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Chaos in the Heavens

The Forgotten History of Climate Change

By: Jean-Baptiste Fressoz,Fabien Locher

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Chaos in the Heavens

The Forgotten History of Climate Change

By: Jean-Baptiste Fressoz,Fabien Locher

POLITICIANS AND SCIENTISTS HAVE DEBATED CLIMATE CHANGE FOR CENTURIES IN TIMES OF RAPID CHANGE Nothing could seem more contemporary than climate change. Yet, in Chaos in the Heavens, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz and Fabien Locher show that we have been thinking about and debating the consequences of our actions upon the environment for centuries. The subject was raised wherever history accelerated: by the conquistadors in the New World, by the French revolutionaries of 1789, by the scientists and politicians of the nineteenth century, by the European imperialists in Asia and Africa until the Second World War. Climate change was at the heart of fundamental debates about colonisation, God, the state, nature, and capitalism. From these intellectual and political battles emerged key concepts of contemporary environmental science and policy. For a brief interlude, science and industry instilled in us the reassuring illusion of an impassive climate. But, in the age of global warming, we must, once again, confront the chaos in the heavens.

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Verso Books

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1839767227

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9781839767227

Critical Reflections on Poetry and Painting (2 vols.)

Translated with an Introduction and Notes by James O. Young and Margaret Cameron

By: Jean-Baptiste Du Bos

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Critical Reflections on Poetry and Painting (2 vols.)

Translated with an Introduction and Notes by James O. Young and Margaret Cameron

By: Jean-Baptiste Du Bos

Jean-Baptiste Du Bos’ Critical Reflections on Poetry and Painting, first published in French in 1719, is one of the seminal works of modern aesthetics. Du Bos rejected the seventeenth-century view that works of art are assessed by reason. Instead, he believed, audience members have sentiments in response to artworks. Their sentiments are fainter versions of those they would feel in response to actually seeing what the work of art imitates. Du Bos was influenced by John Locke’s empiricism and, in turn, had a major impact on virtually every major eighteenth-century contributor to philosophy of art, including Voltaire, Montesquieu, Diderot, Rousseau, Herder, Lessing, Mendelssohn, Kames, Gerard, and Hume. This is the first modern, annotated and scholarly edition of the Critical Reflections in any language.

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837

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BRILL

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9004465944

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9789004465947

The White Plague

Tuberculosis, Man, and Society

By: René Jules Dubos,Jean Dubos

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The White Plague

Tuberculosis, Man, and Society

By: René Jules Dubos,Jean Dubos

DuBos et. al. examine the social aspects of the TB epidemic, along with some of the biological factors. They show how TB was romaticized, how it was portrayed as a demon coming to rob the healthy of life, and how it sparked scientific invention - in particular the stethescope. The introduction is wonderful as it lays out the basic parts of the book.

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320

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Rutgers University Press

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0813512247

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9780813512242

Spacecraft Reliability and Multi-State Failures

A Statistical Approach

By: Joseph Homer Saleh,Jean-François Castet

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Spacecraft Reliability and Multi-State Failures

A Statistical Approach

By: Joseph Homer Saleh,Jean-François Castet

SPACECRAFT RELIABILITY AND MULTI-STATE FAILURES ] SPACECRAFT RELIABILITY AND MULTI-STATE FAILURES A STATISTICAL APPROACH The aerospace community has long recognized and repeatedly emphasizes the importance of reliability for space systems. Despite this, little has been published in book form on the topic. Spacecraft Reliability and Multi-State Failures addresses this gap in the literature, offering a unique focus on spacecraft reliability based on extensive statistical analysis of system and subsystem anomalies and failures. The authors provide new results pertaining to spacecraft reliability based on extensive statistical analysis of on-orbit anomaly and failure data that will be particularly useful to spacecraft manufacturers and designers, for example in guiding satellite (and subsystem) test and screening programs and providing an empirical basis for subsystem redundancy and reliability growth plans. The authors develop nonparametric results and parametric models of spacecraft and spacecraft subsystem reliability and multi-state failures, quantify the relative contribution of each subsystem to the failure of the satellites thus identifying the subsystems that drive spacecraft unreliability, and propose advanced stochastic modeling and analysis tools for the reliability and survivability of spacecraft and space-based networks. Spacecraft Reliability and Multi-State Failures provides new nonparametric results pertaining to spacecraft reliability based on extensive statistical analysis of on-orbit anomaly and failure data develops parametric models of spacecraft and spacecraft subsystem reliability and multi-state failures quantifies the relative contribution of each subsystem to the failure of the satellites proposes advanced stochastic modeling and analysis tools for the reliability and survivability of spacecraft and space-based networks provides a dedicated treatment of the reliability and subsystem anomalies of communication spacecraft in geostationary orbit.

