Authors:Scott Walter, Etienne Bolmont, André Coret,
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
Keywords: henri, poincarã©, publications, archives, ingã©nieurs, des, french, physiciens, entre, les, correspondance, chimistes
Number of Pages: 493
Published: 2008-01-04
List price: $299.00
ISBN-10: 3764371366
ISBN-13: 9783764371364

L’intérêt que portait Henri Poincaré (1854-1912) à des questions d’ordre physique a été durable et profond; elle couvre presque toute sa carrière, et marque l’histoire de la physique tout au long du 20ème siècle. Sa correspondance avec cinquante-et-un physiciens, quatre chimistes, et cinq ingénieurs commence dès 1879, lorsqu’il s’engage activement dans la recherche scientifique. Elle est rythmée par des grandes découvertes d’ordre expérimental, instrumental, et théorique. Henri Poincaré, while well-known as the most brilliant mathematician

Authors:Etienne Minvielle, Etienne Minvielle, Etienne Minvie
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: quality, healthcare, management, measurement, imperative
Number of Pages: 214
Published: 2000-01
List price: $71.00
ISBN-10: 1860941737
ISBN-13: 9781860941733

Efforts to reform healthcare systems around the globe are proliferating rapidly. Two fundamental pressures are driving change - cost and access - and every system is experimenting with measure designed to address these pressures. In the midst of these experiments, serious concerns about quality are being raised. Are efforts to contain costs leading to practices which have a detrimental effect on quality? What, in fact, is "quality" in the world of healthcare? How should it be measured? How can it be improved? These questions are on the cutting edge of debates about the management of healthcare

Author: Etienne Wenger
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: identity, meaning, learning, practice, communities
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1999-12-01
List price: $41.99
ISBN-10: 0521663636
ISBN-13: 9780521663632

Learning is becoming an urgent topic. Nations worry about the learning of their citizens, companies about the learning of their workers, schools about the learning of their students. But it is not always easy to think about how to foster learning in innovative ways. This book presents a framework for doing that, with a social theory of learning that is ground-breaking yet accessible, with profound implications not only for research, but also for all those who have to foster learning as part of their responsibilites at work, at home, at school.Book DescriptionLearning is becoming an urgent topi

Author: Etienne Delessert
Publisher: Creative Editio
Keywords: theater
Number of Pages: 30
Published: 2009-07-15
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1568462085
ISBN-13: 9781568462080

Author: Etienne Balibar
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: marx, philosophy
Number of Pages: 139
Published: 2007-09-17
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1844671879
ISBN-13: 9781844671878

The only guide to Marx that the student and scholar will need. Providing a lucid and accessible introduction to Marx, complete with pedagogical boxes, a chronology and guides to further reading, Etienne Balibar makes the most difficult areas of his philosophy easy to understand. One of the most influential French philosophers to have emerged from the 1960s, Balibar brings a lifetime of study and expertise to create a brilliantly concise portrait of Marx that will initiate the student and intrigue the scholar. He examines all the key areas of Marx’s writings, including his early works,

Author: F. Etienne De Vylder
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: perspectives, actuarial, theory, insurance, life
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 1997-08-31
List price: $199.00
ISBN-10: 0792399951
ISBN-13: 9780792399957

This concise self-contained book on life contingencies is written for students, teachers, researchers and life insurance practitioners. The stochastic model, introduced by Professor De Vylder more than twenty years ago and now widely adopted, is used throughout the monograph. Beyond the classical material of life insurance mathematics, the emphasis lies on variance evaluations of mathematical reserves, allowing the estimation of long term ruin probabilities in life insurance portfolios with varying volume. Other characteristics of the book are its great generality, the inclusion of an

Author: Etienne Gilson
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Keywords: philosophy, mediaeval, spirit
Number of Pages: 490
Published: 1991-04
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 0268017409
ISBN-13: 9780268017408

In this translation of Etienne Gilson’s well known work L’esprit de la philosophie medievale, he undertakes the task of defining the spirit of mediaeval philosophy. Gilson asks whether we can form the concept of a Christian philosophy and, second, whether mediaeval philosophy is not precisely its most adequate historical expression. He maintains that the spirit of mediaeval philosophy is the spirit of Christianity penetrating the Greek tradition, working within it, and drawing out of it a certain view of the world that is specifically Christian. To support his hypothesis, Gilson e