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The Informal City

By: Michel S. Laguerre

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In this book, Michel S.Laguerre argues that there exists an informal city located just beneath and in the interstices of the formal city. The metaphor is not geographical, but rather structural and hermeneutical. This is the city where manoeuvres that cannot be done publicly, legally, ethically or otherwise are performed. The author shows with illustrative data drawn from the American urban experience - the San Francisco-Oakland Metropolitan area - why and how the informal city must be seen as the hidden dimension of the formal city.

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Global City-Twinning in the Digital Age

By: Michel S Laguerre

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Global City-Twinning in the Digital Age

By: Michel S Laguerre

For many years, cities throughout the globe have developed ties with each other to process and nurture friendship, solidarity, and collaboration. These city relationships constitute a mode of governance distinct from those of cities that are not involved in such cross-border arrangements, with influence that expands far beyond region. In this light, Global City-Twinning in the Digital Age unveils an analysis of intercity relationships both on a global scale and as a global phenomenon with digital communication technologies that play key roles in upgrading traditional practices, enhancing cross-border cooperation, and facilitating the production of digital sister cities. This book analyzes the deployment of sister-city formations and operations throughout the world with a focus on cities of North America, Latin America, North Africa, Europe, and the Mediterranean region. Using a global approach, it discusses friendship, entrepreneurship, urban development, cooperative management, municipal policy, and digital entanglements. It expands the scope of study of sister cities by unveiling the role of immigrants, diaspora, and post-diaspora in the making and functioning of the digital model of sister cities.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472131656

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American Odyssey

Haitians in New York City

By: Michel Laguerre

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American Odyssey

Haitians in New York City

By: Michel Laguerre

Caribbean immigrants have now become part of the social landscape of many American cities. Few studies, however, have treated in detail the process of their integration in American society. American Odyssey assesses the development and adaptation, in both human and socio-economic terms, of the Haitian immigrant community in three boroughs of New York City. An informed and well-rounded portrayal of a Caribbean community in New York, this book offers a fresh theoretical view of the structuring of urban ethnicity and provides the ethnographic background essential to understanding the problems of the Haitian population in the United States.

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Cornell University Press

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1501727494

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The Multisite Nation

Crossborder Organizations, Transfrontier Infrastructure, and Global Digital Public Sphere

By: Michel S. Laguerre

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The Multisite Nation

Crossborder Organizations, Transfrontier Infrastructure, and Global Digital Public Sphere

By: Michel S. Laguerre

This book explains the transformation of the nation into a cosmonation (or multisite nation) through the reunification of the homeland with its diaspora. The book elaborates on how the mechanisms of linkages, connections, and networking interact to form distributed sites of homeland and diaspora into a cosmonation and how diasporans in different units of such a crossborder social formation, wherever they relocate, relate to each other. The ensemble thereby functions as a cultural and political collectivity manifested through cultural traditions, inter-site familial, institutional, and associational ties, transnational solidarity, and reverence for the ancestral homeland.

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1137567244

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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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3319002279

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Atheist Manifesto

The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam

By: Michel Onfray

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Atheist Manifesto

The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam

By: Michel Onfray

This hugely controversial work demonstrates convincingly how the world’s three major monotheistic religions—Christianity, Judaism, and Islam—have attempted to suppress knowledge, science, pleasure, and desire, condemning nonbelievers often to death. Not since Nietzsche has a work so groundbreaking and explosive questioned the role of the world’s three major monotheistic religions. If Nietzsche proclaimed the death of God, Onfray insists that not only is God still very much alive but also increasingly controlled by fundamentalists who pose a danger to the nature of human morality. Documenting the ravages of religious intolerance over the centuries, the author makes a strong case against the three religions for their obsession with purity and their contempt for reason and intelligence, individual freedom, desire, and the human body, as well as their disdain for women, sexuality, and pleasure. In their place, all three demand faith and belief, obedience and submission, extolling the “next life” to the detriment of the here and now. Tightly argued, this is a work that is sure to stir debate on the role of religion in American society—and politics.

