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  • 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...

    $1,339.00

  • 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...

    $1,099.00

  • 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...

    $2,800.00

  • 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...

    $2,100.00

  • 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...

    $1,099.00

  • 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...

    $539.00

  • 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...

    $1,099.00

  • 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...

    $1,099.00

  • 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...

    $1,099.00

  • 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...

    $1,099.00

  • PHYSICAL MODELS FOR QUANTUM DOTS
    JEAN-PIERRE LEBURTON
    Since the early 1990s, quantum dots have become an integral part of research in solid state physics for their fundamental properties that mimic the behavior of atoms and molecules on a larger scale. They also have a broad range of applications in engineering and medicines for their ability to tune their electronic properties to achieve specific functions. This book is a compila...

    $7,000.00

  • INTERNATIONAL LUXURY BRAND STRATEGY
    PIERRE XIAO LU
    This book looks at luxury brand management and strategy from theory to practice and presents new theoretical models and solutions for how to create and develop a worldwide luxury brand in the twenty-first century. The book gives an overview of how a luxury brand is created through the understanding and application of economic rules and through firms adopting new management mode...

    $1,039.00

  • SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS OF FRANCE
    PIERRE LAROQUE / PATRICIA EVANS / ROY EVANS / P. LAROQUE
    First Published in 1983. Social problems have assumed a growing importance in France, as in all developed countries, especially since the end of the last century. While traditional early nineteenth century liberalism denied the existence of social problems as such, believing the greatest possible economic freedom to be the sole solution to all evils, the emphasis is still place...

    $1,299.00

  • LANGUAGE AND MENTAL DEVELOPMENT
    PIERRE OLÉRON
    Originally published in 1977, this book considers the role language plays in psychological development. It tries to avoid general discussions of "language and thought", an approach already sufficiently developed by philosophers and (although somewhat less) by psychologists. Instead it attempts to focus specifically upon what we can learn about the topic from available research ...

    $859.00

  • POPULISM IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
    PIERRE OSTIGUY / FRANCISCO PANIZZA / BENJAMIN MOFFITT
    Pathbreaking theoretically and innovative in treatment, Populism in Global Perspective is a seminal addition to the literature on arguably the most controversial and fervently discussed topic in political science today. The book brings together established and rising stars in the field of populism studies, in an integrated set of theoretical and empirical studies centered on a ...

    $1,039.00

  • DISCRETE MATHEMATICS FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE
    JON PIERRE FORTNEY
    Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science: An Example-Based Introduction is intended for a first- or second-year discrete mathematics course for computer science majors. It covers many important mathematical topics essential for future computer science majors, such as algorithms, number representations, logic, set theory, Boolean algebra, functions, combinatorics, algorithmic c...

    $1,339.00

  • ECHINODERMS THROUGH TIME
    BRUNO DAVID / ALAIN GUILLE / JEAN-PIERRE FERAL
    Echinoderms are now considered as a biological and geological model that underlies researches of primary importance. The extent of the contributions made by the International Echinoderm Conferences to various fields of research is attested by the scope covered by presentation at the international conferences. These proceedings contain the complete papers or abstracts of all the...

    $8,500.00

  • WORLD ESCO OUTLOOK
    PIERRE LANGLOIS / SHIRLEY J. HANSEN
    As country after country around the world embraces the idea of self-funding energy efficiency, an energy performance contracting (EPC) model emerges and then changes to meet local needs. World ESCO Outlook captures this rapidly changing landscape, and offers valuable insights into this fascinating and important industry. The authors have brought together the best of in-country ...

    $3,200.00

  • THE DARK SIDE OF MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS
    TIM HILL / PIERRE MCDONAGH
    What fuels capitalism and what stops it from collapsing? Does marketing communications support and sustain the economic and political status quo? This book is not about describing the ways in which businesses can optimize the messages they put across or about adding to the marketing communicator’s toolkit. This book argues that marketing communications plays an increasingly imp...

