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Laure Rankin, Laura Rankin

The Handmade Alphabet

Editura: Puffin Books

Anul aparitiei: 1996

Gorgeous pencil illustrations of diverse human hands--male and female, young and old--signing the letters of the alphabet make this alphabet book an incredible learning resource. The entries are further supplemented with objects that begin with the same letter. Author Laura Rankin was inspired to create this book by her deaf stepson. It is a wonderful introduction to the alphabet and to sign language, and the art is beautiful enough to merit sharing it with adults as well. Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book "Brilliant . . . Hauntingly luminous."-- The New York Times Book Review "Exquisitely detailed, realistically portrayed hands of different ages, sexes, and colors demonstrate the positions for the manual alphabet used in American Sign. An excellent introduction."-- Kirkus Reviews

Laure Morel- Guimaraes (Editor)

Management of Technology: Key Success Factors for Innovation and Sustainable Development - Selected Papers from the Twelfth International Confer

Editura: EMERALD GROUP PUB

Anul aparitiei: 2005

The 12th International Conference of the International Association for Management of Technology (IAMOT) held in March 2002 in Nancy, France, focused on "Innovation and Sustainable Development". These conferences present a unique opportunity to exchange best practice while debating new concepts of managing innovation, technology and R&D. IAMOT remains a major scientific forum where leading researchers and practitioners meet. This book represents a selection of the best contributions presented in Nancy.

Marie-Laure Bachmann (Author)

Dalcroze Today: An Education Through and Into Music

Editura: OXFORD UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 1993

Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, 1865-1950, was an educational pioneer, musician, and creative artist. This book gives us a fascinating insight into the inception and development of his work, from the end of the last century up to the present day. It traces his growing ideas on the use of movement and of improvisation in the process of music learning, and the application of these ideas to the vital experiencing of musical material, both for children and adults.

Marie-Laure Djelic (Author)

Exporting the American Model: The Postwar Transformation of European Business

Editura: OXFORD UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 1998

Focusing on post-war France, West Germany and Italy, Djelic examines the influence of the American corporate model. She shows how the model fared in each country, meeting various degrees of success, resistance and adaptation.

Marie-Laure Ryan (Author)

Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory

Editura: INDIANA UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 1992

In this important contribution to narrative theory, Marie-Laure Ryan applies insights from artificial intelligence and the theory of possible worlds to the study of narrative and fiction. For Ryan, the theory of possible worlds provides a more nuanced way of discussing the commonplace notion of a fictional "world," while artificial intelligence contributes to narratology and the theory of fiction directly via its researches into the congnitive processes of texts and automatic story generation. Although Ryan applies exotic theories to the study of narrative and to fiction, her book maintains a solid basis in literary theory and makes the formal models developed by AI researchers accessible to the student of literature. By combining the philosophical background of possible world theory with models inspired by AI, the book fulfills a pressing need in narratology for new paradigms and an interdisciplinary perspective.

Laure Paquette (Author)

Strategy and Ethnic Conflict: A Method, Theory, and Case Study

Editura: PRAEGER FREDERICK A

Anul aparitiei: 2002

Ethnic conflict now presents the thorniest problems for military and civilian strategists of all stripes. This book presents a new general theory of strategy, encompassing studies of the relationship between values, interest, and strategy as these relate to ethnic conflicts. It focuses on the relationship between values and strategy, building a theory on the hypothesis that national values influence national strategy. Paquette's research reveals that national values influence national strategy through three mechanisms: cognition, appreciation, and evaluation. Each mechanism, and indeed the whole value-focused approach to strategic thinking, is described using a network of interrelated statements. Paquette develops a methodology specific to the issues of international security and ethnic considerations. She tests this theory extensively for internal consistency before applying it to a single historical case: French decision-making on national strategy between 1955 and 1970; however, because of its generality, this same theory could easily be applied to other cases. As with any theory, it is possible to vary successively or simultaneously assumptions or conditions and to derive new ...

Marie-Laure Djelic (Editor)

Transnational Governance: Institutional Dynamics of Regulation

Editura: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 2008

Globalization involves a profound re-ordering of our world with the proliferation everywhere of rules and transnational modes of governance. This book examines how this governance is formed, changes and stabilizes. Building on a rich and varied set of empirical cases, it explores transnational rules and regulations and the organizing, discursive and monitoring activities that frame, sustain and reproduce them. Beginning from an understanding of the powerful structuring forces that embed and form the context of transnational regulatory activities, the book scrutinizes the actors involved, how they are organized, how they interact and how they transform themselves to adapt to this new regulatory landscape. A powerful analysis of the modes and logics of transnational rule-making and rule-monitoring closes the book. This authoritative resource offers ideal reading for all academic researchers and graduate students of governance and regulation.

