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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.

Michel Morange

Life Explained

“Fifty years ago, Francis Crick and James D. Watson discovered the double-helix structure of DNA, the carrier of genetic information, the basis for heredity.[...]

Alain Berthoz

Simplexity Simplifying Principles for a Complex World

Simplexity, as I understand it, is the range of solutions living organisms have found, despite the complexity of natural processes, to enable the brain to prepare an action and plan for the consequences of it.

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.”...