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  • PLASTICS IN THE OCEANS
    JEAN-LUC WERTZ / OLIVIER BÉDUÉ / SERGE PEREZ
    Increasing plastic pollution, particularly in oceans, calls for a fundamental shift towards future-proof plastics throughout the circular economy. In a landmark move in 2022, the United Nations adopted a historic resolution to craft an international legally binding instrument to tackle plastic pollution. In line with this global initiative, Plastics in the Oceans investigates t...

    $700.00

  • ORPHÉE ET L’ORPHISME DANS L’ANTIQUITÉ GRÉCO-ROMAINE
    LUC BRISSON
    The figure of Orpheus has long exercised a potent influence on religious thought. Yet what we know directly about Orphism comes from a scatter of isolated and often very short fragments quoted in the works of Platonists of the Roman period, notably Proclus, Damascius and Olympiodorus. The author’s concern here is to establish the context in which these passages were cited, and ...

    $1,480.00

  • INTRODUCTION TO MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
    LUC THOMAS IKELLE
    The book is about multidisciplinary science education. The challenges of our time, such as improving the length and quality of lives on Earth and short- and long-distance communication and transportation. In this book, we provide readers with the multidisciplinary education necessary to meet the scientific and technological challenges of our time while optimizing the college ex...

    $1,480.00

  • AN INTRODUCTION TO SPATIAL DATA SCIENCE WITH GEODA
    LUC ANSELIN
    This book is the second in a two-volume series that introduces the field of spatial data science. It moves beyond pure data exploration to the organization of observations into meaningful groups, i.e., spatial clustering. This constitutes an important component of so-called unsupervised learning, a major aspect of modern machine learning. The distinctive aspects of the book are...

    $1,560.00

  • AN INTRODUCTION TO SPATIAL DATA SCIENCE WITH GEODA
    LUC ANSELIN
    This book is the first in a two-volume series that introduces the field of spatial data science. It offers an accessible overview of the methodology of exploratory spatial data analysis. It also constitutes the definitive user’s guide for the widely adopted GeoDa open-source software for spatial analysis. Leveraging a large number of real-world empirical illustrations, readers ...

    $1,560.00

  • MASTERING THE NEW PMI CERTIFIED ASSOCIATE IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT (CAPM)® EXAM (2023 VERSION)
    KLAUS NIELSEN / GIAMPAOLO MARUCCI / JEAN-LUC FAVROT
    Project Management Institute (PMI) is the leading professional association for project management, and the authority for a growing global community of millions of project professionals and individuals who use project management skills. PMI offers several certifications in the areas of project management, risk management, and other related areas. The Certified Associate in Proje...

    $1,460.00

  • ALGAE IN THE BIOECONOMY
    JEAN-LUC WERTZ / SERGE PEREZ
    Algae play an important ecological role as oxygen producers and carbon sequesters and are the food base for all aquatic life. Algae are economically important as a source of crude oil, food and feed, and pharmaceutical and industrial products. High-value and sustainable products from algae are already economically viable and can be a fundamental driver for fuel production. Alga...

    $1,480.00

  • THE LEAN ENGINEERING TRAVEL GUIDE
    CÉCILE ROCHE / LUC DELAMOTTE
    Lean is an essential way of working in a world that is accelerating and becoming more complex. It revalues the human dimension in the company by encouraging individual thinking and initiative and gives meaning to teams that are more and more challenged by competitiveness and innovation. This book is designed as a travel guide. The first part includes all the traditional section...

    $1,380.00

  • CITY OF MAN
    JEAN-LUC BEAUCHARD
    Why does life in society make us so unhappy? Why has civilization always been marked with social unrest? From the time of Plato, our greatest thinkers have understood that in order to confront the ills of the city, one must first look to the individual, to the maladies and discontents of the human soul. In this novel reading of Plato's Republic, the insights of Nietzsche and Fr...

    $426.00

  • HQ SOLUTIONS: RESOURCE FOR THE HEALTHCARE QUALITY PROFESSIONAL
    NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR HEALTHCARE QUALITY (NAHQ), LUC R. PELLETIER, CHRISTY L. BEAUDIN
    Written by Healthcare Quality experts and applicable to all practice settings, HQ Solutions: Resource for the Healthcare Quality Professional, Fifth Edition is an essential resource that offers healthcare quality professionals the theoretical and practical basis for safe, reliable, cost-effective care, including the use of state-of-the-art tools for measuring, monitoring, selec...

