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The Law and Slavery

Prohibiting Human Exploitation

By: Jean Allain

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The Law and Slavery

Prohibiting Human Exploitation

By: Jean Allain

The Law and Slavery sets out the articles, book reviews and case notes by Professor Jean Allain which led to pioneering exploration of forced labour, servitudes, slavery, the slave trade, and trafficking in his 2013 Slavery in International Law: Of Human Exploitation and Trafficking (MNP). This collection brings together Professor Allain’s considerations of the evolution of legal abolition internationally, his critique of the then status quo in the area of slavery and the law, and goes on to develop the foundations of a legal understanding of various servitudes and slavery based on his archival research and legal analysis. Professor Allain’s research has transformed the landscape of how we understand contemporary slavery and those other servitudes which constitute human exploitation.

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900427989X

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Journey Through the Ice Age

By: Paul G. Bahn,Jean Vertut

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Journey Through the Ice Age

By: Paul G. Bahn,Jean Vertut

Journey through the Ice Age not only offers an invaluable synthesis of our current state of knowledge about Paleolithic people and the societies in which they lived, but also presents a visual feast of imagery. The text is illustrated with unsurpassed photography of the late Jean Vertut whose photos have never before been published on this scale.

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Univ of California Press

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0520229002

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Herbal Medicines in Pregnancy and Lactation

An Evidence-Based Approach

By: Edward Mills,Jean-Jacques Dugoua,Dan Perri,Gideon Koren

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Herbal Medicines in Pregnancy and Lactation

An Evidence-Based Approach

By: Edward Mills,Jean-Jacques Dugoua,Dan Perri,Gideon Koren

Just as with prescription drugs, natural health products can present substantial risks and prompt the same areas of concern. Although some of these effects may be life-threatening, current literature on these important issues is scant. With the use of natural health products on the rise, physicians require quality evidence with which to make evi

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CRC Press

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1040167446

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At the Edge of the World

The Heroic Century of the French Foreign Legion

By: Jean-Vincent Blanchard

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At the Edge of the World

The Heroic Century of the French Foreign Legion

By: Jean-Vincent Blanchard

The remarkable story of the French Foreign Legion, its dramatic rise throughout the nineteenth century, and its most committed champion, General Hubert Lyautey. An aura of mystery, romance, and danger surrounds the French Foreign Legion, the all-volunteer corps of the French Army, founded in 1831. Famous for its physically grueling training in harsh climates, the legion fought in French wars from Mexico to Madagascar, Southeast Asia to North Africa. To this day, despite its reputation for being assigned the riskiest missions in the roughest terrain, the mystique of the legion continues to attract men from every corner of the world. In At the Edge of the World, historian Jean-Vincent Blanchard follows the legion's rise to fame during the nineteenth century--focusing on its campaigns in Indochina and especially in Africa--when the corps played a central role in expanding and protecting the French Empire. As France struggled to be a power capable of rivaling the British, the figure of the legionnaire--deadly, self-sacrificing, uncompromisingly efficient--came to represent the might and morale that would secure a greater, stronger nation. Drawing from rare, archival memoirs and testimonies of legionnaires from the period and tracing the fascinating career of Hubert Lyautey, France's first resident-general in Morocco and a hero to many a legionnaire, At the Edge of the World chronicles the Foreign Legion at the height of its renown, when the corps and its archetypically handsome, moody, and marginalized recruits became both the symbols of a triumphant colonialism and the stuff of legend.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0802743870

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Transport and Town Planning

The City in Search of Sustainable Development

By: Jean Laterrasse

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Transport and Town Planning

The City in Search of Sustainable Development

By: Jean Laterrasse

In a context where climate change urgently requires us to alter our paradigms, this book explores the possibilities of cities that are both more energy efficient and more respectful of the environment. Based on the observation that urban planning has been detrimentally affected by the compartmentalization of knowledge and practices, this book is conceived as a dialog between transport and urban planning on the one hand, and between engineering and social science on the other. Systemic analysis and a historical approach, integrating the teachings of the last two centuries, constitute at the methodological level the framework in which this dialog unfolds. Based on examples of good practice, Transport and Town Planning identifies an effective set of levers of action and proposes an original method to guide and accompany urban transition with a large share of the initiative reserved for the actors concerned.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1786303299

