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This book provides a detailed guide to the use and interpretation
of color Doppler ultrasound, CT, and MR imaging in patients with
gynecological disorders. The advantages and limitations of each
modality in imaging different pathologies are clearly presented,
and advice is provided on the most appropriate option when
ultrasound does not permit a definite diagnosis or fails to
determine the precise extension of a lesion. Throughout, emphasis
is placed on the importance of microscopic and macroscopic findings
for a full understanding of the radiological appearances, and
relevant points from the basic sciences are also highlighted.
Special attention is paid to issues of differential diagnosis and
imaging results that are characteristic of a particular type of
lesion. The authors are recognized experts in the field who draw
upon their considerable experience to provide an up-to-date
reference book highly relevant to everyday clinical practice.
The aim of this book is to fill the gap between the standard
textbooks of obstetrics & gynecology - which do not cover
(conservative) infertility treatment - and the specialized
textbooks on ART - which don't address topics such as ovulation
induction/IUI and the typical treatment of disorders associated
with infertility, such as hyperandrogenism and endometriosis. In
many countries, the management of infertility treatment is not done
by IVF specialists but by general gynecologists or primary health
practitioners. In most countries, specific training and/or a
license is required to do 'invasive' infertility treatments, such
as IVF/ICSI; however, conservative or semi-conservative treatments
- such as IUI with or without ovulation induction - can be done
without specific training/licensing. This concise, clinically
oriented handbook is predominantly written for gynecologists,
primary health practitioners, and medical students who want to
improve their knowledge on this aspect of their work. Furthermore
the aim is to highlight which types of disorders may be treated by
conservative means and which types of disorder should be treated by
invasive treatment options such as IVF/ICSI.
Profiles Jean Shrimpton, Suzy Parker, Capucine, and other leading
models of a period when the fashion ideal was a sophisticated adult
woman, rather than the more childlike figure that became popular in
the late 1960s.
Discover the secrets to successful luxury brand management with
this bestselling guide written by two of the world's leading
experts on luxury branding, Jean-Noel Kapferer and Vincent Bastien,
providing a unique blueprint for luxury brands and companies.
Having established itself as the definitive work on the essence of
a luxury brand strategy, this book defines the differences between
premium and luxury brands and products, analyzing the nature of
true luxury brands and turning established marketing 'rules'
upside-down. Written by two world experts on luxury branding, The
Luxury Strategy provides the first rigorous blueprint for the
effective management of luxury brands and companies at the highest
level. This fully revised second edition of The Luxury Strategy
explores the diversity of meanings of 'luxury' across different
markets. It rationalizes those business models that have achieved
profitability and unveils the original methods that were used to
transform small family businesses such as Ferrari, Louis Vuitton,
Cartier, Chanel, Armani, Gucci, and Ralph Lauren into profitable
global brands. Now with a new section on marketing and selling
luxury goods online and the impact of social networks and digital
developments, this book has truly cemented its position as the
authority on luxury strategy.
This book addresses the No 1 challenge of all major luxury brands
today: How can these brands pursue their growth yet remain luxury?
How do you reconcile growth and rarity? Kapferer on Luxury offers a
selection of the most recent and insightful articles and original
essays on the luxury growth challenge from Jean-Noel Kapferer, a
world-renowned luxury analyst. Each chapter addresses a specific
issue relating to the luxury growth challenge such as sustaining
the 'luxury dream', adapting the internet to luxury demands,
re-widening the gap with premium brands' competition, and the
importance of non-delocalization. It also explores in detail facing
the demand of the Chinese clients, rising sustainable quality and
experiential standards, developing real luxury services and
managing luxury brands within groups without diluting their equity
and more. As such, Kapferer on Luxury is the perfect and timely
resource for luxury executives, communication managers, luxury
observers and advanced students willing to deepen their
understanding of this major luxury challenge.
