280 results for '"Claude Itzykson'

“A fount of practical tips for cat owners.” —The New York Times From a leading veterinary psychiatrist, a groundbreaking look into the minds of our feline companions and “a guide to being the best...

Des son instauration, le gouvernement de Vichy met en application toute une legislation d'exception. Parmi les mesures adoptees, quelques-unes visent specifiquement l'Universite et les juifs: les...

The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece offers the first comprehensive inquiry into the deity of sexual love, a power that permeated daily Greek life. Avoiding Foucault's philosophical paradigm of...

The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece offers the first comprehensive inquiry into the deity of sexual love, a power that permeated daily Greek life. Avoiding Foucault's philosophical paradigm of...

" Jamais la littérature n'a été aussi "philosophique" qu'au XXe siècle ", remarque Merleau-Ponty. Sans doute est-ce la raison pour laquelle les philosophes s'y sont intéressés, plus qu'à n'importe...

In this groundbreaking work, Claude Calame argues that the songs sung by choruses of young girls in ancient Greek poetry are more than literary texts; rather, they functioned as initiatory rituals in...

1961, three years after meeting Jeanne-Claude in Paris, Christo made a study of a mammoth project that would wrap one of the city’s most emblematic monuments. 60 years, 25,000 square meters of...

Surely the ancient Greeks would have been baffled to see what we consider their "mythology." Here, Claude Calame mounts a powerful critique of modern-day misconceptions on this front and the lax...

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The development of theorems in logic is generally thought to be a solitary and purely cerebral activity, and therefore unobservable by sociologists. In Weaving Self-Evidence, French sociologist...

Arranged alphabetically by subject, this book contains over 1,250 illustrations (250 in full color) with detailed text describing armor, crossbows, swords, daggers, axes, cannon, pistols, bayonets,...

A loosely related series of scenes from the past and the present are combined in a fictional collage