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Anka Muhlstein
Balzac at Table
A luminous essay of “literary gastronomy” for food lovers as well as for anyone interested in the nineteenth-century novel
Roland Coutanceau
The Injuries of Intimacy
How can evil be understood? How can we apprehend the barbaric potential of some human beings? The need for large-scale information, prevention and education is underlined here
Alain Prochiantz
Darwin: 200 Years
More than an homage to a great scientist, this book, written by eminent specialists, is a perfect introduction to understanding the impact of Darwinism on contemporary thinking and science
Nicolas Offenstadt
1914-18 Today The Great War in Contemporary France
A complete history of the “memory” of the Great War in the contemporary mind
Stanislas Dehaene
A Good Head for Maths
This book on experimental psychology is clear and rigorous, precise and alert - it is instructive and incites us to think...
Bernard Lechevalier
Mozart’s Brain
The author uses some of the most iconic incidents from Mozart’s life as a springboard to explore the mechanisms of musical perception.
Jean-Marc Cosset
Paris Sniper
A mad gunman is on the loose and as the corpses pile up with no apparent connection the tension in Paris builds up — until the final dramatic climax.
Antoine Spire, Mano Siri
Cancer: The Patient is a Human Being
n this book, we wish to tackle all the problems raised by the terrible quantitative and qualitative development of cancer in France...