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This book offers a novel account of the significant debt crisis
which hit many developing countries during the 1980s. It starts
with the flawed cycle of bank lending during the 1970s, and then
moves from the opening act, in Mexico in 1982, until a solution was
found with the 1989 Brady Initiative. The Debt Crisis of the 1980s
also articulates closely the economic and financial dimensions
alongside the political and multilateral ones. The key relation
between debtor countries and the IMF is explored in detail, but the
book also documents the tense and often coercive interactions with
commercial banks as well as on the continuing resistance to the
IMF-led strategy among G7 governments. How debt contracts were
restructured during all those years helps understanding how the
Brady Initiative worked in practice, and how it prepared the ground
for the turn to global markets after 1990. This debt crisis was
indeed one of the main incubators of globalisation. This underlines
further its unique character in the long-run history of sovereign
debts, before and after the 1980s. Remarkably, this book rests on
in-depth interviews with the key players. Transcripts are included
for the six most important players, including the former heads of
the US Federal Reserve and the IMF. Archives from the IMF, the New
York Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and commercial banks have
also been systematically exploited, often for the first time ever.
 This narrative and analytical account of one of the biggest
debt crises in history is addressed to students and researchers in
economics, international history, political economy and socio-legal
studies. It will additionally be of value for professional
economists and lawyers working on sovereign debts.
An imaginative musical tale, comprised of a narrated story
interspersed with original and traditional songs, follows four
inseparable friends who love to play together. Bertie and his
buddies never ever got bored with each other... except for the time
when it rained for four straight weeks! That’s when they decided
to repair an old boat and head for dryer lands, a sunny place atop
the Blue Mountain. The journey to the faraway, unknown destination
wouldn’t be easy, but with a little help from newly made animal
friends, they would finally make it to the summit, the best place
in the whole world to have a picnic! In addition to an illustrated
story, this book is accompanied by a CD featuring recordings of the
narrated story and 18 songs along with unique code for the digital
download of the audio.
Full of real-world case studies and practical advice, Exploratory
Multivariate Analysis by Example Using R, Second Edition focuses on
four fundamental methods of multivariate exploratory data analysis
that are most suitable for applications. It covers principal
component analysis (PCA) when variables are quantitative,
correspondence analysis (CA) and multiple correspondence analysis
(MCA) when variables are categorical, and hierarchical cluster
analysis. The authors take a geometric point of view that provides
a unified vision for exploring multivariate data tables. Within
this framework, they present the principles, indicators, and ways
of representing and visualising objects that are common to the
exploratory methods. The authors show how to use categorical
variables in a PCA context in which variables are quantitative, how
to handle more than two categorical variables in a CA context in
which there are originally two variables, and how to add
quantitative variables in an MCA context in which variables are
categorical. They also illustrate the methods using examples from
various fields, with related R code accessible in the FactoMineR
package developed by the authors.
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A Companion to Ricoeur's Fallible Man
Scott Davidson; Contributions by Jean-Luc Amalric, Luz Ascárate Ascarate, Scott Davidson, Geoffrey Dierckxsens, …
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R889
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Fallible Man is the second book in Paul Ricoeur’s early trilogy
on the will and the most accessible of his early writings. While
the descriptive approach of Freedom and Nature set aside all
normative questions, Fallible Man removes those brackets to examine
the bad will, asking what makes evil a possibility. Combining rigor
and originality, Ricoeur locates the possibility of evil in a self
that is fundamentally in conflict with itself. Edited by Scott
Davidson, A Companion to Ricoeur's Fallible Man clarifies and
contextualizes the central arguments developed in Ricoeur’s
philosophy of the will, providing insight into his formative
influences and themes. The collection gathers an international
group of scholars who specialize in Ricoeur’s thought to shed
light on an impressive range of themes from Fallible Man that
resonate with contemporary debates in philosophy and religion.
