Michael S. Gazzaniga

Who’s in Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain

Are we really the masters of our actions and are we wholly responsible for what we do?

Catherine Gautier, Jean-Louis Fellous

Have We Run Out of Petrol?

Albert Goldbeter

Oscillating Life At the Heart of Life Rhythms

This book offers the first synthesis of existing knowledge on the rhythms of life, as observed at different levels of biological organisation.

Pierre Buser

The Many Faces of the Unconscious

Nicolas Bouleau

Mathematics and Financial Risk-Taking

Laurent Cohen

Why Chimps Can't Talk and Thirty Other Questions Regarding the Human Brain

Jean-Pierre Pharabod, Gérard Klein

Fortune and Misfortune in Quantum Physics (Re)discovering the great theories of physics

The great theories of physics seen through the controversies they provoke. Quantum physics and general relativity, the two pillars of modern physics, are a source of fascination to many. Difficult subjects tackled in their historical context and without scientific tools.

Lionel Naccache

An Apologia for Discretion What does it mean to be part of the universe in the 21st century?

In the great tradition of essays, the author draws on cognitive neuroscience and neurology, mathematics, physics, biology, philosophy, psychoanalysis, Judaism and literature.