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Joseph Babinski

A Biography

By: Jacques Philippon,Jacques Poirier

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Joseph Babinski

A Biography

By: Jacques Philippon,Jacques Poirier

In this volume, two French physicians, Jacques Philippon and Jacques Poirier, analyze Joseph Babinski's great scientific achievements, explore his unique family history, and publish for the first time a complete bibliography of his publications." "This book chronicles his family's emigration from Poland to France, his tutelage and early career under great teachers such as Alfred Vulpian, Victor Cornil, and Jean-Martin Charcot at the Hopital de la Salpetriere in Paris, his methods and observations during his 17 years as department head at La Pitie, as well as the close and unique relationship with his brother Henri. Finally, Babinski's life and times can be accessed in one book."--BOOK JACKET.

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Oxford University Press

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0195369750

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How to Be Secular

A Call to Arms for Religious Freedom

By: Jacques Berlinerblau

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How to Be Secular

A Call to Arms for Religious Freedom

By: Jacques Berlinerblau

Why secularism isn’t the same thing as atheism—and why it’s crucial for preserving liberty and democracy for all Americans, regardless of their beliefs. Founding father Thomas Jefferson believed that “religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God,” but these days many people seem to have forgotten this ideal. Conservatives claim America is a “Christian nation” and urge that laws be structured around religious convictions. Hardcore atheists, meanwhile, seek to undermine and attack religion at all levels. Surely there must be a middle ground. In How to Be Secular, Jacques Berlinerblau issues a call to the moderates—those who are tired of the belligerence on the fringes—that we return to America’s long tradition of secularism, which seeks to protect both freedom from and for religion. He looks at the roots of secularism and examines how it should be bolstered and strengthened so that Americans of all stripes can live together peacefully. “Jacques Berlinerblau mounts a careful, judicious, and compelling argument that America needs more secularists. . . . The author’s argument merits a wide hearing and will change the way we think and talk about religious freedom.” —Randall Balmer, author of Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts FaithandThreatens America

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HMH

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0547518285

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Secure Retirement: Connecting Financial Theory and Human Behavior

By: Jacques Lussier

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Secure Retirement: Connecting Financial Theory and Human Behavior

By: Jacques Lussier

Financial science, both quantitative and behavioral, can be used to improve the retirement planning effort. Despite a vast amount of literature on the topic, Secure Retirement recognizes the need to validate this knowledge and develop a comprehensive framework for investors.

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CFA Institute Research Foundation

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1944960821

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Sergeant Major, U. S. Marines

The Biography of Sergeant Major Maruice J. Jacques, USMC

By: Bruce H. Norton,Maurice J. Jacques

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Sergeant Major, U. S. Marines

The Biography of Sergeant Major Maruice J. Jacques, USMC

By: Bruce H. Norton,Maurice J. Jacques

The story of Sergeant Major Maurice Jacques is the story of a true warrior. With close to fifty months of combat in Korea and Vietnam, he's one of that rare breed, men who have looked the Devil in the eye?for a long time?and never blinked!"--?LtCol. Oliver North, USMC (Ret.) COMBAT AND DEATH, SACRIFICE AND HONOR Maurice Jacques served for thirty years with the U.S. Marine Corps, nearly six of them in combat. As an accomplished infantryman, parachutist, recon patroller, marksman, combat swimmer, and record-setting drill instructor, Jacques personifies the hard-fought, hard-won legacy of the Marines. With the help of Bruce Norton, he recounts the lessons learned in blood and the courage tested under fire?from the razor-backed hills and icy cold of Korea to the steamy, Vietcong-infested jungles of Nam. In this tough, gripping narrative, he reveals the emotion and chaos of close combat and the sacrifice and valor that have made the Marines legendary worldwide. During his long, dynamic career, Jacques held the position of regimental sergeant major in three different commands and was awarded two Bronze Stars and a Purple Heart. Maurice Jacques is a true warrior, as distinctive and exceptional as the Marines. He was expected to train harder, fight harder, sacrifice more, and is forever proud to be part of the pain, the pride, and the triumph that is USMC. "Doc Norton . . . has done it again. This time, Doc has helped his old diving partner, retired Sergeant Major Maurice Jacques, turn out one of the finest military autobiographies you're ever likely to read . . . You'd be foolish to pass this one up."--Ken Miller, vietnamgear.com