Marie-Laure Djelic (Editor)

Transnational Communities: Shaping Global Economic Governance

Editura: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 2010

Transnational communities are social groups that emerge from mutual interaction across national boundaries, oriented around a common project or 'imagined' identity. This common project or identity is constructed and sustained through the active engagement and involvement of at least some of its members. Such communities can overlap in different ways with formal organizations but, in principle, they do not need formal organization to be sustained. This book explores the role of transnational communities in relation to the governance of business and economic activity. It does so by focusing on a wide range of empirical terrains, including discussions of the Laleli market in Istanbul, the institutionalization of private equity in Japan, the transnational movement for open content licenses, and the mobilization around environmental certification. These studies show that transnational communities can align the cognitive and normative orientations of their members over time and thereby influence emergent transnational governance arrangements.

Marie-Laure Djelic (Editor)

Transnational Governance: Institutional Dynamics of Regulation

Editura: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 2006

Globalization involves a profound re-ordering of our world with the proliferation everywhere of rules and transnational modes of governance. This book examines how this governance is formed, changes and stabilizes. Building on a rich and varied set of empirical cases, it explores transnational rules and regulations and the organizing, discursive and monitoring activities that frame, sustain and reproduce them. Beginning from an understanding of the powerful structuring forces that embed and form the context of transnational regulatory activities, the book scrutinizes the actors involved, how they are organized, how they interact and how they transform themselves to adapt to this new regulatory landscape. A powerful analysis of the modes and logics of transnational rule-making and rule-monitoring closes the book. This authoritative resource offers ideal reading for all academic researchers and graduate students of governance and regulation.

Marie-Laure Begout Anras (Author)

Advances in Invertebrates and Fish Telemetry

Editura: SPRINGER PG

Anul aparitiei: 1998

This volume provides a selection of the most significant papers presented at the Second Conference on Fish Telemetry in Europe in La Rochelle, France, in April 1997. The conference was attended by 100 scientists from 18 countries. The contributions are grouped under the following headings: Methodology and New Developments, Tagging Procedures, Behavioural and Physiological Ecology, Fish Migration, Stock Management and Conservation. Particular emphasis was put on tag miniaturisation, multiple functions and sampling strategies. Papers concerned the effects of tags on fish for consolidating behavioural or original physiological investigations noticeably more open to the marine environment. Methods were essentially applied to study the relationships between fish and their natural environment. Besides providing up-to-date information on the state of fish telemetry, the book illustrates the increase in spatial and temporal scales and the number of tracked fish which gives a statistical basis for field study in behavioural ecology.

Marie-Laure Ryan (Editor)

Narrative Across Media: The Languages of Storytelling

Editura: UNIV OF NEBRASKA PR

Anul aparitiei: 2004

Narratology has been conceived from its earliest days as a project that transcends disciplines and media. The essays gathered here address the question of how narrative migrates, mutates, and creates meaning as it is expressed across various media. Dividing the inquiry into five areas: face-to-face narrative, still pictures, moving pictures, music, and digital media, Narrative across Media investigates how the intrinsic properties of the supporting medium shape the form of narrative and affect the narrative experience. Unlike other interdisciplinary approaches to narrative studies, all of which have tended to concentrate on narrative across language-supported fields, this unique collection provides a much-needed analysis of how narrative operates when expressed through visual, gestural, electronic, and musical means. In doing so, the collection redefines the act of storytelling. Although the fields of media and narrative studies have been invigorated by a variety of theoretical approaches, this volume seeks to avoid a dominant theoretical bias by providing instead a collection of concrete studies that inspire a direct look at texts rather than relying on a particular theory of ...

Marie-Laure Joly-Guillou (Author)

Acinetobacter

Editura: CRC PR INC

Anul aparitiei: 1995

Analyzes the infection problems posed by acinetobacters, reviewing their microbiology, epidemiology, resistance to antibiotics, and potential therapeutic approaches. Practical tips and protocols for laboratory workers are provided, with guidelines for controlling the spread of bacteria. Page dim. 234 x 156 Weight: 567 grams

Laure Colette Laporte (Author)

