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Science of Light (The) - From Galileo’s Telescope to Quantum Physics

Serge Haroche

The Science of Light From Galileo’s Telescope to Quantum Physics

Light has fascinated mankind since the dawn of time...

Urban Challenge (The) - Reviving the desire to live in a city

Pierre-André de Chalendar

The Urban Challenge Reviving the desire to live in a city

Once the seductive symbol of sophistication and unlimited possibility, the city has become synonymous in our imagination with sprawl...

It has been 130 years since the telephone was invented, a little more than twenty for the internet and mobile phones. The weaving of an increasing number of telecommunications and information networks is coupled to an intertwining of social and human networks: we are in fact becoming... the networks.

Jacques de Larosière

50 Years of Financial Crises

“This story essentially tells of the financial crises that the markets always end up inflicting on those who have abused their innovations, their excesses and the lax atmosphere.

Isabelle Peretz

How Music Sculpts Our Brain

How does the process of learning music impact our brain? To what extent does it foster curiosity, attention and enhance memory?

French White Paper on Defence and National Security (The)

_ Commission du Livre blanc

The French White Paper on Defence and National Security

Upon being elected President of the French Republic, Nicolas Sarkozy appointed a wide-ranging Commission to appraise France’s defence and security strategy.

André Klarsfeld, Frédéric Revah

The Biology of Death

Why are most living creatures condemned to die "naturally" even when they have a favourable and protected environment? Is death a "useful" biological process or does it not correspond to any natural necessity?

Pascal Lamy, Nicole Gnesotto

Strange New World Geoeconomics vs Geopolitics

A must-read for anyone interested in getting a firmer grasp on global and European affairs.

Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique, François Heisbourg

French Strategic and Military Yearbook 2002-2003

The advent of hyperterrorism on "9/11" and subsequent military operations have marked the return of strategic affairs as a core concern of the citizens of our countries.

Brain as a Chemical Machine (The) - Nicotinic receptors and neuronal communication

Jean-Pierre Changeux, Stuart J. Edelstein

The Brain as a Chemical Machine Nicotinic receptors and neuronal communication

This richly illustrated volume furnishes an exceptional opportunity for scientists and students to follow the course of a major advance in our understanding of the molecular basis of brain functions.

Pierre Boulez, Jean-Pierre Changeux, Philippe Manoury

Enchanted Neurons The Brain and Music

What happens in the mind of the creator, the composer, when he creates, is still unknown. It is this “mystery” that this book aims to shed light on.

Claude Fischler

Selective Eating The Rise, the Meaning and Sense of «Personal Dietary Requirements»

The issue of selective eating is explored here from a wide interdisciplinary perspective: from a biomedical standpoint to social and historical analyses.

Nicolas Véron, Matthieu Autret, Alfred Galichon

Smoke and Mirrors, Inc.

This book is aimed at practicing accountants, business and corporate finance students, but also at any reader interested in an original and compelling perspective on the use and abuse of accounting in the business community.

Jean-Pierre Changeux

The Good, the True, and the Beautiful

"this book attempts to show that it is up to us to relentlessly inspire the minds of humans to invent a future that will enable humanity to attain a life of more solidarity, a happier life for and with each one of us [...] J. -P. C.

James E. Darnell

Up from Mississippi A memoir

How did a young native of the American South, raised in an era of racism and segregation, rise to a highly decorated position at the forefront of molecular biology research?

Philippe Cury, Daniel Pauly

Obstinate Nature

“A system is viable only if it combines speed and slowness,” write Philippe Cury and Daniel Pauly. “Nature’s cycles tell us that viability requires a combination of these dynamics—fast and slow, innovation and inertia.”...

Christian de Duve

Genetics of Original Sin

“In this book I examine the extraordinary saga of life on Earth in the light of the most recent scientific discoveries. [...]" C. de D.

Denis Le Bihan

Einstein's Error At the Frontiers of the Brain and the Cosmos

At the crossroads of physics and neuroscience: a new approach to brain function based on Einstein's work on relativity and the cosmological constant.

Useless Man (The) - A Political Economy of Populism

Pierre-Noël Giraud

The Useless Man A Political Economy of Populism

Today, the “wretched of the earth” are no longer those oppressed by colonization, but rather the unemployed and the working poor, migrants and refugees, landless peasants depending on public or familial assistance to survive—in a word, the economically useless.

Annales School (The) - A New Approach to the Study of History

André Burguière

The Annales School A New Approach to the Study of History

This book provides a broad overview of the Annales School’s academic expansion and examines the importance of its central concept – mentalities – in historiographical research.

Claude Hagège

On the Death and Life of Language

Claude Hagège is a recipient of the CNRS Gold Medal, and professor at the Collège de France.

Revival of Democracy in America and the Better Angels of Your Nature (The) - Letter from a European Friend

Renaud Lassus

The Revival of Democracy in America and the Better Angels of Your Nature Letter from a European Friend

A worthy heir to Alexis de Tocqueville’s landmark nineteenth-century analysis of the democratic experiment in the United States, Renaud Lassus’s The Revival of Democracy in America is both a brisk, lucid assessment of the nation’s current political and social climate and a resounding call for optimism at a moment when the prevailing winds seem to be blowing the other way.