Seraph of the end Tome 23
Extraits
Non classé
Steering and Auditing
The purpose of this book is to evaluate the functioning of the management by results (MbR) reform in the Finnish public administration, especially from the point of view of parliamentary steering and auditing : how the relations between the parliamentary actors and public administration have developed since the reform. The question is analysed using documents and expert interviews. The book indicates that the shift to the MbR system has meant in many cases a shift to a new, more flexible way to steer the administration. However, the reform is not yet complete from the point of view of parliamentary steering and auditing. The information on the realization of the civil service agencies' and state institutions' result targets could be forwarded more effectively to the ministries. Thus far the management reform insufficiently enables the realization of parliamentary steering and auditing.
09/1997
Non classé
Place of the Sacred
There has been a heated international debate over Salman Rushdie's book The Satanic Verses ever since its publication in 1988. The present work examines the ways in which this affair has developed. From the beginning, one can find strong rhetorical emphases ; these are shown to argue for maintenance of meaningful boundaries. The thesis of Kuortti's book is that on each side of the debate, people use similar language to argue for the sanctity of their convictions. This is evident especially in the opposition between the arguments for the sacrality of Islam and literature. In the international exchange, how could we then find more respectful ways of acknowledging that we are not that dissimilar from each other ?
07/1997
Non classé
Learner Language and Control
This book presents four closely related reports on the lay-out, data collection and results of a research project on the acquisition of German as a Foreign Language by adult students. A critical description is given of the course of the extensive data collection and the successes and difficulties encountered. This is followed by a theoretical paper in which a model of the production process in second language performance is postulated and discussed. Sections three and four describe analyses of spontaneous self-corrections as evidence of the learner's control of his speech process, which takes into account the influence of individual and linguistic variables.
12/1982
Non classé
Foreign Devils
Foreign Devils investigates representations of exile in Hollywood cinema from 1930 to 1956 through the films of Peter Lorre, Béla Lugosi, and Conrad Veidt. This book dispels the assumption that by virtue of its hegemonic, reactionary, and exclusionary modes of representation, otherness is excluded from or only obliquely alluded to in classical Hollywood cinema. This book contends that Hollywood uses European émigré actors to speak of the experience of exile and the often-futile exilic attempts at integration into the host nation. This original, cross-disciplinary study incorporates a number of research interests in film studies – specifically Hollywood cinema, exile and émigré filmmakers, the Golden Age of the studio system, the Universal Horror cycle, and Poverty Row filmmaking. Foreign Devils combines the close reading of key texts with a theoretical framework that encompasses body theory and theories of space and nation with historical accounts of immigration to the United States and American concepts of nationhood through the symbolism of blood and death studies. Film studies students and academics, both undergraduate and postgraduate, as well as scholars in other disciplines, and anyone with an interest in Hollywood cinema, Central European culture in the 1930s-1950s, and European emigration to the United States will benefit from reading this book. Foreign Devils is also a valuable resource for courses in Hollywood filmmaking, émigré film, exile, Central European culture, nationalism studies, and Jewish studies.
01/2013
Non classé
Walter of Châtillon's Alexandreis Book 10 - A Commentary
The final and most important book of Walter of Châtillon's Alexandreis is examined as a paradigm for both the compositional techniques and the meaning of the whole poem. These techniques are shown as being reliant on the medieval arts of composition, the strategies inherited from the Biblical paraphrasts and the strict discipline of classical epic hexameter. The author shows that Walter of Châtillon is not simply a classicising epigone of Vergil, but a master poet refining contemporary epic techniques and incorporating scientific and philosophic materials into an elegant moral diatribe against arrogance.
