Pierre L van den Berghe:Author-ccebook-Valuable English Books

The Ethnic Phenomenon

Author: Pierre L. van den Berghe
Publisher: Praeger Paperback
Keywords: phenomenon, ethnic
Number of Pages: 318
Published: 1987-08-19
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 0275927091
ISBN-13: 9780275927097

Van den Berghe contends that intergroup relations are reducible to individuals competing for scarce resources. He argues that ethnic nepotism is, at its very foundation, biological. This new approach is expanded further, taking into account how ethnicity is responsive to a wide spectrum of environmental factors. He analytically relates his own ideological biases to the substance of his work. What results is an intensely personal book of monumental scope and admirable intellectual honesty.

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Financial Conglomerates: New Rules for New Players?

Author: L. van den Berghe
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: new, players, rules, financial, conglomerates
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1995-10-31
List price: $131.00
ISBN-10: 0792337530
ISBN-13: 9780792337539

In recent years financial conglomerates have been established throughout Europe. This horizontal diversification has attracted a great deal of attention in the banking and insurance sector, and has alarmed the supervisory authorities and the European Commission. Financial Conglomerates: New Rules for New Players? gives a broad, innovative survey of the following aspects: - it analyzes different sets of definitions of financial conglomerates, groups, consolidation criteria, etc., testing the practical effects of these definitions on the basis of a detailed relational database;

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Exponential Fitting (Mathematics and Its Applications)

Authors:Liviu Gr. Ixaru, Guido Vanden Berghe,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: applications, mathematics, fitting, exponential
Number of Pages: 322
Published: 2004-05-26
List price: $129.00
ISBN-10: 1402020996
ISBN-13: 9781402020995

Exponential Fitting is a procedure for an efficient numerical approach of functions consisting of weighted sums of exponential, trigonometric or hyperbolic functions with slowly varying weight functions. This book is the first one devoted to this subject. Operations on the functions described above like numerical differentiation, quadrature, interpolation or solving ordinary differential equations whose solution is of this type, are of real interest nowadays in many phenomena as oscillations, vibrations, rotations, or wave propagation. The authors studied the field for many years and

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Gene Avatars: The Neo-Darwinian Theory of Evolution

Authors:Pierre-Henri Gouyon, Jean-Pierre Henry, Jacques Arno
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: theory, evolution, darwinian, neo, avatars, gene
Number of Pages: 278
Published: 2002-05-31
List price: $205.00
ISBN-10: 0306466163
ISBN-13: 9780306466168

`Why life?’ Questions of this type were for a long time the prerogative of philosophers who left the `how’ question to scientists. Nowadays, Darwin’s successors no longer have any qualms about addressing the `why’ as well as the `how’. Over a century ago, Darwin modestly admitted having ’thrown some light on the origin of species - this mystery of mysteries’. Two major advances in the following decades helped biologists answer many of the questions he left unsolved. The first was the discovery of the laws of heredity, the second that of DNA. Both provi

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L’Analyse des correspondances et les techniques connexes: Approches nouvelles pour l’analyse statistique des données (Mathématiques et Applications) (French Edition)

Authors:Jean Moreau, Pierre-André Doudin, Pierre Caze,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: analyse, des, donn�es, statistique, applications, french, pour, math�matiques, approches, correspondances, les, techniques, connexes, nouvelles
Number of Pages: 266
Published: 1999-11-17
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 3540663460
ISBN-13: 9783540663461

Cet ouvrage présente différents points de vue sur une même méthode, l’analyse des correspondances. Il montre comment cette méthode s’est développée pour traiter des données de plus en plus variées et complexes et comment elle s’est enrichie au contact d’autres courants de pensée. De plus, il présente un panorama des applications possibles. Cet ouvrage qui rassemble des contributions de différents auteurs présente un exposé à la fois progressif sur le plan didactique et suffisamment vaste pour rassembler en un seul volume des développements théoriques r