Alain: 2045 books

La désertion d’Aidan sur le quai de Québec a dévasté le coeur d’Adélaïde. Il l’a abandonné de manière abrupte, brisant le lien qui les unissait. Ravagée par le chagrin, elle fera tout ce qui est en son pouvoir pour entamer un nouveau chapitre de sa vie. Par chance, elle trouve une échappatoire...

Qui sont ces enfants illégitimes qui ont fait l'Histoire ?De Charles Martel, bâtard de Pépin le Bref, qui permettra l’avènement du grand Charlemagne à Mazarine Pingeot et le scandale que suscita la révélation de son existence, en passant par l’enfant que Napoléon eut avec une suivante de...

Adolf Hitler avait-il une vie sexuelle ?Combien d’hommes et de femmes a-t-il fréquentés ?Pourquoi un tel mystère s’est-il créé autour du Führer ?Était-il hétéro ou homosexuel ?Avait-il des choses à cacher, susceptibles de heurter la bonne morale ou de nuire à son image publique ?Était-il...

Talleyrand, homme de pouvoir Français, fascine toujours. Talleyrand, surnommé « le diable boiteux » en raison de son pied bot, n’a laissé aucun de ses contemporains indifférent. Qu’on l’admire, qu’on le craigne ou qu’on le déteste, il a été perçu tantôt comme un pervers...

"... a ground-breaking contribution to the field of African literature... " —Research in African Literatures "Anyone with the slightest interest in West African cultures, performance or theatre should immediately rush out and buy this book." —Leeds African Studies Bulletin "A seminal...

This book is devoted to a number of stochastic models that display scale invariance. It primarily focuses on three issues: probabilistic properties, statistical estimation and simulation of the processes considered. It will be of interest to probability specialists, who will find here an uncomplicated...

Extractive metallurgy is the art and science of extracting metals from their ores and refining them. The production of metals and alloys from these source materials is still one of the most important and fundamental industries in both developed and developing economies around the world. The outputs...

Most of the software measures currently proposed to the industry bring few real benefits to either software managers or developers. This book looks at the classical metrology concepts from science and engineering, using them as criteria to propose an approach to analyze the design of current software...

​Mean field games and Mean field type control introduce new problems in Control Theory. The terminology “games” may be confusing. In fact they are control problems, in the sense that one is interested in a single decision maker, whom we can call the representative agent. However, these problems...

This paper addresses the challenges to prudential supervision in highly dollarized economies, where central banks and supervisors may be constrained in the use of standard money and financial policy tools. The study’s conclusions are the basis of an ongoing policy dialogue with IMF member countries,...

Financial (unofficial) dollarization is widely seen as a critical source of financial fragility in both developing and emerging economies. This volume provides a rigorous and balanced perspective on the causes and implications of dollarization, and the basic policies and options to deal with it: the...

Urban and peri-urban land markets in rapidly expanding West African cities operate within and across different coexisting tenure regimes and involve complex procedures to obtain or make land available for housing. Because a structured framework lacks for the analysis of such systems, this book proposes...

This book discusses advanced statistical methods that can be used to analyse ecological data. Most environmental collected data are measured repeatedly over time, or space and this requires the use of GLMM or GAMM methods. The book starts by revising regression, additive modelling, GAM and GLM, and then discusses dealing with spatial or temporal dependencies and nested data.

Simulation is the fastest developing branch of geostatistics and simulating facies inside reservoirs and orebodies is the most exciting part of this. Several methods have been developed to do this (sequential indicator simulations, Boolean simulations, Markov chains and plurigaussian simulations)....