Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: olivier

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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...

    $660.00

  • HYPOXIA CONDITIONING IN HEALTH, EXERCISE AND SPORT
    OLIVIER GIRARD / JOHANNES BURTSCHER / MARTIN BURTSCHER / GRÉGOIRE MILLET
    While severe hypoxia has detrimental health consequences, the controlled application of hypoxia can be protective and holds great promise as a performance-enhancing and therapeutic intervention. Hypoxia Conditioning in Health, Exercise and Sport: Principles, Mechanisms and Applications delivers an understanding of systemic and molecular mechanisms involved in hypoxia adaptation...

    $1,160.00

  • THE BENEFITS OF IMPERFECTION
    OLIVIER HAMANT
    The cult of performance leads our society to emphasise the values of success and continuous optimisation in all areas. Slowness, redundancy and randomness are therefore negatively perceived. Olivier Hamant, in his book, reclaims them by his knowledge of biological processes. What can we learn from life sciences? While some biological mechanisms certainly boast formidable effici...

    $1,480.00

  • NO WORDS FOR FEELINGS
    LUMINET, OLIVIER
    Alexithymia is a multifaceted construct that is characterized by several facets, including difficulties identifying one’s feelings; difficulties describing one’s feelings to others; and an externally focused, utilitarian cognitive style. In the long-term, higher alexithymia scores represent risks factors for poorer mental and physical health outcomes. There is, however, a lack ...

    $1,240.00

  • DEVELOPING APPS WITH GPT-4 AND CHATGPT
    OLIVIER CAELEN / MARIE-ALICE BLETE
    This book provides an ideal guide for Python developers who want to learn how to build applications with large language models. Authors Olivier Caelen and Marie-Alice Blete cover the main features and benefits of GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 models and explain how they work. You'll also get a step-by-step guide for developing applications using the OpenAI Python library, including text ge...

    $681.00

  • THE PSYCHOLOGY OF VACCINATION
    OLIVIER KLEIN / VINCENT YZERBYT
    Why do some people choose to be vaccinated and others do not? What is the difference between vaccine hesitancy and anti-vaccinism? What can social psychology tell us about attitudes towards vaccination? The Psychology of Vaccination identifies the social psychological drivers of vaccine mindsets, to explore why some people choose to be vaccinated, some are hesitant, and others ...

    $380.00

  • THINK HUMAN
    OLIVIER DUHA
    In an increasingly competitive and digitalized world where experience reins supreme, Olivier Duha highlights the radical evolution of customer relations and outlines six golden rules to maximize customer satisfaction. Advocating for the importance of the human factor assisted by technology in the digital age of customer relations, this book explores the impact of the digital re...

    $649.00

  • TRACING THE (POST)APARTHEID NOVEL BEYOND 2000
    DANYELA DIMAKATSO DEMIR / OLIVIER MOREILLON
    This anthology comprises of interviews with contemporary South African authors, offering vignettes of their lives and summaries of their works. In curating this book, Danyela Demir and Olivier Moreillon step beyond pure literary theory and analysis. They welcome the authors to speak and assess the literary panorama in which they live and co-create. However, Demir and Moreillon ...

    $1,240.00

  • SUBALTERN WORKERS IN CONTEMPORARY FRANCE
    MASCLET OLIVIER
    This volume explores the lives and work of those who are kept out of poverty by their employment, but who occupy tenuous social positions and subaltern jobs. Presenting a score of household portraits – urban, suburban, and rural – the authors examine what it means to ‘get by’ in France today, considering the material and symbolic resources that these households can muster, and ...

    $1,100.00

  • INSIDE THE BLACK BOX OF 'WHITE BACKLASH'
    OLIVIER ESTEVES
    Inside the Black Box of ‘White Backlash’ researches the contents of the letters of support sent to British politician Enoch Powell in the wake of his so-called ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech of April 20, 1968. Never has a politician received so much written support in so short a time. This book takes a thematic approach to investigate the way British whites used Powell’s speech to ve...

    $1,160.00

  • SECURITY COOPERATION BETWEEN WESTERN STATES
    OLIVIER LEWIS
    This book examines security cooperation between Western states. Security cooperation occurs between Western (i.e. European and North American) states as a coping mechanism, as an imperfect substitute for integration. The book investigates the reasons for cooperation, what Aristotle called the ‘final cause’, as well as the material, formal, and efficient causes of cooperation. S...

