This volume, a tribute to François Gros and a celebration of the field of Tamil studies, demonstrates the international nature of this area and its wide range of topics. The contributors stem from sixteen...

Since the beginning of her career, Professor Sabine De Knop has been doing research within the frameworks of Cognitive and Contrastive Linguistics and has mainly distinguished herself in three research...

Scholars of Russian culture have always paid close attention to texts and their authors, but they have often forgotten about the readers. These volumes illuminate encounters between the Russians and their...

Scholars of Russian culture have always paid close attention to texts and their authors, but they have often forgotten about the readers. These volumes illuminate encounters between the Russians and their...

As liminal beings, ghosts seem particularly appropriate to define, question or challenge hybrid cultures where several, seemingly irreconcilable, identities coexist. The present volume wonders how they...

The intangible age has dawned. Welcome to a world buoyed by asset sharing, as ownership slips ever further into the background. Particularly visible in millennials’ lifestyles, this groundswell...

France Digitale, representing the best of the French tech sector, has gathered together nine contributions in order to provide an engaging perspective on the topics that have been the main focus of...

Successfully perform a large transformation project. The nuclear production department of EDF has launched a large transformation project of nuclear facilities maintenance, covering 19 production sites...

How to build a Post-Western theory, based on the sociology of migration in France and in China? Where do “Western” and “Non-Western” theories converge, and how do common and situated knowledge coexist...

The end of the Pleistocene (c. 75-15 ka) is a key period for the prehistory of the Nile Valley. The climatic fluctuations documented during this period have led human populations from the Middle and Late...

This collective volume brings together thirteen contributions focusing on the transgression of borders in the English-speaking world from the beginning of the 19th century to the 21st century, in literature,...

This book proposes a unique and immersive multispecies ethnography of the cooperative interaction between the Khamti and elephants in Northeast India. It is based on extended research fieldwork, which...

Wallace Stevens, Poetry, and France offers the first book-length study of the various effects–poetic or prosaic, serious or comic, strange or familiar–produced by the deployment of French languages and...

‘Transport’ is a delightfully open word; adding an ‘s’ to the original makes it even more interesting. The participants in the Conference which was organized on this topic by the Cerpac, early November...

One cannot fail to be impressed by the number of works of fiction relating to slavery and the slave trade, writing back to the original slave narratives of the 18th and 19th centuries. If the African-American...

The idea of India and the Indian diasporic imagination is the product of the rich scholarship being done on the Asian sub-continent, as well as in the many countries where South Asians have settled. The...

The term “arti cial intelligence” conjures up all manner of science- ction style fantasies, from the end of work to machine domination and the extinction of the human race. But what if these fears...

We need an efficient and innovative logistics sector to deal with constantly-changing patterns of consumption and enable manufacturing businesses to thrive. Should we just look on while others show...

Five years after the death of Nelson Mandela, and 25 years after sharing the Nobel Peace Prize with him, Frederik de Klerk reflects on his political legacy in a revealing series of letters to his...

Scholars of Russian culture have always paid close attention to texts and their authors, but they have often forgotten about the readers. These volumes illuminate encounters between the Russians and their...

Weaving together ethnography and history, this book offers an in-depth analysis of the pre-colonial polity of the Meru of Kenya and its radical transformations from 1908 through the 1950s. It addresses...

Fruit of a large international collaboration, the present volume collects 35 papers produced by experts. Its chief aim is to provide a contribution to the studies on the writing of history in Greco-Roman...

While several atlases of Ancient Egypt exist, no atlas of contemporary Egypt has yet been published. Thus, this work fills a void and offers the general public an illustrated panorama of Egypt at the...

Nicholas Roerich − philosopher, humanist and visionary artist who achieved international renown in the first half of the 20th century − left a prodigious artistic and cultural legacy to the world. Nehru,...

Dictators, perverts, temperamental or volatile characters, etc. the authors paint the portraits of tyrannical leaders and then formulate proposals about how to reconsider the individual so he can fulfi...

Why We Need Common Good Capitalism  Capitalism leads to excesses and the social and solidarity economy can't provide all the answers. That's why we need a new economic model. As head of the French...

The 2020 Covid pandemic was an unprecedented worldwide disaster. It highlighted the massive contribution healthcare industries make, both to our individual and our collective health....

Utopia has changed sides. It’s utopian to think business as usual is an option. It’s realistic to argue for radical change. Actors in the social economy are growing in size. As for conventional businesses,...

In the fight against global warming, we have tried everything – except gas! At a point when compliance with the goals set at COP21 is growing ever more distant, there is no place for dogmatism....

Maybe you're skeptical about what men have to gain from greater gender balance. Maybe you're reticent to speak up about a sensitive subject. Perhaps you're wondering how to get more men to join the...