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Trading Voices

The European Union in International Commercial Negotiations

By: Sophie Meunier

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Trading Voices

The European Union in International Commercial Negotiations

By: Sophie Meunier

The European Union, the world's foremost trader, is not an easy bargainer to deal with. Its twenty-five member states have relinquished most of their sovereignty in trade to the supranational level, and in international commercial negotiations, such as those conducted under the World Trade Organization, the EU speaks with a "single voice." This single voice has enabled the Brussels-based institution to impact the distributional outcomes of international trade negotiations and shape the global political economy. Trading Voices is the most comprehensive book about the politics of trade policy in the EU and the role of the EU as a central actor in international commercial negotiations. Sophie Meunier explores how this pooling of trade policy-making and external representation affects the EU's bargaining power in international trade talks. Using institutionalist analysis, she argues that its complex institutional procedures and multiple masters have, more than once, forced its trade partners to give in to an EU speaking with a single voice. Through analysis of four transatlantic commercial negotiations over agriculture, public procurement, and civil aviation, Trading Voices explores the politics of international trade bargaining. It also addresses the salient political question of whether efficiency at negotiating comes at the expense of democratic legitimacy. Finally, this book looks at how the EU, with its recent enlargement and proposed constitution, might become an even more formidable rival to the United States in shaping globalization.

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Princeton University Press

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0691223696

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The French Challenge

Adapting to Globalization

By: Philip H. Gordon,Sophie Meunier-Aitsahalia

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The French Challenge

Adapting to Globalization

By: Philip H. Gordon,Sophie Meunier-Aitsahalia

In August 1999 a forty-six-year-old sheep farmer name José Bové was arrested for dismantling the construction site of a new McDonald's restaurant in the south of France. A few months later Bové built on his fame by smuggling huge chunks of Roquefort cheese into Seattle, where he was among the leaders of the antiglobalization protests against the World Trade Organization summit. Bové's crusade against globalization helped provoke a debate both within France and beyond about the pros and cons of a world in which financial, commercial, human, cultural, and technology flows move faster and more extensively than ever before. As the French struggle to preserve the country's identity, heritage, and distinctiveness, they are nonetheless adapting to a new economy and an interdependent world. This book deals with France's effort to adapt to globalization and its consequences for France's economy, cultural identity, domestic politics, and foreign relations. The authors begin by analyzing the structural transformation of the French economy, driven first by liberalization within the European Union and more recently by globalization. By examining a wide variety of possible measures of globalization and liberalization, the authors conclude that the French economy's adaptation has been far reaching and largely successful, even if French leaders prefer to downplay the extent of these changes in response to political pressures and public opinion. They call this adaptation "globalization by stealth." The authors also examine the relationship between trade, culture, and identity and explain why globalization has rendered the three inseparable. They show how globalization is contributing to the restructuring of the traditional French political spectrum and blurring the traditional differences between left and right. Finally, they explore France's effort to tame globalization—maîtriser la mondialisation—and the possible consequences and lessons of the French s

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0815798652

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Colonial Natchitoches

A Creole Community on the Louisiana-Texas Frontier

By: Helen Sophie Burton,F. Todd Smith

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Colonial Natchitoches

A Creole Community on the Louisiana-Texas Frontier

By: Helen Sophie Burton,F. Todd Smith

Strategically located at the western edge of the Atlantic World, the French post of Natchitoches thrived during the eighteenth century as a trade hub between the well-supplied settlers and the isolated Spaniards and Indians of Texas. Its critical economic and diplomatic role made it the most important community on the Louisiana-Texas frontier during the colonial era. Despite the community’s critical role under French and then Spanish rule, Colonial Natchitoches is the first thorough study of its society and economy. Founded in 1714, four years before New Orleans, Natchitoches developed a creole (American-born of French descent) society that dominated the Louisiana-Texas frontier. H. Sophie Burton and F. Todd Smith carefully demonstrate not only the persistence of this creole dominance but also how it was maintained. They examine, as well, the other ethnic cultures present in the town and relations with Indians in the surrounding area. Through statistical analyses of birth and baptismal records, census figures, and appropriate French and Spanish archives, Burton and Smith reach surprising conclusions about the nature of society and commerce in colonial Natchitoches.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1603444378

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Neighbourhoods in Transition

Brownfield Regeneration in European Metropolitan Areas

By: Emmanuel Rey,Martine Laprise,Sophie Lufkin

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Neighbourhoods in Transition

