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Haiti: The Aftershocks of History

By: Laurent Dubois

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Haiti: The Aftershocks of History

By: Laurent Dubois

A passionate and insightful account by a leading historian of Haiti that traces the sources of the country's devastating present back to its turbulent and traumatic history Even before the 2010 earthquake destroyed much of the country, Haiti was known as a benighted place of poverty and corruption. Maligned and misunderstood, the nation has long been blamed by many for its own wretchedness. But as acclaimed historian Laurent Dubois makes clear, Haiti's troubled present can only be understood by examining its complex past. The country's difficulties are inextricably rooted in its founding revolution—the only successful slave revolt in the history of the world; the hostility that this rebellion generated among the colonial powers surrounding the island nation; and the intense struggle within Haiti itself to define its newfound freedom and realize its promise. Dubois vividly depicts the isolation and impoverishment that followed the 1804 uprising. He details how the crushing indemnity imposed by the former French rulers initiated a devastating cycle of debt, while frequent interventions by the United States—including a twenty-year military occupation—further undermined Haiti's independence. At the same time, Dubois shows, the internal debates about what Haiti should do with its hard-won liberty alienated the nation's leaders from the broader population, setting the stage for enduring political conflict. Yet as Dubois demonstrates, the Haitian people have never given up on their struggle for true democracy, creating a powerful culture insistent on autonomy and equality for all. Revealing what lies behind the familiar moniker of "the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere," this indispensable book illuminates the foundations on which a new Haiti might yet emerge.

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Metropolitan Books

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0805095624

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9780805095623

The Banjo

America’s African Instrument

By: Laurent Dubois

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The Banjo

America’s African Instrument

By: Laurent Dubois

The banjo has been called by many names over its history, but they all refer to the same sound—strings humming over skin—that has eased souls and electrified crowds for centuries. The Banjo invites us to hear that sound afresh in a biography of one of America’s iconic folk instruments. Attuned to a rich heritage spanning continents and cultures, Laurent Dubois traces the banjo from humble origins, revealing how it became one of the great stars of American musical life. In the seventeenth century, enslaved people in the Caribbean and North America drew on their memories of varied African musical traditions to construct instruments from carved-out gourds covered with animal skin. Providing a much-needed sense of rootedness, solidarity, and consolation, banjo picking became an essential part of black plantation life. White musicians took up the banjo in the nineteenth century, when it became the foundation of the minstrel show and began to be produced industrially on a large scale. Even as this instrument found its way into rural white communities, however, the banjo remained central to African American musical performance. Twentieth-century musicians incorporated the instrument into styles ranging from ragtime and jazz to Dixieland, bluegrass, reggae, and pop. Versatile and enduring, the banjo combines rhythm and melody into a single unmistakable sound that resonates with strength and purpose. From the earliest days of American history, the banjo’s sound has allowed folk musicians to create community and joy even while protesting oppression and injustice.

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Harvard University Press

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0674968832

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9780674968837

Freedom Roots

Histories from the Caribbean

By: Laurent Dubois,Richard Lee Turits

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Freedom Roots

Histories from the Caribbean

By: Laurent Dubois,Richard Lee Turits

To tell the history of the Caribbean is to tell the history of the world," write Laurent Dubois and Richard Lee Turits. In this powerful and expansive story of the vast archipelago, Dubois and Turits chronicle how the Caribbean has been at the heart of modern contests between slavery and freedom, racism and equality, and empire and independence. From the emergence of racial slavery and European colonialism in the early sixteenth century to U.S. annexations and military occupations in the twentieth, systems of exploitation and imperial control have haunted the region. Yet the Caribbean is also where empires have been overthrown, slavery was first defeated, and the most dramatic revolutions triumphed. Caribbean peoples have never stopped imagining and pursuing new forms of liberty. Dubois and Turits reveal how the region's most vital transformations have been ignited in the conflicts over competing visions of land. While the powerful sought a Caribbean awash in plantations for the benefit of the few, countless others anchored their quest for freedom in small-farming and counter-plantation economies, at times succeeding against all odds. Caribbean realities to this day are rooted in this long and illuminating history of struggle.

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UNC Press Books

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1469653613

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9781469653617

Towards Bio-based Flame Retardant Polymers

By: Rodolphe Sonnier,Aurélie Taguet,Laurent Ferry,José-Marie Lopez-Cuesta

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Towards Bio-based Flame Retardant Polymers

By: Rodolphe Sonnier,Aurélie Taguet,Laurent Ferry,José-Marie Lopez-Cuesta

Sustainable development has become a great concern in modern society. The authors of this brief describe how one strategy to reach this objective is to replace oil-based materials with bio-based materials. They emphasize the great efforts that have been made to synthesize new bio-based polymers or additives or to replace glass fibers by natural fibers in composites. Flame retardancy is one of the most desired properties for many applications in wires and cables, building, transport, electric and electronic devices. The authors of this fascinating and timely brief summarize this important field in three parts. The flame retardancy of biobased polymers, the flame retardancy of natural fibers composites, and the synthesis and efficiency of biobased flame retardants.

