Alain Bentolila

Talk to People You Don’t Like The Challenge Of Babel

A virulent criticism of everything that keeps the French from sharing a common language

Jean-Pierre Mohen

Rites of the Afterlife

Humans define themselves in the way they relate to death. Funerary rites are the manifestation of this essential relationship to the afterlife

Pascal Picq

Once Upon A Time The Paleoanthropology

A New Look at the Origins of Man

Boris Cyrulnik

Telling and Dying of Shame

It is shame’s “intimate theatre” that Cyrulnik explores here, in his new book

Denis Knoepfler

Narcissus and the Greek City

In this remarkable, erudite and beautifully written investigation, a renowned expert in Ancient Greek history sets out to uncover the true historic origins of a familiar figure from Greek mythology — Narcissus.

Antoine Alaméda

The 7 Domestic Sins

What with neurotic mothers and absent fathers, the family unit itself can be held accountable for most childhood psychological problems.

Philippe Jeammet

For the Sake of Our Teenagers, Let’s Grow Up!)

Jean-Pierre Changeux

The True, the Beautiful and the Good