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  • 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...

    $2,400.00

  • 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...

    $539.00

  • 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...

    $639.00

  • 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...

    $929.00

  • 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...

    $1,659.00

  • 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...

    $1,099.00

  • 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...

    $1,099.00

  • 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...

    $979.00

  • 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...

    $1,099.00

  • THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION
    MICHEL JACQUES GAGNÉ
    Thinking Critically About the Kennedy Assassination uses the tools of critical thinking, historical research, and philosophical inquiry to debunk the many myths and conspiracy theories surrounding JFK’s shocking and untimely death. As we approach the 60th anniversary of the violent public assassination of President John F. Kennedy, over half of all Americans surveyed continue t...

    $679.00

  • LE TRAVAIL ET SES REPRESENTATIONS
    MICHEL CARTIER
    First Published in 1984. From Adam Smith to Karl Marx, classical economists identify work as a collection of technical operations resulting in the creation of social goods and founding value. The authors of this book deal with several societies in Asia, Africa and America. D'Adam Smith a Karl Marx, les economistes classiques identifient le travail a un emsemble d'operations tec...

    $1,139.00

  • THE POPULAR REVOLUTIONS OF THE LATE MIDDLE AGES
    MICHEL MOLLAT / PHILIPPE WOLFF
    This book, first published in 1973, examines the period when wars, famines and epidemics bred widespread conflicts, culminating in the revolutionary years of 1378–82 with the Florentine ‘Ciompi’, revolts in Flanders and France and the risings among English labourers. The analysis ends with the Hussite crisis which gave the movement a new aspect. The troubles were varied, with h...

    $899.00

  • THE RHETORIC OF INQUIRY IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
    TORSTEN MICHEL
    This book argues that our current lack of recognising and understanding the different forms meta-theorising takes hampers the ways in which fruitful engagement between meta-theories can be conducted. It proposes a radical break with the ways in which meta-theorising in International Relations (IR) has so far been understood, and instead suggests a dyadic approach: a rhetoric of...

    $1,099.00

  • STRATEGIC PLANNING IN THE HUMANITARIAN SECTOR
    EILIDH KENNEDY / MICHEL MAIETTA
    This book provides humanitarian practitioners and policy makers with a manual for how to apply foresight and strategy in their work. Drawing on extensive research, the book demonstrates in practical terms how embedding futures-focused thinking into practice can help humanitarian actors to enhance their impact and fit for the future. The book provides readers with a step-by-step...

    $899.00

  • ECHINODERM RESEARCH
    MICHEL JANGOUX
    This book is an outcome of the second European conference on Echinoderm brussels held in Belgium in 1989. It covers the following areas of research in echinoderm: paleontology, reproduction, development and larval biology, evolution, systematics and biogeography, morphology and physiology. ...

    $5,200.00

  • THE ART OF MEASURING IN THE THERMAL SCIENCES
    MICHEL DE PAEPE / JOSUA P. MEYER
    The Art of Measuring in the Thermal Sciences provides an original state-of-the-art guide to scholars who are conducting thermal experiments in both academia and industry. Applications include energy generation, transport, manufacturing, mining, processes, HVAC&R, etc. This book presents original insights into advanced measurement techniques and systems, explores the fundamental...

    $3,600.00

  • LEAN ASSEMBLY
    MICHEL BAUDIN
    With examples drawn from aerospace, electronics, household appliance, personal products, and automotive industries, Lean Assembly covers the engineering of assembly operations through: Characterizing the demand in terms of volume by product and product family, component consumption, seasonal variability and life cycle. Matching the physical structure of the shop floor to the de...

    $1,659.00

  • LEAN ASSEMBLY
    MICHEL BAUDIN
    With examples drawn from aerospace, electronics, household appliance, personal products, and automotive industries, Lean Assembly covers the engineering of assembly operations through: Characterizing the demand in terms of volume by product and product family, component consumption, seasonal variability and life cycle. Matching the physical structure of the shop floor to the de...

    $1,599.00

  • REVISITING PAULO FREIRE’S PEDAGOGY OF THE OPPRESSED
    MICHEL VANDENBROECK
    This reflection on Paulo Freire’s seminal volume, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, examines the lessons learnt from Freire and their place in contemporary pedagogical theory and practice. Freire’s work has inspired ground-breaking research which Vandenbroeck has collated, demonstrating the ongoing influence on early childhood educators. Vandenbroeck brings together an international c...

