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A Life Course Perspective on Health Trajectories and Transitions

David Blane , Claudine Burton-Jeangros , Stéphane Cullati , Amanda Sacker

This open access book examines health trajectories and health transitions at different stages of the life course, including childhood, adulthood and later life. It provides findings that assess the role of biological and social transitions on health status over time.The...

The Pragmatists and the Human Logic of Truth

Claudine Tiercelin

The expression “human logic of truth” is Frank P. Ramsey’s:“Let us therefore try to get an idea of a human logic which shall not attempt to be reducible to formal logic. Logic, we may agree, is concerned not with what men actually believe, but what they ought to...

Lernen und Lehren in multilingualen Kontexten

Ingrid De Saint-Georges , Gérard Gretsch , Claudine Kirsch , Nancy Morys

Mehrsprachigkeit ist in Europa ebenso gesellschaftlich erwünschtes Ziel wie Realität in den Klassenräumen aller Schulformen. Sie stellt Lehrende und Lernende vor enorme Herausforderungen, eröffnet aber auch ungeahnte Chancen für einen lebensnahen, funktionalen...

Bargaining on Nuclear Tests

Or Rabinowitz

Most observers who follow nuclear history agree on one major aspect regarding Israel's famous policy of nuclear ambiguity; mainly that it is an exception. More specifically, it is largely accepted that the 1969 Nixon-Meir understanding, which formally established...

Conflicts in a Conflict

Or International Legal Educationcenter For International Legal Education , Michael Karayanni

Conflicts in a Conflict outlines and analyzes the legal doctrines instructing the Israeli courts in private and civil disputes involving the Occupied Palestinian Territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, since 1967 until the present day. In doing so, author,...

Diary of a Parisian Chambermaid

Claudine Dumas

The text, probably spurious, was found in the ruins of the Hotel Calgary, Paris, on June 29, 1901.The authorship of this diary is unknown and it cannot be traced. But it does provide a fascinating account of what happened there between one enterprising lass, her boss...

Outsiders No More?

Jacqueline Chattopadhyay , Claudine Gay , Jennifer Hochschild , Michael Jones-Correa

Outsiders No More? brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars to consider pathways by which immigrants may be incorporated into the political processes of western democracies. At a time when immigrants are increasingly significant political actors in many...

Metaphysical Knowledge

Claudine Tiercelin

Metaphysics has been proclaimed to be archaic or outdated. Actually, it never “died”. It has even experienced considerable revival throughout the world, which in France we have yet to fully appreciate. Because, in both the most general and the most precise ways, it...

Collections of Stained Glass and their Histories / Glasmalerei-Sammlungen und ihre Geschichte / Les collections de vitraux et leur histoire

Tim Ayers , Brigitte Kurmann-Schwarz , Claudine Lautier , Hartmut Scholz

At the 25th International Colloquium of the Corpus Vitrearum, which took place in one of the greatest of all museums, The Hermitage in St. Petersburg, the researchers of many countries discussed stained glass collections for the first time. The present conference...

The Unquiet American

Derek Chollet , Samantha Power

Richard Holbrooke, who died in December 2010, was a pivotal player in U.S. diplomacy for more than forty years. Most recently special envoy for Iraq and Afghanistan under President Obama, Holbrooke also served as assistant secretary of state for both Asia and Europe,...

Ontologies in Urban Development Projects

Gilles Falquet , Claudine Métral , Jacques Teller , Christopher Tweed

Ontologies are increasingly recognized as essential tools in information science. Although the concepts are well understood theoretically , the practical implementation of ontologies remains challenging. In this book, researchers in computer science, information...

America Between the Wars

Derek Chollet , James Goldgeier

On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall collapsed, taking the Cold War down with it. The next twelve years passed in a haze of self-congratulation, Republican confusion, and angst, and economic prosperity -- until they ended abruptly with a stunning catastrophe on...

Guide to Biometric Reference Systems and Performance Evaluation

Gérard Chollet , Bernadette Dorizzi , Dijana Petrovska-Delacrétaz

The Young Athlete

Oded Bar-Or , Helge Hebestreit

This essential new volume in the Encyclopaedia of Sports Medicine series, published under the auspices of the International Olympic Committee, provides a thorough overview of the unique physiologic characteristics, responsiveness to training, and possible health hazards...

The Road to the Dayton Accords

D. Chollet

The intricate diplomacy that led to the peace agreement in Bosnia, known as the Dayton Accords, is here revealed in unprecedented detail. Based on thousands of still-classified government documents and dozens of interviews with key participants, this is a comprehensive...