Michel De: 262 books

What does a professor Brazilian or otherwise think and do on the first day of class, standing before a group of “foreign” students to talk about Brazilian literature? This apparently simple question that gave rise to the essays gathered in this book opens a series of other questions: Who is...

Reviews advances in understanding and improving the welfare of dairy cattle;  Summarises current research on rumen biology, digestion and ways of optimising nutrition of dairy cattle from grazing to feed and feed supplements;  Discusses latest developments in maintaining the health of dairy cattle, including the genetics of disease resistance and dairy herd health management

Features original pieces by an international group of major scholars, including such prominent figures as Stanley Fish and Bernhard Schlink (author of the bestselling novel The Reader, in addition to being a prominent legal scholar).

Jamais elle n’aurait imaginé se voir accueillir par un quadragénaire déculotté. Surtout par quelqu’un d’aussi timide et complexé que son voisin. Elle rit et s’avança, tranquille. – Alors pépé, fit-elle en se cambrant, c’était donc ça. Je vous fais peur ? C’était juste ce qu’il ne fallait pas dire et elle le comprit instantanément.

Learn how web applications can be built efficiently using ASP.NET Core 2.0 and related frameworks About This Book Get to grips with the new features and APIs introduced in ASP.NET Core 2.0 Leverage the MVC framework and Entity Framework Core 2 to build efficient applications Learn to deploy your...

This book is the result of the 1st International Seminar of Film and Values organized by the Directorate of Religious Affairs, SIGNIS (World Catholic Association for Communication) and Blanquerna Observatory on Media, Religion and Culture, in Barcelona the 23rd November 2016. The cinema, through its...

Oil palm is widely cultivated in tropical countries for use in food processing, personal care products and other applications such as biodiesel. Cultivation faces a range of challenges such as its environmental impact (e.g. in deforestation and biodiversity loss) as well threats from pests and diseases....

Originally published in French, this updated and expanded English translation offers a definitive treatment on clays and effects on human health including the long history of clays used as pharmaceutical and therapeutic agents, the origins of clays, their structural properties and modes of action.

Floating-point arithmetic is the most widely used way of implementing real-number arithmetic on modern computers. However, making such an arithmetic reliable and portable, yet fast, is a very difficult task. As a result, floating-point arithmetic is far from being exploited to its full potential....

This book explores and critiques topical debates in educational sciences, philosophy, social work and cognitive neuroscience. It examines constructions of children, parents and the welfare state in relation to neurosciences and its vocabulary of brain architecture, critical periods and toxic stress. The...