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Memory

Neuropsychological, Imaging and Psychopharmacological Perspectives

By: Gérard Emilien,Cécile Durlach,Elena Antoniadis,Martial Van der Linden,Jean-Marie Maloteaux

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Memory

Neuropsychological, Imaging and Psychopharmacological Perspectives

By: Gérard Emilien,Cécile Durlach,Elena Antoniadis,Martial Van der Linden,Jean-Marie Maloteaux

Memory: Neuropsychological, Imaging and Psychopharmacological Perspectives reviews critically the impact of recent neuropsychological and biological discoveries on our understanding of human memory and its pathology. Too often, insights from clinical, neurological and psychopharmacological fields have remained isolated and mutually unintelligible. Therefore the first part of this book provides both clinicians and neuroscientists with a broad view of the neuropsychology of memory, and the psychobiological processes it involves, including recent advances from imaging technology and psychopharmacology research. In the second part the authors go on to cover a comprehensive range of memory assessments, dysfunctions, impairments and treatments. This compendium of current research findings will prove an invaluable resource for anyone studying, researching or practising in the field of memory and its disorders.

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Psychology Press

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113542442X

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Physical Hydrodynamics

By: Etienne Guyon,Jean-Pierre Hulin,Luc Petit,Catalin D. Mitescu

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Physical Hydrodynamics

By: Etienne Guyon,Jean-Pierre Hulin,Luc Petit,Catalin D. Mitescu

Exercises have also been added at the end of a number of chapters.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198702450

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Index to Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations

Locations, Plantations, Surnames and Collections, 2d ed.

By: Jean L. Cooper

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Index to Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations

Locations, Plantations, Surnames and Collections, 2d ed.

By: Jean L. Cooper

Designed for both professional and amateur genealogists and other researchers, this index provides a detailed guide to materials available in the extensive Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations microfilm set. By using this index to identify specific collections in which materials pertinent to a specific family name, plantation name, or location may be found, and then reviewing the details in the appropriate Guides (see Preface), the researcher may pinpoint the location of desired materials. The items indexed include deeds, wills, estate papers, genealogies, personal and business correspondence, account books, slave lists, and many other types of records. This new edition also includes a list of all of the manuscript collections included in the microfilm set.

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McFarland

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078645444X

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A Wiser Politics

Psyche, Polis, Cosmos

By: Jean Hardy

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A Wiser Politics

Psyche, Polis, Cosmos

By: Jean Hardy

This book explores how a radically revised view of the nature of the person can be linked more intelligently to the political system, and how both require an awareness that we live in a mysterious and awesome universe. ,

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John Hunt Publishing

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1846947898

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The Experiences of International Organizations

A Phenomenological Approach to International Institutional Law

By: Jean d'Aspremont

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The Experiences of International Organizations

A Phenomenological Approach to International Institutional Law

By: Jean d'Aspremont

This groundbreaking book uses the idea of experience to investigate the various ways in which international organizations are understood by judges, legal practitioners, legal researchers, legal theorists, and thinkers of global governance.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1035319543

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Polymer-Solvent Molecular Compounds

By: Jean-Michel Guenet

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Polymer-Solvent Molecular Compounds

