Synthesis of Inorganic Materials
Extraits
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
Décoration
Victorian Floral Designs in Full Color
Reflecting the broad range of accomplishment common among Victorian gentlemen, Frederick Edward Hulme (1841-1909) was the author of works on art, plants, heraldry, cryptography, proverbs, flags, wildflowers and other topics. In this rare volume of floral designs, he drew upon his botanical and artistic knowledge to create a host of motifs designed to instruct art students in the proper treatment of floral forms.
Over 230 copyright-free illustrations depict an attractive array of floral and foliate motifs in a striking variety of colors matched to a broad range of fanciful designs. Formats include borders, repeats, geometric forms, allover patterns and much more.
Bold in form and striking in their inspiration, these authentic Victorian designs are carefully reproduced here for practical and inspirational use by today's artists and craftspeople. Illustrators and graphic designers will also find a wealth of material for use in interior, advertising and textile design.
01/1994
Histoire de France
Italy and Tito’s Yugoslavia in the Age of International Détente
World War II and East-West confrontation redefined borders between Italy and Yugoslavia, reshaped national frontiers and adversely affected political relations. As a result, major quarrels and disputes arose over territorial claims, demarcation of State boundaries, expulsion of national minorities, and diverging visions on international and domestic politics. It was only in the 1960s and 1970s, during the years of Détente, that rapprochement between Rome and Belgrade became possible and normalization of bilateral relations was attained. Long-lasting territorial disputes, such as the Trieste question, were solved and bilateral relationship greatly improved, so much so that Belgrade became an important asset in Italy's Balkan and Adriatic strategy, while Rome was a sort of bridge between Socialist Yugoslavia and Western Europe. This book is intended to shed light on the process of Italian-Yugoslav normalization and rapprochement, which ultimately brought to the Adriatic Détente. Based on a wide collection of primary sources and documentary materials, it aims to contribute to a better understanding of the history of the Adriatic region, a conflicted European space that had been affected by territorial disputes and ethnic strife for decades during the 20th century.
11/1993
Non classé
Variation and Diachrony, with Early American English in Focus
This study of diachronic variation addresses two topics, the development of modal auxiliaries can (could), may (might), shall (should) and will (would), and the emergence of early American English as a new variety in the seventeenth century. Within the framework of socio-historical variation analysis, the author aims at accounting for diachronic change by examining the interplay of various linguistic and extra-linguistic factors in the light of evidence drawn from various corpora. The study concentrates on the language spoken and written in the New England area between 1620 and 1720, but to widen the scope in time and region, counterparts for comparison are found in the material included in the Helsinki Corpus of English Texts. The results indicate a gradual change (rather than a sudden re-structuring) in the system of the English modals from early stages on. Cumulative evidence is found for the rise of the forms can and will ; in early American English conservative (rather than innovative) tendencies characterize the development.
05/1991
Histoire militaire
Chars B au combat. Hommes et matériels du 15e BCC
En cette après-midi du 16 mai 1940, un groupe d'une vingtaine de chars B appartenant à l'armée française, des engins de 32 tonnes armés chacun d'un canon de 75 et d'un canon de 47 - ce qui fait d'eux le plus puissant matériel blindé existant dans le monde en 1940 - fait son approche sur une petite ville qui va bientôt entrer dans l'Histoire : Montcornet. Depuis l'avant-veille, l'ennemi a crevé le front et ouvert une brèche gigantesque dans le dispositif allié. Lancés en enfants perdus dans la trouée, les chars de bataille français ont une mission simple : "Détruisez tout sur votre passage", leur a simplement dit le bouillant général Giraud... Ce fait d'armes - qui précède de 24 heures l'action célèbre du colonel de Gaulle sur la même localité, avec des chars du même type -, est l'un des nombreux épisodes que ce livre retrace avec une exactitude rigoureuse et un saisissant souci du détail, appuyé sur les témoignages directs des combattants : les officiers, sous-officiers et chasseurs du 15e bataillon de chars de combat, appartenant à la 2e division cuirassée. Le présent ouvrage ne se limite cependant pas au récit, presque heure par heure, de la campagne 1939-1940 vécue jusqu'à son dernier