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Painters, Paintings and Books

An Essay on Indo-Persian Technical Literature, 12-19th Centuries

By: Yves Porter

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Painters, Paintings and Books

An Essay on Indo-Persian Technical Literature, 12-19th Centuries

By: Yves Porter

The work aims at bringing the Persian texts into the study of the arts and technology of the Indo-lranian world – an approach much neglected so far. Drawing upon Persian sources (both from Iran and India), viz., technical treatises, historical chronicles and poetical texts, the work deals with painting and the art of book making during twelfth to nineteenth century. The introduction presents the geographical and chronological dimensions of the study. After a brief history of Persian painting before the twelfth century, the book discusses mural painting, manuscripts, origin of paper and its fabrication, the composition of the page, colours/pigments used in the paintings, painting subjects, bookbinding, etc. The painter, man and artist, his origin, his training, his status, aesthetics and taste, his workshop and its organisation and distribution of tasks therein, modular construction of the manuscripts, library, the caligraphy surrounding the painting, its illuminations and binding are all analysed. In fact the book reconstructs the entire process of making an illustrated manuscript from its ground work to its binding. Persian text and illustrations enhance the utility of the work.

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1000164705

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Under the Adorned Dome, Four Essays on the Arts of Iran and India

Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series

By: Yves Porter

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Under the Adorned Dome, Four Essays on the Arts of Iran and India

Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series

By: Yves Porter

These essays are the revised and updated version of four lectures given in the Yarshater Lecture Series, at SOAS in London in 2013. They concern some aspects of the arts from pre-modern Iran and India, namely, the “making of” of Persian illustrated manuscripts, the iconography of Kashan wares, the use and re-use of luster tiles in Ilkhanid Iran, and the glazed tiles made in three Indian sultanates (Delhi, Bengal and Malwa). These four topics share concepts of influence and impact, although inflected on different modes. The productions they embody represent many poles of influence, even if working on different scales, from the extensive diffusion of products, techniques, and systems to almost isolated productions.

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9004549722

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A Marmac Guide to Dallas

By: Yves Gerem

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A Marmac Guide to Dallas

By: Yves Gerem

Longtime Dallas resident and travel writer Yves Gerem has completely updated this exhaustive listing of the best restaurants, attractions, accommodations, and more.

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Pelican Publishing

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1589801997

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Applied Asset and Risk Management

A Guide to Modern Portfolio Management and Behavior-Driven Markets

By: Marcus Schulmerich,Yves-Michel Leporcher,Ching-Hwa Eu

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Applied Asset and Risk Management

A Guide to Modern Portfolio Management and Behavior-Driven Markets

By: Marcus Schulmerich,Yves-Michel Leporcher,Ching-Hwa Eu

This book is a guide to asset and risk management from a practical point of view. It is centered around two questions triggered by the global events on the stock markets since the middle of the last decade: - Why do crashes happen when in theory they should not? - How do investors deal with such crises in terms of their risk measurement and management and as a consequence, what are the implications for the chosen investment strategies? The book presents and discusses two different approaches to finance and investing, i.e., modern portfolio theory and behavioral finance, and provides an overview of stock market anomalies and historical crashes. It is intended to serve as a comprehensive introduction to asset and risk management for bachelor’s and master’s students in this field as well as for young professionals in the asset management industry. A key part of this book is the exercises to further demonstrate the concepts presented with examples and a step-by-step business case. An Excel file with the calculations and solutions for all 17 examples as well as all business case calculations can be downloaded at extras.springer.com.

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Machine Learning

An Artificial Intelligence Approach, Volume III

By: Yves Kodratoff,Ryszard S. Michalski

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Machine Learning

An Artificial Intelligence Approach, Volume III

By: Yves Kodratoff,Ryszard S. Michalski

Machine Learning: An Artificial Intelligence Approach, Volume III presents a sample of machine learning research representative of the period between 1986 and 1989. The book is organized into six parts. Part One introduces some general issues in the field of machine learning. Part Two presents some new developments in the area of empirical learning methods, such as flexible learning concepts, the Protos learning apprentice system, and the WITT system, which implements a form of conceptual clustering. Part Three gives an account of various analytical learning methods and how analytic learning can be applied to various specific problems. Part Four describes efforts to integrate different learning strategies. These include the UNIMEM system, which empirically discovers similarities among examples; and the DISCIPLE multistrategy system, which is capable of learning with imperfect background knowledge. Part Five provides an overview of research in the area of subsymbolic learning methods. Part Six presents two types of formal approaches to machine learning. The first is an improvement over Mitchell's version space method; the second technique deals with the learning problem faced by a robot in an unfamiliar, deterministic, finite-state environment.

