Odile Jacob

?Armed conflicts in the former Yugoslavia are the biggest European scandal of the past decade. For the first time since 1945, our continent has experienced war, while ?ethnic cleansing? has made it...

This is a new, completely revised edition of Uta Frith's groundbreaking 1989 book on autism, which provided the first truly convincing psychological explanation of what happens in the mied of an...

Fran?ois Ansermet is a psychoanalyst, a professor of child psychiatry at the University of Lausanne and chief physician in the University's Department for child and Adolescent Psychiatry.Pierre...

Environment - A Social Question: The Result of Ten Years of Research for the Environmental Ministry / L'Environnement, question sociale: Dix ans de reAuthor: Robert RochefortPublisher: Odile...

Pascal de Sutter is a psychologist, professor of psychology, clinician and researcher, a specialist in sexology. He teaches at the Universit? Catholique de Louvain and at the universities of Lille...

?L'espionnage fascine; le renseignement inquiete. L'espionnage classique a joue un role majeur dans les conflits entre Etats, jusqu'a la fin de la guerre froide. Aujourd'hui, les enjeux, les...

Essay on a Philosophy of Style / Essai d'une philosophie du styleAuthor: Gilles-Gaston GrangerPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Jan 01, 1988Number of Pages: 322 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

This book is a mathematical and philosophical introduction to quantum mechanics. The author explains quantic formalI'm (Schr?dinger's equation) and investigates the theoretical questions posed by...

Euro For All / L'Euro pour tousAuthor: Philippe JurgensenPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Feb 27, 1998Number of Pages: 328 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 2738105564ISBN-13:...

?La construction europeenne a longtemps ete une promesse. Desormais synonyme de stagnation economique et d'instabilite financiere, l'Europe est devenue le ventre mou du monde. Il faut d'urgence en...

Europeans in 2004 / Les Europ?ens en 2004Author: Dominique Reyni?Publisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Apr 01, 2004Number of Pages: 274 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Event: The Koran: Surate LVI / L'?v?nement: Le Coran: sourate LVIAuthor: Andr? MiquelPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Sep 09, 1992Number of Pages: 400 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Pierre Bordage writes science fiction, specialising in space opera and historical fantasy. Jean-Paul Demoule, an archaeologist at Paris-1 University, is the founder and former president of the...

With J. HeI'mann, chief astronomer at the Paris Observatory and head of the MegaSETI project (the search for artificial extragalactic signals), we explore the ultimate frontier of the cosmos. Far...

Here is the story of Rose, an old lady who choses to bequeath her eyes to medicine, of Jean-Fran?ois, a young man who has lost part of his sight after an accident, of ?ric, a young doctor who...

All the contributors to this collective work are in agreement over a crucial issue: climate change is not only underway, it is accelerating, and it is clearly stimulated by human activities. It is...

Jean-Pierre Pharabod is most notably the author of Cantique des quantiques and Le R?ve des physiciens. He worked for thirty years in the nuclear physics high-energy laboratory of the Ecole...

Faust: A Natural History / Faust: Une histoire naturelleAuthor: Jean-Fran?ois PeyretPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Feb 26, 2000Number of Pages: 224 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

At some time in our lives, we have all experienced a feeling of anxiety and high tension linked to the fear of what is to come. One imagines the worst and begins buieding worst-case scenarios and...

Some children and even some adolescents have such a close relationship with their parents that it hampers them in their everyday lives. Their separation anxiety can manifest itself in various forms:...

Climate changes, loss of biological diversity, water scarcity and desertification, unequal development and poverty, food safety and world hunger: these are some of the global issues looming before us...

Pourquoi certaines femmes ont-elles des relations plus difficiles avec leur superieur hierarchique lorsque celui-ci est... une femme ? Pourquoi le harcelement moral entre femmes se developpe-t-il...

Mary Magdalen is one of the figures of the feminine in popular mythology. The couple she forms with Jesus stands for all the couples in Antiquity who were victims of dramatic separations and whose...

Tracing man's history from the hominids to the neolithic age, this book shows how each stage of development of the human cranI'm was accompanied by new technical and artistic innovations. From the...

The brain is most complex and mysterious construction in the universe, yet it is nonetheless a machine, an organ like the others, requiring food to construct and maintain itself. Certain types of...

For a Critique of Bio-Ethical Thinking / Pour une critique de la raison bio?thiqueAuthor: Lucien S?vePublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Mar 02, 1994Number of Pages: 418 pagesBinding: Paperback...

For Africa / Pour l'AfriqueAuthor: Edgard PisaniPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Feb 01, 1988Number of Pages: 258 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 2738100260ISBN-13: 9782738100269

Forgotten Childhood / L'Enfance oubli?eAuthor: Louis RousselPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Aug 11, 2001Number of Pages: 304 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 2738110150ISBN-13:...

?J'ai rencontre quelques grands ancetres, Shakespeare et Dostoievski, les auteurs inconnus du Mahabharata, Corneille, Chateaubriand, Balzac, Proust. Ils m'ont appris ce que je savais sans doute deja...

In this history about working hours in France during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the authors present two highly original theses which go against some established ideas. Their first thesis...