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Heirs of Roman Persecution: Studies on a Christian and Para-Christian Discourse in Late Antiquity
by Wendy Mayer Éric FournierThe subject of this book is the discourse of persecution used by Christians in Late Antiquity (c. 300–700 CE). Through a series of detailed case studies covering the full chronological and geographical span of the period, this book investigates how the conversion of the Roman Empire to Christianity changed the way that Christians and para- Christians perceived the hostile treatments they received, either by fellow Christians or by people of other religions. A closely related second goal of this volume is to encourage scholars to think more precisely about the terminological difficulties related to the study of persecution. Indeed, despite sustained interest in the subject, few scholars have sought to distinguish between such closely related concepts as punishment, coercion, physical violence, and persecution. Often, these terms are used interchangeably. Although there are no easy answers, an emphatic conclusion of the studies assembled in this volume is that “persecution” was a malleable rhetorical label in late antique discourse, whose meaning shifted depending on the viewpoint of the authors who used it. This leads to our third objective: to analyze the role and function played by rhetoric and polemic in late antique claims to be persecuted. Late antique Christian writers who cast their present as a repetition of past persecutions often aimed to attack the legitimacy of the dominant Christian faction through a process of othering. This discourse also expressed a polarizing worldview in order to strengthen the group identity of the writers’ community in the midst of ideological conflicts and to encourage steadfastness against the temptation to collaborate with the other side.
50 ans de bilinguisme officiel: Défis, analyses et témoignages
by Sherry Simon Stéphane Dion Maurice Beaudin Mark Power Éric Forgues M Graham Fraser Pierre Curzi M François Boileau Roger Turenne Raymond-M. Hébert Michelle Landry Ingride Roy Matthieu LeBlanc Perri Ravon Albert Nolette Andy AnstettIl y a maintenant 50 ans, la Commission royale d’enquête sur le bilinguisme et le biculturalisme publiait son rapport final. Fruit de recherches innovantes et de consultations publiques dans tout le pays, truffé de données et de concepts, celui-ci traçait la route pour l’établissement d’une politique cohérente de bilinguisme officiel, qui allait changer profondément et durablement le visage du Canada. À la volonté d’affirmer le caractère officiellement bilingue du pays s’est greffée celle, non moins persistante, de faire du français la langue commune des Québécois. Cet ouvrage jette un regard critique sur le contenu et les conséquences du rapport. Il résulte de la tenue en 2013, un peu partout au pays, d’une série de conférences explorant l’impact de ces travaux. On y retrouve donc des analyses portant sur le processus de la Commission, sur ses principaux acteurs ainsi que sur le contenu particulier de certains volumes du rapport. Le livre se présente en trois parties : en premier lieu, les progrès accomplis depuis la parution du rapport et les défis à surmonter tels qu’ils sont appréhendés par les contributeurs, ce qui ne cesse pas de provoquer des débats; dans une deuxième partie, des analyses et des études portant sur des problématiques abordées par la Commission, pour vérifier le chemin parcouru depuis; et enfin, des témoignages, dont une conversation fascinante entre le premier commissaire aux langues officielles, M. Keith Spicer, et le commissaire en poste au moment de la parution de l’ouvrage, M. Graham Fraser. À la fois politique, érudit et mémoriel, ce livre saura captiver toute personne qui s’intéresse aux débats linguistiques au Canada et dans le monde. Il apporte une contribution originale et précieuse à l’étude d’un moment fondateur de l’évolution du Canada.
