Christopher K. Germer

The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion Freeing Yourself from Destructive Thoughts and Emotions

An introduction to self-compassion by an eminent clinical psychologist and bestselling author

Yves Pouliquen

Cabanis: An Ideologue’s Life

The brilliant intellectual life of the French Revolutionary period is vividly revived here in this biography of Cabanis, physician, physiologist and Enlightenment philosopher.

Bénédicte Reynaud

Economic Rules and Their Uses

Thérèse Delpech

Nuclear Deterrence in the 21st Century Lessons from the Cold War for a New Era of Strategic Piracy

Nuclear weapons and the challenges ahead: a fascinating study by a leading expert

Henri Meschonnic, Pierre Soulages

Rhythm and Light

Gisèle Gelbert

The Mechanics of Reading Skills Learning to read, but how and why?

A therapeutic approach to language disorders has been shown to work.

Jean Benjamin Stora

When the Body Takes Over Stress, Trauma and Somatic Diseases

Henri Atlan

Postgenomic Life, or What is Self-organisation?)

We spontaneously associate the idea of organisation with that of human production: the fruit of artistic endeavour or rational planning...