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An amateur pianist blends the present of a concert, recounted as it unfolds, and an inner monologue, with different episodes from the past and from his musical memories, and ends up telling the story of a life.

Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, Lluis Quintana-Murci

Civilizations: Questioning Identity and Diversity: Autumn Colloquium of the Collège de France

The noun “civilization” entered Western European vocabulary in the Eighteenth Century, and at that time denoted a stage of material, social, and cultural evolution...

Joëlle Proust

Thinking Fast or Thinking Well

By revealing the individual and social implications of cognitive functioning, an overview of up-to-date knowledge enabling us to understanding our thinking and to control it more in practice.

David Elbaz

The Greatest Trick of Light

The universe follows a direction, and that direction does not go toward ever more disorder, as is sometimes suggested.

Benefits of Music for the Brains of Children and Adults (The)

Pierre Lemarquis

The Benefits of Music for the Brains of Children and Adults

Music shapes and caresses our brain, it contributes to the development of individuals, to learning, to care, at every age in life.

Bruno Millet-Ilharreguy

Disorders of the Emotional Brain Understanding, Preventing, Healing

Emotion at the heart of psychiatric disease and its treatment.

Gilbert Cette, Jacques Barthélémy

Work and Technological Changes From the Civilization of Factories to That of the Digital

Recent mutations in the world of work are an opportunity to seize in order to adapt the law to the most unprecedented situations.

Bernard Sablonnière

The Mysteries of the Human Body

Do your organs interest you? In this new book, Professor Sablonnière offers a guided tour of them, a new Fantastic Voyage that plunges us into the mysteries of the body and its arcana.

Michelle Perrot, Wassyla Tamzali

Conversations

Two eminent intellectuals, a historian and a writer, both very involved in feminism, conversing on important issues faced by French and Algerian societies today.

Gilles Mentré

Democracy For a Redistribution of Power

Gilles Mentré is a man whose ambition is as great as his innovative ideas. He has a strong personality, a network, and a strength of conviction that will ensure a strong promotional campaign.

André Grimaldi

My Battle for Health Putting an End to 20 Years of Neglect

For a complete understanding of our health system and the succession of reforms “for increased productivity” of hospitals that have harmed it, without responding to the true new challenges happening now and to come.

Other at a Distance (The) - When a Pandemic Affects Intimacy

Anne Muxel

The Other at a Distance When a Pandemic Affects Intimacy

A sociological analysis that looks in depth at the upheavals brought about by the pandemic that have affected the intimate side of our existence and our relationships with others.

François Heisbourg

Return of War

Centered on the China-United States-Russia trio, this follow up to Le Temps des prédateurs: La Chine, L’Amérique, la Russie et nous provides essential keys for understanding the world to come.

Human People (The) - On the genetic traces of migrations, crossbreeding and adaptations

Lluis Quintana-Murci

The Human People On the genetic traces of migrations, crossbreeding and adaptations

A fascinating overview of what we have learned from genomics, after two decades of amazing progress: an unprecedented leap forward in our knowledge of human diversity and its history.

Georges Ugeux

Wall Street Attacks Democracy How Financial Markets Increase Inequality

Concrete solutions are proposed: the taxing of financial transactions, the creation of an independent agency to supervise central banks, discontinuing the remuneration of those who direct share prices.

Marion Leboyer, Lisa Letessier, Anne deDanne

Post-Covid, Reinventing Our Mental Health

In mental health, as in so many other areas, the Covid-19 pandemic calls for self-reinvention.

Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, Cass R. Sunstein

Noise A Flaw in Human Judgement

How can we explain the great variability in judgements in realms in which there shouldn’t be any – medical diagnostics, judicial sentences, recruitment, insurance policies, etc.? A powerful and innovative work.

Messenger RNA Revolution (The) - Vaccines and New Therapies

Fabrice Delaye

The Messenger RNA Revolution Vaccines and New Therapies

Messenger RNA, or the revenge of the outsiders: 40 researchers and entrepreneurs tell of the prodigious discoveries of the last few decades, their current development, and their immediate future.

Boris Cyrulnik, José Lenzini

Chérif Mécheri, a Muslim Prefect Under Vichy

Starting with an original biographical portrait of Chérif Mécheri (1902-1990), the first Muslim prefect of the Republic, a Vichy official attempting to undermine its activities, a keen reflection on those who resisted.

Centre International de Recherche de l’Historial de la Grande Guerre

The Great War in Every Direction

Topics on a human scale, which reveal the face of the war as presented to those who fought and those who lived through it.

Fouazia Farida Charfi

Islam and Science

A politically involved scientist, Faouzia Charfi is an important voice, in Tunisia and in France.

Jean-Philippe Derenne

Covid-19

All that we know about the plasticity of this virus, which is constantly mutating and changing, which makes it completely unpredictable. Even in countries where the crisis was believed to be over (China, Iceland, Slovakia, etc.), new cases are emerging.

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