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A History of Private Life: Riddles of identity in modern times

By: Philippe Ariès,Georges Duby

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A History of Private Life: Riddles of identity in modern times

By: Philippe Ariès,Georges Duby

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Harvard University Press

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Western Attitudes toward Death

From the Middle Ages to the Present

By: Philippe Ariès

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Western Attitudes toward Death

From the Middle Ages to the Present

By: Philippe Ariès

AriA]s traces Western man's attitudes toward mortality from the early medieval conception of death as the familiar collective destiny of the human race to the modern tendency, so pronounced in industrial societies, to hide death as if it were an embarrassing family secret. -- Newsweek

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0801817625

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The Hour of Our Death

By: Philippe Aries

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The Hour of Our Death

By: Philippe Aries

An “absolutely magnificent” book (The New Republic)—the fruit of almost two decades of study—that traces the changes in Western attitudes toward death and dying from the earliest Christian times to the present day. A truly landmark study, The Hour of Our Death reveals a pattern of gradually developing evolutionary stages in our perceptions of life in relation to death, each stage representing a virtual redefinition of human nature. Starting at the very foundations of Western culture, the eminent historian Phillipe Ariès shows how, from Graeco-Roman times through the first ten centuries of the Common Era, death was too common to be frightening; each life was quietly subordinated to the community, which paid its respects and then moved on. Ariès identifies the first major shift in attitude with the turn of the eleventh century when a sense of individuality began to rise and with it, profound consequences: death no longer meant merely the weakening of community, but rather the destruction of self. Hence the growing fear of the afterlife, new conceptions of the Last Judgment, and the first attempts (by Masses and other rituals) to guarantee a better life in the next world. In the 1500s attention shifted from the demise of the self to that of the loved one (as family supplants community), and by the nineteenth century death comes to be viewed as simply a staging post toward reunion in the hereafter. Finally, Ariès shows why death has become such an unendurable truth in our own century—how it has been nearly banished from our daily lives—and points out what may be done to “re-tame” this secret terror. The richness of Ariès's source material and investigative work is breathtaking. While exploring everything from churches, religious rituals, and graveyards (with their often macabre headstones and monuments), to wills and testaments, love letters, literature, paintings, diaries, town plans, crime and sanitation reports, and grave robbing complaints, Aries ranges across Europe to Russia on the one hand and to England and America on the other. As he sorts out the tangled mysteries of our accumulated terrors and beliefs, we come to understand the history—indeed the pathology—of our intellectual and psychological tensions in the face of death.

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Vintage

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0804152004

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Death

Perspectives from the Philosophy of Biology

By: Philippe Huneman

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Death

Perspectives from the Philosophy of Biology

By: Philippe Huneman

This book addresses several key issues in the biological study of death with the intent of capturing their genealogy, the assumptions and presuppositions they make, and the way that they open specific new research avenues. The book is divided into two sections: the first considers physiology and the second evolutionary biology. In the first part, Huneman reconstructs a conceptual genealogy of experimental physiology based on an in-depth analysis of Bichat's investigations of death processes. In the second part he explains that biologists in the late 1950s put forth a research framework that evolutionarily accounts for death in terms of either an effect of the weakness of natural selection or a by-product of natural selection for early reproduction. He illustrates how the biology of death is a central field and that studying it provides insight into the way that the epistemic structure of this knowledge has been constituted, persists until now, and may conflict with some traditional philosophical ideas.

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Springer Nature

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3031144171

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How to Democratize the European Union...and Why Bother?

By: Philippe C. Schmitter

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How to Democratize the European Union...and Why Bother?

By: Philippe C. Schmitter

A contradictory creation indeed, the European Union has most of the institutions of a modern democracy, yet it does not function as one. Moreover, its growing scope of activity and supranational decision making processes are undermining the legitimacy of democracy in its member states. Much has been written about this double "democratic deficit," but surprisingly little thought has been given to what to do about it—short of drafting and ratifying a new federal constitution. In this provocative book, Philippe C. Schmitter explores both the possibility and the desirability of democratizing the EU. He argues that as a "non-state" and a "non nation" it will have to invent new forms of citizenship, representation, and decisionmaking if it is ever to democratize itself. The author also contends that the timing and political context work against a full-scale constitutionalization of the process. He proposes a number of modest (and some less modest) reforms that could improve the situation in the near future and eventually lead to a genuine Euro-democracy.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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1461637481

