Authors:Giovanni Levi, Jean-Claude Schmitt,
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: medieval, rites, passage, ancient, volume, people, west, history
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 1999-11-15
List price: $29.50
ISBN-10: 0674404076
ISBN-13: 9780674404076

However swiftly it passes, youth is always with us, a perpetual passing phase, an apprenticeship to the myriad ways of the world, subject of panegyrics and diatribes, romances and cautionary tales from antiquity to our day. This two-volume history is the first to present a comprehensive account of what youth has been in the West and what it has meant through the ages. Brought together by Giovanni Levi and Jean-Claude Schmitt, a company of gifted historians and social scientists traces the changing character and status of young people from the gymnasia of ancient Greece to the lyces of modern F

Authors:Claude Michaud, Jean-Claude Theonig,
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: compatible, organization, strategy, making
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2003-07-04
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 1403911231
ISBN-13: 9781403911230

This book argues that for many companies organization is designed to achieve operational optimization and may be in conflict with strategic objectives. Managers may not share similar decision criteria and this may facilitate or hinder the fulfillment of certain strategies. The role of top managers is to shape to a large extent the ability of the organizational system to implement and achieve strategic objectives. This book provides breakthrough thinking on these issues by two leading academic thinkers.

Authors:Claude Jaupart, Jean-Claude Mareschal,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: earth, transport, generation, heat
Number of Pages: 476
Published: 2010-12-13
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0521894883
ISBN-13: 9780521894883

Heat provides the energy that drives almost all geological phenomena and sets the temperature at which these phenomena operate. This book explains the key physical principles of heat transport with simple physical arguments and scaling laws that allow quantitative evaluation of heat flux and cooling conditions in a variety of geological settings and systems. The thermal structure and evolution of magma reservoirs, the crust, the lithosphere and the mantle of the Earth are reviewed within the context of plate tectonics and mantle convection - illustrating how theoretical arguments can be combin

Authors:Jacques Lecoq, Jean-Gabriel Carasso, Jean-Claude Lal
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: theatre, creative, teaching, moving
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2002-01-11
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0878301410
ISBN-13: 9780878301416

In The Moving Body, translated into English for the first time, Lecoq shares his unique philosophy of performance, improvisation, masks, movement, and gesture. Neutral mask, character masks and counter-masks, bouffons, acrobatics, commedia, clowns: all the famous Lecoq techniques are include here. The Moving Body is the written legacy of a great theatrical imagination.

Authors:Jean-Claude Bonnet, Pierrick Aupinel, Jean-Louis Vri
Publisher: Inra Editions
Keywords: aspersa, helix, escargot
Number of Pages: 124
Published: 1990-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 2738002471
ISBN-13: 9782738002471

Authors:Jean-Claude Cheynet, Jean-claude Cheynet, Claudia So
Publisher: De Gruyter
Keywords: german, vol, sigillography, byzantine, studies
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 2010-04-26
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 3110227045
ISBN-13: 9783110227048

For several years now, sigillography as an independent subarea in the field of Byzantine studies has received increasing attention from both Byzantine studies and related disciplines, because it is the only area still able to provide academia with large amounts of material not previously analysed. The articles of "Studies in Byzantine Sigillography" deal with all aspects of Byzantine sigillography: presentation of new finds, discussion of new methods, questions of the political and ecclesiastical administration of Byzantinum, prosopography, historical geography, and art historical and iconogra

Authors:Jean-Claude Bringuier, Jean Piaget,
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: reprint, midway, piaget, jean, conversations
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1989-01-15
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0226075052
ISBN-13: 9780226075051

"What is most impressive about this book is its intelligence, its sophistication, and its charm. . . . This book presents Piaget’s work and his person better than anything else that I know about."—David Elkind, Tufts University"The tone is one of constant movement from the most ordinary to the most abstruse. There are 14 conversations with ’le Patron,’ some in 1969, some in 1975, and several more with co-workers in various fields. . . . In Mr. Bringuier’s book, in a pleasant informal way, we see a sophisticated non-scientist exploring Piaget’s domain with the ma