'I used to be ever so small, hardly as high as a dandelion. Until I grew tall enough to tickle the clouds.' Telling the life story of a single tree, and of all the creatures that have nestled in its branches, this is a gorgeously illustrated?ode to the web of life that connects everything in the natural world.

This book provides the first graduate-level, self-contained introduction to recent developments that lead to the formulation of the configuration-interaction approach for open quantum systems, the Gamow shell model, which provides a unitary description of quantum many-body system in different regimes of binding, and enables the unification in the description of nuclear structure and reactions. The Gamow shell model extends and generalizes the phenomenologically successful nuclear shell model to the domain of weakly-bound near-threshold states and resonances, offering a systematic tool to understand and categorize data on nuclear spectra, moments, collective excitations, particle and electromagnetic decays, clustering, elastic and inelastic scattering cross sections, and radiative capture cross sections of interest to astrophysics. The approach is of interest beyond nuclear physics and based on general properties of quasi-stationary solutions of the Schroedinger equation - so-called Gamow states. For the benefit of graduate students and newcomers to the field, the quantum-mechanical fundamentals are introduced in some detail. The text also provides a historical overview of how the field has evolved from the early days of the nuclear shell model to recent experimental developments, in both nuclear physics and related fields, supporting the unified description. The text contains many worked examples and several numerical codes are introduced to allow the reader to test different aspects of the continuum shell model discussed in the book.

"Conqu te ottomane de l gypte (1517)" est le premier ouvrage collectif consacr la victoire de Sel m Ier sur les Mamelouks, qui a fait du sultanat ottoman l unique puissance musulmane en M diterran e orientale, et raval l gypte au rang de province. Il en renouvelle l approche en faisant appel des sources ottomanes, arabes et occidentales tr s vari es. Les contributions r unies par Benjamin Lellouch et Nicolas Michel s attachent mesurer les transformations structurelles qu a induites l v nement dans la soci t, les pouvoirs, la culture litt raire, artistique et mat rielle en gypte. Elles explorent ses ant c dents et son impact g opolitique, et restituent les chos, bruyants puis assourdis, qu il a suscit s, au Proche-Orient, en Italie, et plus g n ralement en M diterran e. "Conqu te ottomane de l gypte (1517)" is the first collective work that deals with Sel m Ist s crushing victory over the Mamluks, which made the Ottoman sultanate into the sole remaining Muslim power in the eastern Mediterranean, and reduced Egypt to the rank of a province. The book offers new insights into this major event by using a wide range of Ottoman and Arabic as well as Western sources. These essays in French and English collected by Benjamin Lellouch and Nicolas Michel examine to what extent the Ottoman conquest altered the structures of Egyptian society, power relations, literature, arts and material culture. They explore both its backgrounds and geopolitical aftermath, and reconstruct its echoes - loud at first, then gradually fading out - in the Middle East, Italy, and the Mediterranean.