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Ouvrage "Tout en un", cette 3e édition conforme à la réforme de 2021 est l'outil indispensable pour tout élève de 1re et 2e année de classes prépas commerciales ECG-ECT mais également pour les élèves des prépas littéraires (option A/L ou B/L) préparant, en parallèle, les concours des Ecoles Normales Supérieures et les épreuves d'admission aux Ecoles de Commerce. Rédigé par une équipe de professeurs enseignant majoritairement dans les classes préparatoires, The English Textbook répond de manière précise et concrète aux objectifs de tout candidat souhaitant : - se préparer à son rythme ; - s'entraîner de façon variée ; - acquérir une meilleure technique ; - mettre en place des stratégies efficaces ; - évaluer ses progrès en situation ; - réussir le jour J. Il offre : - une présentation complète des épreuves ; - des repères méthodologiques pour toutes les épreuves écrites et orales ; - une couverture complète des notions essentielles à maîtriser à la fois en grammaire, en vocabulaire et en civilisation ; - des sujets d'annales et des sujets inédits corrigés ; - des conseils directement donnés par des examinateurs. Le plus : Corrigés des épreuves IENA, ECRICOME et ELVi 2022

The widespread use of the first edition of Physical Properties of Polymers as a textbook encouraged the authors to expand and update this introduction to polymer science. All of the original topics have been enriched with the latest developments in these fast-moving areas. Two new topics have been added to provide comprehensive treatment. The contents have been divided into sections on physical states of polymers and characterization techniques. Chapters on physical states include discussions of the rubber elastic state, the glassy state, melts and concentrated solutions, the crystalline state, and the mesomorphic state. Characterization techniques described are molecular spectroscopy and scattering techniques. In addition to academic use, this volume offers a well-rounded source of basic information needed by polymer physical chemists, polymer physicists, polymer engineers, and all scientists whose work involves polymers.

The question of God is or can be the central question of all human existence. This dissertation is an attempt to present the philosophical way to God according to Bernard Lonergan - one of the most prominent exponents of modern Catholic philosophy and theology. According to the inner dialectic between that which is existential and that which is rational in human knowing of God, the new meta-proof of God's existence is presented in the perspective of existential conditions for the acceptance of such a proof. Particular attention is devoted to the solution of Kant's critical problem, which is a necessary condition for every critically grounded affirmation of God, for every affirmation up to our time. In this way a sketch of the philosophy of God is presented here which can well serve as a sketch of the textbook in this philosophy.

This book is a concise, yet carefully written, introduction to modern graph theory, covering all its major recent developments. It can be used both as a reliable textbook for an introductory course and as a graduate text : on each topic it covers all the basic material in full detail, and adds one or two deeper results (again with detailed proofs) to illustrate the more advanced methods of that field. This second edition extends the first in two ways. It offers a thoroughly revised and updated chapter on graph minors, which now includes full new proofs of two of the central Robertson-Seymour theorems (as well as a detailed sketch of the entire proof of their celebrated Graph Minor Theorem). Second, there is now a section of hints for all the exercises, to enhance their value for both individual study and classroom use.

Reconciling all fields of international economic law (IEL) and creating bridges between disciplines in a conceptual as well as practical manner, this book stands out as the first modern, comprehensive international economic law textbook. Containing a technically solid yet critically rich body of knowledge that spans disciplines from trade law to investment, from trade finance to fisheries subsidies, from development to the digital economy and other new-age topics, the book offers the widest possible coverage of issues in current international economic law. Positioning IEL as a truly global practice, the comprehensive coverage includes various treaty texts, landmark cases and new materials, and is supplemented by case studies, real-life examples, exercises and illustrations. The case extracts and legal texts are selectively chosen, with careful editing and serious deliberation to engage modern law students. Mini chapters show examples of interdisciplinary interactions and provide a window into the future disciplines of international economic law.

