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Steven Spielberg All the Films

The Story Behind Every Movie, Episode, and Short

By: Arnaud Devillard,Olivier Bousquet,Nicolas Schaller

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Steven Spielberg All the Films

The Story Behind Every Movie, Episode, and Short

By: Arnaud Devillard,Olivier Bousquet,Nicolas Schaller

A first-of-its-kind deep dive into Steven Spielberg's decades-long career, covering everything from early short films and television episodes to each of his more than 30 feature length-films. Organized chronologically and covering every short film, television episode, and blockbuster movie that Steven Spielberg has ever directed, Steven Spielberg All the Films draws upon years of research to tell the behind-the-scenes stories of how each project was conceived, cast, and produced; from the creation of the costumes to the search for perfect locations; details about Spielberg's work with longtime collaborators like George Lucas, producer Kathleen Kennedy, and composer John Williams; and of course, the direction of some of Hollywood's most memorable scenes. Spanning more than fifty years, this book details the creative processes that resulted in numerous classic films like E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Jaws, Jurassic Park, The Color Purple, Schindler's List, and Saving Private Ryan (to name just a few). Newer work like Lincoln, The Post, and The Fabelmans is also featured alongside awards stats, original release dates, box office totals, casting details, and other insider scoops that will keep fans turning pages. Celebrating one of cinema's most iconic artists, Steven Spielberg All the Films is the authoritative guide to the man who invented the Hollywood blockbuster.

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Black Dog & Leventhal

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0762483822

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9780762483822

Craniofacial Trauma

Diagnosis and Management

By: Nicolas Hardt,Johannes Kuttenberger

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Craniofacial Trauma

Diagnosis and Management

By: Nicolas Hardt,Johannes Kuttenberger

Craniofacial Trauma, Diagnosis and Management offers detailed guidance on the diagnosis, surgical planning, and interdisciplinary treatment of craniofacial trauma. The book is divided into two parts. The first, devoted to classification and diagnosis of craniofacial fractures, includes chapters on anatomy, radiology, fracture classification, fracture mechanisms, epidemiological aspects, symptoms, and specific related aspects of neuro-craniofacial injuries. The second part addresses the treatment of craniofacial trauma, examining operative principles and providing step-by-step descriptions of a variety of hard and soft tissue reconstructive procedures. Complications and late sequelae following craniofacial reconstruction are examined, and a further chapters is devoted to delayed reconstruction of craniofacial defects. New developments and the role of computer-assisted treatment planning are discussed in the final section. This manual will provide an indispensable reference for residents in maxillofacial training and for maxillofacial/ neurosurgeons in the specialized field of craniofacial traumatology.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540330410

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9783540330417

Chimpanzee Culture Wars

Rethinking Human Nature Alongside Japanese, European, and American Cultural Primatologists

By: Nicolas Langlitz

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Chimpanzee Culture Wars

Rethinking Human Nature Alongside Japanese, European, and American Cultural Primatologists

By: Nicolas Langlitz

Decades later, starting in the 1980s, Japanese cultural primatology was given a second look as Euro-American primatologists began to debate amongst themselves the question of whether Homo sapiens is the only cultural animal. In the most recent chapter of this controversy, field researchers such as the Swiss primatologist Christophe Boesch have accused experimental psychologists such as Michael Tomasello of underestimating and even denying the capacity of chimpanzees for culture because they limit their studies to captive animals, brought up under cognitively debilitating conditions and tested in laboratory settings bound to favor human test subjects with whom the animals are compared. These controversies raise serious questions about what sort of laboratory culture is best for the study of primate cognition. .

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Princeton University Press

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0691204284

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9780691204284

Kairological Economics

An Anthropocentric and Creative Theory of Political Economy and Management

By: Nicolas K. Laos

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Kairological Economics

An Anthropocentric and Creative Theory of Political Economy and Management

By: Nicolas K. Laos

Economic analysis underpins and informs economic decision-making, even if there is a lengthy lag between economic analysis and its gradual absorption into economic debate. Once established as common sense, a text of economic analysis becomes incredibly powerful, because it delineates not only what is the object of knowledge but also what it is sensible to talk about or suggest. If one thinks and acts outside the framework of the dominant text of economic analysis, he risks more than simply the judgment that his recommendations are wrong; his entire moral attitude may be ridiculed or seen as dangerous just because his theoretical assumptions are deemed unrealistic. Therefore, defining common sense and, in essence, what is 'reality' and 'realistic' is the ultimate act of political power. Economic analysis does not simply explain or predict, it tells us what possibilities exist for human action and intervention; it defines both our explanatory possibilities and our moral and practical horizons. Hence, ontology and epistemology matter, and the stakes are far more considerable than at first sight seem to be the case. This is the main idea developed in the following chapters, as Dr. Laos leads readers through a pioneering way of looking at political economy.

