Odile Jacob

Marcel Otte is an art historian and archaeologist and a professor of prehistory at the University of Li?ge. A specialist in cultural exchanges during the Palaeolithic Era, he is the director of...

At the Heart of the Suburbs: Codes, Rites and Languages / Coeur de banlieue: Codes, rites et langagesAuthor: David LepoutrePublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Apr 08, 1997Number of Pages: 464...

?Aimer est une aventure dangereuse. Chacun en est conscient et, pourtant, tous, nous preferons prendre le risque d'aimer plutot que de vivre sans. Mais pourquoi ? Dans ce livre, Claude Beata nous...

Almost from the minute they come into the world, babies start to learn. Rejecting the idea that babies are purely passive beings, H. Montagner shows the whole range of cognitive and social...

Autism / L'Autisme: De la recherche ? la pratiqueAuthor: Alain BerthozPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: May 26, 2005Number of Pages: 488 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Today, about 10% of all infants spend at least some time in an intensive care unit I'mediately after birth. In France, this concerns 50,000 to 80,000 infants annually, the most frequent cause being...

Barefoot Bankers: Microfinance / Banquiers aux pieds nus: La microfinanceAuthor: Jean-Michel ServetPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Sep 21, 2006Number of Pages: 512 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Being a Step-parent: The Recomposition of the Family / ?tre parent, ?tre beau-parent: La recomposition de la familleAuthor: Sylvie CadollePublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Jun 06, 2000Number of...

Adolescents are lucky. They are at the age when life offers them a wide range of choices. Yet it is not easy for them to know how to make the best possible use of their new freedom. Torn between...

A non-practicing Jew, Man?s Sperber learned to read the Bible at the age of three and continued to re-read it until the end of his life. Neither religious, nor a militant Zionist, nor an aethiest,...

The Russian Revolution provided the working-class movement with a concrete model of socialI'm. For French militants, as well as for many members of the cultural and political elite, the Soviet Union...

Since the 1980's, a growing number of medical consultations have been required by patients who have not been able to eat as doctors, dieticians, and the media have shown them that they must. The more...

Between Two Worlds / Entre deux mondesAuthor: Diana PintoPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Aug 30, 1991Number of Pages: 336 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 2738101321ISBN-13:...

Big Mother: The Psychopathology of Political Life / Big Mother: Psychopathologie de la vie politiqueAuthor: Michel SchneiderPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Mar 02, 2002Number of Pages: 336...

Inspiring himself from La Philosophie dans le boudoir by Sade and the major philosophical works of the 18th century, Alain Prochiantz, who is a neurobiologist, explains by means of a dialogue, the...

Memory is the primary intellectual function of the higher animals. It is memory that allows them to navigate in space (and so to fied food and shelter and to reproduce) and to structure time (when to...

What is love? Can we explain Romeo's love for Juliet? What is desire, pleasure and pain, the taste for power and domination? In short, how can we explain our passions? Going beyond the traditional...

When a baby refuses to eat or begins to cry everyone seems to stare at the mother because it is generally assumed that'she should know what to do. When a woman becomes a mother, she is forced to make...

Human beings are made of the same elements as the Earth, the sky and the universe. But they are infinitely richer and more complex than a simple gathering of chemical elements. Although it can be...

Since bisexual behavior is a recognized fact among all mammals, Claude Aron believes that it had to be the expression of an essential characteristic of the sexuality of these species. He shows how...

Singlehandedly, Stephen Hawking has profoundly transformed the way we look at the universe. Renowned worldwide as one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists since Einstein, Hawking has rendered...

They are invisible, and yet they are a constant presence in daily life. The discovery of new ones is regularly reported, and it seems there is one at the centre of our galaxy. Described as...

Bloodhounds: A Story of the French Intelligence Services in Their Own Words / Les GuetteursAuthor: Alain BauerPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Mar 14, 2018Number of Pages: 352 pagesBinding:...

Energy is at the centre of our society's concerns for a number of reasons: petrol, which drove economic growth during the previous century, is being depleted; other forms of fossil fuels are a threat...

Body and Affects / Corps et affectsAuthor: Fran?oise H?ritierPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Nov 05, 2004Number of Pages: 392 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 2738115225ISBN-13:...

- Do you have flat feet ? Hollow feet ? How is the marvel of bipedalI'm possible ? - With regard to foot diseases, is it necessary to operate on bunions, or hallux valgus ? How can deviations of the...

Professor Bernard Granger is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist and a member of the French Association for Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies. He teaches at Paris-Descartes University and heads the...

When reviewing an argument mentally, or recounting it to someone else, we are prone to mix up what we really said with what we wish we had said, so that we come out looking much better. The brain is...

Les avancees etonnantes des neurosciences ont fait evoluer le domaine de la psychologie et de la psychiatrie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent. En quoi ces apports permettent-ils de mieux comprendre le...

Since the 1980s, psychoanalysis has been the object of severe criticI'm. International classifications have reduced many psychiatric disorders to a series of objective criteria, and behavioural and...