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Analysis and Geometry of Markov Diffusion Operators

By: Dominique Bakry,Ivan Gentil,Michel Ledoux

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Analysis and Geometry of Markov Diffusion Operators

By: Dominique Bakry,Ivan Gentil,Michel Ledoux

The present volume is an extensive monograph on the analytic and geometric aspects of Markov diffusion operators. It focuses on the geometric curvature properties of the underlying structure in order to study convergence to equilibrium, spectral bounds, functional inequalities such as Poincaré, Sobolev or logarithmic Sobolev inequalities, and various bounds on solutions of evolution equations. At the same time, it covers a large class of evolution and partial differential equations. The book is intended to serve as an introduction to the subject and to be accessible for beginning and advanced scientists and non-specialists. Simultaneously, it covers a wide range of results and techniques from the early developments in the mid-eighties to the latest achievements. As such, students and researchers interested in the modern aspects of Markov diffusion operators and semigroups and their connections to analytic functional inequalities, probabilistic convergence to equilibrium and geometric curvature will find it especially useful. Selected chapters can also be used for advanced courses on the topic.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3319002279

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Not One More Death

By: Brian Eno,Haifa Zangana,Harold Pinter,John le Carré,Michel Faber,Richard Dawkins

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Not One More Death

By: Brian Eno,Haifa Zangana,Harold Pinter,John le Carré,Michel Faber,Richard Dawkins

Not One More Death examines the record of US and UK troops in Iraq, questions Bush and Blair's position under international law, and considers the responsibilities of artists, writers and the wider public in a time of war and occupation. Published in collaboration with the Stop the War Coalition (www.stopwar.org.uk).

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Verso Books

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1789602491

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Sources for the Mutual History of Ghana and the Netherlands

An Annotated Guide to the Dutch Archives Relating to Ghana and West Africa in the Nationaal Archief, 1593-1960s

By: Michel René Doortmont,Jinna Smit

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Sources for the Mutual History of Ghana and the Netherlands

An Annotated Guide to the Dutch Archives Relating to Ghana and West Africa in the Nationaal Archief, 1593-1960s

By: Michel René Doortmont,Jinna Smit

Annotated guide to the Dutch archives on Ghana and West Africa in the "Nationaal Archief" offering a comprehensive overview of available sources. Part I: description of archival materials. Part II: historical overview of the Dutch in Ghana and selected themes from Ghana's history. With bibliography and index.

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BRILL

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9004158502

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Never Forget

By: Michel Bussi

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Never Forget

By: Michel Bussi

What happened between two people on a cliff’s edge on the French coast is at the heart of “a tantalizing puzzle” in this twisting noir thriller (Kirkus Reviews). In the town of Yport, during a run along Europe’s tallest cliff, Jamal notices a red scarf hanging on a fence. Then he sees the woman, her dress torn, her back to the void, her eyes fixed on his own. Jamal holds the scarf out to her like a buoy. A few seconds later, the stranger’s lifeless body is found lying on the icy pebbles of the empty beach below. Around her neck, the red scarf. Everyone thinks he pushed her. He only wanted to save her. That’s Jamal’s version. Do you believe it? “One of France’s most ingenious crime writers.” —The Sunday Times Acclaim for Michel Bussi’s novels “Wonderfully ingenious and altogether satisfying.” —The New York Times Book Review “Harlan Coben fans will enjoy [the] intriguing characters and twisty conclusion.” —Library Journal “A well-constructed literary thriller with a strong sense of place and deep understanding of human nature.” —Kirkus Reviews

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Europa Editions

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1609456378

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Insiders' French

Beyond the Dictionary

By: Eleanor Levieux,Michel Levieux

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Insiders' French

Beyond the Dictionary

By: Eleanor Levieux,Michel Levieux

If you had been living in France in the 1990s, the language you would have heard on the radio and television or seen in the newspapers would be far removed from the French language of ten or twenty years ago. The country and its language have changed tremendously in a relatively short period of time, and, as a result, English speakers with a grounding in French can still find themselves struggling to understand terms commonly encountered in contemporary French society. Luckily, Eleanor and Michel Levieux now bring us up to date with their Insiders' French, an utterly entertaining and informative guide to the language of the "new France." This "new France" is a country poised to experience the European single currency but uncertain about being part of Europe. It is hooked on fast food but ambivalent about the country where it originated. France today has record unemployment and an increasingly controversial immigrant population. Clearly, given the rapidly changing conditions and lifestyles, conventional French dictionaries alone cannot completely inform readers and visitors. Insiders' French offers a solution to the incomprehension, a unique handbook in which you'll find the language of European union, the space program, abortion and women's rights, high-tech industries, and health care, among other topics. Entries proceed by association of ideas and related terms, with extensive cross-referencing, while still being alphabetized for easy reference like a standard dictionary. Cartoons from major French journals add to your understanding and enjoyment. Insiders' French opens up the secret territory of French politics and culture that is often not understood by visitors or students, and it does so with wit and verve—qualities that remain in the French language despite its recent changes.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226475026

