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A long overdue, illustrated celebration of Grace Kelly, one of Hollywoods brightest stars. Following on from the popular full-sized edition, this gift-sized version was published to coincide with the 25th anniversary of Grace Kelly's death and is now reissued to coincide with the release of the film Grace of Monaco, starring Nicole Kidman.

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For too long, researchers have regarded local dynamism as the result of the actions of certain entrepreneurs. If this were the case, how could we explain the simultaneous presence of 'winning', stagnating or declining areas with very similar socioeconomic profiles within the same region? Departing from this restrictive and somewhat inadequate approach, Pierre-Andre Julien considers entrepreneurship as a collective behaviour specifically related to the dynamism of the milieu in which it develops.The author introduces a complex, innovative theory of local entrepreneurship, demonstrating that the emergence of new ventures and the development of existing enterprises cannot be understood without taking into account certain factors: locale, social capital, networking and entrepreneurial culture within a given area are all crucial to entrepreneurial growth. Expanding upon this theory, the book demonstrates how entrepreneurship can be fostered in order to support collective development. Various forms of partnership among socioeconomic actors are then analysed to highlight the social conventions and entrepreneurial culture that connect and intensify the energies at the root of local dynamism.This highly original book represents a departure from entrepreneurship literature that is largely limited to the study of entrepreneurs' behaviour. Its dynamic presentation of holistic theory will prove an extremely absorbing read for those with an academic or professional interest in business and management, entrepreneurship and regional development.

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This collection of seminal papers examines how economies behave under deflationary conditions. The volumes cover both theoretical and empirical aspects of this important subject. The editor presents articles exploring whether, and under what conditions, deflation can lead to beneficial economic outcomes, and also articles emphasizing that deflation should be avoided at all costs. Further sections examine specialized topics of the economics of deflation; including wage rigidities, the liquidity trap, and the zero lower bound of interest rates. A selection of important case studies of economies in deflation completes this comprehensive collection.

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Find out how people first learned to fly hot air balloons and small planes. Visit the cockpit of a large passenger airliner. Parachute out of a plane and ride in a helicopter and a glider. Learn about about all the different types of aircraft that we use today. This title forms part of the My First Discoveries series, a unique collection of beautifully illustrated information books for children aged 4 to 7 that aims to awaken children’s interest in the wonders of the natural, physical and human world around them. There are 4 transparent overlay pages, which reveal hidden surprises, link ideas and show how things evolve.

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Preface to the third edition.- Preface to the second edition.- Preface to the first edition.- 1. An Overview of Language Processing.- 2. A Tour of Python.- 3. Corpus Processing Tools.- 4. Encoding and Annotation Scheme.- 5. Python for Numerical Computations.- 6. Topics in Information Theory and Machine Learning.- 7. Linear and Logistic Regression.- 8. Neural Networks.- 9. Counting and Indexing Words.- 10. Dense Vector Representations.- 11. Word Sequences.- 12. Words, Parts of Speech, and Morphology.- 13. Subword Segmentation.- 14. Part-of-Speech and Sequence Annotation.- 15. Self-Attention and Transformers.- 16. Pretraining an Encoder: The BERT Language Model.- 17. Sequence-to-Sequence Architectures: Encoder-Decoders and Decoders.- Index.- References.

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"This coffee table book is a visually stunning tribute and the only one available on the life and work of Jeanne Lanvin, perfect for fashion lovers and readers interested in strong female personalities." — Amica "One of the most entertaining and fascinating books to come out this season" — Hollywood Times  Jeanne Lanvin was ahead of her time. The French fashion visionary and imaginative businesswoman from a poor background not only created the first designer fashion line for children - this was colourful and full of lightness, at a time when children were still dressed like adults - the first tailored men's collection and the first unisex eau de toilette, she also founded the longest-running fashion company in the world. This at times employed over 1000 people and included women's, children's and men's fashion, accessories, fragrances, furnishing textiles and decorative objects, and even its own paint factory. The self-taught Lanvin started as a hat maker with her own boutique and managed to become one of the greatest fashion designers of the 20th century with creative energy and inventiveness. She created art deco costumes for theatre and film productions, developed the legendary perfume Arpège and a special Lanvin blue, based on the shade Fra Angelico blue. This richly illustrated coffee table book is dedicated to the extraordinary life and work of this exceptional designer. Text in English and German.

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El libro se plantea como un recorrido por la historia de la cultura, el pensamiento y las artes entre los años 742, fecha del nacimiento del emperador Carlomagno, y 1321, año de la muerte de Dante Alighieri, desde la perspectiva de las grandes transformaciones que sufre la civilización. La descomposición del mito de un mundo unitario y cerrado y la multiplicación de figuras de lo otro, así como las nuevas formas de ver el mundo y construir discursos es descrito desde una gran variedad de disciplinas: el arte, la literatura, la organización de la vida diaria, etc., atravesadas por la formación de un nuevo pensamiento que está en el origen de la modernidad.

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This book proposes to examine French and Francophone intellectual history in the period leading to the decolonization of sub-Saharan Africa (1945-1960).