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History of the Civil War in America

Vol. I

By: Henry Coppée,Louis-Philippe-Albert d'Orléans Paris,Louis Fitzgerald Tasistro,John Page Nicholson

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History of the Civil War in America

Vol. I

By: Henry Coppée,Louis-Philippe-Albert d'Orléans Paris,Louis Fitzgerald Tasistro,John Page Nicholson

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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3385377692

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The Structure of Spoken Language

Intonation in Romance

By: Philippe Martin

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The Structure of Spoken Language

Intonation in Romance

By: Philippe Martin

Using an innovative approach, this book focuses on a widely debated area of phonetics and phonology: intonation, and specifically its relation to metrics, its interface with syntax, and whether it can be attributed more to phonetics or phonology, or equally to both. Drawing on data from six Romance languages (French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan and Romanian), whose rich intonation patterns have long been of interest to linguists, Philippe Martin challenges the assumptions of traditional phonological approaches, and re-evaluates the data in favour of a new usage-based model of intonation. He proposes a unified description of the sentence prosodic structure, focusing on the dynamic and cognitive aspects of both production and perception of intonation in speech, leading to a unified grammar of Romance languages' sentence intonation. This book will be welcomed by researchers and advanced students in phonetics and phonology.

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Environmental Reconstruction in Mediterranean Landscape Archaeology

By: Philippe Leveau,Kevin Walsh,Frederic Trement

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Environmental Reconstruction in Mediterranean Landscape Archaeology

By: Philippe Leveau,Kevin Walsh,Frederic Trement

Contents include: Introduction ( K Walsh ); Palynology ( S Bottema ); A database for the palynological recording of human activity ( V Andrieu, E Brugiapaglia, R Cheddadi, M Reille and J-L de Beaulieu ); The contribution of anthracology ( J-L Vernet ); Dendroclimatology ( F Guibal ); Techniques in Landscape Archaeology ( A G Brown ); L'apport de la micromorphologie des sols ( N Fédoroff ); Reconstructing past soil environments ( R S Shiel ); The Geochemistry of Soil Sediments ( D D Gilbertson and J P Grattam ); Searching the Ports of Troy ( E Zanagger, M Timpson, S Yazvenko and H Leiermann ); The pontine region in central Italy ( P Attema, J Delvigne and B J Haagsma ); Population pressure on agricultural resources in Karstic landscapes ( P Novacovic, H Simoni and B Music ); La Pianura padana centrale tra il Bronzo Medio ed il Bronzo finale ( M Cremaschi ); The ancient ports of Marseille and Fos, Provence, southern France ( C Vella, C Morhange and M Provansal ); The evolution of field systems in the middle Rhône valley ( J-F Berger and C Jung ); La línea de Costa en época histórica en el Golfo de Valencia ( P Carmona ); The Vallée des Baux, Southern France ( P Leveau ); The étang de Berre, southern France ( F Trément ); Geoarchaeology in mediterranean landscape archaeology ( G Barker and J Bintliff ).

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Oxbow Books

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Computational Models for the Human Body: Special Volume

By: Nicholas, Philippe Ayache

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Computational Models for the Human Body: Special Volume

By: Nicholas, Philippe Ayache

Provides a better understanding of the physiological and mechanical behaviour of the human body and the design of tools for their realistic numerical simulations, including concrete examples of such computational models. This book covers a large range of methods and an illustrative set of applications.

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Scavengers of Beauty

A Personal, Cultural and Symbolic Exploration of the Moon Landing

By: Philippe Sibaud

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Scavengers of Beauty

A Personal, Cultural and Symbolic Exploration of the Moon Landing

By: Philippe Sibaud

Why was the mission to the Moon named after the God of the Sun, and not after a Moon Goddess or God? In this unconventional work, Philippe Sibaud explores the symbolism behind the 1969 landing on the Moon. More than fifty years after this seminal event, and whilst the Moon is attracting renewed interest, the author offers a bold new interpretation of the iconic Apollo mission. Was the Apollo landing the ultimate triumph of solar consciousness over the ancient lunar ways, a concrete enactment of the god Apollo mythically slaying the mother dragon at Delphi, or can the whole venture be seen as the sacred union of Sun and Moon, birthing a new vision at a time of great need? By weaving his own personal story with a greater cultural and symbolic narrative, Philippe Sibaud invites us to reflect on the importance of myths and the power of the Imagination to unlock the deeper meaning of our individual and collective experiences. You will never look at the Moon with the same eyes again.