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Simon and Schuster

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1626367795

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Jeux d'errance du chevalier médiéval

Aspects ludiques de la fonction guerrière dans la littérature du Moyen Age flamboyant

By: Michel Stanesco

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Jeux d'errance du chevalier médiéval

Aspects ludiques de la fonction guerrière dans la littérature du Moyen Age flamboyant

By: Michel Stanesco

Preliminary Material -- INTRODUCTION: UN REGARD GLACE: L'AVENTURE CHEVALERESQUE COMME «JUSTIFICATION» DE CLASSE -- CHAPITRE PREMIER: L'EFFET DE ROMAN LA FASCINATION DU MODELE ROMANESQUE -- CHAPITRE II: UN 'PILIER DU MONDE' -- CHAPITRE III: LE RITUEL SYMBOLIQUE DE L'ADOUBEMENT -- CHAPITRE IV: LA PASSION DU TOURNOI ET SES INTERDITS -- CHAPITRE V: LE PLAISIR DES ARMES -- CHAPITRE VI: LA PERSPECTIVE DE LA MIMESIS -- CHAPITRE VII: JEUX D'AMOUR, JEUX D'ECHECS -- CHAPITRE VIII: LE CEREMONIAL DU JEU -- CHAPITRE IX: LES «MISTERES» DU PAS DE L'ARBRE D'OR ET LE CHEVALIER PRISONNIER -- CHAPITRE X: JEU ET RITUEL -- CHAPITRE XI: 'ENTRE SOMMEILLANT ET ESVEILLE' -- D'UNE TECHNIQUE CHEVALERESQUE A UNE EXPERIENCE POETIQUE -- CHAPITRE XII: L'EMPRISE DU VISUEL -- CHAPITRE XIII: LE HERAUT D'ARMES ET LA TRADITION LITTERAIRE CHEVALERESQUE -- CHAPITRE XIV: LA FETE CHEVALERESQUE -- CHAPITRE XV: LE TROUBLE-FETE -- CHAPITRE XVI: LE GOTHIQUE FLAMBOYANT ET L'ESPRIT BAROQUE: ESQUISSE THEORIQUE D'UNE EXPERIENCE ESTHETIQUE -- CHAPITRE XVII: LE PARADOXE DU JEU CHEVALERESQUE -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHIE -- INDEX DES AUTEURS ET DES OEUVRES.

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9004246584

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Belgium in the Great War

By: Jean-Michel Veranneman

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Belgium in the Great War

By: Jean-Michel Veranneman

A historian and former Belgian diplomat sheds light on the country’s tumultuous experience during WWI. In August of 1914, the German Empire invaded neutral Belgium in order to outflank the defenses of the French army. Yet the Belgian army resisted, managing to hold a small part of unoccupied Belgian territory north of Ypres until the Armistice of 1918. Because of their heroic defense, Belgium and its King enjoyed enormous international prestige after the war. Occupied Belgium suffered civilian executions and severe destruction. It was widely stripped of its highly developed industrial infrastructure. It was saved from starvation by food shipments from the United States which came in via neutral Holland. Four and a half years later, Belgium emerged a different country with experiences that would leave a lasting on its spirit as well as wide-ranging political implications.

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1526716623

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Managing the Undesirables

By: Michel Agier

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Managing the Undesirables

By: Michel Agier

Official figures classify some fifty million of the world’s people as 'victims of forced displacement'. Refugees, asylum seekers, disaster victims, the internally displaced and the temporarily tolerated - categories of the excluded proliferate, but many more are left out of count. In the face of this tragedy, humanitarian action increasingly seems the only possible response. On the ground, however, the 'facilities' put in place are more reminiscent of the logic of totalitarianism. In a situation of permanent catastrophe and endless emergency, 'undesirables' are kept apart and out of sight, while the care dispensed is designed to control, filter and confine. How should we interpret the disturbing symbiosis between the hand that cares and the hand that strikes? After seven years of study in the refugee camps, Michel Agier reveals their 'disquieting ambiguity' and stresses the imperative need to take into account forms of improvisation and challenge that are currently transforming the camps, sometimes making them into towns and heralding the emergence of political subjects. A radical critique of the foundations, contexts, and political effects of humanitarian action.

