Xavier: 931 books

LE courage d’une jeune fille qui, vers la fin du règne de Paul Ier, partit à pied de la Sibérie pour venir à Saint-Pétersbourg demander la grâce de son père, fit assez de bruit dans le temps pour engager un auteur célèbre() à faire une heroïne de roman de cette intéressante voyageuse. Mais...

Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine.

I walk around vacant downtown Toulouse, thinking about the tradition/convention known as New Year’s resolutions. I’ve never been one to make them because I admit I would have a hard time keeping them. Then I began thinking of the state of our world and how desperately things need to change. There...

Personne n'a connu, depuis des décennies, de campagne présidentielle aussi incertaine. Qui l'emportera, de Marine Le Pen, Benoit Hamon, Emmanuel Macron ou François Fillon ? Bien malin qui peut le dire. Ayant survolé la primaire de droite, en novembre 2016, - un succès avec 4 millions de votants...

Cette enquête analyse les raisons du déclin de ce parti depuis l'élimination de Lionel Jospin au premier tour de la présidentielle de 2002... et étudie les risques d'un possible éclatement. L'auteur s'y penche sur les responsabilités respectives de ses principaux leaders. Les échecs de Ségolène...

The main goal is to offer to readers a panorama of recent progress in nonlinear physics, complexity and transport with attractive chapters readable by a broad audience. It allows to gain an insight into these active fields of research and notably promotes the interdisciplinary studies from mathematics...

This book, written by experienced geneticists, covers topics ranging from the natural history of the mouse species, its handling and reproduction in the laboratory, and its classical genetics and cytogenetics, to modern issues including the analysis of the transcriptome, the parental imprinting and...

In the contemporary United States, matters of life and health have become key political concerns. Important to this politics of life is the desire to overcome racial inequalities in health; from heart disease to diabetes, the populations most afflicted by a range of illnesses are racialized minorities....

The Mucous Membranes occupy the interior of those cavities, which, by various openings, communicate with the skin. Their number, at the first view, appears very considerable; for the organs within which they are reflected are numerous. The stomach, bladder, urethra, uterus, ureters, the intestines,...

In the other parts of the body, the sub-cutaneous cellular texture varies considerably. 1st. The density of this texture is remarkable in the hairy scalp, which is with difficulty separated on that account from the aponeuroses and subjacent muscles. Those who have often examined patients who have...

This is an up-to-date atlas of the stereotaxic coordinates of the beagle brain. It provides stellar illustrations of the organization of nerve tracts and the morphology of the nuclei that compose the central nervous system.

This book sheds light on the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship (BMF), one of North America's major Sufi movements, and one of the first to establish a Sufi shrine in the region. It provides the first comprehensive overview of the BMF, offering new insight into its historical development and practices,...

This book can be first considered as a complete synthesis of the EcCoGen ANR project (2011-2012), involving researchers from different French labs (including MAP) and domains, breaking major difficulties of the real-time generative design in the early stages of a pre-architectural project. Then the...

Innovation is the main engine of competitiveness. However, in a world in which everything goes faster, the inherent nature of the innovation process has changed. This book assesses both the theoretically and empirically intertwined relationship between innovation, clusters and multinational enterprises in today's economy.