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1789044758

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The Decline of the Third Republic, 1914-1938

By: Philippe Bernard,Henri Dubief

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The Decline of the Third Republic, 1914-1938

By: Philippe Bernard,Henri Dubief

This book provides a detailed account of the Third Republic in France between the outbreak and conduct of the First World War and the fall of Leon Blum's Front Populaire soon after Hitler's invasion and annexation of Austria in 1938. Following the trauma of war, France slipped into the "era of illusions" which despite the comparative prosperity of the 1920s led to the slump and the severe social and economic unrest of the 1930s. The short-lived experiment of Blum's Front Populaire gave way to more conservatively-based ministries, but by 1938 a new common enemy began to draw together the political opinion of the country.

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052135854X

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History as a Kind of Writing

Textual Strategies in Contemporary French Historiography

By: Philippe Carrard

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History as a Kind of Writing

Textual Strategies in Contemporary French Historiography

By: Philippe Carrard

In academia, the traditional role of the humanities is being questioned by the “posts”—postmodernism, poststructuralism, and postfeminism—which means that the project of writing history only grows more complex. In History as a Kind of Writing, scholar of French literature and culture Philippe Carrard speaks to this complexity by focusing the lens on the current state of French historiography. Carrard’s work here is expansive—examining the conventions historians draw on to produce their texts and casting light on views put forward by literary theorists, theorists of history, and historians themselves. Ranging from discussions of lengthy dissertations on 1960s social and economic history to a more contemporary focus on events, actors, memory, and culture, the book digs deep into the how of history. How do historians arrange their data into narratives? What strategies do they employ to justify the validity of their descriptions? Are actors given their own voice? Along the way, Carrard also readdresses questions fundamental to the field, including its necessary membership in the narrative genre, the presumed objectivity of historiographic writing, and the place of history as a science, distinct from the natural and theoretical sciences.

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University of Chicago Press

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022642801X

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The Garden of Democratic Delights

For a Psycho-Emotional Reading of Pluralist Systems

By: Philippe Braud

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The Garden of Democratic Delights

For a Psycho-Emotional Reading of Pluralist Systems

By: Philippe Braud

Pluralist democratic systems, according to Philipe Braud, do not do what they claim to do, but rather, serve to channel, diffuse, or reconcile society's conflicts. As one reviewer of the original French edition notes, the book can be seen as part of a long tradition in European political thought that sees democracy as a front for capitalism. Braud asserts that pluralist democracy is credible only because of the complete failure of communism. There is no government by the people; the rule of law is a tautology. What fundamental changes occur happen because of the forces of economics, culture, and labor, and in response to political direction. The efficacy of democracy comes from its ability to manage social emotions, specifically by addressing anguish with promises of security and identity: by meeting the need to be wooed and seduced by constant personalization of politics, offering the illusion of choice; by transposing the frustrations of gender, age, and class inequalities into the political domain; by providing pleasure in the game of politics; and by promising greed, power, and its prerequisites. Pluralist democracies know best how to manage these emotions, and how to use them without suffocating them. A powerful and disturbing vision of pluralist democracy that will be of great interest to students and scholars of contemporary political thought.

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031338875X

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Macao

By: Philippe Pons

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Macao

By: Philippe Pons

A former Portuguese-administered enclave on the Chinese coast, Macao became a meeting point of cultures drawn from many parts of the world. In this evocative text, Pons describes both Macao's colorful past and the dramatic changes the 20th-century has seen, revealing its charms yet lamenting the passing of an era.

