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Pseudo-Riemannian Symmetric Spaces

By: Michel Cahen,Monique Parker

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Pseudo-Riemannian Symmetric Spaces

By: Michel Cahen,Monique Parker

Simply connected Reimannian symmetric spaces were classified by E. Cartan. This paper examines an attempt to obtain an analogous classification when the metric has indefinite signature.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821822292

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Fractal Zeta Functions and Fractal Drums

Higher-Dimensional Theory of Complex Dimensions

By: Michel L. Lapidus,Goran Radunović,Darko Žubrinić

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Fractal Zeta Functions and Fractal Drums

Higher-Dimensional Theory of Complex Dimensions

By: Michel L. Lapidus,Goran Radunović,Darko Žubrinić

This monograph gives a state-of-the-art and accessible treatment of a new general higher-dimensional theory of complex dimensions, valid for arbitrary bounded subsets of Euclidean spaces, as well as for their natural generalization, relative fractal drums. It provides a significant extension of the existing theory of zeta functions for fractal strings to fractal sets and arbitrary bounded sets in Euclidean spaces of any dimension. Two new classes of fractal zeta functions are introduced, namely, the distance and tube zeta functions of bounded sets, and their key properties are investigated. The theory is developed step-by-step at a slow pace, and every step is well motivated by numerous examples, historical remarks and comments, relating the objects under investigation to other concepts. Special emphasis is placed on the study of complex dimensions of bounded sets and their connections with the notions of Minkowski content and Minkowski measurability, as well as on fractal tube formulas. It is shown for the first time that essential singularities of fractal zeta functions can naturally emerge for various classes of fractal sets and have a significant geometric effect. The theory developed in this book leads naturally to a new definition of fractality, expressed in terms of the existence of underlying geometric oscillations or, equivalently, in terms of the existence of nonreal complex dimensions. The connections to previous extensive work of the first author and his collaborators on geometric zeta functions of fractal strings are clearly explained. Many concepts are discussed for the first time, making the book a rich source of new thoughts and ideas to be developed further. The book contains a large number of open problems and describes many possible directions for further research. The beginning chapters may be used as a part of a course on fractal geometry. The primary readership is aimed at graduate students and researchers working in Fractal Geometry and other related fields, such as Complex Analysis, Dynamical Systems, Geometric Measure Theory, Harmonic Analysis, Mathematical Physics, Analytic Number Theory and the Spectral Theory of Elliptic Differential Operators. The book should be accessible to nonexperts and newcomers to the field.

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685

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Springer

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3319447068

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9783319447063

Grand Fortunes

Dynasties of Wealth in France

By: Michel Pinçon

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Grand Fortunes

Dynasties of Wealth in France

By: Michel Pinçon

Going back for generations, the fortunes of great families consist of far more than money; they are also symbols of culture and social interaction. They are at the heart of dense family and extra-family networks, of international coalitions and divisions. The authors elucidate the mechanisms by which they accumulate and expand their wealth, status and influence even while staying out of the public eye. Paradoxically there is a quasi-collective nature to these private fortunes, as families enjoy sojourns at each other's estates, help each other weather difficult times and intermarry.

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Algora Publishing

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189294118X

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9781892941183

Dei gesta per Francos

Etudes sur les croisades dédiées à Jean Richard - Crusade Studies in Honour of Jean Richard

By: Michel Balard,Benjamin Z. Kedar

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Dei gesta per Francos

Etudes sur les croisades dédiées à Jean Richard - Crusade Studies in Honour of Jean Richard

By: Michel Balard,Benjamin Z. Kedar

Professor Jean Richard is the doyen of crusade historians. Although also well-known as one of the most distinguished historians of Burgundy, he has through publications which have been appearing for over half a century established himself as the greatest living scholar working on crusading and the Latin East. His book on twelfth-century Tripoli, published in 1945, is still the standard work on the county. In the 1950s he, and Joshua Prawer, provided a revolutionary approach towards the constitution and institutions of the kingdom of Jerusalem. He went on to pave the way for an entirely new understanding of the kingdom of Cyprus. In the 1960s he was one of a few historians who were sign-posting a more empathetic view of the ideology of crusading and the motivation of crusaders, and he developed his ideas further in recent monographs on Saint Louis and on the crusades in general. His work on Catholic missions to Asia and the role of the papacy in those enterprises is generally regarded as setting standards which few can approach. To celebrate his eightieth birthday thirty-nine colleagues have contributed articles in fields which themselves illustrate Professor Richard’s breadth of interest: the crusades, the military orders, and the Latin settlements on the Levantine mainland and the island of Cyprus.