Brownfield Regeneration in European Metropolitan Areas

By: Emmanuel Rey,Martine Laprise,Sophie Lufkin

This open access book is focused on the intersection between urban brownfields and the sustainability transitions of metreopolitan areas, cities and neighbourhoods. It provides both a theoretical and practical approach to the topic, offering a thorough introduction to urban brownfields and regeneration projects as well as an operational monitoring tool. Neighbourhoods in Transition begins with an overview of historic urban development and strategic areas in the hearts of towns to be developed. It then defines several key issues related to the topic, including urban brownfields, regeneration projects, and sustainability issues related to neighbourhood development. The second part of this book is focused on support tools, explaining the challenges faced, the steps involved in a regeneration process, and offering an operational monitoring tool. It applies the unique tool to case studies in three selected neighbourhoods and the outcomes of one case study are also presented and discussed, highlighting its benefits. The audience for this book will be both professional and academic. It will support researchers as an up-to-date reference book on urban brownfield regeneration projects, and also the work of architects, urban designers, urban planners and engineers involved in sustainability transitions of the built environment.

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Springer Nature

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3030822087

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Management Control and Creativity

Challenges of Managing Innovation Processes

By: Sophie Bollinger

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Management Control and Creativity

Challenges of Managing Innovation Processes

By: Sophie Bollinger

Innovation is an essential growth lever for organizations. Like any strategic element, it must be managed to ensure the right decision is made at the right time. When we talk about management, we naturally also consider management control. However, using management tools can be a danger to developing creativity – an essential element of innovation. This book examines the interdependencies between management control and creativity. By comparing two organizational contexts, we highlight the vital role of organizations as generators of creativity. We also underline the acceptance of an imbalance between the elements in tension, which can lead to the questioning and fostering of innovation; and the role of senior management as mediators between organizations and local actors.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1394255551

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The French Revolution in Theory

By: Sophie Wahnich

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The French Revolution in Theory

By: Sophie Wahnich

It is time to re-examine the French Revolution as a political resource. The historiography has so far ignored the question of popular sovereignty and emancipation; instead the Revolution has been vilified as a matrix of totalitarianisms by the liberals and as an ethnocentric phenomenon by postcolonial studies. This book examines why. More so than historians, it is philosophers that have played the leading role in the portrayal of this major event in French political history. The philosophical quarrels of the 1960s placed the French Revolution at the heart of their debates. The most well-documented among these is the conflict between Jean-Paul Sartre and Claude Lévi-Strauss and subsequently, Michel Foucault. Do we need an ethics of the history of the French Revolution? Rancière, Derrida, Balibar, Lefort, Robin, and Loraux can help answer this question, in an epistemological approach to history. These successive explorations allow us to move away from a myth of identity and to rediscover a real Revolution, capable of offering Enlightenment and political utility and interrogating what democracy and emancipation mean for us today.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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178661619X

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9781786616197

Protein-Nanoparticle Interactions

The Bio-Nano Interface

By: Masoud Rahman,Sophie Laurent,Nancy Tawil,L'Hocine Yahia,Morteza Mahmoudi

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Protein-Nanoparticle Interactions

The Bio-Nano Interface

By: Masoud Rahman,Sophie Laurent,Nancy Tawil,L'Hocine Yahia,Morteza Mahmoudi

In recent years, the fabrication of nanomaterials and exploration of their properties have attracted the attention of various scientific disciplines such as biology, physics, chemistry, and engineering. Although nanoparticulate systems are of significant interest in various scientific and technological areas, there is little known about the safety of these nanoscale objects. It has now been established that the surfaces of nanoparticles are immediately covered by biomolecules (e.g. proteins, ions, and enzymes) upon their entrance into a biological medium. This interaction with the biological medium modulates the surface of the nanoparticles, conferring a “biological identity” to their surfaces (referred to as a “corona”), which determines the subsequent cellular/tissue responses. The new interface between the nanoparticles and the biological medium/proteins, called “bio-nano interface,” has been very rarely studied in detail to date, though the interest in this topic is rapidly growing. In this book, the importance of the physiochemical characteristics of nanoparticles for the properties of the protein corona is discussed in detail, followed by comprehensive descriptions of the methods for assessing the protein-nanoparticle interactions. The advantages and limitations of available corona evaluation methods (e.g. spectroscopy methods, mass spectrometry, nuclear magnetic resonance, electron microscopy, X-ray crystallography, and differential centrifugal sedimentation) are examined in detail, followed by a discussion of the possibilities for enhancing the current methods and a call for new techniques. Moreover, the advantages and disadvantages of protein-nanoparticle interaction phenomena are explored and discussed, with a focus on the biological impacts.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642375553

