Roger Penrose

Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe The Big Bang and the effect of fashion

Roger Penrose is a world-renowned theoretical physicist. The author of many books on cosmology, he is emeritus professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford.

Pierre Grosser

The History of the World is Made in Asia Another vision of the twentieth century

A "de-westernized" story: many episodes that are often overlooked are described here — the Russian civil war in the Far East, the Anglo-Japanese confrontation in Manchuria, the harshness of the Korean War…

Jean-Pierre Changeux

Passions of the Spirit Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Paintings in the Changeux Collection

Monique Canto-Sperber

Paradoxes of Knowledge Essays on Plato's Meno

Joseph LeDoux

The Synaptic Self How Our Brains Become Who We Are

Benoît Mandelbrot, Richard L. Hudson

The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin and Reward

René Frydman, Julien Cohen-Solal

My Pregnancy, My Child The Expectant Mother's Book

Jacques Lesourne, André Orléan, Bernard Walliser

Lessons in Evolutionary Microeconomics