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PAPERBACK FOR SALE IN AFRICA ONLY A fresh analysis of the
post-colonial war in Mozambique that contributes to debates about
conflict, peacebuilding, development and nationalism and offers
insights into the nature of contemporary politics and the current
conflict. The 1976-1992 civil war which opposed the Government of
Frelimo and the Renamo guerrillas (among other actors) is a central
event in the history of Mozambique. Aiming to open up a new era of
studies of the war, this book re-evaluates this period from a
number of different local perspectives in an attempt to better
understand the history, complexity and multiple dynamics of the
armed conflict. Focusing at local level on either a province or a
single village, the authors analyse the conflict as a "total social
phenomena" involving all elements of society and impacting on every
aspect of life across the country. The chapters examine Frelimo and
Renamo as well as private, popular and state militias, the Catholic
Church, NGOs and traders. Drawing on previously unexamined sources
such as local and provincial state archives, religious archives,
the guerrilla's own documentation and interviews, the authors
uncoveralternative dimensions of the civil war. The book thus
enables a deeper understanding of the conflict and its actors as
well as offering an explanatory framework for understanding
peacemaking, the nature of contemporary politics,and the current
conflict in the country. Eric Morier-Genoud is a Lecturer in
African history at Queen's University Belfast; Domingos Manuel do
Rosario is Lecturer in electoral sociology and electoral governance
at Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique; Michel Cahen is
a Senior Researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique (CNRS) at Bordeaux Political Studies Institute and at
the Casa de Velazquez in Madrid.
From Byzantium to the Mongols to the Sultans of Rum, this acclaimed
book offers an important insight into the evocative history of
Turkey before the coming of Ottoman power. Turkey forms a
historical bridge between Europe and Asia and as such has played a
pivotal role throughout history. The rise of Constantinople and the
later Ottoman Empire are well known: less well understood are
developments in the three centuries in-between. What led to the
decline of the Byzantine Empire and what happened in the
intervening years before the rise of the Ottomans? Translated from
the original French, this classic work examines the history of the
Turkey that eventually gave rise to an imperial power whose
influence spanned East and West.
Offers an important insight into the evocative history of Turkey before the coming of Ottoman power. Translated from the original French, this classic work examines the history of the Turkey that eventually gave rise to an imperial power whose influence spanned East and West.
Presents the proceedings of the Second International Conference on
Commutative Ring Theory in Fes, Morocco. The text details
developments in commutative algebra, highlighting the theory of
rings and ideals. It explores commutative algebra's connections
with and applications to topological algebra and algebraic
geometry.
" Exploring commutative algebra's connections with and applications
to topological algebra and algebraic geometry, Commutative Ring
Theory covers the spectra of rings chain conditions, dimension
theory, and Jaffard rings fiber products group rings, semigroup
rings, and graded rings class groups linear groups integer-valued
polynomials rings of finite fractions big Cohen-Macaulay modules
and much more "
A fresh analysis of the post-colonial war in Mozambique that
contributes to debates about conflict, peacebuilding, development
and nationalism and offers insights into the nature of contemporary
politics and the current conflict. The 1976-1992 civil war which
opposed the Government of Frelimo and the Renamo guerrillas (among
other actors) is a central event in the history of Mozambique.
Aiming to open up a new era of studies of the war, this book
re-evaluates this period from a number of different local
perspectives in an attempt to better understand the history,
complexity and multiple dynamics of the armed conflict. Focusing at
local level on either a province or a single village, the authors
analyse the conflict as a "total social phenomena" involving all
elements of society and impacting on every aspect of life across
the country. The chapters examine Frelimo and Renamo as well as
private, popular and state militias, the Catholic Church, NGOs and
traders. Drawing on previously unexamined sources such as local and
provincial state archives, religious archives, the guerrilla's own
documentation and interviews, the authors uncoveralternative
dimensions of the civil war. The book thus enables a deeper
understanding of the conflict and its actors as well as offering an
explanatory framework for understanding peacemaking, the nature of
contemporary politics,and the current conflict in the country. Eric
Morier-Genoud is a Lecturer in African history at Queen's
University Belfast; Domingos Manuel do Rosario is Lecturer in
electoral sociology and electoral governance at Eduardo Mondlane
University, Maputo, Mozambique; Michel Cahen is a Senior Researcher
at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) at
Bordeaux Political Studies Institute and at the Casa de Velazquez
in Madrid.
