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Didier Houssin

Against the epidemic risk

A warning, an analysis and some proposals to protect the world’s future inhabitants

Jean Costentin

Against Legalising Canabis

Contrary to popular belief, cannabis is not such a “soft” drug

Bruno Humbeeck

Against Harassment at School, at Work, and On the Net

Concrete solutions for an individual to escape the violent situation he or she is enduring, but also in the form of guidelines for prevention in the professional or educational realm.

Rita Levi Montalcini

Against All the Odds

What do Primo Levi, the author of one of the most powerful accounts of life in a Nazi death camp, and Max Delbrück, one of the founding fathers of molecular biology, have in common? The answer is that they--as well as the others described in this book--were able to face the trials and tribulations of their lives with exceptional courage, and without losing their sense of humanity. Through a series of portraits, drawn with great warmth and restraint, Rita Levi Montalcini recounts the course of several exemplary lives. Rita Levi Montalcini taught neurobiology at Washington University for thirty years.

Jean-Michel Severino, Jérémy Hajdenberg

Afrique entreprise Africa invents its own growth model

A richly illustrated book, which intelligently combines a detailed examination of companies and business sectors with a macroeconomic approach to strengths and weaknesses of growth.

Kako Nubukpo

African Urgency Escaping the False Narratives of Emergence

His very critical positions on the CFA franc led to his being suspended from his position at the Organisation internationale de la francophonie. A highly-publicized dismissal!

Émile Biasini

Africa and Us

Economist Charles Gide once described colonization as "a force of nature." Biasini believes that to imagine that our current phase of decolonization actually is an end to colonialism is just another manifestation of our society's megalomania. Africa today is going through a phase of change. It must stay faithful to its roots, digesting all the various cultures which have influenced it, while facing a new colonial menace. Its own elites, once fled abroad, have returned to Africa and are quickly becoming the colonists of their own countries. And such colonial ambitions, history teaches us, must inevitably lead to imperialism. Emile Biasini was a civil servant in colonial Africa. Under De Gaulle, he helped found the Ministry of Culture.

Pierre Lemarquis

Aesthetic Empathy

The powerful impact of art on the human brain, in the light of the latest advances in the neurosciences