Odile Jacob

Making of the Image / La Fabrique du regardAuthor: Monique SicardPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Nov 18, 1998Number of Pages: 280 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Claude Cr?pault is the cofounder of the Sexology Department at the University of Quebec, founder-president of the International Institute of Sexoanalysis and an honorary professor at the University...

How can you teach your dog to live in the house, to obey, to walk on a lead, to be clean ? What should you'do if he constantly barks or if he destroys everything in the house ? Should you punish him...

Black holes have been the main object of astronomers? curiosity since Stephen Hawking first postulated their existence. Some physicists think that black holes may lie at the rotational centre of...

Management Rescued by Philosophy / La philosophie au secours du managementAuthor: Patrick ErrardPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Apr 15, 2015Number of Pages: 210 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Louis Crocq, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Paris-V, is a psychiatrist to the French armed forces and the creator of medical-psychological emergency units. A former a...

Manic-depressive illness is a relatively unknown disease. It is difficult to count the number of cases in precise way, but many epidemiological studies estimate that more than 1% of the population is...

Manifesto for a Sombre Fin de Si?cle / Manifeste pour une fin de si?cle obscureAuthor: Max GalloPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Jan 01, 1990Number of Pages: 156 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Fran?ois Ansermet is a psychoanalyst, a member of the French National Bioethics Advisory Committee, a professor of child psychiatry at the University of Geneva, the director of the University's...

Margaret Thatcher: The Iron Lady / Margaret Thatcher: Une dame de ferAuthor: Catherine CullenPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Jan 23, 1991Number of Pages: 200 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Marquis de Sade and the Law / Sade et la loiAuthor: Fran?ois OstPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Oct 20, 2005Number of Pages: 348 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 2738116698ISBN-13:...

Jean-Pierre Bibring is in charge of several programmes related to the exploration of Mars. He is a professor of physics at the University of Paris-Sud and an astrophysicist at the Institute of Space...

Maternity: From the First Steps to the First Cries / Materner: Du premier cri aux premiers pasAuthor: Blandine BrilPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Mar 13, 2008Number of Pages: 306...

?Charlotte arrive a Princeton, aux Etats-Unis, pour passer quelque temps avec son pere, Jean-Claude Cavagnac, le celebre mathematicien professeur a l'institut ou s'illustrerent Robert Oppenheimer et...

The exceptional scientific creativity of the twentieth century revolutionised the way we think and the way we live. It transformed our conception of time, space, causality, demonstration, numbers and...

Mechanics of Passions: The New Contemporary Individualism / La M?canique des passions: Cerveau, comportement, soci?t?Author: Alain EhrenbergPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Mar 21, 2018Number...

Gis?le Gelbert, a neurologist, aphasiologist and speech therapist, specialises in the rehabilitation of aphasics. She revealed the existence of aphasic type disorders among children who are unable to...

This work traces the history of information and mass communication in France from the Second Empire forward. The departure point is the launching of the Petit Journal, the first popular daily paper,...

Neurobiological research constantly feeds us with new means of chasing our anxiety, appeasing our feelings of disquietness, enhancing our pleasure, and encouraging our intellectual performance. Is...

A brilliant surgeon, Christian Cabrol was the first in France and the second in the world to perform a heart transplant (1968); he was the first in Europe to perform a heart-and-lung transplant...

Memoirs II / M?moires IIAuthor: Roger QuilliotPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Jan 25, 2001Number of Pages: 554 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 2738108067ISBN-13: 9782738108067

This book recounts the moving life story of the French scientist Robert Dautray, the son of Russian Jewish I'migrants. Although he had to work as a farmhand in occupied France, he went on to graduate...

Who has never felt uncomfortable in front of a homeless person lying on the sidewalk? However, every day, stories of life and survival are played out in the street. Who are those who end up there?...

This book is about the victims of psychological trauma: survivors of war atrocities, torture and attacks, as well as those men and women who suffer daily from emotional harassment. The author studies...

Metapolis: Or, the Future of Cities / M?tapolis: Ou l'avenir des villesAuthor: Fran?ois AscherPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: May 04, 1995Number of Pages: 352 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

?To offer an overall view of U.S. foreign policy since the collapse of the Berlin Wall: such was our ambition, and we were fully aware how difficult the task ahead would be, even before we embarked...

In La Biologie dans le Boudoir, a pastiche of a work by the Marquis de Sade, Alain Prochiantz had already suggested that the development of the brain is governed by a few genes, and that,...

Fifteen years ago, Giacomo Rizzolatti and his research team discovered neurons, in apes, with surprising properties. These neurons were activated not only when the ape performed a task but also when...

Modern Relationships and the Family: The response of the law to the transformation of the family and the couple / Couple, filiation et parent? aujourdAuthor: Ir?ne Th?ryPublisher: Odile...

This is neither a university treatise nor a textbook, butPrigogine's fundamental work and the basis of all hisphilosophical essays. Thermodynamics ends with severalpages on the subject of time which...