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0745649025

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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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0226896536

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Le Corps Humain

By: Maurice Godelier,Michel Panoff

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Le Corps Humain

By: Maurice Godelier,Michel Panoff

Pourquoi mourir? Comment survivre? De la naissance a la mort, c'est par le corps, c'est dans l'habitacle du corps que l'homme se situe dand l'unvers et fair l'expereince de ses congeneres. A l'occasion des rite de passage notamemnt, c'est par le coprps que la societe revendique l'individu comme sien, at c'est sure son corps qu'elle inscrit cette appartenance. Mais nulle branche de la famille humaine ne s'est jamais resignee aux limites naturelles que le corps assignait aux experiences vecues ou aux transformations subies par sa matiere jusqu'a la mort incluse. Toujours at partout on a imagine une ou plusieurs entites qui asurent la continuite de la personne a travers le temps et en illuminent le traits: ame, ombre, double, esprit, etc. Les noms variet, le metaphores aussi. Comment de telles entites accompagnent le corps, le forifient, s'en detachent ou se dressent contre lui, c'est ce que chaque culture a codifie a sa maniere par des pratiques que nous nommons par exemple- epreuves initiatiques, actes de sorcellerie, possession, ou cannibalisme. Tant at si bien que le corps agresse, possed, supplicie, cannibalise, devient en retour un moyen prvilegie d'analyser les cultures. Aux ethnologues at aux historiens de le mettre en oeuvre et de l'ecouter. Neuf d'entre eux se sont attaches a le faire dans des textes nourris de recherches menees en Asie, en Amerique du Sud, en Afrique at en Oceanie.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040278051

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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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022621656X

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Selected Essays

By: Michel de Montaigne,Stanley Appelbaum

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Selected Essays

By: Michel de Montaigne,Stanley Appelbaum

Skeptical but tolerant, honest but humorous, 16th-century philosopher Montaigne was remarkably modern in his views. These 7 essays are essential reading for students of French language. Introduction, Notes.

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Courier Corporation

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0486457443

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It Is Not Lawful for Me to Fight

Early Christian Attitudes toward War, Violence, and the State

By: Jean-Michel Hornus

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It Is Not Lawful for Me to Fight

Early Christian Attitudes toward War, Violence, and the State

By: Jean-Michel Hornus

It is not lawful for me to fight. With these words Saint Martin of Tours left the Roman army in AD 356. In so doing, he-who ironically in later centuries was named patron saint of numerous garrison chapels-was acting in accordance with the teaching and discipline of the pre-Constantinian church. The Early Church, as Dr. Hornus demonstrates in this historical and theological study, consistently maintained the stance of enemy loving and nonviolence. It forbade believers to take life, and was deeply suspicious of the military profession. Only in the course of the fourth century, in the context of general ethical decline and cultural accommodation, did anti-militarism cease to be the church's official position. Dr. Hornus concludes his study by reflecting upon the relevance of the thought and action of the early Christians for our own violent age.

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160608934X

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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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1136850198

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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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American Odyssey

Haitians in New York City

By: Michel Laguerre

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American Odyssey

Haitians in New York City

By: Michel Laguerre

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An Introduction to High-Frequency Finance

By: Ramazan Gençay,Michel Dacorogna,Ulrich A. Muller,Olivier Pictet,Richard Olsen

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An Introduction to High-Frequency Finance

By: Ramazan Gençay,Michel Dacorogna,Ulrich A. Muller,Olivier Pictet,Richard Olsen

Liquid markets generate hundreds or thousands of ticks (the minimum change in price a security can have, either up or down) every business day. Data vendors such as Reuters transmit more than 275,000 prices per day for foreign exchange spot rates alone. Thus, high-frequency data can be a fundamental object of study, as traders make decisions by observing high-frequency or tick-by-tick data. Yet most studies published in financial literature deal with low frequency, regularly spaced data. For a variety of reasons, high-frequency data are becoming a way for understanding market microstructure. This book discusses the best mathematical models and tools for dealing with such vast amounts of data.This book provides a framework for the analysis, modeling, and inference of high frequency financial time series. With particular emphasis on foreign exchange markets, as well as currency, interest rate, and bond futures markets, this unified view of high frequency time series methods investigates the price formation process and concludes by reviewing techniques for constructing systematic trading models for financial assets.