Gouvernance communautaire: Innovations dans le Canada français hors Québec
by Marie Hélène Eddie Éric Champagne Mariette Mulaire Gina S. Comeau Guy Chiasson Simon Letendre Mathieu Voyer Thierry Arseneau Jean Léger Nathalie Plante Christine Dallaire Magalie-France Houle Éric Forgues d'Ornellia-N.J. Moyabi MampoumbouLa gouvernance communautaire, comme la gouvernance publique et privée, doit innover, et apprendre de manière continue à faire mieux en faisant autrement. Or, cela ne peut se faire que grâce à la collaboration, et celle-ci va prendre des formes diverses selon le milieu. L'innovation sociale adopte aussi des formes différentes en divers points d'un pays comme le Canada fait de sociétés distinctes par la langue, la culture et les arrangements institutionnels. Le fait que le monde communautaire se décline au pluriel implique que la collaboration est souvent plus difficile et que l'innovation se répand moins vite que dans les autres secteurs. Ce livre explore l'innovation dans le monde communautaire du Canada français hors Québec, dans le but de faire une certaine reconnaissance de l'état des lieux et de voir jusqu à quel point ces sociétés distinctes ont innové différemment, et peuvent apprendre l'une de l'autre et collaborer malgré leurs différences tant dans le monde franco-canadien comme tel qu'à travers les barrières culturelles et linguistiques. Universitaires et praticiens font rapport sur diverses expériences au plan national, en Nouvelle-Écosse, au Nouveau-Brunswick, en Ontario et au Manitoba, et sur les défis de la production et de la transmission des savoirs communautaires.
La intrusa
by Éric FayeGanadora del Gran Premio de la Academia Francesa, esta novela de Éric Faye se basa en un caso real para explorar el influjo que la memoria de los lugares que habitamos ejerce sobre nuestra conciencia. De profesión meteorólogo, Shimura lleva una vida solitaria y metódica que transcurre con precisión milimétrica entre el trabajo y su casa, un microcosmos de orden y pulcritud a las afueras de Nagasaki. Sólo el canto ensordecedor de las chicharras es capaz de alterar una rutina tan previsible hasta el día en que Shimura cree percibir pequeños cambios en la impoluta organización de su hogar: un yogur que desaparece de la nevera, el zumo de naranja que se evapora, la tetera fuera de su lugar habitual. No parece obra de un ladrón, pues todos los objetos de valor siguen en su sitio. ¿Se trata, pues, de una amante despechada, de un espíritu en busca de venganza, o incluso peor, de una alucinación? Para dilucidarlo, Shimura instala una cámara en la cocina y, perplejo, descubre la presencia de una mujer desconocida, una intrusa que lleva un año viviendo en un armario de la casa. Al exponer con exquisita sensibilidad los vericuetos de su mundo interior, la historia de Shimura adquiere una resonancia universal. De manera casi imperceptible, la novela cuestiona nuestra manera de vivir y de relacionarnos con los demás, y su lectura perdura como un temblor de tierra, inofensivo pero indeleble. Reseñas:«Siempre en equilibrio entre lo real y lo irreal, el autor prosigue su obra, original, aérea y de una increíble poesía.»Le Figaro «Éric Faye es un escritor mesurado y sobrio, un observador de lo cotidiano dotado de una aguda sensibilidad que, sin recurrir a efectos espectaculares, siempre nos sorprende.»Livres Hebdo «La escritura de Faye se caracteriza por no levantar el tono y, en esa templanza buscada, dejar oír la violencia subyacente, el dolor y, sobre todo, la melancolía.»Lire «Faye alcanza una sobriedad y una eficacia propias de una estampa japonesa: no hay una nota, un rasgo, una sola digresión inútil. Poner en duda las evidencias, cuestionar una sociedad que abandona a algunos de sus miembros en una soledad tal que desaparecen prácticamente ante la mirada de los otros, hablar directamente al corazón con admirable maestría son las virtudes de una novela tan breve como vibrante.»Le Monde des Livres
Design of Heuristic Algorithms for Hard Optimization: With Python Codes for the Travelling Salesman Problem (Graduate Texts in Operations Research)
by Éric D. TaillardThis open access book demonstrates all the steps required to design heuristic algorithms for difficult optimization. The classic problem of the travelling salesman is used as a common thread to illustrate all the techniques discussed. This problem is ideal for introducing readers to the subject because it is very intuitive and its solutions can be graphically represented. The book features a wealth of illustrations that allow the concepts to be understood at a glance. The book approaches the main metaheuristics from a new angle, deconstructing them into a few key concepts presented in separate chapters: construction, improvement, decomposition, randomization and learning methods. Each metaheuristic can then be presented in simplified form as a combination of these concepts. This approach avoids giving the impression that metaheuristics is a non-formal discipline, a kind of cloud sculpture. Moreover, it provides concrete applications of the travelling salesman problem, which illustrate in just a few lines of code how to design a new heuristic and remove all ambiguities left by a general framework. Two chapters reviewing the basics of combinatorial optimization and complexity theory make the book self-contained. As such, even readers with a very limited background in the field will be able to follow all the content.