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Routledge

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1351945580

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La Renovation du Shi'isme Ismaelien En Inde Et Au Pakistan

D'apres les Ecrits et les Discours de Sultan Muhammad Shah Aga Khan

By: Michel Boivin

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La Renovation du Shi'isme Ismaelien En Inde Et Au Pakistan

D'apres les Ecrits et les Discours de Sultan Muhammad Shah Aga Khan

By: Michel Boivin

This French-language book is the first to propose a scientific approach to the Aga Khan's religious thought, placing it in its proper perspective by revealing how the Aga Khan responded to contemporary challenges. It will be of interest to both students and scholars of history, orientalism and Islamic thought and cultures, and to anyone interested in South Asia or in the fundamental issues of religion and modernity.

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Routledge

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1136850260

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Therapeutic and Advanced ERCP, An Issue of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Clinics

By: Michel Kahaleh

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Therapeutic and Advanced ERCP, An Issue of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Clinics

By: Michel Kahaleh

Dr. Kahaleh's expertise as the Chief of Advanced Endoscopy at Weill Cornell Medical Center has allowed him to gather top experts to write state-of-the art reviews devoted to therapeutic ERCP. Articles address therapeutic ERCP and instrumentation; advanced cannulation technique and precut; stone burden in the bile and pancreatic duct; the available platforms for choledochopancreatoscopy; ERCP and Biliary Imaging; ERCP for sampling and tissues acquisition; ERCP and Intraductal ablation therapies; ERCP for distal malignant stricture; management of benign biliary stricture; treatment of common bile duct injuries after surgery; EUS guided ERCP; prevention of post-ERCP pancreatitis, and legal Matters related to ERCP.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1455774200

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Body Psychotherapy: History, Concepts, and Methods

By: Michel Heller

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Body Psychotherapy: History, Concepts, and Methods

By: Michel Heller

From yoga to neuroscience, a tour of major ideas about the body and mind. Body psychotherapy, which examines the relationship of bodily and physical experiences to emotional and psychological experiences, seems at first glance to be a relatively new area and on the cutting edge of psychotherapeutic theory and practice. It is, but the major concepts of body/mind treatment are actually drawn from a wide range of historical material, material that spans centuries and continents. Here, in a massively comprehensive book, Michael Heller summarizes all the major concepts, thinkers, and movements whose work has led to the creation of the field we now know as body/mind psychotherapy. The book covers everything from Eastern and Western thought—beginning with yoga and Taosim and moving to Plato and Descartes. It also discusses major developments in biology—how organisms are defined—and neuroscience. This is truly a comprehensive reference for anyone interested in the origins of the idea that the mind and body are not separate and that both must be understood together in order to understand people and their behavior.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393706699

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9780393706697

Poésies inédites d'Eugène MANUEL

By: Michel GERARD

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Poésies inédites d'Eugène MANUEL

By: Michel GERARD

Recueil de 112 poésies inédites d'Eugène MANUEL, poéte de la fin du 19éme siécle, auteur "des OUVRIERS". Ces poésies sont issues des manuscrits légués à la biliothèque de La Sorbonne.

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Lulu.com

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1291316868

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Poetics of the Literary Self-Portrait

By: Michel Beaujour

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Poetics of the Literary Self-Portrait

By: Michel Beaujour

A serious and independent contribution to the literature of autobiography. -- John SturrockFrench StudiesClearly a landmark study. It seems certain to provoke a great deal of productive debate among those concerned with any of the many issues it raises. -- Comparative Literature The literary self-portrait, often considered to be an ill- formed autobiography, is receiving more attention as a result of the current obsession with personal narrative, but little progress has been made toward an understanding of its specific features. With Poetics of the Literary Self-Portrait, Michel Beaujour reveals the hidden ambitions of this genre. From St. Augustine to Montaigne, from Nietzsche to Malraux, Leiris and Barthes, individual self-portraits are analyzed jointly with the enduring cultural matrix from which self-portrayal derives its disconcerting non-narrative structure, and many of its recurrent topics.