08/1991
Critique littéraire
Revue de littérature comparée N° 355, 3/2015
Salvatore COSTANZA, "Les oreilles ont dû vous tinter" . Fortune littéraire d'un thème folklorique de Lucien à Proust, RLC LXXXIX, n° 3, juillet-septembre 2015, p. 257-268. On examine ici la fortune littéraire d'un thème folklorique tel que le tintement des oreilles censé être un mouvement fatidique, d'où l'on pouvait tirer des pronostics sur l'avenir des individus. Il faut remarquer que ce motif est toujours employé chez les Grecs, Lucien, Aristhénète et dans la Recherche avec la même fonction. Au coeur d'une affaire amoureuse une femme en tant que médiatrice "révèle" à l'amant tourmenté par la jalousie que sa bien-aimée lui est toujours fidèle, qu'elle a sans cesse parlé de lui, donc les oreilles ont dû lui tinter. Il est intéressant de voir cet argument tiré de la superstition des tintements des oreilles, c'est-à-dire de l'otomancie, chez M. Proust, qui l'emploie toujours pour apaiser les troubles d'un amant abusé. C'est encore une fois le canevas déjà écrit par ses anciens prédécesseurs. Caroline BELOT GONDAUD, La Figure du couple machiavélique. A propos des "couples scélérats" de Shakespeare, Laclos, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Zola, Henry James, James M. Cain, Boileau-Narcejac, Ian McEwan et Ron Rash, RLC LXXXIX, n° 3, juillet-septembre 2015, p. 269-280. La figure du couple machiavélique est présente dans des oeuvres aussi diverses que Macbeth, Les Liaisons dangereuses, Les Diaboliques, The Portrait of A Lady et dans bon nombre de romans policiers. La façon dont la figure est mise en scène, mise en récit, crée une véritable dramaturgie du mal. Le couple machiavélique apparaît bien comme une figure de l'amour et du mal : dans sa version shakespearienne, elle est une réécriture du scénario biblique de la Chute et, dans sa version laclosienne, le marqueur d'une profonde dégradation de l'idéal courtois de l'amour. Mario ZANUCCHI, La Crise du symbolisme. La réception de Baudelaire et Verlaine dans la poésie de Walter Wenghöfer, RLC LXXXIX, n° 3, juillet-septembre 2015, p. 281-298. Le but de cet article est d'étudier la réception de Charles Baudelaire et de Paul Verlaine dans l'oeuvre d'un poète du cercle de Stefan George, qui jusqu'à maintenant a été ignoré par l'historiographie littéraire allemande : Walter Wenghöfer. L'étude de reception est étayée et précisée par l'analyse intertextuelle et intermédiale de poèmes exemplaires. De cette manière, la contribution reconstruit la crise de la poétique symboliste dans la poésie allemande de la "fin du siècle" . En outre, il montre comment Wenghöfer - à travers la dépotentialisation esthétique des figures d'autorité symbolistes - anticipe la critique que l'expressionnisme allemand adresse au symbolisme. Christine QUEFFELLEC, "La vie imite rarement l'Art" : Gemma Bovery, entre Flaubert et Wilde, RLC LXXXIX, n° 3, juillet-septembre 2015, p. 299-308. Gemma Bovery, roman graphique de Posy Simmonds se veut une parodie du roman de Flaubert, Madame Bovary, transposé à la fin du XXe siècle. Le narrateur, séduit par Emma Bovary dont il partage les aspirations romantiques, imagine que le destin de ses voisins, Charlie et Gemma Bovery, va se calquer sur celui des personnages flaubertiens et que la vie va imiter l'art, comme le souhaitait Oscar Wilde. Il s'apercevra qu'il s'est trompé. Ce roman invite à une réflexion sur la lecture et sur les rapports entre la littérature et la vie. L'adaptation cinématographique d'Anne Fontaine infléchit quelque peu le sens de l'oeuvre en conférant au film une unité de ton et de style que l'écrivaine avait voulu briser et en se rapprochant du roman français. Salvatore COSTANZA, "Les oreilles ont dû vous tinter" : the literary fortune of a folkloric theme, from Lucien to Proust, RLC LXXXIX (in French), no. 3, julysept. 2015, p. 257-268. We examine the survival of a folklore theme centered around the observation of buzzing in one's ears. Ringing was considered as a fateful movement and was comprised among the observations for divinatory ends. The relationship between the buzzing in one's ears and the belief that one subsequently became the object of other people's speech appears in Lucian of Samosata (second century A. D.) and in his later revival given by sixth century's epistolographer Aristaenetus. In this respect, a striking parallel is provided in modern French literature by Proust's Recherche. In every case a woman acting as mediator "reveals" someone that his beloved is always true to him and she was endless speaking of him. Consequently, something should have buzzed in his ears. It is interesting to remark, that such an argument drawn from superstition about buzzing in one's ears, that is, otomancy, still recurs in M. Proust with respect to abused lover's troubles. It is clearly the same plot, as his Greek antecedents have already used. Caroline BELOT GONDAUD, The Figure of the Machiavellian Couple, RLC LXXXIX (in French), no. 3, july-sept. 2015, p. 269-280. The figure of the machiavellian couple appears in Macbeth and Les Liaisons dangereuses, Les Diaboliques, The Portrait of A Lady as well as in various detective novels. The way it is told and staged creates a dramaturgy of evil. The Machiavellian couple can be interpreted as a mere figure of love and evil which rewrites, in its Shakespearean version, the biblical narrative of the Fall while the couple of Laclos signals the deep deterioration of the ideal of love in a courtly meaning. Mario ZANUCCHI, The crisis of Symbolism. The reception of Baudelaire and Verlaine in the poetry of Walter Wenghöfer, RLC LXXXIX (in French), no. 3, julysept. 