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0080510558

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Innate Immunity

From Louis Pasteur to Jules Hoffmann

By: Yves Carton

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Innate Immunity

From Louis Pasteur to Jules Hoffmann

By: Yves Carton

Innate immunity is a new branch of immunology, confirmed by three Nobel Prize winners in 2011. It is the first line of defense against pathogens and is in a way the preliminary step of adaptive immunity which occurs later, and only present in vertebrates. This book examines the way in which innate immunity was discovered in invertebrates. As a starting point, it looks at the work of Louis Pasteur on silkworm disease and the findings of Ilya Metchnikov, discoverer of phagocytosis. It also investigates André Paillot, who in 1920 demonstrated the existence of humoral immunity in insects, unrelated to the type of immunity that was initially thought to be present in all vertebrates. Finally, Innate Immunity shows how the group directed by Jules Hoffmann found strong similarities between the innate immunity response of insects and mammals. The discovery of a receptor protein in Drosophila, which is also found in humans, was what led to Jules Hoffmann being awarded the Nobel Prize in 2011. - Presents the transformations experienced by the domains of innate immunity - Shows the lineage of these results - Bridges the gap between innate immunity of invertebrates and that of vertebrates

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012821810X

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My Journal of the Council

By: Yves Congar,Denis Minns

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My Journal of the Council

By: Yves Congar,Denis Minns

At the beginning of the meeting Cardinal Ottaviani said that, to speed the work up, the experts will speak only if they are asked a question. At my side, Rahner was champing at the bit, and said to me `what are we doing here . . . ?'" (Wednesday 3 June 1964) Yves Congar, OP, was one of the most important and influential theologians of the twentieth century. Much of this influence came as a result of his role as theological advisor to the bishops who participated at the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). After working under a cloud of ecclesiastical censure and suspicion in the decade prior to its start, Congar was, from beginning to end, an influential day-to-day participant in the council's work. He also managed to keep detailed personal notes throughout the time. At long last, the council diaries of Yves Congar are available in English! This material is a treasure trove of information and insight for anyone interested in the history of that council and its remarkable and historic teaching. It provides a window into the council's workings and the development of what would become a series of historic documents and declarations. It also offers Congar's own down-to-earth and personal perspective on many of the other remarkable figures who played a role in the council.

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0814680291

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Foot and ankle in rheumatoid arthritis

By: Maurice Bouysset,Yves Tourné,Karl Tillmann

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Foot and ankle in rheumatoid arthritis

By: Maurice Bouysset,Yves Tourné,Karl Tillmann

One of the earliest signs of rheumatoid arthritis may be pain in the foot. However, this part of the body is very often neglected during clinical assessment of the illness in favour of the articulations of the upper limbs, knees and hips. Nevertheless, it appears evident that a detailed clinical examination of the forefoot, ankle and heel could be useful in order to get closer to a rheumatological diagnosis. Thanks to blood tests and conventional imaging, completed with a scanner or MRI if needed, every doctor should be in a position to detect the beginning of rheumatoid arthritis in the foot or ankle. As well as its diagnostic contribution, this book broaches the theme of the most recent medicinal treatments, that of orthoses, made-to-measure shoes (the prescription of which practitioners and the rheumatologists often hand over to the orthopaedic surgeons), and finally that of local injections. These elements constitute the main treatment of the rheumatoid foot. Taking care of the ill subject does not necessarily stop there and a surgeon may need to operate on the forefoot, which is more common, or on the mid-foot or the ankle.

