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La science est le défi du XXIe siècle

Author : Claude Allègre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782266200608
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book La science est le défi du XXIe siècle written by Claude Allègre and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Que nous réserve l'avenir ? A une époque où la peur des catastrophes écologiques se répand, où l'on subit très concrètement une crise financière et économique que l'on n'a pas connue depuis 1929, chacun s'interroge. Pourquoi ne pas examiner ces questions à la lueur des sciences et des techniques qui sont les moteurs essentiels de l'Histoire ? Claude Allègre se livre à l'exercice, en évoquant les progrès scientifiques et technologiques qui verront le jour. Se refusant à être optimiste ou pessimiste, il montre que le génie créatif de l'homme et son dynamisme conquérant sont potentiellement capables de répondre aux défis. Bref que l'avenir dépend de nous...

La science est le défi du XXIe siècle

Author : Claude J. Allègre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book La science est le défi du XXIe siècle written by Claude J. Allègre and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claude Allègre se refuse d'être optimiste ou pessimiste, mais montre que le génie créatif de l'homme et son dynamisme conquérant sont potentiellement capables de répondre aux défis ; que l'avenir dépend de nous

La science au XXIe siècle et ses conséquences philosophiques

Author : Jacques Blanchet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782915685602
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (856 download)

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Download or read book La science au XXIe siècle et ses conséquences philosophiques written by Jacques Blanchet and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La science expérimentale naît au XVIIe siècle dans une toute petite partie du monde : Kepler, Copernic, Bacon, Newton, Galilée, Descartes... Elle bouleversera l’humanité. Descartes théorise les procédures mentales qui doivent accompagner la nouvelle façon de penser : rationalité, logique déductive, simplification par le triomphe des idées claires et distinctes... Dans le cadre d’un monde dominé par la physique classique, cette façon de raisonner était suffisante. Elle a même fait merveille et a permis à l’Europe de conquérir le monde. Nous vivons encore de nos jours sur la base de cette façon de penser. Oui, mais elle est fausse. Le XXe siècle démentira toutes nos anciennes convictions : Einstein et la théorie de la relativité, Max Planck et la théorie des quanta, le principe d’incertitude d’Eisenberg, le rôle des particules élémentaires dans la constitution de la matière... sans oublier les progrès de la génétique. Tout cela nous fait pénétrer dans un monde qui n’est pas seulement incompréhensible. Il est tout simplement inconcevable. Et pourtant il est efficace ! C’est ainsi qu’il est à l’origine d’un progrès technique sans précédent qui a bouleversé notre vie quotidienne. De sorte que nous sommes tous un peu schizophrènes. Nous appliquons dans la vie courante la physique classique alors que nous savons que seule la physique moderne rend compte de la réalité. Ces fabuleuses découvertes scientifiques nécessitent de revoir notre façon de penser et d’effectuer les traductions philosophiques qui s’imposent (car la philosophie n’a jamais été autre chose qu’une interprétation largement intuitive et plus ou moins éclairée de la vision scientifique du moment). Une mutation passionnante est nécessaire, comment y participer ?

La science pour le XXIe siècle

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 53 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (113 download)

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Foreign Aid

Author : Carol Lancaster
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226470628
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Foreign Aid written by Carol Lancaster and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A twentieth-century innovation, foreign aid has become a familiar and even expected element in international relations. But scholars and government officials continue to debate why countries provide it: some claim that it is primarily a tool of diplomacy, some argue that it is largely intended to support development in poor countries, and still others point out its myriad newer uses. Carol Lancaster effectively puts this dispute to rest here by providing the most comprehensive answer yet to the question of why governments give foreign aid. She argues that because of domestic politics in aid-giving countries, it has always been—and will continue to be—used to achieve a mixture of different goals. Drawing on her expertise in both comparative politics and international relations and on her experience as a former public official, Lancaster provides five in-depth case studies—the United States, Japan, France, Germany, and Denmark—that demonstrate how domestic politics and international pressures combine to shape how and why donor governments give aid. In doing so, she explores the impact on foreign aid of political institutions, interest groups, and the ways governments organize their giving. Her findings provide essential insight for scholars of international relations and comparative politics, as well as anyone involved with foreign aid or foreign policy.

The Symbiotic Man

Author : Joël de Rosnay
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Symbiotic Man written by Joël de Rosnay and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 2000 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the past four decades a powerful scientific methodology has emerged that promises to dramatically recast our concept of nature and mankind's place in it. Unlike the traditional analytical approach which breaks nature down into smaller and smaller constituent parts, chaos theory, the theory of self-organization, and other so-called sciences of complexity, explore dynamic systems in their totalities, so as to lay bare the great constants governing their emergence, organization, and evolution. Using the tools of complexity, researchers recently have made breakthroughs in the understanding of such divers phenomena as weather systems, economies, and even the most daunting scientific mystery of all, the mind as an emergent property of the brain's dense neuronal mazes.