2015, p. 281-298. The aim of this article is to study the reception of Charles Baudelaire and Paul Verlaine in the work of a poet from Stefan George's circle, who has been ignored by the German literary historiography until now : Walter Wenghöfer. The reception study is supported and clarified by the intertextual and intermedial analysis of exemplary poems. In this way, the contribution reconstructs the crisis of symbolist poetics in the German poetry of the < fin du siècle >. Furthermore it shows how through the aesthetic depotentialization of symbolist authorities Wenghofer anticipates expressionist criticism of the symbolist poetics. Christine QUEFFELLEC, "Life rarely imitates Art" : Gemma Bovery between Flaubert and Wilde, RLC LXXXIX (in French), no. 3, july-sept. 2015, p. 299-308. Gemma Bovery, Posy Simonds's graphic novel, is a parody of Flaubert's Madame Bovary, transposed into the end of the 20th century. The narrator, seduced by Emma Bovary, whose romantic aspirations he shares, imagines that his neighbours, Charlie and Gemma Bovery, will experience the same fate as Flaubert's characters and that life will imitate art, in accordance with Oscar Wilde's hopes. He will realize that he was wrong. This novel induces us to reflect on reading and the relationship between literature and life. The film adaptation by Anne Fontaine distorts somewhat the book's meaning, giving a unity of style and tone that the English writer had wanted to break down in order to draw closer to Flaubert's novel.
12/2015
Non classé
Revolution's Urban Landscape
What are the implications of "change" as assessed from a Revolution's discourse point of view ? Did Revolution in its Eastern European mode "happen" only to make its once heroic agents "vulgar banana eaters" (Slavoj Zizek)? To what extent is/was Revolution part of the globalization process (Americanization)? The answer of this book is that it constituted a series of occurrences of both contingency and continuation. It is Romanian Revolution as a metonymic and creative space, incorporating the Event (here the city of Bucharest, December 1989-1990), the Memory (refiguration of identities), the Contact zone (the street as a public place), and the Local-Global (the East-West dialectics) that Revolution's Urban Landscape discusses in much detail. Through combining and analysing materials from both the local cultural field and the international press (witness reports, journalistic documentation, travelogues, fiction, academic publishing, graffiti, etc.), Raoul Granqvist demonstrates a number of aspects of Revolution's self-reflexivity, vitality and amorphousness. The Romanian book industry, through its absorption and introduction of new areas of popular reading (such as the American romance), embodies, this book explains, the basic instincts of Revolution towards openness and interaction.
11/1999
Décoration
Japanese Floral Stencil Designs
The exquisite floral motifs in this outstanding collection, selected from authentic Japanese sources, evolved through a centuries-old decorative-arts tradition. There are 135 designs, each reflecting the subtle mastery with which Japanese artists captured the freshness and delicacy of flowers, leaves and vines and composed them in a dense, masterfully balanced pattern.
The flowers and leafy branches featured in the designs include those traditionally associated with Japanese art-the chrysanthemum, the peony, cherry and plum blossoms, bamboo, wisteria and maple leaves among them. Clearly printed in black and white, these beautiful copyright-free illustrations are ready to use as the basis for designs for wallpaper and textiles, batiks and woodblock prints, graphics, needlework and many other arts and crafts.
01/1991
Non classé
Ambivalence and Irony in the Works of Joseph Roth
Did Joseph Roth, the socialist, revolutionary and sceptic, become a monarchist, reactionary and believer ? This work attributes the contradictory manifestations in the life and personality of Roth to the attitude of ambivalence and irony that characterised him and his generation. The historical and intellectual situation that led to the dominance of this attitude and Roth's susceptibility to it due to the circumstances of his life are discussed. A meticulous study of Roth's letters, journalistic work and novels follows substantiating the thesis advanced.