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Quadrant Books®

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1937868214

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Brain Lipids in Synaptic Function and Neurological Disease

Clues to Innovative Therapeutic Strategies for Brain Disorders

By: Jacques Fantini,Nouara Yahi

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Brain Lipids in Synaptic Function and Neurological Disease

Clues to Innovative Therapeutic Strategies for Brain Disorders

By: Jacques Fantini,Nouara Yahi

Lipids are the most abundant organic compounds found in the brain, accounting for up to 50% of its dry weight. The brain lipidome includes several thousands of distinct biochemical structures whose expression may greatly vary according to age, gender, brain region, cell type, as well as subcellular localization. In synaptic membranes, brain lipids specifically interact with neurotransmitter receptors and control their activity. Moreover, brain lipids play a key role in the generation and neurotoxicity of amyloidogenic proteins involved in the pathophysiology of neurological diseases. The aim of this book is to provide for the first time a comprehensive overview of brain lipid structures, and to explain the roles of these lipids in synaptic function, and in neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's, Creutzfeldt-Jakob's and Parkinson's. To conclude the book, the authors present new ideas that can drive innovative therapeutic strategies based on the knowledge of the role of lipids in brain disorders. - Written to provide a "hands-on" approach for readers - Biochemical structures explained with molecular models, and molecular mechanisms explained with simple drawings - Step-by-step guide to memorize and draw lipid structures - Each chapter features a content summary, up-to-date references for additional study, and a key experiment with an explanation of the technique

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Academic Press

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0128004924

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On Socialization in Hamadryas Baboons

A Field Study

By: Jean-Jacques Abegglen

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On Socialization in Hamadryas Baboons

A Field Study

By: Jean-Jacques Abegglen

This book presents the results of an eighteen-month field study of wild hamadryas baboons. The author attempts to interpret his findings in terms of the bonding-stage model of Hans Kummer and compares the hamadryas socialization pattern with those of other primate species, including humans.

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Bucknell University Press

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0838750176

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Necklines

The Art of Jacques-Louis David After the Terror

By: Ewa Lajer-Burcharth,Jacques Louis David

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Necklines

The Art of Jacques-Louis David After the Terror

By: Ewa Lajer-Burcharth,Jacques Louis David

This book examines the crucial period in the painter's career as he struggled to save his neck and recast his identity in the aftermath of the Reign of Terror. Burcharth assesses his works in the context of the larger cultural and social formations emerging in France concluding with an interpretation of the unfinished portrait of Juliette Recamier.

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Yale University Press

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0300074212

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9780300074215

Papers in Hellenistic Philosophy

By: Jacques Brunschwig

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Papers in Hellenistic Philosophy

By: Jacques Brunschwig

This collection makes available in English twelve papers by the distinguished French scholar Professor Jacques Brunschwig. The essays deal with problems arising in the texts and doctrines of the three major philosophical schools of the Hellenistic period - Epicureanism, Stoicism and Scepticism.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521417120

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9780521417129

Participatory Action Research

Theory and Methods for Engaged Inquiry

By: Jacques M. Chevalier,Daniel Buckles

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Participatory Action Research

Theory and Methods for Engaged Inquiry

By: Jacques M. Chevalier,Daniel Buckles

This book addresses a fundamental problem in applied social science and educational research: the widespread difficulty researchers and students from all disciplines face when trying to combine people-based and evidence-based research into complex social settings characterized by uncertainty and the unknown. More than ever, researchers need flexible means and grounded theory to inquire and step into challenging situations that do not lend themselves to straightforward technical explanations and solutions.