A life of glamour and tragedy, set against the watershed cultural
and political movements of twentieth-century Europe. "Toto" Koopman
(1908-1991) is a new addition to the set of iconoclastic women
whose biographies intrigue and inspire modern-day readers. Like her
contemporaries Lee Miller or Vita Sackville-West, Toto lived with
an independent spirit more typical of the men of her generation,
moving in the worlds of fashion, society, art, and politics with an
insouciant ease that would stir both admiration and envy even
today. Sphinxlike and tantalizing, Toto conducted her life as a
game, driven by audacity and style. Jean-Noel Liaut chases his
enigmatic subject through the many roles and lives she inhabited,
both happy and tragic. Though her beauty, charisma, and taste for
the extraordinary made her an exuberant fixture of Paris fashion
and cafe society, her intelligence and steely sense of self drove
her toward bigger things, culminating in espionage during WWII, for
which she was imprisoned by the Nazis in Ravensbruck. After the
horrors of the camp, she found solace in Erica Brausen, the German
art dealer who launched the career of Francis Bacon, and the two
women lived out their lives together surrounded by cultural
luminaries like Edmonde Charles-Roux and Luchino Visconti. But even
in her later decades, Toto remained impossible for anyone to
possess. The Many Lives of Miss K explores the allure of a
freethinking and courageous woman who, fiercely protective of her
independence, was sought after by so many but ultimately known by
very few.
Rumors may be the oldest medium of mass communication of
information or ideas. Even before there were newspapers, radio, or
television, rumors communicated by word-of-mouth made and shattered
reputations, and set off riots and wars. Yet contrary to
predictions, rumors continue to thrive, in spite of and parallel to
mass media.
What accounts for the puzzling persistence and continuing
significance of this little-studied social phenomenon? Jean-Noel
Kapferer examines the theory and practice of rumors, focusing on
specific areas such as entertainment, criminal behavior, business
and finance, and politics. He describes the kinds of conditions
that give birth to rumors, why we believe them, and the hidden
messages they convey. Kapferer points out that rumors frequently
serve useful social purposes and present rich examples. He
speculates about how rumors can be controlled, changed, and
prevented.
Drawing upon contributions of disciplines ranging from
psychology to history, and integrating the insights of Europeans
with the latest work of American researchers, this is the most
comprehensive examination of rumors, gossip, and urban legends yet
published. Translated into nine languages, this edition was updated
with advances in theory and research since the book's original
French publication in 1987. Its brisk, accessible style makes the
book of interest to psychologists, economists, political
scientists, sociologists, and folklore analysts, as well as the
general reader who is curious about the origins of this fascinating
social phenomenon.
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A fun festive card game for the whole family to enjoy. Contains 26
pairs of cards featuring vibrant illustrations of festive objects
such as snowmen, reindeer, and stockings to match and win the game.
A great way for young children to develop word and picture matching
skills.
Best-selling author of Braai the beloved country, Jean Nel is back
with his considered and expansive book on getting the best out of
your gas braai. The braai veteran has put together a collection of
stunning, crowd-pleasing recipes that gradually teach you how to
use your shiny new gas braai. "I've been cooking on open fires for
a long time. Admittedly I'm a bit of a purist, insisting on making
a wood or charcoal fire, but when I moved from cooking socially to
catering my braai became a work tool. So I moved to gas.' With a
40% rise in gas braai sales in 2013 alone, it looks like South
Africa is moving to gas braais too. They are simple and convenient
to use, and they are much cleaner to operate than their
smoke-belching cousins. Switch on, set the heat where you want it,
and you can cook for hours. The idea for a book called Cooking with
gas came from Jean's ongoing research into the art of cooking
outdoors. Looking for new and interesting techniques or recipes
leads him to the cookbook section of local bookstores more often
than he would care to admit. However, he noticed a definite lack of
good books on how to use gas braais. The best he was bale to find
was a string of titles on gas barbecues. Most of them were either
American or Australian titles. The thing is, those foreign devils
cook differently from us. What they use their "barbie" for is quite
different from what South Africans want to cook when they get
together for a braai. In the spirit of Braai the beloved country,
he has created a book that shows you how to cook the old favourites
and experiment with new techniques. While he tackles some of the
myths about cooking on a gas flame, Jean Nel also shows you how to
cook anything from a roll of boerewors or a steak, to smoking
salmon and slow-cooking the most amazing pulled beef you've ever
eaten. Cooking with gas will get you outdoors cooking more than you
ever thought you would. In it's pages you will find showstopper
recipes for entertaining, as well as a simple, quick chicken breast
you can pop on the braai mid-week for dinner. Like Jean, before you
know it, all your friends will be asking you for tips and tricks
when you are Cooking with gas!
Thermodynamic Models for Chemical Engineering gives an overview of
the main thermodynamic models used by engineers and in engineering
researcher processes. These fall into two main families, equations
of state and activity coefficient models. The book presents the
state-of-the-art of purely predictive models.
This book is devoted to Agroecological Crop Protection, which is
the declension of the principles of agroecology to crop protection.
