Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: jean michel

44 resultados

  • URBAN AND RELIGIOUS SPACES IN LATE ANTIQUITY AND EARLY BYZANTIUM
    JEAN-MICHEL SPIESER
    Professor Spieser deals here with a number of the transformations that took place in the world of Late Antiquity - and early Christianity - focusing upon notions of space. The first set of articles, opening with a newly-written introductory essay, addresses the development of urban landscapes from the Roman period up to the iconoclast era in Byzantium. In particular, he looks a...

    $1,480.00

  • LACAN AND PSYCHOANALYTIC OBSOLESCENCE
    JEAN-MICHEL RABATÉ
    This book explores the importance of Lacan’s role as an irritant within psychoanalysis, and how Freud and Lacan saw that as key to ensuring that psychoanalysis remained fresh and vital rather than becoming obsolescent. Drawing on Freud’s thinking as well as Lacan’s, Rabate examines how Lacan’s unwillingness to allow psychoanalytic thinking to become stale or pigeonholed into on...

    $800.00

  • THE ETHICS OF (IN-)ATTENTION IN CONTEMPORARY ANGLOPHONE NARRATIVE
    GANTEAU, JEAN-MICHEL
    This volume argues that contemporary narratives evince a great deal of resilience by promoting an ecology of attention based on poetic options that develop an ethics of the particularist type. The contributors draw on critical and theoretical literature hailing from various fields: including psychology and sociology, but more prominently phenomenology, political philosophy, ana...

    $800.00

  • THE POETICS AND ETHICS OF ATTENTION IN CONTEMPORARY BRITISH NARRATIVE
    JEAN-MICHEL GANTEAU
    This book uses attention as a prism through which to interrogate the literary text. It starts from analyses of the changes that the mediasphere and communication technologies have brought for the contemporary subject, submitting him/her to the tyranny of a new attention economy. My point is that the contemporary novel and memoir resist such influences and evince a great deal of...

    $1,160.00

  • ELLIPTIC AND PARABOLIC PROBLEMS
    C BANDLE / MICHEL CHIPOT / JOSEF BEMELMANS / J SAINT JEAN PAULIN / I SHAFRIR
    This Research Note presents some recent advances in various important domains of partial differentialequations and applied mathematics including equations and systems of elliptic and parabolic type and various applications in physics,mechanics and engineering.These topics are now part of various areas of science and haveexperienced tremendous development during the last decades...

    $960.00

  • THE MANY FACETS OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION OF ENGINEERS
    JEAN MICHEL
    This text covers the many aspects of engineering education, especially on an international level. Subjects covered include: industry and profession needs; culturally inclusive engineering; international dimensions; European engineering education; and new engineers in and for a global environment. ...

    $1,480.00

  • INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT LAW AND GLOBALIZATION
    JEAN-MICHEL MARCOUX
    In a context of neoliberal globalization, have the processes of elaboration and implementation of foreign investors' responsibilities by intergovernmental organizations reached the realm of legality? Using an analytical framework and a methodology that combines international law with international relations, this book provides a twofold answer to this question. First, it demons...

    $1,260.00

  • SIGMUND FREUD
    JEAN-MICHEL QUINODOZ
    Jean-Michel Quinodoz introduces the essential life and work of Sigmund Freud, from the beginning of his clinical experiences in Vienna in the 1880s to his final years in London in the 1930s. Freud’s discoveries, including universally-influential concepts like the Oedipus complex and the interpretation of dreams, continue to be applied in many disciplines today. Elegantly and cl...

    $820.00

  • VICTIMHOOD AND VULNERABILITY IN 21ST CENTURY FICTION
    JEAN-MICHEL GANTEAU
    Editors Jean-Michel Ganteau and Susana Onega) have assembled a volume which addresses the relationship between trauma and ethics, and moves one step further to engage with vulnerability studies in their relation to literature and literary form. It consists of an introduction and of twelve articles written by specialists from various European countries and includes an interview ...

    $1,240.00

  • TRANSFORMING GENDERED WELL-BEING IN EUROPE
    JEAN-MICHEL BONVIN
    European social movements improve the well-being of men and women but need further analysis through a gender-sensitive lens. Taking an international and cross-disciplinary perspective, this book examines the impact of European social movements on gendered political and material well-being. Insights from history, politics, sociology and gender studies help identify how social mo...

