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All ebooks by Collège de France in PDF and EPUB


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The Biology of Culture. Palaeoanthropology of the genus Homo


Jean-Jacques Hublin


How can the extraordinary fate of hominins be explained? Humanity’s close kinship with African great apes has been soundly established today, but our species stands out due to its highly original adaptive features – in terms of locomotion, nutrition, and reproduction –...

Publication date: 2025-06-06
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Publisher: Collège de France
Collection: Leçons inaugurales
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Oncology: From Empiricism to Integrative Biology


Hugues De Thé


After decades of descriptive studies, the biology of cancer is undergoing a real revolution: with genetic approaches, researchers have identified many of the cell deregulations likely to drive tumours. A treatment combining arsenic and retinoic acid targets the protein...

Publication date: 2024-07-11
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Publisher: Collège de France
Collection: Leçons inaugurales
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On the Inequality of Lives


Didier Fassin


There is, on the one hand, life that flows from a beginning to an end, and, on the other hand, life that constitutes human singularity because it can be recounted. We may term them “biological life” and “biographical life”. Life expectancy measures the length of the...

Publication date: 2023-09-11
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Publisher: Collège de France
Collection: Leçons inaugurales
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Difference, Competition and Disproportion. The Sociology of Creative Work


Pierre-Michel Menger


Work creates and transforms the social world. Its least predictable and most admired embodiment, artistic and scientific invention, seems to defy causal analysis and statistical regularities. Far more than the exploration of the conscious and infraconscious processes of...

Publication date: 2016-03-16
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Publisher: Collège de France
Collection: Leçons inaugurales
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Anthropology of Nature


Philippe Descola


It looks as though the anthropology of nature is an oxymoron of sorts, given that for the past few centuries, nature has been characterized in the West by humans’ absence, and humans, by their capacity to overcome what is natural in them. But nature does not exist as a...

Publication date: 2014-07-07
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Publisher: Collège de France
Collection: Leçons inaugurales
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Techniques and Economies in the Ancient Mediterranean


Jean-Pierre Brun


Every age invents a new way of writing history, or at least seeks to shed light on the present by examining the past differently. For the past thirty years the amount of data produced by archaeology, especially by preventive excavations, has grown exponentially, thus...

Publication date: 2013-09-15
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Publisher: Collège de France
Collection: Leçons inaugurales
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Religion, Institutions and Society in Ancient Rome


John Scheid


By opposing sectarian discourses with the universal weapons of history, philology and anthropology, in short, the entire arsenal of science and reason, the history of religions of the past enables us to deflate modern myths, and not only those of others but also our...

Publication date: 2013-09-15
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Publisher: Collège de France
Collection: Leçons inaugurales
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