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Springer

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3319670832

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Independent Luxury

The Four Innovation Strategies To Endure In The Consolidation Jungle

By: Jonas Hoffmann,Laurent Lecamp

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Independent Luxury

The Four Innovation Strategies To Endure In The Consolidation Jungle

By: Jonas Hoffmann,Laurent Lecamp

In recent years, luxury brands have deviated from the principles of craftsmanship, rarity, uniqueness and heritage. Conglomerates such as LVMH and Richemont have grown at an unprecedented pace and show no sign of slowing. This book explains the importance of innovation and argues why independent brands are vital to the survival of the industry.

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1137481463

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Hell's Gate

By: Laurent Gaudé

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Hell's Gate

By: Laurent Gaudé

Hell's Gate is an intense, powerful and thoroughly unnerving' [The Guardian] story of one man's journey to the underworld to bring back his son from the dead. 'An intense contemporary myth' The Irish Times What if death was not the end? A thrilling story of love, loss, revenge and redemption in Naples and beyond. When his son is killed by gangsters’ crossfire on his way to school, Neapolitan taxi driver Matteo is consumed by despair. But just when he feels life has lost all meaning, he encounters a man who claims the living can find ways into the afterlife. And legend says that there’s an entrance to the underworld beneath Naples. What if Matteo had a chance of bringing Pippo back from the dead?

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Gallic Books

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191047746X

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King and the Other America

The Poor People's Campaign and the Quest for Economic Equality

By: Sylvie Laurent

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King and the Other America

The Poor People's Campaign and the Quest for Economic Equality

By: Sylvie Laurent

Shortly before his assassination, Martin Luther King Jr. called for a radical redistribution of economic and political power to transform the whole of society. In 1967, he envisioned and designed the Poor People’s Campaign, an interracial effort that was carried out after his death. This campaign brought together impoverished Americans of all races to demand better wages, better jobs, better homes, and better education. King and the Other America explores this overlooked and obscured episode of the late civil rights movement, deepening our understanding of King’s commitment to social justice and also of the long-term trajectory of the civil rights movement. Digging into earlier radical arguments about economic inequality across America, which King drew on throughout his entire political and religious life, Sylvie Laurent argues that the Poor People’s Campaign was the logical culmination of King’s influences and ideas, which have had lasting impact on young activists and the public. Fifty years later, growing inequality and grinding poverty in the United States have spurred new efforts to rejuvenate the campaign. This book draws the connections between King's perceptive thoughts on substantive justice and the ongoing quest for equality for all.

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University of California Press

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0520288564

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Scale Relativity and Fractal Space-time

A New Approach to Unifying Relativity and Quantum Mechanics

By: Laurent Nottale

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Scale Relativity and Fractal Space-time

A New Approach to Unifying Relativity and Quantum Mechanics

By: Laurent Nottale

This book provides a comprehensive survey of the state-of-the-art in the development of the theory of scale relativity and fractal space-time. It suggests an original solution to the disunified nature of the classical-quantum transition in physical systems, enabling quantum mechanics to be based on the principle of relativity provided this principle is extended to scale transformations of the reference system. In the framework of such a newly-generalized relativity theory (including position, orientation, motion and now scale transformations), the fundamental laws of physics may be given a general form that goes beyond and integrates the classical and the quantum regimes. A related concern of this book is the geometry of space-time, which is described as being fractal and nondifferentiable. It collects and organizes theoretical developments and applications in many fields, including physics, mathematics, astrophysics, cosmology and life sciences.

