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During the summer of 1974 we discussed the state of molecular biology and biochemical developmental biology in plants on a few occasions in Paris and in Strasbourg. The number of laboratories engaged in such research is minute compared with those studying comparable problems in animal and bacterial systems, but by then much interesting work had been done and a great momentum was building. It seemed to us that the summer of 1976 would be a good time to review these areas of plant biology for students as well as advanced workers. We outlined a program for a course to colleagues both in Europe and the United States and asked a few potential lecturers if they would be interested. The response wa...
Le choix des artistes répond aux critères de langue (le français comme langue maternelle), de métier (pratique ou enseignement d'un art visuel), de lieu (Amérique du Nord, y compris le Mexique, sauf les Antilles) et d'époque : (être né avant 1901). Ainsi délimité, le champ demeure très vaste (plus de 2500 notices) et reflète un multiculturalisme historique d'envergure que nous présente bien cet ouvrage de référence solidement documenté. [SDM].
Over fifty years after her death, Simone Weil (1909-1943) remains one of the most searching religious inquirers and political thinkers of the twentieth century. Albert Camus said she had a "madness for truth." She rejected her Jewishness and developed a strong interest in Catholicism, although she never joined the Catholic church. Both an activist and a scholar, she constantly spoke out against injustice and aligned herself with workers, with the colonial poor in France, and with the opressed everywhere. She came to believe that suffering itself could be a way to unity with God, and her death at thirty-four has been recorded as suicide by starvation. This extraordinary study is primarily a t...