Alain Berthoz, Jean-Luc Petit

Phenomenology and Physiology of Action

Roland Omnès

The Essentials of Quantum Mechanics

Nicole Le Douarin

Stem Cells For Immortality

Jean-Claude Heudin

Artificial Life

Alexandre Ganoczy

Christianity and Neurosciences Theology of the Human Animal

Hervé P. Zwirn

The Limits of Knowledge

Sabine Montagne

Pension Funds Between Social Protection and Speculation

Pierre Corvol, Nicolas Postel-Vinay

The Vascular Tree: New Outlooks on Treatment

Roland Omnès

Revelation about Laws of Nature

Pascal Salin

Tax Tyranny

Some radical recommendations by an eminent economist for an end to the arbitrary and destructive nature of French fiscal policy

Alain Supiot

Solidarity An Enquiry Into a Legal Principle

A thorough enquiry into the meaning and future of the legal principle of solidarity

Maurice Vaïsse

The Algiers Putsch

Using archives and unpublished accounts, the spellbinding tale of a little-known turning point in contemporary history

Steven Weinberg

Dreams of a Final Theory

George Akerlof, Robert Shiller

Phishing for Phools The Economics of Manipulation and Deception

Deception lies at the heart of the economy

Henri Korn

Promised Lands

From a childhood under the Nazi occupation to great scientific discoveries: a life of passionate curiosity in which nothing is predetermined

John Scheid, Alain Prochiantz

Lights, light

The 2015 Colloquium of the Collège de France unites some of the most eminent authors in physics and astrophysics, in biology, in neuroscience and the history of science. Light is a timeless subject: it has always had the power to fascinate and disturb. Here it is explained.