The Long Year: A 2020 Reader (Public Books Series)
by Eric Klinenberg Joan Wallach Scott Julie Livingston Natalia Molina Jun Li Guobin Yang Andrew Lakoff Priscilla Wald Warwick Anderson Warren Breckman Adam Tooze Ananya Roy Sophie Lewis Neha Vora Margaret O'Mara Yarimar Bonilla Merlin Chowkwanyun Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Margaret Morganroth Gullette Marcia Chatelain Jacob A.C. Remes Joanne Randa Nucho Xiaowei Wang Miguel Centeno Jean-Paul Gagnon Keisha N. Blain Sulfikar Amir Mustafa Dikeç David Schmidt Gautam Bhan David S. Barnes Isabelle Guérin Andy Horowitz Simon Balto Éric Charmes Max Rousseau Michelle Cera Gilles Guiheux Ye Guo Renyou Hou Manon Laurent Anne-Valérie Ruinet Govindan Venkatasubramanian Mathieu Ferry Marine Al Dahdah Sherihan Radi Jeffrey Aaron Snyder Rachel Nolan Evan Lieberman Julia Foulkes Soledad Álvarez Velasco Sophie Gonick Alfonso Fierro Erick Corrêa Gianpaolo Biaocchi Jake Carlson Quentin Ravelli Rikki J. Dean Afsoun Afsahi Emily Beausoleil Selen A. Ercan Cordula Dittmer Daniel F. Lorenz Kathryn Cai Kavita SivaramakrishnanSome years—1789, 1929, 1989—change the world suddenly. Or do they? In 2020, a pandemic converged with an economic collapse, inequalities exploded, and institutions weakened. Yet these crises sprang not from new risks but from known dangers. The world—like many patients—met 2020 with a host of preexisting conditions, which together tilted the odds toward disaster. Perhaps 2020 wasn’t the year the world changed; perhaps it was simply the moment the world finally understood its deadly diagnosis.In The Long Year, some of the world’s most incisive thinkers excavate 2020’s buried crises, revealing how they must be confronted in order to achieve a more equal future. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor calls for the defunding of police and the refunding of communities; Keisha Blain demonstrates why the battle against racism must be global; and Adam Tooze reveals that COVID-19 hit hardest where inequality was already greatest and welfare states weakest. Yarimar Bonilla, Xiaowei Wang, Simon Balto, Marcia Chatelain, Gautam Bhan, Ananya Roy, and others offer insights from the factory farms of China to the elite resorts of France, the meatpacking plants of the Midwest to the overcrowded hospitals of India.The definitive guide to these ongoing catastrophes, The Long Year shows that only by exposing the roots and ramifications of 2020 can another such breakdown be prevented. It is made possible through institutional partnerships with Public Books and the Social Science Research Council.
Additive Manufacturing of Metal Alloys 1: Processes, Raw Materials and Numerical Simulation
by Patrice Peyre Éric CharkalukOver the last decade or so, additive manufacturing has revolutionized design and manufacturing methods by allowing more freedom in design and functionalities unattainable with conventional processes. This has generated extraordinarily high interest in both industrial and academic communities.Additive Manufacturing of Metal Alloys 1 puts forward a state of the art of additive manufacturing and its different processes, from metallic raw materials (in the form of powder or wire) to their properties after elaboration. It analyzes the physics and the modelling of existing AM processes as well as future elaboration processes.Using a balanced approach encapsulating basic notions and more advanced aspects for each theme, this book acts as a metal additive manufacturing textbook, as useful to professionals in the field as to the general public.
Additive Manufacturing of Metal Alloys 2: Microstructures, Post-processing and Use Properties
by Patrice Peyre Éric CharkalukOver the last decade or so, additive manufacturing has revolutionized design and manufacturing methods by allowing more freedom in design and functionalities unattainable with conventional processes. This has generated extraordinarily high interest in both industrial and academic communities. Additive Manufacturing of Metal Alloys 2 puts forward a state of the art of additive manufacturing and its different processes, from metallic raw materials (in the form of powder or wire) to their properties after elaboration. It analyzes the microstructures and post-processing of existing AM materials as well as their use properties. Using a balanced approach encapsulating basic notions and more advanced aspects for each theme, this book acts as a metal additive manufacturing textbook, as useful to professionals in the field as to the general public.
