Michel David, Jocelyne Jérémie

A Guide to Psychological Help for Children From Birth to Adolescence

Frank L. Sulloway

Born to Rebel

The author sets out to explain why children from the same family can be as unlike one another as children from different families. Why is it that some siblings within a family accept parental authority and others rebel? What led scientific innovators such as Copernicus and Charles Darwin to reject the accepted wisdom of their time and adopt a radically new world view? In Born to Rebel, which was highly acclaimed when it was published in the United States, Frank J. Sulloway compares families to ecosystems in which siblings must find their own specific niches when competing for parental attention and favours. Frank J. Sulloway is a neuroscientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Bénédicte de Boysson-Bardies

How Does the Power of Speech Come to Children ?

Steven Pinker

The Language Instinct

Francis Hamon, Céline Wierner

The Law Under Surveillance

Ilya Prigogine, Dilip Kondepudi

Modern Thermodynamics From Heat Engines to Dissipative Structures

Philippe Delmas

Of the Next War With Germany

France and Germany are geographically close – and yet so different. In this study of the two countries, the author examines French attitudes toward Germany, and wonders whether France will finally be able to rid itself of its traditional fears of its neighbour. Trapped by their anxieties and suspicions, torn apart by internal doubts, will France and Germany cease working hand-in-hand – as they did during the Cold War – and confront each other as opponents once again? Or will they seize the opportunity offered by European unification and finally learn to understand one another? This book provides the reader with athorough examination of the dilemmas facing both France and Germany.

Willy Pasini

The Strength of Desire

Progress now being made in the neorosciences may soon enable scientists to better define human erogenous zones and to understand the workings of love-making. But will this guarantee that everyone will have access to desire and pleasure? Will the various forms of virtual or long-distance eroticism continue to develop, at the expense of closeness and intimacy? What is the future of sexuality, in the couple and society? Professor Willy Pasini explores the universe of desire, as we know it today and as it may develop. Willy Pasini is a psychotherapist and professor of psychiatry at the University of Geneva.