Daniel N. Stern

The Diary of a Baby

A unique undertaking. Diary of a Baby is rightly regarded as one of the most important books to understand infant psychology.

Gérard Apfeldorfer

Lasting Relations

Yves Pouliquen, Michel Mohrt

Speech on the Occasion of Entry into the French Academy and the Response of Michel Mohrt

Speech on the occasion of entry into the French Academy of Yves Pouliquen, 30th January 2003, and the response of Michel Mohrt

Laurent Cohen-Tanugi

Europe and America on the threshold of the 21st Century

Emanuela Guidoboni, Jean-Paul Poirier

When the Earth Shook

Jean Le Camus

A Father's True Role

François Ost

Recounting the Law Delving into the Origins of the Judicial Imagination

Joseph Silk

Une brève histoire de l'univers

Joseph Silk is the author of an authoritative book on the Big Bang. In the present work, he covers the history of the universe from that first great explosion and shows how the most recent discoveries in astrophysics — i.e. of the cosmic fluctuations from which the great structures of the universe emerged — provide the missing link between the Big Bang, which occurred 15 billion years ago, and the present state of the universe. When did time begin? This is the question, already asked by Stephen Hawking, that A Short History of the Universe sets out to answer. It is the subject of current debate among theologians: Did time begin with the Big Bang, in which case God could not have created the universe, or has time existed for all eternity, which would mean that the Big Bang was just one event among others, that God could have existed before it occurred and that He could thus have created the universe? This highly accessible book will be of interest to a wide readership, since the issues examined here concern all of us. Joseph Silk, an astrophysicist and cosmologist, teaches at Oxford University.