souffle par une magnifique unité de première ligne. Il est aussi un recueil documentaire sans égal sur les hommes, leurs matériels, leurs uniformes et leurs insignes. En effet, ce quatrième tome de l'Encyclopédie de l'Armée française est illustré à profusion par une extraordinaire collection de photographies d'époque pieusement conservée dans les albums-souvenirs des Anciens du bataillon et réunie pour la première fois : plus de 500 documents, quasiment tous inédits, ont été rassemblés et parfaitement classés dans cet ouvrage en vue de constituer une véritable revue de détail, char par char. De nombreux profils en couleurs restituent tous les détails des marques et camouflages des chars B engagés dans les actions relatées, tandis que des éclairages sont apportés sur les questions cruciales touchant d'une manière plus générale aux chars de bataille français de l'époque : armement, rayon d'action et ravitaillement en essence, moyens de transmission radio, disponibilité des matériels. Une documentation historique de première main qui enrichit l'éternel débat sur l'"étrange défaite" subie par la France en 1940
11/2021
Sociologie
Patrimoine culturel congolais. Conception, Éléments matériels et immatériels, régime juridique
Le Congo est une ancienne colonie française. A cet effet, les premières initiatives relatives à son patrimoine remontent de l'époque coloniale. A leur arrivée, l'administrateur et le missionnaire français ont trouvé une protection symbolique du patrimoine puisant son fondement dans les pratiques traditionnelles, les interdits et les usages coutumiers. Pendant la période coloniale, la notion et la conception du patrimoine dans les colonies prennent un autre sens tout en conservant leur rôle. Le patrimoine est considéré comme témoin de l'histoire, de la civilisation, facteur de cohésion et d'union sociale en raison du partage des mêmes valeurs ethniques et culturelles. Dans ce sens, il faut retenir que la protection du patrimoine culturel au Congo d'avant indépendance était assurée par la métropole. Certes, il existait une forme de conscience au patrimoine culturel avant la colonisation, mais celle-ci n'a connu d'essor qu'à l'arrivée du colonisateur. Ainsi, l'application de la législation française avant l'indépendance illustre l'intérêt français pour le patrimoine de conception occidentale et l'indifférence pour les réalités patrimoniales congolaises.
09/2023
Histoire de France
Soldats américains de la bataille de Normandie. Uniformes, armes, matériels
Une monographie abondamment illustrée qui permet de découvrir tous les équipements et toutes les armes des soldats américains du Débarquement et de la Bataille de Normandie.
03/2014
Non classé
Prisons and Idylls
Critical attempts to evaluate Kleist's fictional world, e.g. as ordered or disordered, accessible or resistant to reason, face a hermeneutic problem : the material and psychological embeddedness of the characters in the very world they seek to understand. This problem is reflected not only in the less-than-omniscient perspective of Kleist's narrators, but also in the reader's confrontation with competing readings of events in terms of mythic absolutes and with the opaquely concrete quality of spatial metaphors. In this light, three new interpretations offer insight into such problems as the nature of the idyll in "Das Erdbeben in Chili," the Marquise von O...'s creative self-imprisonment, and the gypsy's apparently supernatural intervention in Kohlhaas' quest. Finally, the book presents a dynamic typology of spatial phenomena in the stories which accounts for Kleist's concern with the interpretive process as opposed to its presumed endpoint.
12/1985
Archéologie
Etudes sur l'histoire et l'archéologie de Lydie de la période proto-lydienne à la fin de l'Antiquité. Textes en français et anglais
Lydia, lying between the Aegean coast and the Anatolian plateau, has been associated since Antiquity with the Pactolus river, which carried gold from the Tmolus mountain, and with the wealth of Croesus. Populated by Lydians and Maeonians, and marked by the presence of Persians, Greeks, Romans, and Byzantines, it has attracted the attention of researchers since the end of the 18th century. This book aims to cover the chronology of Lydian studies from the protohistoric period to the beginning of the Byzantine period and to bring together the contributions of international researchers and scholars from a wide range of disciplines that includes history, archeology, epigraphy, and numismatics, and from different perspectives. The various studies discuss society, social structures, military aspects, economy, religion, arts, architecture, and material culture. This diachronic approach makes it possible in particular to question continuity and discontinuity between the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods, as well as with those that preceded them.