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NYU Press

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0814786111

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Symplectic Geometry and Analytical Mechanics

By: P. Libermann,Charles-Michel Marle

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Symplectic Geometry and Analytical Mechanics

By: P. Libermann,Charles-Michel Marle

Approach your problems from the right end It isn't that they can't see the solution. and begin with the answers. Then one day, It is that they can't see the problem. perhaps you will find the final question. G. K. Chesterton. The Scandal of Father 'The Hermit Clad in Crane Feathers' Brown 'The point of a Pin'. in R. van Gulik's The Chinese Maze Murders. Growing specialization and diversification have brought a host of monographs and textbooks on increasingly specialized topics. However, the "tree" of knowledge of mathematics and related fields does not grow only by putting forth new branches. It also happens, quite often in fact, that branches which were thouglit to be completely disparate are suddenly seen to be related. Further, the kind and level of sophistication of mathematics applied in various sci ences has changed drastically in recent years: measure theory is used (non-trivially) in re gional and theoretical economics; algebraic geometry interacts with physics; the Minkowsky lemma, coding theory and the structure of water meet one another in packing and covering theory; quantum fields, crystal defects and mathematical programming profit from homo topy theory; Lie algebras are relevant to filtering; and prediction and electrical engineering can use Stein spaces.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9400938071

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9789400938076

Music in Cinema

By: Michel Chion

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Music in Cinema

By: Michel Chion

Michel Chion is renowned for his explorations of the significance of frequently overlooked elements of cinema, particularly the role of sound. In this inventive and inviting book, Chion considers how cinema has deployed music. He shows how music and film not only complement but also transform each other. The first section of the book examines film music in historical perspective, and the second section addresses the theoretical implications of the crossover between art forms. Chion discusses a vast variety of films across eras, genres, and continents, embracing all the different genres of music that filmmakers have used to tell their stories. Beginning with live accompaniment of silent films in early movie houses, the book analyzes Al Jolson’s performance in The Jazz Singer, the zither in The Third Man, Godard’s patchwork sound editing, the synthesizer welcoming the flying saucer in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and the Kinshasa orchestra in Felicité, among many more. Chion considers both original scores and incorporation of preexisting works, including the use and reuse of particular composers across cinematic traditions, the introduction of popular music such as jazz and rock, and directors’ attraction to atonal and dissonant music as well as musique concrète, of which he is a composer. Wide-ranging and original, Music in Cinema offers a welcoming overview for students and general readers as well as refreshingly new and valuable perspectives for film scholars.

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Columbia University Press

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0231552858

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9780231552851

The Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture

The Birth of the French School, 1648–1793

By: Christian Michel

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The Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture

The Birth of the French School, 1648–1793

By: Christian Michel

The Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture (French Academy of Painting and Sculpture)—perhaps the single most influential art institution in history—governed the arts in France for more than 150 years, from its founding in 1648 until its abolition in 1793. Christian Michel's sweeping study presents an authoritative, in-depth analysis of the Académie’s history and legacy. The Académie Royale assembled nearly all of the important French artists working at the time, maintained a virtual monopoly on teaching and exhibitions, enjoyed a priority in obtaining royal commissions, and deeply influenced the artistic landscape in France. Yet the institution remains little understood today: all commentary on it, during its existence and since its abolition, is based on prejudices, both favorable and critical, that have shaped the way the institution has been appraised. This book takes a different approach. Rather than judging the Académie Royale, Michel unravels existing critical discourse to consider the nuances and complexities of the academy’s history, reexamining its goals, the shifting power dynamics both within the institution and in the larger political landscape, and its relationship with other French academies and guilds.