Published to mark the 75th anniversary of one of the world’s
greatest couture houses, this gorgeous book combines Christian
Dior’s classics with the newest creations. Christian Dior
achieved immortality with his first collection in 1947. His ‘New
Look’ amazed the world as it emerged after wartime austerity, and
reset the boundaries of modern elegance. Dior’s search for the
perfect line and the ideal silhouette has been celebrated by
couturiers of the first rank: Yves Saint Laurent, Marc Bohan,
Gianfranco Ferré, John Galliano, Raf Simons and Maria Grazia
Chiuri have all made their distinctive contribution. This book
honours Dior’s influence by celebrating the elements of style for
every generation since 1947, through inspired pairings of classic
and contemporary photographs. Six thematic chapters express
outstanding Dior characteristics, including the silhouette, the
evening gown and the eternal muse - in short, the aspects of the
House that lend it unique distinction both then and now. The most
beautiful fashion plates from Dior’s own time sit beside examples
of the house’s creations through the decades. The resonance
between classic archive photographs and the latest most up-to-date
frames is clear and compelling.
The Covid-19 pandemic changed the world. Indeed a real race took
place worldwide between SARS-CoV-2 on the one hand and researchers
on the other – especially those specializing in messenger RNA
vaccines. Four years after its emergence, the pandemic is not over,
but some decisive battles have been won, thanks to the great
success of mRNA vaccines. The Marathon of The Messenger presents
the history of these mRNA vaccines, combining a scientific
background with historical and economic perspectives. It appears
that an important page in the history of these new vaccines was
written in Europe, thanks to the crucial work of German and French
scientists; this effort began in 1993 and continues to this day. In
the face of a prevailing single-mindedness, these researchers
pushed through a new therapeutic concept and defined the
biotechnological keys that would open the way to the production of
therapeutic messenger RNA in the fight against cancer and viral
infections. Written for a broad audience and accompanied by
humorous cartoons, this book will appeal to anyone looking for
scientific and historical answers about mRNA vaccines. Readers will
discover not only the technical and scientific knowledge of how
these vaccines work, but also the economic levers that were
necessary to create this technology. This book has been written in
collaboration with Dr. Steve Pascolo, former director of CureVac,
and the RNA messenger expert Professor Chantal Pichon. It also
features a preface by Dr. Pierre Meulien, former director of the
European Union public-private partnership Innovative Medicines
Initiative (IMI).
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Ground Noise
Céline Clanet; Text written by Jérôme Sueur
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Childhoods at the Intersection of the Local and the Global examines
the imposition of the modern Western notion of childhood, which is
now deemed as universal, on other cultures and explores how local
communities react to these impositions in various ways such as
manipulation, outright rejection and acceptance. The book discusses
childhoods in different regions of the world and boasts a range of
contributors from several academic disciplines such as Sociology,
Social Work, Education, Anthropology, Criminology and Human Rights,
who are experts on the regions they discuss. The book argues
against the notion of a universal childhood and illustrates that
different societies around the world have different notions of
childhood. This book is recommended reading for students, scholars
and practitioners working with children in the Global South as well
as internationally.
Fallible Man is the second book in Paul Ricoeur’s early trilogy
on the will and the most accessible of his early writings. While
the descriptive approach of Freedom and Nature set aside all
normative questions, Fallible Man removes those brackets to examine
the bad will, asking what makes evil a possibility. Combining rigor
and originality, Ricoeur locates the possibility of evil in a self
that is fundamentally in conflict with itself. Edited by Scott
Davidson, A Companion to Ricoeur's Fallible Man clarifies and
contextualizes the central arguments developed in Ricoeur’s
philosophy of the will, providing insight into his formative
influences and themes. The collection gathers an international
group of scholars who specialize in Ricoeur’s thought to shed
light on an impressive range of themes from Fallible Man that
resonate with contemporary debates in philosophy and religion.
