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At the Edge of the World

The Heroic Century of the French Foreign Legion

By: Jean-Vincent Blanchard

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At the Edge of the World

The Heroic Century of the French Foreign Legion

By: Jean-Vincent Blanchard

The remarkable story of the French Foreign Legion, its dramatic rise throughout the nineteenth century, and its most committed champion, General Hubert Lyautey. An aura of mystery, romance, and danger surrounds the French Foreign Legion, the all-volunteer corps of the French Army, founded in 1831. Famous for its physically grueling training in harsh climates, the legion fought in French wars from Mexico to Madagascar, Southeast Asia to North Africa. To this day, despite its reputation for being assigned the riskiest missions in the roughest terrain, the mystique of the legion continues to attract men from every corner of the world. In At the Edge of the World, historian Jean-Vincent Blanchard follows the legion's rise to fame during the nineteenth century--focusing on its campaigns in Indochina and especially in Africa--when the corps played a central role in expanding and protecting the French Empire. As France struggled to be a power capable of rivaling the British, the figure of the legionnaire--deadly, self-sacrificing, uncompromisingly efficient--came to represent the might and morale that would secure a greater, stronger nation. Drawing from rare, archival memoirs and testimonies of legionnaires from the period and tracing the fascinating career of Hubert Lyautey, France's first resident-general in Morocco and a hero to many a legionnaire, At the Edge of the World chronicles the Foreign Legion at the height of its renown, when the corps and its archetypically handsome, moody, and marginalized recruits became both the symbols of a triumphant colonialism and the stuff of legend.

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281

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0802743870

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9780802743879

The European Parliament and Global Health

Polymorphic Actorness and Multiple Roles

By: Vincent Rollet

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The European Parliament and Global Health

Polymorphic Actorness and Multiple Roles

By: Vincent Rollet

This book examines the actorness of the European Parliament (EP) and its roles in global health. In doing so, it appreciates to what extent this democratically elected entity can be considered as a global health actor. Applying an original analytical framework to measure actorness, the book assesses the EP’s capacity to act regarding five major global health issues including the pandemic response, access to essential medicines in developing countries, international trade and global health, medical research and development in the field of poverty-related and neglected diseases (PRNDs), and global health governance. It demonstrates that, despite many challenges, the EP has indeed displayed a polymorphic actorness and multiple roles towards most of these global health issues, especially by succeeding in mobilizing its main competences and instruments to deal with them, finalizing initiatives, and having a substantive influence on the way they were addressed. As such, the book reveals the salience of democratically elected institutions for global health governance. This book will be of key interest to students and scholars of European studies, global and regional health, legislative studies, and International Relations, but also to parliamentarians and (non-) governmental actors engaged in global health.

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274

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Taylor & Francis

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1040103049

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9781040103043

The Smart City in a Digital World

By: Vincent Mosco

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The Smart City in a Digital World

By: Vincent Mosco

This book looks at what makes a city smart by describing, challenging, and offering democratic alternatives to the view that the answer begins and ends with technology. Drawing on worldwide case studies documenting the redevelopment of old and the creation of new cities, it provides an essential guide to the future of urban life in a digital world.

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196

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Emerald Group Publishing

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1787691373

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9781787691377

The Principles of Insect Physiology

By: Vincent B. Wigglesworth

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The Principles of Insect Physiology

By: Vincent B. Wigglesworth

INSECTS PROVIDE an ideal medium in which to study all the problems of physiology. But if this medium is to be used to the best advantage, the principles and peculiarities of the insect's organization must be first appreciated. It is the purpose of this book to set forth these principles so far as they are understood at the present day. There exist already many excellent text-books of general ento mology; notably those of Imms, Weber, and Snodgrass, to mention only the more recent. But these authors have necessarily been preoccupied chiefly with describing the diversity of form among insects; discussions on function being correspondingly condensed. In the present work the emphasis is reversed. Struc ture is described only to an extent sufficient to make the physiological argument intelligible. Every anatomical peculiarity, every ecological specialization, has indeed its physiological counterpart. In that sense, anatomy, physiology and ecology are not separable. But regarded from the standpoint from which the present work is written, the endless modifications that are met with among insects are but illustrations of the general principles of their physiology, which it is the aim of this book to set forth. Completeness in such a work is not possible, or desirable; but an endeavour has been made to illustrate each physiological characteristic by a few concrete examples, and to include sufficient references to guide the student to the more important sources. The physiology of insects is to some the handmaid of Economic Entomology.

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832

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9400959737

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9789400959736

A Taste For Wine

20 Key Tastings to Unlock Your Personal Wine Style

By: Vincent Gasnier

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A Taste For Wine

20 Key Tastings to Unlock Your Personal Wine Style

By: Vincent Gasnier

Whether you prefer bold reds or fruity whites, A Taste For Wine will help you discover your personal wine style. Discovered a fun, fresh, and intuitive way to learn how to recognize the flavors you like best and pick exactly the right bottle of wine every time. Find your own "wine style" through 22 guided tastings. A Taste for Wine also includes an introduction to wine making, plus tips on buying, storing, and serving wine. It also contains a directory of world wines organized by style and country.

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Penguin

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0756640660

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9780756640668

Materials for Sustainable Energy

A Collection of Peer-reviewed Research and Review Articles from Nature Publishing Group

By: Vincent Dusastre

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Materials for Sustainable Energy

A Collection of Peer-reviewed Research and Review Articles from Nature Publishing Group

By: Vincent Dusastre

The search for cleaner, cheaper, smaller and more efficient energy technologies has to a large extent been motivated by the development of new materials. The aim of this collection of articles is therefore to focus on what materials-based solutions can offer and show how the rationale design and improvement of their physical and chemical properties can lead to energy-production alternatives that have the potential to compete with existing technologies. In terms of alternative means to generate electricity that utilize renewable energy sources, the most dramatic breakthroughs for both mobile (i.e., transportation) and stationary applications are taking place in the fields of solar and fuel cells. And from an energy-storage perspective, exciting developments can be seen emerging from the fields of rechargeable batteries and hydrogen storage.

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360

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World Scientific

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9814317640

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9789814317641

Approaches and implementation of Asian and European Official Development Assistance (ODA)

By: Vincent Rollet

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Approaches and implementation of Asian and European Official Development Assistance (ODA)

By: Vincent Rollet

Since the end of the World War II, Official Development Assistance (ODA) represents an essential component of the international involvement of governments and local collectivities toward development. This last decade, ODA had to adapt to the profound changes which have questioned its providers. Among these donors, European and Asian countries occupy an important place...

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Academia

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2806108454

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9782806108456

Book's by Vincent Rollet

At the Edge of the World

At the Edge of the World

The European Parliament and Global Health

The European Parliament and Global Health

The Smart City in a Digital World

The Smart City in a Digital World

The Principles of Insect Physiology

The Principles of Insect Physiology

A Taste For Wine

A Taste For Wine

Materials for Sustainable Energy

Materials for Sustainable Energy

Approaches and implementation of Asian and European Official Development Assistance (ODA)

Approaches and implementation of Asian and European Official Development Assistance (ODA)

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