Ge imprint: 387 books
Energy: Electrochemical Storage and Sustainable Development
Inaugural Lecture delivered on Thursday 9 December 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
The storage and conversion of energy is one of the major scientific challenges of the decades to come, with high stakes for the environment. What new materials will allow for more efficient and “cleaner” batteries to be developed? Jean-Marie Tarascon reviews these issues and their implications...
Managing Climate Change. Climate, Growth and Equitable Development
Inaugural lecture delivered on Thursday 4 February 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Climate change has been the source of immense challenges for ethical, economic or political analysts. We are aware of the scale of the action required to be taken and the areas in which that action is needed namely efficient energy use, low carbon technologies or deforestation. We have an idea of...
Anthropology of Nature
Inaugural lecture delivered on Thursday 2 March 2001
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
It looks as though the anthropology of nature is an oxymoron of sorts, given that for the past few centuries, nature has been characterized in the West by humans’ absence, and humans, by their capacity to overcome what is natural in them. But nature does not exist as a sphere of autonomous realities...
Aux origines de l'histoire globale
Leçon inaugurale prononcée le jeudi 28 novembre 2013
Language: French
Release Date: June 4, 2014
Qui pense le monde ? Les hommes du passé ou les historiens du présent ? L’histoire universelle telle qu’elle était pratiquée depuis l’Antiquité s’est transformée à partir du XVIe siècle dans des contextes variés, de l’Asie orientale à l’Amérique espagnole. Grâce à sa connaissance...
Atomic and Molecular Physics
Inaugural Lecture delivered on Tuesday 11 December 1973
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
When physicists began to explore the world of atoms more precisely, as they endeavoured to understand its structure and the laws governing its behaviour, they soon encountered serious difficulties. Our intuitive concepts, based on our daily experience of the macroscopic world around us, proved to...
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
The analysis of the dynamic nature of rituals has become a heuristic tool for the investigation not only of religious behaviour and beliefs, but also for the study of social practice and communication in ancient and modern societies. From public assembly gatherings and funerals to celebration of cult...
Nava-vraja-mahimā 4
Volume Four
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
From the author of the highly acclaimed Krishna in Vrndavana series comes a nine volume literary treasure, Nava-vraja-mahima. In this epic work of over 4,000 pages, Sivarama Swami reveals the glories of the sacred dhama through the medium of pastime, parikrama, and philosophy.
Volume 4 is a...
Difference, Competition and Disproportion. The Sociology of Creative Work
Inaugural Lecture delivered on Thursday 9 January 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Work creates and transforms the social world. Its least predictable and most admired embodiment, artistic and scientific invention, seems to defy causal analysis and statistical regularities. Far more than the exploration of the conscious and infraconscious processes of individual inventiveness, the...
by Jean Racine
Language: French
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: French
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Le XVIIe siècle, le grand siècle des âmes, fut aussi celui de la langue française. Il devait donc nous laisser d'immenses monuments de la spiritualité chrétienne. C'est l'époque où, à Port-Royal, on entreprend de traduire et de rendre accessible les Écritures. Lemaistre de Sacy établit...
by Gunnel Ekroth
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
This study questions the traditional view of sacrifices in hero-cults during the Archaic to the early Hellenistic periods. The analysis of the epigraphical and literary evidence for sacrifices to heroes in these periods shows, contrary to the traditional notion, that the main ritual in hero-cults...
by Thomas Römer
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Developments in literary methodologies and archaeology have led scholars to question the traditional conception of biblical chronology and historiography. The starting point for Maximalist studies is the idea that the biblical story should simply be taken as true. However this position is indefensible...
On the Origins of Global History
Inaugural Lecture delivered on Thursday 28 November 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
How does one think of history on a world scale? Should one turn to the intellectuals of the past or the historians of the present? Universal history as it was practised from Antiquity started to change from the sixteenth century in varied contexts, from East Asia to Spanish America. Applying his extensive...
Metaphysical Knowledge
Inaugural lecture delivered on Thursday 5 May 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Metaphysics has been proclaimed to be archaic or outdated. Actually, it never “died”. It has even experienced considerable revival throughout the world, which in France we have yet to fully appreciate. Because, in both the most general and the most precise ways, it questions “what there is”,...
Literatures of Medieval France
Inaugural Lecture delivered on Friday 24 March 1995
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
This long tradition would certainly not be a reason in itself to keep or restore the subject, had it not something to do with the subject itself. All of the associations between the past and literature, all of the signs that point towards an essential link between the notion of literature and a feeling...