This collection of essays seeks to challenge the notion of the supremacy of the brain as the key org... more

North African immigrants, once confined to France’s social and cultural margins, have become a stron... more

Agro-Ecosystem Diversity: Impact on Food Security and Environmental Quality presents cutting-edge ex... more

Offers a new conceptual framework to understand human rights in their changing political dimension D... more

This monograph presents various ongoing approaches to the vast topic of quantization, which is the p... more

Presents a major text on hypochondria and hysteria by a major 18th century philosopher Shows that Ma... more

Co-published by The Hebrew University Magnes Press and De Gruyter... more

continuous or discontinuous, editors Brian Schiff, A. Elizabeth McKim, and Sylvie Patron and their contributing authors reject...... more

This book explores issues raised by past and present practices of animal enhancement in terms of the... more

Human enhancement has become a major concern in debates about the future of contemporary societies. ... more

This volume of Progress in Brain Research focuses on Sensorimotor Rehabilitation. This well-establis... more

This volume brings together sixteen in-depth studies of final particles in various languages of the ... more

Sylvie Patron, edition with an introduction and notes by Sylvie Patron....... more

Based on lectures held at the 7th Villa de Leyva summer school, this book presents an introduction t... more

This book originated from an awareness of the persistent lack of knowledge supporting a more respect... more

Design happens everywhere, whether in animate objects (e.g., dendritic lung structures, bacterial co... more

As the re-emergence of nuclear power as an acceptable energy source on an international basis contin... more

This book juxtaposes the experiences of regions that have lived or are living through industrial tra... more

This book examines Japanese tourism and travel, both today and in the past, showing how over hundred... more

A unique exploration of the the contributions made by multinational corporations to the difficult la... more

In the decade since publication of the first edition of Crystallographic Methods and Protocols the f... more

Macromolecular Crystallography Protocols, now in two volumes, examines major developments that have ... more

Questions of company governance have been examined over the years, but this has generally been in ar... more

This volume offers a unique collection of outstanding contributions from renowned women mathematicia... more

Selected papers of the Ritual Americas conferences organized by the Soci t des Am ricanistes de Be... more

Organ transplantation has been performed for almost 40 years with steadily increasing success regard... more

This book examines Japanese tourism and travel, both today and in the past, showing how over hundred... more

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on ... more

Freshwater eels are almost infinitely improbable creatures. They spawn and die in the middle of the ... more

Nature religions look to rivers, lakes and oceans for inspiration and spiritual transformation. De... more

Silicon Based Polymers presents highlights in advanced research and technological innovations using ... more

projects, and reports on a real-life construction project using Leonardo s principles. Authors include Sylvie Duvernoy, Kim...... more

This volume contains papers that were presented at HYP2006, the eleventh international Conference on... more

This issue is dedicated to Mechanics in Architecture. It explores the latest findings in the science... more

Macromolecular Crystallography Protocols, now in two volumes, examines major developments that have ... more

Dose-finding experiments define the safe dosage of a drug in development, in terms of the quantity g... more

The international Gesture Workshops have become the leading interdisciplinary events for disseminati... more

Since the mid-1970s, economic and educational developments in Canada, Mexico, and the USA have been ... more

Behavioral medicine has now matured as a field to the point where all recognize that different popul... more

Globalizing Japan explores the social and cultural dimensions of Japan’s global presence. Japan’s ex... more

Leadership development is critical to organizational competitive advantage. The key to successful le... more

In the global information society, innovation is a highly pervasive process that influences all face... more

The need to improve communication between humans and computers has been instrumental in de ning new ... more

Addressing a number of missing links in the analysis of labour and its geographies, this volume ... more

Beloved Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir left a vibrant legacy that influenced the life a... more

Dada began on February 5, 1916, when Hugo Ball, Emmy Hennings, and others launched the Cabaret Volta... more

Joseph Cornell (1903-1972), the American pioneer of collage, montage, and assemblage art, is sometim... more

The papers in this volume, presented at the Royal Institute of Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA) in Bruss... more

La puissante originalite de l oeuvre du compositeur francais Charles Koechlin (1867-1950) n est plus... more