The Unimagined Canadian Capital: Challenges for the Federal Capital Region
by Caroline Andrew Anne Gilbert Andrew Sancton André Juneau David L. Gordon Éric Champagne Guy Chiasson Meyer Burstein Almos TassonyiToo many stakeholders have neglected their duty of imagining an aspiring federal capital region for Canada. Under the auspices of the Forum of Federations, a number of persons interested in the fate of Canada’s federal capital region came together to examine the challenges facing the region and to put forward suggestions to deal with them.In this report on the brainstorming exercise conducted in January 2011, professionals, academics, and elected officials take stock of the vast array of assets on which the federal capital region can build; probe the many sources of failures in coping as effectively and creatively as one would expect with the diversity, trans-border, financial, and governance challenges; and make suggestions to ensure that the federal capital region does not remain “unimagined” in the future.
What I Know About You
by Éric ChacourCBC BOOKS CANADIAN FICTION BOOKS TO READ IN FALL 2024 LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 GILLER PRIZEFINALIST FOR THE 2024 DAYNE OGILVIE PRIZE FOR LGBTQ2S+ EMERGING WRITERSA heartbreaking tale of a family and an impossible love, torn apart by secrets and traditions in late-twentieth-century Cairo.In a tight-knit Levantine Christian family in 1960s Cairo, Tarek’s entire life is written in advance. He’ll be a doctor like his father, marry, and have children. Under the watchful eye of the family’s strong women, he starts to do just that – until a patient’s son, Ali, enters his life and turns it upside down. The two men’s unsayable relationship sparks a series of events as dramatic as the Six-Day War and assassination of President Anwar Sadat playing out in the background.The turn of the millennium finds Tarek living as a doctor in Montreal. Someone is writing about him and to him, piecing together a past he wants only to forget. But who is the writer of this tale? And will Tarek figure it out in time? From Cairo’s grand boulevards and hidden alleys to Montreal’s grim winter, from the reign of Nasser to the early 2000s, What I Know About You tells the heartbreaking story of a family torn apart by an epic love.A bestseller in its original Quebec edition, and the recipient of several awards, including the Prix Femina des Lycéens, What I Know About You is poised to be an international sensation."This novel is a searing love story that moves between Egypt and Montréal, that shifts between hearts, highlighting the sacrifices the characters feel they have to make for the ones they love. Romantic, surprising, mesmerizing, and so devastating, What I Know About You examines the terrible costs of family secrets and toxic shame." – Suzette Mayr, author of The Sleeping Car Porter
Voting in Quebec Municipal Elections: A Tale of Two Cities
by Éric Bélanger, Cameron D. Anderson, and R. Michael McGregorWhile Quebec is well known for its provincial-level party politics and thriving nationalism, voting behaviour and electoral campaigning at the municipal level have failed to gain much attention to date. Voting in Quebec Municipal Elections seeks to transform the state of municipal elections research in Quebec through a systematic study of the 2017 Montreal and Quebec City elections. Drawing upon data from the Canadian Municipal Election Study, the authors demonstrate not only the importance of Quebec municipal politics, but the many ways that municipal elections research can inform our broader understanding of voting behaviour in the province. This volume considers the features particular to the Quebec local context, such as the importance of language and nationalism, the effects of local party labels for down-ballot races, and the role of ideology. Voting in Quebec Municipal Elections represents the largest-ever collection of work on local elections in the province’s history, making a significant contribution to our understanding of the municipal voter in Quebec.
