“…L'ouvrage porte sur les représentations de l'Orient - de l'Europe orientale à l'Inde et à la Chine en passant par le Proche-Orient - dans de grandes revues généralistes françaises et francophones des années 1830 aux années 1960. Il adopte une perspective chronologique mettant en valeur les reconfigurations des imaginaires et l'orientation générale d'une évolution, non sans retours nostalgiques, qui mène du paradigme orientaliste à une perception plus étatique et nationale de l'Orient en situation coloniale. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Babel of Drugs: on the Consequences of Evidential Pluralism in Pharmaceutical Regulation and Regulatory Data Journeys (N Tempini and D Teira) -- Part IV: Interlude -- Chapter 12. Most Often, What Is Transmitted is Transformed (T Porter) -- Part V: Interpreting: Data Transformation, Analysis and Reuse -- Chapter 13. …”

“…Passeur d'idées, familier des « voies de transmissions » comme le cabinet Vieusseux à Florence et des postures transculturelles, Stendhal, qui a affirmé que la « Révolution entre en littérature » adopte une attitude critique qui sert de révélateur à la mosaïque de l'« Europe romantique », aux débats fondateurs entre « nation » et « Europe ». …”

“…As a character in "Le Poème du hashisch" and the Petits Poèmes en prose, "Rousseau" gives the grotesque a human form.Swain's literary, cultural, and historical analysis deepens our understanding of Baudelaire and of nineteenth-century aesthetics by relating Baudelaire's poetic theory and practice to Enlightenment debates about allegory and the grotesque in the arts. Offering a novel reading of Baudelaire's ambivalent engagement with the eighteenth-century, Grotesque Figures examines nineteenth-century ideological debates over French identity, Rousseau's political and artistic legacy, the aesthetic and political significance of the rococo, and the presence of the grotesque in the modern…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Part 1 – Overview on volcanic unrest -- Significance of unrest -- Past experiences -- Part 2 - Geophysical and geochemical insights on unrest and precursory activity -- Volcano Seismology: detecting unrest in wiggly lines -- Volcano geodesy and multiparameter investigations -- Volcanic gases and low temperature volcanic fluids -- MONITORING CAPACITY: obvious and hidden problems -- Part 3 – Magma dynamics: Lessons from experiments and models -- Storage and ascent of magma -- Magma rejuvenation: Insights from numerical models -- Crystals, bubbles and melt: critical conduit processes revealed by numerical models -- Interaction between magma and hydrothermal system -- The magma laboratory: Constraining unrest mechanisms -- From unrest to eruption: Conditions for phreatic vs. magmatic activity -- Geochemical and isotopic investigations in the light of unrest -- Magma mixing as a prelude to unrest -- Part 4 – Bridging the gap between science and decision-making -- Legal governance -- A Warner paper incl Cost benefit -- Recognizing and tracking volcanic unrest: a probabilistic approach -- Probabilistic tools for hazard assessment and risk management -- Deterministic vs. probabilistic forecasts -- Perspective on global practices of communication and decision-makers’ needs -- Social resilience and compliance during unrest crises -- Outreach and education -- Volcanic Unrest Simulation Exercises – guidance for future exercises -- Glossary -- INDEX…”

“…The authors of this book, consisting of two development economists and five practitioners, argue that the adoption of Kaizen management practices, which originated in Japan and have become widely used by manufacturers in advanced and emerging economies, is decisively the most effective first step for industrial development in Africa. …”

“…During the protests, penguins were reclaimed as one of the symbols, as the main television channels preferred to show documentaries about the lives of penguins, instead of the uprising in Turkey. …”

“…The volume's purpose is to present an analysis of standardisation processes and how it impacts on our thinking about risk, how we organise risk governance and how standardisation may influence on risk management. …”

“…What would lead someone to adopt such a radical viewpoint? Are the arguments in its favor defensible or plausible? …”

“…The stimulus for the change to mayoral control comes from big city mayors, business leaders, state and city appointed and elected officials, concerned about how the schools have contributed to the U.S. economy’s declining global competitiveness and social and economic problems of inner cities…”

“…To have been asked to adopt Professor Peter Schlechtriem’s German text book Internationales UN-Kaufrecht (4 ed, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, 2007) for the English speaking student, academic, and practitioner and to work with Professor Schlechtriem on this edition has been a great honour. …”

“…Contents - Core Concepts of Employer Branding - Contributions from Cross-Cultural Research - Employer Branding Strategy - Multilevel Analysis Target Groups - Researchers and students in the fields of employer branding, corporate branding, management, marketing, communications - Managers and experts with focus on employer branding, HR marketing, HR, corporate communications About the Author Lena Christiaans obtained her doctorate at the Chair in Corporate Management at Universität Hohenheim and currently works as a reputation manager in the Corporate Communications department of a DAX-30-company in Dusseldorf…”

“…Professor Hasso Plattner and his research group at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany, have been investigating and teaching the corresponding concepts and their adoption in the software industry for years. This book is based on the first online course on the openHPI e-learning platform, which was launched in autumn 2012 with more than 13,000 learners. …”

“…Written in nontechnical style throughout, with a mix of tutorial and essay-like contributions, this book will benefit all researchers, scientists, professionals and practitioners interested in learning about the 'thinking in complexity' to understand how socio-economic systems really work…”

“…The fundamental question of how an undifferentiated progenitor cell adopts a more specialized cell fate that then contributes to the development of specialized tissues, organs, organ systems and ultimately a unique individual of a given species has intrigued cell and developmental biologists for many years. …”

“…Reforms at Risk is the first book to closely examine what happens to sweeping and seemingly successful policy reforms after they are passed. Most books focus on the politics of reform adoption, yet as Eric Patashnik shows here, the political struggle does not end when major reforms become enacted. …”

“…Beyond Liberal Democracy is indispensable reading for students and scholars of political theory, Asian studies, and human rights, as well as anyone concerned about China's political and economic future and how Western governments and organizations should engage with China…”

“…In particular, it raises vital questions about virtual capital and artificial value. McDonald uses her study of the Lehman collapse to examine what is meant by economic value and how it should be identified and measured…”

“…À travers des processus de ritualisation, de « solennisation » et de formalisation, ce volume étudie la manière dont des actes de langage particuliers ont acquis la capacité de lier des personnes dans des unions durables (le mariage, l’alliance, l’adoption ou le contrat) ; de transmettre la connaissance du passé avec certitude et fidélité (le témoignage juridique) ; ou de garantir des actions à venir dans une totale confiance (le gage, la promesse et le vœu). …”

“…Features: Collects the ideas underpinning the inequalities of the spectral geometry, in both self-adjoint and non-self-adjoint operator theory, in a way accessible by anyone with a basic level of understanding of linear differential operators Aimed at theoretical as well as applied mathematicians, from a wide range of scientific fields, including acoustics, astronomy, MEMS, and other physical sciences Provides a step-by-step guide to the techniques of non-self-adjoint partial differential operators, and for the applications of such methods. …”