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La réception de Proust à l'étranger par une quinzaine de contributions; de la Chine au Brésil, de l'Italie à la Turquie, des Pays-Bas à la Suisse, de la Suède à la Catalogne, de la Hongrie à l'Allemagne, du Québec à la Grèce.

Can a scientific instrument be regarded as a failure? Why and how? By shelling light on the complexity of these questions, the volume marks a step forward in the way historical scientific instruments can be analysed and displayed.

Core themes and texts from ten subject areas in Leibniz's correspondence in science, technology and medicine (from 1676 to 1701) provide an overview of Leibniz's multifarious interests and a panoramic view of the world of science after the Scientific Revolution and in the age of Newton.

In Willing and Understanding, prominent scholars elucidate a variety of issues in and approaches to debating the interplay of the will and the intellect in the late Middle Ages.

In this volume of Capital, Race and Space, Richard Saull offers a distinct and original international historical sociology of the European far-right from its origins in 1848 to fascism, through the prism of uneven and combined development.

Ammianus Marcellinus was a soldier and an author. This book explores how his experience of 4th-century military life affected his writing of history and conversely how his knowledge of literature influenced his writing about the Roman army.

This volume deals with the origins and evolution of the Islamic institution of pious endowments in al-Andalus and provide us with a complete review of relevant issues such as the structure of economic property, the idea of charity, the concept of general or common interest and the social and juridical role of men of religion.

This bibliography - intended to be as complete as possible - provides information on written material in 22 languages about "muwassa?" and "zajal" (poetical strophic forms in al-Andalus during the Middle Ages) and the "kharja" (final segment of "muwassa?" and some "zajals"), and about their popularity in East and West.

This volume deals with the complex but poorly understood relationship between women, gender, and language in Morocco, a Muslim, multilingual, multicultural, and developing country. The hypothesis on which the book is based is that an understanding of gender perception and women's agency can be achieved only by taking into account the structure of power in a specific culture and that language is an important component of this power. In Moroccan culture, history, geography, Islam, orality, multilingualism, social organization, economic status, and political system constitute the superstructures of power within which factors such as social differences, contextual differences, and identity differences interact in the daily linguistic performances of gender. Moroccan women are far from constituting a homogeneous group, consequently the choices available to them vary in nature and empowering capacity, thus 'widening' the spectrum of gender beyond cultural limits.

This work exmaines non-Kolmogorov probability models. It provides mathematical theory of negative probabilities with applications to quantum physics, information theory, complexity, biology and psychology. Natural models with negative probabilities are developed in the framework of p-adic analysis.

This volume concentrates on martingale approximations. Topics covered include: basic notions; semimartingales; inequalities; laws of large numbers; the central limit theorem; convergence of semimartingales; the rate of weak convergence; and applications of martingales.

This monograph deals with random forests and aims to show that, despite the outward simplicity of the forest graph design, the problems emerging in relation to the phenomenon are challenging, and their solution often requires subtle mathematical methods.

A collection of lectures on stochastic processes, which can be used in the preparation of courses in stochastic processes for which an understanding of basic notions of mathematical analysis, theory of complex functions, theory of differential equations and probability theory is required.

This work is devoted to stochastic operators in Hilbert space. A number of models in modern probability theory apply the notion of a stochastic operator in explicit or latent form. In this book, objects from the Gaussian case are considered.

The proceedings of the 30th International Geological Congress held in Beijing, China in August 1997. This volume focuses on lithospheric motion and seismic geology. It aims to present a view of contemporary geology to researchers interested in the geological sciences.

The proceedings of the 30th International Geological Congress held in Beijing, China in August 1997. This volume focuses on the structure of the lithosphere and deep processes. It aims to present a view of contemporary geology to researchers interested in the geological sciences.

This book explains the high level of current concern for the under-representation of women in politics.

This book traces the development of the rule of law in Georgia since its independence and speculates on its future direction.

The Pauline letters continue to provoke scholarly discussion. This volume includes papers that raise questions regarding the canon of Pauline writings. Some essays treat a single dimension or single letters, while others deal with the entire canonical formation process.

The book addresses historical and philosophical background on religious human rights, applicable international norms and the international procedural mechanisms for safeguarding these norms.

"Human Dignity and Human Cloning" contains contributions by philosophers, theologians and lawyers on legal and ethical questions concerning the reproductive and therapeutic cloning of human beings. The main focus lies on the admissibility of cloning in German Constitutional law as well as in public international law. As these legal questions cannot be answered without taking account of the ethical discussion, the topic is analyzed from different cultural and religious viewpoints.

This book discusses the above-mentioned topics from a multidisciplinary perspective.

The book explores the origins, evolution and practice relating to victims' redress for crimes under international law - such as genocide, war crimes or crimes against humanity - in domestic law, regional and universal human rights regimes, humanitarian law, State responsibility, United Nations practice and international criminal law, including the International Criminal Court. The book argues that the international community must now move towards a much more comprehensive redress regime for victims of major crimes, and recommends ways to introduce greater coherence and fairness in victims' redress.

Deals with such questions as: when did European international law become universally binding? Can states, which did not, and could not, participate in its origin and development question some of its rules, which are inimical to their interests? And, how can and does this law change in the absence of any supra-national legislature?

This volume considers the problem of legal universals at the level of the rule of law and human rights, which have fundamentally different pedigrees, and attempts to come to terms with the new unease arising from the universal application of human rights.

The topical and thought-provoking articles in this volume have been contributed by leading authorities and discuss some of the key issues currently facing the human rights community. The issues discussed include, among others, human rights and the Security Council, slavery, racism on the internet, and religion and human rights.

The themes and issues explored in this book - religion, human rights, politics and society could not be more relevant to the post 11 September 2001 world. They lie at the heart of global political debate today. The collection explores these issues after the passing of just over two decades from the adoption of the "United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of all Forms of Intolerance and Discrimination based on Religion or Belief," That declaration set out minimum international standards for the elimination of such discrimination. Sadly the challenge of intolerance on the basis of religion or belief continues to plague us, and tackling it seems to have become increasingly entrenched. This collection draws from diplomatic, activist and theological quarters and benefits from the analysis of scholars of law, history, religious studies and sociology.