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Algora Publishing

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087586953X

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9780875869537

The Mammoth in the Room

How Great Leaders and Their Teams Embrace Evolutionary Truths for Outstanding Business Results

By: Nicolas Pokorny

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The Mammoth in the Room

How Great Leaders and Their Teams Embrace Evolutionary Truths for Outstanding Business Results

By: Nicolas Pokorny

A new view of management and team leadership....Pokorny presents [his] maxims with force and a friendly clarity drawn from decades working in a variety of leadership roles....A powerful call for putting corporate culture first...." —Kirkus “The Mammoth in the Room is clear-eyed and confident when it comes to business… a standout in corporate literature.” —IndieReader “This is your comprehensive leadership guide for building, nurturing, and leading high-performance teams that bring organizational change through everyday evolution.” —Readers’ Favorite What’s The Mammoth in the Room? It’s the presence of the undeniable evolutionary truths that shape our behavior and impact business decisions every day—but no one is talking about it! Having held high-performance, multinational executive leadership positions for decades, Nicolas Pokorny made a transformative discovery: To lead humans successfully, he needed to understand the fears, resistance to change, dominance biases, and other evolutionary forces shaping their behaviors, decisions, and group dynamics. In his revolutionary book, The Mammoth in the Room, Pokorny shares a wealth of practical insights, strategies, and stories about how to align humans around common goals and lead them effectively through ever-changing markets and times. The book is a masterclass in leadership that cuts through the fluff to provide a clear roadmap for emerging and senior leaders—all with a unique focus on the evolutionary foundations of human behavior. The mammoth has been named—now we must tame it.

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Mammoth Leadership Sciences LLC

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1647048419

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9781647048419

The Dirac Spectrum

By: Nicolas Ginoux

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The Dirac Spectrum

By: Nicolas Ginoux

This volume surveys the spectral properties of the spin Dirac operator. After a brief introduction to spin geometry, we present the main known estimates for Dirac eigenvalues on compact manifolds with or without boundaries. We give examples where the spectrum can be made explicit and present a chapter dealing with the non-compact setting. The methods mostly involve elementary analytical techniques and are therefore accessible for Master students entering the subject. A complete and updated list of references is also included.

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168

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642015697

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9783642015694

Fuzzy Classification of Online Customers

By: Nicolas Werro

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Fuzzy Classification of Online Customers

By: Nicolas Werro

This book introduces a fuzzy classification approach, which combines relational databases with fuzzy logic for more effective and powerful customer relationship management (CRM). It shows the benefits of a fuzzy classification in contrast to the traditional sharp evaluation of customers for the acquisition, retention and recovery of customers in online shops. The book starts with a presentation of the basic concepts, fuzzy set theory and the combination of relational databases and fuzzy classification. In its second part, it focuses on the customer perspective, detailing the central concepts of CRM, its theoretical constructs and aspects of analytical, operational and collaborative CRM. It juxtaposes fuzzy and sharp customer classes and shows the implications for customer positioning, mass customization, personalization, customer assessment and controlling. Finally, the book presents the application and implementation of the concepts in online shops. A detailed case study presents the application and a separate chapter introduces the fuzzy Classification Query Language (fCQL) toolkit for implementing these concepts. In its appendix the book lists the fuzzy set operators and the query language’s grammar.

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Springer

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3319159704

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9783319159706

The Origins of Fairness

How Evolution Explains Our Moral Nature

By: Nicolas Baumard

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The Origins of Fairness

How Evolution Explains Our Moral Nature

By: Nicolas Baumard

In order to describe the logic of morality, "contractualist" philosophers have studied how individuals behave when they choose to follow their moral intuitions. These individuals, contractualists note, often act as if they have bargained and thus reached an agreement with others about how to distribute the benefits and burdens of mutual cooperation. Using this observation, such philosophers argue that the purpose of morality is to maximize the benefits of human interaction. The resulting "contract" analogy is both insightful and puzzling. On one hand, it captures the pattern of moral intuitions, thus answering questions about human cooperation: why do humans cooperate? Why should the distribution of benefits be proportionate to each person's contribution? Why should the punishment be proportionate to the crime? Why should the rights be proportionate to the duties? On the other hand, the analogy provides a mere as-if explanation for human cooperation, saying that cooperation is "as if" people have passed a contract-but since they didn't, why should it be so? To evolutionary thinkers, the puzzle of the missing contract is immediately reminiscent of the puzzle of the missing "designer" of life-forms, a puzzle that Darwin's theory of natural selection essentially resolved. Evolutionary and contractualist theory originally intersected at the work of philosophers John Rawls and David Gauthier, who argued that moral judgments are based on a sense of fairness that has been naturally selected. In this book, Nicolas Baumard further explores the theory that morality was originally an adaptation to the biological market of cooperation, an arena in which individuals competed to be selected for cooperative interactions. In this environment, Baumard suggests, the best strategy was to treat others with impartiality and to share the costs and benefits of cooperation in a fair way, so that those who offered less than others were left out of cooperation while those who offered more were exploited by their partners. It is with this evolutionary approach that Baumard ultimately accounts for the specific structure of human morality.

