What might the author of Mrs. Dalloway and A Room of One's Own have in common with the author of the Claudine series and The Pure and the Impure? Resisting long-held interpretations that Colette and Virginia Woolf had little in common, Southworth shows here the links between the two famous writers, both real and imagined. Often cast in their diametrically opposed roles of elitist bluestocking and risque music hall performer, critics have overlooked the many ways in which the lives and works of Woolf and Colette intersect. This study provides a broad-ranging introduction to the biographical, stylistic, and thematic ties that link the lives and works of Britain's and France's first ladies of letters of the early twentieth century. Situating the two writers within an international network of artists and literati, including Jacques-Emile Blanche, Radclyffe Hall and Una Troubridge. Winnie de Polignac, Gisele Freund, Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier, Vita Sackville-West and Violet Trefusis, this study complicates conceptions of the differences--national, sexual, cultural, and intellectual--which have kept these two women apart by placing these same differences at its center. Southworth develops work already undertaken on Woolf's contacts with France and adds to the body of comparative work on Woolf and her contemporaries. This study also highlights as yet unexplored connections between Colette and her British and American peers. Southworth's book makes a significant contribution to gay and lesbian studies and the study of modernist culture. It also demonstrates the potential of social network theory for literary studies.

This book features a selection of articles by Louis Boutet de Monvel and presents his contributions to the theory of partial differential equations and analysis. The works selected here reveal his central role in the development of his field, including three cornerstones: firstly, analytic pseudodifferential operators, which have become a fundamental aspect of analytic microlocal analysis, and secondly the Boutet de Monvel calculus for boundary problems for elliptic partial differential operators, which is still an important tool also in index theory. Thirdly, Boutet de Monvel was one of the first people to recognize the importance of the existence of generalized functions, whose singularities are concentrated on a single ray in phase space, which led him to make essential contributions to hypoelliptic operators and to a very successful and influential calculus of Toeplitz operators with applications to spectral and index theory. Other topics treated here include microlocal analysis, star products and deformation quantization as well as problems in several complex variables, index theory and geometric quantization. This book will appeal to both experts in the field and students who are new to this subject.

Le droit de la famille, dans sa dimension civiliste, fortement ancré dans les cultures nationales des États membres, est une matière qui ne relève pas, en principe, du droit de l’Union européenne. Pourtant, il n’est plus possible d’affirmer que la matière échappe dans son entier au droit de l’Union. De nombreux aspects de la famille sont sous influence européenne, au point que l’on voit se dessiner les contours d’une « famille européenne ». L’ouvrage propose de mettre en lumière l’acquis européen en matière de droit de la famille, au prisme du droit matériel (citoyenneté européenne, politique sociale de l’Union, fonction publique européenne...), comme du droit international privé. Le droit de la famille de l’Union s’identifie alors comme un «droit spécial» complétant la diversité des droits nationaux de la famille. Sa signification théorique et politique dans l’Union est débattue par les auteurs, autant que son devenir. Loin de demeurer fragmentaire à côté des droits nationaux des États membres, il a probablement vocation à se densifier pour offrir aux citoyens et résidents européens un droit commun de la famille au sein de l’Union. Family law, with its civil law tradition, and strong roots in the national cultures of the Member States, does not normally fall within the scope of European law. However, it is no longer possible to argue that family law is outside European law entirely. There are many aspects of the family which are subject to European influence, to the point that the outlines of a «European family» are starting to emerge. This book is intended to highlight the European experience of family law and its substantive (i.e. European citizenship, EU social policy, EU civil service...) and private international law aspects. Union law therefore contains a form of «special» family law which is shared between the Member States and supplements their national family laws. Its theoretical and political importance in the Union, as well as its future, are discussed by the authors. Far from remaining fragmented alongside the national laws of Member States, it will likely develop to offer European citizens and residents a common family law within the EU.

Exam Board: Edexcel Level: AS/A-level Subject: French First Teaching: September 2016 First Exam: June 2017 Endorsed for the Edexcel A Level specification from 2016. Develop all four language skills with a single textbook that has clear progression from GCSE and throughout the new A Level. - Clear progression through four stages of learning: transition, AS, A-level and extension - Develops language skills through reading, listening, speaking and writing tasks, plus translation and research practice - Exposes students to authentic topical stimulus and film and literature tasters for every work - Equips students with the tools they need to succeed with learning strategies throughout - Prepares students for the assessment with advice on the new individual research project and essay-writing - Builds grammar skills with exercises throughout and a detailed grammar reference section Audio resources to accompany the Student Book must be purchased separately. They can be purchased in several ways: 1) as part of the Boost digital teacher resources; 2) as a separate audio download; 3) as part of the Boost eBook. The audio resources are not part of the Edexcel endorsement process.

Les etudes et le propos de cet ouvrage ont pour objet de demontrer la validite obtenue par l'Astro-chronobiologie de Roger Hequet, en utilisant l'asteroide Chiron comme constante, et ses effets observables.Cette recherche sur Chiron conduira le lecteur a s'ouvrir a une lecture psychogenealogique complementaire a l'approche karmique du theme astral;ces nouveaux outils permettent de mieux comprendre a travers Chiron les ressorts psychogenealogiques(notamment le complexe d'abandon)que renferme le theme astral.Ils permettent de prevoir leurs echeances, afin de conduire l'etre vers une plus grande conscience de soi.A travers ce livre de recherche, j'espere pouvoir aider les personnes en recherche a eclairer certaines zones d'ombre qui influencent inconsciemment leurs destinees. Chiron dans sa grotte nous aide a percevoir ce qui bloque notre conscience et nous empeche d'acceder a la connaissance d'Uranus.Contient l'etude de plus de 60 themes de personnalites avec cartes incluses et asteroides.

CONTENTS: L. Boutet de Monvel: Indice de systemes differentiels.- C. De Concini, C. Procesi: Quantum groups.- P. Schapira, J.P. Schneiders: Index theorems for R-constructible sheaves and for D-modules.- N. Berline, M. Vergne: The equivariant Chern character and index of G-invariant operators.