Pascal: 891 books

« Le monde entier nous hait et nous le méritons bien : telle est la conviction d?une majorité d?Européens, du moins à l?Ouest. Depuis 1945, en effet, notre continent est habité par les tourments du repentir. Ressassant ses abominations passées, les guerres incessantes, les persécutions religieuses,...

L’invention du mariage d’amour devait répondre aux malheurs du mariage classique : rétablir l’égalité entre époux, privilégier le sentiment sur l’obligation. Mais depuis une quarantaine d’années, la nuptialité décline, le divorce explose, le célibat s’étend, les familles monoparentales...

Monsieur Tac est le récit d'un voyage imaginaire, une plongée dans un univers magique, celui de l'alphabet. On y voit des lettres qui parlent et agissent comme des êtres humains, des corps qui grandissent et rapetissent à vue d'oeil, des calembours baladeurs, des animaux savants, un détective...

This comprehensive handbook and ready reference details all the main achievements in the field of perovskite-based and related mixed-oxide materials. The authors discuss, in an unbiased manner, the potentials as well as the challenges related to their use, thus offering new perspectives for research...

This collaborative work investigates the unfolding catastrophe that the unleashing of chlorine against the Allied positions meant for individual soldiers and civilians. It describes the hesitation on the German side about the effectiveness, and hence impact on combat operations of the weapon whilst...

Neutrality serves different purposes during times of war and peace. ‘Notions of Neutralities’ portrays those historical challenges that neutrals faced, and are still facing, to maintain some form of economic stability and political order as chaos and wars rage. Neutrals are exposed to existential...

A story of love and hardship between a man and a woman who grew up from childhood in rural Italy during the rise of Benito Mussolini and World War II.

The water resources of the Selenga River/Lake Baikal system are of fundamental importance for the ecosystems and socio-economic development of the region. In this large-scale river and lake basin, there are strong contrasts between regions of relatively pristine nature and massive anthropogenic impacts...

Risky Work Environments provides new insights into the multiple and dynamic trajectories of both near misses and mistakes in complex work environments, based on actual case examples. It also studies the interactions between various activity systems or work practices (design, maintenance, incident...

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Business economics - Marketing, Corporate Communication, CRM, Market Research, Social Media, grade: 1,3, University of Applied Sciences Essen, language: English, abstract: The usage of E-Mails as a rather new means of communication has increased steadily...

The denial of scientific knowledge has become respectable in todays society, to the point that it threatens the health of the public and the stability of our society as climatic changes due to global warming occur. So the growth of science denial goes much further than just a lack of interest in learning...

Ultra Wide Band (UWB) technology consists of transmitting radio signals over frequency bandwidths from 500 MHz to several GHz. Its unique characteristics may be exploited for the design of high data rate wireless communication systems, as well as localization and imaging applications. The development...

In these notes we consider two kinds of nonlinear evolution problems of von Karman type on Euclidean spaces of arbitrary even dimension. Each of these problems consists of a system that results from the coupling of two highly nonlinear partial differential equations, one hyperbolic or parabolic and...

Le Phédon est le dialogue charnière de l’œuvre platonicienne. Avant lui, Platon se montre un fidèle disciple de Socrate. Mais, après la mort du maître, il entame un long périple autour de la Méditerranée, qui s’achève par trois années d’études auprès des pythagoriciens. Sous cette...