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Written by one of the leading ancient historians in the world today, this book shows how politics in the ancient world has been interpreted and re-interpreted through the ages.

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In the past three decades, developing countries have made significant economic and social progress, from improved infant mortality rates to higher life expectancy. Yet, 1.3 billion people continue to live in extreme poverty in the developing world, leading policymakers to place a renewed emphasis on policies that could promote economic efficiency and the productivity of the poor. How should these policies be sequenced and implemented to spur growth? Would a large, front-loaded increase in public infrastructure investment yield the desired growth-promoting effect? Taking a rigorous look at this kind of investment and its outcomes, this book explores the different channels through which public capital in infrastructure may affect growth and human welfare, and develops a series of formal models for understanding how these channels operate. Bringing together a vast amount of research in one unifying framework, Pierre-Richard Agenor finds that in considering investment in infrastructure, a variety of externalities need to be factored into analytical models and introduced in policy debates. Lack of access to infrastructure not only constrains the expansion of markets and private investment, it may also hinder the achievement of health and education targets. Ease of access, conversely, promotes innovation and empowers women by allowing them to reallocate their time to productive uses. Laying a solid foundation of economic facts and ideas, Public Capital, Growth, and Welfare provides a comprehensive look at the critical role of public capital in development.

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The question of why an individual would actively kill itself has long been an evolutionary mystery. Pierre M. Durand's ambitious book answers this question through close inspection of life and death in the earliest cellular life. As Durand shows us, cell death is a fascinating lens through which to examine the interconnectedness, in evolutionary terms, of life and death. It is a truism to note that one does not exist without the other, but just how does this play out in evolutionary history? These two processes have been studied from philosophical, theoretical, experimental, and genomic angles, but no one has yet integrated the information from these various disciplines. In this work, Durand synthesizes cellular studies of life and death looking at the origin of life and the evolutionary significance of programmed cellular death. The exciting and unexpected outcome of Durand's analysis is the realization that life and death exhibit features of coevolution. The evolution of more complex cellular life depended on the coadaptation between traits that promote life and those that promote death. In an ironic twist, it becomes clear that, in many circumstances, programmed cell death is essential for sustaining life.

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The inspiration for Old, a Blinding Edge Pictures production, directed and produced by two-time Oscar nominee M. Night Shyamalan, from his screenplay based on the graphic novel Sandcastle by Pierre Oscar Lévy and Frederik Peeters. It’s a perfect beach day, or so thought the family, young couple, a few tourists, and a refugee who all end up in the same secluded, idyllic cove filled with rock pools and sandy shore, encircled by green, densely vegetated cliffs. But this utopia hides a dark secret. First there is the dead body of a woman found floating in the crystal-clear water. Then there is the odd fact that all the children are aging rapidly. Soon everybody is growing older—every half hour—and there doesn’t seem to be any way out of the cove. Levy’s dramatic storytelling works seamlessly with Peeters’s sinister art to create a profoundly disturbing and fantastical mystery. Praise for Sandcastle: “Sandcastle truly inspired my film Old. It is a profound mystery sci-fi graphic novel that is illustrated so beautifully and with such humanity. Its theme of ageing had me thinking about my parents and children, and how quickly it all goes by. From the moment I read this, I was changed.” – M. Night Shyamalan “Begins like a murder mystery, continues like an episode of The Twilight Zone, and finishes with a kind of existentialism that wouldn’t be out of place in a Von Trier film.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “By turns touching, frightening, and strangely believable. It’s a low-key SF gem with heart.” – SFX Magazine “Peeters and Lévy convey some profound, if profoundly unsubtle, truths about the human condition. Weighty stuff, expertly told.” —The Comics Bulletin “Maximally eerie, unsettling.” – Booklist

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El libro de Daniel cuenta la historia de un judío desterrado en Babilonia, en el siglo VI, pero los historiadores colocan a su autor en el siglo II. Además está escrito en las tres lenguas de la Biblia: hebreo, arameo y griego. Está lleno de imaginación y con enigmas muy difíciles de descifrar. Hay que precisar el marco histórico real del libro y los géneros literarios a los que pertenecen sus diversos capítulos.

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Estos últimos años la astronomía ha entrado en una nueva era en la que prácticamente todo el mundo tiene acceso en directo a un universo maravilloso y misterioso. El cielo es un espectáculo y cada noche clara miles de astrónomos aficionados observan los astros. Esta guía, totalmente actualizada, es a la vez una introducción a la astronomía y una iniciación a la práctica instrumental. Proporciona numerosos consejos prácticos para optimizar su telescopìo y facilitar su inicio a la astrofotografía. En esta edición el lector encontrará expuestas las técnicas de observación más recientes puestas a su disposición, tales como la videocámara o la webcam.

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Al presentar una gran variedad de trucajes, con sus correspondientes explicaciones, este libro intenta a la vez satisfacer la curiosidad del lector e indicarle los medios prácticos a seguir en cada caso. A partir de las ideas sugeridas en el libro, de los métodos propuestos y de los comentarios técnicos, estamos seguros de que el lector conseguirá llevar a la práctica ideas propias y originales.

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