This one-of-a-kind, class-tested textbook introduces the possibilities arising from the convergence of computing and communications technologies to students who don't have an information technology background. By combining the appropriate technical detail with illustrative examples, nontechnical issues, review sections, discussion items, and exercises, it empowers students to envision how networked computing applications con support individuals, groups, and organizations. Whether students are preparing for careers in business, information management, education, low, or public policy, no other book equips them with the broad understanding needed to effectively exploit these powerful technologies. Features. Thoroughly explains the use of networked computing in collaboration, information retrieval, education, business, and e-commerce. Covers a brood range of subjects including applications - their acquisition, the supporting technical infrastructures (architecture, security, databases, middleware, network, and communications), and performance - as well as important industry, economic, and policy issues. Provides supplementary materials via a companion Web site, links to other relevant Web sites, and additional resources for instructors.

This book aims to bridge the gap between theoretical and didactic grammar by familiarizing students with traditional terminology and notorious problem areas of English grammar - often otherwise ignored or neglected - and presenting them with a range of carefully chosen practice questions including challenging translation exercises for German students. Because it is often not simply ungrammaticality, but a certain un-Englishness, oddness, or awkwardness that marks students' English, this book is also a workbook on usage and style. A grammatical workbook and textbook in one, it has the unique advantage that almost all practice questions can be answered on the basis of information provided within the book and as a result can be used for individual study as well as school and university work. It will greatly help reinforce students' knowledge of grammar and give students the much needed practice and training in not only grammatically correct, but stylistically appropriate and natural English usage.

The Dungans are Chinese Muslims, living mainly in the Kirghiz and Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republics, whose ancestors migrated to Russia more than a hundred years ago. They speak the Kansu and Shensi dialects, but write their Chinese speech with the Cyrillic alphabet. Iàsyr Shivaza (1906-1988) is the most celebrated poet of the Dungans. He wrote numerous poems and many novels, he translated works from Russian and Kirghiz into Dungan, he compiled school textbooks for Dungan children and he helped in the creation of the present Dungan alphabet. Iàsyr Shivaza worked in the Kirghiz State Publishing House, edited a Dungan newspaper, and served in the Second World War as a war correspondent. The present work discusses his life and achievements.

This popular textbook gives a clear and lucid account of the underlying principles of statistical methods. The fourth edition has been revised and updated to reflect the growing popularity of statistics and chemometric methods and new approaches in optimisation and experimental design. The authors have also addressed the quality of analytical chemistry data and experimental results, an area of increasing concern to chemists testing the safety of food and medicines. Key features of the new edition: - Expanded material to create new chapters on "Experimental Design and Optimisation" and "Multivariate Analysis" - Completely new chapter on "The Quality of Analytical Measurements" - Revised questions with complete solutions throughout the text - Updated worked examples including calculations performed using Microsoft Excel and Minitab - Glossary and a flow chart to guide readers in their choice of significance tests - Instructors' manual and companion website available. This book will suit undergraduate, M.Sc. and graduate courses in Analytical Chemistry and related topics, and will also be valuable for researchers and chemists working in analytical chemistry everywhere.

La prise en charge des urgences et soins intensifs de cardiologie constitue un vaste champ de la cardiologie qui intègre des pathologies aiguës et sévères dans un contexte d'urgence. Une expertise spécifique et pointue est alors indispensable pour les praticiens qui prennent en charge ces pathologies. Urgences et Soins Intensifs de Cardiologie est la traduction de l'ouvrage de référence européen The ESC Textbook of Intensive and Acute Cardiovascular Care publié sous l'égide de l'European Society of Cardiology et de la Société Française de Cardiologie. Véritable référence sur le sujet il réunit les meilleurs spécialistes européens du domaine. Les premières parties détaillent les principes des soins cardiovasculaires intensifs et aigus la phase préhospitalière les services dédiés les investigations les procédures et le laboratoire (biomarqueurs). La pathologie est ensuite abordée : syndromes coronariens aigus insuffisance cardiaque aiguë arythmies affections cardiovasculaires aiguës spécifiques affections aiguës concomitantes. Cet ouvrage est indispensable pour tous les praticiens amenés à prendre en charge ces situations : cardiologues réanimateurs chirurgiens cardiaques et vasculaires médecins vasculaires.

