Jean Costentin

Against Legalising Canabis

Contrary to popular belief, cannabis is not such a “soft” drug

Élisa Brune

The Revolution Of Female Pleasure

The indispensable follow-up to Le Secret des Femmes 1: answers to your questions, innovations to be discovered, advice and scientific findings

Olivier Spinnler

Living Happily With Others A New Approach Of Human Relations

An analytical, thought-out, conscious and active approach to human relations.

David Khayat

Of Blood and Tears

An eminent physician recounts his deepest feelings as he faces death and pain, as well as his own suffering, in the course of treating his patients.

Claude Olievenstein, Carlos Parada

Like A Cannibalistic Angel Drugs, Adolescents and Society

Does it make sense to place hallucinogens and hard drugs in the same category and to regard them all as “addictive”? Should tobacco and alcohol be put on the same plane as heroin, cocaine and crack ? With the assistance of Carlos Parada, his collaborator at the Centre Médical de Marmottan, Claude Olievenstein offers the reader his latest thoughts and ideas on the highly distinctive world of substance abusers, which is characterised by pleasure, withdrawal, the need for warmth and haste and, above all, by instability and chaos. Claude Olievenstein is the head doctor at the Centre Médical de Marmottan, in Paris, and a senior research fellow at the University of Lyon-II. Carlos Parada, a physician specialising in drug addiction, works at the Centre Médical de Marmottan.

Michel Raymond

Why I Didn’t Invent the Wheel

Between nature and culture, a fascinating, widely accessible book about human evolution

Laurent Cohen-Tanugi

Backlash The West in the Post-Cold War Period

Anne de Kervasdoué

Women's Questions New, revised and enlarged edition

This is the revised and expanded fourth edition of Anne de Kervasdoué's highly successful handbook on women's health, Questions de Femmes. The author, a gynaecologist, answers a large range of questions about the female body, sexuality and the control of fertility. She provides an extensive survey of gynaecological information for each stage of a woman's life, from birth to old age. What type of contraception should be used before the age of twenty, and after forty? How can a woman increase her chances of becoming pregnant when she wishes? What should be done if a woman has one miscarriage after another? How can medicine further sexual fulfilment? What can plastic surgery do for breast enhancement? How does breast cancer develop? What are the effects of AIDS on maternity? What are some of the symptoms of sexually transmitted diseases? Anne de Kervasdoué also offers precise and detailed information about such recent developments as intracytoplasmic sperm injections (ICSI) for the treatment of male sterility, she explains what is the “third-generation Pill”, and she examines the secondary effects of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT). Most of the changes in this new edition concern the treatment of the menopause. Following the recent publication in Britain and the United States of three studies revealing a higher incidence of breast cancer and cardiovascular diseases among women who take hormones, questions are being raised about the benefits and risks of HRT, and women want to be able to make informed decisions. Included here are a practical guide and a list of useful addresses, which have also been updated. Anne de Kervasdoué is a gynaecologist working in the maternity clinic Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, in Paris. She is the author of Jours de Femmes, and the co-author (with Janine Mossuz-Lavau) of Les Femmes ne sont pas des hommes comme les autres and (with Dr. Jean Bélaïsch) of Questions d'Hommes, all three published by Editions Odile Jacob.

Stéphane Mazevet

Exoplanets and Life in the Universe In Search of Our Origins]

The tale of the great advances of the last half-century up to the discovery of extrasolar planets.

Commission du Livre blanc

The French White Paper on Defence and National Security The Debats

Patrice Huerre, Philippe Petitfrère

Questions of Authority At School, at Home, in Business

An increasing demand to review relationships of authority has been emerging over the past fifty years.

Michel Rocard

Putting One's Heart into One's Work

In this intellectual and political autobiography, former French Prime Minister Michel Rocard explains the ethical requirements which underlied his every political action. This book provides an uncompromising analysis of French society and politics by examining the economic, cultural and social questions which France poses itself today.

Gustave-Nicolas Fischer

Healing Your Life An Inner Journey

A new look at the healing process that urges you to transform yourself and your existence

François Lelord

Hector and the Rose-colored Glasses: To Love Life

Hector, the melancholic psychiatrist who wants to help others to be happy, is back. A story, a gallery of characters, and advice for personal development.

Didier Pleux

How to Escape the Dictatorship of a Reptilian Brain

As victims of the pleasure principle and of immediate gratification, how can we overcome our reptilian brain? By relearning how to wait and to think.

Stéphanie Hahusseau

Let Your Emotions Flow Without Guilt or Anxiety

33 crucial themes or key words – the acceptance of anger, attachment, self-confidence, humour, emotional phobia, feelings, loneliness, etc. to understand how emotions influence our health.