Multidisciplinary collection of essays on the relationship of
infertility and the "historic" STIs--gonorrhea, chlamydia, and
syphilis--producing surprising new insights in studies from across
the globe and spanning millennia. A multidisciplinary group of
prominent scholars investigates the historical relationship between
sexually transmitted infections and infertility. Untreated
gonorrhea and chlamydia cause infertility in a proportion of women
and men. Unlike the much-feared venereal disease of syphilis--"the
pox"--gonorrhea and chlamydia are often symptomless, leaving
victims unaware of the threat to their fertility. Science did not
unmask the causal microorganisms until thelate nineteenth and
twentieth centuries. Their effects on fertility in human history
remain mysterious. This is the first volume to address the subject
across more than two thousand years of human history. Following
asynoptic editorial introduction, part 1 explores the enigmas of
evidence from ancient and early modern medical sources. Part 2
addresses fundamental questions about when exactly these diseases
first became human afflictions, withnew contributions from
bioarcheology, genomics, and the history of medicine, producing
surprising new insights. Part 3 presents studies of infertility and
its sociocultural consequences in nineteenth- and twentieth-century
Africa, Oceania, and Australia. Part 4 examines the quite different
ways the infertility threat from STIs was perceived--by scientists,
the public, and government--in late nineteenth- and early
twentieth-century Germany, France, and Britain, concluding with a
pioneering empirical estimate of the infertility impact in Britain.
Simon Szreter is Professor of History and Public Policy, University
of Cambridge, and Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge.
This volume investigates what role colonial communities and
diaspora have had in shaping the Portuguese empire and its
heritage, exploring topics such as Portuguese migration to Africa,
the Ismaili and the Swiss presence in Mozambique, the Goanese in
East Africa, the Chinese in Brazil, and the history of the African
presence in Portugal.
This book presents the text of most of the lectures which were de-
livered at the Meeting Quantum Theories and Geometry which was held
at the Fondation Les Treilles from March 23 to March 27, 1987. The
general aim of this meeting was to bring together mathemati- cians
and physicists who have worked in this growing field of contact
between the two disciplines, namely this region where geometry and
physics interact creatively in both directions. It 1S the strong
belief of the organizers that these written con- tributions will be
a useful document for research people workin~ 1n geometry or
physics. Three lectures were devoted to the deformation approach to
quantum mechanics which involves a modification of both the
associative and the Lie structure of the algebra of functions on
classical phase space. A.Lichnerowicz shows how one can view
classical and quantum statistical mechanics in terms of a
deformation with a parameter inversely propor- tional to
temperature. S.Gutt reviews the physical background of star
products and indicates their applications in Lie groups representa-
tion theory and in harmonic analysis. D.Arnal gives a rigorous
theory Vll viii PREFACI of the star exponential in the case of the
Heisenberg group and shows how this can be extended to arbitrary
nilpotent groups.
This book presents the text of most of the lectures which were de-
livered at the Meeting Quantum Theories and Geometry which was held
at the Fondation Les Treilles from March 23 to March 27, 1987. The
general aim of this meeting was to bring together mathemati- cians
and physicists who have worked in this growing field of contact
between the two disciplines, namely this region where geometry and
physics interact creatively in both directions. It 1S the strong
belief of the organizers that these written con- tributions will be
a useful document for research people workin~ 1n geometry or
physics. Three lectures were devoted to the deformation approach to
quantum mechanics which involves a modification of both the
associative and the Lie structure of the algebra of functions on
classical phase space. A.Lichnerowicz shows how one can view
classical and quantum statistical mechanics in terms of a
deformation with a parameter inversely propor- tional to
temperature. S.Gutt reviews the physical background of star
products and indicates their applications in Lie groups representa-
tion theory and in harmonic analysis. D.Arnal gives a rigorous
theory Vll viii PREFACI of the star exponential in the case of the
Heisenberg group and shows how this can be extended to arbitrary
nilpotent groups.
