A Nicolas: 25 books

Physicists attempt to reduce natural phenomena to their essential dimensions by means of simplification and approximation and to account for them by defining natural laws. Paradoxically, whilst there is a critical need in geology to reduce the overwhelming field information to its essentials, it often...

Far from the industrial cliché and the highly urbanized city of Guangzhou is another view of this historical city. One without complexity, simple and authentic. Chef Nicolas Vienne and his wife Donia Belhacene have spent the last two years exploring its culinary wonders through its products, natural...

A comprehensive, integrated, and accessible textbook presenting core neuroscientific topics from a computational perspective, tracing a path from cells and circuits to behavior and cognition. This textbook presents a wide range of subjects in neuroscience from a computational perspective. It...

An overview of the latest interdisciplinary research on human morality, capturing moral sensibility as a sophisticated integration of cognitive, emotional, and motivational mechanisms. Over the past decade, an explosion of empirical research in a variety of fields has allowed us to understand...

Les OVNIS volent peut-être au-dessus de nos têtes depuis des lustres, on ne sait jamais ! Pour patienter, laissez-vous entraîner par ces six nouvelles : montez à bord d’un vaisseau spatial de plaisance, devenez un linguiste alcoolique, un adolescent amoureux, un journaliste ou même un extraterrestre ! Le jour J, vous serez prêts !

Ah, ces scribouillards ! Qu’ils soient écrivains, journalistes, bloggeurs ou simples quidams en mal de romantisme, les gratte-papiers et autres plumitifs ont toujours tenu une place essentielle dans l’exploration et l’analyse de l’expansion humaine. Quid de Mars, la Grande, la Rouge, celle...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Orientalistik / Sinologie - Sonstiges, Note: 1,3, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des Nahen Orients sowie für Turkologie), Veranstaltung: Einführung in das Studium der Geschichte und Kultur des Nahen Orients,...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Orientalistik / Sinologie - Sonstiges, Note: 1,25, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des Nahen Orients sowie für Turkologie), Veranstaltung: Hauptseminar: Kultur und Erziehung im Osmanischen Reich während...

This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who would be excluded from most Buddhist histories and ethnographies. In addition to monks and nuns, readers...

Jonathan Swift and Philosophy is the first book to analyse and interpret Swift’s writing from a philosophical angle. By placing key texts of Swift in their philosophical and cultural contexts and providing background to their history of ideas, it demonstrates how well informed Swift’s criticism...

Modernism vs. Traditionalism: Art in Paris 1888-1889 considers questions surrounding artistic developments at the end of the nineteenth century in Paris. Students will debate principles of artistic design in the context of the revolutionary changes that began shaking the French art world in 1888-1889....

Based on updates to signal and image processing technology made in the last two decades, this text examines the most recent research results pertaining to Quaternion Fourier Transforms. QFT is a central component of processing color images and complex valued signals. The book’s attention to mathematical...

This comprehensive and critical review of current and established treatment modalities for malignant liver tumors is designed to help you sort through the proliferation of competitive approaches and choose the best treatment options for your patient. Dr. Clavien and his contributors consider all the...