02/2023
Mathématiques
Graph Theory. Second Edition
This book is a concise, yet carefully written, introduction to modern graph theory, covering all its major recent developments. It can be used both as a reliable textbook for an introductory course and as a graduate text : on each topic it covers all the basic material in full detail, and adds one or two deeper results (again with detailed proofs) to illustrate the more advanced methods of that field. This second edition extends the first in two ways. It offers a thoroughly revised and updated chapter on graph minors, which now includes full new proofs of two of the central Robertson-Seymour theorems (as well as a detailed sketch of the entire proof of their celebrated Graph Minor Theorem). Second, there is now a section of hints for all the exercises, to enhance their value for both individual study and classroom use.
01/2000
Anglais apprentissage
The Sound and the Fury / As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
In William Faulkners major works of fiction, the reader finds an extraordinary vision of what Robert Penn Warren calls 'the dark complications of Southern life', an extreme symbolic rendering of the ways and means of decline that characterised the Southern states of the US during the early twentieth century. Now recognised as two of Faulkner's greatest novels, The Sound and the Fury (1929) and As I Lay Dying (1930) were commercial failures in the decade following their publication, and received from many critics only a grudging recognition of difference rather than talent. By the end of the Second World War, however, the reputation of both novels had grown, and Faulkner's great fictional creation, Yoknapatawpha County, had become as much a part of America as any real area of the Mississippi landscape. In this Icon Critical Guide, Nicolas Tredell explores the wealth of critical material generated by these two exceptional works of modernist fiction. From the initially mixed critical responses to the novels in the early 1930s, the Guide follows the enormous growth of interest in Faulkner's work across six decades. New writings shaped by a range of critical theories are discussed, offering the reader a clear view of the place now given to one of Americas most innovative and influential novelists.
01/1999
Chimie organique 1er cycle
Synthèses chimiques. Des cristaux métalliques aux molécules organiques. Rappels de cours et exercices progressifs
Avec plus de 300 exercices, 1500 questions, 120 références bibliographiques, cet ouvrage couvre en 29 chapitres tous les aspects de la synthèse chimique organique et inorganique. Il s'adresse aux étudiants de BTS et de Licence de chimie (L1-L2).
09/2023
Shojo/fille
360° Material : Coffret en 4 volumes. Tomes 1 à 4
Mio Ôtaka est une lycéenne plutôt ordinaire. Et pourtant, c'est elle qui va sauver un jour in extremis Taki, un de ses camarades, d'un accident de train. Dès lors ils vont se lier d'amitié, notamment grâce aux cours particuliers dispensés par Taki. Après quelques rapprochements, Mio est prise subitement d'un élan de courage et déclare sa flamme. Taki accepte de sortir avec elle, mais c'est alors que débutent les problèmes...
03/2024
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
Littérature française
Saint Shuddhananda Bharati A visionary
Foreword To my friend, to my guide, to the mahatma of my heart, to the visionary of a united world living in peace and harmony in the earthly paradise that God has given us. Life and destiny is like an iceberg ; most of us is hidden, and for some, this is the start of the long path of questioning... For souls that are searching, the time then comes when the seeker finds what is being sought : the precursor, the one that has opened the path, cleared it out and illuminated the way. Thus in the deepest part of our Selves, at the centre of our soul, Joythi, the Divine Light is revealed and works on meeting all those who seek it. Kavi Yogi Maharshi Shuddhananda Bharati was a scholar, linguist, scientist, seer poet, saint and the sage of the Cosmic Age. He was ever agile and active, writing, singing, doing good and observed silence for 30 continuous years. He was a universalist, who was not bound to caste, religion, colour and race or geographic bounds. He was an apostle of Sama Yoga, which seeks for a synthesis of science and yoga, West and East, the actual and the ideal in life. Dr. Shuddhananda Bharati is the author of creative and literary works with diverse writing styles : epic and lyric writings, melodramas, operas, comedies, pastoral theologies, novels, short stories, biographies, notes on famous works, essays. Bharata Shakti Kavi Malayam is his magnum opus. Editions ASSA, Christianananda Bharati
11/2013
Non classé
Experimental Social Dilemmas
Most of the papers on social dilemmas were presented at a conference on social dilemmas that was held at the University of Groningen in the spring of 1984. Social dilemmas are interpersonal situations that are characterized by a conflict between private and collective interest, i.e. in attempting to further their private interests, participants may end up worser off than if they had abandonned self-interest and worked for the good of the community. The chapters in this book describe efforts made by social psychologists, sociologists, and political scientists to advance our understanding of the psychological processes that influence people's behavior in social dilemmas. It is assumed that understanding of these processes can help our search for solutions.