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Routledge

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0415540313

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The Origin Of Individuals

By: Jean-jacques Kupiec

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The Origin Of Individuals

By: Jean-jacques Kupiec

In the 17th century, Descartes put forth the metaphor of the machine to explain the functioning of living beings. In the 18th century, La Mettrie extended the metaphor to man. The clock was then used as the paradigm of the machine. In the 20th century, this metaphor still held but the clock was replaced by a computer. Nowadays, the organism is viewed as a robot obeying signals emanating from a computer program controlled by genetic information. This book shows that such a conception leads to contradictions not only in the theory of biology but also in its experimental research program, thereby impeding its development. The analysis of this problem is based on the most recent experimental data obtained in molecular biology as well as the history and philosophy of biology. It shows that the machine theory did not succeed in breaking with Aristotle's finalism. The book presents a new approach to biological systems based on cellular Darwinism. Genes are ruled by probabilistic mechanisms allowing cells to differentiate stochastically. Embryo development is not governed by a determinist genetic program but by natural selection occurring among cell populations inside the organism. This theory has considerable philosophical consequences. Man may be a machine but he is a random one.

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World Scientific

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9814476129

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The World's Construction Mechanism

Trajectories, Imbalances, and the Future of Societies

By: Jacques Barnouin

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The World's Construction Mechanism

Trajectories, Imbalances, and the Future of Societies

By: Jacques Barnouin

The interdisciplinarity between the biological and human sciences is here to serve a daring objective: to decipher, by means of a logical chain, the explanatory factors of human trajectories and imbalances between societies and nations. To do this, The World’s Construction Mechanism is based on an unprecedented analysis of the dynamics of the human species, combining the contributions of anthropology, archeology, biology, climatology, economics, geography, history and sociology. This book analyzes the roots of societal disharmony and presents ways of realizing a clear-sighted human project that is in step with the general interest of humanity.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119706793

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Neurosciences at the Postgenomic Era

8 Tables

By: Jacques Mallet,Yves Christen

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Neurosciences at the Postgenomic Era

8 Tables

By: Jacques Mallet,Yves Christen

In this new volume in the series Research and Perspectives in Neurosciences the authors have presented and discussed their findings in the fields of speech and language disorders, X-linked mental retardation, gene therapy in the CNS, memory and learning disorders and other fields.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540001948

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Charles de Foucauld

By: Jean-Jacques Antier

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Charles de Foucauld

By: Jean-Jacques Antier

My Father, I put myself in your hands", wrote Charles de Foucauld in his journal. "Whatever you make of me, I thank you, I am ready for everything, I accept everything, I thank you for everything." When he was killed by bandits in 1916, the French aristocrat-turned-monk was virtually unknown. Over the course of a century, however, the radiance of Foucauld's hidden life has spread more and more, and the Church now recognizes him as a saint. His youth and early adulthood read like a novel—the loss of his parents; his education in Paris, where he abandoned the faith of his childhood; his military career in French Algeria; and his exploration of Morocco. After a conversion at the age of twenty-eight, Foucauld was charged with a desire to surrender himself completely to God, leading him eventually to a life of prayer in the Algerian desert. There he devoted himself to adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and charity toward his Muslim neighbors—even to the point of death. Jean-Jacques Antier describes Foucauld's dramatic, inspiring life in a vivid narrative style. He based his biography on the man's writings and correspondence as well as interviews with numerous people who knew him. Illustrated with sixteen pages of photos, and indexed.

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Ignatius Press

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1642292249

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Perjury and Pardon, Volume I

By: Jacques Derrida

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Perjury and Pardon, Volume I