Laure: The Collected Writings

Editura: CITY LIGHTS

Anul aparitiei: 2001

This complete collection of writings published for the first time in English includes "Story of a Little Girl," about the Catholic priest who sexually molested her sister; "The Sacred," a collection of poems and fragments on mysticism and eroticism; notes on her association with contr-attaque and acephale, and her involvement with the Spanish civil war and the early years of the Soviet Union; a compendium of correspondence with her beloved sister-in-law and tortured love letters to Bataille; and an essay by Bataille about Laure's death of tuberculosis at the age of thirty-five."People describe Laure as pure, dissolute, dark, luminous. 'I drank, I bathed in her radiant purity' Jean Bernier says. Leiris writes about her lyrically in fourbis and frêle bruit as 'the saint of the chasm.' Bataille calls her uncompromising, pure, and sovereign. It is tempting to romanticize Laure - in the most sublime and violent sense - as consumptive poet, a fervent revolutionary, Bataille's great love. But if she is radiant and dirty, she is also insolent. That, it seems, is what saves her." --Jeanine Herman"Colette Peignot, a.k.a. Laure, is one of the more fascinating and intense women writers of the ...

Marie-Laure Djelic (Editor)

Transnational Communities: Shaping Global Economic Governance

Editura: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 2012

Transnational communities are social groups that emerge from mutual interaction across national boundaries, oriented around a common project or 'imagined' identity. This common project or identity is constructed and sustained through the active engagement and involvement of at least some of its members. Such communities can overlap in different ways with formal organizations but, in principle, they do not need formal organization to be sustained. This book explores the role of transnational communities in relation to the governance of business and economic activity. It does so by focusing on a wide range of empirical terrains, including discussions of the Laleli market in Istanbul, the institutionalization of private equity in Japan, the transnational movement for open content licenses, and the mobilization around environmental certification. These studies show that transnational communities can align the cognitive and normative orientations of their members over time and thereby influence emergent transnational governance arrangements.

Laure Prus (Author)

A Residence in Algeria. [Translated from the French.]

Editura: BRITISH LIB HISTORICAL PRINT E

Anul aparitiei: 2011

Title: A Residence in Algeria. [Translated from the French.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The GENERAL HISTORICAL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This varied collection includes material that gives readers a 19th century view of the world. Topics include health, education, economics, agriculture, environment, technology, culture, politics, labour and industry, mining, penal policy, and social order. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Prus, Laure; 1852. 8 . 10095.e.25.

Gale Laure (Author)

Evolution of a Sad Woman: The Story of Kizzy

Editura: TRAFFORD PUB

Anul aparitiei: 2007

Five strangers are drawn together to solve a murder by the love of the same beautiful woman! Evolution of a Sad Woman, a mystery-thriller romance, is by Gale Laure.

Marie-Laure De Shazer (Author)

Chinese for Everyone: Chinese for All Ages and Learning Styles

Editura: TRAFFORD PUB

Anul aparitiei: 2007

Designed for beginner to intermediate students, this book will help anyone learn Chinese leveraging the learning tools and concepts they use in their everyday lives.

Anne-Laure Monfret (Author)

Saving Face in China: A First-Hand Guide for Any Traveller to China

Editura: XLIBRIS CORP

Anul aparitiei: 2011

"Great insight into Chinese culture and way of thinking" - Shanghai Daily. "A must read before meeting your next Chinese contact" - La Tribune Newspaper. "Full of humor, but built on true stories, this guide has real educational value for Western businessmen" - Les Carnets du Business. "An invaluable tool to understand the Chinese mind-set and an indispensable travelling companion" - Pierre Shan, former CEO of Onduline China. In China, "Saving Face" is paramount. But what exactly is it? What does it mean for the Chinese? What are its deep implications in business? This book provides an in depth understanding of an essential part of every social interaction in China: saving and losing face. It gives valuable tips on how to build good business relationships and develop efficient communication skills with the Chinese. It covers many topics from understanding the subtleties of position within the Chinese social hierarchy, the dos and don'ts of eating and drinking with the Chinese, the importance of choosing the right gifts and much more... Its contains many real life anecdotes and experiences shared by both Chinese and Westerners (Europeans and Americans), collected and analyzed ...

Anne-Laure Monfret (Author)

Saving Face in China: A First-Hand Guide for Any Traveller to China

Editura: XLIBRIS CORP

Anul aparitiei: 2011

Page dim. 229 x 152 x 13 Weight: 399 grams

Marie-Laure Mugnier (Editor)

Conceptual Structures: Theory, Tools and Applications: 6th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, Iccs'98, Montpellier, France, August, 10

Editura: SPRINGER VERLAG GMBH

Anul aparitiei: 1998

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS'98, held in Montpellier, France, in August 1998. The 20 revised full papers and 10 research reports presented were carefully selected from a total of 66 submissions; also included are three invited contributions. The volume is divided in topical sections on knowledge representation and knowledge engineering, tools, conceptual graphs and other models, relationships with logics, algorithms and complexity, natural language processing, and applications.