12/1986
Mathématiques
HYPERBOLIC GEOMETRY
The geometry of the hyperbolic plane has been an active and fascinating field of mathematical inquiry for most of the past two centuries. This book provides a self-contained introduction to the subject, taking the approach that hyperbolic geometry consists of the study of those quantities invariant under the action of a natural group of transformations.
Topics covered include the upper half-space model of the hyperbolic plane, Möbius transformations, the general Möbius group and the subgroup preserving path length in the upper half-space model, arc-length and distance, the Poincaré disc model, convex subsets of the hyperbolic plane, the Gauss-Bonnet formula for the area of a hyperbolic polygon and its applications.
The style and level of the book, which assumes few mathematical prerequisites, make it an ideal introduction to this subject and provide the reader with a firm grasp of the concepts and techniques of this beautiful area of mathematics.
The Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series (SUMS) is a new series for undergraduates in the mathematical sciences. From core foundational material to final year topics, SUMS books take a fresh and modern approach and are ideal for self-study or for a one- or two-semester course. Each book includes numerous examples, problems and fully-worked solutions.
11/1999
Mer
Portraits de yachts classiques et modernes. Edition bilingue français-anglais
Des portraits de yachts classiques (yachts du XIXe jusqu'aux derniers voiliers en bois des années 60) et de yachts modernes (yachts avec des matériaux contemporains : acier, aluminium, polyester...). Voiliers photographiés lors d'événements maritimes sur le littoral normand et breton : festival des voiles de travail à Granville, Branlebas de régates à Saint-Malo et Cancale, Semaine du golfe du Morbihan, Temps Fête à Douarnenez. Portraits of classic yachts (yachts from the 19th century to the last wooden sailboats of the 60s) and modern yachts (yachts with contemporary materials : sttel, aluminium, polyester...). Sailboats photographed during maritime events on the Normandy and Breton coast : festival of traditional sails in Granville, " Branlebas de régates " in Saint-Malo and Cancale, Week of the Morbihan gulf, " Temps Fête " in Douarnenez. Le Lys Noir, Etoile polaire (Skeaf VII), France (12m JI), Runa VI, Runa IV, Cariad, Nan of Fife, Martha Primrose, La Mouette Rieuse, Pangur Ban, Rose Noire II, Joshua, Cipango, Christina II, Pen Duick, Pen Duick II, Pen Duick IV, Viola, Ninita, Nayla, Chips, Wayward, Winibelle II, Bambi.
06/2020
Anglais apprentissage
Drama with children
Resource Books for Teachers give guidance on the key aspects of language teaching, and provide examples and discussion of actual classroom materials and techniques. This new primary sub-series, in a larger format, specifically addresses the needs of primary teachers, teacher trainers, and trainee teachers. Each book contains guidance for the teacher, 60 to 100 activities for primary children, and up to 20 photocopiable worksheets. The activities are explained clearly and simply, with aims, age range, and level clearly laid out. Drama with Children provides practical ideas for introducing drama activities into the English class, including role play, mime, chants, puppets, and short plays. As well as developing speaking and pronunciation, drama helps children to develop self-confidence and express their imagination, personalities, and creativity. The book shows how activities can be integrated into day-to-day teaching, as well as providing inspiration for performances at open days or end-of-term shows.
01/1999
Informatique
UNDERSTANDING NETWORKED APPLICATIONS
This one-of-a-kind, class-tested textbook introduces the possibilities arising from the convergence of computing and communications technologies to students who don't have an information technology background. By combining the appropriate technical detail with illustrative examples, nontechnical issues, review sections, discussion items, and exercises, it empowers students to envision how networked computing applications con support individuals, groups, and organizations. Whether students are preparing for careers in business, information management, education, low, or public policy, no other book equips them with the broad understanding needed to effectively exploit these powerful technologies. Features. Thoroughly explains the use of networked computing in collaboration, information retrieval, education, business, and e-commerce. Covers a brood range of subjects including applications - their acquisition, the supporting technical infrastructures (architecture, security, databases, middleware, network, and communications), and performance - as well as important industry, economic, and policy issues. Provides supplementary materials via a companion Web site, links to other relevant Web sites, and additional resources for instructors.
