Prodinnova: 100 books

Cover of Souvenirs
by Alexis de Tocqueville
Language: French
Release Date: April 21, 2015

Ces Souvenirs, publiés en 1893, ont été lus, relus et maintes fois cités, en raison d’abord d’une qualité littéraire qui ne faillit pas : l’art du portrait, le génie de la formule, la lucidité du témoin produisent des morceaux de bravoure saisissants. Source historique sur l’« apprentissage...
Cover of Freaking Astrophysics
by Brian Williams
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012

Have you ever wondered why you wouldn’t feel the burn if your arm could extend and reach the Sun? Why maternity clinics would be needed on future interplanetary vessels? Why extraterrestrials, if they exist, would be very different from how they are depicted in science fiction movies? Why these...
Cover of Le rêve et son interprétation
by Sigmund Freud
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016

Dans ce livre, Freud propose l’une des premières descriptions de la méthode propre à l’interprétation analytique. De fait, il décrit la règle de l’association libre qui restera, encore aujourd’hui, l’un des piliers essentiels de la pratique psychanalytique. Freud prend appui pour indiquer...
Cover of The Garden of Cyrus
by Thomas Browne
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2016

Penned during a relaxation of licences for printing-presses and State censorship thus catering for the psychological uncertainties, social debate and millenarian expectations engendered during the Protectorate of Cromwell; The Garden of Cyrus is Browne’s contribution to what was a ‘boom period’...
Cover of Arithmetic for Entertainment
by Yakov Perelman
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015

This book is different from other books of similar content, not in term of the material it contains but in term of the way this material is processed and presented. It does not only study the arithmetic topics studied in school, but also analyzes how these ones can be used in various other areas...
Cover of Voyage autour du monde

Voyage autour du monde

par la frégate La Boudeuse, et la flûte L’Étoile

by Louis Antoine de Bougainville
Language: French
Release Date: March 6, 2015

Voyage autour du monde est le journal de voyage de Louis Antoine de Bougainville, marin et militaire, qui mena entre 1766 et 1769, sous l’impulsion de Louis XV et de son Premier ministre Choiseul, une expédition autour du monde avec les vaisseaux La Boudeuse et l’Étoile. Cette expédition embarquait...
Cover of Les Pierres de Venise
by John Ruskin
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2015

Ce livre offre une splendide description de l’architecture de Venise avec quelques belles envolées poétiques très bien traduites par Mathilde Crémieux. Un merveilleux guide d’une ville, avec des informations intéressantes et des références de premier ordre. ll n’est pas étonnant que ce livre ait été un ouvrage de référence pendant longtemps.
Cover of Mechanics for Entertainment
by Yakov Perelman
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015

Unfortunately, the extent of our physics knowledge still does not allow us to see clearly the crucial importance of this science. A wide range of physics notions such as the theory of motion, strength, force, and mechanics in general are still vague for beginners. Those “who do not know movement,...
Cover of L'Opinion et la Foule
by Gabriel Tarde
Language: French
Release Date: December 25, 2015

“ L’expression psychologie collective ou psychologie sociale est souvent comprise en un sens chimérique qu’il importe avant tout d’écarter. Il consiste à concevoir un esprit collectif, une conscience sociale, un nous, qui existerait en dehors ou au-dessus des esprits individuels. Nous n’avons...
Cover of Amazing Experiments for Young Physicists
by Yakov Perelman, Brian Williams
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013

You don’t know that much about physics. You don’t understand everything about gravity, magnetism, electricity or light, but you are curious and want to know more about these fields. This book helps you reaching this objective using many instructive and entertaining experiments. These are simple...
Cover of Distant Worlds
by Yakov Perelman
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015

The purpose of the book is to initiate the reader into the basic facts of astronomy. Ordinary facts with which you may be acquainted are couched here in unexpected paradoxes, or slanted from an odd and unexpected angle. The theme is, as far as possible, free from “terminology” and technical concepts...
Cover of Physics Everywhere
by Yakov Perelman
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015

This book contains hundreds of colorful stories from the field of physics. Despite their entertaining appearance, they address several important and serious notions in this field. This book does not seek to replace school textbooks. Its purpose is to entice the reader to consciously observe physical...
Cover of De la démocratie en Amérique
by Alexis de Tocqueville
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015

Le second tome de De la démocratie en Amérique, publié en 1840, est une réflexion sur les formes particulières de la démocratie américaine. Cette réflexion s’élargit à des considérations générales sur la démocratie, notamment le risque de tyrannie de la majorité. L’œuvre traite...
Cover of Tocqueville au Bas-Canada
by Alexis de Tocqueville
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2015

Cet ouvrage inclut l’ensemble des observations qu’Alexis de Tocqueville a rédigées sur la nation française nord-américaine lors de son voyage en terroitoire nord-américain, au mois d’août de 1831. Tocqueville annonce son intention de faire ce qu’il décrit comme “le voyage à la mode...
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