Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: pierre

385 resultados

  • CALCULUS FOR BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS
    JON PIERRE FORTNEY / LINDA SMAIL
    Calculus for Business and Economics: An Example-Based Introduction is designed for first-year university students specializing in business and economics. This book is crafted in a clear, easy-to-read style, covering all the essential calculus-related topics that students are likely to encounter in their studies. With real-world business and economics applications seamlessly int...

    $1,420.00

  • TOWARDS A VERY BRITISH VERSION OF THE “CULTURE WARS”
    ALMA-PIERRE BONNET
    This book examines the emergence and the political use of what has come to be known as “culture wars” in the United Kingdom. Adopting multidisciplinary perspectives, it investigates the ways in which cultural identities are used for political ends. The book bridges the conceptual and theoretical gap in fully understanding the so-called culture wars in a British context; as such...

    $1,060.00

  • THE EFFECTS OF WARS
    BOCQUILLON, PIERRE
    War has been an ever-present feature of human existence. The analysis of wars has tended to focus on either their causes or the military and strategic consequences of a conflict. This book argues that war can have a much wider impact across layers of society that go beyond international boundaries. It presents a heuristic multi-disciplinary framework for analysing the ripple an...

    $1,480.00

  • LASERS IN POLYMER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLGY
    JAN F. RABEK / JEAN-PIERRE FOUASSIER
    The purpose of this 4-volume set is to examine some of the applications of lasers in polymer science and technology. Now available for the first time, up-to-date information on this fascinating subject is compiled and presented in compact form. This set focuses on current research and developments in the application of lasers in polymer and biopolymer chemistry. It includes exp...

    $9,600.00

  • IT IS RIGHT TO REBEL
    JEAN-PAUL SARTRE / PHILIPPE GAVI / PIERRE VICTOR
    The early 1970s were a crucial period in the political and intellectual climate of France. The newspaper Libération was founded in the wake of the protest movements of 1968, and the country was gripped by industrial, political and civil unrest on a huge scale. Behind all this were deep debates about the nature and justification of revolt, class conflict and consciousness, and t...

    $1,240.00

  • CHRONIQUES AFGHANES 1965-1993
    PIERRE CENTLIVRES
    Conseiller au Musee national de Kaboul de 1964 a 1966, l'auteur entreprend ensuite, en compagnie de sa femme Micheline Cent­ livres-Demont, ethnologue elle aussi, de nombreux sejours de recherche en Afghanistan. A Tashqurghan tout d'abord, petite ville du Turkestan, dont ii etudie le bazar, l'organisation socio­ economique et le role dans les relations entre le monde rural et l...

    $1,100.00

  • BUSINESS MODEL INNOVATION IN CREATIVE AND CULTURAL INDUSTRIES
    ROY, PIERRE
    Business model innovation occurs when an organization discovers a new way of creating revenues or profits via its products or services. This book examines the concept as it applies across the creative and cultural industries in practice. This book examines market, social and political environments which impact creative and cultural organizations' business models, such as sustai...

    $1,140.00

  • THE NEGATIVE TURN IN COMPARATIVE LAW
    PIERRE LEGRAND
    This book’s essays aim subversively and resolutely to replace the hegemonic discursive frame governing comparative law. Beyond harnessing negative critique to resist the orthodoxy’s self-assured cognitive assumptions, at once unexamined and indefensible, the argument mobilizes negativity as an empowering idea, a resource towards the displacement of the brand of comparative law ...

    $1,240.00

  • ETUDES SUR LE GRAND DOMAINE CAROLINGIEN
    JEAN-PIERRE DEVROEY
    The origins of the large estate of Carolingian Europe and the role it played in the evolution of Frankish society and economy are the themes of this volume. The first group of articles focus on documentary evidence, especially the polyptychs and their interpretation. Though there is insufficient material for any true quantitive history, Professor Devroey argues that the evidenc...

    $1,480.00

  • INSIDER THREAT
    PIERRE SKORICH / MATTHEW MANNING
    Establishing a new framework for understanding insider risk by focusing on systems of organisation within large enterprises, including public, private, and not-for-profit sectors, this book analyses practices to better assess, prevent, detect, and respond to insider risk and protect assets and public good. Analysing case studies from around the world, the book includes real-wor...