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2287305580

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Moralizing the Market

How Gaullist France Embraced the US Model of Securities Regulation

By: Yves-Marie Péréon

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Moralizing the Market

How Gaullist France Embraced the US Model of Securities Regulation

By: Yves-Marie Péréon

Moralizing the Market will appeal to professors and students of economic history, international relations, and political science, as well as business and finance historians, policy makers, and professionals.

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142142486X

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The Internationalization of Palace Wars

Lawyers, Economists, and the Contest to Transform Latin American States

By: Yves Dezalay,Bryant G. Garth

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The Internationalization of Palace Wars

Lawyers, Economists, and the Contest to Transform Latin American States

By: Yves Dezalay,Bryant G. Garth

How does globalization work? Focusing on Latin America, Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth show that exports of expertise and ideals from the United States to Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico have played a crucial role in transforming their state forms and economies since World War II. Based on more than 300 extensive interviews with major players in governments, foundations, law firms, universities, and think tanks, Dezalay and Garth examine both the production of northern exports such as neoliberal economics and international human rights law and the ways they are received south of the United States. They find that the content of what is exported and how it fares are profoundly shaped by domestic struggles for power and influence—"palace wars"—in the nations involved. For instance, challenges to the eastern intellectual establishment influenced the Reagan-era export of University of Chicago-style neoliberal economics to Chile, where it enjoyed a warm reception from Pinochet and his allies because they could use it to discredit the previous regime. Innovative and sophisticated, The Internationalization of Palace Wars offers much needed concrete information about the transnational processes that shape our world.

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0226144275

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Travel Light

By: Yves Balthazar

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Travel Light

By: Yves Balthazar

Lance Avignon, a college freshman with a special gift for seeing in dreams, finds himself falls madly in love with his beautiful English instructor, Tina King. But as Lance secretly admires his instructor from a distance, he has no idea that his extrasensory abilities are about propel him into an exciting adventure. After a professor heading a dream research project learns of Lances talents from Tina, he and his archaeologist colleague decide the student may be able can solve an enigma posed by an artifact found near Jerusalem. Professors Rhoades and Taggart task Lance with deciphering the artifacts ancient text, and he soon learns the object is a data storage device transported to Earth by alien scientists millennia ago and that it possesses a power that the CIA, the FBI, and superpowers around the world all wish to acquire. As love blossoms between Lance and Tina, he and the professors become embroiled in time travel, espionage, paranormal experiences, battles with extraterrestrials, and kidnapping. In this suspenseful sci-fi tale, a talented college student embarks on a dangerous journey with his professors in an attempt to save the world from almost certain annihilation by aliens bent on reclaiming their artifact.

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1480807796

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Missionnaires au quotidien à Tahiti

Les Picpuciens en Polynésie au XIXe siècle

By: Pierre-Yves Toullelan

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Missionnaires au quotidien à Tahiti

Les Picpuciens en Polynésie au XIXe siècle

By: Pierre-Yves Toullelan

Missionnaires au quotidien à Tahiti immerses us in the everyday life of Catholic missionaries sent out to the Tahitian islands in the period 1834 to 1914. Using the correspondence of the 167 members of the order of the Congregation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Mary, an attempt is made to define the social and geographic origins of the Picpucian people. Priests and friars are followed in their education, from the apostolic school to the first Pacific vicariates. Right from the first days of established contact, we see the management of the day-to-day affairs of these eternal travellers, by turns vicars and planters, schoolmasters and builders. Within the framework of a very hierarchical ecclesiastical structure, we watch the elaboration of a social project that quickly extends beyond the bounds of a narrow theocracy. It is on this societal model that a large part of Polynesia rests today.