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008049904X

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An Introduction to Maple V

By: Jack-Michel Cornil,Philippe Testud

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An Introduction to Maple V

By: Jack-Michel Cornil,Philippe Testud

Meeting the needs of scientists - whether mathematicians, physicists, chemists or engineers --in terms of symbolic computation, this book allows them to quickly locate the method they require for the precise problem they are adressing. It requires no prior experience of symbolic computation, nor specialized mathematical knowledge, and provides quick access to the practical use of symbolic computation software. The organization of the book in mutually independent chapters, each focusing on a specific topic, allows the user to select what is of interest without necessarily reading everything and the whole is supplemented by a detailed table of contents and index,.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642567290

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Le Travail et ses Representations

By: Michel Cartier

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Le Travail et ses Representations

By: Michel Cartier

First Published in 1984. From Adam Smith to Karl Marx, classical economists identify work as a collection of technical operations resulting in the creation of social goods and founding value. The authors of this book deal with several societies in Asia, Africa and America. D'Adam Smith a Karl Marx, les economistes classiques identifient le travail a un emsemble d'operations techniques aboutissant a la creation de biens sociaux et fondant la valeur. Les auters de ce livre traitent de plusieurs societes d'Asie, d'Afrique at d'Amerique.

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1134319851

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Geometric Quantum Mechanics

By: Michel van Veenendaal

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Geometric Quantum Mechanics

By: Michel van Veenendaal

Geometric Quantum Mechanics Unique senior undergraduate/graduate level textbook on quantum mechanics that employs an intuitive, geometry-driven approach to the subject Geometric Quantum Mechanics is a textbook for quantum mechanics at the senior undergraduate and graduate level and follows a unique approach to the material. The first chapter starts with the discussion of the properties of space leading to an understanding of operator techniques, Pauli matrices, spinors, quantum angular momentum, etc. Techniques from geometric algebra is frequently employed leading to more intuitive insights into the concepts. The second chapter extends the results to spacetime. The study of the motion in and the production of electromagnetic fields leads to the Lorentz and Maxwell equations, respectively. The nonrelativistic limit leads to the Schrödinger/Heisenberg equations. This provides an overview how different fields are linked to each other. The following chapters discuss applications of quantum mechanics. This covers a very broad area of physics showing how the ideas from quantum mechanics affect different fields. These are subdivided into chapters on single-particle problems, many-particle systems, and collective and emergent phenomena. The coverage includes the fundamental forces, atoms, molecules and solids, nuclear and particle physics, mass generation and the Higgs field, superconductivity, superfluidity, etc. The book restricts itself to the essence of these topics allowing the reader to understand how quantum mechanics impacts modern-day physics and chemistry. It appeals to instructors and students due to its different approach with its extensive use of geometric algebra and the broad range of modern applications.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119913233

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Elementary Functions

Algorithms and Implementation

By: Jean-Michel Muller

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Elementary Functions

Algorithms and Implementation

By: Jean-Michel Muller

This textbook presents the concepts and tools necessary to understand, build, and implement algorithms for computing elementary functions (e.g., logarithms, exponentials, and the trigonometric functions). Both hardware- and software-oriented algorithms are included, along with issues related to accurate floating-point implementation. This third edition has been updated and expanded to incorporate the most recent advances in the field, new elementary function algorithms, and function software. After a preliminary chapter that briefly introduces some fundamental concepts of computer arithmetic, such as floating-point arithmetic and redundant number systems, the text is divided into three main parts. Part I considers the computation of elementary functions using algorithms based on polynomial or rational approximations and using table-based methods; the final chapter in this section deals with basic principles of multiple-precision arithmetic. Part II is devoted to a presentation of “shift-and-add” algorithms (hardware-oriented algorithms that use additions and shifts only). Issues related to accuracy, including range reduction, preservation of monotonicity, and correct rounding, as well as some examples of implementation are explored in Part III. Numerous examples of command lines and full programs are provided throughout for various software packages, including Maple, Sollya, and Gappa. New to this edition are an in-depth overview of the IEEE-754-2008 standard for floating-point arithmetic; a section on using double- and triple-word numbers; a presentation of new tools for designing accurate function software; and a section on the Toom-Cook family of multiplication algorithms. The techniques presented in this book will be of interest to implementers of elementary function libraries or circuits and programmers of numerical applications. Additionally, graduate and advanced undergraduate students, professionals, and researchers in scientific computing, numerical analysis, software engineering, and computer engineering will find this a useful reference and resource. PRAISE FOR PREVIOUS EDITIONS “[T]his book seems like an essential reference for the experts (which I'm not). More importantly, this is an interesting book for the curious (which I am). In this case, you'll probably learn many interesting things from this book. If you teach numerical analysis or approximation theory, then this book will give you some good examples to discuss in class." — MAA Reviews (Review of Second Edition) "The rich content of ideas sketched or presented in some detail in this book is supplemented by a list of over three hundred references, most of them of 1980 or more recent. The book also contains some relevant typical programs." — Zentralblatt MATH (Review of Second Edition) “I think that the book will be very valuable to students both in numerical analysis and in computer science. I found [it to be] well written and containing much interesting material, most of the time disseminated in specialized papers published in specialized journals difficult to find." — Numerical Algorithms (Review of First Edition)

