Yves Coppens

The Scholar, the Fossil, and the Prince From the Lab to Palaces

A storyteller with amazing talent, a scientist who is happy to reveal to the greatest of figures other facets of his personality: adventurous, refined, and full of humor.

Elisabeth Fivaz-Depeursinge, Antoinette Corboz-Warnery

The Primal Triangle Mother, Father and Infant

Christian Ingrao

The Black Sun of Paroxysm Nazism, War Violence, and Now

Very accessible and enlightening historiological analyses of the present time (Nazi violence, war suicides, emergencies).

Frédéric Encel

The Paths of Power

Contrary to current discourse, a bold work that restores a major theme – power – and makes a clear assertion : the necessary return of the State onto the political field.

Jean Dausset

A Nod in the Direction of Life The Great HLA Adventure

Jean Dausset’s finding that white blood cells play an active role in immunization won him the Nobel Prize for Medicine and opened a new area of biological investigation, both in pure and in applied research. The HLA system harbours a unique peptide which may be regarded as the essence of the self in opposition to everything else much as the pineal gland was regarded as the seat of the soul by Descartes. The distinction between the self and the non-self is an essential one in immunology where an individual’s defensive system must fight off foreign bodies while at the same time defending his or her own system. In his book, Jean Dausset recounts the story of his discovery and introduces the reader to other fascinating aspects of his life and work.

Emmanuel Dupoux

Born Human

Louis Roussel

Forgotten Childhood

Roussel points to a number of frightening signs among children today — failure at school, depression, suicide, juvenile delinquency, violent behaviour — and concludes that childhood itself is seriously threatened. The changes in family relations have played a determining role in affecting the lives of all children — each and every one of them potential victims of the upheavals that shake our society. Such is the theory that Roussel presents in this book, as he traces more that 20 years of changes in the family and examines their impact on education. Louis Roussel is a scientific adviser for France’s national institute of demographic studies.

Guy Simonnet, Bernard Laurent, David Le Breton

Humans In Pain

A complete analysis of the phenomenon of pain on three levels: neurobiological, medical, and anthropological.