Sebastien: 59 books
The Sage and the People
The Confucian Revival in China
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Winner of the 2015 Pierre-Antoine Bernheim Prize for the History of Religion by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres After a century during which Confucianism was viewed by academics as a relic of the imperial past or, at best, a philosophical resource, its striking comeback in Chinese...
Kazakhstan in the Making
Legitimacy, Symbols, and Social Changes
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Kazakhstan is one of the best-known success stories of Central Asia, perhaps even of the entire Eurasian space. It boasts a fast growing economy—at least until the 2014 crisis—a strategic location between Russia, China, and the rest of Central Asia, and a regime with far-reaching branding strategies....
Mining and Communities in Northern Canada
History, Politics, and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
For indigenous communities throughout the globe, mining has been a historical forerunner of colonialism, introducing new, and often disruptive, settlement patterns and economic arrangements. Although indigenous communities may benefit from and adapt to the wage labour and training opportunities provided...
by Sebastien Didier
Language: French
Release Date: June 6, 2019
Language: French
Release Date: June 6, 2019
Bellevue Park. Ses villas d'architecte, ses espaces verts, ses prestations luxueuses... Pour Marc Vasseur, c'était un rêve. Mais lorsque sa femme disparaît en ne laissant qu'un simple SMS pour toute explication, le rêve tourne au cauchemar.
Les autorités ne tardent pas à classer l'affaire....
Sport and Social Movements
From the Local to the Global
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
From neighborhood coalitions organizing against the building of a sport facility for professional sports teams subsidized by public funds, to global campaigns for equity for women in sport, to worldwide bans of apartheid regimes, sites and levels of protest, resistance and activism have been present...
by Sebastien Brebel
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
The narrator of Villa Bunker receives letters, dozens of them, written by his mother in an isolated seaside villa, which tell of his parents' troubles in this uninhabitable house, which is soon to become a kind of labyrinth roamed by memories and long-buried feelings. At first the narrator's parents...
EQ and Leadership In Asia
Using Emotional Intelligence To Lead And Inspire Your People
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
Increase your emotional intelligence, build a better workplace
Emotional intelligence is crucial for business leadership, and nowhere is that more true than in Asia, where emotions are particularly likely to be concealed during daily business interactions. Emotions can be a major asset for...
The Central Asia–Afghanistan Relationship
From Soviet Intervention to the Silk Road Initiatives
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Central Asia is a relatively understudied neighbor of Afghanistan. The region is often placed into a number of historical and political contexts—a section of the Silk Road, a pawn in the “Great Game,” the “spillover” state that exemplifies the failure of US foreign policy—that limit scholarly...
Constructing the Uzbek State
Narratives of Post-Soviet Years
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Over the past three decades, Uzbekistan has attracted the attention of the academic and policy communities because of its geostrategic importance, its critical role in shaping or unshaping Central Asia as a region, its economic and trade potential, and its demographic weight: every other Central Asian...
Reading Literature Today
Two Complementary Essays and a Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Reading Literature Today is a path-breaking intervention in current debates on reading and literature. This is a book of criticism that attempts to rescue literature from both the materialism of the market and the convoluted dryness of academia.
The two complementary essays-one on literature...
Globalizing Central Asia
Geopolitics and the Challenges of Economic Development
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
In this global era, Central Asia must be understood in both geo-economic and geopolitical terms. The region's natural resources compel the attention of rivalrous great powers and ambitious internal factions. The local regimes are caught between the need for international collaborations to valorize...
by Sebastien Duperron
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Plants and animals have evolved ever since their appearance in a largely microbial world. Their own cells are less numerous than the microorganisms that they host and with whom they interact closely. The study of these interactions, termed microbial symbioses, has benefited from the development of...
Venoms to Drugs
Venom as a Source for the Development of Human Therapeutics
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
The pharmaceutical industry has become increasingly interested in biologics from animal venoms as a potential source for therapeutic agents in recent years, with a particularly emphasis on peptides. To date six drugs derived from venom peptides or proteins have been approved by the FDA, with nine...
by Sebastien Buczinski, Jean-Michel Vandeweerd
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
A comprehensive review of evidence-based medicine for the food animal practitioner! Topics include: evidence-based veterinary medicine: principles, applications and perceptions in veterinary medicine, systemic review in the evidence-based veterinary medicine: material and methods, evidence related...