By: Jacques Derrida

An inquiry into the problematic of perjury, or lying, and forgiveness from one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. “One only ever asks forgiveness for what is unforgivable.” From this contradiction begins Perjury and Pardon, a two-year series of seminars given by Jacques Derrida at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris in the late 1990s. In these sessions, Derrida focuses on the philosophical, ethical, juridical, and political stakes of the concept of responsibility. His primary goal is to develop what he calls a “problematic of lying” by studying diverse forms of betrayal: infidelity, denial, false testimony, perjury, unkept promises, desecration, sacrilege, and blasphemy. Although forgiveness is a notion inherited from multiple traditions, the process of forgiveness eludes those traditions, disturbing the categories of knowledge, sense, history, and law that attempt to circumscribe it. Derrida insists on the unconditionality of forgiveness and shows how its complex temporality destabilizes all ideas of presence and even of subjecthood. For Derrida, forgiveness cannot be reduced to repentance, punishment, retribution, or salvation, and it is inseparable from, and haunted by, the notion of perjury. Through close readings of Kant, Kierkegaard, Shakespeare, Plato, Jankélévitch, Baudelaire, and Kafka, as well as biblical texts, Derrida explores diverse notions of the “evil” or malignancy of lying while developing a complex account of forgiveness across different traditions.

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0226819183

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Bibliography

By: Jacques Waardenburg

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Bibliography

By: Jacques Waardenburg

Since its founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110800462

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Language, Brain, and Cognitive Development

Essays in Honor of Jacques Mehler

By: Jacques Mehler

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Language, Brain, and Cognitive Development

Essays in Honor of Jacques Mehler

By: Jacques Mehler

The contributions to this collection assess the progress of cognitive science. The questions addressed include: What have we learned or not learned about language, brain, and cognition? Where are we now? Where have we failed? Where have we succeeded?

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MIT Press

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0262041979

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Hospitality, Volume I

By: Jacques Derrida

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Hospitality, Volume I

By: Jacques Derrida

In Hospitality, Volume I, Jacques Derrida continues a seminar series he inaugurated in 1991 under the general title of "Questions of Responsibility." Delivered at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris from November 1995 through June 1996, the seminar is guided by questions that focus on responsibility and "the foreigner": How is the foreigner welcomed and/or repressed? What does the notion of the foreigner reveal about kinship, ethnicity, the city, the state, and the nation? What are the stakes of the opposition between friend and enemy? How should we think of this in relation to borders, citizenship, displaced populations, immigration, exile, asylum, integration, assimilation, xenophobia, and racism? Derrida approaches these questions through readings of several classical texts as well as more modern texts from Heidegger, Arendt, and Camus, among others. Central to his project is a rigorous distinction between conventional hospitality (always finite and conditional) and the idea of a hospitality open unconditionally to the newcomer"--

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0226828018

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Perjury and Pardon, Volume II

By: Jacques Derrida

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Perjury and Pardon, Volume II

By: Jacques Derrida

One only ever asks forgiveness for what is unforgivable." From this contradiction begins Perjury and Pardon, a two-year series of seminars given by Jacques Derrida at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris in the late 1990s. In these sessions, Derrida focuses on the philosophical, ethical, juridical, and political stakes of the concept of responsibility. His primary goal is to develop what he calls a "problematic of lying" by studying diverse forms of betrayal: infidelity, denial, false testimony, perjury, unkept promises, desecration, sacrilege, and blasphemy. Although forgiveness is a notion inherited from multiple traditions, the process of forgiveness eludes those traditions, disturbing the categories of knowledge, sense, history, and law that attempt to circumscribe it. Derrida insists on the unconditionality of forgiveness and shows how its complex temporality destabilizes all ideas of presence and even of subjecthood. For Derrida, forgiveness cannot be reduced to repentance, punishment, retribution, or salvation, and it is inseparable from, and haunted by, the notion of perjury. Through close readings of Kant, Kierkegaard, Shakespeare, Plato, Jankelévitch, Baudelaire, and Kafka, as well as biblical texts, Derrida explores diverse notions of the "evil" or malignancy of lying while developing a complex account of forgiveness across different traditions."--

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0226825280

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Animal Cognition

An Introduction to Modern Comparative Psychology

By: Jacques Vauclair

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Animal Cognition

An Introduction to Modern Comparative Psychology

By: Jacques Vauclair

Animal Cognition presents a lucid and comprehensive overview of cognitive processes in animals--bees and wasps, cats and dogs, dolphins and sea otters, pigeons, titmice, and chimpanzees--and offers a novel discussion of the ways in which Piagetian concepts may be used to develop models for the study of animal cognition.

