La question des relations entre les familles et l'école est une question d'actualité dans les quartiers populaires. Analysant ces relations et les élargissant aux relations avec les animateurs des actions de « soutien scolaire », ce livre montre qu'elles ne peuvent être réduites aux seules questions de la scolarité des enfants. Elles engagent plus profondément une confrontation entre deux logiques divergentes : à un pôle, les logiques scolaires, qui s'inscrivent dans le mode de socialisati...

La déscolarisation, tout comme les violences scolaires, touche de plus en plus de collègiens pour la majorité issus de milieux populaires. Dans ce livre, les auteurs reconstruisent ces parcours de ruptures scolaires et analysent les différentes causes. Ils insistent sur l’articulation et l’enchaînement des processus au sein de plusieurs parcours de collégiens. Ils mettent ainsi en évidence les failles du collège unique, la dégradation des conditions d’existence de nombreuses familles et le...

Chosen for Simon Mayo's Radio 2 Book Club, this is the chilling new ghost story from the bestselling author of Dark Matter.The Himalayas, 1935.Kangchenjunga. Third-highest peak on earth. Greatest killer of them all.Five Englishmen set off from Darjeeling, determined to conquer the sacred summit. But courage can only take them so far - and the mountain is not their only foe.As the wind dies, the dread grows. Mountain...

From the moment of its inception, the quintessentially American sport of baseball has included cheating. Sometimes that rule-skirting is embraced as ingenious hijinks; other times, reviled as an unforgivable trespass. But what exactly is the difference? Why is skipping bases less egregious than signing underage players? Is sign-stealing evidence of ingenuity, or does it fundamentally change the nature of the game?In Intentional Balk, nationally-recognized baseball historia...

What would you do if the person you love became someone else?In this profoundly honest memoir, Daniel P. Shapiro shares the reality of living through his wife’s mental and physical decline caused by a devastating illness.Shapiro was a successful attorney in his early forties when his wife, Susan, suffered a brain bleed and a diagnosis that her future was uncertain. Stunned, and with three young children, the couple made the most of the few years that follow...

Hostility is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in people and a powerful obstacle to a civilized society. The historic and ongoing frequency of horrific crimes, wars, terrorism, and deplorable individual acts on a grand scale often make it feel like society is not prevailing very well over “evil doers” and their destructive deeds and drive toward chaos. The better we understand people’s thinking and behavior, the better we can understand their interactions with us. Of course, ...

This book presents a balanced blend of fundamental research such as principles and characteristics of machining of difficult-to-cut materials and coating techniques and in-depth practical information on coatings techniques and classifications, the effect of coating parameters on machining responses, and finite element analysis of the machining performance of coated tools. In addition to the benefits of the thin-film deposition on the cutting tools, the limitations of the coating deposition...

Ultrathin metal oxide layers have emerged in recent years as a powerful approach for substantially enhancing the performance of photo, electro, or thermal catalytic systems for energy, in some cases even enabling the use of highly attractive materials previously found unsuitable. This development is due to the confluence of new synthetic preparation methods for ultrathin oxide layers and a more advanced understanding of interfacial phenomena on the nano and atomic scale. This book brings t...

This book acts as a handbook on the topic of x-ray scattering as applied to epitaxial complex oxide films, providing detailed information to collect the data, how to analyze the data and the practical sides of the experiments. The first chapter considers laboratory-based X-ray diffraction (XRD) methods: the indispensable X-ray characterization methods used for phase analysis, epitaxial relationship determination, advanced analytical and data fitting techniques, and grazing incidence diffra...

The book focuses on advanced characterization methods for thin-film solar cells that have proven their relevance both for academic and corporate photovoltaic research and development. After an introduction to thin-film photovoltaics, highly experienced experts report on device and materials characterization methods such as electroluminescence analysis, capacitance spectroscopy, and various microscopy methods. In the final part of the book simulation techniques are presented which are used ...

Written by scientists from leading institutes in Germany, USA and Spain who use these techniques as the core of their scientific work and who have a precise idea of what is relevant for photovoltaic devices, this text contains concise and comprehensive lecture-like chapters on specific research methods.They focus on emerging, specialized techniques that are new to the field of photovoltaics yet have a proven relevance. However, since new methods need to be judged according to their ...