    $1,120.00

  • BANKING LAW AND FINANCIAL REGULATION IN THE UK AND EU
    PIERRE DE GIOIA CARABELLESE / CAMILLA DELLA GIUSTINA
    Banking Law and Financial Regulation in the UK and EU seeks to blend orthodox topics covered within the banking and financial law syllabus, such as sources of banking and financial law, financial markets, financial and banking institutions, financial transactions, and banking and financial insolvency, with a careful analysis of emerging issues and more contemporary topics. This...

    $1,160.00

  • TEACHING INTERNATIONAL LAW
    JEAN-PIERRE GAUCI
    The practice of teaching international law is conducted in a wide range of contexts across the world by a host of different actors – including scholars, practitioners, civil society groups, governments, and international organisations. This collection brings together a diversity of scholars and practitioners to share their experiences and critically reflect on current practices...

    $1,240.00

  • LEADING BEYOND
    PIERRE EVERSON CANNINGS
    A common cliche states that Sunday is the most racially divided day of the week. Authors have attempted to study the division in church, but it continues to be a perpetual problem for Christianity. The racial divide in Christianity demands continual study and research dedicated to finding answers in the history of the Bible. The book of Acts provides the historical account of t...

    $515.00

  • THE LAW OF CRYONICS
    PIERRE DE GIOIA CARABELLESE / CAMILLA DELLA GIUSTINA
    This book, through the lens of interdisciplinary legal analysis, draws a subtle balance between bioethics and financial regulation, with the latter playing an unexpectedly crucial role in the way life may potentially be governed. The legal topic of human preservation or cryoconservation was initially developed in the United States in the case of Donaldson v. van de Kamp. More r...

    $1,240.00

  • WOMEN AND FILM ANIMATION
    MARIE-JOSÉE SAINT-PIERRE
    The creations of female animation filmmakers are recognized all over the world while being, paradoxically, unknown to the general public. Women and Film Animation: A Feminist Corpus at the National Film Board of Canada 1939-1989 brings out of the shadows the work of true pioneers by presenting and analyzing, from a resolutely feminist perspective, the works they have conceived ...

    $1,560.00

  • THE NAVIER-STOKES PROBLEM IN THE 21ST CENTURY
    PIERRE GILLES LEMARIE-RIEUSSET
    Praise for the first edition “The author is an outstanding expert in harmonic analysis who has made important contributions. The book contains rigorous proofs of a number of the latest results in the field. I strongly recommend the book to postgraduate students and researchers working on challenging problems of harmonic analysis and mathematical theory of Navier-Stokes equation...

    $1,480.00

  • MEDIA LITERACY AND MEDIA EDUCATION RESEARCH METHODS
    PIERRE FASTREZ
    This handbook interrogates the foundations of media literacy and media education research from a methodological standpoint. It provides a detailed, illustrated overview of key methods used in the study of media literacy and media education. Further, it reveals the diversity of this research field and organizes this diversity by using three categories of investigation: media pra...

    $1,099.00

  • CONSTRUCTING A CROSS-BORDER REGION IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST
    PIERRE-ALEXANDRE BEYLIER
    For residents living at national borders, the divisions between countries are rarely black and white, and often everyday interactions contribute to the creation of a cross-border region. This book examines this phenomenon in Cascadia, which runs along the Canada/US border in the Pacific Northwest. Placing people at the heart of the analysis, the book considers the everyday inte...

    $1,240.00

  • INSECTS AND PLANTS
    PIERRE JOLIVET
    Insects and plants, whether or not they coevolved, have intimate interrelationships. This book concisely yet thoroughly describes these phenomena. In one chapter the salient facts known about carnivorous plants are described. In another, ant and plant relationships are summarized as an introduction to this vast subject. Pollination, of great interest to agriculturists and horti...

    $3,300.00

  • MODELING REMAINING USEFUL LIFE DYNAMICS IN RELIABILITY ENGINEERING
    PIERRE DERSIN
    This book applies traditional reliability engineering methods to prognostics and health management (PHM), looking at remaining useful life (RUL) and its dynamics, to enable engineers to effectively and accurately predict machinery and systems useful lifespan. One of the key tools used in defining and implementing predictive maintenance policies is the RUL indicator. However, it...

