Marc Michel: 41 books

What was there before the Big Bang? Are researchers ordinary people just like everyone else? What will physicists do when they've discovered what's inside particles? Do particles grow when we grow? Does space go on forever? What's inside a black hole? In 2014, CERN launched an art competition...

Quebec City, 1908. Two priests-to-be are ordered to deliver a letter to a controversial visitor to their city: the legendary French actress, Sarah Bernhardt.']As part of her long career, Bernhardt – known to her loyal fans as “The Divine” – visited Canada several times between 1880 and 1917,...

Following the accidental death of his lover, and in the throes of his grief, urban ad executive Tom travels to the country to attend the funeral and to meet his mother-in-law, Agatha, and her son, Francis – neither of whom know Tom even exists. Arriving at the remote rural farm, and immediately drawn...

Chez Gargantua, le père, et Pantagruel, le fils, tout est démesuré : l'appétit, la soif (y compris celle de savoir), l'activité physique et intellectuelle, les lectures, les exploits... Rien d'étonnant à cela, puisqu'ils sont, tous deux, des géants. Mais pas des géants infréquentables comme...

A community publication about all things mobile.This project was initiated in 2009 with the aim to spread knowledge about mobile technologies and to encourage people to enter our community or deepen their existing knowledge. For this 17th edition the whole content has been reviewed, updated and extended...

Packed with clearly labeled, full-color drawings on every page, Atlas of Middle Ear Surgery guides readers through the most common and innovative surgical procedures used to manage middle ear pathology.The authors, experts in this technically demanding field, begin by providing practical background information...

At the end of the Great War, to protect his village from the Spanish flu epidemic, a priest commissions an Italian painter to decorate the local church with a fresco dedicated to the Virgin Mary. The painter is to choose, among four local women all named Mary, a model for his work. Superstition collides with desire, and lies are unmasked.

In the current crisis context, capitalism is questioned by its detractors or defended by its partisans. The concept of Socially Responsible Capitalism (SRC) is based on the entrepreneurial spirit. It encourages exemplary behaviors, such as effective, efficient and ethical behaviors, by stimulating...

A collection of documents, with commentary, which trace the day-to-day pronouncements, utterances, and reflections from all sides of the conflict in China in the spring of 1989. The 65 documents are arranged chronologically, starting in early March and ending in late June.

On l’appelle «  Mimi  ». Michèle Marchand, la papesse des paparazzis, la gardienne des rumeurs, des secrets de la politique et des affaires. Elle collectionne les scoops sur les puissants, ceux que vous avez vus et ceux que vous ne verrez jamais. Mimi ne dispose d’aucun titre officiel mais...

Paul Ricoeur’s first book, Freedom and Nature, introduces many themes that resurface in various ways throughout his later work, but its significance has been mostly overlooked in the field of Ricoeur studies. Gathering together an international group of scholars, A Companion to Freedom and Nature...

Dossier : Un nouvel ordre mondiale → Entretien avec Hubert Védrine : « Emmanuel Macron réveille l’idée d’une politique étrangère française » Pour Hubert Védrine, les rapports de force entre les USA et la Russie ne signent pas les prémices d’une nouvelle guerre froide. L’ancien...

Le Moyen-Orient décomposé redevient-il le centre d’un nouveau « Grand Jeu » ?... S’y réinscrivent les puissances globales : des États-Unis faussement tentés par l’éloignement, une Russie qui s’impose sur un échiquier inattendu, une France secouée par les contradictions de ses politiques......

En ces temps de crise, le capitalisme est remis en question par ses détracteurs ou défendu bec et ongles par ses partisans. Le concept proposé de Capitalisme Socialement Responsable est fondé sur l’esprit d’entreprise, favorise les comportements exemplaires, à la fois efficaces, efficients...