China, the Health Sector

Author : Dean T. Jamison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book China, the Health Sector written by Dean T. Jamison and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This review of China's health sector begins by noting China's achievements in population control, health status, and nutrition. The policies, sources of financing, and resource use that have contributed to China's successes are cited, and the evolution of several influences on health from outside the sector are discussed, including nutritional improvements, greater access to clean water and sanitary waste disposal, and fertility reduction. Two major challenges now face China's health sector: (i) extending the methods that have been successful to areas where mortality rates and deaths due to infectious diseases remain high; and (ii) developing and implementing approaches to management of chronic disease that combine prevention, low-cost treatment, rehabilitation, and humane care. Major innovation will be essential because resources are limited and plans for meeting the health needs of the population are ambitious. Institutions capable of innovation, experimentation, and analysis of public health problems must be developed. The report includes discussion of specific issues in the sector.

International Handbook on Child Rights and School Psychology

Author : Bonnie Kaul Nastasi
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030371190
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book International Handbook on Child Rights and School Psychology written by Bonnie Kaul Nastasi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-18 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook examines the meanings, implications, and transformative potential of a child-rights approach for school psychology. It focuses on the school community, in which psychology is committed to promoting well-being, learning, and development of all children. The handbook begins with an overview of the 1989 United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and explores main themes such as, survival, protection, development, participation, and nondiscrimination. Chapters provide guidance in promoting and protecting child rights when dealing with critical issues relevant to the school community, including well-being, freedom from violence, and access to high quality education. In addition, chapters analyze and offer recommendations for child rights applications within the roles and responsibilities of school psychologists. The handbook concludes with future directions for achieving a child-rights approach for school psychology. Topics featured in this handbook include: The current status of child rights in the international community. Accountability for child rights by school psychology. Collaborative home, school, and community practices aimed at promoting family support. Protecting child rights within the realm of competitive sports. CRC and school-based intervention programming. Promoting child rights through school leadership. Applying child rights-respecting research to the study of psychological well-being. The International Handbook on Child Rights and School Psychology is a must-have resource for researchers, scientist-practitioners, clinicians, and graduate students in child and school psychology, educational policy and politics, social work, public health, and other school-based or child-serving mental health disciplines.

The Annenberg Collection

Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588393410
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book The Annenberg Collection written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2009 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Walter and Leonore Annenberg Collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, watercolors, and drawings constitutes one of the most remarkable groupings of avant-garde works of art from the mid-19th to the early 20th century ever given to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. A revised and expanded edition of the 1989 publication Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection, this volume presents more than fifty masterworks by such luminaries as Manet, Degas, Morisot, Renoir, Monet, Cezanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Picasso, and Matisse, accompanied by elucidating texts and a wealth of comparative illustrations. -- From publisher.

Accounting for Culture

Author : Caroline Andrew
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 0776618636
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Accounting for Culture written by Caroline Andrew and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2005-03-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers in the cultural sector argue that Canadian cultural policy is at a crossroads: that the environment for cultural policy-making has evolved substantially and that traditional rationales for state intervention no longer apply. The concept of cultural citizenship is a relative newcomer to the cultural policy landscape, and offers a potentially compelling alternative rationale for government intervention in the cultural sector. Likewise, the articulation and use of cultural indicators and of governance concepts are also new arrivals, emerging as potentially powerful tools for policy and program development. Accounting for Culture is a unique collection of essays from leading Canadian and international scholars that critically examines cultural citizenship, cultural indicators, and governance in the context of evolving cultural practices and cultural policy-making. It will be of great interest to scholars of cultural policy, communications, cultural studies, and public administration alike.

A Fascist Century

Author : R. Griffin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230594131
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book A Fascist Century written by R. Griffin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-08-20 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten essays on the nature of fascism by a leading scholar in the field, focusing on how to understand and apply fascist ideology to various movements since the twentieth century, Mussolini's prophesied 'fascist century'. Includes studies of fascism's attempted temporal revolution; Nazism as extended case-study; and fascism's postwar evolution.

Topologies

Author : Larry Busbea
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Topologies written by Larry Busbea and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 2007 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The utopian vision of spatial urbanism--an avant-garde architectural phenomenon that blended technology, leisure, and culture--examined as a reaction to modernism and official government building and planning in the embattled cultural context of 1960s France.

Encyclopedia of Creativity, Invention, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783319153469
Total Pages : 2500 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (534 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Creativity, Invention, Innovation and Entrepreneurship written by and published by Springer. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 2500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of this exhaustive work (ECIIE) comprehensively covers the broad spectrum of topics relating to the process of creativity and innovation, from a wide variety of perspectives (e.g., economics, management, psychology, anthropology, policy, technology, education, the arts) and modes (individual, organization, industry, nation, region). This edition includes some 400 topical entries, definitions of key terms and concepts and review essays, from a global array of more than 250 researchers, business executives, policymakers, and artists, illuminating the many facets of creativity and innovation and highlighting their relationships to such universal concepts as knowledge management, economic opportunity, and sustainability. Entries feature description of key concepts and definition of terms, full-color illustrations, case examples, future directions for research and application, synonyms and cross-references and bibliographic references.