It presents the concepts of this innovative approach, case studies
and lessons and generic keys for agroecological transition. The
book is intended for a wide audience, including scientists,
experimenters, teachers, farmers, students. It represents a new
tool, proposing concrete keys of action on the basis of feedbacks
validated scientifically. Beyond the examples presented, it is
therefore of general scope and proposes recommendations for all
temperate and tropical cropping systems. It contributes to the
training and teaching modules in this field and it is an updated
information support for professionals and a teaching aid for
students (agronomy, crop protection, biodiversity management,
agroecology).
Adopted internationally by business schools and MBA programmes,
this book is the ultimate resource for senior strategists,
positioning professionals and postgraduate students to understand
and overcome the challenges of brand management and strategy today,
written by the leading international expert of branding, Jean-Noel
Kapferer. The New Strategic Brand Management is simply the
reference source for branding professionals and postgraduate
students. Over the years it has not only established a reputation
as one of the leading works on brand strategy, but also has become
synonymous with the topic itself. Using an array of international
case studies, this book covers all the leading issues faced by
brand strategists today, with both gravitas and intelligent
insight. It reveals new thinking on topics such as putting culture
and content into brands, the impact of private labels and the
comeback of local brands. This updated fifth edition builds on the
book's already impressive reputation, including new content that
will help students and practitioners stay up to date with
targeting, with relevant research and market knowledge to support
the discipline. With dedicated sections for specific types of
brands (luxury, corporate and retail), international examples and
case studies from companies such as Audi, Nivea, Toyota and Absolut
Vodka; plus models and frameworks such as the Brand Identity Prism;
The New Strategic Brand Management remains at the forefront of
strategic brand thinking.
Presenting some of the most significant research on the modern
understanding of luxury, this edited collection of articles from
the Journal of Brand Management explores the complex relationships
consumers tie with luxury, and the unique characteristics of luxury
brand management. Covering the segmentation of luxury consumers
worldwide, the specificity of luxury management, the role of
sustainability for luxury brands and major insights from a customer
point of view, Advances in Luxury Brand Management is essential
reading for upper level students as well as scholars and discerning
practitioners.
Presenting some of the most significant research on the modern
understanding of luxury, this edited collection of articles from
the Journal of Brand Management explores the complex relationships
consumers tie with luxury, and the unique characteristics of luxury
brand management. Covering the segmentation of luxury consumers
worldwide, the specificity of luxury management, the role of
sustainability for luxury brands and major insights from a customer
point of view, Advances in Luxury Brand Management is essential
reading for upper level students as well as scholars and discerning
practitioners.
This book is devoted to Agroecological Crop Protection, which is
the declension of the principles of agroecology to crop protection.
It presents the concepts of this innovative approach, case studies
and lessons and generic keys for agroecological transition. The
book is intended for a wide audience, including scientists,
experimenters, teachers, farmers, students. It represents a new
tool, proposing concrete keys of action on the basis of feedbacks
validated scientifically. Beyond the examples presented, it is
therefore of general scope and proposes recommendations for all
temperate and tropical cropping systems. It contributes to the
training and teaching modules in this field and it is an updated
information support for professionals and a teaching aid for
students (agronomy, crop protection, biodiversity management,
agroecology).
This handbook delivers a complete and practice-oriented overview of
the fundamentals of today's telecommunications networks and the
future prospects for next generation networks (NGN). The very clear
and concise text is supplemented by many colour illustrations and
embedded into a functional four-colour layout.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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++++ Synopsis Historiae Flandriae Ab Anonymo Scriptore ... Georges
Galopin, Jean-Noel Paquot Ermens, 1781
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as
an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification:
++++ Historiae Flandricae Synopsis, Ab Anonymo Scriptore Flandriae
Generosae Titulo Circa Annum MC.LXII, Exhibita Georges Galopin,
Jean-Noel Paquot Georges Galopin, Jean-Noel Paquot Typis J. Ermens,
1781
Symposium R, 'Nanostructured Semiconductors and Nanotechnology' was
held April 1-5, 2013, at the 2013 MRS spring meeting in San
Francisco, California. The aim of the symposium was to review
present and future trends of research on nanostructured
semiconductors from fundamental issues of synthesis (epitaxy,
nanofunctionalization, and self-assembly) to emerging applications
in advanced devices (nanoelectronics, photovoltaics, nanophotonics,
and so on).
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