By: Jean-Michel Guenet

Crystallisable polymers represent a large share of the polymers used for manufacturing a wide variety of objects, and consequently have received continuous attention from scientists these past 60 years. Molecular compounds from crystallisable polymers, particularly from synthetic polymers, are receiving growing interest due to their potential application in the making of new materials such as multiporous membranes capable of capturing large particles as well as small pollutant molecules. Polymer-Solvent Molecular Compounds gives a detailed description of these promising systems. The first chapter is devoted to the presentation of important investigational techniques and some theoretical approaches. The second chapter is devoted to biopolymers, the first polymers known to produce molecular compounds, chiefly with water. The third chapter deals with synthetic polymers where compound formation is either due to hydrogen-bonding or to electrostatic interactions. The fourth chapter describes intercalates and clathrates systems for which compound formation is mainly due to a molecular recognition process. - First book on the subject - Gives a short but exhaustive description of investigational tools - Covers both biopolymers and synthetic polymers - Uses temperature-concentration phase diagrams abundantly for describing the systems - Describes systems from the nano to the microscopic level, including mechanical properties

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0080555039

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Expansionism in International Human Rights Law

By: Işıl Aral,Jean D'Aspremont

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Expansionism in International Human Rights Law

By: Işıl Aral,Jean D'Aspremont

This book explores a specific discursivity at work in international human rights law. It examines the ways in which the discourse on international human rights law constantly expands its domain while preserving its distinctiveness from general international law. It particularly exposes the oscillations between generalist and exceptionalist claims made in international human rights law for the sake of expanding its scope. Reviewing several contemporary controversies on international human rights law, it sheds lights on the possible drivers behind such expansionist discursivity.

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9004696083

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Introduction to Nanophotonics

By: Henri Benisty,Jean-Jacques Greffet,Philippe Lalanne

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Introduction to Nanophotonics

By: Henri Benisty,Jean-Jacques Greffet,Philippe Lalanne

The aim of this textbook is to provide an overview of nanophotonics, a discipline which was developed around the turn of the millennium. This unique and rapidly evolving subject area is the result of a collaboration between various scientific communities working on different aspects of light-matter interaction at the nanoscale. These include near-field optics and super-resolution microscopy, photonic crystals, diffractive optics, plasmonics, optoelectronics, synthesis of metallic and semiconductor nanoparticles, two-dimensional materials, and metamaterials. The book is aimed at graduate students with a background in physics, electrical engineering, material science, or chemistry, as well as lecturers and researchers working within these fields.

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Oxford University Press

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0191089354

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Cajun and Creole Folktales

The French Oral Tradition of South Louisiana

By: Barry Jean Ancelet

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Cajun and Creole Folktales

The French Oral Tradition of South Louisiana

By: Barry Jean Ancelet

This teeming compendium of tales assembles and classifies the abundant lore and storytelling prevalent in the French culture of southern Louisiana. This is the largest, most diverse, and best annotated collection of French-language tales ever published in the United States. Side by side are dual-language retellings—the Cajun French and its English translation—along with insightful commentaries. This volume reveals the long and lively heritage of the Louisiana folktale among French Creoles and Cajuns and shows how tale-telling in Louisiana through the years has remained vigorous and constantly changing. Some of the best storytellers of the present day are highlighted in biographical sketches and are identified by some of their best tales. Their repertory includes animal stories, magic stories, jokes, tall tales, Pascal (improvised) stories, and legendary tales—all of them colorful examples of Louisiana narrative at its best. Though greatly transformed since the French arrived on southern soil, the French oral tradition is alive and flourishing today. It is even more complex and varied than has been shown in previous studies, for revealed here are African influences as well as others that have been filtered from America's multicultural mainstream.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1496806565

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Introduction to Graphene-Based Nanomaterials

From Electronic Structure to Quantum Transport

By: Luis E. F. Foa Torres,Stephan Roche,Jean-Christophe Charlier

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Introduction to Graphene-Based Nanomaterials