Premier manuel à aborder le marketing des médias sociaux, cet ouvrage de référence combine concepts et cas pratiques, en liant le marketing des médias sociaux aux grands principes du marketing mix. Le manuel montre comment les différents types de médias sociaux, tels que les blogs et microblogs comme Twitter, les communautés de contenu comme YouTube et les sites de réseaux sociaux comme Facebook s'intègrent et complètent la boîte à outils des marketeurs. Le manuel traite également de questions essentielles, comme les moyens dont disposent les marques pour gérer leur image et communiquer sur les réseaux sociaux, le rôle des influenceurs et l'origine de leur impact et de leur capital social, ainsi que le calcul du retour sur investissement des médias sociaux. Marketing des médias sociaux permet ainsi de comprendre la manière dont les entreprises utilisent - avec succès ou non - les médias sociaux pour atteindre leurs objectifs marketing. Les points forts : une partie entière consacrée à 10 études de cas ; des exemples adaptés pour le public français ; des encadrés de réflexion critique ; un manuel lauréat du TAA Textbook Excellence Award. Des ressources numériques supplémentaires sont également proposées aux enseignants et étudiants.

Graduate students and researchers in astrophysics and cosmology need a solid understanding of a wide range of physical processes. This clear and authoritative textbook has been designed to help them to develop the necessary toolkit of theory. Assuming only an undergraduate background in physics and no detailed knowledge of astronomy, this book guides the reader step by step through a comprehensive collection of fundamental theoretical topics. The book is modular in design, allowing the reader to pick and chose a selection of chapters, if necessary. It can be used alone, or in conjunction with the forthcoming accompanying two volumes (covering stars and stellar systems, and galaxies and cosmology, respectively). After reviewing the basics of dynamics, electromagnetic theory, and statistical physics, the book carefully develops a solid understanding of all the key concepts such as radiative processes, spectra, fluid mechanics, plasma physics and MHD, dynamics of gravitating systems, general relativity, and nuclear physics. Each topic is developed methodically from undergraduate basic physics. Throughout, the reader's understanding is developed and tested with carefully structured problems and helpful hints. This welcome volume provides graduate students with an indispensable introduction to and reference on all the physical processes they will need to successfully tackle cutting-edge research in astrophysics and cosmology.

The diverse forms that stars assume in the course of their lives can all be derives from the initial conditions : the mass and the original chemical composition. In this textbook the basic concepts of stellar structure and the main roads of stellar evolution are described. First, the observable parameters are presented, which are based on the radiation emerging from a stellar atmosphere. Then the bascphysics is described, such as the physics of gases, radiation transport, and nuclear processes, followed by essential aspects of modelling the structure of stars. After a chapter on star formation, the various steps in the evolution of stars are presented. This leads us to brown dwarfs, to the way of star changes into the red-giant state and numerous other stages of evolution and ultimately to the stellar ashes such as white dwarfs, supernovae and neutron stars. Stellar winds, stellar rotation and convection all influence the way a star evolves. The evolution of binary stars is included by using several canonical examples in which interactive processes lead to X-Ray binaries and supernovae of type la. Finally, the consequence of the study of stellar evolution are tied to observed mass ans luminosity functions and to the overall evolution of matter in the universe.

