Odile Jacob

France's New Challenge / Le Nouveau D?fi fran?ais: La France face ? la mondialisationAuthor: Philip H. GordonPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Mar 23, 2002Number of Pages: 242 pagesBinding:...

Freedom in dieting means Sliming without having to obey a rigid set of rules. Dr Jacques Fricker shows here that it is enough to follow some basic nutritional guidelines, which can be applied easily...

French Model: The Rise and Fall / Le Mod?le fran?ais: Grandeur et d?cadenceAuthor: Jacques LesournePublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: May 06, 1998Number of Pages: 206 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

French State and PluralIism: A Political History of Public Institutions from 476 to 1792 / L'?tat fran?ais et le pluralisme: Histoire politique desAuthor: Norbert RoulandPublisher: Odile...

From Communism to Capitalism: A Theory of Disaster / Du communisme au capitalisme: th?orie d'une catastropheAuthor: Michel HenryPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Nov 08, 1990Number of Pages:...

Jean Rosa belongs to the post-war generation that transformed French medicine from a state of powerless Humanism ? all the more "humane" because it was so often helpless ? to one of scientific and...

From the physics of particules to astronomy, from chemistry to biology, chaos is present in most scientific fields. Three specialists of this subject have undertaken, through many examples, to...

Recently, numerous discussions and debates have addressed the issue of ?moral perversions? in both the public and private sphere. Perversions have often been in the news; they include serious...

Traditionally, meat was the basis of our meals. Today it has become the object of dietary resentment: too much fat, too rich, too heavy... Yet meat contains proteins essential to a healthy existence...

From the Enlightenment to the Neurosciences / Helmholtz: Des Lumi?res aux neurosciencesAuthor: Michel MeuldersPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Mar 31, 2001Number of Pages: 314 pagesBinding:...

Faute d'avoir corrige a temps les desequilibres que l'on sentait monter, nous voila confrontes au defi de resoudre trois crises en meme temps. Celle du chomage et de l'exclusion d'abord. La crise...

We must hate death because it destroys reason wrote Casanova. This modern phrase expresses well our fear about what seems absurd to us. Yet, most of yesterday s societies attempted to give meaning to...

Future of Large-Scale Distribution / L'Avenir de la grande distributionAuthor: Philippe MoatiPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Mar 15, 2001Number of Pages: 392 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Let us imagine Galileo locked up with a photodiode in a room that alternately lights up and darkens. Both can indicate whether it is lit or not. If Galileo is aware of it, why not say that the...

Who plays games ? What are games ? Among human beings games are played by children, athletes, actors, gamblers, chess players, enthusiasts of high-risk sports, criminals and hustlers. In each case,...

What exactly is depression ? And where does mental illness begin ?Contemporary psychiatry offers many ? often contradictory ? answers to these questions. The fields of psychoanalysis, neurobiology,...

After sharing so many years together, men and women still don't know each other.Sometimes emotions unite them-- more often, they drive couples apart. How many misunderstandings, quarrels and...

Atoms originate in the stars. There is no real separation between the Earth and the sky, and matter forms one great whole, based on a series of nuclear reactions. Written in a lyrical, poetic style,...

To what extent are we determined by our genes? Can we hope that gene therapy will put an end to all our ills? Will the manipulation of genes lead to the degradation of human beings and a most...

How is culture passed on ? Is it possible to reconstruct the history of the evolution of the human species using genetic information from existing populations ? Is there a relationship between the...

Genetics of Original SinAuthor: Christian de DuvePublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Apr 30, 2019Number of Pages: 242 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 2738147526ISBN-13: 9782738147523

Do we live in an age of addictions? Some pass their time in the office, to the detriment of their family life. Others blow their budget on useless and spontaneous buys. Others still crave thrills and...

Are fats the demons of modern times? Are they the bane of too rich diets? Are they the poison of opulent societies? Without fats, which are an absolute necessity for our brain and our health, life...

Jean-Pierre Luminet, an astrophysicist and an internationally recognised specialist on black holes, is a research director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and a member of...

Internationally respected as an authority on strategic studies and geopolitics, Edward Luttwak is a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, in Washington, D.C. In this...

Grandparents: The Family Seen Through Several Generations / Grands-parents: La famille ? travers les g?n?rationsAuthor: Claudine Attias-DonfutPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Sep 27,...

In their own ways, both Keynes and the Internet signalled major breaks. The economist John Maynard Kenyes revealed the insufficiencies of a market economy and proposed some short-term remedies, whose...

Christian de Perthuis is a professor of economics at Paris-Dauphine University and the founder of the Climate Economics Chair. He recently published Economic Choices in a Warming World (Cambridge...

Since October 2003, France's health-care system has required users to purchase generic medications, when these exist, if they wish their medical prescriptions to be covered. Physicians have agreed...

Virginie Meggl? is a psychoanalyst, a registered member of the Society of Adlerian Psychoanalysis, and the founder of the association and the Internet site Psychanalyse en mouvement. She has...