    $899.00

  • ECHINODERM NUTRITION
    MICHEL JANGOUX / JOHN M. LAWRENCE
    The purpose of this book is to present the state of knowledge concerning nutrition and point out directions for future work for the Echinodermata, an ancient group which shows great diversity in form and function, and whose feeding activities can have great environmental impact. ...

    $16,000.00

  • ECHINODERMS
    MICHEL JANGOUX
    This book is an outcome of the European colloquium on Echinoderms held at Brussels in 1979. It is divided into three major sections: paleontology, skeletal structures, and systematics and zoogeography. The book is useful for zoologists, scientists in zoology, and academics. ...

    $11,500.00

  • ECHINODERM STUDIES 1 (1983)
    MICHEL JANGOUX / JOHN M. LAWRENCE
    This work consists of seven plenary lectures read at an international conference in Tampa, USA. ...

    $5,200.00

  • ECHINODERM STUDIES 5 (1996)
    MICHEL JANGOUX
    Part of a biennial series in which surveys of selected topics are presented, this volume discusses: velatida and spinulosida; adhesion in echinoderms; biological activities and biological role of triterpene glycosides from holothuroids (echinodermata); mass mortality of echinoderms from abiotic factors; mutable collagenous tissue; and extracellular matrix as mechano-effector. ...

    $5,200.00

  • ECHINODERM STUDIES 4 (1993)
    MICHEL JANGOUX
    Echinoderm Studies is a biennial series in which comprehensive surveys of selected topics are presented. A guiding principle of the series is to cover all aspects of echinoderm biology so as to promote a better comprehension of this group of animals. ...

    $5,200.00

  • GROUPS IN TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS, OBJECT RELATIONS, AND FAMILY SYSTEMS
    N. MICHEL LANDAICHE, III
    Groups are arguably an essential and unavoidable part of our human lives—whether we are part of families, work teams, therapy groups, organizational systems, social clubs, or larger communities. In Groups in Transactional Analysis, Object Relations, and Family Systems: Studying Ourselves in Collective Life, N. Michel Landaiche, III addresses the intense feelings and unexamined ...

    $899.00

  • THE NEURO-CONSUMER
    ANNE-SOPHIE BAYLE-TOURTOULOU / MICHEL BADOC
    Neuroscientific research shows that the great majority of purchase decisions are irrational and driven by subconscious mechanisms in our brains. This is hugely disruptive to the rational, logical arguments of traditional communication and marketing practices and we are just starting to understand how organizations must adapt their strategies. This book explains the subconscious...

    $1,339.00

  • THE ART OF SUCCESSFUL BRAND COLLABORATIONS
    GÉRALDINE MICHEL / REINE WILLING
    Brand collaborations are widely considered the art of the perfect match. This book is a guide to understanding the process of brand collaborations and explains the key factors of success to build specific forms of collaborations between diverse partners. The Art of Successful Brand Collaborations gives tangible examples of partnerships between various kinds of internationally r...

    $899.00

  • FUNDAMENTALS OF CERAMICS
    MICHEL BARSOUM
    Fundamentals of Ceramics presents readers with an exceptionally clear and comprehensive introduction to ceramic science. This Second Edition updates problems and adds more worked examples, as well as adding new chapter sections on Computational Materials Science and Case Studies. The Computational Materials Science sections describe how today density functional theory and molec...

    $1,239.00

  • AFRICAN FOOTBALLERS IN EUROPE
    ERNEST YEBOAH ACHEAMPONG / MALEK BOUHAOUALA / MICHEL RASPAUD
    African Footballers in Europe traces the social and economic evolution of African football and examines the strategies and resources that players mobilise in their migrations, with a particular focus on ‘Give Back Behaviours’ (how players contribute to their countries or communities of origin). It shines new light on contemporary migrations, labour markets in sport, and process...

    $1,059.00

  • EYES IN THE SKY
    ARTHUR HOLLAND MICHEL
    The fascinating history and unnerving future of high-tech aerial surveillance, from its secret military origins to its growing use on American citizens Eyes in the Sky is the authoritative account of how the Pentagon secretly developed a godlike surveillance system for monitoring America's enemies overseas, and how it is now being used to watch us in our own backyards. Whereas ...

    $510.99