Entre les généralisations hâtives et le pointillisme du détail, ce livre de synthèse rassemble l’essentiel des coutumes religieuses et folkloriques de l’ancienne Savoie. La documentation a été puisée aux sources des grandes enquêtes de Mgr Rendu et d’Arnold Van Gennep, aux rapports inédits des curés comme aux observations des instituteurs, sans négliger l’apport original des auteurs de monographies communales. Au-delà du pittoresque anecdotique et de la nostalgie d’un monde perdu, c’est to...

This book contains the proceedings of a symposium held at the College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, USA, 16-20 June 1986. The seed for this symposium arose from a group of physiologists , soU scientists and biochemists that met in Leningrad, USSR in July 1975 at the 12th Botanical Conference in a Session organized by Professor B.B. Vartepetian. This group and others later conspired to contribute to a book entitled Plant Life in Anaerobic Environments (eds. D. D. Hook and R. M....

The phylontogenic theory proposes an original understanding of nose, sinus and midface formation and development by looking back in evolution for the first traces of the olfactory organ and then tracing its successive phyletic transformations to become part of the respiratory apparatus and finally the central point of human facial anatomy. Von Baer’s, Darwin’s, Haeckel’s, Garstang’s, Gould’s and Buss’ explorations of parallels between phylogeny and ontogeny help to trace the nose and midfa...