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World Scientific

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1848166508

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National Populism and Borders

The Politicisation of Cross-border Mobilisations in Europe

By: Oscar Mazzoleni,Cecilia Biancalana,Andrea Pilotti,Laurent Bernhard,Grégoire Yerly,Lukas Lauener

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National Populism and Borders

The Politicisation of Cross-border Mobilisations in Europe

By: Oscar Mazzoleni,Cecilia Biancalana,Andrea Pilotti,Laurent Bernhard,Grégoire Yerly,Lukas Lauener

Despite the recent wealth of literature on national populism, research has often overlooked one crucial aspect: the border. This innovative book bridges these key concepts, providing a new theoretical conceptualisation of the interplay between populism, nationalism and territorial borders.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1802208054

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Empire of Language

Toward a Critique of (Post)colonial Expression

By: Laurent Dubreuil

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Empire of Language

Toward a Critique of (Post)colonial Expression

By: Laurent Dubreuil

The relationship between power and language has been a central theme in critical theory for decades now, yet there is still much to be learned about the sheer force of language in the world in which we live. In Empire of Language, Laurent Dubreuil explores the power-language phenomenon in the context of European and, particularly, French colonialism and its aftermath. Through readings of the colonial experience, he isolates a phraseology based on possession, in terms of both appropriation and haunting, that has persisted throughout the centuries. Not only is this phraseology a legacy of the past, it is still active today, especially in literary renderings of the colonial experience—but also, and more paradoxically, in anticolonial discourse. This phrase shaped the teaching of European languages in the (former) empires, and it tried to configure the usage of those idioms by the "Indigenes." Then, scholarly disciplines have to completely reconsider their discursive strategies about the colonial, if, at least, they attempt to speak up.Dubreuil ranges widely in terms of time and space, from the ancien régime through the twentieth century, from Paris to Haiti to Quebec, from the Renaissance to the riots in the banlieues. He examines diverse texts, from political speeches, legal documents, and colonial treatises to anthropological essays, poems of the Négritude, and contemporary rap, ever attuned to the linguistic strategies that undergird colonial power. Equally conversant in both postcolonial criticism and poststructuralist scholarship on language, but also deeply grounded in the sociohistorical context of the colonies, Dubreuil sets forth the conditions for an authentically postcolonial scholarship, one that acknowledges the difficulty of getting beyond a colonialism—and still maintains the need for an afterward.

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Cornell University Press

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0801467500

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9780801467509

Campaign Strategy in Direct Democracy

By: Laurent Bernhard

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Campaign Strategy in Direct Democracy

By: Laurent Bernhard

In the first study of comparative direct-democracy, Laurent Bernhard explores the nature of direct-democratic campaigning in Switzerland. The author examines four policy areas: immigration, healthcare, welfare and economic liberalism focussing on interviews with campaign managers to provide a comprehensive analysis of direct-democratic campaigning.

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Springer

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1137011343

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Cartographie Radar

By: Laurent Polidori

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Cartographie Radar

By: Laurent Polidori

First published in 2004. Ce livre fait le point sur les applications du radar, tant aeroporte que spatial, en cartographie. La cartographie topographique est le sujet principal de l'ouvrage qui se concentre en particulier sur la modelisation numerique de terrain par radargrammetrie, radarclinometrie et interferometrie. Les principales applications thematiques de l'imagerie radar sont egalement passees en revue et illustrees_. Destine aux utilisateurs et aux etudiants interesses par le domaine de l'imagerie radar (topographes, ingenieurs civils, geologues ... ) ce texte les informera sur les potentialites - et les Ii mites - de cette technique.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040292046

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9781040292044

Advanced Handbook of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

By: Laurent Arnaud,Ronald van Vollenhoven

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Advanced Handbook of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

By: Laurent Arnaud,Ronald van Vollenhoven

This book will provide an introduction to the epidemiology, etiology and pathogenesis of the condition while also exploring the classification, diagnosis, and current and emerging therapies for systemic lupus erythematosus. Systemic lupus erythematosus is an autoimmune disease in which the body's immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissue. It can affect the skin, joints, kidneys, brain, and other organs. The underlying cause of the disease is not fully known, and SLE is much more common in women than in men. It may occur at any age but most often occurs in people between 10 and 50 years of age. This is the second Adis title from Ronald F van Vollenhoven, who previously authored Biologics for the Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis.

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3319430351

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Mentor

Guiding the Journey of Adult Learners (with New Foreword, Introduction, and Afterword)

By: Laurent A. Daloz

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Mentor

Guiding the Journey of Adult Learners (with New Foreword, Introduction, and Afterword)

By: Laurent A. Daloz

With a new introduction and afterword, this revised second edition is a practical, engaging exploration of mentoring and its power to transform learning. Filled with inspiring vignettes, Mentor shows how anyone who teaches can become a successful mentor to students. Topics covered include adult learning and development; the search for meaning as a motive for learning; education as a transformational journey; how adults change and develop; how learning changes the learner; barriers and incentives to learning and growth; and guiding adults through difficult transitions.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118416686

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Rhetoric in Antiquity

By: Laurent Pernot

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Rhetoric in Antiquity

By: Laurent Pernot

Originally published as La Rhétorique dans l'Antiquité (2000), this new English edition provides students with a valuable introduction to understanding the classical art of rhetoric and its place in ancient society and politics