Framing Risky Choices: Brexit and the Dynamics of High-Stakes Referendums
by Ece Özlem Atikcan Richard Nadeau Éric BélangerThe majority of policymakers, academics, and members of the general public expected British citizens to vote to remain in the European Union in the 2016 referendum. This perception was based on the well-established idea that voters don't like change or uncertainty. So why did the British public vote to take such a major economic risk? Framing Risky Choices addresses this question by placing the Brexit vote in the bigger picture of EU and Scottish independence referendums. Drawing from extensive interviews and survey data, it asserts that the framing effect – mobilizing voters by encouraging them to think along particular lines – matters, but not every argument is equally effective. Simple, evocative, and emotionally compelling frames that offer negativity are especially effective in changing people's minds. In the Brexit case, the Leave side neutralized the economic risks of Brexit and proposed other risks relating to remaining in the EU, such as losing control of immigration policy and a lack of funding for the National Health Service. These concrete, impassioned arguments struck an immediate and familiar chord with voters. Most intriguingly, the Remain side was silent on these issues, without an emotional case to present. Framing Risky Choices presents a multi-method, comparative, state-of-the-art analysis of how the Brexit campaign contributed to the outcome. Uncovering the core mechanism behind post-truth politics, it shows that the strength of an argument is not its empirical validity but its public appeal.
Framing Risky Choices: Brexit and the Dynamics of High-Stakes Referendums
by Ece Özlem Atikcan Richard Nadeau Éric BélangerThe majority of policymakers, academics, and members of the general public expected British citizens to vote to remain in the European Union in the 2016 referendum. This perception was based on the well-established idea that voters don't like change or uncertainty. So why did the British public vote to take such a major economic risk? Framing Risky Choices addresses this question by placing the Brexit vote in the bigger picture of EU and Scottish independence referendums. Drawing from extensive interviews and survey data, it asserts that the framing effect – mobilizing voters by encouraging them to think along particular lines – matters, but not every argument is equally effective. Simple, evocative, and emotionally compelling frames that offer negativity are especially effective in changing people's minds. In the Brexit case, the Leave side neutralized the economic risks of Brexit and proposed other risks relating to remaining in the EU, such as losing control of immigration policy and a lack of funding for the National Health Service. These concrete, impassioned arguments struck an immediate and familiar chord with voters. Most intriguingly, the Remain side was silent on these issues, without an emotional case to present. Framing Risky Choices presents a multi-method, comparative, state-of-the-art analysis of how the Brexit campaign contributed to the outcome. Uncovering the core mechanism behind post-truth politics, it shows that the strength of an argument is not its empirical validity but its public appeal.
French Presidential Elections
by Michael S. Lewis-Beck Richard Nadeau Éric BélangerAn original and comprehensive study of the sociological and psychological forces driving individual choices in French Presidential elections. Based on a unique comparative analysis of four French presidential contests over the last two decades, this book presents a rigorous examination of long-term and short-term voter motivations.
Health Care Policy and Opinion in the United States and Canada (Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy)
by Antonia Maioni Richard Nadeau Éric Bélanger François Pétry Stuart N SorokaHeated debate surrounds the topic of health care in both the US and in Canada. In each country, these debates are based in some measure on perceptions about health care in their neighboring country. The perceptions held by Canadians about the US health care system, or those held by Americans about Canada, end up having significant impact on health policy makers in both countries. Health Care Policy and Opinion in the United States and Canada examines these perceptions and their effects using an extensive cross-national survey made up of two public opinion polls of over 3,500 respondents from the US and Canada. The book first develops a rigorous and detailed explanation of the factors that contribute to levels of satisfaction among Americans and Canadians with respect to their health care systems. It then attempts to study the perceptions of Canadians vis-à-vis the US health care system as well as the perception of Americans toward Canada’s health care system. The authors examine how these perceptions impact health policy makers, and show how the survey results indicate remarkable similarities in the opinions expressed by Americans and Canadians toward the problems in the health care system, heralding perhaps a measure of convergence in the future. The authors present how perceptions on health care indicate elements of convergence or divergence between the views of Canadians and Americans, and discuss how these citizen opinions should inform health care policy change in both countries in the near future. This book should generate interest in scholars of health care, public opinion, and comparative studies of social policies and public opinion.
The National Question and Electoral Politics in Quebec and Scotland (Democracy, Diversity, and Citizen Engagement Series #3)
by Ailsa Henderson Richard Nadeau Éric Bélanger Eve HepburnIn Quebec and Scotland, questions of constitutional change, national identity, and national grievance play an important role in the electoral calculations of political parties and voters. Taking a strong stance on the national question can have strategic benefits both for parties pushing for greater autonomy and for those endorsing the status quo. In this in-depth look at issue voting, authors Éric Bélanger, Richard Nadeau, Ailsa Henderson, and Eve Hepburn examine how the national question affects political parties and voter behaviour in both substate nations. Through party manifestos, interviews with legislators, and opinion survey data, this book demonstrates that calls for constitutional change influence political debate, competition, voter choice, and the outcome of elections not only within Quebec and Scotland but also across Canada and the United Kingdom. Minority nationalist parties, the authors show, can gain support by claiming ownership of issues with widespread public agreement, such as self-determination and protecting the identity and interests of the nation. A comprehensive analysis of recent electoral politics, The National Question and Electoral Politics in Quebec and Scotland greatly enhances our understanding of the electoral impact of substate nationalism.
