Odile Jacob

Right of Sanctuaries / Droit d'asilesAuthor: Patrick LemoinePublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Jan 05, 1998Number of Pages: 336 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 2738105327ISBN-13:...

Within the next fifty years the world's population is expected to reach 9 billion, greatly surpassing the finite capacities of our natural resources and leading to serious shortages of water, food,...

Roles We Play / Tous en sc?neAuthor: Jean-Claude Carri?rePublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Oct 11, 2007Number of Pages: 306 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 2738120296ISBN-13:...

?I'm always falling in love, but it never lasts, ?iedo everything I can to seduce a partner, but when I succeed, I'm always disappointed, and I start looking elsewhere, ?She has no right to live...

We must face the facts: love between women reeks of sulfur. Whether it is fought, denied or even tolerated, today as yesterday, it disturbs a certain patriarchal order based on family and...

Sadness, fear and anger are the primary negative human emotions and the cause of much suffering. We often wish we could get rid of these negative feelings, which may even make us question our own...

How to explain genetics to a teenager while entertaining him? By preferring short sentences to theoretical analyses and humorous cartoons to learned equations. From Mendel's work that established the...

Satan, the Heretic: History of demonology in Medieval Europe, 1260-1350 / Satan h?r?tique: Histoire de la d?monologie (1280-1330)Author: Alain BoureauPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: May 01,...

Michel Jouvet is internationally recognised in the neurosciences as the discoverer of 'paradoxical sleep', a state that is closely related to dreaming.He is the author of such highly successful works...

Why is secrecy a social need? How can a secret be communicated in writing, without running the risk that it may be eventually unveiled by an unwanted thied party? Yet how can the message be made...

Elisa Brune is a writer and science journalist. She is the co-author, with Jean-Pierre Luminet, of Bonnes nouvelles des ?toiles (2009). As regards sexual pleasure, men and women are far from being...

In less than four decades, molecular biology has revolutionized the life sciences. It is this odyssey which F. Gros recounts, from the discovery of the molecular structure of the gene to the most...

Secularism in Schools: Reasserting a Republican Principle / La La?cit? ? l'?cole: Un principe r?publicain ? r?affirmerAuthor: Jean-Louis Debr?Publisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Jan 15,...

?La silhouette des montagnes, les dunes, les cristaux de glace: la nature regorge de motifs organises. Beaucoup sont le resultat d'interactions entre les nombreux composants du systeme dans lequel...

Biological evolution is the great adventure of Life, as it is for human thought: of this, each one of us is living proof. More often than not, specialists in Evolution are geneticists or biologists...

Alain Geberowicz is a psychiatrist and psychologist specialising in family and couples therapy. What makes love last in a relationship? How to deal with the inevitable ups and downs of life with a...

If the mythical "good savage" were to observe Western societies and their customs, he would be greatly surprised by the display of an obsession with sex. It would seem that the men and women of today...

Mammals have two olfactory organs: the olfactory mucus and the vomeronasal organ, which was discovered at the beginning of the nineteenth century. For long, it was believed that the latter did not...

Shimon Peres et l'histoire secr?te d'Isra?lAuthor: Bar-Zohar-MPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Feb 19, 2024Number of Pages: 432 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 2738119956ISBN-13:...

This year the world commemorated the sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps. But for the survivors of the death camps, liberation did not put an end to suffering...

This restrained book is largely autobiographical. It recounts the story of a family brutally shaken their son's violence and mental illness?though nothing had previously seemed to distinguish him...

?Signataire, en 1971, du Manifeste des 343 en faveur de l'avortement libre, Claudine Monteil a eu la chance de militer aux cotes de Simone de Beauvoir pour les droits des femmes. S'adressant a celle...

SimplexityAuthor: Alain BerthozPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Apr 30, 2019Number of Pages: 268 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 2738147437ISBN-13: 9782738147431

Who can honestly say they have never been afraid of ?mad? cows? Of cattle doomed to burn in a blazing pyre, in the hopes of eradicating foot-and-mouth disease? Who has never worried about cloned...

?De toutes parts, des forces profondes entrainent l'humanite sur des pentes dangereuses. Notre nombre. Les inegalites qui nous minent. La nature qui nous trahit. Les rapports de classe, evanouis dans...

Social Misfortune / La Malchance socialeAuthor: Pierre ManonniPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: May 06, 2000Number of Pages: 248 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 2738108326ISBN-13:...

?L'essor fulgurant des technologies numeriques, conjugue a leur sophistication de plus en plus grande, les rend chaque jour plus intrusives pour l'intimite de chacun. Denoncant cette degradation des...

Soil is the Earth's skin, nourishing and supporting life: bacteria, natural vegetation, cultivated plants. Covering the soil is a thin coating of powder-fine minerals, or clay, that is rapidly...

La solidarite n est ni assurance ni assistance. Elle ne divise pas le monde entre ceux qui donneraient sans recevoir et ceux qui recevraient sans avoir rien a donner: tous contribuent selon leurs...

Claude Berrou, a professor at the Ecole Nationale des T?l?communications, of Brittany, and a member of the French Academy of Sciences, developed 'turbo codes' (error-correcting codes used in mobile...