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CUA Press

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0813214076

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9780813214078

Popular Errors

By: Laurent Joubert

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Popular Errors

By: Laurent Joubert

Laurent Joubert was an important figure in the medical world of the French Renaissance. Born in 1529, he became a doctor at age 29 and shortly thereafter was appointed personal physician to Catherine de Medici and later became physician to three French monarchs. Joubert was an educator as well as a physician, and he wrote several works of medical literature, including his most controversial work, Erreurs populaires. While the work focuses on popular misconceptions concerning medicine and physicians in France in the 1500s, it also represents a wealth of information on the social, economic, political, and religious worldviews that framed and thus supported the development and conduct of medical science. Gregory de Rocher’s skill as a translator brings this highly readable and very funny book to life. Many topics central to Joubert’s thesis in the 1500s remain contemporary themes in the popular and scholarly literature of the 1980s.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817352899

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9780817352899

Industrial Objectives and Industrial Performance

Concepts and Fuzzy Handling

By: Lamia Berrah,Vincent Clivillé,Laurent Foulloy

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Industrial Objectives and Industrial Performance

Concepts and Fuzzy Handling

By: Lamia Berrah,Vincent Clivillé,Laurent Foulloy

This book aims to provide a synthesis of work and ideas done by our team over the last fifteen years in the field of information processing for expression of industrial performance. The statement of objectives on the one hand and the calculation of the other performances are discussed, with the search for the explanation of the link between these two basic steps of an industrial improvement. Beyond the synthetic and typological character of this study, the originality of this work lies in the consideration of the temporal dimension of the objectives, and spread on performance expressions. A fuzzy processing and multi-criteria aggregations time information that can be quantitative, qualitative or symbolic are proposed, in line with industrial practice and literature in the field of performance management.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119510619

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We Were Young and Carefree

The Autobiography of Laurent Fignon

By: Laurent Fignon

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We Were Young and Carefree

The Autobiography of Laurent Fignon

By: Laurent Fignon

Ah, I remember you: you're the guy who lost the Tour de France by eight seconds!' 'No monsieur, I'm the guy who won the Tour twice. The international bestselling autobiography of the legendary French cyclist Laurent Fignon Two-time winner of the Tour de France in the early eighties, Laurent Fignon became the star for a new generation. In the 1989 tour, he lost out to his American arch-rival, Greg LeMond, by an agonising eight seconds. In this revealing account, the former champion spares nobody, not even himself, and pulls back the curtain on what really went on behind the scenes of this epic sport - the friendships, the rivalries, the betrayals, the parties, the girls and, of course, the performance-enhancing drugs. Fignon's story bestrides a golden age in cycling: a time when the headlines spoke of heroes, not doping, and a time when cyclists were afraid of nothing. ‘Sports book of the year: He's ruthlessly honest, about himself and about cycling, and he provides a gripping insight into an unrelenting hard world’ Independent

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Random House

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1407075217

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Poetry and Mind

Tractatus Poetico-Philosophicus

By: Laurent Dubreuil

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Poetry and Mind

Tractatus Poetico-Philosophicus

By: Laurent Dubreuil

What one cannot compute, one must poetize: this essay theorizes the extraordinary regimes of human mental experience by putting the emphasis on poetry. Poetry grants us the ability to move “beyond the limits of thought” and to explore the beyond of cognition. It teaches us to think differently. An elliptic response to Wittgenstein’s point of arrival in the Tractatus, this book is first and foremost an interdisciplinary study of poetry, drawing on literary theory, philosophy, and cognitive science. The work conducted on minds and brains over the last decades in psychology, artificial intelligence, or neuroscience cannot be ignored, if, as “humanists,” we are ever interested in the way we think. Thus, a constant dialogue with the positive examination of cognition serves to better situate the normal regimes of thought—and to underline the other mental possibilities that literature opens up. This essay shows that poetry—a very widespread and possibly universal phenomenon among humans—arises through syntactic structures, cognitive binding, and mental regulations; but that, in going through them, it also exceeds them. The best poems, then, are not only thought experiments but actual thinking experiments for the unthinkable. They expand the usual semantics of natural languages, they singularly deploy the rhetorical armature of speech. They tend to exceed their own algorithms, made of iterations and linguistic re-organizations. They are often reflexive, strange, cognitively dissonant. They provide detachable, movable, and livable significations to our selves. The literary scope of this book is more than “global:” it is uniquely broad and comparative, encompassing dozens of different traditions, oral or written, from all continents, from Ancient times to the contemporary era, with some thirty specific readings of texts, ranging from Sophocles to Gertrude Stein, from Wang Wei to Aimé Césaire, or from cuneiform tablet to rap music.