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Harvard University Press

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0674037030

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Philosophy of Ecology and Capitalism

The True New Green Deal

By: Jacques Richard

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Philosophy of Ecology and Capitalism

The True New Green Deal

By: Jacques Richard

There is a substantial body of work emerging currently, seeking to address the problems caused by the economic model that has dominated the world for the last several hundred years – not least the negative impacts on the environment and sustainable health of the biosphere. This book adds to that body of literature, and brings an interesting new set of ideas into play. The author offers an approach to the philosophies and politics of nature based on a reinterpretation of the history of capitalism, in particular its concept of capital. It leads to a new anti-capitalist conception of the philosophy of ecology which takes into account at the same time history, ethics, politics, law and economics. By linking philosophy, law, economics and management, this work seeks to go beyond the mono-disciplinary and purely theoretical approaches which often characterize works devoted to the philosophy of nature, or the philosophy of ecology. It proposes a concrete philosophical alternative to modern capitalism which leads to ecological co-management and care at all levels of society, including that of political bodies, and the reform of constitutions and parliaments. In short, it is a book for a theory and a practice of environmental action in the broad sense within the framework of an institutional revolution passing in particular through the heart of the capitalist system.

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Ethics International Press

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1804413399

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9781804413395

Atlas of Human Limb Joints

By: Jacques Guyot

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Atlas of Human Limb Joints

By: Jacques Guyot

In this work, the author provides the most complete description of human limb joints available today. His presentation is divided into 2 parts. The first part contains a summary of the functional anatomy of each of the joints. The second part is devoted to the pictorial illustration of the joints, consisting of photographs, drawings and diagrams of meticulously prepared dissections of the ligamentous structures surrounding the joints as well as the joints themselves. From the reviews of the first edition: "...of great importance and interest for anatomists, surgeons, specialists in sports medicine and physiotherapists, and departmental libraries must include this book. The quality of dissections, photographs and artistic diagrams must be seen to be believed. The book is higly recommended and will be of great delight to those concerned with the function and surgery of joints." The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery#1

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3662216477

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Atomic Properties in Hot Plasmas

From Levels to Superconfigurations

By: Jacques Bauche,Claire Bauche-Arnoult,Olivier Peyrusse

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Atomic Properties in Hot Plasmas

From Levels to Superconfigurations

By: Jacques Bauche,Claire Bauche-Arnoult,Olivier Peyrusse

This book is devoted to the calculation of hot-plasma properties which generally requires a huge number of atomic data. It is the first book that combines information on the details of the basic atomic physics and its application to atomic spectroscopy with the use of the relevant statistical approaches. Information like energy levels, radiative rates, collisional and radiative cross-sections, etc., must be included in equilibrium or non-equilibrium models in order to describe both the atomic-population kinetics and the radiative properties. From the very large number of levels and transitions involved in complex ions, some statistical (global) properties emerge. The book presents a coherent set of concepts and compact formulas suitable for tractable and accurate calculations. The topics addressed are: radiative emission and absorption, and a dozen of other collisional and radiative processes; transition arrays between level ensembles (configurations, superconfigurations); effective temperatures of configurations, superconfigurations, and ions; charge-state distributions; radiative power losses and opacity. There are many numerical examples and comparisons with experiment presented throughout the book. The plasma properties described in this book are especially relevant to large nuclear fusion facilities such as the NIF (California) and the ITER (France), and to astrophysics. Methods relevant to the central-field configurational model are described in detail in the appendices: tensor-operator techniques, second-quantization formalism, statistical distribution moments, and the algebra of partition functions. Some extra tools are propensity laws, correlations, and fractals. These methods are applied to the analytical derivation of many properties, specially the global ones, through which the complexity is much reduced. The book is intended for graduate-level students, and for physicists working in the field.