12/1984
Photographie
Les graines du monde
His knowledge, tenacity and eloquence still resound in the corridors of the Institute which bears his name in Saint Petersburg and his spirit continues to inspire the hundreds of researchers pursuing his work. He had anticipated the disappearance of plant diversity, and, within the space of a few decades, he studied and travelled throughout the world and found the means of saving it. For political and idealogical reasons, Nikolai Vavilov was condemned to death and left to starve in the dungeon of a Soviet prison. Gradually, on both sides of the iron curtain, his memory began to fade. One hundred years after Vavilov's first expedition, the photographer Mario Del Curto retraced his footsteps. For four years he has been meeting those who, despite overwhelming obstacles, perpetuate Vavilov's seed prospec- tion, selection, and conservation work in order to save the planet's staple food crops. This book is the unprecedented story of his journey to the heart of the Vavilov Institute and its twelve research stations. International special- ists bring light to the huge scope of the work undertaken by Vavilov and his successors.
10/2019
Non classé
Participation and Litigation Rights of Environmental Associations in Europe
This book assembles the revised papers of an international conference and thus offers a comprehensive comparative overview of the participation and litigation rights of environmental associations in Europe. This is supplemented by a compilation of the relevant statutory law in force. Besides the legal background, the focus of interest is above all on practical experience with participation and litigation rights from the point of view of the environmental associations.The contributions show that the effectivity of group actions is extremely high. In none of the analysed countries were there the slightest indications of any undue strain being placed on the judicial system by this instrument. There can be no doubt that the participation and litigation rights of environmental organizations are important instruments in reducing the enforcement deficit in environmental protection. With a view to the fact that Europe is growing more and more into one entity, the need of participation of environmental NGO's on the European level becomes a pressing necessity.
10/1991
Sciences politiques
Putin, game master?
Has Vladimir Putin become the master of the game ? Why and how did the Russian President decide to attack Ukraine ? Did he seek to prevent Ukraine from associating with Europe ? Does he seek to reconstitute the USSR ? Did NATO promise not to expand east after 1990 ? Is the Nord Stream 2 project the sinews of war ? Is Ukraine's neutrality the only solution ? Has Russia ever lost or won the war ? ... Based on the files of the intelligence services and official reports, Jacques Baud thus reviews the events of the recent history of Russia, which led to the war with Ukraine ; it analyzes the various disputes between the West and Russia, and sheds light on the role that Putin plays today on the international scene. Jacques Baud is a former member of Swiss strategic intelligence, a specialist in Eastern European countries and head of United Nations peace operations doctrine. He was engaged in negotiations with top Russian military and intelligence officials right after the fall of the USSR. Within NATO, he participated in programs in Ukraine and in particular after the Maidan revolution in 2014 and 2017. He is the author of several books on intelligence, war and terrorism, and in particular Governing by fake news and The Navalny affair, published by Max Milo.
11/2022
Non classé
Cultural Democracy and Ethnic Pluralism
This book presents a wide variety of approaches to and attitudes towards multiculturalism on the level of language, on the level of education and on the level of policy making. Several of the chapters refer specifically to Australia, since that country has taken the bold step of defining what it understands by the term 'multicultural'. This book, however, also takes the reader to Europe, South-Africa, Canada and Japan. Without exception the authors embrace a humanistic approach to sociology, which includes the notion of cultural core values and the desirability of creating an overarching framework of shared values in multicultural states.
08/1997
Droit
Le droit administratif français
French administrative law is living law, in a context. Définition and history. Instruments and methods. Scope : the administrative law institutions (the concept of corporate body, the state, the other public law agencies, the private agencies which perform public duties) ; the concept of public service (context, extension). Basic principles : prérogatives (powers, protection) ; constraints (the principles of legality and responsibility). The civil service : catégories (diversity of employers and status) ; careers (recruitment, stages, ending) ; ethics (duties, political and social rights). Judicial control : its organization (the dudity of jurisdictions, the organization of administrative justice) ; its functioning (rules of procédure, efficacy).
06/1984
Non classé
The Phantom and the Abyss
The book focuses on the evolution of the Gothic fiction in America from Charles Brockden Brown to Herman Melville in the context of the aesthetics of the sublime. Starting with a reading of Brown's Gothic romances – Wieland and Edgar Huntly – and concluding with an analysis of Melville's Pierre, the author demonstrates the relevance of the Kantian concept of the sublime for the nineteenth-century American literature of horror. An inspiration to present the development of the American Gothic in the period under scrutiny as a coherent process has been also the psychoanalytic theory of Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok. Moreover, the study contains an attempt to place R.H. Dana, Sr and W. Allston in the American literary canon.