From Electronic Structure to Quantum Transport

By: Luis E. F. Foa Torres,Stephan Roche,Jean-Christophe Charlier

Graphene is one of the most intensively studied materials, and has unusual electrical, mechanical and thermal properties, which provide almost unlimited potential applications. This book provides an introduction to the electrical and transport properties of graphene and other two-dimensional nanomaterials, covering ab-initio to multiscale methods. Updated from the first edition, the authors have added chapters on other two-dimensional materials, spin-related phenomena, and an improved overview of Berry phase effects. Other topics include powerful order N electronic structure, transport calculations, and ac transport and multiscale transport methodologies. Chapters are complemented with concrete examples and case studies, questions and exercises, detailed appendices and computational codes. It is a valuable resource for graduate students and researchers working in physics, materials science or engineering who are interested in the field of graphene-based nanomaterials.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108754376

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Recueil Des Chroniques Et Anchiennes Istories de la Grant Bretaigne, ... Present Nommé Engleterre

By: Jean de Wavrin

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Recueil Des Chroniques Et Anchiennes Istories de la Grant Bretaigne, ... Present Nommé Engleterre

By: Jean de Wavrin

English history as observed by a medieval French knight, from Henry VI becoming king of France to the siege of Dieppe.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108047831

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Cajun Country

By: Barry Jean Ancelet,Jay Edwards,Glen Pitre

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Cajun Country

By: Barry Jean Ancelet,Jay Edwards,Glen Pitre

This insightful book is by far the broadest examination of traditional Cajun culture ever assembled. It goes beyond the stereotypes and surface treatment given to Cajuns by the popular media and examines the great variety of cultural elements alive in Cajun culture today--cooking, music, storytelling, architecture, arts and crafts, and festivals, as well as traditional occupations such as fishing, hunting, and trapping. It not only gives fascinating descriptions of elements in Cajun life that have been woven into the fabric of American history and folklore; it also explains how they came to be. Cajun Country reveals the historical background of the Cajun people, who migrated to Louisiana as exiles from their Canadian homeland, and it shows their folklife as a living and ongoing legacy that enriches America.

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1604736178

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Critical Passions

Selected Essays

By: Jean Franco

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Critical Passions

Selected Essays

By: Jean Franco

The author, one of the most influential Latin Americanists in the US, has published a number of books, but none display the importance of her work in literary criticism, cultural studies and marxist and feminist theory as successfully as this collection o

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Duke University Press

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082232248X

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France and the Nazi Threat

The Collapse of French Diplomacy 1932-1939

By: Jean-Baptiste Duroselle

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France and the Nazi Threat

The Collapse of French Diplomacy 1932-1939

By: Jean-Baptiste Duroselle

This book completes the picture for our understanding of how Nazi Germany was able to triumph in 1940.

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Enigma Books

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1929631154

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Sports Agents and Labour Markets

Evidence from World Football

By: Giambattista Rossi,Anna Semens,Jean Francois Brocard

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Sports Agents and Labour Markets

Evidence from World Football

By: Giambattista Rossi,Anna Semens,Jean Francois Brocard

The sports agent has become a highly significant figure in contemporary sport business. The role of the agent is essential to our understanding of labour markets and labour relations in an increasingly globalised sports industry. Drawing on extensive empirical research into football around the world, this book explains what agents do, how their role has changed, and why this is important for future sport business. Offering analysis from economic, legal, social and historical perspectives, the book explores key topics such as: the history of sports agents including the emergence of the modern agent in US sport typologies and demographic profiles of agents in football valuations and organisational analysis of leading European agents and agencies relations between agents and clubs future directions for research into sports agents. Focusing on the major European leagues, this book goes further than any other in illuminating an important but under-researched aspect of contemporary sport business. It is a valuable resource for any student, researcher or policy-maker with an interest in sport business, sport management, sport policy, the economics of sport or labour economics.

