Odile Jacob

Florence Lautr?dou, a graduate of the Ecole Normale Sup?rieure and professor of modern literature, is a psychoanalyst and life coach. As well as writing novels, she is the author of Cet ?lan qui...

Nowadays, we are not entitled to be sad without being told: this is a disease . Consequences: instead of receiving love and friendship, the distressed person receives a medicine which deepens his...

To conceive of an economy without money challenges one s imagination. It is, however, a worthwhile exercise and the starting point for a radical criticI'm of received ideas and second-nature habits...

Truth and Lies About Unemployment / V?rit?s et mensonges sur le ch?mageAuthor: Jacques LesournePublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Dec 17, 1994Number of Pages: 236 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Twenty Economists Confront the Crisis / Vingt ?conomistes face ? la criseAuthor: Henri LepagePublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Apr 28, 1999Number of Pages: 408 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

The obscure world of the deep has been explored and exploited for only two centuries. The first underwater telegraphic cables date back to the 19th century and deep sea divings began in the 1930s...

?Pourquoi le dollar reste-t-il la seule monnaie de reserve internationale, alors que l'economie americaine connait un declin relatif ? De quels privileges abusifs jouissent les Etats-Unis, grace a...

This book is not just another ordinary manual, as it aims to make the reader fully understand the fundamental mathematic principles that'students often learn without really knowing what they signify...

Chemistry: the science of unexpected wonders. J. Jacques, a learned scholar, has written a text sparkling with wit and irony in praise of the haphazards of discovery. His text recalls the excitement...

Useful and the Futile: The I'material Economy / L'Utile et le Futile: L'?conomie de l'immat?rielAuthor: Charles GoldfingerPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Mar 14, 1994Number of Pages: 626...

Valley of Nothingness / La Vall?e du n?antAuthor: Jean-Claude Carri?rePublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Sep 05, 2018Number of Pages: 344 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Fran?ois-Bernard Michel is a professor in the faculty of medicine at Montpellier University and a department head at Montpellier's teaching hospital. He is currently the president of the French...

Vers une neuropsychanalyse ?Author: Ouss+golse+widlocherPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Feb 19, 2023Number of Pages: 304 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 273812254XISBN-13:...

Why do some teenagers become violent, and others don?t? Which children are likely to develop violent behaviour? What can parents do? And what should schools do about it?Based on his own hands-on...

Luc Montagnier is the person who, with his team of the Pasteur Institute, discovered in 1983 the virus responsible for AIDS. He tells about the research work which led him to this discovery. He sums...

Wars and Civilisations / Guerres et civilisationsAuthor: G?rard ChaliandPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Sep 15, 2005Number of Pages: 448 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Is the twentieth century the Age of Genocide? Despite the founding of an international criminal court, the recent past does not encourage optimI'm: the 1990s will undoubtedly be remembered for the...

Warsaw Ghetto Revisited / Retour sur le ghetto de VarsovieAuthor: Marian ApfelbaumPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Mar 01, 2002Number of Pages: 330 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

The most prodigious mystery of life might well be in the means it has used to create so much diversity with so little matter. However, taking the risk of destroying the most precious ecosystems, Man...

?Qu'est-ce que la morale ? Pourquoi agissons-nous de maniere morale ? D'ou viennent nos idees sur le bien et le mal ? Face a ces questions, les philosophes ont longtemps developpe deux strategies...

On the one hand, an ever increasing demand: a six fold increase in the number of cases of depression within the last thirty years, a quarter of patients seen by general practitioners suffering from...

The liberation of women in the West has gradually transformed the status and image of masculinity. The traditional figure of the dominating, protective male who expresses himself in action has given...

What Is a Rule of Law? / Qu'est-ce qu'une r?gle de Droit?Author: Denys de B?chillonPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Jan 23, 1997Number of Pages: 304 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

This book, containing contributions by renowned French specialists in the field, follows from the earlier volume on life, published in October 2000.The essays contained here address major issues...

This book, containing contributions by renowned French specialists in the field, follows from the earlier volume, published in June 2000.The essays contained here address major issues concerning life...

What Is Man ?: Regarding the Foundations of Biology and Philosophy / Qu'est-ce que l'homme ?: Sur les fondamentaux de la biologie etAuthor: Luc FerryPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Apr 15,...

The most renowned French specialists in their fields have contributed to this volume, a sequel to Volumes I and II which dealt with the subject of life and humanity. The two earlier volumes appeared...

The most renowned French specialists in their fields have contributed to the fifth volume in the series of lectures ?L?Universit? de tous les savoirs?. The present collection sheds light on the...

The most renowned French specialists in their fields have contributed to this fourth volume in the series. The present collection sheds light on the major issues raised by cosmology, the solar...

Nutrition today is the outcome of a variety of processes: intensive nutritional transformations, the breakdown of dietary components, the production of foodstuffs largely made up of ingredients that...