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Reaktion Books

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1861891369

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The Pirate Organization

Lessons from the Fringes of Capitalism

By: Rodolphe Durand,Jean-Philippe Vergne

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The Pirate Organization

Lessons from the Fringes of Capitalism

By: Rodolphe Durand,Jean-Philippe Vergne

In this book, Whole Foods Market cofounder John Mackey and professor and Conscious Capitalism, Inc. co-founder Raj Sisodia argue for the inherent good of both business and capitalism. Featuring some of today's best-known companies, they illustrate how these two forces can--and do--work most powerfully to create value for all stakeholders: including customers, employees, suppliers, investors, society, and the environment.

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1422183181

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Haiti: The Tumultuous History - From Pearl of the Caribbean to Broken Nation

By: Philippe Girard

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Haiti: The Tumultuous History - From Pearl of the Caribbean to Broken Nation

By: Philippe Girard

Why has Haiti been plagued by so many woes? Why have multiple U.S. efforts to create a stable democracy in Haiti failed so spectacularly? Philippe Girard answers these and other questions, examining how colonialism and slavery have left a legacy of racial tension, both within Haiti and internationally; Haitians remain deeply suspicious of white foriegners' motives, many of whom doubt Hatians' ability to govern themselves. He also examines how Haiti's current political instability is merely a continuation of political strife that began during the War of Independence (1791-1804). Finally, Haiti: The Tumultuous History, Girard explores poverty's devastating impact on contemporary Haiti and argues that Haitians--particularly home-grown dictators--bear a big share of the responsibility for their nation's troubles.

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St. Martin's Press

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0230112900

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Global Policymaking

By: Vincent Pouliot,Jean-Philippe Thérien

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Global Policymaking

By: Vincent Pouliot,Jean-Philippe Thérien

This book provides a new theoretical framework for the study of global governance and applies it to three vital United Nations global policies.

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1009344951

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Essential Computational Modeling in Chemistry

By: Philippe G. Ciarlet

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Essential Computational Modeling in Chemistry

By: Philippe G. Ciarlet

Essential Computational Modeling in Chemistry presents key contributions selected from the volume in the Handbook of Numerical Analysis: Computational Modeling in Chemistry Vol. 10(2005). Computational Modeling is an active field of scientific computing at the crossroads between Physics, Chemistry, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science. Sophisticated mathematical models are increasingly complex and extensive computer simulations are on the rise. Numerical Analysis and scientific software have emerged as essential steps for validating mathematical models and simulations based on these models. This guide provides a quick reference of computational methods for use in understanding chemical reactions and how to control them. By demonstrating various computational methods in research, scientists can predict such things as molecular properties. The reference offers a number of techniques and the numerical analysis needed to perform rigorously founded computations. Various viewpoints of methods and applications are available for researchers to chose and experiment with; Numerical analysis and open problems is useful for experimentation; Most commonly used models and techniques for the molecular case is quickly accessible

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0444537619

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Societies and Nature in the Sahel

By: Philippe Lavigne Delville,Emmanuel Gregoire,Pierre Janin,Jean Koechlin,Claude Raynaut

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Societies and Nature in the Sahel

By: Philippe Lavigne Delville,Emmanuel Gregoire,Pierre Janin,Jean Koechlin,Claude Raynaut

This book explores the links between environment and social systems in the Sahel, integrating ecological, demographic, economic, technical, social and cultural factors. Examining the conditions for land occupation and natural resource use, it offers a conceptual and practical approach to social organization and environmental management.

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1134769059

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Sharing

Culture and the Economy in the Internet Age

By: Philippe Aigrain

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Sharing

Culture and the Economy in the Internet Age

By: Philippe Aigrain

In the past fifteen years, file sharing of digital cultural works between individuals has been at the center of a number of debates on the future of culture itself. To some, sharing constitutes piracy, to be fought against and eradicated. Others see it as unavoidable, and table proposals to compensate for its harmful effects. Meanwhile, little progress has been made towards addressing the real challenges facing culture in a digital world. Sharing starts from a radically different viewpoint, namely that the non-market sharing of digital works is both legitimate and useful. It supports this premise with empirical research, demonstrating that non-market sharing leads to more diversity in the attention given to various works. Taking stock of what we have learned about the cultural economy in recent years, Sharing sets out the conditions necessary for valuable cultural functions to remain sustainable in this context."--[P] 4 of cover.