11/1999
Biographies
A Census of Rabelais Copies (1532-1626) with some Additions and Corrections to the New Rabelais Bibliography. Etudes rabelaisiennes, tome LXII
This Census of Rabelais Copies reflects the digital revolution in library cataloguing, incorporating a complete rechecking for early Rabelais copies, notably in the Worldcat database. Every copy recorded has been further verified in the catalogues of the individual libraries concerned. Alongside numerous corrections and additions to the 1987 publication, based on excellent bibliographical and more general scholarship, this Census increases the total number of known copies of Rabelais, dated between 1532 and 1626, and in public hands, from about 750 to nearly 1100, of which well over 100 are available for consultation online. Of particular interest are the discovery of nine copies of the Almanach pour l'an 1535 (NRB 095), the discovery of a previously un-recorded edition by Rabelais of Hippocrates's Prognostikon (NRB 109.5), and the re-emergence in Moscow of the Pantagruel of 1533 (NRB 007), with the Chonicques du grant Roy Gargantua (NRB 122) and the Pantagrueline prognostication (NRB 016) previously recorded in Dresden.
03/2024
Comics Super-héros
Destiny of X Tome 23
Bishop à l'honneur ! Pour protéger Krakoa, le policier du futur forme une nouvelle génération de X-Men. Mais les dangers n'attendront pas qu'ils aient leur diplôme ! Bienvenue aux nouveaux Nouveaux Mutants : Félina et Karma s'élancent aux côtés de jeunes recrues... puissent-elles survivre à l'expérience ! Captain Britain vit de nouvelles aventures et la nouvelle équipe X-Force doit affronter une menace venue du futur. Encore deux nouvelles séries ce mois-ci : War College donne le beau rôle à Bishop et Lethal Legion propose une nouvelle version des Nouveaux Mutants. Regardez droit devant vous. Ce que vous voyez ? Le gigantesque crossover Fall of X qui arrive courant du premier semestre 2024 !
12/2023
Thèmes photo
Les belles moissons de nos grands-parents
Les fêtes des moissons à l'ancienne, qui fleurissent au mois d'août, nous font redécouvrir l'histoire de nos campagnes, celle de nos grands-parents, les années 40-50-60. Epoque d'une vie intense dans les fermes, il fallait beaucoup de bras pour moissonner une parcelle avec les outils de ces années-là, les paysans s'entraidaient dans la chaleur de l'été, de manière à terminer avant le retour de la pluie. The old-fashioned harvest festivals, which take place in August, give us a chance to rediscover the history of our countryside, that of our grandparents in the 40s, 50s and 60s. It was a time of intense life on the farms, when many hands were needed to harvest a plot of land with the tools of those years, and the farmers helped each other in the heat of the summer, so as to finish before the rains returned.
09/2023
Physique, chimie
What is energy?
The word 'energy' was used to confuse me. I know that energy is. It is the capacity of a physical system to perform work, the ability to do work. Work is moving something against a force. I also know that without energy life cannot exist. At the same time, I could not picture Energy in my mind to better understand what it is. This book is design to given you a concrete understandasing of that energy is. Remember in reallity, no one can see, touch or observe energy. We can only constact the presence of energy by mouvement, motion and mesure it by its speed. We shall use this opportunity to introduce you to a pattern, the geometric shape torus that holds the key to the fuel of the future, to the world that works for everyone - Clean and universal energy. I consider the torus to be the best ever explanation of our evolutionary process. Evolution means to enfold, to roll out. The question is what the universe is rolling out ? I realised that we are not a mistake, we are simply mistaken. We have been blended to our brilliance, ignorance to our genius, unaware of our true power and magnificence. The Torus, the Zero Point Energy Field = Creation Story
01/2016
Non classé
The History and some Problems of Television Service in Anambra State of Nigeria
The television medium has reached the heights of complication. This complication is the aftereffect of the fact that broadcasting in itself (both TV and Radio) recognizes little or no boundaries. Broadcasting breaks the boundaries of, inter alia, political, cultural, linguistic, socio-economical and socio-psychological identities. It reaches extensive "possibilities" embracing, collecting and connecting nationalities and people, languages and cultures. This situation must continue to raise the question why such a global-transcontinental and transnational communications' "inter-flux". This work is in this context an aid towards possible solutions of the present question on the TV-medium. The interest of this work can be said to be the presentation of facts that brought Anambra State of Nigeria to this "embrace" of the world's extensive television technology.