'This is a book unlike any other, the definitive analysis of
David's music, told in a quiet natural way, but with absolute
authenticity, by the people around him.' - HERMIONE FARTHINGALE
'Jérôme Soligny is one of the best authorities in the world on
David Bowie's career and life in general... His new biography
Rainbowman is a thorough and honest account of the great man.' -
TONY VISCONTI 'Jérôme is a guy who is still aware that popular
music is an art form and not a money suppository. He writes from
the heart and is one of the last exemplars of a dying breed. The
critic, armed with intelligence and brute compulsive honesty, as
dangerous as a river.' - IGGY POP 'Not long ago, Jérôme told me
something that I find very true: "David played saxophone, guitar, a
bit of keyboards, but above all, he played musicians!" I think he
really hit the nail on the head.' - MIKE GARSON In David Bowie
Rainbowman, Jérôme Soligny tells the story of David Bowie the
musician with the help of those intimately involved with the
creation of his music. This uniquely exhaustive work on Bowie's
1967-1980 albums draws on over 150 interviews with the musicians,
producers and friends who knew Bowie best, including Robert Fripp,
Hermione Farthingale, Lou Reed, George Underwood, Mick Ronson,
Carlos Alomar, Trevor Bolder, Mike Garson, Woody Woodmansey and
many, many others. With an essay by Soligny on each album followed
by oral histories from the most trusted and influential figures in
Bowie's musical life, David Bowie Rainbowman is the definitive
guide to a singular and mercurial genius - the Rainbowman himself.
· With a foreword by Tony Visconti, an introduction by Mike Garson
and cover photo by Mick Rock · A beautiful and stylish gift for
Bowie fans, over 700 pages long, filled with iconic photographs and
with striking cover design by Barnbrook
This monograph explores applications of Carleman estimates in the
study of stabilization and controllability properties of partial
differential equations, including the stabilization property of the
damped wave equation and the null-controllability of the heat
equation. All analysis is performed in the case of open sets
in the Euclidean space; a second volume will extend this treatment
to Riemannian manifolds. The first three chapters illustrate the
derivation of Carleman estimates using pseudo-differential calculus
with a large parameter. Continuation issues are then
addressed, followed by a proof of the logarithmic stabilization of
the damped wave equation by means of two alternative proofs of the
resolvent estimate for the generator of a damped wave
semigroup. The authors then discuss null-controllability of
the heat equation, its equivalence with observability, and how the
spectral inequality allows one to either construct a control
function or prove the observability inequality. The final
part of the book is devoted to the exposition of some necessary
background material: the theory of distributions, invariance under
change of variables, elliptic operators with Dirichlet data and
associated semigroup, and some elements from functional analysis
and semigroup theory.
This monograph explores applications of Carleman estimates in the
study of stabilization and controllability properties of partial
differential equations, including quantified unique continuation,
logarithmic stabilization of the wave equation, and
null-controllability of the heat equation. Where the first
volume derived these estimates in regular open sets in Euclidean
space and Dirichlet boundary conditions, here they are extended to
Riemannian manifolds and more general boundary conditions. The book
begins with the study of Lopatinskii-Sapiro boundary conditions for
the Laplace-Beltrami operator, followed by derivation of Carleman
estimates for this operator on Riemannian manifolds.Â
Applications of Carleman estimates are explored next: quantified
unique continuation issues, a proof of the logarithmic
stabilization of the boundary-damped wave equation, and a spectral
inequality with general boundary conditions to derive the
null-controllability result for the heat equation. Two additional
chapters consider some more advanced results on Carleman
estimates. The final part of the book is devoted to
exposition of some necessary background material: elements of
differential and Riemannian geometry, and Sobolev spaces and
Laplace problems on Riemannian manifolds.
This volume explores the conceptual framework and the practical
issues related to genomic prediction of complex traits in human
medicine and in animal and plant breeding. The book is organized
into five parts. Part One reminds molecular genetics approaches
intending to predict phenotypic variations. Part Two
presents the principles of genomic prediction of complex traits,
and reviews factors that affect its reliability. Part Three
describes genomic prediction methods, including machine-learning
approaches, accounting for different degree of biological
complexity, and reviews the associated computer-packages. Part Four
reports on emerging trends such as phenomic prediction and
incorporation into genomic prediction models of “omics†data
and crop growth models. Part Five is dedicated to lessons learned
from cases studies in the fields of human health and animal and
plant breeding, and to methods for analysis of the economic
effectiveness of genomic prediction. Written in the highly
successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, the book
provides theoretical bases and practical guidelines for an informed
decision making of practitioners and identifies pertinent routes
for further methodological researches. Cutting-edge and
thorough, Complex Trait Predictions: Methods and Protocols is a
valuable resource for scientists and researchers who are interested
in learning more about this important and developing field.