History of Quebec For Dummies
by Éric BédardGrasp the unique history of Quebec? Easy. Packing in equal parts fun and facts, History of Quebec For Dummies is an engaging and entertaining guide to the history of Canada's second-largest province, covering the conflicts, cultures, ideas, politics, and social changes that have shaped Quebec as we know it today. "My country isn't a country, it is winter!" sings the poet Gilles Vigneault . . . Indeed, Quebec is winter, snow, cold, and freezing winds. It is also the majestic river Saint-Laurent and its numerous confluences across America. It is vast, dense forests, countless lakes, magnificent landscapes of Saguenay, Charlevoix, Côte-Nord, or Gaspésie. Quebec is also the "old capital" perched on the Cape Diamond facing the sea. It is Montreal, the first French city of North America, the creative and innovative metropolis, junction for different cultures and heart of a nation yearning to belong to the world's history. History of Quebec For Dummies tells Quebec's fascinating story from the early fifteen hundreds to the present, highlighting the culture, language, and traditions of Canada's second-largest province. Serves as the ideal starting place to learn about Quebec Covers the latest, up-to-the-minute findings in historical research Explores the conflicts, cultures, ideas, politics, and social changes in Quebec Lifelong learners and history buffs looking for a fun-yet-factual introduction to the grand scope of Quebec history will find everything they need in History of Quebec For Dummies.
Instant Testing with CasperJS
by Éric BréhaultFilled with practical, step-by-step instructions and clear explanations for the most important and useful tasks. A concise guide full of step-by-step recipes to teach you how to create CasperJS tests for your web development projects. This book will be extremely useful for web developers who are new to testing or who want to move from another testing solution to CasperJS. It is assumed that you are familiar with web development and have a good knowledge of JavaScript.
New Institutional Economics
by Éric Brousseau Jean-Michel GlachantInstitutions frame behaviors and exchanges in markets, business networks, communities, and organizations throughout the world. Thanks to the pioneering work of Ronald Coase, Douglas North and Olivier Williamson, institutions are now recognized as being a key factor in explaining differences in performance between industries, nations, and regions. The fast-growing field of new institutional economics analyzes the economics of institutions and organizations using methodologies, concepts, and analytical tools from a wide range of disciplines (including political science, anthropology, sociology, management, law, and economics). With contributions from an international team of researchers, New Institutional Economics provides theoreticians, practitioners, and advanced students in economics and social sciences with a guide to the many recent developments in the field. It explains the underlying methodologies, identifies issues and questions for future research, and shows how results apply to decision making in law, economic policy, management, regulation and institutional design.
Are Statistics Only Made of Data?: Know-how and Presupposition from the 17th and 19th Centuries (Methodos Series #20)
by Éric BrianThis book examines several epistemological regimes in studies of numerical data over the last four centuries. It distinguishes these regimes and mobilises questions present in the philosophy of science, sociology and historical works throughout the 20th century. Attention is given to the skills of scholars and their methods, their assumptions, and the socio-historical conditions that made calculations and their interpretations possible. In doing so, questions posed as early as Émile Durkheim’s and Ernst Cassirer’s ones are revisited and the concept of symbolic form is put to the test in this particular survey, conducted over long period of time. Although distinct from a methodological and epistemological point of view, today these regimes may be found together in the toolbox of statisticians and those who comment on their conclusions. As such, the book is addressed to social scientists and historians and all those who are interested in numerical productions.