12/1986
Guides pratiques
Cycling the ruta via de la plata
2 weeks from Seville to Gijón ; 6-day option along Camino Sanabrés to Santiago ; road and off-road routes ; 8 UNESCO world heritage sites. The Ruta Via de la Plata is one of Spain's most important pilgrim routes. This 930km ride from the southern coarta plain, across the central plateau and over the Cantabrian Mountains to the north coast is the perfect way to sample the country. Along the way there is the chance to visit notable towns an, cities – such as Seville, Mérida, Cáceres Salamanca, Leon, Zamora, Oviedo an Santiago de Compostela. Mainly empty roads and gentle climbs make this rout accessible for a wide range of cyclists. With fantastic cycling, cultura and historic interest and great food, the Ruta Via de la Plata is sure to delight. This guidebook describes both road and off-road routes and how to combine the two for a perfect touring, hybrid or gravel cycling trip. Best cycled in spring and autumn ; suitable for touring, hybrid or gravel bikes ; advice on equipment, travel and transporting your bike.
04/2022
Non classé
Macrodynamics
This book on macrodynamic theories of growth, (in-)stability and cycles shows that the debate between Keynesians, Monetarists and New Classical economists can be reformulated from the perspective of a further and quite different approach to macroeconomic model building. Basis of this reformulation is the growth cycle model of Goodwin which is extended in various ways in the pursuit of this aim. Besides this central theme, the book also introduces into Keynesian, Marxian and Neoclassical models of short-, medium- and long-run macroeconomics in its part I, II. Models which synthesize these approaches and which thus provide a (deterministic) framework for the investigation of the adequateness of the various explanations of cyclical growth and inflation are considered in part III.
08/1993
Non classé
Preventive Action for Refugee Producing Situations
This book provides an empirical analysis rather than a theoretical framework of refugee situations during the Cold War. It focuses on potential refugee-producing situations with a view to prevent occurances where refugees are exploited as a weapon in political strife. In order to forestall the violation of individual rights, the book proposes measures to prevent refugee situations from arising, however, not to prevent persecuted individuals from seeking protection. This second edition shows in its revised parts that the proposals for prevention, including on mediation, early warning, and information-sharing are all being implemented. Developments since the publication of the first edition have entirely changed the international political climate. Prevention has moved to the top of the agenda of the United Nations and individual states alike. Progress achieved in the area of human rights and political climate. Prevention has moved to the top of the agenda of the United Nations and indivivual states alike. Progress achieved in the area of human rights and development, humanitarian assistance and intervention, peacekeeping and peacemaking offer new possibilities and challenges for prevention and peace. The international community should move forcefully now while almost global cooperation is possible to institutionalize new prevention and intervention approaches to save lives and to prevent future abuses of human rights and forced population displacement. The Cold War may have finished but war, internal and crossborder, is still alive.
07/1993
Sciences de la terre et de la
Green Plants. Their Origin and Diversity, 2nd Edition
The central theme of Green Plants is the astonishing diversity of forms found in the plant kingdom, from the simplicity of prokaryotic algae to the myriad complexities of flowering plants. To help the reader appreciate this remarkable diversity, the book is arranged according to generally accepted classification schemes, beginning with algae (both prokaryotic and eukaryotic) and moving through liverworts, hornworts, mosses, fern allies, ferns and gymnosperms to flowering plants. Copiously illustrated throughout with clear line diagrams and instructive photographs, Green Plants provides a concise account of all algae and land plants, with information on topics from cellular structure to life cycles and reproduction. The authors maintain a refreshingly cautious and objective approach in discussions of possible phylogenetic relationships. Newly emerging information on features of plants known only as fossils is included, providing as complete a history as possible of the plant kingdom. Throughout the book there are many references to ultrastructural and physiological features which relate growth and form to current concepts in the study of plant development. This new edition has been completely updated to reflect current views on the origin of the major groups of plants and includes information arising from more recently developed techniques such as cladistic analyses. As such, it provides an up-to-date and timely resource for students of botany, and also for researchers needing a comprehensive reference to the plant kingdom.
