Jacques Chirac

My Combat for Peace

Philippe Benzekri

I Was Bulimic, Too

Gisèle Gelbert

Learning to Read by Learning to Write

Michel Morange

Genes and the Part They Play

France Quéré

Ethics and Life

The recent advances in life sciences have modified our knowledge about the nature of man. Genetic engineering has given us a certain power over his future. Which principles must preside over artificial procreation and organ donation? How far can we allow genetic engineering and medical experimentations to go? What are the moral and ethical barriers of human science?

André Holley

In Praise of our Sense of Smell

Disparaged by the great philosophers and even by Darwin, who considered it useless, yet praised by Proust and Baudelaire for the richness of the emotions it inspires, the human sense of smell is generally considered secondary to the other senses. But is it really? André Holley makes a scientific argument for this powerful yet ambiguous sense. He also examines the tendency on the part of our society to “deodorise” — to refuse accept that smells are sometimes bad, on the other hand inventing entirely new smells with the help of chemistry. Researcher at the CNRS, André Holley is a professor of neuroscience at the university Claude-Bernard in Lyon.

Patrice Debré, Jean-Paul Gonzalez

The Life and Death of Epidemics

A fascinating history of epidemics and the struggle to overcome them, from earliest times to the present

Marie Rose Moro

Tomorrow’s Children