11/1999
Psychologie, psychanalyse
Research methods. Fifth Edition, avec 1 CD-ROM
Research Methods: A Process of Inquiry explores the entire range of research methodologies in psychology, using a programmatic approach to introduce topics and build on earlier presentations to increase student understanding. The authors emphasize research concepts, rather than simply presenting cookbook-like strategies, to help students develop an understanding of scientific research. Review exercises at the end of each chapter (with answers to select exercises in an appendix) provide students with examples for self-review. Expanded treatment of research ethics gives students an early introduction to considerations vital in research design, and involves them in later discussions of the ethics of human and animal research. A unique decision-tree flowchart takes students step-by-step through the characteristics of any basic research design to the choice of appropriate statistical procedures and allows instructors to pick statistical procedures based on already-learned course material. Every copy of the text comes packaged with a free student tutorial CD-ROM. This free CD is an integrated package of pedagogical features in a cross-platform format. It includes an Interactive Study Guide, a Lab Manual, and tutorials on statistical analysis, library research, and APA writing style. Coverage of advanced topics render this a resource for future use.
01/2000
Littérature française
Les inventeurs. Essai
What do Christopher Columbus, Reneke, Zénobe Gramme and Louis Pasteur have in common ? They were all inventors. Well fine, but who invented the crab's claw, the suction cups and the flight of squids or the proboscis of blood sucking insects ? Is invention intellectual fantasy, an industrial tool or a fundamental biological reaction ? How is this riddle to be solved ? Should we go through the list of inventions or inventors ? Is it a question of circumstances or motivations ? Who is in charge ? The Material or the Spirit ? In order to try to find a way of answering these questions, first a few very different inventors and their inventions will be presented. A few paradoxes emerge from this first part. Then we will devote an entire chapter to an exceptional inventor whose extraordinary work revolutionized how we now approach this topic. Finally, what can be said about all the inventions like the wings of birds or butterflies, the eyes of fish or insects, the leaves of trees or the social organization of beehives ? In these cases, man is not the inventor. There are countless marvels like these in the world around us. Can we explain them ? This will be the subject of the third part of this essay.
02/2017
Cosmétiques, coiffure
La cire d'abeille naturelle. Préparation et matériels. Dérivés et recettes
Ce guide pratique illustré a pour but de rendre les cosmétiques naturels facilement accessibles à l'aide de la cire naturelle des abeilles. Le livre est divisé en plusieurs modules : La préparation des cires . La cire d'abeilles brute . La pâte de cire . Le nettoyage de la cire brute . Contrôle de la cire naturelle . Mesures d'hygiène pour la production des pâtes de cire . La production de cire . Les ingrédients des cires . Propriétés thérapeutiques des huiles . Combinaison d'huiles essentielles . Des instructions pour la sécurité d'emploi d'huiles essentielles . Le beurre de karité . Le beurre de cacao . Outils et divers matériels utiles pour la production des pâtes de cire . Stérilisation et entretien des matériels La fabrication des produits à base de cire naturelle d'abeilles Les cires . Cire de base . Cire d'oeuf . Cire de piment fort . Cire hydratante Cire balsamique . Cire pour le rhume . Cire de calendula . Cire pour les travaux lourds . Cire de longue tenue . Cire pour piqûres d'insectes . Cire contre les varices . Cire contre la peau irritée . Cire pour les personnes âgées . Cire pour la prévention des vergetures . Cire pour le rajeunissement du visage et l'hydratation du corps . Onguents de cire pour la cellulite . Pommade de cire pour l'odeur des pieds ... Des cosmétiques naturels . Baumes à lèvres hydratants . Baume à la lavande contre les abrasions et les égratignures . Rouge à lèvres à la cire d'abeille naturelle . Arôme solide de vanille . Peeling Naturel au Miel . Masque nutritionnel pour peaux sèches . Epilation à la cire d'abeille . Déodorant ... Savons . Techniques de fabrication du savon . Equipement pour savons . Ingrédients pour faire des savons . Conseils pour faire des savons . Tableau de saponification Recettes de savons . Savon de base ou savon à l'huile d'olive . Savon pour les mains aux huiles, cire et camomille . Savon facial et anti-acné à l'aide d'extrait de raisin . Savon pour le soin du corps . Savon rajeunissant pour le visage . Savon liquide essentiel . Savon liquide antiseptique et hydratant pour le visage et les mains ... Toutes les recettes sont données en détails, par étapes, simplement et illustrées si nécessaire. A chacun ensuite d'en créer d'autres.
