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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.

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.

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.

Brains That Pull the Triggers (The) - Syndrome E

Itzhak Fried, Alain Berthoz, Gretty M. Mirdal

The Brains That Pull the Triggers Syndrome E

History shows us the same grim phenomenon over and over: under extreme circumstances, apparently ordinary citizens turn into merciless torturers and systematic executioners of defenseless victims...

Gérard Berry

The Hyperpower of Informatics

Gérard Berry shows how information and data have come to occupy a central role not only in our technologies and sciences, but also in our daily lives...

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.

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...

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.”...