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9004319948

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B2B Sales of German Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. Challenges in Cross-border Sales Within the Context of German-French Business Relationships

By: Yves Scheffler

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B2B Sales of German Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. Challenges in Cross-border Sales Within the Context of German-French Business Relationships

By: Yves Scheffler

For decades Germany and France have been forming the core of the European Union. They generate about 40 per cent of total economic output in the Euro Zone. Nowhere else, there does exist such an intense relationship between neighbouring economies like between these two countries. Those links go far beyond external trade relations and are targeted towards mutual business cooperation. In the light of globalisation, a rising number of competitors, increasing customer demands and short product life cycles, cross-national commerce are of great importance for German Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) – particularly in the B2B sector. Sales is often tagged as an enterprise’s figurehead. It is responsible for determining whether a manufacturer effectively conveys its capabilities to the B2B customer. To date, there exists no single reference book covering all four topics of this paper’s headline: B2B, SMEs, sales and Franco-German business relationships. The ongoing literature is mainly focussed on large firms. The subject of international sales has hardly been investigated, yet. Apart from the sales excellence approach, there are few selling models for corporate practice. The lack of sales expertise both in theory and practise is thus not the ideal prerequisite for succeeding on a cross-border scale. This study addresses sales challenges of German SMEs with its trading partner France in the B2B sector. It should be stressed that the focus is on SMEs from Germany only. The company size of French business partners does not play a role in this context. The acquisition-related part of sales (selling) is highlighted while the physical component (distribution) is secondary within the framework of this assignment. In consequence, the central question is to figure out what kind of challenges German SMEs must face when exerting B2B sales activities in France. A related sub-issue is defined as follows: “Which type of challenge has the greatest impact on cross-border sales operations in France?” The declared purpose of this study is to answer the above-mentioned queries. Following the acquired basic knowledge this is done through an empirical survey. Furthermore, it is targeted to provide recommendations in order to enhance sales efficiency and effectiveness of German SMEs.

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3960672144

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Medtech

The Formation and Growth of a Global Industry, 1960–2020

By: Pierre-Yves Donzé

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Medtech

The Formation and Growth of a Global Industry, 1960–2020

By: Pierre-Yves Donzé

This book offers an analysis of the dynamics of the global medical device (medtech) industry from the 1960s until the present, using the approaches of business history and industry studies. While most of the publications in the corresponding field have focused on particular countries/regions or actors, this research is unique in its scope. First, it explores the formation and development of medtech business both globally and in the major countries engaged in this industry (the United States, Japan, Germany, Switzerland, France, and China). Second, it tackles a broad range of actors and organizations, from individual entrepreneurs, medical doctors, and engineers to small family firms, start-ups, and large multinationals, as well as universities and research centers. Hence, for the first time, this book both provides a general understanding of the formation and transformation of the medtech industry throughout the world and sheds light on the main features of a fast-growing business in the twenty-first century. This book will be of value to historians, industry professionals, and analysts.

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9811671745

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De l'Organisation révolutionnaire

By: Yves Raynaud

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De l'Organisation révolutionnaire

By: Yves Raynaud

Amitiés et ruptures situationnistes avant, pendant et après mai 1968 (1960-2014). Le CMDO. Ce qu'il en résulte pour l'organisation révolutionnaire à venir. Société et individu. Des mensonges de l'histoire et des religions. Quelques raisons à crise économique. Les détournements de fonds. Les mafias et les mafieux dans la mondialisation. La guerre saute-mouton. La fin des hiérarchies...

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Lulu.com

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1291758763

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The Formation of the Swiss Hospital System (1840–1960)

An Analysis of Surgeon-Modernisers in the Canton of Vaud

By: Pierre-Yves Donzé

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The Formation of the Swiss Hospital System (1840–1960)

An Analysis of Surgeon-Modernisers in the Canton of Vaud

By: Pierre-Yves Donzé

This book offers an analysis of the formation of contemporary hospital systems between the mid-19th century and the mid-20th century. Based on extensive archival material and a broad international literature review, it focuses on the case of the canton of Vaud, Switzerland, and uses a triple approach that discusses technological innovations, hospital management, and health policy. This research is a major contribution to the history of medicine which gives a unique overview of the formation of contemporary hospital systems.

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981193911X

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Rational Homotopy Theory Ii

By: Steve Halperin,Yves Felix,Jean-claude Thomas

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Rational Homotopy Theory Ii

By: Steve Halperin,Yves Felix,Jean-claude Thomas

This research monograph is a detailed account with complete proofs of rational homotopy theory for general non-simply connected spaces, based on the minimal models introduced by Sullivan in his original seminal article. Much of the content consists of new results, including generalizations of known results in the simply connected case. The monograph also includes an expanded version of recently published results about the growth and structure of the rational homotopy groups of finite dimensional CW complexes, and concludes with a number of open questions.This monograph is a sequel to the book Rational Homotopy Theory [RHT], published by Springer in 2001, but is self-contained except only that some results from [RHT] are simply quoted without proof.