In the ten years since its publication, Japanese for Busy People has won acceptance worldwide as an effective, easy-to-understand textbook, either for classroom use or for independent study. In this new edition, numerous revisions and additions have been made, taking into account the comments and responses of both students and teachers who have been using the course. In Book 1, the revisions are directed at making the grammatical explanations easier to understand, while adding further explanations of points that students have difficulty with. Changes have also been made in favor of more natural practice sentences and dialogues. In addition, new appendices list the particles, interrogatives, and sentence patterns in the book, as well as the kanji introduced. More fundamental revisions have been made to Book II, which has been expanded and divided into two volumes, Book II and Book III. The changes result in a smoother transition from Book I, make new grammatical elements clearer, and present more natural practice dialogues and exercise sentences. This concise course in natural Japanese is ideal for such students as businessmen whose aim is a working knowledge of the spoken language in everyday life. "Survival Japanese for Adults," as it might be called, gets to the heart of the language without recourse to childish or classroom-only Japanese. Vocabulary and grammar have been limited to about one-third that usually encountered in beginner courses, and words and patterns that students will find immediately useful are emphasized. The thirty lessons are composed of dialogues, notes on grammar, and vocabulary, exercises, and quizzes. In addition to developing verbal fluency, by the time the student is one-third of the way through Book 1, he or she will have mastered the two phonetic syllabaries of Japanese, hiragana and katakana.

C'est le livre de grammaire japonaise le plus vendu dans l'histoire avec plus de 60 réimpressions. Notes de l'éditeur (Japan Times) This is ... the first comprehensive dictionary of Japanese grammar ... a standard reference. - Japan Economic Journal A DICTIONARY OF BASIC JAPANESE GRAMMAR offers a new approach to the interpretation of Japanese grammar and provides, in dictionary format, a convenient reference of grammar-related expressions. Accurate and concise, the grammar explanations incorporate the results of recent research in Japanese linguistics. This work is designed primarily for such people as those who --are not satisfied with the grammar explanations in Japanese textbooks, --have studied Japanese grammar but need more comprehensive information about its use in different contexts, --want to learn the distinctions among similar grammatical expressions, --are looking for a supplement to dictionaries which lack grammatical explanations, --need a basic grammar review. A DICTIONARY OF BASIC JAPANESE GRAMMAR consists of five sections. - The first section familiarizes the reader with the grammatical terms used throughout the text. - The second provides an overview of the major grammar concepts of Japanese. - The third and main portion of the text is devoted to descriptions and explanations of the basic grammar items. - The fourth and fifth sections, consisting of eight appendixes and three indexes, complete the text. This book helps the reader to obtain an in-depth understanding of basic grammar structures, which leads to more accurate usage. Overall, it constitutes a standard reference for Japanese and can be considered indispensable to the study of the language.

Physical scientists are problem solvers. They are comfortable "doing" science: they find problems, solve them, and explain their solutions. Roger Newton believes that his fellow physicists might be too comfortable with their roles as solvers of problems. He argues that physicists should spend more time thinking about physics. If they did, he believes, they would become even more skilled at solving problems and "doing" science. As Newton points out in this thought-provoking book, problem solving is always influenced by the theoretical assumptions of the problem solver. Too often, though, he believes, physicists haven't subjected their assumptions to thorough scrutiny. Newton's goal is to provide a framework within which the fundamental theories of modem physics can be explored, interpreted, and understood. "Surely physics is more than a collection of experimental results, assembled to satisfy the curiosity of appreciative experts," Newton writes. Physics, according to Newton, has moved beyond the describing and naming of curious phenomena, which is the goal of some other branches of science. Physicists have spent a great part of the twentieth century searching for explanations of experimental findings. Newton agrees that experimental facts are vital to the study of physics, but only because they lead to the development of a theory that can explain them. Facts, he argues, should undergird theory. Newton's explanatory sweep is both broad and deep. He covers such topics as quantum mechanics, classical mechanics, field theory, thermodynamics, the role of mathematics in physics, and the concepts of probability and causality. For Newton the fundamental entity in quantum theory is the field, from which physicists can explain the particle-like and wave-like properties that are observed in experiments. He grounds his explanations in the quantum field. Although this is not designed as a standalone textbook, it is essential reading for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, professors, and researchers. This is a clear, concise, up-to-date book about the concepts and theories that underlie the study of contemporary physics. Readers will find that they will become better-informed physicists and, therefore, better thinkers and problem solvers, too.

