Michel: 4109 books

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. It's happening all the time, all around us. We cover it up. We ignore it. Rust takes on the many meanings of this oxidized substance, showing how technology bleeds into biology and ecology....

This volume is an introduction to the relationship between psychoanalysis and literature. Jean-Michel Rabaté takes Sigmund Freud as his point of departure, studying in detail Freud's integration of literature in the training of psychoanalysts and how literature provided crucial terms for his myriad...

Scientist Charles Darwin discretely opened the possibility of a purely animalistic origin for the human species. He repeatedly insisted that the differences between humans and others were a question of degree only. Sciences were, however, taken in the opposite direction, where these differences cannot...

“The working hypothesis is this:  it is true that sexuality as experience is obviously not independent of codes and systems of prohibitions, but it needs to be recalled straightaway that these codes are astonishingly stable, continuous, and slow to change.  It needs to be recalled also that the...

Longtemps considéré comme la simple toile de fond d'une oeuvre, le paysage a dépassé la peinture religieuse et la peinture d'histoire pour devenir un genre à part entière. Si, pour les artistes, la nature a longtemps servi d'exercice et de décors aux sujets, elle a finalement été étudiée...

One day, one story, at exactly 366 words each, that is the promise of 366 SQUARED, the short-short story / flash fiction collection that raises the question "In the age of multi-novel book series, is this guy for real?" Yes, he is, and 366 SQUARED is the launch of a new era in literature...

Bob Michel has been in the motorcycle industry for 29 years. Fourteen years with Harley-Davidson. He spent nine years as partner and vice president of Milwaukee Harley-Davidson . Bob became sole owner of that dealership in July of 2003. As owner, he oversaw all the day-to-day operations, as he had...

Foreword by Hazel V. Carby   A modern classic about power and the making of history, with a new foreword by a prominent scholar   Placing the West’s failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside denials of the Holocaust and the debates over the Alamo and Christopher...

Fifty years after Sputnik, artificial satellites have become indispensable monitors in many areas, such as economics, meteorology, telecommunications, navigation and remote sensing. The specific orbits are important for the proper functioning of the satellites. This book discusses the great variety...

Freight Transport and the Modern Economy adapts a well-known textbook by Michel Savy, revising, extending and updating it for British, European and international readers. It deals not only with the technical aspects of transport, logistics and supply chain management, but also the interactions between...

Le transhumanisme est un mouvement technico-scientifique international qui prétend augmenter à l'infini les performances physiques et mentales de l'être humain.  Aujourd'hui vous pouvez déjà faire séquencer votre ADN en une journée, pour, peut-être un jour, le réparer, tandis qu'Internet...

" Jean Drucker, mon frère aîné, était mon idole, mon modèle. En ce week-end de Pâques 2003, j'allais le convaincre de nous associer pour vivre ensemble notre grande passion, la télévision. Mais dans la nuit du 17 au 18 avril, le destin en a décidé autrement. Rappelle-moi – le dernier...

Le professeur Michel Lejoyeux, l’auteur du best-seller Tout déprimé est un bien portant qui s’ignore nous livre un programme précis et pratique – de l’hiver à l’automne – pour faire le plein d’optimisme et d’énergie. Une « ordonnance »  pour toute l’année à partir des...

Rogue waves remain something of a mystery. Long believed to be a myth or an exaggeration, they haven't been the subject of any kind of serious in-depth research - until now. This book makes rigorous marine science accessible to all, exploring the causes and frequency of rogue waves, and the reasons...