Stuart J. Edelstein

From genes to genomes

Rapid progress in the field of genetics is changing our lives in more ways than one. In order to understand these changes, Stuart Edelstein has approached each facet of the subject from three points of view: contemporary society and politics; technical developments; and basic research. By keeping to some fundamental points, this book will enable the lay reader to understand before judging the social implications of recent discoveries in biology. This is science with a civic sense. Stuart Edelstein teaches biochemistry at the University of Geneva.

Pascal Picq

From Darwin to Lévi-Strauss

An appeal by an eminent scientist for greater biodiversity, in Nature and humans

Lionel Naccache

On Being a Subject in Oneself The Talmudic Experience of Spirituality

What does it mean to be oneself? What does it mean to believe? An exploration of the neuroscience and philosophy of subjectivity

Michel Raymond

Why I Didn’t Invent the Wheel

Between nature and culture, a fascinating, widely accessible book about human evolution

Stéphane Mazevet

Exoplanets and Life in the Universe In Search of Our Origins]

The tale of the great advances of the last half-century up to the discovery of extrasolar planets.

Jean-Didier Vincent

Celui qui parlait presque

When a rich English woman, a grouchy scientist, a bonobo monkey and a young man interested in religion meet together in a castle of Provence, what do they do? They talk. And what do they talk about? About the origins of life, the appearance of language, about the secrets of memory, or about the emergence of desire. Subtle and witty, J.-D. Vincent, a neurobiologist, author of The Biology of Passions, offers us here a defense and an illustration of material reason.

Olivier Houdé

Paul Valéry, In Love with his Brain Curious about everything, especially himself

The work of Valéry seen through the prism of neuroscience today… Fascinating.

Jean-Didier Vincent

Life Is a Fable