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1489979832

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Collisional Effects on Molecular Spectra

Laboratory Experiments and Models, Consequences for Applications

By: Jean-Michel Hartmann,Christian Boulet,Daniel Robert

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Collisional Effects on Molecular Spectra

Laboratory Experiments and Models, Consequences for Applications

By: Jean-Michel Hartmann,Christian Boulet,Daniel Robert

Gas phase molecular spectroscopy is a powerful tool for obtaining information on the geometry and internal structure of isolated molecules as well as on the interactions that they undergo. It enables the study of fundamental parameters and processes and is also used for the sounding of gas media through optical techniques. It has been facing always renewed challenges, due to the considerable improvement of experimental techniques and the increasing demand for accuracy and scope of remote sensing applications. In practice, the radiating molecule is usually not isolated but diluted in a mixture at significant total pressure. The collisions among the molecules composing the gas can have a large influence on the spectral shape, affecting all wavelength regions through various mechanisms. These must be taken into account for the correct analysis and prediction of the resulting spectra. This book reviews our current experimental and theoretical knowledge and the practical consequences of collisional effects on molecular spectral shapes in neutral gases. General expressions are first given. They are formal of difficult use for practical calculations often but enable discussion of the approximations leading to simplified situations. The first case examined is that of isolated transitions, with the usual pressure broadening and shifting but also refined effects due to speed dependence and collision-induced velocity changes. Collisional line-mixing, which invalidates the notion of isolated transitions and has spectral consequences when lines are closely spaced, is then discussed within the impact approximation. Regions where the contributions of many distant lines overlap, such as troughs between transitions and band wings, are considered next. For a description of these far wings the finite duration of collisions and concomitant breakdown of the impact approximation must be taken into account. Finally, for long paths or elevated pressures, the dipole or polarizability induced by intermolecular interactions can make significant contributions. Specific models for the description of these collision induced absorption and light scattering processes are presented. The above mentioned topics are reviewed and discussed from a threefold point of view: the various models, the available data, and the consequences for applications including heat transfer, remote sensing and optical sounding. The extensive bibliography and discussion of some remaining problems complete the text. - State-of-the-art on the subject - A bibliography of nearly 1,000 references - Tools for practical calculations - Consequences for other scientific fields - Numerous illustrative examples - Fulfilling a need since there is no equivalent monograph on the subject

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Gamow Shell Model

The Unified Theory of Nuclear Structure and Reactions

By: Nicolas Michel,Marek Płoszajczak

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Gamow Shell Model

The Unified Theory of Nuclear Structure and Reactions

By: Nicolas Michel,Marek Płoszajczak

This book provides the first graduate-level, self-contained introduction to recent developments that lead to the formulation of the configuration-interaction approach for open quantum systems, the Gamow shell model, which provides a unitary description of quantum many-body system in different regimes of binding, and enables the unification in the description of nuclear structure and reactions. The Gamow shell model extends and generalizes the phenomenologically successful nuclear shell model to the domain of weakly-bound near-threshold states and resonances, offering a systematic tool to understand and categorize data on nuclear spectra, moments, collective excitations, particle and electromagnetic decays, clustering, elastic and inelastic scattering cross sections, and radiative capture cross sections of interest to astrophysics. The approach is of interest beyond nuclear physics and based on general properties of quasi-stationary solutions of the Schrödinger equation – so-called Gamow states. For the benefit of graduate students and newcomers to the field, the quantum-mechanical fundamentals are introduced in some detail. The text also provides a historical overview of how the field has evolved from the early days of the nuclear shell model to recent experimental developments, in both nuclear physics and related fields, supporting the unified description. The text contains many worked examples and several numerical codes are introduced to allow the reader to test different aspects of the continuum shell model discussed in the book.

