude Brochu

After 32 years, Montreal will soon lose its professional baseball team. The former president of the Expos explains how the team went from being one of major league baseball's most promising franchises to becoming a financial pariah, barely escaping extinction at the end of the 2001 season and now facing demise in 2002. This history of the team's troubled existence covers years of gradually declining revenue and attendance, the sale of the team to a consortium of business leaders in 1991, and the league's ongoing debate over eliminating the Expos once and for all.

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A Journey through the History of Numerical Linear Algebra

By: Claude Brezinski ,Gérard Meurant ,Michela Redivo-Zaglia

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A Journey through the History of Numerical Linear Algebra

By: Claude Brezinski ,Gérard Meurant ,Michela Redivo-Zaglia

This expansive volume describes the history of numerical methods proposed for solving linear algebra problems, from antiquity to the present day. The authors focus on methods for linear systems of equations and eigenvalue problems and describe the interplay between numerical methods and the computing tools available at the time. The second part of the book consists of 78 biographies of important contributors to the field. A Journey through the History of Numerical Linear Algebra will be of special interest to applied mathematicians, especially researchers in numerical linear algebra, people involved in scientific computing, and historians of mathematics.

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SIAM

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1611977231

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Phantom Armies of the Night

The Wild Hunt and the Ghostly Processions of the Undead

By: Claude Lecouteux

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The Wild Hunt and the Ghostly Processions of the Undead

By: Claude Lecouteux

An exploration of the many forms of the ancient myth of the Wild Hunt and its influence in pagan and early Christian Europe • Recounts the myriad variations of this legend, from the Cursed Huntsman and King Herla to phantom armies and vast processions of sinners and demons • Explains how this belief was an integral part of the pagan worldview and was thus employed by the church to spread Christian doctrine • Reveals how the secret societies of medieval Europe reenacted these ghostly processions for soul travel and prophecies of impending death Once upon a time a phenomenon existed in medieval Europe that continuously fueled local lore: during the long winter nights a strange and unknown troop could be heard passing outside over the land or through the air. Anyone caught by surprise in the open fields or depths of the woods would see a bizarre procession of demons, giants, hounds, ladies of the night, soldiers, and knights, some covered in blood and others carrying their heads beneath their arms. This was the Wild or Infernal Hunt, the host of the damned, the phantom army of the night--a theme that still inspires poets, writers, and painters to this day. Millennia older than Christianity, this pagan belief was employed by the church to spread their doctrine, with the shapeshifters' and giants of the pagan nightly processions becoming sinners led by demons seeking out unwary souls to add to their retinues. Myth or legend, it represents a belief that has deep roots in Europe, particularly Celtic and Scandinavian countries. The first scholar to fully examine this myth in each of its myriad forms, Claude Lecouteux strips away the Christian gloss and shows how the Wild Hunt was an integral part of the pagan worldview and the structure of their societies. Additionally, he looks at how secret societies of medieval Europe reenacted these ghostly processions through cult rituals culminating in masquerades and carnival-like cavalcades often associated with astral doubles, visions of the afterlife, belief in multiple souls, and prophecies of impending death. He reveals how the nearly infinite variations of this myth are a still living, evolving tradition that offers us a window into the world in which our ancestors lived.

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159477806X

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A History of Chinese Mathematics

By: Jean-Claude Martzloff

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A History of Chinese Mathematics

By: Jean-Claude Martzloff

This book is made up of two parts, the first devoted to general, historical and cultural background, and the second to the development of each subdiscipline that together comprise Chinese mathematics. The book is uniquely accessible, both as a topical reference work, and also as an overview that can be read and reread at many levels of sophistication by both sinologists and mathematicians alike.

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Springer

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3540337830

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The Economics of Competition, Collusion and In-between

By: Claude d’Aspremont,Rodolphe Dos Santos Ferreira

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The Economics of Competition, Collusion and In-between

By: Claude d’Aspremont,Rodolphe Dos Santos Ferreira

This book provides a methodology for the analysis of oligopolistic markets from an equilibrium viewpoint, considering competition within and between groups of firms. It proposes a well-founded measure of competitive toughness that can be used in empirically relevant applications. This measure reflects the weight put by each firm on competition for market share relative to competition for market size – two dimensions of competition involving conflicting and convergent interests, respectively. It further explores several applications, such as the effect of tougher competition on innovation and of output market power on the emergence of involuntary unemployment, as well as the importance of strategic interactions for investment decisions. Relative to the dominant model of monopolistic competition, The Economics of Competition, Collusion and In-between aims to explore an alternative tractable model of firm competition opening the application of oligopoly theory to many fields in economics where general equilibrium features are crucial. It will be relevant to those interested in applied industrial organization, trade, macroeconomics (in particular macrodynamics) and quantitative economics.

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Springer Nature

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303063602X

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History of Continued Fractions and Padé Approximants

By: Claude Brezinski

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History of Continued Fractions and Padé Approximants

By: Claude Brezinski

The history of continued fractions is certainly one of the longest among those of mathematical concepts, since it begins with Euclid's algorithm for the great est common divisor at least three centuries B.C. As it is often the case and like Monsieur Jourdain in Moliere's "Ie bourgeois gentilhomme" (who was speak ing in prose though he did not know he was doing so), continued fractions were used for many centuries before their real discovery. The history of continued fractions and Pade approximants is also quite im portant, since they played a leading role in the development of some branches of mathematics. For example, they were the basis for the proof of the tran scendence of 11' in 1882, an open problem for more than two thousand years, and also for our modern spectral theory of operators. Actually they still are of great interest in many fields of pure and applied mathematics and in numerical analysis, where they provide computer approximations to special functions and are connected to some convergence acceleration methods. Con tinued fractions are also used in number theory, computer science, automata, electronics, etc ...

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3642581692

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