    $964.71

  • BIOMASS IN THE BIOECONOMY
    JEAN-LUC WERTZ / PHILIPPE MENGAL / SERGE PEREZ
    Biomass is the physical basis of the bioeconomy, the renewable segment of the circular economy, and as a CO2-neutral part of the carbon cycle, biomass is an efficient carbon sink. Demand for biomass is increasing worldwide because of its advantages in replacing fossil-based materials and fuels, which presents the challenge of reconciling this increased demand with the sustainab...

    $1,380.00

  • NATO AND THE STRATEGIC DEFENCE INITIATIVE
    LUC-ANDRÉ BRUNET
    This book explores the largely neglected issue of responses to the US Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI, or the 'Star Wars' missile defence programme) across NATO. The chapters here explore the reactions of different Western allies to the announcement of the SDI in 1983 and especially the 1985 invitation to participate. While existing studies have explored the origins of the Am...

    $1,220.00

  • EVIDENCE-BASED CYBERSECURITY
    PIERRE-LUC POMERLEAU / DAVID MAIMON
    The prevalence of cyber-dependent crimes and illegal activities that can only be performed using a computer, computer networks, or other forms of information communication technology has significantly increased during the last two decades in the USA and worldwide. As a result, cybersecurity scholars and practitioners have developed various tools and policies to reduce individua...

    $1,340.00

  • CHITIN AND CHITOSANS IN THE BIOECONOMY
    SERGE PEREZ / JEAN-LUC WERTZ
    Chitin is the second most abundant natural polymer in the world after cellulose, mainly derived from the food waste of shrimp and crabs. Chitosan is the most important derivative of chitin. Thanks to their biodegradability, non-toxicity, biocompatibility, bioactivity, and versatile chemical and physical properties, chitin and chitosan derivatives are used in a wide variety of a...

    $1,320.00

  • STARCH IN THE BIOECONOMY
    JEAN-LUC WERTZ / BÉNÉDICTE GOFFIN
    Starch is the most widespread and abundant reserve carbohydrate in plants and is unique in that it can be used for the production of food, materials in bio-based products, and energy. Starch in the Bioeconomy covers the structure, biosynthesis, biodegradation, properties, and applications of starch in the context of the bioeconomy. The book Describes the present state of cognit...

    $1,320.00

  • RELIABILITY AND OPTIMIZATION OF STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS
    MARC MAES / LUC HUYSE
    This volume is an outcome of the 11th IFIP WG7.5 working conference on Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems in Canada. The conference focuses on structural reliability methods and applications and engineering risk analysis and decision-making. ...

    $7,400.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES
    MASSIMO FLORIO / LUC BERNIER / PHILIPPE BANCE
    State-owned enterprises make up roughly 10 percent of the world economy, yet they are woefully understudied. This handbook offers the first synthesis of the topic since the 1980s and offers a comprehensive reference for a generation. The authors provide a detailed explanation of the theory that underpins the expansion of state-owned enterprises in the 21st century. Each chapter...

    $1,320.00

  • PRINCIPLES OF GAME AUDIO AND SOUND DESIGN
    JEAN-LUC SINCLAIR
    Principles of Game Audio and Sound Design is a comprehensive introduction to the art of sound for games and interactive media using Unity. This accessible guide encompasses both the conceptual challenges of the artform as well as the technical and creative aspects, such as sound design, spatial audio, scripting, implementation and mixing. Beginning with basic techniques, includ...

    $1,120.00

  • HANDBOOK OF ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT
    SANDY JACKSON AND LUC GOOSSENS
    Handbook of Adolescent Development fills a gap in the literature on adolescent development and behaviour: all of the authors of the various chapters were invited to include as many findings on European adolescents as possible. Through this specific emphasis, the handbook provides a complement to other reviews of the literature that are mostly based on North American samples. Th...

    $1,560.00

  • SINGLE-MODE FIBER OPTICS
    LUC B. JEUNHOMME
    A basic, unified reference, rather than a description of the current experimental activity, presenting the scientific and engineering principles of single-mode optical fibers. It does, however, update discussions to reflect developments since the 1983 first edition, particularly those on international standards for fibres and measurement procedures, improvements in fibre attenu...

