Political speeches and the media are full of clichés and stereotypes about young people from poor suburban neighborhood. Contrary to those unsubtle constructions, this book focuses on girls and boys sociability in order to restore their day-to-day complex reality.

Daily action by excellence, eating is a highly cultural, symbolic and social act because it presupposes, even before that food is consumed, incorporated, a real work of food culturation, - i.e a material, social and cultural work.

At the turn of the 19th / 20th century, the concept of "research field" appeared within the humanities and social sciences in both Germany and France.

Can agents who decide independently from each other coordinate their economic activities? From the XVIIIth century, economic thought answers this question by an intuition: a coordination is possible thanks to the prices' mechanism. The general equilibrium theory explores this intuition. It constitutes by there the economic theory of a society ...

We present two aspects of the mathematician Michel Parreau. In the first place the much appreciated lecture notes of his course in complex analysis. And in the second place his research on Riemann surfaces.

Secrets are inevitable and dangerous. Thus, the rules governing the secret must be carefully formulated. Everyone is concerned.

This book explores the representations and practices aiming at "doing better", in the context of health, and more specifically mental health. Contributors focus on dynamics, actors, practical resources, and experience of heal-ing, recovery, ways and means to get through.

This collective, multidisciplinary work draws on research conducted in higher education to analyze the ways in which experience and skills combine. It offers theoretical and practical reflections on a topical issue.

The frontiers between the body, the mind, the machine are vague. Whether the body is biological or socially constructed is not clear. The body is the object of philosophical, scientific and religious thinkings since the antiquity, but a central question remains: What are the limits of the body?

The so-called "Arab Springs"give rise to a number of myths and phantasms, and a lot of texts only consider the surface of movements, with both fascination and exaltation about social networks. But the digital expression of contestation is not sufficient to explain the phenomenon. It is preferable to consider deep reasons moving agents and...