    $1,420.00

  • THE ETHICS AND AESTHETICS OF VULNERABILITY IN CONTEMPORARY BRITISH FICTION
    JEAN-MICHEL GANTEAU
    This book visits vulnerability in contemporary British fiction, considering vulnerability in its relation to poetics, politics, ethics, and trauma. Vulnerability and risk have become central issues in contemporary culture, and artistic productions have increasingly made it their responsibility to evoke various types of vulnerabilities, from individual fragilities to economic an...

    $1,340.00

  • MELANIE KLEIN AND MARCELLE SPIRA: THEIR CORRESPONDENCE AND CONTEXT
    JEAN-MICHEL QUINODOZ
    Melanie Klein and Marcelle Spira: Their Correspondence and Context includes 45 letters Melanie Klein wrote to the Swiss psychoanalyst Marcelle Spira between 1955 and 1960, as well as six rough drafts from Spira. They were discovered in Spira’s library after her death in 2006. As only a few of the letters that Klein wrote to her colleagues have been preserved, this moving, histo...

    $1,280.00

  • CONTEMPORARY TRAUMA NARRATIVES
    JEAN-MICHEL GANTEAU
    This book provides a comprehensive compilation of essays on the relationship between formal experimentation and ethics in a number of generically hybrid or "liminal" narratives dealing with individual and collective traumas, running the spectrum from the testimonial novel and the fictional autobiography to the fake memoir, written by a variety of famous, more neglected contempo...

    $1,420.00

  • THERMOMECHANICAL INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES
    BERGHEAU, JEAN-MICHEL
    The numerical simulation of manufacturing processes and of their mechanical consequences is of growing interest in industry. However, such simulations need the modeling of couplings between several physical phenomena such as heat transfer, material transformations and solid or fluid mechanics, as well as to be adapted to numerical methodologies. This book gathers a state of the...

    $2,157.00

  • READING FREUD
    JEAN-MICHEL QUINODOZ
    Winner of the 2010 Sigourney Award! Reading Freud provides an accessible outline of the whole of Freud's work from Studies in Hysteria through to An Outline of Psycho-Analysis. It succeeds in expressing even the most complex of Freud's theories in clear and simple language whilst avoiding over-simplification. Each chapter concentrates on an individual text and includes valuable...

    $1,200.00

  • TIN IN ORGANIC SYNTHESIS
    MICHEL PEREYRE / JEAN-PAUL QUINTARD / ALAIN RAHM
    Tin in Organic Synthesis is a systematic presentation of the organic chemistry of tin. This book discusses the significant advances that have been made with regard to the applications of organotin compounds as reagents or intermediates in organic synthesis and points out directions for future developments. This monograph is comprised of 17 chapters divided into four sections. ...

    $970.00

  • THE TRANSNATIONAL POLITICAL PARTICIPATION OF IMMIGRANTS
    JEAN-MICHEL LAFLEUR AND MARCO MARTINIELLO
    With the progress in communication and transport technologies, it has never been easier for migrants to stay connected with their country of origin. Facing the wide range of activities in which immigrants are involved, governments in the country of origin and the country of destination have endeavoured to respond to these activities. Up until now, the question of the nature of ...

    $1,320.00

  • TRAUMA AND ROMANCE IN CONTEMPORARY BRITISH LITERATURE
    JEAN-MICHEL GANTEAU
    Drawing on a variety of theoretical approaches including trauma theory, psychoanalysis, genre theory, narrative theory, theories of temporality, cultural theory, and ethics, this book breaks new ground in bringing together trauma and romance, two categories whose collaboration has never been addressed in such a systematic and in-depth way. The volume shows how romance strategie...

    $1,340.00

  • TRANSNATIONAL POLITICS AND THE STATE
    JEAN-MICHEL LAFLEUR
    In just two decades, the number of states that have adopted external voting policies has boomed. Today, these policies, which allow emigrants to take part in home country elections from abroad, are widely found in Europe and Latin America. Looking at the cases of Italy, Mexico, and Bolivia, this book examines the motivations and consequences for states that enfranchise citizens...

    $1,560.00

  • MANAGING LIVE INNOVATION
    JEAN LAMMIMAN / MICHEL SYRETT
    Managing Live Innovation examines the innovation process from the line manager's perspective. This book identifies the skills needed to manage live 'real time' innovation in an environment where products and services are constantly refined, and where customer input is encouraged from an early stage.The New Skills Portfolio is a groundbreaking new series, published in associatio...

