Françoise Salomon

Silent Child The Story of a Schizophrenic

This largely autobiographical book recounts the story of a family brutally shaken their son’s violence and mental illness—though nothing had previously seemed to distinguish him from other teenagers. It is a highly moving chronicle of the world of schizophrenia which remains little known by the general public. The mother of a schizophrenic child, Françoise Salomon is an active member of the French Union nationale des amis et des familles des malades mentaux.

Ilya Prigogine

The End of Certainties

“As we come to the end of the century, the question of the future of science is often posed. I believe we are just at the beginning of a new endeavour. We are witnessing the development of a science which is no longer limited to simplified, idealised situations, but makes us face the complexity of the real world. This new science will allow human creativity to be experienced as the unique expression of a fundamental trait common to all aspects of nature. I’ve tried to present this conceptual transformation, which implies the beginning of a new chapter in the fruitful relations between physics and mathematics, in a manner that will be comprehensible and accessible to all readers interested in the evolution of our ideas of nature. We are but at the threshold of a new chapter in the history of our dialogue with nature,” writes Ilya Prigogine. Ilya Prigogine, winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, teaches at the Free University of Brussels and at the University of Texas, in Austin.

Jean Costentin

Medication for the Brain

Henry de Lumley, Marie-Antoinette de Lumley

The Memoirs of Two Prehistorians

The epic story of Humankind, recounted by eminent prehistorians

Philippe Aghion, Gilbert Cette, Élie Cohen

Manifesto for a New Economic Policy

A vital social and economic programme

Jean-Pierre Rioux

A Short History of France

Who are the French and what are their goals? A French historian provides the answer as he revisits his country’s history.

Jacqueline Rousseau-Dujardin

As Time Goes By

The power of the passage of time

Jean-François Amadieu

The Looks Society Beautiful, Young People...and Others

An original thesis on breaking the silence surrounding the importance of appearance, and one that nobody — employer, employee, consumers — wishes to explicitly confront.