Download or read book The Radiance of France new edition written by Gabrielle Hecht and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2009-07-31 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How it happened that technological prowess and national glory (or “radiance,” which also means “radiation” in French) became synonymous in France as nowhere else. In the aftermath of World War II, as France sought a distinctive role for itself in the modern, postcolonial world, the nation and its leaders enthusiastically embraced large technological projects in general and nuclear power in particular. The Radiance of France asks how it happened that technological prowess and national glory (or “radiance,” which also means “radiation” in French) became synonymous in France as nowhere else. To answer this question, Gabrielle Hecht has forged an innovative combination of technology studies and cultural and political history in a book that, as Michel Callon writes in the new foreword to this edition, “not only sheds new light on the role of technology in the construction of national identities” but is also “a seminal contribution to the history of contemporary France.” Proposing the concept of technopolitical regime as a way to analyze the social, political, cultural, and technological dynamics among engineering elites, unionized workers, and rural communities, Hecht shows how the history of France's first generation of nuclear reactors is also a history of the multiple meanings of nationalism, from the postwar period (and France's desire for post-Vichy redemption) to 1969 and the adoption of a “Frenchified” American design. This paperback edition of Hecht's groundbreaking book includes both Callon's foreword and an afterword by the author in which she brings the story up to date, and reflects on such recent developments as the 2007 French presidential election, the promotion of nuclear power as the solution to climate change, and France's aggressive exporting of nuclear technology.
Download or read book French for Engineering written by Lars Erickson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-25 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French for Engineering prepares students to study and intern in France as engineers. Aimed at students at the CEFR B1 or ACTFL Intermediate-High level, the textbook uses a step-by-step progression of language-learning tasks and activities to develop students’ skills at the CEFR C1 or ACTFL Advanced-High level. Authentic documents present students with tasks they will encounter as engineering students or interns in France. Online resources include a teacher handbook and a workbook with vocabulary-building activities, grammar-mastery exercises, and listening and reading comprehension activities, followed by questions requiring critical thinking. It is organized in parallel with the textbook based on the flipped-classroom concept.
Download or read book Engineers in Western Europe Ascent and Decline written by Rolf Torstendahl and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his book, pending between history and sociology, on engineers in thirteen countries of the western part of Europe, Professor Rolf Torstendahl approaches the development from around 1850 up to the present situation from different angles. - One examines the educational patterns and the author shows how widely different types of formation of engineers existed in Britain, France and Germany in the early period. They were paradigmatic for other countries. Differences remain but patterns have gradually become similar. - From another angle the author makes professional organisations of engineers a main object of study, and they vary from alumni associations to powerful lobby organisations. - A third approach in the book is to examine engineers versus sociological theories of professionalism on the one hand and theories of managerialism on the other. In the last chapter the author also discusses topics like technocracy and the responsibility of engineers.
Download or read book Formation Continue Des Ing nieurs written by and published by UNESCO Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contained in this volume are lectures, summaries of presented papers, and main plenary papers of a seminar, held at Helsinki University of Technology, on the education and training of engineers. The objectives of the seminar were to review the present status and trends of the continuing education of engineers in Europe and around the world, to identify and discuss common problems, and to make recommendations for future action, in particular that to be taken on a regional or international level by feani, unesco, and other bodies. Included in the four appendices are addresses delivered at the opening session of the seminar, summaries of additional papers submitted to the seminar, a list of participants, and a list of members of the local organizing committee. (Peb).
Download or read book Documentation written by International Road Federation and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Technical Workers in an Advanced Society written by Stephen Crawford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-09-29 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1989, this book examines the work, careers and politics of French engineers and technical workers employed in traditional and high-technology settings. In the process, it critically evaluates several theories of social change and advocates a unique approach to class theory and the comparative analysis of nations. Neither owners of productive property nor wage workers performing routinised labour. Engineers occupy an ambiguous social position that has elicited a good deal of controversy about trends in their situation and ideology. Where theories of professionalism anticipate occupationally based challenges to the legitimacy of bureaucratic authority, Marxian and neo-Marxian analyses foresee class-based opposition to capitalism. Yet all these theories share a preoccupation with the effects of technology and the division of labour on social values and group identities. This book maintains that such a preoccupation obscures the significance of career situations and the distinctively national institutions that shape them. The book presents a fresh view of the interplay of occupation, class and nation.
