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  • Pupillometry

    The Psychology of the Pupillary Response

    by Michel Pierre Janisse ...
    Series series Psychology Revivals
    The history of research on the pupillary light reflex goes back to 1765. Since 1960, particularly after 1965, the interest of psychologists and other behavioral and social scientists in the pupillometry response had increased enormously. Originally published in 1977, Pupillometry offered an extensive review and assessment of the existing psychological research on the pupil, focusing not only on ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

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  • HEIR OF THE PROPHECY

    Walking in faith

    by Pierre-Michel Alabre ...
    This novel invites you to explore everyday life beyond the hustle and bustle of the Haitian capital, through the eyes of Joubert Coton, known as Tikolo-a fictional yet profoundly human character. His encounters, poignant dialogues, and quest for meaning in love and life will transport you to a world where inner strength is a pillar in the face of adversity.Let yourself be inspired by the courage ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Difference, Competition and Disproportion. The Sociology of Creative Work

    Inaugural Lecture delivered on Thursday 9 January 2014

    by Pierre-Michel Menger ...
    Series series Leçons inaugurales
    Work creates and transforms the social world. Its least predictable and most admired embodiment, artistic and scientific invention, seems to defy causal analysis and statistical regularities. Far more than the exploration of the conscious and infraconscious processes of individual inventiveness, the social ecology of creative work is what enables sociological analysis of work. Pierre-Menger’s ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Economics of Creativity

    Art and Achievement under Uncertainty

    by Pierre-Michel Menger ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall, Amy Jacobs, Arianne Dorval, Lisette Eskinazi, Emmanuelle Saada, Joe Karaganis ...
    Creative work has been celebrated as the highest form of achievement since at least Aristotle. But our understanding of the dynamics and market for creative work--artistic work in particular--often relies on unexamined clichés about individual genius, industrial engineering of talent, and the fickleness of fashion. Pierre-Michel Menger approaches the subject with new rigor, drawing on sociology, ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • Chairing Successful Meetings

    Lespérance Code

    by Michel Lesperance, Jean-Pierre Bernier, Jacques Boucher, Bernard Charles, Jean Martucci, Madeleine Sauvé ...
    Ce guide vise à proposer, en matière de procédures d’assemblées délibérantes, un manuel de consultation facile et adapté aux nouvelles exigences en la matière. Il comprend une centaine de règles groupées selon la chronologie même d’une séance d’assemblées : préparation, début, déroulement et fin.Ces règles sont présentées sous forme d’articles numérotés de façon continue et sont enrichies de brefs ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Joint Source-Channel Decoding

    A Cross-Layer Perspective with Applications in Video Broadcasting

    by Pierre Duhamel, Michel Kieffer ...
    - Treats joint source and channel decoding in an integrated way - Gives a clear description of the problems in the field together with the mathematical tools for their solution - Contains many detailed examples useful for practical applications of the theory to video broadcasting over mobile and wireless networks Traditionally, cross-layer and joint source-channel coding were seen as incompatible ... Read more

    $130.49 USD

  • How to Talk About Places You've Never Been

    On the Importance of Armchair Travel

    by Pierre Bayard ...
    Translated by Michele Hutchison ...
    Written in the irreverent style that made How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read a critical and commercial success, Pierre Bayard takes readers on a trip around the world, giving us essential guidance on how to talk about all those fantastic places we've never been. Practical, funny, and thought-provoking, How to Talk About Places You've Never Been will delight and inform armchair globetrotters ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Archives of Infamy

    Foucault on State Power in the Lives of Ordinary Citizens

    Translated by Thomas Scott-Railton ...
    by Roger Chartier, Stuart Elden, Arlette Farge, Michel Foucault, Jean-Philippe Guinle, Michel Heurteaux, Lynne Huffer, Pierre Nora, Michael Rey, Elizabeth Wingrove ...
    Expanding the insights of Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault’s Disorderly Families into policing, public order, (in)justice, and daily lifeWhat might it mean for ordinary people to intervene in the circulation of power between police and the streets, sovereigns and their subjects? How did the police come to understand themselves as responsible for the circulation of people as much as things—and to ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Introduction to Laser-Plasma Interactions

    by Pierre Michel ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the physics of laser-plasma interactions (LPI), based on a graduate course taught by the author. The emphasis is on high-energy-density physics (HEDP) and inertial confinement fusion (ICF), with a comprehensive description of the propagation, absorption, nonlinear effects and parametric instabilities of high energy lasers in plasmas.The recent ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • The First Artists: In Search of the World's Oldest Art

    by Paul Bahn, Michel Lorblanchet ...
    Two of the greatest living authorities on Ice Age art delve hundreds of thousands of years into the human past to discover the earliest works of art ever made, drawing on decades of new researchWhere is the world’s very first art located? When, and why, did people begin experimenting with different materials, forms, and colors? Prehistorians have long been asking these questions, but only recently ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

  • Nonparametric Bayesian Inference

    Contributions by Jean-Marie Rolin

    Edited by Jean-Pierre Florens, Michel Mouchart ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book is a compilation of unpublished papers written by Jean-Marie Rolin (with several co-authors) on nonparametric bayesian estimation. Jean-Marie was professor of statistics at University of Louvain and died on November 5th, 2018. He made important contributions in mathematical statistics with applications to different fields like econometrics or biometrics.These papers cover a variety of ... Read more

    $224.09 USD

  • Neuroepidemiology in Tropical Health

    Edited by Pierre-Marie Preux, Michel Dumas ...
    Neuroepidemiology in Tropical Health covers major neurological diseases of relevance in tropical settings and examines the specificities of epidemiology of neurological diseases in the context of tropical countries that face many challenges when compared to the developed world. Part One focuses on methods and their eventual specificities, and how such methods, like sampling, can be adapted for ... Read more

    $89.99 USD