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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.