Jacques Bouveresse, Daniel Roche

Freedom Through Knowledge: Pierre Bourdieu, 1930-2002 (Travaux du Collège de France)

Gathered in this volume are the texts of lectures given in memory of Pierre Bourdieu at an international colloquium held on 26-27 June 2003 and jointly organised by the Collège de France and the Ecole Normale Supérieure, with the backing of the Hugot Foundation.

Paul Rabinow

French DNA: Trouble in Purgatory

This book offers some surprising viewpoints: an anthropologist tells the story of the human genome sequencing project; a scholar of the humanities follows the crisis between a French laboratory, the Centre d’Étude du Polymorphisme Humain (CEPH), and a U.S. rival; an American intellectual describes the politics within the French scientific community. This exceptional survey of the most recent research trends and of the state of international competition in the field of genetic research gives us a notion of how our future health care is being prepared. Paul Rabinow teaches anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley.

Guy G. Stroumsa

The End of Sacrifice Religious Changes in Late Antiquity

Bernard Poulain, Etienne Hirsch

Frontiers in the Neurosciences

Along with Étienne Hirsch and Bernard Poulain, thirty prestigious contributors present an assessment of what the neurosciences will be in twenty years.

Max F. Perutz

Is Science Necessary?

Michel Meulders

Helmh From the Enlightenment to the Neurosciences

Louis Néel

A Century of Physics

Walter J. Gehring

Master Control Genes in Development and Evolution: The Homeobox

What can be more amazing than an embryo’s development? How do the cells “know” that the eyes go on the face and not on a leg or some other part of the body? And why does this information sometimes go awry — giving rise to a deformed creature? Walter J. Gehring, a renowned specialist in the genetics of embryonic development, traces recent developments in the field. Walter J. Gehring teaches cellular biology at the University of Basle, Switzerland.