Stéphane Mazevet

Exoplanets and Life in the Universe In Search of Our Origins]

The tale of the great advances of the last half-century up to the discovery of extrasolar planets.

Alain Renaut, Jean-Cassien Billier, Patrick Savidan, Ludivine Thiaw-Po-Une

Lessons of Philosophy

The best in philosophical teaching for (almost) everyone

Serge Renaud

A Healthy Diet

It is possible to eat in a manner that reconciles the demands of staying slim, good health, and general well being - although the steady stream of unhealthy and sometimes dangerous slimming diets would tend to make us believe otherwise. The new health diet proposed here draws much from traditional Cretan eating habits - which seem to be responsible for the population’s tenaciously long life. Crete has the highest life-expectancy rate, and its people have the lowest incidence in the western world of cardiovascular diseases, that scourge of the industrialised nations. Serge Renaud is the scientist who discovered that wine can play a role in protecting against cardiovascular diseases - a finding that has become known as the ‘French paradox’. After spending much of his career in the United States, he directed a research unit of INSERM (France) for twenty years.

Commission du Livre blanc

The French White Paper on Defence and National Security The Debats

Olivier Houdé

Paul Valéry, In Love with his Brain Curious about everything, especially himself

The work of Valéry seen through the prism of neuroscience today… Fascinating.

Michèle Barzach

Screening Selfishness

Michel Rocard

Putting One's Heart into One's Work

In this intellectual and political autobiography, former French Prime Minister Michel Rocard explains the ethical requirements which underlied his every political action. This book provides an uncompromising analysis of French society and politics by examining the economic, cultural and social questions which France poses itself today.

Iannis Roder

Recovered Children of the Republic Reflections and Practices of Network of Priority Education

A book filled with Iannis Roder’s experiences, including many portraits of students and stories that tell us a lot about the reality of schools in the banlieues.