Erik: 1534 books

Une révolution industrielle et sociétale est en cours, elle se nomme " data ". Un livre pour comprendre ses enjeux et son impact, actuel et futur, sur nos existences. " Big Data " : un mot que l'on entend sans cesse sans vraiment savoir ce dont il s'agit. Pourtant, les données...

« Faisons un rêve. Il était une fois un pays de lecteurs. C’est-à-dire un pays où chacun, chacune, dispose d’un lieu, près de chez lui, de chez elle, un troisième lieu entre domicile et travail, un lieu chaleureux où il, où elle se rend pour découvrir et se découvrir, apprendre, imaginer,...

De Marienbad à La Bourboule, de Baden-Baden au Mont-Dore, de Vittel à Spa, il s’agit d’un voyage au siècle d’or des villes d’eaux : lorsque l’on se rendait aux bains en chaise à porteurs, lorsque Victoria, Napoléon III, Guillaume II, Frantz-Joseph 1er et l’empereur du Brésil, don...

Toutes les clefs pour réfléchir sur le sens et l'impact des innovations d'aujourd'hui et de demain. Des applications nouvelles sur notre téléphone mobile au covoiturage, de l'invasion des drones à la réorganisation des chaînes de production, des tweets aux tablettes numériques et aux modes...

Révolutionnaires silencieuses… Voilà bien la juxtaposition de deux mots contradictoires, d’un adjectif et d’un substantif usuellement inconciliables. Et pourtant révolutionnaires, elles l’ont été ces quelques femmes dont les portraits sont ici présentés : diplomate, pilote, enseignante,...

Accidents are preventable, but only if they are correctly described and understood. Since the mid-1980s accidents have come to be seen as the consequence of complex interactions rather than simple threads of causes and effects. Yet progress in accident models has not been matched by advances in methods....

This self-study Exam preparation guide and its accompanying online course for the IP Multimedia Subsystem Certification Exam contains everything you need to test yourself and pass the Exam. All Exam topics are covered and insider secrets, complete explanations of all IP Multimedia Subsystem subjects,...

This book examines smart growth entrepreneurs—innovators in government, development companies, architectural firms, and other organizations, who coalesce to shift policies and markets toward green planning and building practices. Cities across the world are trying to manage their population and...

This important book provides the first systematic assessment of the so-called Norway Model, suggested as an off-the-shelf option for the UK to ‘square the circle’ after Brexit. Two preeminent Norwegian scholars of politics and law offer a comprehensive first-hand account of Norway’s relationship...

The political landscape in Finland has changed dramatically during the past 35 years. Like everywhere in the democratic West these changes have pertained to the economic and social underpinnings of the political process as well as to the concrete substance of government policy. Unlike most comparable...

Answers the questions: what is the background to issues in external and internal politics? What is the Turks' opinion on European and Turkish identity? On Cyprus? On the role of the generals? Why do human rights problems linger on? What is behind the Kurdish question? Is Turkey religiously split? What are the pros and cons of Turkish association with the EU?

This book reports an approach developed to research and apply methods of assessing patterns of processes in the landscape, and suitability of different types of vegetation to mitigate soil erosion and sediment flux. Practical guidelines on a spatially strategic approach to management of land degradation...

In the application of statistics to ecological inference problems, hierarchical models combine explicit models of ecological system structure or dynamics with models of how ecological systems are observed. The principles of hierarchical modeling are applied in this book to a wide range of problems...

Advanced Modelling Techniques Studying Global Changes in Environmental Sciences discusses the need for immediate and effective action, guided by a scientific understanding of ecosystem function, to alleviate current pressures on the environment. Research, especially in Ecological Modeling,...