Catholic Missionaries in Early Modern Asia

Author : Nadine Amsler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429671504
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Catholic Missionaries in Early Modern Asia written by Nadine Amsler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over recent decades, historians have become increasingly interested in early modern Catholic missions in Asia as laboratories of cultural contact. This book builds on recent ground-breaking research on early modern Catholic missions, which has shown that missionaries in Asia cooperated with and accommodated the needs of local agents rather than being uncompromising promoters of post-Tridentine doctrine and devotion. Bringing together some of the most renowned and innovative researchers from Anglophone countries and continental Europe, this volume investigates how missionaries’ entanglements with local societies across Asia contributed to processes of localization within the early modern Catholic church. The focus of the volume is on missionaries’ adaptation to four ideal-typical social settings that played an eminent role in early modern Asian missions: (1) the symbolically loaded princely court; (2) the city as a space of especially dense communication; (3) the countryside, where missionary presence was only rarely permanent; (4) and the household – a central arena of conversion in early modern Asian societies. Shining a fresh light onto the history of early modern Catholic missions and the early modern Eurasian cultural exchange, this will be an important book for any scholar of religious history, history of cultural contact/global history and early modern history in Asia. Chapter 8 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Urban Development Challenges, Risks and Resilience in Asian Mega Cities

Author : R.B. Singh
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 4431550437
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Urban Development Challenges, Risks and Resilience in Asian Mega Cities written by R.B. Singh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, an interdisciplinary research group of faculty members, researchers, professionals, and planners contributed to an understanding of the dynamics and dimensions of emerging challenges and risks in megacities in the rapidly changing urban environments in Asia and examined emerging resilience themes from the point of view of sustainability and public policy. The world’s urban population in 2009 was approximately 3.4 billion and Asia’s urban population was about 1.72 billion. Between 2010 and 2020, 411 million people will be added to Asian cities (60 % of the growth in the world’s urban population). By 2020, of the world’s urban population of 4.2 billion, approximately 2.2 billion will be in Asia. China and India will contribute 31.3 % of the total world urban population by 2025. Developing Asia’s projected global share of CO2 emissions for energy consumption will increase from 30 % in 2006 to 43 % by 2030. City regions serve as magnets for people, enterprise, and culture, but with urbanisation , the worst form of visible poverty becomes prominent. The Asian region, with a slum population of an estimated 505.5 million people, remains host to over half of the world’s slum population . The book provides information on a comprehensive range of environmental threats faced by the inhabitants of megacities. It also offers a wide and multidisciplinary group of case studies from rapidly growing megacities (with populations of more than 5 million) from developed and developing countries of Asia.

Organizing U.S. Foreign Aid

Author : Carol Lancaster
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0815797826
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book Organizing U.S. Foreign Aid written by Carol Lancaster and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005-07-08 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overwhelmed by a proliferation of foreign aid programs, the U.S. government is attempting to reorganize itself in order to manage them more effectively. This raises several critical issues that will shape U.S. foreign aid policy for the 21st century: Should existing foreign aid agencies be combined into a cabinet-level agency, ensuring a voice for development concerns during policy discussions, or should they be placed in the State Department to strengthen their foreign policy focus? How should aid agencies manage the planning, implementation, and evaluation of their aid? Is "managing for results" as currently practiced appropriate for what is often a highly experimental task of bringing about beneficial changes in foreign countries? How should the U.S. government educate its citizens on the issues of foreign aid and development as expenditures rise and as the ambitious goals driving aid—including nation building—expand? In Organ izing Foreign Aid, Carol Lancaster and Ann Van Dusen call for a fundamental reorganization of U.S. aid programs. They recommend a major increase in efforts at development education. The authors also provide insights into how other donor governments have dealt with these challenges. With the future of U.S. foreign aid policy at stake, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in development, foreign aid, and the organization of government programs in these areas.

Deaf in America

Author : Carol A. Padden
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674283171
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Deaf in America written by Carol A. Padden and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1990-09-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by authors who are themselves Deaf, this unique book illuminates the life and culture of Deaf people from the inside, through their everyday talk, their shared myths, their art and performances, and the lessons they teach one another. Carol Padden and Tom Humphries employ the capitalized "Deaf" to refer to deaf people who share a natural language—American Sign Language (ASL—and a complex culture, historically created and actively transmitted across generations. Signed languages have traditionally been considered to be simply sets of gestures rather than natural languages. This mistaken belief, fostered by hearing people’s cultural views, has had tragic consequences for the education of deaf children; generations of children have attended schools in which they were forbidden to use a signed language. For Deaf people, as Padden and Humphries make clear, their signed language is life-giving, and is at the center of a rich cultural heritage. The tension between Deaf people’s views of themselves and the way the hearing world views them finds its way into their stories, which include tales about their origins and the characteristics they consider necessary for their existence and survival. Deaf in America includes folktales, accounts of old home movies, jokes, reminiscences, and translations of signed poems and modern signed performances. The authors introduce new material that has never before been published and also offer translations that capture as closely as possible the richness of the original material in ASL. Deaf in America will be of great interest to those interested in culture and language as well as to Deaf people and those who work with deaf children and Deaf people.