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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.

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.

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.

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.”

Philippe Siou

Living

Starting with an account from the field written in an unrestrained tone by a practitioner dealing with a patient’s end of life, an unprecedented questioning on the deontology of a doctor and the intricacies of our hospital system.