01/2000
Physique, chimie
Statistics and Chemometrics for Analytical Chemistry. 4th edition
This popular textbook gives a clear and lucid account of the underlying principles of statistical methods. The fourth edition has been revised and updated to reflect the growing popularity of statistics and chemometric methods and new approaches in optimisation and experimental design. The authors have also addressed the quality of analytical chemistry data and experimental results, an area of increasing concern to chemists testing the safety of food and medicines.
Key features of the new edition:
- Expanded material to create new chapters on "Experimental Design and Optimisation" and "Multivariate Analysis"
- Completely new chapter on "The Quality of Analytical Measurements"
- Revised questions with complete solutions throughout the text
- Updated worked examples including calculations performed using Microsoft Excel and Minitab
- Glossary and a flow chart to guide readers in their choice of significance tests
- Instructors' manual and companion website available.
This book will suit undergraduate, M.Sc. and graduate courses in Analytical Chemistry and related topics, and will also be valuable for researchers and chemists working in analytical chemistry everywhere.
01/2000
Non classé
Environmentally Sound Waste Management?
This book assembles the revised papers presented to an international working conference on international waste policy convened by the Environmental Law Network International (ELNI) in May 1991 in Germany. The focus is placed on EC, national and regional waste management law, and implementation and practice in 15 countries of Europe. This is supplemented by analyses of relevant organisations and rich statistical material ; thus offers a unique comparative overview. The pan-European perspective shows a serious risk of "eco-dumping", i.e. the export of waste to countries with lower disposal standard. On the EC level, the conference was presented with substantial evidence of non-implementation of existing legislation in Member States. Therefore "global domestic policy" must become the guiding principle of national and international regulation and one of the main tasks of environmental organizations. In this spirit, it was agreed that in future a Europe-wide continued exchange of information and experience shall take place between the NGOs in the field of waste.
03/1993
Anglais apprentissage
Sophie's Choice. William Styron
Sophie's Choice has met a tremendous success since publication in 1979 and has been
translated in many languages, including Japanese and Russian; it bas been made into
a movie by Alan Pakula, with Meryl Streep in the unforgettable leading rote, and even gave birth to an opera. As usual William Styron gets down to brass tacks with one of the most awe-inspiring themes of the twentieth century: the final solution and the horror of the death-camps. In this bilingual study the emphasis is laid on the complexity of the narrative technique, the link between sexuality and violence, and the entanglement of historical, religious, philosophical and psychoanalytical references that make up the fabric of personal drama and human tragedy that Sophie's Choice
represents.
10/2004
Non classé
East Tennessee Folk Speech
Based on the Idiolect Synopses of the basic materials of the linguistic atlas of the gulf states, this summary offers the first interpretation of evidence gathered in southeastern United States, 1968-80. The phonological, morphological and lexical data outlines a principal source of the speech of the Upper South. Although primarily a South Midland dialect, East Tennessee folk speech shows a complex regional and social structure that includes relics and innovations with patterns that distinguish this subregion from the dominant forms of American English spoken in the South and elsewhere.
12/1983
Informatique
USING STAROFFICE
- Make the most of the integrated StarOffice environment
- Create standard documents and templates quickly and easily with the AutoPilot wizards
- Export documents and graphics as HTML files and publish them on the Web
- Create professional-looking documents with styles and templates
- Streamline your workflow with automated functions, including AutoComplete, AutoFormat, and AutoCorrect
- Add hyperlinks and graphic objects to your documents
- Enhance text and presentation documents with special font and 3D effects, 3D graphics, and sounds
- Work with vector graphics and bitmapped images and use basic and advanced drawing functions
- Get connected and organized with StarMail and StarSchedule
- Customize every aspect of your StarOffice desktop
- Manage contacts with the built-in Address Book
- Automate your workflow by using macros
- Troubleshoot common and not-so-common problems when working on documents
- Install and manage StarOffice for multiple users
11/1999
Sociologie
The Influence of Communication on Physiology and Health
There is a significant amount of research that substantiates the connection between social support/relationships and the development, onset, and/or recovery of several physical diseases/illnesses. Research has shown, for example, that an unhappy marriage can increase the likelihood of becoming ill by 35% while stressful communication can lead to an increase in cardiovascular reactivity which in turn increases the risk of coronary heart disease and premature mortality. This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the influences of communication on physiology and physical health status occurring in a variety of contexts, from families, interpersonal relationships, and public speaking to sport fandom, affection, fear, and the escalation of conflict. It offers a broad and up-to-date review of the relevant literature in this area of study.
04/2014