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A Key to the Louvre: Memoirs of a Curator

By: Michel Laclotte

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A Key to the Louvre: Memoirs of a Curator

By: Michel Laclotte

An art world insider provides a witty and penetrating account of fifty years at the center of international culture. Art historian, curator, and museum director Michel Laclotte has been at the forefront of French cultural life over the past half century. This informal autobiography sheds light on his brilliant career with warmth and directness. Highlights include twenty years as chief curator of painting and sculpture at the Musée du Louvre, heading the team that created the Musée dOrsay, and taking the reins of the Louvre to lead the effort that culminated in the museums transformation into the ?Grand Louvre,” one of the worlds preeminent cultural attractions. Raising the curtain on fifty years of Western art scholarship, intrigue, and achievement, Laclotte introduces an extraordinary cast of characters who set Frances cultural direction in the postwar period from Charles de Gaulle and André Malraux in the 1950s to François Mitterand in the 1980s and 1990s. His story overlaps with virtually every major scholarly figure in French art history of the last half-century, as well as Laclottes mentors and colleagues throughout and beyond Europe, from Roberto Longhi and Anthony Blunt to Sir John Pope-Hennessy and Millard Meiss. An incomparable testament to a period of seismic change in the museum world, this volume will be essential reading for art world afficianados and all students of art and modern culture.

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WW Norton

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0789260077

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The Foundling's War

By: Michel Déon,Yasmina Khadra

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The Foundling's War

By: Michel Déon,Yasmina Khadra

In the aftermath of French defeat in July 1940, twenty-year-old Jean Arnaud and his ally, the charming conman Palfy, are hiding out at a brothel in Clermont-Ferrand, having narrowly escaped a firing squad. At a military parade, Jean falls for a beautiful stranger, Claude, who will help him forget his adolescent heartbreak but bring far more serious troubles of her own. Having safely reached occupied Paris, the friends mingle with art smugglers and forgers, social climbers, showbiz starlets, bluffers, swindlers and profiteers, French and German, as Jean learns to make his way in a world of murky allegiances. But beyond the social whirl, the war cannot stay away forever... In this sequel to the acclaimed novel The Foundling Boy, Michel Déon's hero comes to manhood not through combat but by discovering truths about desire and possession, sex and love, and the nuances that lie between crudely drawn battle lines.

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Gallic Books

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1908313838

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The Making of Terrorism

By: Michel Wieviorka

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The Making of Terrorism

By: Michel Wieviorka

Revised and reissued in light of recent events, this classic and now increasingly important book is an exception in the literature on terrorism. Based on complex observations of actual movement participants, Wieviorka's book addresses a broad spectrum of terrorist activity—from Italian left-wing terrorists to Basque nationalist groups to the international terrorism of Palestine and the Middle East. The result is an incisive analysis of what terrorists believe and what they hope to achieve through their actions. For this new edition, Wieviorka adds new material that remaps the state of terrorism after the events of 2001.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226896536

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Reasoning with the Infinite

From the Closed World to the Mathematical Universe

By: Michel Blay

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Reasoning with the Infinite

From the Closed World to the Mathematical Universe

By: Michel Blay

Until the Scientific Revolution, the nature and motions of heavenly objects were mysterious and unpredictable. The Scientific Revolution was revolutionary in part because it saw the advent of many mathematical tools—chief among them the calculus—that natural philosophers could use to explain and predict these cosmic motions. Michel Blay traces the origins of this mathematization of the world, from Galileo to Newton and Laplace, and considers the profound philosophical consequences of submitting the infinite to rational analysis. "One of Michael Blay's many fine achievements in Reasoning with the Infinite is to make us realize how velocity, and later instantaneous velocity, came to play a vital part in the development of a rigorous mathematical science of motion."—Margaret Wertheim, New Scientist

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0226058352

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The Semantics of Prepositions

By: Michel Aurnague & Laure Vieu

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The Semantics of Prepositions

By: Michel Aurnague & Laure Vieu

A reconsideration of the semantics of a lexical category--prepositions--that has recently witnessed a plethora of investigations. The volume approaches the issue first from a more general perspective, namely the extent to which insights into the meaning of prepositions give clues to the semantic structure of lexical units and its processing in general. It goes on to deal with the meaning of prepositions from the perspective of how natural language processing can benefit from the insights of theoretical linguistics, especially with respect to machine translation and image understanding. Most of the papers were originally presented at a workshop held in February 1990 at the Institut fur Angewandte Informationsforschung. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110136341