Download or read book 1989 written by International Association of Universities and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-05-18 with total page 1316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "1989".
Download or read book Engineering Geology and the Environment written by Paul G. Marinos and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 1080 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Progress in Refrigeration Science and Technology written by Sam Stuart and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Progress in Refrigeration Science and Technology, Volume III is a compilation of papers presented during the 11th International Congress of Refrigeration, held at Munich, Germany in 1963. This volume is divided into three parts discussing various aspects of refrigeration science and technology. Part I deals with refrigerated transport by land and by air. This part is further divided into sections that cover refrigerated vehicles, testing of equipment for refrigerated vehicles, and the transport of foods. The second part is about refrigerated transport by water, with sections covering subjects on marine air-conditioning and fishing boats. Part III tackles education in the area of refrigeration. Research and education in refrigeration locker plants and education in refrigeration are elucidated under this section. Mechanical engineers and those concerned in the production, transport, and manufacturing of perishable goods will find great use of this book.
Download or read book Mechatronics 2017 Ideas for Industrial Applications written by Jerzy Świder and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is devoted to the latest research results obtained by scientists and practitioners, who work on the development and applications of mechatronics, in particular in industrial practice. The topics included in the book cover such areas and issues as: measurement techniques in phenomena and mechatronic problems, robotics and design of mechatronic systems, research and application of mechatronics in medicine and sports, modern applications of mechatronics in rapidly changing modern mining, which puts strict demands on safety of people and the environment, application of mechatronics in the automotive industry in the design and production process of modern cars, defense technologies, extremely demanding aerospace industry, contemporary food industry, as well as didactics of mechatronics lead at different universities in the paradigm of Industry 4.0.
Download or read book World Meeting written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book France in the Age of Organization written by Jackie Clarke and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In interwar France, there was a growing sense that ‘organization’ was the solution to the nation’s perceived social, economic and political ills. This book examines the roots of this idea in the industrial rationalization movement and its manifestations in areas as diverse as domestic organization and economic planning. In doing so, it shows how experts in fields ranging from engineering to the biological sciences shaped visions of a rational socio-economic order from the 1920s to Vichy and beyond.
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Download or read book Second International Conference on Chemical Engineering Education written by D.C. Freshwater and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-09-11 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second International Conference on Chemical Engineering Education presents the situation in chemical engineering education in Germany, Hungary, Spain, Japan, and in the United States. This book depicts an awareness of the problems of professional education together with a wide spectrum of opinions on their solution. Organized into 39 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the actual situation of chemical engineering education program in Spain. This text then examines the detailed formalities of chemical engineering in secondary schools. Other chapters consider the change in chemical engineering education in Japan due to the change of chemical industries as well as by a great change of students' attitude. This book discusses as well the curriculum proposal for the education of undergraduate and graduate levels as well as foreign students' education. The final chapter reviews the European situation of chemical engineering education system. This book is a valuable resource for teachers and students of chemical engineering.
Download or read book 1981 written by D. J. Aitken and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-05-18 with total page 1216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "1981".
Download or read book The Right in France from the Third Republic to Vichy written by Kevin Passmore and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Right in France from the Third Republic to Vichy provides a new history of parliamentary conservatism and the extreme right in France during the successive crises of the years from 1870 to 1945. In it, Kevin Passmore charts royalist opposition to the newly established Republic, the emergence of the nationalist extreme right in the 1890s, and the parallel development of republican conservatism. He moves on to the hitherto unstudied story of conservatism in during the Great War, and then to the Right's victory in the 1919 elections. Passmore charts the crisis of parliamentary conservatism in the interwar years, and explores the Right's response to the rise of Fascism and Communism. He concludes by placing the Vichy regime, which governed France under the German Occupation, in the context of the history of conservative politics. This history is related to the struggle of those who saw themselves as 'elites' to preserve their leadership in the 'age of the masses'. Passmore shows that conservatives of all stripes shared a common culture (notably including organicism and crowd theory), but that different factions used these ideas in different ways, for different purposes. Whereas previous studies have been primarily concerned to 'categorize' conservatives groups, for example as 'fascist',' liberal', or 'modern', this study examines the way in which competing groups used such terms in complex struggles amongst themselves and with the left. The study is based on considerable archival research, as well as on knowledge of the vast body of recently published research in English and French.
