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Henri Korn

Promised Lands

From a childhood under the Nazi occupation to great scientific discoveries: a life of passionate curiosity in which nothing is predetermined

The 2015 Colloquium of the Collège de France unites some of the most eminent authors in physics and astrophysics, in biology, in neuroscience and the history of science. Light is a timeless subject: it has always had the power to fascinate and disturb. Here it is explained.

Claude Nicolet

History, The Nation, The Republic

George Akerlof, Robert Shiller

Phishing for Phools The Economics of Manipulation and Deception

Deception lies at the heart of the economy

Dominique Schnapper, Paul Saloma, Perrine Simon-Nahum

Thinking about anti-Semitism A Symposium on Anti-Semitism

Commentary from the latest reports on anti-Semitism in France, in order to go well beyond journalistic and political discourse. The current character of the issue, which is examined here with the resources of both history and philosophy. The scope of the analyses proposed by some of the most respected specialists on the issue.

Jean-Pierre Changeux

A Single Ethical System for All?

Wheel and the Pen: (The) - How We Became Tourists

Catherine Bertho Lavenir

The Wheel and the Pen: How We Became Tourists

Master of Time (The) - Modernity in Government Action

Philippe Delmas

The Master of Time Modernity in Government Action

Roger Penrose

Cycles of Time An Extraordinary New View of the Universe

This groundbreaking book presents a new perspective on three of cosmology’s essential questions: What came before the Big Bang? What is the source of order in our universe? And what cosmic future awaits us?

Robert Conquest

Stalin

Uta Frith

The Enigma of austism

Alain Peyrefitte, Raymond Boudon, Pierre Chaunu

Values and Modernity Expanding on Alain Peyrefitte

With The Society of Confidence, and Of the Economic Miracle, Alain Peyrefitte has illustrated that growth is not primarily founded on the material wealth of a nation, capital, or even on work. Development is intrinsically linked to mentalities and values, which are the essential elements of economic, political and social modernity. Using this thesis as a starting point, the Institute of France organised a conference which brought together economic and technological historians, sociologists, criminologists, and experts from across the world, amongst which were R.Boudon, S.Eisenstadt, D.Landes, and S.Lipset. The wide spectrum of debate runs from the history of religious mentalities (P. Chaunu, J.Delumeau), to penal philosophy (D. Szabo). The comparative outlook of this book allows the reader an insight into the hidden depths of confidence, from Switzerland (J.-F. Bergier), to Japan (Terushi Hara), right through to the Third World (P. Moussa).

Fareed Zakaria

The Future of Freedom

Is it really so that more democracy leads automatically to more freedom ? Why, in the four corners of the world, are we now seeing an increased capacity for religion to mobilise the people ? Why, in Europe as in the United States, do we have minorities and oligarchies reigning in the name of the people ? Why has there been an increase in the number of regimes which are born from the polling booth, yet which exalt fanaticism, repression and war ? A dazzling world tour of the geo-political horizon, and also a lesson in modern and contemporary history, which we lead us to reexamine our own prejudices. Fareed Zakaria is the editor of Newsweek International and was formerly the managing director of the review Foreign Affairs.

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