Living with Robots recounts a foundational shift in the field of robotics, from artificial intell...

How the ruthless contest among Julius Caesar’s heirs ignited a global war that raged far beyond t...

Christophe Guilluy, a French geographer, makes the case that France has become an 'American socie...

A translation, with revisions, of L'âeconomie áa l'âepreuve de l'art: art et capitalisme dans les...

The 'world of letters' has always seemed a matter more of metaphor than of global reality. In thi...

A passionate account of how the gulf between France's metropolitan elites and its working classes...

The visionary food chemist surveys a vast new world of flavor.

In this wide-ranging book, one of the boldest thinkers in modern neuroscience confronts an ancien...

The Allied landings on the coast of Normandy on June 6, 1944, have assumed legendary status in th...

By showing that the creation of a meal is as satisfying as its consumption, This recalibrates the...

Few would disagree that Western democracies are experiencing a crisis of representation. In the U...

Marie Delcourt's brilliant study of the Oedipus legend, an unjustly neglected monument of twentie...

'Originally published in French in 2019 under the title Relire le reliâe.'

A hardheaded book that confronts and outlines possible solutions to a seemingly intractable probl...

In 1755 the city of Lisbon was destroyed by a terrible earthquake. Almost 250 years later, an ear...

What Jean-Pierre Dupuy calls Economy has degenerated today into a mad spectacle of unrestrained c...

Examining the work of Lévi-Strauss, Freud, and Girard, as well as ethnographic and clinical data,...

In this landmark text, René Girard examines the nature of violence in light of globalization and ...

This scientific approach to culinary endeavour, now in paperback.

'First published in French under the title Robespierre: L'homme qui nous divise le plus by Marcel...

'Originally published in French in 2019 under the title Relire le reliâe.'

An engaging look at the founder of one of the most important philosophical schools of ancient Gre...

Translation of: La guerre qui ne peut pas avoir lieu.

How Robespierre's career and legacy embody the dangerous contradictions of democracyMaximilien Ro...

Note-by-Note Cooking is a landmark in the annals of gastronomy, liberating cooks from the constra...

We have long thought of the Renaissance as a luminous era that marked a decisive break with the p...