Produced under the auspices of an EU-funded Marie Curie research programme, this volume analyses vulnerability in European private law and scrutinises consumer protection in credit and investments in the context of the recent turmoil in financial markets and EU harmonisation initiatives in the area. It explores key issues such as responsible lending, the disclosure of information, consumer confidence, the regulation of consumer investment services and the protection of bank depositors. The chapters emanate from the 'Consumer Protection in Europe: Theory and Practice' duo colloquium which explored consumer protection in Europe in its theoretical and practical dimensions. These topics are even more relevant today given the passage of the Consumer Rights Directive, the appointment of an Expert Group on a common frame of reference, the Green Paper on European Contract Law and the ongoing deliberations surrounding the Common European Sales Law.
Epic: Scientists focuses on some of history's most remarkable scientists, from Archimedes, Alhazen and Galileo, to Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein and Marie Curie. The book gives a brief biography of
A quote book like no other, this thought-provoking collection compiles the timeless wisdom of great original minds— from Marie Curie to Stephen King, Joan of Arc to Jack Kerouac, Oscar Wilde to Harrie
A riveting narrative of the Atomic Age—from x-rays and Marie Curie to the Nevada Test Site and the 2011 meltdown in Japan—written by the prizewinning and bestselling author of Rocket Men.Radiation is
From historical figures such as Marie Curie to contemporaries such as Steve Jobs, a handful of innovators have changed the world. What made them so spectacularly inventive? Melissa A. Schilling, one o
The epic, page-turning history of how a group of physicists toppled the Newtonian universe in the early decades of the twentieth centuryThe epic true story of how a global team of physics luminaries―Einstein, Curie, Schrödinger, and more―toppled the Newtonian universe amid the turmoil of two World WarsThere may never be another era of science like the first half of the twentieth century, when many of the most important physicists ever to live―Marie Curie, Max Planck, Wolfgang Pauli, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Ernst Schrödinger, Albert Einstein, and others―came together to uncover the quantum world: a concept so outrageous and shocking, so contrary to traditional physics, that its own founders rebelled against it until the equations held up and fundamentally changed our understanding of reality.In cinematic, page-turning chapters, Tobias Hürter takes us back to this uniquely momentous and harrowing time, when war and revolution upended the lives of his renegade scientists. As they c
人類歷史上最偉大女性居里夫人的最經典傳記。教育部指定七年級必讀經典書目，權威版本居里夫人 Marie Curie（1867-1934）法國籍波蘭裔科學家，在研究放射性現象方面成就突出，發現了鐳和釙兩種放射性元素，在僅隔8年的時間內就分別摘取了兩門不同學科的最高科學桂冠――諾貝爾物理學獎與諾貝爾化學獎，並且一生中獲得了難以計數的其他科學殊榮。作為歷史上罕見的傑出女性科學家，居里夫人有一般科學家所沒有
Aphra Behn, first female professional writer. Sojourner Truth, activist and abolitionist. Ada Lovelace, first computer programmer. Marie Curie, first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Joan Jett, god
Zen Pencils is an exciting and unique new comic form that takes inspirational and famous quotations and adapts them into graphic stories. From icons like Confucius, Marie Curie, and Henry David Thorea
From the bestselling author of A History of Britain in 21 WomenThe history of the world is the history of great women. Marie Curie discovered radium and revolutionised medical science. Empress Cixi
For generations, aspiring women scientists have looked to Marie Curie, the famed Nobel Prize–winning chemist, for inspiration. But what lesson, exactly, are they to draw from her example? Marie Curie
Cheung (palliative care research, Marie Curie Hospice, Newcastle, and anthropology, U. of Durham, UK) considers issues of ethics in relation to medical research. He describes specific laws throughout
Discover some of the inspirational men and women who have received Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry and Medicine from 1901 to the present day, among them Marie Curie, Albert Einstein and Sir Alexand
Mathematicians Ancona (U. of Firenze, Italy) and Gaveau (U. of Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris) use complexes of differential forms to provide a complete treatment of the Deligne theory of mixed Hodge st
This volume contains the proceedings of the Conference Protostellar Jets in Context held by the JETSET Marie Curie Research Training Network in July 2008. This meeting not only served to showcase some
Muwahahahaha! Dr. Frankenstein. Marie Curie. Dr. Moreau. Captain Nemo. They're the most fascinating minds of all time--and now a science guru has teamed up with an expert in human psychology to c
Profiles nine female scientists who made monumental discoveries in their fields, including Mary Anning, Marie Curie, Chien-Shiung Wu, and Rachel Carson.
Driver Adaptation to Information and Assistance Systems brings together recent work by the Marie-Curie co-funded Initial Training Network project ADAPTATION, which has studied drivers’ behavioral adap
"A riveting narrative of the Atomic Age--from x-rays and Marie Curie to the Nevada Test Site and the 2011 meltdown in Japan--written by the prizewinning and bestselling author of Rocket Men. Radiation
