Patrick Légeron

Stress in the Workplace

A new, completely revised edition of an outstanding reference work on stress in the workplace

Alain Dupas, Charles Chatelin

Humanity’s Cosmic Destiny

An inspiring, sometimes disconcerting book. A new history of space exploration. A future-oriented look at the evolution of humanity in the light of the evolution of technology, both biological and that regarding space.

Barbara Demeneix

How Fossil Fuels Are Destroying our Health, the Climate and Biodiversity

Based on the most recent scientific studies, this book shows the interdependence between the climate, biodiversity and our health. It will give food for thought to environmentalists

Pascal Picq

Women, Modernity and Progress

A book that looks back at history from an evolutionary perspective, by bringing women to the forefront of history and rejecting gender stereotypes that are often endorsed by historians themselves.

Michel Duneau, Christian Janot

The Magic of Materials

Bernard Diu

Do atoms really exist ?

Few scientific notions have aroused the speculative imagination like the thermodynamic entropy. All organised systems - societies, living creatures - are destined without exception to decline and eventual death. This book clearly exposes the historical and conceptual development of thermodynamics. Born from a desire to understand and master steam powered machines - the symbol of our industrialised societies - it became the science of the human body. However, it was suddenly passed over in favour of the theory of atoms. It was thus demolished by statistical mechanics which ceded to the imperatives dictated by the atomical structure of the body. After an epic struggle, sometimes quite ferocious, thermodynamics and statistical mechanics have been reconciled by adopting the base of the second with the techniques of the first. This book reads like a novel about contemporary physics. Bernard Diu, a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieur, is a professor at the University of Paris VII.

Jean-Marie Bourre

Chrono-dietetics of the Brain

How eating the right food at the right time can enhance brain health, efficacy and pleasure

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.