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9089643850

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The Neo-Sophia of the 21st Century

By: Rikem J Philippe

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The Neo-Sophia of the 21st Century

By: Rikem J Philippe

This book of inspirations was more likely dictated by the Lord in its most contents. It is a book to help the youth, the elders, the kids likewise, the ministers, the Christians to know Jah' better, and penetrate his presence filled of reverence to come out with power and visions. This book is to lift up the guts of humanity, to open, and show the importance that human shares in living on this planet. It is to encourage, to appreciate life, to consider the future with light, and site of wisdom, freedom, liberty, and wealth. This is to learn while we're sharing the existence, to learn that your real world isn't here, but you are not to die but to live eternal life in your world to come. To show that we came on Earth, each one of us, for special mission or missions well determined and expect to report our passes as well as our future. You came nicked, you're here for a special purpose, and you're going back nicked, broken, off guts, humiliated, and sad. Sometimes, filled of regret, nostalgia, and agony. This book will explain how we've been made by Jah', our Creator, and His different names according to the miraculous circumstances. It will also open how bad human behavior stands for; how obligated, unfaithful we remain. It will make the youth acting sensitively righteous,conscientious, well stand, loyal, and honest. It will identify mankind protection as a responsibility of his neighbor like vice versa mutually to make a balance in between creatures of different spices, and of humanity. To be wise enough, to be faithful and recognize to teach humankind humility, to reach to the puzzle of their needs, to learn our Creator's duty, to know His value in our lives, to avoid being envious, jealous, and criminals. Before you judge, you should penetrate the facts and the essence of knowledge. Sometimes, you need the filling of thoughts that was occasionally announced the circumstance of the manner of saying. You need a spirit of compassion and mercy to encourage the thinker while at the same time your critics can built expertism. This book will make you develop your senses of value to think your destiny's parallelogram to the others destiny's. Though we may be born, and raised from different parents, different countries, different climates, different cultures, and uses; we are all children of the same Jah' from different mothers. In one word we are brothers, and sisters of different mothers. Our signatures remain the same. We breathe the same, we eat, we drink, we grow ,and we flush the same way. We behave the same, we act, we emotion, we ambition, we share the same, and we partage the same envy realistically. Therefore, we come to realize that we are human, no matter what color, height, weight, and educations. We are all thesame minks, so let's minx!

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Microprocessor 5

Software and Hardware Aspects of Development, Debugging and Testing - The Microcomputer

By: Philippe Darche

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Microprocessor 5

Software and Hardware Aspects of Development, Debugging and Testing - The Microcomputer

By: Philippe Darche

Since its commercialization in 1971, the microprocessor, a modern and integrated form of the central processing unit, has continuously broken records in terms of its integrated functions, computing power, low costs and energy saving status. Today, it is present in almost all electronic devices. Sound knowledge of its internal mechanisms and programming is essential for electronics and computer engineers to understand and master computer operations and advanced programming concepts. This book in five volumes focuses more particularly on the first two generations of microprocessors, those that handle 4- and 8- bit integers. Microprocessor 5 – the fifth and final volume of this series of books – first presents the hardware and software aspects of the development chain of a microprocessor-based digital system. Finally, to round up the series and offer a historical perspective, the architectures of the first microcomputers are detailed. A comprehensive approach is used, with examples drawn from current and past technologies that illustrate theoretical concepts, making them accessible.

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1119801729

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Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws

The Theory of Classical and Nonclassical Shock Waves

By: Philippe G. LeFloch

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Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws

The Theory of Classical and Nonclassical Shock Waves

By: Philippe G. LeFloch

This book examines the well-posedness theory for nonlinear hyperbolic systems of conservation laws, recently completed by the author together with his collaborators. It covers the existence, uniqueness, and continuous dependence of classical entropy solutions. It also introduces the reader to the developing theory of nonclassical (undercompressive) entropy solutions. The systems of partial differential equations under consideration arise in many areas of continuum physics.

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Quantum Potential Theory

By: Philippe Biane,Luc Bouten,Fabio Cipriani,Norio Konno,Quanhua Xu

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Quantum Potential Theory

By: Philippe Biane,Luc Bouten,Fabio Cipriani,Norio Konno,Quanhua Xu

This book offers the revised and completed notes of lectures given at the 2007 conference, "Quantum Potential Theory: Structures and Applications to Physics." These lectures provide an introduction to the theory and discuss various applications.