Techno-logic & Technology: A Paleo-history of Knapped Lithic Objects
by Éric BoëdaTechno-logic & Technology is an ambitious effort to develop a new framework for studying the development of stone tool technology, with the goal of integrating humanity’s earliest and longest-lasting technology into a comprehensive questioning of the interaction between humanity and the material world. Michael Chazan provides a translation of Éric Boëda's authoritative work Techno-logique and Technologie, which draws on the latter's career of research on stone tool assemblages from archaeological sites in Europe, the Middle East, China, and South America, together with a theoretical apparatus influenced by the work of Gilbert Simondon. This book presents a major challenge to all archaeologists studying ancient technology to reconsider how they think about artifacts and how to approach the question of progress through time in human technology. Lithic analysis is a highly empirical field of study that rarely has an impact on issues of broad theoretical interest, and Boëda’s book is a welcome exception. As well as providing contextualising information within the text, the translator Michael Chazan, himself a Paleolithic archaeologist specializing in stone tool technology, includes an interview with the author to help equip the reader to engage with this challenging text. Chiming with the growth of interest in the work of Gilbert Simondon in the English-speaking world, this book is an important resource for Palaeolithic archaeologists and lithic specialists. It will also be of interest to researchers in material culture studies, technology studies, and human evolution.
Little Mouse's Big Secret
by Éric BattutShh…! Little Mouse has a secret! Hes found a delicious-looking apple and doesnt want to share a bite. So he buries it, and no matter how many of his friends ask what he hid, Little Mouse wont tell. But when a tree sprouts from the seeds of the fruit, there are enough apples for everyone-and Little Mouse realizes some secrets are even better when theyre shared. Award-winning illustrator Éric Battut has created a charming picture book that will delight-and teach-children. Kids will delight in knowing more than Mouse as they watch the apple tree sprout behind himSimple text and illustrations encourage sharing, but avoid preachinessSubtle “green” subtext about the abundance and importance of natureÉRIC BATTUT was born in Chamalières, France, where he still lives and works today. After studying economics and civil rights for six years, he went on to study illustration at LEcole Emile Cohl in Lyon. He has since created many successful and award-winning books for children.
The Little Pea
by Éric BattutA green pea plant grows in a garden. Inside one pod, a small green pea decides that he is not going to be like all the other peas; he is going to be different. <P><P>His journey leads him to meet a beautiful peacock, a ferocious tiger, and a noisy elephant. Each of these animals inspires Little Pea and he takes something from each of them back to the garden-but will the others accept Little Pea's desire to be different? Full of humor and optimism, this touching story of a little pea is at once an adventure story and a celebration of uniqueness. The simple illustrations reinforce the strength and poetry of Battut's signature style. Ages: 4-8.
Architectures of Hiding: Crafting Concealment | Omission | Deception | Erasure | Silence
by Federica Goffi Rana Abughannam Émélie Desrochers-Turgeon Pallavi SwaranjaliArchitecture manifests as a space of concealment and unconcealment, lethe and alêtheia, enclosure and disclosure, where its making and agency are both hidden and revealed. With an urgency to amplify narratives that are overlooked, silenced and unacknowledged in and by architectural spaces, histories and theories, this book contends the need for a critical study of hiding in the context of architectural processes. It urges the understanding of inherent opportunities, power structures and covert strategies, whether socio-cultural, geo-political, environmental or economic, as they are related to their hidescapes – the constructed landscapes of our built environments participating in the architectures of hiding. Looking at and beyond the intentions and agency that architects possess, architectural spaces lend themselves as apparatuses for various forms of hiding and un(hiding). The examples explored in this book and the creative works presented in the interviews enclosed in the interludes of this publication cover a broad range of geographic and cultural contexts, discursively disclosing hidden aspects of architectural meaning. The book investigates the imaginative intrigue of concealing and revealing in design processes, along with moral responsibilities and ethical dilemmas inherent in crafting concealment through the making and reception of architecture.
Digitalization of Work: New Spaces and New Working Times
by Émilie VayreDigitalization of Work brings together researchers and international experts whose work and practices are based on a variety of disciplines such as work and organizational psychology, social psychology, ergonomics, communication and information sciences, and management sciences. This book closely examines the challenges associated with recent or emerging ways of working related to the digitalization of work. It acts as a directory of contributions that enrich recent thought and approaches to the deployment and accompaniment of the ways in which work is organized, including practices and environments likely to gain relevance in coming years (remote working and management, coworking for salaried employees, flexible office spaces, working from home and nomadism).