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Oxford University Press

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0190613912

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9780190613914

Corporate Investment in Emerging Markets

Financing vs. Real Options Channel

By: Delong Li,Mr.Nicolas E. Magud,Mr.Fabian Valencia

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Corporate Investment in Emerging Markets

Financing vs. Real Options Channel

By: Delong Li,Mr.Nicolas E. Magud,Mr.Fabian Valencia

We examine how firm and country heterogeneity shape the response of corporate investment in emerging markets to changes in global interest rates and volatility. We test for the presence of (i) a financing channel originating from changes in the costs of external borrowing and (ii) a real options channel—reflecting firms’ option values to delay investment. We find evidence of the coexistence of both channels. Financially weaker firms reduce investment by more in response to higher interest rates or volatility, while firms with stronger balance sheets become less willing to invest after volatility spikes. Furthermore, the intensity of the financing channel diminishes for firms in countries with lower public debt, higher foreign reserves, or deeper financial markets.

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International Monetary Fund

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1513539930

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9781513539935

Gene Jockeys

Life Science and the Rise of Biotech Enterprise

By: Nicolas Rasmussen

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Gene Jockeys

Life Science and the Rise of Biotech Enterprise

By: Nicolas Rasmussen

The scientific scramble to discover the first generation of drugs created through genetic engineering. The biotech arena emerged in the 1970s and 1980s, when molecular biology, one of the fastest-moving areas of basic science in the twentieth century, met the business world. Gene Jockeys is a detailed study of the biotech projects that led to five of the first ten recombinant DNA drugs to be approved for medical use in the United States: human insulin, human growth hormone, alpha interferon, erythropoietin, and tissue plasminogen activator. Drawing on corporate documents obtained from patent litigation, as well as interviews with the ambitious biologists who called themselves gene jockeys, historian Nicolas Rasmussen chronicles the remarkable, and often secretive, work of the scientists who built a new domain between academia and the drug industry in the pursuit of intellectual rewards and big payouts. In contrast to some who critique the rise of biotechnology, Rasmussen contends that biotech was not a swindle, even if the public did pay a very high price for the development of what began as public scientific resources. Within the biotech enterprise, the work of corporate scientists went well beyond what biologists had already accomplished within universities, and it accelerated the medical use of the new drugs by several years. In his technically detailed and readable narrative, Rasmussen focuses on the visible and often heavy hands that construct and maintain the markets in public goods like science. He looks closely at how science follows money, and vice versa, as researchers respond to the pressures and potential rewards of commercially viable innovations. In biotechnology, many of those engaged in crafting markets for genetically engineered drugs were biologists themselves who were in fact trying to do science. This book captures that heady, fleeting moment when a biologist could expect to do great science through the private sector and be rewarded with both wealth and scientific acclaim.

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JHU Press

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1421413418

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9781421413419

Steven Spielberg All the Films

The Story Behind Every Movie, Episode, and Short

By: Arnaud Devillard,Olivier Bousquet,Nicolas Schaller

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Steven Spielberg All the Films

The Story Behind Every Movie, Episode, and Short

By: Arnaud Devillard,Olivier Bousquet,Nicolas Schaller

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Black Dog & Leventhal

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0762483822

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Martin Scorsese

By: Nicolas Schaller,Alexis Trosset

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Martin Scorsese

By: Nicolas Schaller,Alexis Trosset

Présente la carrière du cinéaste américain Martin Scorsese à travers une étude de ses oeuvres cinématographiques. Avec de nombreuses photographies.

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254

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2914680074

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Steven Spielberg All the Films

Steven Spielberg All the Films

Craniofacial Trauma

Craniofacial Trauma

Chimpanzee Culture Wars

Chimpanzee Culture Wars

Kairological Economics

Kairological Economics

The Mammoth in the Room

The Mammoth in the Room

The Dirac Spectrum

The Dirac Spectrum

Fuzzy Classification of Online Customers

Fuzzy Classification of Online Customers

The Origins of Fairness

The Origins of Fairness

Corporate Investment in Emerging Markets

Corporate Investment in Emerging Markets

Gene Jockeys

Gene Jockeys

Steven Spielberg All the Films

Steven Spielberg All the Films

Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese

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