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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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1136850198

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Les anciens répertoires de plain-chant

By: Michel Huglo

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Les anciens répertoires de plain-chant

By: Michel Huglo

The differences between Old-Roman, Ambrosian, Aquileian, Gallican, and Hispanic chant, and their interconnections with each other and the Gregorian chant occupied Michel Huglo in his early career, although he returned to these questions in the 1980s and 1990s. The present volume, the second in the set of four to be published in the Variorum series, brings all this work together. Huglo's 1954 article, the first to describe the sources for Old Roman chant, recognized as distinct from Gregorian chant, is of primary significance for the historiography of Western plainchant, because it opened the debate on the relationship between Old Roman and Gregorian chant. The final section presents articles on the Latin version of the Akathistos hymn and on Byzantine chants translated into Latin that became part of the Western plainchant repertory. Les différences entre les répertoires Vieux-romain, Ambrosien, Aquiléien, Gallican et Hispanique, leurs influences réciproques et leurs relations avec le chant grégorien ont occupé Michel Huglo au début de sa carrière: il revint sur ces questions dans les années 1980 et 1990. Ce volume, le deuxième d'une série de quatre dans la collection Variorum, réunit toutes ces études. L'article de 1954 de Michel Huglo sur les sources du chant Vieux-romain, considéré comme distinct du grégorien, est de première importance pour l'historiographie du plain-chant occidental, car il a ouvert les débats sur le rapport entre Vieux-romain et grégorien. Les articles sur la version latine de l'Hymne Acathiste et sur les pièces de chant byzantin traduites en latin dans les répertoires occidentaux du plain-chant achèvent ce volume.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000944468

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The Pastry Chef Handbook

La Patisserie de Reference

By: Pierre Paul Zeiher,Jean Michel Truchelut

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The Pastry Chef Handbook

La Patisserie de Reference

By: Pierre Paul Zeiher,Jean Michel Truchelut

All the information, guidance, and recipes you need to become a pastry professional—in a single book! Comprehensive in its content and practical in its approach, The Pastry Chef Handbook addresses all the professional steps necessary for this demanding and fascinating profession. In addition to the examples illustrated by step-by-step visuals and essential cultural elements, the book covers nutrition, hygiene, service, and presentation. Beginner pastry chefs will be able to learn the basic rules and 100 preparation techniques—from making custard in a bain-marie to icing. Inside, there are also 100 detailed classical recipes ranging from Saint-Honoré to Opera. And with the QR codes integrated throughout the book, readers will be able to consult professional videos to perfect their know-how on the companion BPI Campus site.

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2006

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Abrams

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Engineering Applications of MATLAB® 5.3 and SIMULINK® 3

Translated from the French by Mohand Mokhtari, Michel Marie, Cécile Davy and Martine Neveu

By: Mohand Mokhtari,Michel Marie

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Engineering Applications of MATLAB® 5.3 and SIMULINK® 3

Translated from the French by Mohand Mokhtari, Michel Marie, Cécile Davy and Martine Neveu

By: Mohand Mokhtari,Michel Marie

Written in two parts, the first revises the ideas and theoretical bases necessary for a good understanding of the techniques used in the second, which deals with applications of MATLAB(R) and SIMULINK(R) in process control and digital signal processing. Each application is treated through various techniques including the classical methods of automation and of deterministic and random digital processing using fuzzy logic and neural networks. The preceding mathematical study of the physical processes goes from finding the equations to editing the analogical model. The following SIMULINK(R) toolbox functions and blocks have been used: Control System, Signal Processing, Neural Network and Fuzzy Logic.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1447107411

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Gabriel Fauré

A Musical Life

By: Jean-Michel Nectoux

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Gabriel Fauré

A Musical Life

By: Jean-Michel Nectoux

This book traces Fauré's life and the rich cultural milieu in which he lived and worked.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521616956

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La France et ses administrations : un état des savoirs

France and its public administrations : A state of the art

By: Jean-Michel Eymeri–Douzans,Geert Bouckaert

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La France et ses administrations : un état des savoirs