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Theory of Inelastic Scattering and Absorption of X-rays

By: Michel van Veenendaal

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Theory of Inelastic Scattering and Absorption of X-rays

By: Michel van Veenendaal

Self-contained and comprehensive, this is the definitive guide to the theory behind X-ray spectroscopy.

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The Cramér–Lundberg Model and Its Variants

A Queueing Perspective

By: Michel Mandjes,Onno Boxma

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The Cramér–Lundberg Model and Its Variants

A Queueing Perspective

By: Michel Mandjes,Onno Boxma

This book offers a comprehensive examination of the Cramér–Lundberg model, which is the most extensively researched model in ruin theory. It covers the fundamental dynamics of an insurance company's surplus level in great detail, presenting a thorough analysis of the ruin probability and related measures for both the standard model and its variants. Providing a systematic and self-contained approach to evaluate the crucial quantities found in the Cramér–Lundberg model, the book makes use of connections with related queueing models when appropriate, and its emphasis on clean transform-based techniques sets it apart from other works. In addition to consolidating a wealth of existing results, the book also derives several new outcomes using the same methodology. This material is complemented by a thoughtfully chosen collection of exercises. The book's primary target audience is master's and starting PhD students in applied mathematics, operations research, and actuarial science, although it also serves as a useful methodological resource for more advanced researchers. The material is self-contained, requiring only a basic grounding in probability theory and some knowledge of transform techniques.

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3031391055

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Dynamical, Spectral, and Arithmetic Zeta Functions

AMS Special Session on Dynamical, Spectral, and Arithmetic Zeta Functions, January 15-16, 1999, San Antonio, Texas

By: Michel Laurent Lapidus,Machiel Van Frankenhuysen

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Dynamical, Spectral, and Arithmetic Zeta Functions

AMS Special Session on Dynamical, Spectral, and Arithmetic Zeta Functions, January 15-16, 1999, San Antonio, Texas

By: Michel Laurent Lapidus,Machiel Van Frankenhuysen

The original zeta function was studied by Riemann as part of his investigation of the distribution of prime numbers. Other sorts of zeta functions were defined for number-theoretic purposes, such as the study of primes in arithmetic progressions. This led to the development of $L$-functions, which now have several guises. It eventually became clear that the basic construction used for number-theoretic zeta functions can also be used in other settings, such as dynamics, geometry, and spectral theory, with remarkable results. This volume grew out of the special session on dynamical, spectral, and arithmetic zeta functions held at the annual meeting of the American Mathematical Society in San Antonio, but also includes four articles that were invited to be part of the collection. The purpose of the meeting was to bring together leading researchers, to find links and analogies between their fields, and to explore new methods. The papers discuss dynamical systems, spectral geometry on hyperbolic manifolds, trace formulas in geometry and in arithmetic, as well as computational work on the Riemann zeta function. Each article employs techniques of zeta functions. The book unifies the application of these techniques in spectral geometry, fractal geometry, and number theory. It is a comprehensive volume, offering up-to-date research. It should be useful to both graduate students and confirmed researchers.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821820796

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Transnational Politics and the State

The External Voting Rights of Diasporas

By: Jean-Michel Lafleur

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Transnational Politics and the State

The External Voting Rights of Diasporas

By: Jean-Michel Lafleur

In just two decades, the number of states that have adopted external voting policies has boomed. Today, these policies, which allow emigrants to take part in home country elections from abroad, are widely found in Europe and Latin America. Looking at the cases of Italy, Mexico, and Bolivia, this book examines the motivations and consequences for states that enfranchise citizens abroad. This analysis sheds light on the impact of emigrants in home country politics, the motivations for emigrants to take part in the elections of a country where they no longer reside, and the consequences of this practice on receiving societies. With a multi-disciplinary approach, this book will appeal to scholars and students of sociology, political science, legal studies, international relations, migration, and transnationalism.

