Books by Jean Bricmont

Many people, including physicists, are confused about what the Second Law of thermodynamics really means, about how it relates to the arrow of time, and about whether it can be derived from classical mechanics.

Permeated by the author's delightful humor, this little book explains, with nearly no mathematics, the main conceptual issues associated with quantum mechanics: The issue of determinism.

This book explains, in simple terms, with a minimum of mathematics, why things can appear to be in two places at the same time, why correlations between simultaneous events occurring far apart cannot be explained by local mechanisms, and why, nevertheless, the quantum theory can be understood in terms of matter in motion.

Since the end of the Cold War, the idea of human rights has been made into a justification for intervention by the world's leading economic and military powers. This work presents describes the leading role of the United States in initiating military and other interventions, but also on the obvious support given to it by European powers and NATO.