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Routledge

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1317744799

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Built on Sand

The Science of Granular Materials

By: Etienne Guyon,Jean-Yves Delenne,Farhang Radjai

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Built on Sand

The Science of Granular Materials

By: Etienne Guyon,Jean-Yves Delenne,Farhang Radjai

Explaining the science contained in a simple assembly of grains—the most abundant form of matter present on Earth. Granular media—composed of vast amounts of grains, consolidated or not—constitute the most abundant form of solid matter on Earth. Granular materials assemble in disordered configurations scientists often liken to a bag of marbles. Made of macroscopic particles rather than molecules, they defy the standard scheme of classification in terms of solid, liquid, and gas. Granular materials provide a model relevant to various domains of research, including engineering, physics, and biology. William Blake famously wished “To See a World in a Grain of Sand”; in this book, pioneering researchers in granular matter explain the science hidden behind simple grains, shedding light on collective behavior in disordered settings in general. The authors begin by describing the single grain with its different origins, shapes, and sizes, then examine grains in piled or stacked form. They explain the packing fraction of granular media, a crucial issue that bears on the properties displayed in practical applications; explore small-scale deformations in piles of disordered grains, with particular attention to friction; and present theories of various modes of disorder. Along the way, they discuss such concepts as force chains, arching effects, wet grains, sticky contacts, and inertial effects. Drawing on recent numerical simulations as well as classical concepts developed in physics and mechanics, the book offers an accessible introduction to a rapidly developing field.

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MIT Press

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0262545306

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The Memoir of Lieutenant Dumont, 1715–1747

A Sojourner in the French Atlantic

By: Jean-François-Benjamin Dumont de Montigny

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The Memoir of Lieutenant Dumont, 1715–1747

A Sojourner in the French Atlantic

By: Jean-François-Benjamin Dumont de Montigny

In 1719, Jean-Francois-Benjamin Dumont de Montigny, son of a Paris lawyer, set sail for Louisiana with a commission as a lieutenant after a year in Quebec. During his peregrinations over the next eighteen years, Dumont came to challenge corrupt officials, found himself in jail, eked out a living as a colonial subsistence farmer, survived life-threatening storms and epidemics, encountered pirates, witnessed the 1719 battle for Pensacola, described the 1729 Natchez Uprising, and gave account of the 1739-1740 French expedition against the Chickasaws. Dumont's adventures, as recorded in his 1747 memoir conserved at the Newberry Library, underscore the complexity of the expanding French Atlantic world, offering a singular perspective on early colonialism in Louisiana. His life story also provides detailed descriptions and illustrations of the peoples and environment of the lower Mississippi valley. This English translation of the unabridged memoir features a new introduction, maps, and a biographical dictionary to enhance the text. Dumont emerges here as an important colonial voice and brings to vivid life the French Atlantic.

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UNC Press Books

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1469608650

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The Third Republic from Its Origins to the Great War, 1871-1914

By: Jean-Marie Mayeur,Madeleine Rebirioux

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The Third Republic from Its Origins to the Great War, 1871-1914

By: Jean-Marie Mayeur,Madeleine Rebirioux

This book provides a detailed account of French history from the oripins of the Thrid Republic, born out of the collapse of Napoleon III's Second Empire, to the coming of the Great WAr in 1914. Part 1 begins with the fall of the "notables" and the victory of the republicans. Then follows a picture of the economy and society of late nineteenth-century France, and an examination of spiritual and cultural development under the increasing threat from nationalist and socialist forces. The moderates' brief ascendancy at the end of the century followed by the extreme sentiments unleashed at the time of the Dreyfus affair, brings the story in Part 2 to a more passionately political period, when the republic finallynbecame established as a bulwark of bourgeois prosperity, witnessing the rise of the banks and big business, and the dangerous revival of colonial expansion.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521358574

