Odile Jacob

On receiving a cancer diagnosis, most patients feel the world has come crashing down. Yet, cancer can be treated and increasingly longer periods of remission are being obtained, and it can sometimes...

Casanova - The Diseases of Pleasure / Casanova, la contagion du plaisirAuthor: Jean-Didier VincentPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Mar 14, 1990Number of Pages: 234 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Sexuality is no longer what it was when Freud elaborated his theory of its psychic functioning. His successors have either given it less importance or a completely different status. It is high time...

""There have always been men and women who refused to live in the body in which they were born. We entered a new era when advances in surgery and hormonology made possible a certain transformation of...

Changing Perception of Mental Illness / La Maladie mentale en mutation: Psychiatrie et soci?t?Author: Alain EhrenbergPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Dec 30, 2000Number of Pages: 312...

Marie-No?lle Tardy is a child psychiatrist. A former Maternal-and-child-Welfare physician, she has extensive experience working with abused children and with abusive families. She was educated in...

What could be more commonplace than the emotional ties that'some children develop with cats and dogs or other pets? And yet, nothing could be more surprising than the fact that'such ties, which are...

What is learning? What is success? We try to be supportive of our children, yet don't we hold beliefs about learning and success that are false, poorly adapted and sometimes the source of...

This ambitious work aims to provide a comprehensive view of the mechanI'ms, processes, influences, factors, and past and present events that may keep children from constructing, structuring or...

Why do women often know, prior to any medical examinations, that they are pregnant? Where does this intuitive knowledge come from? And why do some women fail to conceive, for no apparent biological...

?I have terrible nightmares and ied like to know if the children of other survivors have similar nightmares. I tell myself it's crazy for someone who didn't live through the war to have such precise...

What is the universe, which we regard as "ours" not only because we live in it but because it produced us? This book is in the form of a dialogue on cosmology between the astrophysicist Michel Cass?...

?I have been treating children [with language difficulties] for the past ten years, and making clinical observations from three theoretical points of view: I have used linguistics, psychoanalysis and...

The subject of child sexuality is evoked in relation to infancy and adolescence ? in between those two ages, the subject is generally ignored. This is not entirely surprising since during this...

China is a nation at the crossroads of tradition and modernity. In this previously unpublished volume in the series "l?Universit? de tous les savoirs", the authors review the present-day situation...

What will the world be like in 2030 - or even in 2050 ? Who will be the main players? Will the present reshuffle result in the definitive decline of the West, or simply in an extension of the 'club...

Choice / Le Vrai Choix: L'Am?rique et le reste du mondeAuthor: Zbigniew BrzezinskiPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Mar 01, 2004Number of Pages: 314 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Choice of Gorbachev / Le Choix de GorbatchevAuthor: Jean-Bernard RaimondPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Mar 08, 1999Number of Pages: 272 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

When the knowledge of the historian is put to the service of the palate, we are presented with a literary-culinary feast! J. Flandrin invites us to his table. His story of taste and culinary...

?Clinical? and ?thought?: these are two words that one rarely associates, ? explains Andr? Green . ?Thought resides in a variety of fields of activity, but, up to the present, it has not yet entered...

This book tells the story of a survivor. At the age of 23, Marta Balinska weighed 26 kilos. After a fifteen-year struggle, she finally overcame anorexia J?ai ?t? anorexique is much more than an...

When the course of a human life is halted or destroyed by the onset of a coma or comatose state, the victim's loved ones face a very painful situation: learning to cope with a totally or partially...

Company of Philosophers / La Compagnie des philosophesAuthor: Roger-Pol DroitPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Jan 05, 1998Number of Pages: 432 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Confines of the Law / Aux confins du droitAuthor: Norbert RoulandPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Oct 31, 1991Number of Pages: 432 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

This is the testimony of a psychiatrist who reconsiders some of the fundamental texts of his practice, of a psychoanalyst who reflects upon the role and the limits of hospitals and institutions, of a...

The constants of Nature are the numbers that define the ultimate structure of the Universe and tell us how strong its forces are: the strength of gravity and magnetI'm, the speed of light, the masses...

Consumer-Entrepreneur / Le Consommateur entrepreneur: Les nouveaux modes de vieAuthor: Robert RochefortPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Oct 02, 1997Number of Pages: 304 pagesBinding: Paperback...

Contraception: Constraint or Liberty ? / Contraception: contrainte ou libert? ?: Travaux du Coll?ge de FranceAuthor: ?tienne-?mile BaulieuPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Aug 21, 1999Number of...

In fighting cancer the focus is now on psychological and somatic aspects.Written by an oncologist and a psychologist specialising in oncology, this book deals both with the physical and the psychic...

CosmopolitanI'm: Ethics in a World of Strangers / Pour un nouveau cosmopolitismeAuthor: Kwame Anthony AppiahPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Feb 28, 2008Number of Pages: 262 pagesBinding:...