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Fanny Nusbaum

The Secret of High Performers

Psychology and neuroscience as scientific support for a new understanding of high performance, by an author who is both a clinician and a researcher.

Ludovic Orlando

Fossil DNA, a Time Machine

DNA sequencing isn’t of use only to doctors and biologists. It has become an essential tool for paleontologists and archeologists: for it is a true time machine.

Gérard Apfeldorfer

Dare to Live, Dare to Die Taking hold of death in order to live fully

The delicate issue of choosing to die is raised, explained, and critiqued. A generous book with lively prose, including many anecdotal stories.

Boris Cyrulnik

In the Time of Souls and Seasons Psychology and Ecology

From the body to language, including the climate, culture, and, of course, the family, an astute description of the way in which our different environments (“ecology” in the broadest sense of the term) determine, from childhood, the person we are to become.

Monique Dagnaud, Jean-Laurent Cassely

The Overeducated Generation The 20% Who Are Transforming France

The reconfigurations around education probably offer the most relevant angle of observation for understanding contemporary societies, and to decipher the popular resentment against the world of the educated elite.

Patrick Clervoy

Truths or Lie? Why do we believe lies?

This book, which explores the mechanism of a lie, reads like a collection of stories.

Anne-Marie Kermarrec

Digital Technology, Counting with Women Preface by Gérard Berry

An incisive and informed assessment of the complicated relationships between women and the digital world, accompanied by strong measures and precise solutions to put an end to the sub-feminization of this still very macho sector.

Jacques Lévy

The Ethical Turning Point and the World Society

Serious, provocative, and sardonic all at the same time, this book denounces religions of all persuasions and invites everyone to assume responsibility.

Étienne Ghys

Snowflakes: A Wonder of Nature

An introduction to the science of crystals within the reach of non-specialists, with a very clear introduction to the physical and mathematical aspects of the subject.

Sylvie Vauclair

The New Symphony of the Stars

A very accessible book written by an astrophysicist who deals with the questions and concerns of modern humans.

Yves Jacquin Depeyre

The Solar Revolution

The author writes as a player on the field. His practical experience allows him to explain why the move toward solar energy will prove to be infinitely more beneficial than what has been expected.

François Lelord, Christophe André

The New Difficult Personalities How to understand them, accept them, manage them

A precious help to help you live in a peaceful way with those with whom you are brought to work.

Christian Ingrao

The Black Sun of Paroxysm Nazism, War Violence, and Now

Very accessible and enlightening historiological analyses of the present time (Nazi violence, war suicides, emergencies).

Anne Fagot-Largeault

On Becoming, Evolution, and Time

A book of philosophy in which both the general public and specialists will find material for enlightenment and enrichment.

Jean Becchio, Bruno Suarez

What is New in Hypnosis From Hypnosis to Consciousness Activation

A subject that arouses very broad interest, approached here without the usual esoteric or spiritualist connotations, backed by the most recent advances in the neurosciences, and with very illuminating clinical cases.

Claude Lelièvre

School Today in the Light of History

A light-hearted and fascinating review of all that we thought we knew about School

Alain Bentolila

We Are Not Bonobos: I Talk, Therefore I Am

The conquest of language and writing against the chaos of the world and all its forms of manipulation

Maurice Vaïsse

The Algiers Putsch

Using archives and unpublished accounts, the spellbinding tale of a little-known turning point in contemporary history

Mathias Pessiglione

The Brain Has Its Reasons Which Reason Doesn’t Know

Momo Sapiens, or the brain caught in flagrante delicto of irrationality

Christian Blanc

The Strength of Kanak Roots in New Caledonia

An exceptional account of a significant episode in the recent history of France, by one of its principal participants.

Stéphane Mazevet

Exoplanets and Life in the Universe In Search of Our Origins]

The tale of the great advances of the last half-century up to the discovery of extrasolar planets.

François Lévêque

Hyperpowerful Corporations Giants and Titans, the End of the Global Model

Why governments want to regain the upper hand over globalization

Armand Laferrère, Moshe Sebbag

Jews and Eternity

Are civilizations mortal? And yet, the Jewish people endure. A look at a mystery that might shed light on a world very concerned with its decline.

Roger Zumbrunnen, Éric Malbos

Stop Panicking at the Wheel!

A new edition enhanced with an entire chapter devoted to therapy through virtual reality: the use of 3D environments is particularly well-adapted to the treatment of the fear of driving.

Didier Pleux

How to Escape the Dictatorship of a Reptilian Brain

As victims of the pleasure principle and of immediate gratification, how can we overcome our reptilian brain? By relearning how to wait and to think.

Pascale Cossart, Fabrice Hyber

The Great Voyage among Microbes

A wonderful introduction to microbiology by an eminent scientist. A richly illustrated work by Fabrice Hybert, very instructive.

Patrick Artus, Marie-Paule Virard

Capitalism’s Last Chance For a new balance between consumers, workers, and shareholders

A stimulating text, powerful ideas, a limited number of figures, diagrams reserved for more technical elements: here one finds all the ingredients for a formula that has already marked the success of the Artus-Virard duo!

Pierre-André deChalendar

For a City That Is Desirable Once Again Cities are our future: what can be done so they will ultimately be desirable again?

Should we leave cities? The subject is very timely, and this book, which argues that we shouldn’t, deals with it intelligently, and without being overly-technical, which is rather rare in the realm of urbanism.

Marc Daëron

Life With Others A Look at Immunity

A critical look at what we think we know about the immune system

Antonio R. Damasio

Feeling & Knowing Making Minds Conscious

This book brings together the most recent discoveries in the cognitive sciences, neurobiology, psychology, and other fields, while adding the philosophical dimension dear to Antonio Damasio.

Jeanne Siaud-Facchin, Jean-Christophe Seznec

Growing, Living, Becoming

A book that provides answers to the big question: how to progress in life? How to lead a life that is suited to oneself?

Patrice Huerre, Philippe Petitfrère

Questions of Authority At School, at Home, in Business

An increasing demand to review relationships of authority has been emerging over the past fifty years.