Kevin Padian

From Darwin to Dinosaurs (Work of the Collège de France) An Essay on the Idea of Evolution

In this book, Kevin Padian, world-renowned expert on dinosaurs, takes a historical approach to evolution and gives his view of some of the key problems of the theory of evolution

Nicolas Duchesne

From Cyclothymic Disorder to Depression

Michel Henry

From Communism to Capitalism : A Theory of Disaster

Communist totalitarianism is breaking apart because it rejected reality in favour of abstractions and falsely universal principles. Those who now rush West from Prague or Bucarest cannot imagine what awaits them: the levelling of values and individuality. M. Henry s work is a meditation against everything which undermines these disoriented refugees, whether it be spiritual starvation, creative thirst, or physical hunger.

Georges Charpak, Richard L. Garwin, Venance Journé

From Chernobyl to Chernobyls

Bertrand Cramer, Christiane Robert-Tissot, Sandra Rusconi Serpa

From Baby to Preadolescent A Longitudinal Study

In 1991, 103 mother-and-infant pairs visited Geneva’s Guidance Infantile. The infants all displayed functional and behavioural disorders. Ten years later, the same mother-child pairs were re-evaluated by Professor Cramer’s team, who was thus able to make a number of prospective analyses. What became of the symptoms that the infants had first presented? Did any of the symptoms first displayed indicate a predisposition to other disorders? Can the characteristics that helped them to endure be identified? And what can be said of the role played by cognitive development and parental representations, as well as by protective factors? Professor Bertrand Cramer is a child psychiatrist.

Michel Brunet

From Abel to Toumaï Nomad and Bone-Seeker

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Étienne Guyon, Jean-Paul Troadec

From a Bag of Marbles to a Heap of Sand

Why don't sand dunes collapse? How does sand flow in an hourglass? How is it possible to empty a silo of all its wheat? What's a ceramic? The answer to all these questions can be found in the science of the complex organizations of matter, a science which is pluridisciplinary. Étienne Guyon, head of the École Normale Supérieure, and Jean-Paul Troadec, a researcher, present the characteristics of grain matter, the rules by which it is organized (in both crystal and fluid) as well as its movements (in silos as in avalanches).

Didier Pleux

The Freudian Couch Revolution

Existential psychotherapy: a new approach grounded in the power of consciousness