This volume contains the text of the lectures which were given at
the Differential Geometry Meeting held at Liege in 1980 and at the
Differential Geometry Meeting held at Leuven in 1981. The first of
these meetings was more orientated toward mathematical physics; the
second has a stronger flavour of analysis. The Editors are pleased
to thank the lectures who contributed scientifically to these two
meetings. They are also grateful to Professor M. F1ato who has
encouraged publication of these contributions in the Mathematical
Physics Studies Series. We also thank the F.N.R.S. who supported
financially the Contact group in differential geometry. The
Universite de Liege and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven which
have given us a warm hospitality have contributed to the success of
these meetings. We express our gratitude. The Editors. M. Caken et
al. (6ds.), Differential Geametry and Mathematical Physics, vii.
vii Copyright e 1983 by D. Reidel Publishing Company. Lectures
given at the Meeting of the Belgian Contact Group on Differential
Geometry held at Liege, May 2-3,1980 SIMULTANEOUS DEFORMATIONS OF A
LIE ALGEBRA AND ITS MODULES D. Arnal University of Dijon
INTRODUCTION We expose here some results which are obtained by a
team at the University of Dijon. This team included Jean-Claude
Cortet, Georges Pinczon and myself.
This book presents the text of the lectures which were given at the
NATO Advanced Study Institute on Representations of Lie groups and
Harmonic Analysis which was held in Liege from September 5 to
September 17, 1977. The general aim of this Summer School was to
give a coordinated intro duction to the theory of representations
of semisimple Lie groups and to non-commutative harmonic analysis
on these groups, together with some glance at physical applications
and at the related subject of random walks. As will appear to the
reader, the order of the papers - which follows relatively closely
the order of the lectures which were actually give- follows a
logical pattern. The two first papers are introductory: the one by
R. Blattner describes in a very progressive way a path going from
standard Fourier analysis on IR" to non-commutative harmonic
analysis on a locally compact group; the paper by J. Wolf describes
the structure of semisimple Lie groups, the finite-dimensional
representations of these groups and introduces basic facts about
infinite-dimensional unitary representations. Two of the editors
want to thank particularly these two lecturers who were very
careful to pave the way for the later lectures. Both these chapters
give also very useful guidelines to the relevant literature."
The widespread and long-held preconception that all Jews lived in
ghettos and were relentlessly subject to discrimination prior to
the Enlightenment has only slowly eroded. Geographically speaking,
Jews rarely lived in ghettos and have never been confined within
the borders of one nation or country. Power struggles and wars
often led to the creation of new national borders that divided
communities once united. But if identity formation is subject to
change and negotiation, it does not depend solely on shifting
geographical borders. A variety of boundaries were and are still
being constructed and maintained between ethnic and other
collective identities. The contributors to this book, like other
post-modernist historians, turn their gaze to a wide range of
identities once taken for granted, identities located on the border
lines between one country and the next, between Jews and non-Jews
as well as on those between one group of Jews and another.
Dynamic Technical Analysis (DTA) is a powerful tool which allows traders and investors to predict market trends. Written by the Head of Technical Analysis at Credit Lyonnais Capital Markets in Paris, Philippe Cahen's book provides the tools for a new and robust way of predicting markets. Dynamic Technical Analysis - Provides volatility results immediately
- Provides excellent results for speculators and investors
- Uses several parameters to predict price changes
- Provides results which can be fine-tuned to improve on the original forecast
- Allows differentiation between various kinds of market participants
Dynamic Technical Analysis is a practical book which describes many methods and analyses results from real situations. It can be used to analyse market changes over fifteen minutes or up to several weeks, depending on your needs. Traders, analysts, portfolio managers and bankers, as well as private investors, will all find this book invaluable.
This book examines the behavior of high-tech startups and important
aspects of innovation ecosystems in Brazil. It discusses how the
local business environment boosts startups and high-tech
entrepreneurship, leading to the most successful implementation of
technology parks and incubation movements in Latin America. In the
first part, the chapters explore the experience of Brazilian
high-tech startups with regard to innovation, funding, background
of the entrepreneur and their efforts entering international
markets. The second part is dedicated to innovation ecosystems and
explains the role of business incubators, acceleration programs,
and university entrepreneurship in the country.
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