Alain Touraine

Speech and Blood Politics and Society in Latin America

Jonathan Laurence, Justin Vaïsse

Integrating Islam Political and Religious Challenges in Contemporary France

Charles Goldfinger

The Useful and the Futile: The Immaterial Economy

Claudine Attias-Donfut, Martine Segalen

Grandparents The Family Seen Through Several Generations

Yves Michaud

Equality and Inequalities Volume 10

This volume continues and prolongs the earlier, highly successful series "L’Université de tous les savoirs" (365 lectures, published in six volumes by Editions Odile Jacob). Renowned specialists in their fields examine the inequalities that exist between countries as well as among individuals: unequal access to education, the technological gap, unequal treatment before the law, economic inequalities, and disparities concerning health and hygiene.

Dava Sobel

Galileo’s Daughter

This is a most unusual biography about Galileo’s daughter. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was regarded by Albert Einstein not only as the father of modern physics but as the father of all modern science. His eldest child, Virginia, mirrored Galileo’s own brilliance, industry and sensibility, and by virtue of these qualities became his confidante. Their correspondence, reproduced throughout the book, reveals their intense relationship, based on tender attachment and intellectual stimulation. The little-known life of Maria Celeste gives a human dimension to one of the major seventeenth-century scientists. His struggle with the Church is a lasting symbol of the conflict between science and religion. Galileo’s Daughter offers a powerful account of papal Rome and of Florentine intellectual life during the time of the Medicis. Dava Sobel is a writer who lives in New York

Jacques Lesourne

A Man of Our Time From the Ecole Polytechnique to Economic Forecasting and the newspaper Le Monde

Howard Gardner

Creating Minds An Anatomy of Creativity Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Grah

What is creativity? Do there exist psychological traits common to all creative geniuses? Can one characterize creativity in different forms and in different areas? It is impossible to respond to these questions without examining variegated and specific cases of creative genius: artistic, literary, scientific and even political. Thus, Gardner proposes seven psychobiographies characteristic of each type of genius: Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, T.S. Eliot, Martha Graham, and Gandhi. What were the different paths that they chose? How did their creative spirits work? Howard Gardner is a cognitive psychologist.