Jean Guilaine

Humanity’s Second Birth The Neolithic Revolution

The Neolithic Revolution, a major turning point in the history of humanity

Pierre Lemarquis

Aesthetic Empathy

The powerful impact of art on the human brain, in the light of the latest advances in the neurosciences

Thierry deMontbrial, Thomas Gomart

France and the National Interest Is France’s foreign policy still guided by our own interests?

Fundamental to the upcoming presidential elections in the context of war in the Middle East and Africa, and of domestic insecurity. The book will be supported and promoted by the IFRI (Institut français de relations internationales).

Annick Perrot, Maxime Schwartz

Pasteur et Koch A Duel Between Giants in the Microbial World

The tale of the rivalry between two great scientists engaged in the race to conquer infectious diseases, told against the historical backdrop of rising nationalism

Didier Houssin

Against the epidemic risk

A warning, an analysis and some proposals to protect the world’s future inhabitants

Catherine Clément, Tobie Nathan

The Couch and the Grigri

This work is a fascinating discussion between a practising analyst who has not ceased to confront his discipline with other disciplines of the mind, and a philosopher with great psychoanalytic experience. It aims to show how cultural heritage — a “debt” linking each generation to its ancestors — shapes both how we represent reality and our emotional universe. The authors’ thoughts and conclusions are thoroughly backed up with a variety of specific examples and observations. Tobie Nathan is an ethno-psychologist and teaches clinical and pathological psychology at the University of Paris VIII. Catherine Clément is a writer and philosopher.

Annick Le Guérer, Bruno Fourn

Scents and Sound, an Unexpected Association

The mysterious voice-scent synaesthesis

John T. Bruer

The Myth of the First Three Years

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.

Jacques Hochmann

Degeneration Theories Psychiatry and History

The unbelievable story of a mad psychiatric theory centered on the idea of heredity which was put to the most horrible of uses, while having a lasting effect on mentalities.

Alexandre Meinesz

Protecting Marine Biodiversity

A new approach to the threat of pollution in the Mediterranean by an expert in Mediterranean marine life.

Alexandre Stern

Who Are You, Homo sapiens? Understanding Our Nature In Order to Live Better

After telling how the art of cooking had humanized, civilized our ancestral apes, Alexandre Stern explores the roots of our humanity to better examine our modern practices and ways of life.

Jean Chavaillon

The Golden Age of Humanity Annals of the Palaeolithic Age

If myths tell the story of civilizations without writing, the myth of the golden age corresponds to a very precise period in the story of mankind: the superior paleololithic (between 35,000 and 9,000 B.C.). Even though different species of hominides coexisted in the same territories of Africa, there were no wars. Human groups were rare, they lived in an environment of abundance. They had time. Without art or religion, their life was carefree. All their knowledge was concentrated on the making of tools and in the mastering of fire. This is the everyday life of men from the Paleolithic which Jean Chavaillon describes in this fascinating book, illustrated by black and white reproductions. Jean Chavaillon, is a research director at the CNRS, a specialist in prehistory and a field worker.

Jean-François Gayraud

A New Criminal Capitalism Financial crises, money laundering, high-frequency trading

How crime creeps into the heart of the global financial system — and perverts it

Daniel Sibony

The Issue of Being

What is Being? An Exchange Between the Bible and Philosophy, Heidegger and the God of Moses

Serge Stoléru

A Brain Named Desire Neuroscience, sex and love

This book follows the route that has led to a better understanding of sexual desire and love: from psychology to neuroscience, passing through attachment theory, ethnology and the theory of evolution.