Odile Jacob

Addictive Behaviour: Pyscho-active Substances: Use, Abuse and Dependence / Les Pratiques addictives: Usage, usage nocif et d?pendance aux sAuthor: Michel ReynaudPublisher: Odile JacobPublication...

""Jean Bergeret dares to affirm that drug addiction does not exist, that it is the fabrication of a myth that is dangerous for oneself and for others; through clear and concrete examples, in a lively...

Childhood, adulthood and old age certainly exist. But does adolescence? Is it a necessary stage, or simply a socio-cultural phenomenon reflecting the many, increasingly visible signs of malaise in...

Adopting a child from abroad / Adopter un enfant ? l'?trangerAuthor: Edwige Rude-AntoinePublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: May 28, 1999Number of Pages: 288 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

A professor emeritus at Stanford University, Luca Cavalli-Sforza is internationally recognised for his research into population genetics. He is notably the author of "G?nes, peuples et langues;...

?Ce livre est un plaidoyer contre la pensee unique. Ce livre est un appel a la resistance. Quand l'essentiel n'est plus distingue de l'accessoire, quand les projets intellectuels de haute volee se...

Age of the Elderly / L'?ge de la vieillesseAuthor: Patrice BourdelaisPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Feb 12, 1993Number of Pages: 444 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Is aggressiveness a biological fatality? Are we condemned to violence and even criminality? P. Karli, a leading specialist in the neurobiology of aggressiveness, attempts to answer these questions,...

Agnelet, The Man No One Liked / Agnelet: l'homme que l'on n'aimait pasAuthor: Michel HenryPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Sep 11, 2008Number of Pages: 318 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Though scorned by official medicine, alternative medicine has gained its place in the public. Where does its popularity originate from? Many studies attribute the success of alternative medicine to...

A neurologist and neuroscientist, Bernard Croisile heads the department of neuro-psychology at Lyon's Neurological Hospital, where he leads a special 'memory consultation' to evaluate perceived...

Amoeba and the Student: University and Research: A State of Emergency / L'Amibe et l'?tudiant: Universit? et recherche: l'?tat d'urgenceAuthor: Alain DevaquetPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date:...

Laurent Danon-Boileau is a therapist working at the Alfred Binet Centre, a linguistics professor at the University of Paris-V and a research fellow at the Laboratory for the Study of childhood...

An Anthropologist in the French Parliament / Un ethnologue ? l'Assembl?eAuthor: Marc Ab?l?sPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Jan 07, 2000Number of Pages: 346 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

An Attic Full of Dreams: An Essay on Diachronic Dreaming / Le Grenier des r?ves: Essai d'onirologie diachroniqueAuthor: Michel JouvetPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Feb 14, 1997Number of...

?Divorces et separations conjugales sont aujourd'hui frequents. Tout un chacun, marie ou ayant des enfants, peut avoir affaire a la justice familiale pour regler les consequences de sa rupture. Cette...

And Man Created the Animal: History of a Condition / Et l'homme cr?a l'animal: Histoire d'une conditionAuthor: ?ric BaratayPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Feb 22, 2003Number of Pages: 384...

After long years of silence, the painful subject of prison sentencing is finally being discussed in the public arena. In most cases, the point of view adopted is one of humanitarian iedignation...

Animals in an Urban Environment / Les Animaux et la VilleAuthor: Nathalie BlancPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Oct 12, 2000Number of Pages: 232 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Anita Conti: Twenty Thousand Leagues on the Seas / Anita Conti: 20 000 lieues sur les mersAuthor: Catherine ReverzyPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Sep 21, 2006Number of Pages: 392...

The aim of this guidebook is to help parents detect and understand eating disorders in the early stages. Both anorexia and bulimia generally appear in adolescence and they virtually destroy family...

What are the advantages of social organization? P. Jaisson, a sociobiologist, explains how among animals as various as ants, bees, tadpoles and rats, certain altruistic behavior is dependent on a...

?Depuis des decennies, les anthropologues voient dans l'esprit le produit exclusif d'une culture coupee de toute base biologique ou naturelle. Ils ignorent ou rejettent ce que les sciences neuronales...

Anticipation Et PredictionAuthor: Berthoz+debruPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Feb 19, 2024Number of Pages: 296 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 2738132480ISBN-13: 9782738132482

Exercise is not enough to ensure good health. You must also respect your body and know what is good or bad for it. So are sports beneficial or dangerous? Can exercise harm the spinal column? Can it...

""Are we losing consciousness?"", that is, are we losing the meaning of what knowledge is when we proclaim ourselves a ""knowledge society""? Today, knowledge no longer scares anyone, while for three...

Among the countless acts of violence perpetrated during World War I, the extermination of the Armenian population constitutes the bloodiest episode involving civilians. From 1915 to 1916, more than...

?Qu'a donc voulu dire l'artiste ? Qu'a-t-il recherche ? Cette question peut sembler depassee ou naive, comme si l'oeuvre se suffisait a elle-meme. Pour Alessandro Pignocchi, il est impossible de...

Les guerres financieres existent. Ce sont de vraies guerres qui tuent et pauperisent les peuples, comme on l'a vu en Grece. Cette situation strategique inedite s'explique par la nouvelle puissance...

Jos? Mora?s, a language psychologist, gives an account of what we know today of the mental structures which enable us to read, of the relation between spoken and written language, of the mechanI'ms...