    $6,100.00

  • THE AMERICAN STEEL INDUSTRY
    LUC KIERS
    What is the cause of the American steel industry's deplorable situation today? Troubled in many areas—competition from imports, technology implementation, cost and utilization of raw materials, investment policy, philosophy of management, and union attitudes, to name only a few—can the industry survive? These are the questions Dr. Kiers confronts in this book. Unless answers ca...

    $1,160.00

  • THE ORIGINS OF THE GREAT LEAP FORWARD
    JEAN-LUC DOMENACH / MARK SELDEN
    The first major study of the Great Leap Forward, this seminal volume has now been translated into English for a wider audience. Like no other work, it suggests compelling political and social answers to questions that have long plagued scholars: How could a party with such a successful rural base launch a movement so divorced from reality– especially in the countryside? Why was...

    $1,060.00

  • COMBINATORIAL INFERENCE IN GEOMETRIC DATA ANALYSIS
    BRIGITTE LE ROUX / SOLÈNE BIENAISE / JEAN-LUC DURAND
    Geometric Data Analysis designates the approach of Multivariate Statistics that conceptualizes the set of observations as a Euclidean cloud of points. Combinatorial Inference in Geometric Data Analysis gives an overview of multidimensional statistical inference methods applicable to clouds of points that make no assumption on the process of generating data or distributions, and...

    $1,320.00

  • DEVELOPING CARE PATHWAYS
    KATHRYN DE LUC
    The relationship between poverty and child health has always been assumed but this book demonstrates how the evidence of history and of other societies establishes a causal link. The practical implications in health and social policy are presented in the context of child care services, together with some innovative approaches to future development. This is a book for profession...

    $860.00

  • SPORT AND VIOLENCE: RETHINKING ELIAS
    DOMINIQUE BODIN / LUC ROBÈNE
    The aim of this book, in discussing Elias’s theory, is not to refute it. Tendentiously, the theory works with its weaknesses and strong points and it has been enriched by a number of authors over time. The objective of this volume is to discuss the blind spots and, more simply, what is too often taken for granted: namely the obvious pacifying effect of sports and/or produced by...

    $860.00

  • THE ARTIFICIAL LIFE ROUTE TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
    LUC STEELS
    Originally published in 1995, this volume is the direct result of a conference in which a number of leading researchers from the fields of artificial intelligence and biology gathered to examine whether there was any ground to assume that a new AI paradigm was forming itself and what the essential ingredients of this new paradigm were. A great deal of scepsis is justified when ...

    $980.00

  • THE ANALYZING SITUATION
    JEAN-LUC DONNET
    In this book the author explores the particularities of the status of the method in psychoanalysis, linked to the specificity of unconscious psychic processes. If the method aims at ensuring a level of technical mastery, it must also make sure that analytic treatment does not become an 'application' of knowledge. A modern conception of the analytic situation implies going beyon...

    $1,040.00

  • SEVEN DATABASES IN SEVEN WEEKS
    LUC PERKINS / ERIC REDMOND / JIM WILSON
    Data is getting bigger and more complex by the day, and so are your choices in handling it. Explore some of the most cutting-edge databases available - from a traditional relational database to newer NoSQL approaches - and make informed decisions about challenging data storage problems. This is the only comprehensive guide to the world of NoSQL databases, with in-depth practica...

    $548.00

  • SOFT ERRORS
    JEAN-LUC AUTRAN / DANIELA MUNTEANU
    Soft errors are a multifaceted issue at the crossroads of applied physics and engineering sciences. Soft errors are by nature multiscale and multiphysics problems that combine not only nuclear and semiconductor physics, material sciences, circuit design, and chip architecture and operation, but also cosmic-ray physics, natural radioactivity issues, particle detection, and relat...

    $1,581.00

  • CODING AND DECODING: SEISMIC DATA
    LUC T. IKELLE
    Coding and Decoding Seismic Data: The Concept of Multishooting, Volume One, Second Edition, offers a thorough investigation of modern techniques for collecting, simulating, and processing multishooting data. Currently, the acquisition of seismic surveys is performed as a sequential operation in which shots are computed separately, one after the other. The cost of performing var...

    $2,326.00


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