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  • ON THE EDGE OF HUMAN IMAGINATION
    MICHEL THYS
    In this fascinating book, Michel Thys explores the limitations of human imagination and symbolization, showing the potentially destructive result of a mind that cannot confront reality. His wide-ranging research takes us into the domain of the unimaginable, unthinkable and unspeakable. Divided into four parts, On the Edge of Human Imagination sees Thys adopt a phenomenological ...

    $1,000.00

  • THE SAUDI ARABIAN ECONOMY
    ALI D. JOHANY / MICHEL BERNE / J. WILSON MIXON JR.
    The Saudi Arabian Economy (1986) is a comprehensive analysis of the late-twentieth century Saudi Arabian economy. It examines the key oil sector, charts its development and assesses the dilemmas facing the sector. It goes on to explore the other sectors of the economy, showing the impact on these of the large investments made possible by oil wealth, and it considers the special...

    $840.00

  • THE COMPOSITION OF SŪRAT MARYAM
    MICHEL CUYPERS / A.H. MATHIAS ZAHNISER
    This book studies the composition or structure of Sūrat Maryam – the 19th sūra of the Qur’an – according to the principles of Semitic rhetoric. Sūrat Maryam has, in recent decades, been the subject of numerous studies by scholars of Islamology and Qur’anology. The general structure of the sūra, however, is not unanimously recognized among researchers, due to certain inconsisten...

    $1,240.00

  • 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

  • MICROPROGRAMMED STATE MACHINE DESIGN
    MICHEL A. LYNCH
    Microprogrammed State Machine Design is a digital computer architecture text that builds systematically from basic concepts to complex state-machine design. It provides practical techniques and alternatives for designing solutions to data processing problems both in commerce and in research purposes. It offers an excellent introduction to the tools and elements of design used i...

    $5,300.00

  • LE CORPS HUMAIN
    MAURICE GODELIER / MICHEL PANOFF
    Pourquoi mourir? Comment survivre? De la naissance a la mort, c'est par le corps, c'est dans l'habitacle du corps que l'homme se situe dand l'unvers et fair l'expereince de ses congeneres. A l'occasion des rite de passage notamemnt, c'est par le coprps que la societe revendique l'individu comme sien, at c'est sure son corps qu'elle inscrit cette appartenance. Mais nulle branche...

    $1,100.00

  • 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 PROPER WAY TO EDUCATE THE DEAF
    THE ABBÉ CHARLES-MICHEL DE L’EPÉE
    This volume presents the first complete English translation of the Abbé de l’Épée’s seminal work describing his methodology for educating deaf children. Originally published in French in 1798, this modern annotated edition offers readers a translation that is documentary in scope and that reflects historic attitudes toward deaf people and deaf education while maintaining the co...

    $1,206.44

  • SEX, GENDER, ETHICS AND THE DARWINIAN EVOLUTION OF MANKIND
    VEUILLE, MICHEL
    Sex, Gender, Ethics and the Darwinian Evolution of Mankind examines the impact of Darwin’s Descent of Man on contemporary biology and the humanities. Its publication in 1871 was a founding event in anthropology. Its content was primarily concerned with the development of sexual life, social life and intellectual life, not only as outcomes of evolution, but as components that ha...

    $1,240.00

  • DEVELOPING FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT IN STEM CLASSROOMS
    GRANGEAT, MICHEL
    This book, drawn from the practical experience of the European Assess Inquiry in Science, Technology and Mathematics Education (ASSIST-ME) project, aims to support researchers, teacher educators and teachers in navigating the complex nature of formative assessment. It delves into how formative assessment methods may adapt different features within STEM classroom practices and h...

    $1,200.00

  • SOMETHING SPEAKS TO ME
    MICHEL CHAOULI
    An account of criticism as an urgent response to what moves us. Criticism begins when we put down a book to tell someone about it. It is what we do when we face a work or event that bowls us over and makes us scramble for a response. As Michel Chaouli argues, criticism involves three moments: Something speaks to me. I must tell you about it. But I don’t know how. The heart of c...

    $413.47

  • THE JAPAN LECTURES
    MICHEL FOUCAULT
    This book makes available, for the first time in English, lectures and interviews that Foucault gave in Japan in 1978, reconstructing their context, and isolating the question of their singular relevance for us today. In these forgotten lectures, in a free and often informal style, Foucault explores, together with his Japanese interlocutors, what it would mean to take up, from ...

    $660.00

  • CHANT GRÉGORIEN ET MUSIQUE MÉDIÉVALE
    MICHEL HUGLO
    This is the third in a set of four collections of articles by Michel Huglo to be published in the Variorum series. It brings together the studies of Gregorian chant and of later monophonic and polyphonic additions to the earlier repertory that occupied Huglo in the second phase of his research. Represented here are articles on the Kyrie, the introit tropes of St-Gall, an elegy ...

    $1,320.00

  • LA F BRICA VISUAL
    MICHEL GREIF
    Un libro importantisismo para preparar su fbrica antes de poder comenzar producci?n justo-a-tiempo, o cualquier otro programa de mejoras. Crear una fbrica visual es el primer paso para lograr participacion de sus empleados, construir un mejor ambiente de trabajo, y obtener apoyo de su personal. Los casos especificos aqui expuestos seran especialmente utiles en companias dispues...

    $1,280.00

  • THE ADVENT OF PHYLOCODE
    MICHEL LAURIN
    Biological nomenclature is an essential tool for storing and retrieving biological information. Yet traditional nomenclature poorly reflects evolutionary theory. Current biological nomenclature is one of the few fields promoting deliberately vague usage of technical terms. A new code based on evolutionary studies and phylogenetic results (the PhyloCode) will be a major mileston...

