Odile Jacob

101 Words of Democracy / Les 101 mots de la d?mocratie fran?aiseAuthor: Rapha?l Hadas-LebelPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Jun 22, 2002Number of Pages: 542 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

3 Cultures of Human Development: Resistance, Regulation, Utopia / Les Trois Cultures du d?veloppement humain: R?sistance, r?gulation, utopieAuthor: Jean-Baptiste De FoucauldPublisher: Odile...

A Banker's Unexpected Diary: An Adventure, A Profession (1943-2000) / Journal impr?vu d'un banquier: Une aventure, un m?tier (1943-2000)Author: Pierre LeDouxPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date:...

The recipient of a Nobel prize for his work on magnetI'm, scientist Louis N?el was involved in national defense and founded the electrostatic and physics laboratory of Grenoble. In this very personal...

From the Cour des Miracles to the French Connection, from Mandrin to the Brise de Mer, from Pierrot le Fou to Mesrine, from the Apaches to current gangs, but also from Fouch? to the Tiger Brigades,...

A Europe for Everyone / Une Europe pour tousAuthor: Philippe De SchoutheetePublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Sep 19, 1997Number of Pages: 190 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Charles, Georges, Edmond, Jacques and all the others: the Friedel family constitutes a dynasty of first class scholars. From atomic theory to supraconductivity, from natural history to chemistry,...

It is commonly held that during the early days of a child's development, the father's a role is overshadowed by the mother's, whose interaction with her new baby is invested with a more essential...

Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat is a mathematician and physician. Her area of research is at the very frontier between mathematics and physics. She has created new mathematical methods that have provided a...

To feed your child well is not only to give him the things he needs to develop, but also to teach him the rules of a healthy diet. Parents understand the stakes, but are confused by a deluge of...

Homeopathy is often used to care for infants and children, since it poses no health threats. It is particularly effective in the treatment of recurring diseases and of illnesses that resist...

The number of children and teenagers being treated bypsychiatrists and psychologists is rising constantly, yetthere has been no notable decline in the mental health ofyoung people. Neither has...

Do you always feel rushed? Are you bad-tempered at work? Do you get upset about minor problems? Do you often feel tired? Do you wish you could stop bringing work home and have an evening for...

It is possible to eat in a manner that reconciles the demands of staying slim, good health, and general well being - although the steady stream of unhealthy and sometimes dangerous Sliming diets...

?Que patronne au juste le Patronat, comme on appelait jadis le CNPF et comme l'on qualifie, depuis 1998, le Medef ? Au-dela de l'exposition mediatique de ses dirigeants successifs, Ernest-Antoine...

The spirit which inspired Pasteur's work is kept alive by the Institut Pasteur in Paris. From the discovery of the rabies virus and vaccine, to the Nobel Prize winning work of the Paris school of...

Laurent Schwartz was, along with Jean-Paul Sartre, the epitomy of the committed intellectual of post-war France. Having been awarded the Fields Medal in mathematics, he is considered one the most...

Michel Aglietta is an emeritus professor at the University of Paris X-Nanterre and a scientific adviser at the French Centre for Prospective Studies and International Information (CEPII) and...

A New European Cooperation / Le Nouveau Concert europ?enAuthor: Jacques DelorsPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Feb 20, 1992Number of Pages: 354 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Jean Dausset's fieding that white blood cells play an active role in I'munization won him the Nobel Prize for Medicine and opened a new area of biological investigation, both in pure and in applied...

Alcohol plays a key role in many private and social occasions, creating a bond in orderly social functions, as well as in disorderly festivities. Alcohol can serve to bring people together, but it...

Where is scientific research going? Pierre Joliot takes a look back in time to answer this question: back to the days when his grandparents Pierre et Marie Curie discovered natural radioactivity,...

A Planet of Minds: For a Politics of Cyberspace / La Plan?te des esprits: Pour une politique du cyberespaceAuthor: Philippe Qu?auPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Nov 04, 2000Number of Pages:...

A Single Ethical System for All ? / Une m?me ?thique pour tousAuthor: Jean-Pierre ChangeuxPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Nov 07, 1997Number of Pages: 224 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

The result of many years of work between economists, historians, anthropologists and psychoanalysts, this book shows how money is the cement of societies--the most archaic as well as the most...

Isabelle Arnulf is a neurologist and the director of a unit on sleep pathologies at La Piti?-Salp?tri?re Hospital, in Paris. She studies nocturnal behaviour disorders by observing dream...

A sixty year battle against childhood leukemia. Life, the career of a renowned haematologist who contributed to the renaissance of medical research in France and participated in one of the greatest...

About Elie Wiesel: Teachings for the Future / Autour d'?lie Wiesel: Une parole pour l'avenirAuthor: Micha?l de Saint Ch?ronPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Nov 06, 1996Number of Pages: 336...

Herv? Glasel is a neuropsychologist specialising in child and adolescent development. Besides his clinical practice in the Centre de R?f?rence pour l'Evaluation Neuropsychologique de l'Enfant...

What does it signify for a surgeon to run the numerous risks, present in every slightest move, in accepting to operate on an eye ? What does it mean for the patient undergoing the operation to place...