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Solidarity and Organization

Toward New Avenues for Management

By: Philippe Eynaud,Genauto Carvalho de França Filho

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Solidarity and Organization

Toward New Avenues for Management

By: Philippe Eynaud,Genauto Carvalho de França Filho

Solidarity is an ‘unthought’ in the fields of organizational theory and management sciences. However, it is an increasingly important feature in the management of organizations. The contemporary world suffers from a double unsustainability: the abusive exploitation of natural resources endangers the balance of the climate and biodiversity, while growing inequalities condemn our ability to maintain a balanced society. These unsustainabilities are mutually reinforcing and call for the affirmation of a double solidarity, which unites humans among themselves, and links humans and nonhumans. Such an effort cannot be decreed. It must be organized. Based on numerous grassroots initiatives and citizens’ experimentations that are being invented every day around the world and on a historical and anthropological approach, this book explores different ways of combining solidarity and organization. Solidarity-based management, governance of the commons, and Buen Vivir approaches are some of the perspectives analyzed in the context of a North-South dialogue in order to formulate the conceptual framework and practical steps of a social and environmental transition. It offers both theoretical background and living examples to students, professors and researchers to better understand and better teach new avenues for management.

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3031275683

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Single-ion Solvation

Experimental and Theoretical Approaches to Elusive Thermodynamic Quantities

By: Philippe Hünenberger,Maria Reif

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Single-ion Solvation

Experimental and Theoretical Approaches to Elusive Thermodynamic Quantities

By: Philippe Hünenberger,Maria Reif

Ions are ubiquitous in chemical, technological, ecological and biological processes. Characterizing their role in these processes requires in the first place the evaluation of the thermodynamic parameters associated with the solvation of a given ion. However, due to the constraint of electroneutrality, the involvement of surface effects and the ambiguous connection between microscopic and macroscopic descriptions, the determination of single-ion solvation properties via both experimental and theoretical approaches turns out to be a very difficult and highly controversial problem. This unique book provides an up-to-date, compact and consistent account of the research field of single-ion solvation thermodynamics that has over one hundred years of history and still remains largely unsettled. By reviewing the various approaches employed to date, establishing the relevant connections between single-ion thermodynamics and electrochemistry, resolving conceptual ambiguities, and giving an exhaustive data compilation (in the context of alkali and halide hydration), this book provides a consistent synthesis, in-depth understanding and clarification of a large and sometimes very confusing research field. Single-Ion Solvation: Experimental and Theoretical Approaches to Elusive Thermodynamic Quantities is primarily aimed at researchers (professors, postgraduates, graduates, and industrial researchers) concerned with processes involving ionic solvation properties (these are ubiquitous, eg. in physical/organic/analytical chemistry, electrochemistry, biochemistry, pharmacology, geology, and ecology). Because of the concept definitions and data compilations it contains, it is also a useful reference book to have in a university library. Finally, it may be of general interest to anyone wanting to learn more about ions and solvation.

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Transformative Education

A Showcase of Sustainable and Integrative Active Learning

By: Charlotte Graham,Philippe Longchamps

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Transformative Education

A Showcase of Sustainable and Integrative Active Learning

By: Charlotte Graham,Philippe Longchamps

Transformative Education aims decisively to transform the world of education and to nurture the next generation to become problem-solvers and creative thinkers, empowered with the necessary skills to make this world a better place. It provides practical methods for sustainable, integrative, and active learning, and investigates ‘the why’ behind these proven and effective methods. Discussing the different levels of subject integration in school, from intradisciplinary to transdisciplinary teaching, the authors analyse their potential holistic impact and knowledge retention effectiveness. With a substantial section on the efficacious teaching of the increasingly indispensable field of critical thinking, this book is built up first around a discourse of the intended methodology, secondly, it also includes a very practical mid-section with direct and meticulously described project ideas for teachers to try out, and finally a discussion and an analysis on what effects the proposed techniques might have and how teachers and students could be facilitated in their learning processes by school leaders and administrators. This pioneering endeavour is an important text for education professionals globally, as well as for the policy makers that regulate their work. It may also be of interest to parents and to a wider society. Additional digital resource content is available online and includes practical examples, explanations and video to help support sustainable, integrative and active learning.

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