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Getty Publications

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1606065351

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9781606065358

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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Nulle Part Et Ses Environs

Voyage Aux Confins de L'utopie Littéraire Classique : (1657-1802)

By: Jean-Michel Racault

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Voyage Aux Confins de L'utopie Littéraire Classique : (1657-1802)

By: Jean-Michel Racault

Etudie l'utopie dans la littérature du XVIIe et XVIIIe siècle, et plus particulièrement les oeuvres évoquant un déplacement dans l'espace plutôt qu'une cité idéale, autre sens du terme. Ainsi, la littérature de voyage est abordée sous ses différentes formes : romans, contes philosophiques, satires et récits de voyage, avec des auteurs tels que Chateaubriand, Voltaire, Marivaux ...

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Presses Paris Sorbonne

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2840502917

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9782840502913

Histoire, archéologies littératures du monde musulman

mélanges en l'honneur d'André Raymond

By: Sylvie Denoix,Michel Tuchscherer

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Histoire, archéologies littératures du monde musulman

mélanges en l'honneur d'André Raymond

By: Sylvie Denoix,Michel Tuchscherer

Réunis à Aix-en-Provence, au sein du laboratoire qu’il fonda en 1986, ces 'Mélanges en l’honneur d’André Raymond' sont d’abord l’hommage affectueux d’élèves, de collègues et d’amis, liés à l’historien comme à l’homme. Ils se veulent aussi une reconnaissance de sa contribution intellectuelle et institutionnelle au développement des études sur le monde arabe et musulman, et le témoignage de la vitalité d’un réseau de chercheurs qu’il a profondément marqué de sa personnalité. Les contributions qu’ils rassemblent embrassent très largement l’histoire du Bassin méditerranéen, de l’Antiquité au XXe siècle. Elles s’inscrivent dans des disciplines variées et portent sur des objets que l’on n’assemble guère (des opéras et des fours de potiers, par exemple), mais dont la diversité même est un hommage rendu à l’esprit d’ouverture qui a toujours marqué l’action d’André Raymond dans sa gestion des politiques de recherche. Pour le lecteur et par souci de simplicité, on les a distribuées en quatre sections thématiques dont la composition, du reste, pourrait servir à décrire aussi l’œuvre savante de celui à qui elles sont offertes : 1. Villes et architectures d’Orient; 2. Histoire, économies, sociétés; 3. Lettres et arts; 4. Sources, manuscrits, archives.

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Institut français d'archéologie orientale du Caire - IFAO

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2724705130

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9782724705133

Pseudo-Riemannian Symmetric Spaces

By: Michel Cahen,Monique Parker

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Pseudo-Riemannian Symmetric Spaces

By: Michel Cahen,Monique Parker

Simply connected Reimannian symmetric spaces were classified by E. Cartan. This paper examines an attempt to obtain an analogous classification when the metric has indefinite signature.

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Pseudo-Riemannian Symmetric Spaces

Pseudo-Riemannian Symmetric Spaces

Fractal Zeta Functions and Fractal Drums

Fractal Zeta Functions and Fractal Drums

Grand Fortunes

Grand Fortunes

Dei gesta per Francos

Dei gesta per Francos

La Renovation du Shi'isme Ismaelien En Inde Et Au Pakistan

La Renovation du Shi'isme Ismaelien En Inde Et Au Pakistan

Therapeutic and Advanced ERCP, An Issue of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Clinics

Therapeutic and Advanced ERCP, An Issue of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Clinics

Body Psychotherapy: History, Concepts, and Methods

Body Psychotherapy: History, Concepts, and Methods

Poésies inédites d'Eugène MANUEL

Poésies inédites d'Eugène MANUEL

Poetics of the Literary Self-Portrait

Poetics of the Literary Self-Portrait

Symplectic Geometry and Analytical Mechanics

Symplectic Geometry and Analytical Mechanics

Music in Cinema

Music in Cinema

The Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture

The Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture

French Administrative Law

French Administrative Law

Nulle Part Et Ses Environs

Nulle Part Et Ses Environs

Histoire, archéologies littératures du monde musulman

Histoire, archéologies littératures du monde musulman

Pseudo-Riemannian Symmetric Spaces

Pseudo-Riemannian Symmetric Spaces

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