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Literary curiosa --- Curiosities and wonders

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Avis aux collectionneurs ! La science mathématique a aussi ses curiosités. Et Ian Stewart en sait quelque chose. A l'âge de la première addition, il accumulait les énigmes mathématiques comme d'autres les coléoptères ou les blagues de Carambar. Avec lui, les maths deviennent un rébus, un conte, un grand livre d'histoires cocasses ou fascinantes. Connaissez-vous l'oracle de Kevin Bacon ? Le point commun entre Fibonacci et une Marguerite ? Entre la théorie du chaos et un lave-vaisselle ? Vous frotteriez-vous au théorème de Pick ? Et la conjecture de Poincaré ? Quelle est, d'après vous, la valeur des nombres plastiques ? Etes-vous capable d'entendre la forme du tambour ? Le sol de votre salle de bain dissimulerait-il, à votre insu, un pavage de Penrose ? De quoi stimuler vos neurones, avec d'autant plus de plaisir que l'humour est au rendez-vous. Peut-être reconnaîtrez-vous quelques bons vieux classiques métamorphosés par la fantaisie délirante du professeur Stewart, mais seuls les esprits bien trempés résisteront au vertige des paradoxes qu'il se plaît à trousser, complice des grands maîtres, ce farceur d'Archimède comme le terrible Gödel. Attention, passion contagieuse.

Mathematical recreations --- Curiosities and wonders --- Mathematics

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Der Sammelband "Glanzlichter der Wissenschaft" vereinigt herausragende wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen und Vorträge renommierter Autoren, die im Laufe des Jahres 2013 entstanden sind. Sie spiegeln Entwicklungen, die über den Tag und das Jahr ihrer Veröffentlichung hinaus Bedeutung behalten — als Beispiele für die wissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung mit den Themen unserer Zeit.

Science. --- Curiosities and wonders. --- Bildung. --- Forschung. --- Gesellschaft. --- Lehre. --- Philosophie. --- Politik.

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The imagining of disaster has intensified across a wide range of media entertainment formats and genres in recent years and themes of disaster are regularly deployed in fictional films, television drama series, drama-documentaries, comic books and video games. This being the case, it is therefore vital that film and media scholars pay attention to the ways in which disaster is presented to us, to the figurative strategies employed, to the representational history of disaster in media, to the ...

Disaster films --- Disasters --- Calamities --- Catastrophes --- Curiosities and wonders --- Accidents --- Hazardous geographic environments --- Catastrophe films --- Disaster movies --- Motion pictures --- History and criticism --- Press coverage

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In the wake of disruption and disaster, cooperation among members of a collective is refocused on matters of status, membership and the formation of coalitions. In an important contribution to sociological theory, Hendrik Vollmer emphasizes the processes through which disruptions not only affect, but also transform social order. Drawing on Erving Goffman's understanding of framing and the interaction order, as well as from a range of insights from contemporary sociological theory and ethnographic, historical and organizational research, Vollmer addresses the dynamics of disaster and disaster response within the framework of a general theory of disruption and social order. It is proposed that the adjustment of cooperation in favour of coalition-forming strategies is robust in both informal and organized social settings and transcends the 'micro' and 'macro' approaches currently favoured by theorists. Offering a systematic sociological analysis of the impact of disruptiveness, this book investigates how punctuated cooperation precipitates social change.

Social change --- Sociology of organization --- Social change. --- Disasters --- Calamities --- Catastrophes --- Curiosities and wonders --- Accidents --- Hazardous geographic environments --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- Social aspects. --- Social Sciences --- Sociology