"The European Parliament elections in May 2019 did not bring about the rise of populism in Europe that had been feared by many. Instead, while populism was contained, a broad pro-European majority emerged that today carries the new European Commission with its ambitious green, digital and geopolitical agenda. However, Euroscepticism remains a significant force to be reckoned with in national and EU-policy making. The present book offers a better understanding of the different types of Eurosc...

3ème édition du guide pédagogque de Français. com , méthode de français langue étrangère (FLE) dans le domaine du français sur objectif spécifique (FOS) pour grands adolescents et adultes, niveaux A1/A2. Français. com est une méthode de français professionnel et des affaires destinée aux apprenants débutant en français. Elle correspond à une centaine d'heures d'apprentissage couvrant les niveaux A1 et A2 du Cadre européen commun de référence pour les langues (CECRL).

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With over 520 million followers, Buddhism is now the world's fourth largest religion. Over the last seventy years or so there has been a growing interest in Buddhism, and it continues to capture the imagination of many in the West, who see it as either an alternative or a supplement to their own religious beliefs. For complex cultural and historical reasons, ethics has not received as much attention in traditional Buddhist thought as it has in the West.

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Building products and services that people interact with is the big challenge of the 21st century. Dan Saffer has done an amazing job synthesizing the chaos into an understandable, ordered reference that is a bookshelf must-have for anyone thinking of creating new designs." - Jared Spool, CEO of User Interface Engineering Interaction design is all around us. If you've ever wondered why your mobile phone looks pretty but doesn't work well, you've confronted bad interaction design.

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Practically all modern control systems are based upon microprocessors and complex microcontrollers that yield high performance and functionality. This volume focuses on the design of computer-controlled systems, featuring computational tools that can be applied directly and are explained with simple paper-and-pencil calculations. The use of computational tools is balanced by a strong emphasis on control system principles and ideas. Extensive pedagogical aids include worked examples, MATLAB ma...

The Routledge Companion to Intelligence Studies provides a broad overview of the growing field of intelligence studies. The recent growth of interest in intelligence and security studies has led to an increased demand for popular depictions of intelligence and reference works to explain the architecture and underpinnings of intelligence activity. Divided into five comprehensive sections, this Companion provides a strong survey of the cutting-edge research in the field of intelligence studies:...

Reveals how Web sites, software applications, and mobile devices can be used to change people's attitudes and behavior. This book contains key term definitions in persuasive computing. It provides frameworks for understanding this domain. It describes real examples of persuasive technologies.

This textbook is the only major introduction to social psychology that provides a conceptually and thematically integrated approach to the science of social behavior, showinghow the major topics and themes in the discipline are deeply interconnected. As such, it provides a uniquely rich, meaningful, and logical appreciation of human social behavior that students can relate to the world around them and apply to their own lives. Throughout, there are explanations of how social processes are int...

EU legislation has major impacts on virtually every aspect of life in the EU Member States, as well as on many businesses and other stakeholders in non-member countries. However the EU decision-making process, with its complex and unique interplay between institutions and stakeholders, can seem an impenetrable mystery.

This book is a foundation text explaining systematically and comprehensively how this decision-making works. Successive chapters explain the role of each of the EU institution...