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World Scientific

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9814651451

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Contributions to Modern and Ancient Tidal Sedimentology

Proceedings of the Tidalites 2012 Conference

By: Bernadette Tessier,Jean-Yves Reynaud

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Contributions to Modern and Ancient Tidal Sedimentology

Proceedings of the Tidalites 2012 Conference

By: Bernadette Tessier,Jean-Yves Reynaud

Tidal deposits have been a specific research topic for about 40 years, and whilst this has resulted in a proliferation of papers in scientific journals, there have only been a few book-length syntheses. Over the years, tidal sedimentology has been reinforced by fluid mechanics and numerical modelling but has remained rooted in facies and stratigraphic studies. Recent developments in tidal sedimentology lean toward a more quantitative assessment of the imprint of tides in the facies record of intertidal and shallow subtidal areas. They highlight the increasing relevance of tidal deposits studies, from high resolution subsurface reservoir geology to climate change and sea-level rise. This volume gathers 17 contributions to the Tidalites 2012 congress held in Caen, France. It reflects current advances in the sedimentology and stratigraphy of tidal deposits, in both ancient and modern environments. It shows the current diversity of this field of research, through a wide spectrum of methods including remote sensing, in-situ hydrodynamical measurements, and ichnology, in addition to classic field studies and petrography.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119218365

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Materials Surface Processing by Directed Energy Techniques

By: Yves Pauleau

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Materials Surface Processing by Directed Energy Techniques

By: Yves Pauleau

The current status of the science and technology related to coatings, thin films and surface modifications produced by directed energy techniques is assessed in Materials Surface Processing by Directed Energy Techniques. The subject matter is divided into 20 chapters - each presented at a tutorial level – rich with fundamental science and experimental results. New trends and new results are also evoked to give an overview of future developments and applications. - Provides a broad overview on modern coating and thin film deposition techniques, and their applications - Presents and discusses various problems of physics and chemistry involved in the production, characterization and applications of coatings and thin films - Each chapter includes experimental results illustrating various models, mechanisms or theories

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0080458963

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German Mountain Troops 1942–45

By: Yves Béraud

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German Mountain Troops 1942–45

By: Yves Béraud

The author does a terrific job of outlining the many campaigns and areas where the German Mountain troops fought throughout the war, and the unique challenges that some of these areas brought." — AMPS When World War II began, the Wehrmacht had fifteen mountain divisions and a multitude of small units, including some Austrian units that had been incorporated into the German army after the Anschluss. These mountain units would operate in hostile environments on all fronts during World War II. Due to their training, equipment and adaptability, the Gebirgstruppen would be deployed to fight in almost every theater. In the last years of the war they would see action in North Africa, Italy, the Balkans, Norway and Finland, and in the West as the Allies pushed German forces back toward Berlin. This book, the culmination of four decades of research and the support of many veterans and collectors, describes the uniform, equipment, and operations of these specialist units during the later years of World War II. The text is complemented by period photographs taken at the front, including many color photographs, and modern photographs of uniform details.

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Casemate

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1612009476

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International Integration, Market Structure and Prices

By: Yves Bourdet

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International Integration, Market Structure and Prices

By: Yves Bourdet

Originally published in 1988, this study focusses on international economic integration in relation to the passenger car industry and market in the West-European car-making countries, Germany, France, Italy, Sweden and the UK in the second half of the 20th Century when the revival of protectionism was a key feature of the international trading system. The book illustrates the interaction between international integration, market structure and firm conduct and the political sphere at the national as well as the supranational level. Unlike previous analyses of international integration, this book concentrates on a single industry over a significant period.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040150993

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Introduction to Machine Learning

By: Yves Kodratoff

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Introduction to Machine Learning

By: Yves Kodratoff

A textbook suitable for undergraduate courses in machine learningand related topics, this book provides a broad survey of the field.Generous exercises and examples give students a firm grasp of theconcepts and techniques of this rapidly developing, challenging subject. Introduction to Machine Learning synthesizes and clarifiesthe work of leading researchers, much of which is otherwise availableonly in undigested technical reports, journals, and conference proceedings.Beginning with an overview suitable for undergraduate readers, Kodratoffestablishes a theoretical basis for machine learning and describesits technical concepts and major application areas. Relevant logicprogramming examples are given in Prolog. Introduction to Machine Learning is an accessible and originalintroduction to a significant research area.