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Luminous Chaos

A Novel

By: Jean-Christophe Valtat

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Luminous Chaos

A Novel

By: Jean-Christophe Valtat

Book two in The Mysteries of New Venice, the steampunk adventure series The Guardian called a "magnificent achievement" It's 1907 in the icily beautiful New Venice, and the hero of the city's liberation, Brentford Orsini, has been deposed by his arch-rival -- who immediately assigns Brentford and his friends on a dangerous diplomatic mission to Paris. So, Brentford recruits his old friend and louche counterpart, Gabriel d'Allier, underground chanteuse and suffragette Lillian Lake, and the mysterious Blankbate--former Foreign Legionnaire and leader of the Scavengers, the city's garbage collecting cult--and others, for the mission. But their mode of transportation--the untested "transaerian psychomotive"--proves faulty and they find themselves transported back in time to Paris 1895 ... before New Venice even existed. What's more, it's a Paris experiencing an unprecedented and crushingly harsh winter. They soon find themselves involved with some of the city's seediest, most fascinating inhabitants. But between attending soirees at Mallarmé's house, drinking absinthe with Proust, trying to wrestle secrets out of mesmerists, and making fun of the newly-constructed Eiffel Tower, they also find that Paris is a city full of intrigue, suspicion, and danger. For example, are the anarchists they encounter who are plotting to bomb the still-under construction Sacre Coeur church also the future founders of New Venice? And why are they trying to kill them? And, as Luminous Chaos turns into another lush adventure told in glorious prose rich in historical allusion, there's the biggest question of them all: How will they ever get home? ebook ISBN: 978-1-61219-142-3

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Melville House

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1612191428

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Lavoisier

Chemist, Biologist, Economist

By: Jean-Pierre Poirier

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Lavoisier

Chemist, Biologist, Economist

By: Jean-Pierre Poirier

Originally published in French in 1993 (Editions Pygmalion/Gerard Watelet, Paris), and expanded and revised for this translation. The founder of modern chemistry, Lavoisier (1743-1794) was active on commisions connected with agriculture, gunpowder, banking, and finance, and was ultimately executed during the Reign of Terror. This biography recounts Lavoisier's scientific accomplishments and his role in the chemical revolution and early history of organic chemistry and physiology; but it is in the examination of his political and economic activities and accomplishments that it breaks new ground. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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0812216490

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Urban Textures | Yves Lion

By: Jean-Louis Cohen

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Urban Textures | Yves Lion

By: Jean-Louis Cohen

Yves Lion, geboren 1945 in Casablanca, gehört zu den bedeutendsten Architekten Frankreichs. Seit dreißig Jahren spielt Lion in der französischen Architektur und auch der Architekturdebatte eine eminente Rolle. Dieses Buch des führenden Architekturhistorikers Jean-Louis Cohen versucht zum ersten Mal eine Zusammenschau seines Wirkens. Thematisch geordnet spannt Cohen einen großen Bogen und beschreibt über drei Jahrzehnte hinweg Leitmotive und Schwerpunkte in Lions Arbeit, darunter seine Auseinandersetzung mit urbanistischen Themen, dem Wohnungsbau oder seinen Diskurs u.a. mit James Stirling, Charles Jencks, Aldo van Eyck oder Bernard Tschumi. Illustriert wird Cohens Essay durch Abbildungen der Bauten Lions, die ausführlich dokumentiert werden. Dazu gehören die Oper in Nantes, die Botschaft Frankreichs in Beirut oder das Maison européenne de la Photographie in Paris. Jean-Louis Cohen, geboren 1949 in Paris, ist Architekt und Autor vieler Publikationen, darunter Mies van der Rohe und Paris: L’Architecture 1900–2000. Er hat an verschiedenen Universitäten wie Paris VIII und New York University unterrichtet.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3764376570

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New Property in International Law

By: Jean Ho

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New Property in International Law

By: Jean Ho

Until now, the definition of property in international law has been poorly addressed. It is assumed that international law possesses sufficient content to regulate property, that provisions in international instruments addressing property rights are shown to act, and that resolutions of property disputes are claimed to be in accordance with international law. Yet, when asked to define key attributes of property in international law are, the legal world draws a collective blank. New Property in International Law examines how international law consistently falls short when it comes to new property regulation, because key stakeholders have failed to define what property is. The book considers and categorises new property into three areas; cultural property, common property, and contingent property, aiming to carve out, update, and impart coherence to international property law. By sketching the contours of new property in international law through a rigorous analytical comparison of property concepts in the Western, Soviet, post-Soviet, Chinese and Islamic juristic traditions, this work enables a balanced distillation of core attributes of new property from diverse property concepts that can then be woven into a broadly acceptable and broadly applicable definition.

