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Henri Atlan
Postgenomic Life, or What is Self-organisation?)
We spontaneously associate the idea of organisation with that of human production: the fruit of artistic endeavour or rational planning...
Pierre-Yves Oudeyer
Self-Organisation of Speech
The nature and evolution of language: the latest discoveries, at the crossroads of the neurosciences, linguistics and robotics
Annick Perrot, Maxime Schwartz
Pasteur and his Lieutenants Roux, Yersin and the Others
The greatest medical revolution, recounted as an adventure story
Michel Morange
Life, Evolution and History
In this unique general survey of contemporary research, Michel Morange reveals the recent convergence that is developing between two great segments of biology
Daniel Nahon
How to Save Agriculture
Only a radical transformation of agriculture will enable us to feed all of humankind
Henri Danon-Boileau, Gérard Dedieu-Anglade
A Certain Kind of Stubbornness Living With Very Old Age
A reflection on the profound changes imposed by old age; an analysis of the dead ends it can lead to and what to do to keep on loving life and others.
Stephen Hawking
The Universe in a Nutshell
This work is illustrated and allows non-mathematicians to better understand the strange world of physicists...
Yann Le Cun
When Machines Learn The Revolution of Artificial Neurons and Deep Learning
A fascinating, lucid, and accessible book that takes us into the heart of machines and allows us to discover a new, enthralling world – one that is already our own.
Laurent Cohen
The Brain in Bits and Pieces
Twenty stories, twenty enigmas, twenty clues to what it is to be human. A precise and complete panorama of the recent advances in the neurosciences.
Claude Olievenstein
Drugs, Thirty Years Onwards
Thirty years after the publication of Il n'y a pas de Drogués Heureux, Claude Olievenstein recounts his exceptional career and summarises his current views on a number of social issues that have been his prime concern for many years: drugs, teenagers and the problems of the underprivileged living in housing projects. This is a frank survey of society in state of crisis. Claude Olievenstein is the head doctor at the Centre Médical Marmottan, in Paris, and a world-renowned specialist in the treatment of substance addiction.