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Didier Houssin

Let’s Take Care of Science!

Well-written, eloquent, exhibiting great depth, the book is both an ode to science and a reflection on the recent tendency toward gigantism, encouraged primarily by Big Data.

Willy Pasini

I Have a Child Whenever I Want

Portraits of highly contemporary women who have decided to impose their priorities and to use the new procreation techniques to control their fertility and to stimulate it when convenient. New challenges for women between the ages of 20 and 35 in terms of career and procreation.

Alain Cotta

Global Hypercapitalism

Erudite and original, this book presents a true portrait of the “Dynamics of hypercapitalism,” tracing its lines of strength. It is also a denunciation of the elites and of their oligarchical power, exercised on the middle classes.

Yves Coppens

Origins of Man: Origins of a Man Memoirs

Richly illustrated, the memoirs of a great paleontologist, a man of exceptional breadth and an indefatigable story-teller, world-renowned prehistorian, and award-winning French scientist. The story of a life dedicated entirely to studying, explaining, reconstituting, understanding, telling about, and conveying the history of human beings, and the mystery of our origins.

Jean Jouzel, Pierre Larrouturou

To avoid climate and financial chaos

America First! Donald Trump decided to pull the United States out of the Paris Agreement. Europa First! We want Europe to be the first to prove “grandeur nature,” to show that not only is safeguarding the climate not an obstacle to social well-being, but that the struggle against climate deregulation is a powerful means to fight against unemployment and insecurity.

Dominique Schnapper

Of Democracy in France

From providential democracy to extreme democracy, the concepts forged by D. Schnapper have now passed into contemporary language. A great voice for democracy (D. Schnapper, the daughter of Raymond Aron, is former member of the Conseil constitutionnel).

Patrick Boucheron, Alain Prochiantz

Migrants, Refugees, and Exile Colloquium at the Collège de France

The timeliness of the issue of migratory movement and the displacement of populations. The multi-disciplinary nature of the studies, which bring together history and geography, geopolitics, psychology, as well as law and economics.

Marc Augé

So Who Is the Other?

The originality of the subjects that Marc Augé studies: from soccer games to the heroes of American series, as well as roundabouts and urban architecture. The intellectual journey of one of the greatest, world-renowned anthropologists.

Jean Guilaine

Protohistory The Awakening of the West (7000-2000 BCE)

An original, in-depth, richly-documented study of menhirs and dolmens, of the “religion” of the people of the Neolithic, of the origins of political power, and of the organization of social hierarchy

Jean-Claude Cousseran, Philippe Hayez

Intelligence Handbook

For the first time, the real practice of intelligence comes in out of the shadows. Very timely issues, from the international fight against terrorism to cyberthreats and economic intelligence.

François Lévêque

Imperfect Competition

A very wide diversity of examples taken from all sectors. Very educational, well written, and easy to understand, this book is also an economics lesson for Dummies.

Boris Cyrulnik

Psychotherapy from God

Combining developmental psychology, attachment-based therapy, psycho-sociology, and the neurosciences, a psychotherapy of the sacred that takes into account all forms of belief, without distinction and without judgment, to analyse their foundations, their practices, their inner workings, and also their benefits. An original enlightening study of the major role played by attachment (secure or insecure) in religious feeling.

Pierre-Henri Tavoillot

Better and better and worse and worse Understanding our world better, and using it with optimism

An antidote to the pessimistic discourse on decline, it shows that the only lucid and worthwhile attitude is to accept the limits of progress without renouncing confidence in the future. A book which reconnects with the idea of progress without falling either into naïvete or into demagogy.

Jacques Lesourne

A Pragmatic Approach to the Way of the Future How can we innovate and bring about change in society?

The originality of the author’s method, i.e. drawing the outlines of the world of tomorrow, and based on this futurist perspective, defining the changes that need to be made.

Philippe Durance, Régine Monti

The Long Term as a Horizon How do companies take the future into account and anticipate what lies ahead?

Interviews with senior executives of major companies: Danone, Michelin, Saint-Gobain, SPIE, Veolia, Caisse des Dépôts, Malakoff Médéric etc. Long-term issues are essential to corporate strategy and management.

Jean-Pierre Hansen, Jacques Percebois

Electricity in Transition What Europe and the markets couldn’t tell you

The history of electricity as you’ve never heard it before. A genuine mini-guide to economic issues through the example of electricity: price formation, transmission costs, monopolies.