Dominique Barbier

Depression

This is a practical book, aimed at those suffering from depression, as well as their families and friends. It reviews such basic questions as: What is known today about depression? How can depression be recognised? What are its different forms? What are the complications? How can it be treated? Dominique Barbier is a hospital psychiatrist, in Montfavet, southern France.

Régis Debray, Jean Bricmont

In the Shadow of Lights A Debate between a Philisopher and a Scientist

What is the meaning for us today of the Enlightenment? Of positivism and of the social sciences? How should we envision the revolutions in physics, biology and the neorosciences? What are the future roles of ideology and politics, faced with the challenge of the present religious come-back? Is the notion of progress still relevant? Can a fundamental, universal anthropology be established? In their discussions, the authors — Debray from a literary point of view, and Bricmont from a scientific one — meet, confront and defy each other. In the course of their talks, they summon theory and practice, past and present, history and current events, facts and their own personal convictions, to give the reader a brilliant lesson against the dominant mood of nihilism. Régis Debray heads the European Institute of the History and Science of Religion. He is the author of numerous works, including God, An Itinerary. Jean Bricmont teaches theoretical physics at the University of Louvain. He is the co-author with Alan Sokal of Intellectual Impostures.

André Miquel

Chateaubriand’s Memoires from Beyond the Grave Selections chosen and presented by André Miquel

For the 250th birthday of François-René de Chateaubriand: colloquia, commemorations (Saint-Malo, Combourg, Châtenay-Malabry) celebrate the great writer.

Éric Boulanger

I’ve Decided to Age Well

An eminent professor of geriatrics helps us understand the signs of aging and the positive and innovative idea of “active aging.”

Gisèle George

My Child is Defiant What Should I Do? What Should I Say?

Xavier Emmanuelli

Children of the Streets A clinic of exclusion

A fascinating analysis: from the witch-children of West and Central Africa to child-soldiers, child refugees, victims of war and catastrophe, exploited children, handicapped children, orphans who have never known human closeness, child-mothers and child-prostitutes…

Henri Lepage, Patrick Wajsman

Twenty Economists Confront the Crisis

Judith Rochfeld, Valérie-Laure Benabou

Who Profits When You Click? How Value Is Distributed on the Net

The battle for control over digital data