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179

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John Wiley & Sons

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111995746X

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9781119957461

Acoustics of Musical Instruments

By: Antoine Chaigne,Jean Kergomard

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Acoustics of Musical Instruments

By: Antoine Chaigne,Jean Kergomard

This book, the first English-language translation of Acoustique des instruments de musique, Second Edition, presents the necessary foundations for understanding the complex physical phenomena involved in musical instruments. What is the function of the labium in a flute? Which features of an instrument allow us to make a clear audible distinction between a clarinet and a trumpet? With the help of numerous examples, these questions are addressed in detail. The authors focus in particular on the significant results obtained in the field during the last fifteen years. Their goal is to show that elementary physical models can be used with benefit for various applications in sound synthesis, instrument making, and sound recording. The book is primarily addressed to graduate students and researchers; however it could also be of interest for engineers, musicians, craftsmen, and music lovers who wish to learn about the basics of musical acoustics.

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Springer

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1493936794

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9781493936793

Happy Apocalypse

A History of Technological Risk

By: Jean-Baptiste Fressoz

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Happy Apocalypse

A History of Technological Risk

By: Jean-Baptiste Fressoz

How risk, disasters and pollution were managed and made acceptable during the Industrial Revolution Being environmentally conscious is not nearly as modern as we imagine. As a mode of thinking it goes back hundreds of years. Yet we typically imagine ourselves among the first to grasp the impact humanity has on the environment. Hence there is a fashion for green confessions and mea culpas. But the notion of a contemporary ecological awakening leads to political impasse. It erases a long history of environmental destruction. Furthermore, by focusing on our present virtues, it overlooks the struggles from which our perspective arose. In response, Happy Apocalypse plunges us into the heart of controversies that emerged in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries around factories, machines, vaccines and railways. Jean-Baptiste Fressoz demonstrates how risk was conceived, managed, distributed and erased to facilitate industrialization. He explores how clinical expertise around 1800 allowed vaccination to be presented as completely benign, how the polluter-pays principle emerged in the nineteenth century to legitimize the chemical industry, how safety norms were invented to secure industrial capital and how criticisms and objections were silenced or overcome to establish technological modernity. Societies of the past did not inadvertently alter their environments on a massive scale. Nor did they disregard the consequences of their decisions. They seriously considered them, sometimes with dread. The history recounted in this book is not one of a sudden awakening but a process of modernising environmental disinhibition.

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Verso Books

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183976550X

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9781839765506

Essay on the Origin of Languages and Writings Related to Music

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Essay on the Origin of Languages and Writings Related to Music

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau the writer-philosopher was a practicing musician and theorist for years before publication of his first Discourse, but scholars have neglected these fertile, inexhaustible ideas because they were either unavailable in a critical edition or viewed as standing outside the aegis of his system of thought. This graceful translation remedies both those failings by bringing together the Essay with a comprehensive selection of the musical writings. Many of the latter are responses to authors like Rameau, Grimm, and Raynal, and a unique feature of this edition is the inclusion of writings by these authors to help establish the historical and ideological context of Rousseau's writings and the intellectual exchanges of which they are a part.

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658

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UPNE

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1611681278

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9781611681277

The Memoirs of Jean Laffite

From Le Journal De Jean Laffite

By: Jean Laffite

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The Memoirs of Jean Laffite

From Le Journal De Jean Laffite

By: Jean Laffite

Jean Laffite was born in Santo Domingo and raised by a Spanish-Jewish grandmother who instilled in him a hatred for the Spanish Crown and those who served it. Later this hatred grew to include the British. Following in the footsteps of his eldest brother Alexandre, Jean and his brother Pierre became privateers for France under the command of their uncle Rene Beluchai. Laffite describes in detail the capture of a Spanish ship and its crews fate. After a period of seizing enemy vessels, the two brothers go to France to join Napoleons armies. Instead, they find themselves in enemy prisons, and upon release they return to the Caribbean where they resume depredations against Spanish and British ships. The slave uprising in Haiti sends the brothers to the safety of Louisiana, where they establish Barataria as a smuggling center into New Orleans and up river. Jean and Louisiana governor Clairborne become enemies who mutually post rewards on the others head. Only the arrival of the British, offering a pardon and a bribe to Laffite, breaks the impasse between the Baratarians and the Americans. Laffites aid to General Andrew Jackson is well known and is the basis of his place in American history. After the victory, Jean received a pardon but no indemnification for his financial losses during the war years. Fruitless trips to Washington confirmed to Laffite the necessity of resuming old habits, and he established a new privateer settlement in Spanish territory on Galveston Island. A hurricanes destruction and a changing world---backed by the power of the U.S. Navy --- led to the second dissolution of the Laffite enterprise. Jean and the last of his men quit Galveston settlement as it flamed, lighted by their own hands. Freelance plundering became more and more dangerous until Jean and Pierre decided to call it quits and spread the rumor of their violent demise and burial on the Yucatan coast. The brothers split their swag, buried some, and went their separate ways. Jean, who had lost a young wife during the birth of their third child, found a young wife in Charleston, South Carolina. They began his second family in Philadelphia before moving to St. Louis, Missouri, to end their years. Jean Laffite maintained his anonymity but worked behind the scenes for causes he held dear. The former slaver became an abolitionist under the influence of his new wife, and after a visit to Europe in 1847, he even became a socialist supporter of the young Karl Marx. He saw himself as a benefactor of mankind, but even at the end of his memoirs he did not forget to proclaim Down with the British dragon!