08/2021
Carrière et réussite
Livre "Désincarcération - Principes généraux - Matériels - Techniques d'écartement et de coupe"
Comprend les notions de difficulté, marche générale des opérations... Les techniques décrites dans cet ouvrage montrent l'approche de l'équipe de secours spécialisée face à des véhicules toujours plus sécurisés et compliqués à désincarcérer. Ce livre est un recueil de techniques pour les VL, VU, PL et Bus. Il offre également des alternatives aux méthodes afin de gagner en efficacité et en rapidité. Il compile et présente de façon claire et progressive des savoirs-faire d'instructeurs reconnus dans la spécialité et s'en veut le vecteur de transmission. Préface du Lcl Michel Gentilleau.
04/2022
Histoire de France
Les transferts culturels dans les mondes normands médiévaux (VIIIe-XIIe siècle). Objets, acteurs et passeurs, Textes en français et anglais
The objects of cultural transfers are innumerable. Their study is particularly important to understanding the medieval Norman worlds and their multiple interconnections with the Scandinavian world, the British Isles, Eastern Europe, and the Mediterranean. While examining the processes of transmission, reception, adaptation, adoption, or rejection, this book highlights how these dynamics influenced cultures between the eighth and twelfth centuries. Various examples of both material (embroidery ; clothing accessories ; iron artefacts ; coins ; manuscripts ; funeral monuments ; sculptures, etc.) and immaterial objects (craftsmanship ; literary models ; language ; religious and burial practices ; ideology of power ; oath-taking, etc.) are studied, including some emblematic ‘monuments' of the Norman worlds (the Bayeux Tapestry ; the mosaics on the floor of Otranto Cathedral). Particular attention is given to presenting these objects in a context in which their reinterpretation in different socio-cultural environments could be better understood. The book also questions the role and the significance of the actors of cultural transfers (aristocratic elites ; churchmen ; merchants ; craftsmen ; authors ; copyists ; etc.), considering their status or their function, as well as their aptitude to carry transfers. It sheds light on relations and networks that have been thus far relatively unknown, and on the circulation of models that consists of a multitude of objects and productions. Finally, it contributes to the exploration of the contacts between different populations and the construction of their interactions.
01/2022
Histoire et Philosophiesophie
Climbing the Mountain. The Scientific Biography of Julian Schwinger
Julian Schwinger was one of the leading theoretical physicists of the twentieth century. His contributions are as important, and as pervasive, as those of Richard Feymnan, with whom (and with Sin-itiro Tomonaga) he shared the 1965 Nobel Prize for Physics. Yet, while Feynman is universally recognized as a cultural icon, Schwinger is little known even to many within the physics community. This biography aims to describe Schwinger's life and research contributions to a wider audience. As a youth, Julian Schwinger began as a nuclear physicist, turning to classical electrodynamics after World War II. In the years after the war, he was the first to renormalize quantum electrodynamics. Subsequently, he presented the most complete formulation of quantum field theory and laid the foundations for the electroweak synthesis of Glashow, Weinberg, and Salam, and he made fundamental contributions to the theory of nuclear magnetic resonance, to many-body theory, and to quantum optics. He developed a unique approach to quantum mechanics, measurement algebra, and a general quantum action principle. His discoveries include, Feynman's, parameters and 'Glauber's' coherent states; in later years he also developed an alternative to operator field theory, which he called Source Theory, which reflected his profound phenomenological bent. His late work on the Thomas-Fermi model of atoms and on the Casimir effect continues to be an inspiration to a new generation of physicists. This biography describes the many strands of his research life, while tracing the personal life of this private and gentle genius.