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Oxford University Press

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0192873458

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A Jury of Her Peers

A Novel

By: Jean Hanff Korelitz

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A Jury of Her Peers

A Novel

By: Jean Hanff Korelitz

As a little girl climbs off a school bus on the Upper East Side of New York, a man named Trent rushes from the shadows to stab her viciously, instantly becoming the city's latest pariah and setting into motion an increasingly bizarre chain of occurrences. At one end of the chain is Sybylla Muldoon, the Legal Aid attorney who must somehow overcome eyewitness accounts, devastating forensic evidence, and the brutal disfigurement of an innocent child in her struggle to defend Trent; at the other is the mystery of why a previously peaceful and rational man should suddenly commit such an abhorrent crime. Sybylla's client may be inescapably guilty of the act, but everything about the case feels unaccountably wrong. Raised to argue both sides of anything by her father, a conservative judge whom she adores even as she rejects his politics, Sybylla is committed to the principles of public defense but growing increasingly weary in its practice. Now as she readies Trent's case for trial, Sybylla makes a series of seemingly unrelated discoveries that bind together a thriving trial consulting firm dealing exclusively with conservative prosecuting attorneys, a pattern of unnoticed abductions among New York's homeless, a long-abandoned avenue of medical research, and Sam, Sybylla's new colleague at Legal Aid whom she falls for but can't quite trust. In the end, Trent's mystery leads her to the very summit of the American legal system—the confirmation hearings of a Supreme Court nominee—and to the heart of her own family history, until Sybylla must reconsider virtually everything she believes she knows about her own life. With its captivating protagonist and its timely consideration of juries, trial consultants, and that elusive notion, justice, A Jury of Her Peers is a chilling novel about the law—and those who seek to corrupt it.

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0307830268

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Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials for Energy

By: Pierre-Camille Lacaze,Jean-Christophe Lacroix

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Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials for Energy

By: Pierre-Camille Lacaze,Jean-Christophe Lacroix

The major topical and societal issues of energy transition and environmental conservation have benefited from the contribution of nanotechnologies and nanomaterials. Nanomaterials, including carbon-based newcomers, have helped to improve in particular the performance of energy storage and conversion devices. Some of these nanomaterials, including fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, nanodiamonds and carbon dots, were discovered well before the 2000s. Others are more recent, including graphene (the leading material of the 21st century) as well as many mineral materials developed at the nano scale: atomic clusters, metal or semiconductor nanoparticles, two-dimensional inorganic materials, metal-organic frameworks (MOF) and luminescent quantum dots. All of these are involved in the realization of devices for energy purposes. Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials for Energy provides a critical analysis of the latest work in the fields of batteries, photovoltaics, fuel cells and catalysis as well as lighting, with the advent of light-emitting diodes.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119881579

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9781119881575

Hearing Experiences in Germany, 1914–1945

Noises of Modernity

By: Yaron Jean

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Hearing Experiences in Germany, 1914–1945

Noises of Modernity

By: Yaron Jean

This book tells the story of Germany between the years 1914–1945 through the history of its sounds and noises. From the killing grounds of the Great War, passing through the roaring optimism of the 1920s, and up to the horrifying spectacle of the Nazis and the dreadful apocalypse of the Second World War, sound became the epitaph of an era that was mostly dominated by war and a global sense of crisis. Yaron Jean reconstructs and analyses these moments when sound and its meaning became history, and places them in a single study that provides a unique perspective on the history of modern Germany in one of its most turbulent centuries.

