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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?

Annales School (The) - An Intellectual History

André Burguière

The Annales School An Intellectual 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Didier Lombard

The Second Life of Networks

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.

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.

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.

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.