Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique, François Heisbourg

Strategic and Military Yearbook 2002

This book provides an up-to-date overview of the major trends and strategic challenges facing the world today. Experts in their field offer concise as well as detailed analyses most notably on the following subjects: - the expansion of U.S. military power compared with the stagnation of European defence - military aspects of operations in Afghanistan - terrorist networks - the proliferation of weapons - defence measures against attacks with biological weapons - security and defence agreements in Asia - the strategic outlook for Europe - financing research; the strategy of European co-operation - overhauling the French armed forces - the French military and the challenge of non-conventional threats These studies are complemented by thorough statistical and analytical data on French defence, on the military budgets of France and other nations, and on international treaties and agreements.

Michel Tournaire

The Joy of Motherhood Pregnancy After 35

Claude Fischler, Véronique Pardo

Special Diets

In many countries, restrictive diets are changing individual eating habits — and profoundly altering the way we relate to one another.

Bernard Gibello

Thought, Memory, Madness

What shapes thought and what explains its dysfunctions?

François Vannucci

Astronomy of the Extreme Universe

Jacques Hochmann

Consolation An Essay on Mental Care

This is the testimony of a psychiatrist who reconsiders some of the fundamental texts of his practice, of a psychoanalyst who reflects upon the role and the limits of hospitals and institutions, of a doctor who never ceased asking himself what curing madness meant.

Jacques Lesourne

Reflecting on the Future

Instead of describing a ready-made methodology, the author, an eminent prospectivist, shows us how to picture the future.

Christian de Perthuis, Pierre-André Jouvet

Green Capital

The indispensable book to understand the green economy and boost economic growth