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Karine Alavi
Pity
A crime mystery generously spiced with sex and suspense, in which nothing less than the control of the human brain is at stake.
Serge Braun
The Babel Syndrome
A philiosophical reflection on the links between science, religion and more broadly the various areas of culture.
Marc Augé
The Holy Week Which Changed The Face Of The World
A breathtaking work of fiction which in which faith in humanity conquers all. A must-read!
Laurence Ostolaza
On the Advantage of Being Born A Love Affair
The desire to have a child is the subject of this moving, timely novel
Jean-Noël Beuzen
Music: From Creative Genius to Healing Therapy
A psychiatric study of music, genius and madness
Anne-Marie Lugan Dardigna
Women of Literary Salon Feminism and the Literary Salon: Women in 18th-Century France
In France, the struggle for women’s rights is a very ancient one. In the 17th and 18th centuries it found expression in literary salons led by such famous figures as Madame de Tencin, Madame du Deffant, Madame Geoffrin and later by Madame du Châtelet and Madame d’Epinay.
Pierre Boulez, Jean-Pierre Changeux, Philippe Manoury
The Enchanted Neurons The Brain and the Music
A unique event: two major intellectuals of our time discuss the links between the neurosciences and music
Marc Crépon
The Writer’s Vocation
From earliest childhood we all know how violent, unfair, even inflexible, language can be — particularly when we have to confront our parents’ or schoolteachers’ anger.
Sylvie Vauclair, Claude-Samuel Lévine
The Music of the Spheres
A fascinating work on a the latest findings in the study of the stars
Bernard Besson
Sharing Rare Earth Resources
An eminent expert in economic intelligence offers a riveting thriller against a backdrop of international financial corruption
Françoise Héritier
A Delight in Words
Property fills the mouth, Hatred is spit out, Credulity is a good girl, Decision cuts like a scalpel
Anka Muhlstein
Proust’s Library
This fascinating portrait of Proust as a reader offers an illuminating view of his work
Pierrette Fleutiaux
Loli, the Time Has Come
Loli, le temps venu covers a relatively unexplored area in human relations, uncovering some singular emotions that shake up our usual vision of life. This is a chronicle of passion.
Jean-Marc Cosset
Radium Girl
A gripping thriller, inspired by real events, set in Depression-era America
Marc Bélit
The Love-sick Philosopher
A passionate and poisonous love affair in the world of Parisian intellectuals and political activists, in the late 1970s
Jean-Claude Hazera
The Lost German Mathurin Capitaine’s First Investigation
A gripping historical thriller set in France in 1944, as the Occupation draws to an end and the Liberation begins
Paul Andreu
Memoires of an Architect
Reflections on creativity, art and science, by a major contemporary architect
Alessandro Perissinotto
The Titanic’s Orchestra
The final book in the trilogy with amateur investigator Anna Pavesi — and the mood is darker and more terrifying than ever!
Manuella Rebotini
Totemic Drums A Short History of Rock Music and Some Psychoanalytic Considerations
Contemporary American popular history, revisited by rock music and psychoanalysis
Élisa Brune
Magic Thoughts 50 stimulating life stories that teach the art of happiness and joie de vivre
The modernisation of psychology through creative moments
Christophe Paradas
The Mysteries of creativity Psychoanalysis and aesthetic
A reflection on the mystery of creativity and on why art can be so disturbing
Alessandro Pignocchi
Art and Intention
The latest scientific research reveals how we perceive and judge works of art
Sébastien Bohler
Mind Wars
What if the goal of research on the brain is mind manipulation on a global scale?
Michel Meyer
Rosewood: The Final Enigma of the Cold War
A gripping thriller that reveals the truth underlying the collapse of the Soviet Empire
Élisa Brune
A Heavy Heart Reflections on Cioran
This moving text on existential suffering is an invitation to read or reread Cioran
Virginie Pape
Life’s Music
The beneficial effects, in both paediatrics and gerontology, of the distant music that composes our lives
Jean-Didier Vincent
Casanova The Diseases of Pleasure
J.-D. Vincent, author of The Biology of Passions, now turns his energetic eye upon the famous Venitian adventurer of the 18th century, whose Memoirs are strangely peppered with glorious descriptions of his diseases: no less than eleven small poxes for a multitude of conquests...
Caroline Rebstock
Amber Is Informed
Amber Materson, a young woman in her thirties, learns from a journalist that she is endowed with unique scientific properties: her blood contains stem cells still at the embryonic stage...