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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.

Laurent Berrebi

Currency and Capital The New Patrimonial Economy

A very ambitious book: it proposes nothing short of a new theoretical economic model, going beyond both classic economics and the Keynesian model.

Martine Segalen, Nicole Athea

The Markets of Motherhood

Against surrogacy: an impassioned illumination from multiple angles to understand the debates and implications, and, above all, the practical realities with which it confronts us.

Sébastien Balibar

The Child and the Concerto

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.

Dominique Schnapper

Sociological Reflection on the Jewish Condition

Following the “days of suspicion” initiated in 1967 by the speech of General de Gaulle, which put an end to a form of accord between France and the State of Israel...

Jacques Laloum

Glaucoma Prevention, Detection, and Treatment

For the first time, a book of information written for a general audience and for patients, by one of the foremost specialists of this disease which affects more than a million French people.

Éric Boulanger

I’ve Decided to Age Well

An eminent professor of geriatrics helps us understand the signs of aging and the positive and innovative idea of “active aging.”