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An Integrated Guide to Human Drug Metabolism

From Basic Chemical Transformations to Drug-Drug Interactions

By: Mark Ashton,Paul W. Groundwater,Sophie Stocker,Adam Todd

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An Integrated Guide to Human Drug Metabolism

From Basic Chemical Transformations to Drug-Drug Interactions

By: Mark Ashton,Paul W. Groundwater,Sophie Stocker,Adam Todd

An Integrated Guide to Human Drug Metabolism: From Basic Chemical Transformations to Drug-Drug Interactions uses the chemistry of each of the metabolic transformations to underpin the discussion of drug interactions with foods, herbal medicines and other drugs. Each of the human metabolic processes will be covered, employing examples drawn from known metabolic transformations of drugs used clinically. The clinical relevance of metabolism is discussed, focusing on appropriate prescribing (age-related dosage adjustments, routes of administration, and personalized medicines). Appropriate for use in the classroom or for self-study, An Integrated Guide to Human Drug Metabolism is useful for students and researchers needing a reference for interdisciplinary research in drug interactions. Metabolism is at the center of personalized medicine, as it is a governing factor in the response of the patient to a drug. For example, does the patient express the genes, and so enzymes, which are responsible for the metabolism of a drug? Do they express the genes responsible for the bioactivation of a prodrug into its active form? Examples of clinically used agents for which metabolic phenotyping is essential will be used to highlight the increasing necessity for understanding the genetic profile of individual patients. This book includes questions and answers to gauge learning of each chapter, real-life case studies, and the basic science as a basis for the discussion of clinical aspects. - Covers each of the human metabolic processes, employing examples drawn from known metabolic transformations of drugs used clinically - Provides an integrated approach, linking together the science and practice strands of human drug metabolism - Contains questions and answers to assess learning of material and real-life case studies

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Elsevier

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0323993753

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9780323993753

Churchill's White Rabbit

The True Story of a Real-Life James Bond

By: Sophie Jackson

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Churchill's White Rabbit

The True Story of a Real-Life James Bond

By: Sophie Jackson

Forest Yeo-Thomas GC was one of the bravest of the brave. A fluent French-speaker, he joined SOE and was parachuted into occupied France three times to work with the Resistance. Appalled by the lack of help the British were providing, he managed to arrange a five-minute meeting with Winston Churchill, during which he persuaded him to do more. On his third mission he was betrayed and captured by the Gestapo; he suffered horrendous torture before being sent to Buchenwald concentration camp, from where he eventually managed to escape, making it back to Allied lines shortly before the end of the war. Sophie Jackson's biography reveals new information about how the torture affected Yeo-Thomas, the state of SOE-Resistance co-operation, Gestapo typhus experiments at Buchenwald and how ' White Rabbit', Yeo-Thomas, provided the inspiration for Ian Fleming's famous secret agent, James Bond.

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The History Press

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0752478931

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Trading Voices

The European Union in International Commercial Negotiations

By: Sophie Meunier

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Trading Voices

The European Union in International Commercial Negotiations

By: Sophie Meunier

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Princeton University Press

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0691223696

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Renoir, His Life and Complete Works

By: Sophie Monneret

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Renoir, His Life and Complete Works

By: Sophie Monneret

Pierre-Auguste Renoir 18411919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality.

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0681104767

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The French Challenge

Adapting to Globalization

By: Philip H. Gordon,Sophie Meunier-Aitsahalia

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Adapting to Globalization

By: Philip H. Gordon,Sophie Meunier-Aitsahalia

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Trading Voices

Trading Voices

The French Challenge

The French Challenge

Colonial Natchitoches

Colonial Natchitoches

Neighbourhoods in Transition

Neighbourhoods in Transition

Management Control and Creativity

Management Control and Creativity

The French Revolution in Theory

The French Revolution in Theory

Protein-Nanoparticle Interactions

Protein-Nanoparticle Interactions

An Integrated Guide to Human Drug Metabolism

An Integrated Guide to Human Drug Metabolism

Churchill's White Rabbit

Churchill's White Rabbit

Trading Voices

Trading Voices

Renoir, His Life and Complete Works

Renoir, His Life and Complete Works

The French Challenge

The French Challenge

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