    $1,160.00

  • ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS AND DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE
    JEAN-MICHEL EYMERI-DOUZANS
    After a quarter of a century of implementation of New Public Management (NPM) reform strategies, this book assesses the major real outcomes of these reforms on states and public sectors, at both the organisational level and a more political level. Unlike most previous accounts of reform, this book looks at how reform has changed the role of the public administration in democrat...

    $1,160.00

  • LISTENING TO HANNA SEGAL
    JEAN-MICHEL QUINODOZ
    Winner of the 2010 Sigourney Award! How has Hanna Segal influenced psychoanalysis today? Jean-Michel Quinodoz provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of Segal's life, her clinical and theoretical work, and her contribution to psychoanalysis over the past sixty years by combining actual biographical and conceptual interviews with Hanna Segal herself or with colleagues ...

    $1,100.00

  • DREAMS THAT TURN OVER A PAGE
    JEAN-MICHEL QUINODOZ
    Winner of the 2010 Sigourney Award! In Dreams That Turn Over a Page, the author discusses a particular type of dream that comes after a phase in analysis where integration has taken place. Accompanied by anxiety and fear, which seem surprising as the dream follows a phase of integrative work in the analysis, these dreams are in fact a mark of progression as they indicate a capa...

    $1,120.00

  • THE TAMING OF SOLITUDE
    JEAN-MICHEL QUINODOZ
    Winner of the 2010 Sigourney Award! Psychoanalysts would argue that at the root of anxiety about loneliness, which commonly brings people into analysis, lies anxiety about separation, unresolved since childhood. When re-experienced in analysis, the painful awareness of solitude - the sense of being a separate person - can become a rich source of personal creativity. In The Tami...

    $1,160.00

  • COUNTERCURRENT CHROMATOGRAPHY
    JEAN-MICHEL MENET / DIDIER THIEBAUT
    Covering definitions, concepts, and applications, Countercurrent Chromatography recounts the developments in two types of liquid-liquid chromatography termed countercurrent-high-speed countercurrent chromatography (HSCCC) and centrifugal partition chromatography (CPC)-as well as the HSCCC-derived cross-axis CCC, a versatile technique for purificati ...

    $7,400.00

  • BELGIUM IN THE GREAT WAR
    JEAN-MICHEL VERANNEMAN
    A historian and former Belgian diplomat sheds light on the country's tumultuous experience during WWI. In August of 1914, the German Empire invaded neutral Belgium in order to outflank the defenses of the French army. Yet the Belgian army resisted, managing to hold a small part of unoccupied Belgian territory north of Ypres until the Armistice of 1918. Because of their heroic d...

    $249.00

  • COLLISIONAL EFFECTS ON MOLECULAR SPECTRA: LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS AND MODELS, CONSEQUENCES FOR APPLICATIONS
    HARTMANN, JEAN-MICHEL / BOULET, CHRISTIAN / ROBERT, DANIEL
    Gas phase molecular spectroscopy is a powerful tool for obtaining information on the geometry and internal structure of isolated molecules as well as on the interactions that they undergo. It enables the study of fundamental parameters and processes and is also used for the sounding of gas media through optical techniques. It has been facing always renewed challenges, due to th...

    $2,670.00

  • ADVANCES IN BOTANICAL RESEARCH
    KADER, JEAN-CLAUDE / DELSENY, MICHEL
    Edited by Jean-Claude Kader and Michel Delseny and supported by an international Editorial Board, Advances in Botanical Research publishes in-depth and up-to-date reviews on a wide range of topics in plant sciences. Currently in its 49th volume, the series features a wide range of reviews by recognized experts on all aspects of plant genetics, biochemistry, cell biology, molecu...

    $2,734.00

  • POLYMER-SOLVENT MOLECULAR COMPOUNDS
    GUENET, JEAN-MICHEL
    Crystallisable polymers represent a large share of the polymers used for manufacturing a wide variety of objects, and consequently have received continuous attention from scientists these past 60 years. Molecular compounds from crystallisable polymers, particularly from synthetic polymers, are receiving growing interest due to their potential application in the making of new ma...

    $2,289.00

  • SUPERLUBRICITY
    ERDEMIR, ALI / MARTIN, JEAN-MICHEL
    Superlubricity is defined as a sliding regime in which friction or resistance to sliding vanishes. It has been shown that energy can be conserved by further reducing/removing friction in moving mechanical systems and this book includes contributions from world-renowned scientists who address some of the most fundamental research issues in overcoming friction. Superlubricity rev...

    $2,861.00


01 02 »