    $1,160.00

  • HPC, BIG DATA, AND AI CONVERGENCE TOWARDS EXASCALE
    TERZO, OLIVIER
    HPC, Big Data, AI Convergence Towards Exascale provides an updated vision on the most advanced computing, storage, and interconnection technologies, that are at basis of convergence among the HPC, Cloud, Big Data, and artificial intelligence (AI) domains. Through the presentation of the solutions devised within recently founded H2020 European projects, this book provides an ins...

    $1,280.00

  • PROGRAMMING ANDROID WITH KOTLIN
    PIERRE-OLIVIER LAURENCE / AMANDA HINCHMAN-DOMINGUEZ / G. BLAKE MEIKE / MIKE DUNN
    Developing applications for the Android mobile operating system can seem daunting, particularly if it requires learning a new programming language: Kotlin, now Androidâ??s officialdevelopment language. With this practical book, Android developers will learn how to make the transition from Java to Kotlin, including how Kotlin provides a true advantage for gaining control over a...

    $574.00

  • FINANCIALIZATION OF THE ECONOMY, BUSINESS, AND HOUSEHOLD INEQUALITY IN THE UNITED STATES
    KURT METTENHEIM / OLIVIER BUTZBACH
    This second volume on the political and social economy of financialization in the US focuses on the consequences of the rise of finance for the American macroeconomy, household inequality, and the management of nonfinancial business enterprises. A historical–institutional balance-sheet approach to long-term trends and recent change in the US reveals a series of anomalies and pr...

    $1,200.00

  • HASTENBECK 1757
    OLIVIER LAPRAY
    The outbreak of the Seven Years War saw the formation of new alliances and led to the conduct of military operations in several theaters simultaneously. The campaign of 1757 saw large-scale maneuvers, with their necessary operational corollaries of supply and logistics, as France put an army of 100,000 men into the field. The conduct of the campaign also testifies to the diffic...

    $344.99

  • SOCIAL INNOVATION IN THE SERVICE OF SOCIAL AND ECOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION
    OLIVIER DE SCHUTTER / TOM DEDEURWAERDERE
    This book explores how the State can play a role as an enabler of citizens-led social innovations, to accelerate the shift to sustainable and socially just lifestyles. To meet the twin challenges of environmental degradation and the rise of inequalities, societal transformation is urgent. Most theories of social change focus either on the role of the State, on the magic of the ...

    $580.00

  • CONVERSATIONS ABOUT TIME
    GAVIN LUCAS / LAURENT OLIVIER
    This book presents a conversation between two prominent archaeologists who have been exploring the concept of time in their discipline for several decades. It is a discussion on key issues of time in archaeology filtered through their unique perspectives, which sometimes meet and at other times, clash. Key features include discussions on the nature of change and time in the arc...

    $640.00

  • AGILE LEADERSHIP FOR TURBULENT TIMES
    SHARON OLIVIER / FREDERICK HÖLSCHER / COLIN WILLIAMS
    This thought-provoking and engaging book is for you, whatever your seniority, in the private or public sector – if you are curious about the role and purpose of leadership in a turbulent world. It will help you become a more agile leader through understanding and integrating your ego, eco and intuitive intelligence. You will gain a deeper understanding of your unique leadership...

    $800.00

  • FRENCH DEFENCE POLICY SINCE THE END OF THE COLD WAR
    ALICE PANNIER / OLIVIER SCHMITT
    This book describes the evolution of French defence policy since the end of the Cold War. For the past thirty years there have been significant changes to French defence policy as a result of several contextual evolutions. Changes include shifts in the global balance of power, new understandings of the notion of international security, economic downturns, and developments in Eu...

    $1,120.00

  • THE AFRICAN OTHER
    ABRAHAM OLIVIER
    This book provides a much-needed philosophical response to the recurrent postcolonial call to uproot the prevalent workings of the colonial regime, with a close focus on the African context. The work addresses a range of questions concerning the othering of Africans in the postcolonial context, specifically by focusing on the philosophical analysis of problems of justice, the e...

