Odile Jacob

Einstein's theory of general relativity explains both the simplest and the most complex of phenomena. Why do all bodies fall to Earth at the same time? How was our universe created? To answer the...

Wheel and the Pen: How We Became Tourists / La Roue et le Stylo: Comment nous sommes devenus touristesAuthor: Catherine Bertho-LavenirPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Apr 16, 1999Number of...

When ChristianI'm changed the world / Quand le christianisme a chang? le monde: I. La subversion chr?tienne du monde antiqueAuthor: Maurice SachotPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Mar 15,...

Etty Buzyn is a clinical psychologist and a psychoanalyst. Trained by Fran?oise Dolto, she has worked with parents and young children for many years and is the author of numerous works on...

This historical work recounts the struggle of deaf-mutes against prejudice, so that their rights and their language, sign language, were recognised. The people figuring in this book run from the...

Could love be the sign of the vast chasm that'separates men and women rather than the expression of their desire to be closer? This is the question that Lucy Vincent asks here. What is the use of the...

Yves Pouliquen est un grand chirurgien de l'oeil. Il a consacre sa vie a la medecine et a la science. Il a cotoye de pres, avec ses patients, la vie et la mort. Dans Que sais-je? Que suis-je?, il...

Val?rie-Laure Benabou, a law professor at Versailles University, is an expert in intellectual property rights on the Internet, a consultant on the Conseil Sup?rieure de la Propri?t? Litt?raire et...

Thierry Lod? is a biologist, a specialist in animal sexuality and a professor of evolutionary ecology at the University of Rennes-I. He formerly headed the laboratory on animal ecology at the...

On pourrait penser qu'aucun principe general ne saurait expliquer la diversite des reactions qu'un film suscite. Ce livre soutient qu'un tel principe existe: notre appreciation personnelle...

Why Do Things Have Meaning? / Pourquoi les choses ont-elles un sens ?Author: Pierre JacobPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Apr 23, 1997Number of Pages: 352 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

A research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Michel Raymond works at the Evolutionary Science Institute, in Montpellier, France. He is the author of such...

Why intellectuals don't like liberalism / Pourquoi les intellectuels n'aiment pas le lib?ralismeAuthor: Raymond BoudonPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Feb 21, 2004Number of Pages: 248...

The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will includeWith ease and you beside?, wrote the American poet Emily Dickinson in the mid-nineteenth century. The...

Anne de Kervasdou? is a gynaecologist and the author of, most notably, "Questions de femmes" (2004). Her other works include "Jours de femme" (1992) and with Dr Jean B?laish "Questions d'hommes"...

Women Have Always Worked: A History of Working Women in the 19th Century / Les Femmes ont toujours travaill? Une histoire du travail des femmesAuthor: Sylvie SchweitzerPublisher: Odile...

Women of Adventure: From Dream to Self-Realisation / Femmes d'aventure: Du r?ve ? la r?alisation de soiAuthor: Catherine ReverzyPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Sep 01, 2001Number of Pages:...

Fatma Bouvet de la Maisonneuve is a physician-psychiatrist and runs a consultancy for women with alcohol-related problems at H?pital Sainte-Anne, in Paris. She is the author of Les Femmes face ?...

A pregnancy fever ignites women, whose glorious and bare bellies are seen on the covers of magazines. How do they approach motherhood, breastfeeding, menopause, homoparenting, the place of the father...

World Culture / La Culture-monde: R?ponse ? une soci?t? d?sorient?eAuthor: Gilles LipovetskyPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Oct 02, 2008Number of Pages: 224 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Why is it that, when isolated on an island, men become giants while elephants become dwarfed? What was the climate in Paris 500,000 years ago? Was the human race humanity the result of a prior...

World of Mafias: Geopolitics and Organised Crime / Le Monde des mafias: G?opolitique du crime organis?Author: Jean-Fran?ois GayraudPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Sep 08, 2005Number of Pages:...

?D'ou vient la faible confiance des jeunes Francais en l'avenir, alors que leurs conditions de vie sont generalement superieures a celles de bien d'autres, pourtant plus optimistes ? Que faire pour...

Zbigniew Brzezinski: Strategist of the Empire / Zbigniew Brzezinski strat?ge de l'EmpireAuthor: Justin VaissePublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Jan 04, 2016Number of Pages: 450 pagesBinding:...