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Springer Nature

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3030996085

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9783030996086

Perfect Incompressible Fluids

By: Jean-Yves Chemin

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Perfect Incompressible Fluids

By: Jean-Yves Chemin

An accessible and self-contained introduction to recent advances in fluid dynamics, this book provides an authoritative account of the Euler equations for a perfect incompressible fluid. The book begins with a derivation of the Euler equations from a variational principle. It then recalls the relations on vorticity and pressure and proposes various weak formulations. The book develops the key tools for analysis: the Littlewood-Paley theory, action of Fourier multipliers on L spaces, and partial differential calculus. These techniques are used to prove various recent results concerning vortex patches or sheets; the main results include the persistence of the smoothness of the boundary of a vortex patch, even if that smoothness allows singular points, and the existence of weak solutions of the vorticity sheet type. The text also presents properties of microlocal (analytic or Gevrey) regularity of the solutions of Euler equations and links such properties to the smoothness in time of the flow of the solution vector field.

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Oxford University Press

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0198503970

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French Administrative Law

By: Lionel Neville Brown,John Bell,Jean-Michel Galabert

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French Administrative Law

By: Lionel Neville Brown,John Bell,Jean-Michel Galabert

This new edition of the leading English-language text in its field offers a complete and current overview of droit administratif, which is regarded (alongside the Napoleonic Code) as the most notable achievement of French legal science. The book includes eleven expanded appendices--with statistics, model pleadings, and other illustrations--and will prove an invaluable source for information on the courts, their procedures, and their case-loads. The approach throughout the volume is comparative, with many references to developments in UK common law and in the EC institutions.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198765134

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9780198765134

Out of the Farlans

By: Jean Duthie

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Out of the Farlans

By: Jean Duthie

Step back into the late eighteen hundreds and follow the journeys of four women, a grand mother, her two daughters and a granddaughter, as they struggle from the back breaking toil at the gutting farlans into the pathways that will bring them to greater fulfillment. Travel with them to the beauty and mystery of the Shetland Isles, to the excitement of Victorian Edinburgh, to the immense, herring harvests of East Anglia, and across the vast Atlantic, to find new lives and better opportunities. Each follows her own particular purpose, during which they learn about their potential, about the generosity of mankind, the tragedy of two World Wars and the Great Depression. Hard decisions, deep sorrow and loss, but often much joy and romance, colour their lives and the individual courage and response to their situations provide an interesting study of their varied personalities. They all differ, but through the three generations can be traced the same strength of character, the same resilience, a true courage and a positive outlook, which can be realized through hard work. Mary May, Maggie Ann, Betsy and Mary Bella belong to an era, when people are fiercely independent, believing firmly in the worthwhile values of diligence, honesty and dignity. These qualities they practice and have the great satisfaction of seeing them instilled in the next generation, which more than fulfills their dreams.

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AuthorHouse

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1481796593

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9781481796590

A Collection of the Chronicles and Ancient Histories of Great Britain, Now Called England

By: Jean de Wavrin

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A Collection of the Chronicles and Ancient Histories of Great Britain, Now Called England

By: Jean de Wavrin

The first full-length history of England, by a medieval French knight, covers the reigns of Henry IV and Henry V.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108048471

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Limit Theorems for Stochastic Processes

By: Jean Jacod,Albert Shiryaev

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Limit Theorems for Stochastic Processes

By: Jean Jacod,Albert Shiryaev

This volume by two international leaders in the field proposes a systematic exposition of convergence in law for stochastic processes from the point of view of semimartingale theory. It emphasizes results that are useful for mathematical theory and mathematical statistics. Coverage develops in detail useful parts of the general theory of stochastic processes, such as martingale problems and absolute continuity or contiguity results.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3662052652

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9783662052655

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