    $1,200.00

  • ASIA THROUGH ART AND ANTHROPOLOGY
    FUYUBI NAKAMURA / ‎MORGAN PERKINS / ‎OLIVIER KRISCHER
    * AWARDED BEST ANTHOLOGY BY THE ART ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND *How has Asia been imagined, represented and transferred both literally and visually across linguistic, geopolitical and cultural boundaries? This book explores the shifting roles of those who produce, critique and translate creative forms and practices, for which distinctions of geography, ethnicity, ...

    $1,160.00

  • MARKETING PROJECTS
    OLIVIER MESLY
    Marketing is about placing a new product or service into the market. Projects are about delivering new products and services. The merger of these two fields holds great promise for delivering value to organizations and their clients. Project managers can serve many markets ranging from investors who fund projects to that of clients who use new products and services. Marketing P...

    $1,200.00

  • EUROSCEPTICISM WITHIN THE EU INSTITUTIONS
    NATHALIE BRACK / OLIVIER COSTA
    Since its origins, there have been competing views concerning the nature, scope and objectives of the process of integration and of the European Union. Attitudes towards Europe and European integration, both among political elites and citizens, have been much studied over the last 15 years. But there is no comprehensive analysis of these competing views of Europe at the suprana...

    $1,320.00

  • HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTING ARCHITECTURES
    OLIVIER TERZO
    Heterogeneous Computing Architectures: Challenges and Vision provides an updated vision of the state-of-the-art of heterogeneous computing systems, covering all the aspects related to their design: from the architecture and programming models to hardware/software integration and orchestration to real-time and security requirements. The transitions from multicore processors, GPU...

    $2,120.00

  • HUMAN/MACHINE
    DANIEL NEWMAN / OLIVIER BLANCHARD
    Will the workplace of the future be overrun by machines and robots? Are the new frontiers of artificial intelligence (AI) on the cusp of dethroning us in efficiency, intelligence and innovative potential? Automation and AI will augment our human world and potential. The winners of the future of work are those that harness the power of machines to their advantage. Human/Machine ...

    $649.00

  • URGENCIAS EN OFTALMOLOGÍA
    ERIC TUIL / RAPHAËL DE NICOLA / FLORIAN MANN / DAN MILÉA / PIERRE-OLIVIER BARALE
    La 4ª edición de Urgencias en oftalmología recoge los últimos avances y actualizaciones sobre el tratamiento y el diagnóstico de patologías que habitualmente se consideran urgencias oftalmológicas. Con un enfoque eminentemente práctico, este manual insiste especialmente en el razonamiento clínico, el análisis para la toma de decisiones y las pautas de actuación mediante la...

    $614.29

  • 3-SYSTEM THEORY OF THE COGNITIVE BRAIN
    OLIVIER HOUDÉ
    3-System Theory of the Cognitive Brain: A Post-Piagetian Approach to Cognitive Development puts forward Olivier Houdé’s 3-System theory of the cognitive brain, based on numerous post-Piagetian psychological and brain imaging data acquired from children and adults. This ground-breaking theory simultaneously anchors itself in a deep understanding of the history of psychology and ...

    $1,160.00

  • MANAGING SENSITIVE PROJECTS
    OLIVIER D'HERBEMONT / BRUNO CESAR
    Every day, managers must adapt to rapidly changing markets and situations. This book deals with sensitive or difficult projects, ranging from redundancy programs to disposal of radioactive waste, from the launch of a new product to the introduction of a new computer system. The authors use a revolutionary way to manage sensitive projects--the lateral approach. Derived from tw...

    $5,100.00

  • THE FOUR PILLARS OF PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
    OLIVIER LAZAR
    Portfolio management consists mainly of making decisions about which initiatives to undertake, which initiatives not to pursue, and which resources are to be allocated to which portfolio component. At least, that’s how it is most commonly presented in textbooks and courses. Indeed, it is all of that, but it is also so much more. Portfolio management is, of course, about making ...

    $1,200.00

  • HOW THE EU REALLY WORKS
    OLIVIER COSTA / NATHALIE BRACK
    The European Union is facing a profound crisis and is confronted with multiple challenges. Over the last two decades, it has experienced a series of dramatic changes to its powers, its institutional design, its constitutional framework and its borders. The current political, economic and financial crisis puts the EU’s legitimacy further under pressure and creates the impression...

    $1,160.00


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