In modern industrial society, the tic between science and technology seems clear, even inevitable. But historically, as James E. McClellan III and Harold Dorn remind us, the connection was far less apparent. For much of human history, technology depended more on the innovation of skilled artisans than it did on the speculation of scientists. Technology as "applied science," the authors argue, emerged relatively recently, as industry and governments began funding scientific research that would lead directly to new or improved technologies. In Science and Technology in World History, McClellan and Dorn offer an introduction to this changing relationship. McClellan and Dorn review the historical record beginning with the thinking and tool making of prehistoric humans. Neolithic people, for example, developed metallurgy of a sort, using naturally occurring raw copper, and kept systematic records of the moon's phases. Neolithic craftsmen possessed practical knowledge of the behavior of clay, fire, and other elements of their environment, but though they may have had explanations for the phenomena of their crafts, they toiled without any systematic science of materials or the self-conscious application of theory to practice. Without neglecting important figures of Western science such as Newton and Einstein, the authors demonstrate the great achievements of non-Western cultures. They remind us that scientific traditions took root in China, India, and Central and South America, as well as in a series of Near Eastern empires, during late antiquity and the Middle Ages, including the vast region that formed the Islamic conquest. From this comparative perspective, the authors explore the emergence of Europe as a scientific and technological power. Continuing their narrative through the Manhattan Project, NASA, and modern medical research, the authors weave the converging histories of science and technology into an integrated, perceptive, and highly readable narrative. "Professors McClellan and Dorn have written a survey that does not present the historical development of science simply as a Western phenomenon but as the result of wide-ranging human curiosity about nature and attempts to harness its powers in order to serve human needs. This is an impressive amount of material to organize in a single textbook." - Paula Findlen, Stanford University

Fruit d'une collaboration de plus de dix ans entre deux spécialistes confirmés du domaine, ce grand traité d'algèbre commutative est sans équivalent dans la littérature mathématique. Les auteurs, Henri Lombardi et Claude Quitté, y adoptent résolument le point de vue constructif, aujourd'hui prégnant en mathématiques. Ils privilégient les résultats explicites, si bien que les théorèmes proposés ont tous un contenu algorithmique. Plusieurs théories classiques "abstraites" sont ainsi revisitées, avec un éclairage nouveau qui en facilite l'accès. C'est le cas par exemple de la théorie de Galois, des anneaux de Dedekind, des modules projectifs de type fini ou de la théorie de la dimension de Krull, qui dans leur cadre classique laissent rarement entrevoir un contenu algorithmique précis. Avec plus d'un millier de pages écrites dans un style alerte et clair, la première édition en 2011 de cet ouvrage monumental a été saluée par la critique : All together, the book under review must be seen as an invaluable replenishment of the existing textbook literature in commutative algebra (Werner Kleinert, Zentralblatt, Zbl 1242.13002). Elle fut très vite épuisée. La présente deuxième édition, après la traduction anglaise publiée par Springer en 2015, a été révisée et bonifiée par les auteurs, si bien qu'elle avoisine les douze cents pages. Il y a maintenant plus de trois cents exercices et cinquante problèmes, le plus souvent accompagnés de solutions. La richesse et la diversité des thèmes abordés font de ce traité une fontaine de jouvence où viendront se désaltérer les amoureux, jeunes et moins jeunes, de l'algèbre savante. Un soin très particulier a été apporté à la mise en page et à la fabrication de l'ouvrage. Cette publication chez les éditions Calvage & Mounet a constitué et constitue encore un véritable événement éditorial et fait valoir avec force le rôle de plus en plus reconnu de l'aspect effectif dans le développement des mathématiques contemporaines. Les étudiants et enseignants en M1 et M2 sont les premiers concernés par le contenu de ce grand traité, lequel intéressera également les informaticiens théoriciens et les spécialistes en calcul formel. Enfin, les agrégatifs curieux y trouveront un nombre considérable d'idées nouvelles pour leurs leçons d'oral. Mais, au delà de ce public précis, les volutes et arabesques mathématiques qui y figurent à profusion séduiront tous ceux et celles qui continuent à faire confiance aux mathématiques comme langage pour interpréter le monde et en sonder les mystères.