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Bernard Sablonnière

Hopes For a Long and Good Life

A very accessible, clear book with rigorous scientific explanations, enabling the reader to see the differences between false miraculous recipes and true possibilities to act against aging.

Frédéric Lasserre, Alexandre Brun

The Geopolitics of Water/Sharing Water Water – a source of conflicts

Water: a major geopolitical issue in the twenty-first century. Will it take “water wars” to impose an equitable distribution of resources?

Mario Livio

The Golden Ratio: The Story of PHI, the World's Most Astonishing Number A mathematical myth

The Golden Ratio is a captivating journey through art and architecture, botany and biology, physics and mathematics.

Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee

Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future

How does the digital revolution enable a new integration between the human mind and machines?

Lionel Naccache, Karine Naccache

Do you Speak “Brain”? The brain is part of our everyday lives

Instructive and entertaining, important facts about the brain by one of the great French neurologists. A proven format, since Lionel Naccache’s chronicles on the brain were the most popular podcasted shows last summer on French Inter radio.

Nathalie Deruelle, Jean-Pierre Lasota

Gravitational Waves

An extraordinary, theoretical, and experimental saga told by two of the protagonists, or how a purely theoretical notion became a physical reality. A revolution: telescopes now observe in gravitational waves also! Astronomy of the future will be gravitational.

Michel Cassé, Marie-Christine Maurel

Xenobiology Xeno-life

When an astrophysicist encounters a specialist in synthetic biology, they discuss the origins of the universe and of life. The first steps of a new science, whose repercussions could shake our conception of the living and of its evolution.

Yves Agid, Pierre Magistretti

The Glial Man A Break in Neuroscientific Thinking

A strong thesis with three-fold implications: a new way of understanding the functioning of the human brain; new bases to better diagnose neuro-psychiatric pathologies; new paths for research into treatments against these diseases.