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0080509304

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Making Medicine a Business

X-ray Technology, Global Competition, and the Transformation of the Japanese Medical System, 1895-1945

By: Pierre-Yves Donzé

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Making Medicine a Business

X-ray Technology, Global Competition, and the Transformation of the Japanese Medical System, 1895-1945

By: Pierre-Yves Donzé

This book goes back to the origins of the transformation of health and medicine into a business, during the first part of the twentieth century, focusing on the example of Japan. In the past hundred years, medicine has gone from being a charitable activity to a large economic sector, amounting to 12–15% of the GDP in many developed countries, and one of the fastest-growing businesses around the world. Despite the mounting presence of the medical industry, there is a lack of academic work detailing this major transformation. The objective of this book is to fill this gap and address the following question: how did medicine become a business? Using over ten years of research in the field, Pierre-Yves Donzé argues that economic factors and business factors were decisive in transforming the way that medicine enters our lives. This book will be of interest to historians of medicine, business historians, health economists, scholars in medical humanities, and more.

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981108159X

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ECONned: How Unenlightened Self Interest Undermined Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism

By: Yves Smith

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ECONned: How Unenlightened Self Interest Undermined Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism

By: Yves Smith

ECONned examines the unquestioned role of economists as policy-makers, and how they helped create an unmitigated economic disaster. Why are we in such a financial mess today? There are lots of proximate causes: over-leverage, global imbalances, bad financial technology that lead to widespread underestimation of risk. But these are all symptoms. Until we isolate and tackle fundamental causes, we will fail to extirpate the disease. Here, Yves Smith looks at how economists in key policy positions put doctrine before hard evidence, ignoring the deteriorating conditions and rising dangers that eventually led them, and us, off the cliff and into financial meltdown. Intelligently written for the layman, Smith takes us on a terrifying investigation of the financial realm over the last twenty-five years of misrepresentations, naive interpretations of economic conditions, rationalizations of bad outcomes, and rejection of clear signs of growing instability. In eConned, author Yves Smith reveals: --why the measures taken by the Obama Administration are mere palliatives and are unlikely to pave the way for a solid recovery --how economists have come to play a profoundly anti-democratic role in policy --how financial models and concepts that were discredited more than thirty years ago are still widely used by banks, regulators, and investors --how management and employees of major financial firms looted them, enriching themselves and leaving the mess to taxpayers --how financial deregulation enabled predatory behavior by Wall Street towards investors --how economics has no theory of financial systems, yet economists fearlessly prescribe how to manage them

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0230114563

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Law as Reproduction and Revolution

An Interconnected History

By: Yves Dezalay,Bryant G. Garth

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Law as Reproduction and Revolution

An Interconnected History

By: Yves Dezalay,Bryant G. Garth

Introduction : Legal revolutions, cosmopolitan legal elites, and interconnected histories -- Learned law, legal education, social capital, and states : European Geneses of these relationships and the enduring role of family capital -- Legal hybrids, corporate law firms, the Langdellian Revolution in legal education, and the Construction of a U.S.-oriented international justice through an alliance of U.S. corporate lawyers with European professors -- Social and neo-liberal revolutions in the United States -- India : an embattled senior bar, the marginalization of legal knowledge, and an internationalized challenge -- Hong Kong as a paradigm case : an open market for corporate law firms and the technologies of legal education reform as Chinese hegemony grows -- South Korea and Japan : contrasting attacks through legal education reform on the traditional conservative and insular bar -- Legal education, international strategies, and rebuilding the value of legal capital in China / coauthored with Zhizhou Wang -- Conclusion : Combining social capital with learned capital: competing on different imperial paths.