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823279669

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9780823279661

The Lives of Ants

By: Laurent Keller,Elisabeth Gordon

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The Lives of Ants

By: Laurent Keller,Elisabeth Gordon

Humans have long been fascinated by ants. While not necessarily brightly coloured or beautiful, ants display some remarkable characteristics that are almost unique in the animal world. They live in intricately organized societies, made up of individuals that cooperate, communicate, and divide up daily tasks. They display amazing ingenuity when it comes to building nests and other structures, finding supplies, or even exploiting other members of the animal kingdom. They are capable too of aggression and violence, of disturbing the apparent peace of their colonies and of sudden fratricidal or matricidal strife. In short, the lives of ants are among the most fascinating in the natural world. This is an account of those lives - looking at the many species of ants around the world, explaining the secret of their huge ecological success, examining the remarkable and varied behaviours that ants exhibit, and tying in molecular biology, genetics, and even cutting-edge developments in robotics, to shed light on what makes ants unique.

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OUP Oxford

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0191580074

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Common Fire

Leading Lives of Commitment in a Complex World

By: Laurent A. Daloz

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Common Fire

Leading Lives of Commitment in a Complex World

By: Laurent A. Daloz

A landmark study that reveals how we become committed to the common good and sustain such commitments in a changing world. View the discussion guide for UU communities: HTML or PDF "A perceptive, groundbreaking analysis of inspired lives. . . . This is a guidebook for the soul." -Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence "A truly refreshing book! In a day when the political and spiritual air has grown stale with cynicism, discouragement, and indirection, this beautifully written, penetrating study could not be more welcome or valuable. No teacher, parent, or civic leader who cares about nurturing social commitment can fail to be informed and inspired by this remarkable and surprisingly practical book." -Robert Kegan, author of In Over Our Heads "Eloquent and profound, Common Fire addresses what Americans everywhere long for: a sense of the common good, an emphasis on community and compassion in everyday life, a values-based politics in the public sphere. A compelling, encouraging work." -Jim Wallis, author of The Soul of Politics "A profound exposition and penetrating commentary on some of life's most important issues." -Clarence G. Newsome, dean, Howard Divinity School "A compelling portrait of people who choose to make a difference and thus inspire us all." -Rosabeth Moss Kanter, author of World Class: Thriving Locally in the Global Economy

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Beacon Press

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0807020087

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9780807020081

Textbook of Malignant Haematology

By: Laurent Degos,David C Linch,Bob Löwenberg

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Textbook of Malignant Haematology

By: Laurent Degos,David C Linch,Bob Löwenberg

This textbook provides a concise overview of malignant haematology, including reviews of cell and molecular biology, and implications for new trends in treatment.

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CRC Press

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1853173223

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9781853173226

Sociology of Culture and Cultural Practices

The Transformative Power of Institutions

By: Laurent Fleury

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Sociology of Culture and Cultural Practices

The Transformative Power of Institutions

By: Laurent Fleury

In Sociology of Culture and of Cultural Practices, Laurent Fleury presents a synthesis of research and debate from France and the United States. He traces the development of the sociology of culture from its origins (Weber and Simmel) and examines the major trends that have emerged in this branch of sociology. Fleury also raises issues of cultural hierarchy, distinction, and legitimate culture and mass culture and focuses on new areas of research, including the role of institutions, the reception of works of art, aesthetic experience, and emancipation through art.

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Lexington Books

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0739174827

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9780739174821

History of Photography

A Bibliography of Books

By: Laurent Roosens,Luc Salu

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History of Photography

A Bibliography of Books

By: Laurent Roosens,Luc Salu

The fourth volume in a history of photography, this is a bibliography of books on the subject.

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A&C Black

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0720123542

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9780720123548

The Psychology of Good and Evil

By: Laurent Bègue

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The Psychology of Good and Evil

By: Laurent Bègue

In the 21st century, the concept of ethics may seem outdated or obsolete. But in reality, ethics is the omnipresent, ongoing discussion going on in our global communities today. Systematically, people condemn, sanction, demonize, and freely judge one another. As a result, by addressing the simplest of questions ("How do we act?" and "What do we think of others?"), laws are legislated and the moral code is created. But what is morality, exactly? And how does the moral code shape the story of our lives? Written from the perspective of a social psychologist, The Psychology of Good and Evil explores the answers to these big questions in fascinating detail, all while illuminating the inner workings of the human mind, human nature, and the foundations of our beliefs.

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Oxford University Press

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0190250674

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