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3319181475

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Artificial Intelligence and Dynamic Systems for Geophysical Applications

By: Alexej Gvishiani,Jacques O. Dubois

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Artificial Intelligence and Dynamic Systems for Geophysical Applications

By: Alexej Gvishiani,Jacques O. Dubois

The book presents new clustering schemes, dynamical systems and pattern recognition algorithms in geophysical, geodynamical and natural hazard applications. The original mathematical technique is based on both classical and fuzzy sets models. Geophysical and natural hazard applications are mostly original. However, the artificial intelligence technique described in the book can be applied far beyond the limits of Earth science applications. The book is intended for research scientists, tutors, graduate students, scientists in geophysics and engineers

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3662049333

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Inauspicious Beginnings

Principal Powers and International Security Institutions after the Cold War, 1989-1999

By: Onnig Beylerian,Jacques Lévesque

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Inauspicious Beginnings

Principal Powers and International Security Institutions after the Cold War, 1989-1999

By: Onnig Beylerian,Jacques Lévesque

The authors detail how the Bush and Clinton administrations relied on catering to allies and building large coalitions to deal with major international security challenges, while other principal powers were either pre-occupied with their domestic problems or deferred to the United States. As a consequence, on the eve of 11 September 2001 the United Nations Security Council remained an older, outmoded power configuration incapable of responding efficiently to the with novel challenges besetting it. Its relevance has been further questioned by the unilateral occupation of Iraq by the United States.

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077357154X

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The Gestapo

History of Horror

By: Jacques Delarue

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The Gestapo

History of Horror

By: Jacques Delarue

The word 'Gestapo' has become synonymous with the terrible brutality and terror of the Nazi regime in World War II. The Gestapo came into existence in 1933 as Department 1A of the Prussian State Police. Under the SS, the Gestapo grew in power, and was given the job of investigating and combatting 'all tendencies dangerous to the state'. Schutzhaft (protective custody) gave the Gestapo the power to imprison without judicial proceedings, often in concentration camps. It was also responsible for destroying opposition to Hitler. By early 1942, as the Nazi regime became increasingly unpopular in Germany, a number of protests took place. The Gestapo's response was brutal. Thousands were arrested and executed, and all dissent was crushed. The History of the Gestapo provides an authoritative overview of this sinister instrument of repression. Never before had an organisation attained such complexity, been vested with such power, or reached such a pitch of 'perfection' in efficiency and horror.

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1848325029

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Genetics of the Mouse

By: Jean Louis Guénet,Fernando Benavides,Jean-Jacques Panthier,Xavier Montagutelli

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Genetics of the Mouse

By: Jean Louis Guénet,Fernando Benavides,Jean-Jacques Panthier,Xavier Montagutelli

This book, written by experienced geneticists, covers topics ranging from the natural history of the mouse species, its handling and reproduction in the laboratory, and its classical genetics and cytogenetics, to modern issues including the analysis of the transcriptome, the parental imprinting and X-chromosome inactivation. The strategies for creating all sorts of mutations, either by genetic engineering or by using mutagens, are also reviewed and discussed in detail. Finally, a last chapter outlines the methodology used for the analysis of complex or quantitative traits. The authors also discuss the importance of accurate phenotyping, which is now performed in the mouse clinics established worldwide and identify the limits of the mouse model, which under certain circumstances can fail to present the phenotype expected from the cognate condition in the human model. For each chapter an up-to-date list of pertinent references is provided. In short, this book offers an essential resource for all scientists who use or plan to use mice in their research.

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3662442876

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Journal of My Life

By: Jacques-Louis Ménétra

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Journal of My Life

By: Jacques-Louis Ménétra

Jaques-Louis Menetra's journal reads like a historian's dream come true. It conveys his understanding of what it meant to grow up in Paris, where he was born in 1738; to tramp around provincial shops on a journeyman's tour de France; to settle down as a Parisian master with a shop and family of his own; and to live through the great events of the Revolution as a militant in his local Section.

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394

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Columbia University Press

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ISBN 10

0231061293

ISBN 13

9780231061292

Book's by Jacques Poirier

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