France and its public administrations : A state of the art

By: Jean-Michel Eymeri–Douzans,Geert Bouckaert

En pleine congruence avec l’ambition du Groupe Européen pour l’Administration Publique d’encourager les échanges interculturels, ce livre constitue une entreprise originale, mi-anglophone mi-francophone. Cet ouvrage issu du Congrès du GEAP 2010 a pour objet de combler un déplorable fossé et de donner une visibilité internationale au « cas français ». Dès lors ce livre, en 18 chapitres rédigés en français par une équipe interdisciplinaire (politistes, sociologues, historiens, socio-historiens, juristes) avec plus de 150 pages en anglais et une vaste bibliographie unifiée, entend offrir à tous les spécialistes de l’administration publique de par le monde un point d’accès unique au plus récent état des savoirs sur l’administration en France – ce pays où le mot État s’écrit avec un E majuscule. ============================================ In full compliance with the ambition of the European Group for Public Administration to encourage cross-cultural exchanges, this book is a genuinely original undertaking. It is a hybrid Anglophone-Francophone product. This book from EGPA 2010 Conference purpose to bridge a regrettable gap and to give international visibility to the “French case”. Thus, this book, in 18 chapters written in French by an interdisciplinary team (political scientists, sociologists, historians, sociohistorians, jurists) with more than 150 pages in English and a vast unified bibliography, offers to all students of public administration in the world a unique entry gate to the latest state of the art of administrative studies in France – this country where the State is to be spelled with a capital S.

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Primento

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2802740849

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9782802740841

Echinoderm Research

By: Michel Jangoux

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Echinoderm Research

By: Michel Jangoux

This book is an outcome of the second European conference on Echinoderm brussels held in Belgium in 1989. It covers the following areas of research in echinoderm: paleontology, reproduction, development and larval biology, evolution, systematics and biogeography, morphology and physiology.

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CRC Press

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1000162311

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Graphs, Dioids and Semirings

New Models and Algorithms

By: Michel Gondran,Michel Minoux

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Graphs, Dioids and Semirings

New Models and Algorithms

By: Michel Gondran,Michel Minoux

The primary objective of this essential text is to emphasize the deep relations existing between the semiring and dioïd structures with graphs and their combinatorial properties. It does so at the same time as demonstrating the modeling and problem-solving flexibility of these structures. In addition the book provides an extensive overview of the mathematical properties employed by "nonclassical" algebraic structures which either extend usual algebra or form a new branch of it.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387754504

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9780387754505

Semimartingales

A Course on Stochastic Processes

By: Michel Métivier

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Semimartingales

A Course on Stochastic Processes

By: Michel Métivier

The series is devoted to the publication of monographs and high-level textbooks in mathematics, mathematical methods and their applications. Apart from covering important areas of current interest, a major aim is to make topics of an interdisciplinary nature accessible to the non-specialist. The works in this series are addressed to advanced students and researchers in mathematics and theoretical physics. In addition, it can serve as a guide for lectures and seminars on a graduate level. The series de Gruyter Studies in Mathematics was founded ca. 35 years ago by the late Professor Heinz Bauer and Professor Peter Gabriel with the aim to establish a series of monographs and textbooks of high standard, written by scholars with an international reputation presenting current fields of research in pure and applied mathematics. While the editorial board of the Studies has changed with the years, the aspirations of the Studies are unchanged. In times of rapid growth of mathematical knowledge carefully written monographs and textbooks written by experts are needed more than ever, not least to pave the way for the next generation of mathematicians. In this sense the editorial board and the publisher of the Studies are devoted to continue the Studies as a service to the mathematical community. Please submit any book proposals to Niels Jacob.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110086743

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Oasis ottomanes

Dakhla et Kharga dans l'Egypte des XVIe-XIXe siecles

By: Nicolas Michel

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Oasis ottomanes

Dakhla et Kharga dans l'Egypte des XVIe-XIXe siecles

By: Nicolas Michel

This book explores the position of the Dakhla and Kharga oases within Ottoman Egypt as well as the whole empire. It intends to contribute to the reflection on the characteristics and limits of Ottomanity as seen by the inhabitants of a region which, from Cairo, seemed remote and isolated. It is based on several sets of private archives, largely unpublished, supplemented by travelogues and by modern literature. Despite their remoteness from the Nile Valley and a unique environment, the Oases were integrated in the same administrative and judicial frame as the rest of Egypt. Taxation was specific as were the primarily agricultural resources. Because of the threat of Beduin raids, the Oases housed a large garrison. The book studies the impact of this military presence upon the Oasian society from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, and the gradual erasure of Ottoman peculiarities, then of their memory during the nineteenth century.

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IFAO

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2724710274

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The CFA Franc Zone and the EMU

By: Mr.Michael T. Hadjimichael,Mr.Michel Galy

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The CFA Franc Zone and the EMU

By: Mr.Michael T. Hadjimichael,Mr.Michel Galy

Whether the prospective shift of the peg of the CFA franc to the euro would constitute an exchange rate arrangement with EMU countries would depend critically on the interpretation of the free convertibility of the CFA franc guaranteed by France. Nonetheless, this shift is likely to leave the CFA franc arrangements and operating features of the zone essentially unchanged. The current parity of the CFA franc could be considered in line with fundamentals. The potential economic consequences for the CFA franc countries could be positive over the long term, but there is a risk of a weakening of external competitiveness.

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International Monetary Fund

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1451857365

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