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Hans Moravec
The future of robots and human intelligence
This visionary book describes the new world that is coming into being. A world of intelligent and autonomous robots...
Robert Rochefort
A Consumer Society
This book demonstrates how with households equipped and individuals saturated, consumption must respond to other, more immaterial needs. The new markets are those which can reassure people : healthcare, ecology, land, family and even solidarity.
Gilles Dufrénot, Anne Levasseur-Franceschi
Pandemics and Globalization Dangerous Liaisons?
A global approach to the interactions between economic and health phenomena favoring the notion of the public good over a conquest of markets
Alain Cassourra
The Wounds of the Soul When energy opens the way to healing
A contribution to the reflection on the art of osteopathic care.
Diana Pinto
Between Two Worlds
How can the individual s identity solidify in today s multicultural context? D. Pinto's essay in comparative cultural history, written in the first person, is a sensitive and critical document in favor of an open Europe and a pluralistic society.
Christophe André
Don’t forget to be happy! The ABC of Positive Psychology
The keys to harmony with oneself
Sébastien Balibar
A Tormented Scientist
A key, virtually unknown, moment in the history of science.When science emigrates under pressure from totalitarianism.
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.
Philippe Kourilsky
A Game of Chance and Complexity
A fascinating history of the struggle for survival, which is central to our lives
Corinne Gal
Psychodrama: As Powerful an Experience as Life Itself
Psychodrama: an effective therapeutic method that is frequently used by psychiatrists and psychotherapists
Jean-Pierre Kahane
The Teaching of Mathematical Sciences
What should be the goals and the contents of the mathematics syllabus from primary school to university? What changes should be undertaken to accompany and prepare for future developments in science and technology? And how should the initial training, competitive recruitment and further education of maths teachers evolve and develop? This book is the fruit of several months work by a committee, presided by the mathematician Jean-Pierre Kahane, on the future of the teaching of mathematics.