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Libby Purves
How Not to Be a Perfect Mother
Are you a perfect mother or a real mother? Perfect mothers are forever smiling, their homes are immaculate, and they never raise their voices.
Sylvain Kahn, Jacques Lévy
The Land of Europeans
Contrary to received ideas, this book shows that the European Union, far from keeping peoples under glass, is made along with them. And if they are the first to criticize European public policies, so much the better!
Niall Ferguson
The Square and the Tower Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power
Most history is about the people at the top of the towers of power. But what if the real action is in the social networks down below, in the town squares ? Niall Ferguson brilliantly recasts past and present as an unending contest between hierarchies and networks.
Jean-Marie Bourre
A Program to Feed Your Brain Well
A clear and instructive approach that enables the reader to understand what is needed to be at the height of one’s intellectual abilities.
Boris Cyrulnik
At Night, I Would Write Suns
Alongside Genet, Tolstoy, Gary, and many others, a perceptive and sensitive exploration of resilience through a few great works in our literary canon: how writing can sometimes save a life, how words enable one to escape, to flee reality, or to create oneself, to create a world, one’s own, or to fill a void, or to tell one’s story. . .
Olivier Houdé
Human Intelligence is Not an Algorithm
An original theory that proposes a new model of intelligence centered on intuition, logic, but also inhibition, indispensable for correcting our cognitive biases.
Gérard Apfeldorfer
Slimming is simple and in your head
A visionary approach that very early on stressed the importance of the relationship between the body and the psyche in problems relating to weight-loss.
Mael Virat
When Teachers Like Students The Psychology of Education-based Relationships
With supporting documentation, a book that fights a tenacious taboo that is completely out-of-sync with recent advances in psychology!
Jérôme Boutang, Michel DeLara
The Biases of the Mind Ways of thinking modeled by evolution
An evolutionist psychology for dummies. A fun book on a subject that concerns us all.
Danièle Brun
The Imprint of the Familial Body Memory of Scars
A new approach to a better understanding of what occurs unconsciously in the family. A work that explores the ties that connect members of a family.
Jean Guilaine
Memoirs of a Protohistorian In Search of Peoples Without Writing
By one of the preeminent specialists in protohistory, the tale of a simple passion for archeology in the Mediterranean region, fed by a deep attachment to the peasant world and to childhood.
Henri Guaino
The End of the West?
A powerful, inspired text that calls upon the greatest voices in literature, philosophy, and history, and which is, through its writing, an illustration of the ideas it is defending.
Georges Ugeux
The Missteps of Finance
Using plain language, a serious warning about the threats looming over the financial sphere. Georges Ugeux is a colorful figure in finance, and a free thinker.
Alvaro Bilbao
The Child's brain explained to parents
This educational manual, written by a neuropsychologist, explains everything parents can do to promote their child's brain development. Practical and educational advice that acts positively to help him/her acquire good intellectual and emotional skills.
Daniel Sibony
A new heart
A new and striking dive into the world of advanced surgery. But above all, it is a moving meditation on life, its backlash and unity.
Aldo Naouri
Bits of Existence
Short, narrative texts in which Aldo Naouri reflects on his formative life experiences that constructed the man he became and the pediatrician that has taken care of children his entire life.
Hans Moravec
The future of robots and human intelligence
This visionary book describes the new world that is coming into being. A world of intelligent and autonomous robots...
Gilles Teneau, Géraldine Lemoine
Toxic Handlers Generators of Goodwill in Companies
Criteria to enable HR professionals and company managers to recognize, recruit, and support these unique personalities who are so valuable to organizations.
Graham Allison
Destined for War Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?
China and the United States are heading toward a war neither wants.
Alain Dupas, Jean-Christophe Messina, Cyril de Sousa Cardoso
Innovating Like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Steve Jobs
Large companies are no longer what they once were: rockets, electric cars, technological breakthroughs, dematerialized commerce and services are all on the rise.
Delphine Lhuillery, Erick Petit, Eric Sauvanet
All about endometriosis Relieving pain, curing illness
This is the first scientific and accessible book on endometriosis, this specifically female disease, which is still too little known to patients, but also to the medical profession.
Didier Pleux
Developing Your Teen’s Concentration
Concrete advice to help adolescents concentrate. A book that addresses adolescents directly.
René deSaint-Jean
Tomorrow, You Will Be Immortal
A dystopia full of plot twists that enable us to imagine what might be the outcome and consequences of a world without death.
Alain Braconnier
Be Brave, Let’s Dream! How to Think of the Future Without Stressing Out
In line with Alain Braconnier’s books on optimism. In this book, he starts with an observation — there is a sort of general doubt experienced with regard to the future — and proposes tools to help move forward constructively into the future.
Jean Abitbol
Woman’s Voice
A comprehensive book on the female voice by one of the best specialists, who works with people whose voice is their primary tool: teachers, singers, men and women politicians.
Pierre-Henri Tavoillot
How to Govern a People-King? A New Treatise on the Art of Politics
Pierre-Henri Tavoillot offers us a voyage through time and space: to the great authors of the past, to the heart of the world’s political experiments, but also among the latest technological innovations.
Fanny Nusbaum, Olivier Revol, Dominic Sappey-Marinier
The Philocognitives They Only Like to Think, and to Think Differently
Uncommon and compulsive thoughts, reasoning pushed to its limits, extreme sensorial and emotional sensitivity, a mind that constantly creates connections…: the high potential dusted off for the general public, but also for professionals!
Edouard Pélissier
Vegetarian, Vegan, or Flexitarian? What Is Good for Your Health
A clear and accessible book to better understand the advantages and the risks of the various dietary models: vegetarianism, veganism, an omnivorous diet.
Bertrand Badie
The Age of Humiliation Pathology International Relations
A brilliant thinker who is widely known in the French media, Bertrand Badie offers an original view of international relations at the junction of individual and collective concerns.
Sophie Boisseau du Rocher, Emmanuel Dubois de Prisque
China Is/and the World A Look at Sino-globalization
By stressing the gap between today’s international system and what it would be in the event of Chinese hegemony, we will understand better what is at play, and what is lost, with the “de-Westernization” of the world.
Alain Bécoulet
Nuclear Fusion
The great hope in the realm of energy transition: fusion produces almost no radioactive waste, and doesn’t emit CO2. . .
Anca Visdei
A Biography of Alberto Giacometti
A fascinating narrative that recounts the life of a major artist and his relationship with his work and with creation, in which relationships with those close to him, notably with his mother, played an important role.