Chapters 3, 9, 13, 14, and 21 are available open access under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via
link.springer.com.Â
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Vogue Paris: 100 Years (Hardcover)
Sylvie Lécallier; Text written by Alice Morin, Sophie Kurkdjian, Marlène van de Casteele, Alexis Romero, …
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Vogue Paris has always been so much more than a fashion magazine.
It has assumed a central and vital role on the international
cultural stage, with a history that spans the most inventive
decades in fashion and taste, and in the arts and society. It has
acted as a cultural bellwether, putting fashion in the context of
the larger world in which we live and mirroring its times – the
postwar renaissance of Paris and haute couture, the New Wave, the
radical seventies, the glamorous eighties. As it enters its second
century, it remains at the cutting edge of photography and design.
Published to mark the magazine’s centenary, this book celebrates
Vogue Paris’s history from its first issue in 1920 to its current
incarnation with Emmanuelle Alt at the helm. On its pages are
creations by some of the greatest artists of their era, whether
distinguished illustrators such as Lepape, Gruau and Benito, or
photographers such as Man Ray, Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin and Mario
Testino. Here, too, are iconic faces: Catherine Deneuve, Audrey
Hepburn, Brigitte Bardot, Kate Moss and more. And of course, it
showcases the fashion designers who defined the century – Chanel,
Dior, Balenciaga, Saint Laurent, McQueen – and explores more
broadly the changing mores of the past hundred years.
Childhoods at the Intersection of the Local and the Global examines
the imposition of the modern Western notion of childhood, which is
now deemed as universal, on other cultures and explores how local
communities react to these impositions in various ways such as
manipulation, outright rejection and acceptance. The book discusses
childhoods in different regions of the world and boasts a range of
contributors from several academic disciplines such as Sociology,
Social Work, Education, Anthropology, Criminology and Human Rights,
who are experts on the regions they discuss. The book argues
against the notion of a universal childhood and illustrates that
different societies around the world have different notions of
childhood. This book is recommended reading for students, scholars
and practitioners working with children in the Global South as well
as internationally.
North African economies are characterized by a significant share of
informal activity and employment. About two-thirds of workers in
North Africa operate without any formal arrangement and social
protection, and about 30 percent of GDP is estimated to be produced
by informal workers and firms. This paper finds that while a few
key structural characteristics could explain "normal" informality
in North Africa, policy distortions explain a large share of excess
informality. Among the structural factors that can lead to high
informality, the relatively lower level of human capital and
younger population help explain the high informality in the region,
as low-skilled and young people generally find it more difficult to
operate in the formal sector. At the same time, gaps in a set of
policy indicators also explain the relatively high informality in
North Africa. In particular, this paper finds that gaps in the
quality of governance explain about half of the excess informality
experienced in North Africa compared with advanced economies. In
this context, the expansion of the informal sector in Algeria and
Tunisia from the mid-2000s partially reflects the deterioration in
a few indicators of their governance and regulatory frameworks. In
contrast, the decline in informality observed in Egypt, Mauritania,
and Morocco over this period also reflects improved business
regulations, governance, and tax systems, in addition to continued
progress in economic development. While informality has
traditionally buffered regional labor markets against the impact of
recessions, the COVID-19 crisis has been different. North African
economies have generally exhibited relatively stable unemployment
rates, including during recessions, largely owing to their high
levels of informality. However, informal employment has fallen
significantly in North Africa during the pandemic, as lockdown
measures have particularly affected high-informality service
sectors. As the pandemic subsides and the lockdown measures are
removed, the recovery of regional labor markets could exhibit a
stronger-than-usual rebound of informal employment. Ensuring an
inclusive recovery from the pandemic would call for renewed efforts
to construct more modern (digitalized), more efficient, and fairer
systems of social protection, building on the progress achieved in
the region during the pandemic in extending safety nets to informal
workers.
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