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Polo Tonka
Conversation with Myself
How does one live with schizophrenia? This exceptional document gives an inside view of the disorder.
Karine Berger, Valérie Rabault
France Strikes Back For a More Competitive France
How can France recover its status as one of the world’s five most competitive nations?
Daniel Hurstel
Socially Conscious Enterprises In Defence of Diversified Capitalism
The author argues that it is time to promote a new form of capitalism founded on socially conscious enterprises pursuing social goals though set up like other members of the business sector.
Jean-Pierre Bibring
Mars Blue Planet?
This little gem of popular science recounts the history of Mars in clear, accessible language.
Janine Mossuz-Lavau, Anne de Kervasdoué
Women are Not Just Men
The changes which have come to be in the second half of the 20th century have taken women a long ways from the profile adopted by their mothers. Do all these transformations lead us to trace the portrait of a woman who has become a clone of men ? We can ask ourselves this question when we remember the arguments of feminists in the 70's employing the "egalitarian" themes of Simone de Beauvoir. More recently, some have gone so far as to announce the coming of an "androgynous" society. But what do the women and the men of this country think about all this ? How do women see themselves in relation to men ? How do they define themselves and how do they describe the men of their lives ? A very pointed realization of today's female identity. Janine Mossuz-Lavau is Director of Research at the CNRS.
Yves Pouliquen
The Transparent Eye New Edition
A triumphant story of ophtalmology and its modern works of magic.
Jacques Hochmann
A Short History of Empathy
A psychoanalyst, but also a historian and cultural observer, Jacques Hochmann offers us here a fascinating journey through the history of philosophy and psychology, up till the most recent, state-of-the-art research.
Aldo Naouri
Living Life to the Fullest Interviews with Emilie Lanez
The intellectual trajectory of an inspiring writer whose educational principles have won over millions of readers
Jacques Fournier
The Economics of Needs
France’s public service scrutinised by a high-ranking civil servant
Pierre Bey, Jean-Pierre Gérard, Martin Schlumberger
Should We Fear Radioactivity?
A clear, precise and uncompromising account of radioactivity, its dangers and advantages
Alain Sauteraud
Living On After Your Death The Psychology of Grieving
Down-to-earth advice to help mourners understand the grieving process and then adapt to their new lives
Stéphanie Bertholon
Coping With a Stressful World
How to adopt a sufficiently detached attitude to resist the stress of constant change
Georges Charpak
Children, Researchers and Citizens
Georges Charpak has taken the initiative for a complete reform of our methods of science teaching. He proposes a teaching method based on creativity and problem-solving, instead of the old theoretical, book-based approach. This book recounts the experiences of two teams of French educators in a research institution created by Leon Lederman in Chicago, and the lessons which we can take from their experiences. Pollens shows that to learn is to discover, and that it is in discovering that one learns. Georges Charpak is a Nobel laureate in physics, and the author of La vie à fil tendu and Feux follets et champignons nucléaires, both published by Editions Odile Jacob.
Dominique Schnapper
Work And Love Memoirs
A review of the greatest half-century in French sociology, by a leading intellectual