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Univ of California Press

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0520382714

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9780520382718

Ajouts aux Commentaires sur la Société du Spectacle de Guy Debord

By: Yves Raynaud

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Ajouts aux Commentaires sur la Société du Spectacle de Guy Debord

By: Yves Raynaud

Ajouts aux Commentaires sur la Société du Spectacle de Guy Debord obéit au souhait de Debord d'une actualisation de son opération de chirurgie sur la société spectaculaire marchande commencée en 1966, actualisée en 1988. Rien n'est venu l'actualiser depuis sa mort en 1994. En voici une tentative...

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130

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Lulu.com

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1326019074

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9781326019075

Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume

By: Yves Saint Laurent

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Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume

By: Yves Saint Laurent

Retrospective exhibition of twenty-five years of ... [Yves Saint Laurent's] work ... This book, published in connection with the exhibition, features over two hundred of Saint Laurent's couture designs, more than seventy in full color ... Also included is a fully illustrated survey of Saint Laurent's work photographed in black and white by Pierre Boulat and Nicholas Vreeland, supplemented by historically important photographs published in the fashion magazines of the era taken by such renowned photographers as Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Bert Stern, Neal Barr, and Bill King"--Cover.

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194

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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0870993607

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9780870993602

Full Circle Hero

By: Alan Yves Phillips

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Full Circle Hero

By: Alan Yves Phillips

Full Circle Hero is the story of two men from notably different generations. A gulf of space and time divides them. One yearns to earn his rightful legacy, but more importantly restore a connection of love long lost. The other seeks to find meaning to recent unexplained events in his life. Through persistence and determination the younger of the two prevails, bridging the gap and bringing to light the long deserved recognition of a deed performed that helped to change the outcome of World War II and bring closure to a love story denied by a single tragic event. The story weaves through riddle-like threads touching numerous lives past and present while restoring lost honor to one of the many World War II unsung heroes. Time does not rest nor does the story as a surprise ending adds a personal connection to the narrative author/character and his own beginnings. Be prepared to share a journey that unites generations, celebrates love and opens the windows of discovery.

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AuthorHouse

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1449000266

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9781449000264

From Global to Metanational

How Companies Win in the Knowledge Economy

By: Yves L. Doz,José Santos,Peter J. Williamson

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From Global to Metanational

How Companies Win in the Knowledge Economy

By: Yves L. Doz,José Santos,Peter J. Williamson

For all interested in what it means to "go global," Doz (global technology and innovation) and his colleagues at INSEAD distinguish metanational from multinational companies and discuss how such companies (e.g., Nokia) innovate by effectively tapping globally dispersed knowledge about technology and consumer trends. They specify capabilities that this new breed of business needs to build and knowledge prospecting strategies. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Harvard Business Press

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0875848702

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Riding Sky High

A Bicycle Adventure Around the World

By: Pierre-Yves Tremblay

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Riding Sky High

A Bicycle Adventure Around the World

By: Pierre-Yves Tremblay

Many dream of dropping everything and just traveling around the world. It’s a common dream, but few imagine embarking on that journey by bicycle. Exposed to the elements, legs burning, all your possessions strapped to you and your bicycle—it doesn’t paint a relaxing picture, but this is just what Pierre-Yves Tremblay did. Leaving his hometown of Chicoutimi, Quebec, in July 1994, Tremblay took a flight to Europe, and from Paris hopped on his bike and went for a long ride around the world that lasted all of 836 days. He traveled through Europe, past the deserts of the Middle East, then braved the Himalayas, and rode through Southeast Asia and the wilds of Australia, before finishing his journey biking across the United States and arriving back home in Canada. Besides the sheer physical effort, this epic adventure is about a person confronting himself, alone, with his bike, encountering life, its possibilities and limits, dealing with emotions and everything that compels him to keep going and persevere. It means exchanging greetings and sharing moments with people from many different cultures. It means overcoming hundreds of pitfalls only to keep on going. Fifteen and a half thousand miles later, this modern-day Ulysses invites us to read the precious journals he kept on his odyssey. Here you’ll find out what really pushes great achievers to their limits.

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