    $1,420.00

  • COMPARATIVE LAW AND THE TASK OF NEGATIVE CRITIQUE
    PIERRE LEGRAND
    This book’s essays seek to cleanse comparative law of some of the epistemic detritus it has been collecting and that has been cluttering its theory and practice to the point where this flotsam has effectively stultified ‘good’ comparison. While a critique would pursue adjustments to the prevailing model, this text’s negative critique seeks a much more radical refurbishment as i...

    $1,160.00

  • ALL ENGLISH ACCENTS MATTER
    PIERRE WILBERT ORELUS
    Orelus' valuable study draws on the scholarly work of sociocultural and postcolonial theorists, as well as testimonies collected from study participants, to explore accentism, the systemic form of discrimination against speakers whose accents deviate from a socially constructed norm. Orelus examines the manner in which accents are acquired and the effects of such acquisition on...

    $580.00

  • YALTA
    PIERRE DE SENARCLENS
    Yalta still excites scholars and general public alike. In shaping post-war geographical alignments, Yalta has become drenched in ideological disputes. It has assumed a symbolic quality for liberal, left, and conservative interpretations of modern European history. In his book, Pierre de Senarclens offers the reader a clear and precise account of the matter in which negotiations...

    $1,420.00

  • THE LAW OF SECURITISATIONS
    PIERRE DE GIOIA CARABELLESE / CAMILLA DELLA GIUSTINA
    The book The Law of Securitisations: From Crises to Techno-sustainability provides a full and detailed account of the EU legislation in the area of structured finance with the new legal rules dissected and discussed in their full extent. Securitisation transactions have been identified in the literature among the main reasons for the 2007–2008 financial crisis, alongside deriva...

    $1,160.00

  • TRANSFERENCE IN INSTITUTIONAL WORK WITH PSYCHOSIS AND AUTISM
    PIERRE DELION
    Transference in Institutional Work with Psychosis and Autism presents Pierre Delion’s extensive experience in psychiatric institutions, focusing on the concept of the transferential constellation. Delion first discusses the pioneering work of François Tosquelles at the Saint Alban psychiatric hospital, which enabled psychoanalytic treatment to be applied in cases of severe psyc...

    $540.00

  • UNDERSTANDING SUSTAINABILITY PERFORMANCE IN BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS
    JEAN-PIERRE IMBROGIANO
    This book sheds new light on the role businesses can play in contributing to sustainability objectives, and how governance actors can better encourage their contributions. Jean-Pierre Imbrogiano introduces and empirically investigates the concept of sustainability performance in businesses, which reveals how achieving social and environmental objectives is experienced within bu...

    $1,160.00

  • WOMEN, MIGRATION, AND AGING IN THE AMERICAS
    MARIE-PIERRE ARRIZABALAGA
    Women, Migration, and Aging in the Americas analyzes how immigrant women have coped with life after they settled in the Americas, from the 19th–21st centuries. It explores their empowerment processes, the type of gender inequalities they faced, and their destinies as they aged; whether they resided in the destination country throughout their lives or returned to their home coun...

    $1,160.00

  • 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...

    $1,280.00

  • THE BUSINESS OF HEALTH
    PIERRE-YVES DONZÉ AND PIERRE-YVES PÉREZ
    This book offers a discussion about the dramatic development of healthcare business around the world during the twentieth century. Through a broad range of cases in Asia, Europe and the US, it shows how health was transformed into a fast-growing and diversified industry. Health and medicine have developed as one of the fastest growing sectors of the economy around the world dur...

    $1,200.00

  • THE RETURN OF CULTURAL HERITAGE TO LATIN AMERICA
    PIERRE LOSSON
    The Return of Cultural Heritage to Latin America takes a new approach to the question of returns and restitutions. It is the first publication to look at the domestic politics of claiming countries in order to understand who supports the claims and why. Drawing on analysis of articles published in national newspapers and archival documents and interviews with individuals involv...

    $1,160.00