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Xlibris Corporation

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146282840X

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9781462828401

Management for a Small Planet

Strategic Decision Making and the Environment

By: W. Edward Stead,Jean Garner Stead

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Management for a Small Planet

Strategic Decision Making and the Environment

By: W. Edward Stead,Jean Garner Stead

This innovative book is the first on environmental issues aimed at management students and practitioners. Its purpose is to help managers make strategic decisions that are both economically successful and sensitive to the Earth's natural environment. The book is designed to: educate managers about current national and global environmental issues, particularly as they relate to economic activities; introduce a range of social, scientific, psychological and economic concepts related to environmentally sensitive strategic decisions; and offer a new strategic decision-making framework to help achieve long-term economic success within the limits of the ecosystem.

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SAGE Publications, Incorporated

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0803946341

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9780803946347

Un Grand Médecin et Biologiste Casimir-Joseph Davaine (1812—1882)

Academiae Internationalis Historiae Medicinae

By: Jean Théodoridès

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Un Grand Médecin et Biologiste Casimir-Joseph Davaine (1812—1882)

Academiae Internationalis Historiae Medicinae

By: Jean Théodoridès

Un Grand Médecin et Biologiste Casimir-Joseph Davaine (1812—1882)

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Elsevier

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148327943X

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9781483279435

Still living on the coast in the 22nd century

By: Jean-Marc Beynet

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Still living on the coast in the 22nd century

By: Jean-Marc Beynet

Since the industrial revolution and coal mining in the 19th century followed by oil and gas drilling in the 20th century, massive CO2 emissions are responsible for global warming and rising sea levels, which will continue until political and industrial energy decision-makers put in place effective energy transition solutions. In the meantime, younger generations are worried and some even suffer from climate eco-anxiety. This book gives examples of simulated coastal submersion, based on selected examples in the North Sea, the Mediterranean, the English Channel, the Atlantic, and on islands in the Caribbean, the Pacific and the Indian Oceans. Then, to reassure the generations of the 22nd century, this book explains the energy transition, the advantages of green hydrogen in particular, low-carbon architecture, carbon neutrality for large cities and biomimicry. Finally, it proposes solutions for the adaptation of existing coastal settlement, as well as for the construction of new types of housing on stilts and/or floating, for CO2 capture, the adaptation of port infrastructures, multi-purpose offshore platform designs, and floating cities. It is to help today's youth that this book was written, so that future generations don't need to be afraid of the sea; instead of running away, they can continue to live on the coast. Full of illustrations, it includes 73 colour pages presenting 40 maps, 62 photos and 26 graphs or 3D sketches.

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2322520578

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Book's by Jean Dubos

Chaos in the Heavens

Chaos in the Heavens

Critical Reflections on Poetry and Painting (2 vols.)

Critical Reflections on Poetry and Painting (2 vols.)

The White Plague

The White Plague

Spacecraft Reliability and Multi-State Failures

Spacecraft Reliability and Multi-State Failures

Acoustics of Musical Instruments

Acoustics of Musical Instruments

Happy Apocalypse

Happy Apocalypse

Essay on the Origin of Languages and Writings Related to Music

Essay on the Origin of Languages and Writings Related to Music

The Memoirs of Jean Laffite

The Memoirs of Jean Laffite

Management for a Small Planet

Management for a Small Planet

Un Grand Médecin et Biologiste Casimir-Joseph Davaine (1812—1882)

Un Grand Médecin et Biologiste Casimir-Joseph Davaine (1812—1882)

Still living on the coast in the 22nd century

Still living on the coast in the 22nd century

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