The first handbook on reclaimed wood, combining useful information, rich history, and home design ideas.Reclaimed wood is a gift from ancient forests and a versatile material. Our ancestors built their homes and barns, warehouses, and factories with white pine and oak from the Northeast and the Midwest, longleaf pine and cypress from the South, and Douglas fir and redwood from the Northwest. When we salvage these and other woods for new projects, we are strengthenin...

Comment les collectivités publiques de Suisse romande utilisent-elles les médias sociaux pour promouvoir leur identité et favoriser l’engagement et le dialogue avec leurs publics ?C’est à cette interrogation que répond ce livre, en mettant en dialogue des travaux de recherche et des considérations pratiques de spécialistes du terrain. La place des médias sociaux et du community management dans le domaine de la communication publique a été peu traitée jusqu’à présent... surtout en Su...

Based on a comparative study covering 15 Western European countries, this edited volume examines the responses of long-term care homes for older people to the COVID-19 pandemic.It analyses the preparedness of governments and residences and the structural weaknesses revealed and exacerbated by the crisis, such as staff shortages, the precariousness of employment in the sector, and the deficient coordination between the health and caring sectors.By examining the governance st...

Covers recent research on coffee genetics, physiology and genetic diversityReviews the latest developments in breeding new varietiesAssesses advances in measuring and understanding the chemical composition and nutraceutical properties of coffee

This volume brings together five contributions to mathematical fluid mechanics, a classical but still very active research field which overlaps with physics and engineering. The contributions cover not only the classical Navier-Stokes equations for an incompressible Newtonian fluid, but also generalized Newtonian fluids, fluids interacting with particles and with solids, and stochastic models. The questions addressed in the lectures range from the basic problems of existence of weak and mo...

Agriculture is the product of a complex mixture of behavioural, biophysical and market drivers. Understanding how these factors interact to produce crops and livestock for food has been the focus of economic investigation for many years. The advent of optimisation algorithms and the exponential growth in computing technology has allowed significant growth in mathematical modelling of the dynamics of agricultural systems. The complexity of approaches has grown in parallel with the availabil...

PENSER LA GUERREL’Europe s’arme, la Russie menace, les États-Unis se désengagent. Le temps semble venu de penser la guerre, comme le propose le numéro de novembre de la Revue des Deux Mondes. Pour Charles de Gaulle, la guerre est inhérente aux sociétés, elle traduit les passions des êtres humains et leurs antagonismes naturels. Obsédé par le futur, il a toujours fait de la préparation à la guerre une priorité absolue. Le général éprouvait une forme de fascination pour la g...

Big data, genomics, and quantitative approaches to network-based analysis are combining to advance the frontiers of medicine as never before. Network Medicine introduces this rapidly evolving field of medical research, which promises to revolutionize the diagnosis and treatment of human diseases. With contributions from leading experts that highlight the necessity of a team-based approach in network medicine, this definitive volume provides readers with a state-of-the-art synthesi...

This work considers a small random perturbation of alpha-stable jump type nonlinear reaction-diffusion equations with Dirichlet boundary conditions over an interval. It has two stable points whose domains of attraction meet in a separating manifold with several saddle points. Extending a method developed by Imkeller and Pavlyukevich it proves that in contrast to a Gaussian perturbation, the expected exit and transition times between the domains of attraction depend polynomially on the nois...

A case-focused Otolaryngology primer for trainees and practicing clinicians alikeAs disorders of the head and neck continue to become more prevalent, otolaryngologic head and neck surgeons are in greater demand than ever before. Many schools of medicine are integrating Problem-Based Learning (PBL) to help students develop the skills necessary for surgical management of head and neck conditions, yet the selection of guidebooks available to trainee otolaryngologic su...

Author and lifelong practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism, Arnaud Maitland, reveals how grief over the loss of his mother deepened his ability to apply the Buddhist teachings in his own life.

LES ABYSSES STELLAIRESQuand les étoiles répondent enfin à celle qui les observe...Herenui Tokoragi, astrophysicienne tahitienne passionnée par l'immensité céleste, découvre avec son ami Teiki un vaisseau extraterrestre au fond du Pacifique. Cette révélation bouleversante dévoile un lien millénaire entre les navigateurs polynésiens et les Te'reith, une civilisation interstellaire avancée.Un space opera unique mêlant tradition...