    $2,700.00

  • LA THÉORIE DE LA MUSIQUE ANTIQUE ET MÉDIÉVALE
    MICHEL HUGLO
    This is the final volume in the set of four collections of Michel Huglo's articles to be published in the Variorum series, and focuses on medieval music theory. The point of departure for Huglo's research was his doctoral dissertation on tonaries, published in 1971: as a consequence, he studied the manuscripts of music theory concerning plainchant, and, later, those with writin...

    $1,420.00

  • LES SOURCES DU PLAIN-CHANT ET DE LA MUSIQUE MÉDIÉVALE
    MICHEL HUGLO
    The origin and development of Western plainchant, and of the genres of liturgical book in which it is recorded, have occupied Michel Huglo throughout his long career, which has taken him to libraries in every corner of Europe and the United States. This volume, the first in a set of four to appear in the Variorum series, brings together analyses of manuscripts dating from the 9...

    $1,320.00

  • LES ANCIENS RÉPERTOIRES DE PLAIN-CHANT
    MICHEL HUGLO
    The differences between Old-Roman, Ambrosian, Aquileian, Gallican, and Hispanic chant, and their interconnections with each other and the Gregorian chant occupied Michel Huglo in his early career, although he returned to these questions in the 1980s and 1990s. The present volume, the second in the set of four to be published in the Variorum series, brings all this work together...

    $1,320.00

  • LOVE IN THE POST-RECONCEPTUALIST ERA OF CURRICULUM WORK
    ALLAN MICHEL JALES COUTINHO
    By employing the autobiographical method of currere and bifocalization, this book sheds light on the significance of love and the ethics of caregiving as means to transform curriculum studies into a post-reconceptualist and collective endeavor. Advancing an understanding of curriculum as a "collective public moral enterprise," it critically asks whether we can build a world whe...

    $500.00

  • AESTHETICS
    MICHEL-ANTOINE XHIGNESSE
    Aesthetics: 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments is a teaching-focused resource, which highlights the contributions that imaginative scenarios—paradoxes, puzzles, and thought experiments alike—have made to the development of contemporary analytic aesthetics. The book is divided into sections pertaining to art-making, ontology, aesthetic judgements, appreciation and in...

    $700.00

  • AUGUSTINE AND NICENE THEOLOGY
    MICHEL RENÉ BARNES
    This book draws together a collection of thirteen published and unpublished articles which together constitute a new reading of the character and development of Latin Trinitarian theology in the fourth and fifth centuries. The focus of the essays is on Augustine of Hippo (354-430 CE), but Augustine is treated here as an inheritor of earlier Latin tradition. Many of the figures ...

    $745.00

  • THE DEAL PARADOX
    MICHEL DRIESSEN / ANNA FAELTEN / SCOTT MOELLER
    The Deal Paradox explores what successful dealmaking looks like in the age of digital transformation, drawing on interviews with top dealmakers and M&A experts sharing their stories, triumphs, and challenges. Taking a dynamic storytelling approach, The Deal Paradox navigates the transition from traditional and ingrained methods to new techniques, showing how AI, big data, and m...

    $1,049.00

  • AUGUSTINE AND NICENE THEOLOGY
    MICHEL RENÉ BARNES
    This book draws together a collection of thirteen published and unpublished articles which together constitute a new reading of the character and development of Latin Trinitarian theology in the fourth and fifth centuries. The focus of the essays is on Augustine of Hippo (354-430 CE), but Augustine is treated here as an inheritor of earlier Latin tradition. Many of the figures ...

    $745.00

  • THE DECOMMODIFICATION OF EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE
    MICHEL VANDENBROECK / JOANNE LEHRER / LINDA MITCHELL
    The Decommodification of Early Childhood Education and Care: Resisting Neoliberalism explores how processes of marketisation and privatisation of ECEC have impacted understandings of children, childcare, parents, and the workforce, providing concrete examples of resistance to commodification from diverse contexts. Through processes of marketisation and privatisation, neoliberal...

    $1,040.00

  • INTRODUCTION TO MANUFACTURING
    MICHEL BAUDIN / TORBJØRN NETLAND
    This Introduction to Manufacturing focuses students on the issues that matter to practicing industrial engineers and managers. It offers a systems perspective on designing, managing, and improving manufacturing operations. On each topic, it covers the key issues, with pointers on where to dig deeper. Unlike the many textbooks on operations management, supply chain management, a...

    $1,900.00

  • 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

  • THE EU'S GOVERNMENT OF WORKER MOBILITY
    HÉLÈNE MICHEL
    This book brings together the expertise of economists, legal scholars, political scientists, and sociologists in order to integrate diverse perspectives and a broad range of analytical tools in the conceptualisation of labour mobility. It examines how variably the question of labour mobility has translated into the policies, laws, and norms through which the EU as a whole is go...

    $1,160.00

  • FROM SOCIETY TO SYSTEM
    MICHEL FREITAG
    From Society to System presents sociologist Michel Freitag’s (1935-2009) distinctive, multifaceted and interdisciplinary work. Elaborated within the grand sociological tradition, his dialectical sociology redefines sociality as the realm of the symbolic to pinpoint its ontological frailty. Such a perspective expands the borders within sociology to rejoin classical philosophical...

    $1,100.00

  • MULTIDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON REPRESENTATIONAL PLURALISM IN HUMAN COGNITION
    MICHEL BÉLANGER
    Bringing together diverse theoretical and empirical contributions from the fields of social and cognitive psychology, philosophy and science education, this volume explores representational pluralism as a phenomenon characteristic of human cognition. Building on these disciplines’ shared interest in understanding human thought, perception and conceptual change, the volume illus...

    $1,160.00