Patrick Lemoine

Right of Sanctuaries

This book is a detailed reconstruction of daily life at the Asile du Vinatier, a psychiatric institution near Lyon, from 1937 to 1945, a period marked by the earliest institutional attempts to treat mental illness. It was also the time when the blindness of administrative rules, the meanness of politicians, and the indifference of society at large resulted in a collective drama: the gradual extermination of mental patients. Patrick Lemoine is a psychiatrist and department head at the Hôpital du Vinatier in Lyon.

Jacques Chirac

My Combat for Peace

Dominique Schnapper

Work And Love Memoirs

A review of the greatest half-century in French sociology, by a leading intellectual

Justin Vaïsse

Barack Obama’s Foreign Policy (2008-2012)

In the run-up to the U.S. Presidential elections, an eminent specialist assesses the present administration

Xavier Darcos

The State and Organised Religion The Secular Issue

Xavier Hochet

Transforming Businesses From Strategy to Implementation

André Gauron

Ramparts Against the Rule of Money

Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Beda Romano

The Short-Term View Conversations About the Big Crash

A leading figure in Italian and European politics and economics provides a critical synthesis of the conduct that led to the crash, and suggests paths to be explored to mould new thinking in economics.