06/2000
Vitraux, enluminures
Holy Hoaxes. A Beautiful Deception
Ce livre fascinant raconte l'histoire de la construction de la collection de faux et de contrefaçons de manuscrits enluminés appartenant à William M. Voelkle. A travers des essais approfondis et de belles illustrations, Voelkle retrace l'histoire de près de soixante-dix faux et contrefaçons. The book takes the reader on a journey that sheds light on the nature and detection of forgery of manuscript illumination. An engaging introduction by Christopher de Hamel raises tantalizing questions that touch on the very meaning of authenticity and our continuing fascination with forgery. Scientific analysis of pigments, the identification of sources, and the scrutiny of the materials all come into play in the unfolding story of the collection. An illustrated catalogue presents the group of nearly seventy fakes and forgeries that display astonishing breadth. They include not only the Spanish Forger and other Western European miniatures by Ernesto Sprega, Caleb William Wing, and Germano Prosdocimi, and others, but fascinating examples from the Christian East, from Ethiopia, from Mexico, and from Persia and India. Published here in its entirety for the first time, the Voelkle Collection is the only comprehensive one of fakes and forgeries of manuscript painting in private hands. Voelkle's fifty-year career at the Morgan Library & Museum was inextricably interwoven with the construction of the collection, which is detailed in the foreword. The personal narrative reveals the author as a collector and a scholar. As an enthusiastic collector, he pursues examples of forgery, marveling at the range of skills of deception. As a scholar, he disentangles the sources that served forgers and the chains of provenance that sometimes led to their exposure. Included also in the book is a comprehensive list of William M. Voelkle's publications.
04/2023
Non classé
Brecht and France
The present study Brecht and France, (as distinct from "Brecht in France") addresses an area in Brecht Studies which has been rather unjustly neglected. The author attempts to assess Brecht's relationship with France, its impact on his creativity and the image of France as reflected in his works. A thorough examination of Brecht's own writings (including minor and lesser-known works), his private library, published as well as unpublished biographical, autobiographical and contemporary records reveals that France was an intellectual treasure-house from which he could derive great benefit in terms of source-materials, socio-political ideas, dramaturgical principles and, above all, artistic inspirations. Particularly those works based on what the author calls the "Matière de France" and dealing with France in crisis are vested with artistic conviction, emotional poignancy and universal message that well merit the pronouncement made by Jean-Paul Sartre that "Brecht est nôtre".
11/1993
Physique, chimie
CHEMISTRY IN CONTEXT. Applying Chemistry to Society, Third Edition
Chemistry in Context Online Learning Center www.mhhe.com/cic
New to the third edition is the Chemistry in Context Online Learning Center (OLC). This Internet-based resource, for both students and instructors, includes web-searching activities that are embedded right in the text as part of the Consider This and Your Turn exercises. End-of-chapter questions also include web-based activities. In addition, the OLC includes searching tips and information to help students evaluate the quality of web sites. Instructors can find links to useful source material for lectures and classroom discussions. Also available online are sections of the Instructors Resource Guide (IRG).
Laboratory Manual to accompany Chemistry in Context: Applying Chemistry to Society, Third Edition
This laboratory manual is specifically designed to support the concepts presented in Chemistry in Context. The experiments use simple chemical equipment and easy-to-follow procedures. Some are adaptations of traditional experiments; others are quite novel. The experiments require little mastery of traditional laboratory techniques, so maximum student time can be devoted to explorations and acquiring data.
01/2000
Fer forgé
Ancient Bronzes
This beautiful publication presents a collection of exquisite ancient bronzes from the Wadsworth Atheneum that were collected by John Pierpont Morgan. It accompanies aspecial exhibition of the bronzes at Bowdoin College. This fully illustrated catalogue presents highlights of the ancient bronzes that were collected by J. Pierpont Morgan and are currently in the collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum. Purchased between 1904 and 1916, the bronzes were given to the museum by Morgan's son in 1917. Morgan was a passionate collector and spent years of his life acquiring exquisite works of art. He had a discerning eye and discriminating taste, and his driving motivation was to find works of quality and beauty. His Greek and Roman bronzes include a range of figure and vessel types : males and females, gods and mortals, humans and animals and hybrid mythological creatures, free-standing statuettes, and furniture embellishments. This is the first exhibition and publication to consider the bronzes as a group. Morgan chose each work of art for its exquisite craftsmanship, its quality of composition and execution, and its preservation. These objects represent the very best of ancient Mediterranean bronze sculpture, with carefully rendered clothing, hair, and fur, and adorned with inlays of silver and other luxury materials. Showcasing different types of objects and figures that were made in bronze in the ancient world, this exhibition and book demonstrate the high level of quality that these works of art could achieve. The bronzes are important not only for their provenance and place in America's 'Gilded Age', but also as highly significant individual works of art that represent the best of ancient bronzeworking. New high-resolution photography of each work of art will allow readers to appreciate their intricate details of craftsmanship, including copper and silver inlay. This focused publication will also present current research on these exceptional objects to help readers better understand how they were made and what they represented in an ancient context.
03/2023
