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In a 1963 novel, Edna Ferber compared the city of Galveston to Miss Havisham, the gray, mournful abandoned bride of Dickens Great Expectations. A thriving port city in the nineteenth century, Galveston suffered catastrophe in the twentieth as a deadly hurricane and shifting economics dropped a pall over its waterfront and Victorian mansions.

Originally conceived as a requiem for the faded city, The Galveston That Was (developed by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and funded by Jean and Dominique de Menil) instead helped resurrect the city. Architect-author Howard Barnstone, renowned...

• Introduces the best thinking in contemporary political geography.
  
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• Includes work at the cutting edge of the field.
  
• Covers the latest theoretical developments.

Ce volume collectif, fruit de travail d’un groupe international de recherche sur la néologie par emprunt dans diverses langues européennes (le français, l’italien, le polonais, le tchèque), se concentre autour de trois axes principaux :
- l’examen des questions théoriques relatives à la méthodologie de recensement et de traitement des innovations lexicales d’origine étrangère ;
- l’examen de différents modèles et patrons lexicaux empruntés, récurrents dans les langues prises en compte ;
- l’examen des domaines où l’emprunt est particulièrement présent...

The Poplars housing development in suburban Paris is home to what one resident called the "Little-Middles" - a social group on the tenuous border between the working- and middle- classes. In the 1960s The Poplars was a site of upward social mobility, which fostered an egalitarian sense of community among residents. This feeling of collective flourishing was challenged when some residents moved away, selling their homes to a new generation of upwardly mobile neighbors from predominantly immigrant backgrounds. This volume explores the strained reception of these migrants, arguing that this...

This book challenges the views put forward by Pierre Cartier, one of the anchors of the famous Bourbaki group, and Cedric Villani, one of the most brilliant mathematicians of his generation, who received the Fields Medal in 2010. Jean Dhombres, mathematician and science historian, and Gerhard Heinzmann, philosopher of science and also a specialist in mathematics engage in a fruitful dialogue with the two mathematicians, prompting readers to reflect on mathematical activity and its social consequences in history as well as in the modern world. Cedric Villani s popular success proves once...