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Routledge

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113513068X

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Constructing Quantum Mechanics Volume 2

The Arch, 1923-1927

By: Michel Janssen,Anthony Duncan

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Constructing Quantum Mechanics Volume 2

The Arch, 1923-1927

By: Michel Janssen,Anthony Duncan

This is the second of two volumes on the genesis of quantum mechanics in the first quarter of the 20th century. It covers the period 1923-1927. After covering some of the difficulties the old quantum theory had run into by the early 1920s as well as the discovery of the exclusion principle and electron spin, it traces the emergence of two forms of the new quantum mechanics, matrix mechanics and wave mechanics, in the years 1923-27. It then shows how the new theory took care of some of the failures of the old theory and put its successes on a more solid basis. Finally, it shows how in 1927 the two forms of the new theory were unified, first through statistical transformation theory, then through the Hilbert space formalism. This volume provides a detailed analysis of the classic papers by Heisenberg, Born, Jordan, Dirac, De Broglie, Einstein, Schrödinger, von Neumann and other authors. Drawing on the correspondence of these and other physicists, their later reminiscences and the extensive secondary literature on the “quantum revolution”, this volume places these papers in the context of the discussions out of which modern quantum mechanics emerged. It argues that the genesis of modern quantum mechanics can be seen as the construction of an arch on a scaffold provided by the old quantum theory, discarded once the arch could support itself.

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Oxford University Press

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0198883919

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Solidification

By: Michel Rappaz,Jonathan A. Dantzig

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Solidification

By: Michel Rappaz,Jonathan A. Dantzig

Solidification is one of the oldest processes for producing useful implements and remains one of the most important modern commercial processes. This text describes the fundamentals of the technology in a coherent way, using consistent notation.

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0849382386

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Quality Control in Road Construction

By: Michel Ruban

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Quality Control in Road Construction

By: Michel Ruban

A translation and fully updated version of the French title "Controles de qualit en construction routi re", 1987. This book presents the total panorama of the methods and means available to the various interveners.

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Fiber Optical Parametric Amplifiers, Oscillators and Related Devices

By: Michel E. Marhic

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Fiber Optical Parametric Amplifiers, Oscillators and Related Devices

By: Michel E. Marhic

This 2007 book comprehensively covers the theory, techniques and practice of all types of fiber OPAs and related devices.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521861020

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Red Virgin

Memoirs Of Louise Michel

By: Louise Michel

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Red Virgin

Memoirs Of Louise Michel

By: Louise Michel

Louise Michel was born illegitimate in 1830 and became a schoolmistress in Paris. She was involved in radical activities during the twilight of France’s Second Empire, and during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and the siege of Paris. She was a leading member of the revolutionary groups controlling Montmarte. Michel emerged as one of the leaders of the insurrection during the Paris Commune of March-May 1871; and French anarchists saw her as martyr and saint – The Red Virgin. When the Versailles government crushed the Commune in May 1871, Michel was sentenced to exile in New Caledonia, until the general amnesty of 1880, when she returned to France and great popular acclaim and support from the working people of the country. Michel was arrested again during a demonstration in Paris in 1883 and sentenced to six years in prison. Pardoned after three years, she continued her speeches and writing, although she spent the greater part of her time from 1890 until her death in 1905 in England in self-imposed exile. It was during her prison term from 1883 to 1886 that she compiled her Memoires, now available in English. These memoirs offer readers a view of the non-Marxist left and give an in-depth look into the development of the revolutionary spirit. The early chapters treat her childhood, the development of her revolutionary feelings, and her training as a schoolteacher. The next section describes her activities as a schoolteacher in the Haute-Marne and Paris and therefore contains much of interest on education in 19th-century Europe. Her chapters on the siege of Paris, the Commune, and her first trial show those events from the point of view of a major participant. Of particular interest is a chapter on women’s rights, which Michel saw as part of the search for the rights of all people, male and female, and not as a separate struggle. The Red Virgin: Memoirs of Louise Michel will be useful to both scholars and students of 19th-century French history and women’s studies.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817300635

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Harmonic Analysis and Nonlinear Differential Equations

A Volume in Honor of Victor L. Shapiro : November 3-5, 1995, University of California, Riverside

By: Victor Lenard Shapiro,Michel Laurent Lapidus

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Harmonic Analysis and Nonlinear Differential Equations

A Volume in Honor of Victor L. Shapiro : November 3-5, 1995, University of California, Riverside

By: Victor Lenard Shapiro,Michel Laurent Lapidus

There are also several survey articles on recent developments in multiple trigonometric series, dyadic harmonic analysis, special functions, analysis on fractals, and shock waves, as well as papers with new results in nonlinear differential equations. These survey articles, along with several of the research articles, cover a wide variety of applications such as turbulence, general relativity and black holes, neural networks, and diffusion and wave propagation in porous media.

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0821805657

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