    $999.00

  • INTRODUCTION TO ULTRAHIGH ENERGY COSMIC RAY PHYSICS
    PIERRE SOKOLSKY / GORDON THOMSON
    This revised edition provides an up-to-date summary of the field of ultra-high energy cosmic rays, dealing with their origin, propagation, and composition,. The authors reflect the enormous strides made since the first edition in the realm of experimental work, in particular the use of vastly improved, more sensitive and precise detectors. The level remains introductory and ped...

    $1,799.00

  • FIELD THEORY
    PIERRE RAMOND
    Presents recent advances of perturbative relativistic field theory in a pedagogical and straightforward way. For graduate students who intend to specialize in high-energy physics. ...

    $1,039.00

  • NON-BINARY AND GENDERQUEER GENDERS
    MOTMANS JOZ / ‎TIMO OLE NIEDER / WALTER PIERRE BOUMAN
    Some people have a gender which is neither male nor female and may identify as both male and female at one time, as different genders at different times, as no gender at all, or dispute the very idea of only two genders. The most often heard umbrella terms for such genders are ‘non-binary’ or ‘genderqueer’ genders. This book looks to bring together those currently exploring and...

    $1,099.00

  • EUROPEAN BANKING AND FINANCIAL LAW 2E
    MATTHIAS HAENTJENS / PIERRE DE GIOIA CARABELLESE
    Over the last few decades, banks, insurers, pension funds, investments firms and other financial institutions have become subject to sometimes dramatically new, but always substantially more, legislation. This is especially true for the EU. Moreover, Brexit has already caused profound changes to the dynamics of EU financial regulation, and its effects will likely become ever-mo...

    $999.00

  • PASSION, PERSECUTION, AND EPIPHANY IN EARLY JEWISH LITERATURE
    NICHOLAS PETER LEGH ALLEN / ‎PIERRE J. JORDAAN / ‎JÓZSEF ZSENGELLÉR
    This volume examines Jewish literature produced from c. 700 B.C.E. to c. 200 C.E. from a socio-theological perspective. In this context, it offers a scholarly attempt to understand how the ancient Jewish psyche dealt with times of extreme turmoil and how Jewish theology altered to meet the challenges experienced. The volume explores various early Jewish literature, including bo...

    $1,039.00

  • THE POETICS IN ITS ARISTOTELIAN CONTEXT
    PIERRE DESTRÉE / MALCOLM HEATH / DANA L. MUNTEANU
    This volume integrates aspects of the Poetics into the broader corpus of Aristotelian philosophy. It both deals with some old problems raised by the treatise, suggesting possible solutions through contextualization, and also identifies new ways in which poetic concepts could relate to Aristotelian philosophy. In the past, contextualization has most commonly been used by scholar...

    $1,099.00

  • WRITING AN INTERACTIVE STORY
    PIERRE LACOMBE / GABRIEL FERAUD / CLEMENT RIVIERE
    Video games have become the world's largest leading cultural product. Though disputed in the past, the narrative qualities of video games have finally secured distinction in the realm of art. This is especially true for interactive games. Writing an Interactive Story will help the reader in navigating the creation process of interactive scripts, in addition to discovering behin...

    $1,259.00

  • DESIGN AND NATURE
    KATE FLETCHER, LOUISE ST. PIERRE AND MATHILDA THAM
    Organised as a dialogue between nature and design, this book explores design ideas, opportunities, visions and practices through relating and uncovering experience of the natural world. Presented as an edited collection of 25 wide-ranging short chapters, the book explores the possibility of new relations between design and nature, beyond human mastery and understandings of natu...

    $1,039.00

  • BIOSENSOR PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS
    PIERRE R. COULET
    Considers a new generation of sensors for use in industrial processes, which measure the chemical environment directly by means of a biological agent mainly enzymes so far. Various specialists from Europe, the US, and Japan identify the device's place in their disciplines; review the principles of m ...

    $5,000.00

  • LACAN AND MARX
    PIERRE BRUNO
    Lacan and Marx: The Invention of the Symptom provides an incisive commentary on Lacan’s reading of Marx, mapping the relations between these two vastly influential thinkers. Unlike previous books, Bruno provides a detailed history of Lacan’s reading of Marx and surveys his references to Marx in both his writings and seminars. Examining Lacan’s key argument that Marx "invented t...

    $999.00