5626 results for '"Jean J. Schensul'

The possibility of a nuclear war that could destroy civilization has influenced the course of international affairs since 1945, suspended like a sword of Damocles above the heads of the world's...

"When Jean Tirole won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics, he suddenly found himself being stopped in the street by complete strangers and asked to comment on issues of the day, no matter how distant...

This book presents the analytic foundations to the theory of the hypoelliptic Laplacian. The hypoelliptic Laplacian, a second-order operator acting on the cotangent bundle of a compact manifold, is...

Elle est journaliste, historienne, romancière. Lui est philosophe et mathématicien. Ils vivent ensemble depuis plus de soixante ans, en s'efforçant d'être libres. Leur traversée du siècle les a...

"The best book about politics ever written for children." —The Washington Post 50th Anniversary Edition, now in paperbackDO YOU KNOW THE HISTORY OF THE PUSHCART WAR? THE REAL HISTORY?  It’s a story...

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"The publication in France of Simulacra et Simulation in 1981 marked Jean Baudrillard's first important step toward theorizing the postmodern. Moving away from the Marxist/Freudian approaches that...

The physics of extended systems is a topic of great interest for the experimentalist and the theoretician alike. There exists a large literature on this subject in which solutions, bifurcations,...

Les six pièces de Racine que contient ce volume forment le premier versant de l'oeuvre, celui de la prodigieuse et presque immédiate ascension d'un écrivain vers la perfection de son art. Racine a...

Working his way through the various spheres and systems of everyday life—the political, the juridical, the economical, the aesthetic, the biological, among others—he finds that they are all...

Baudrillard's essential crib-book, lexicon, and companion piece to any and all of his books and a prescient portrait of our contemporary condition.“The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say,...

La masturbation au XIXe siècle est un vice affreux qui décime la jeunesse. On lui prête des effets sur la santé à ce point néfastes qu'elle apparaît comme une forme d'auto-destruction. Cette histoire...

Pièce à part parmi les grandes tragédies de Racine, cette comédie est une satire des hommes de loi, menée dans la tradition de la commedia dell'arte.

La Mésopotamie est le creuset de la plus vieille religion à ce jour connue : un panthéon de divinités dans lequel chacun se voit attribuer un rôle et une fonction propres, dont l'intercession...