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Alain Berthoz, Fabienne Verdier

Thought in Action A Painting Session Between Art and Science

An original discussion around the artistic process, combining philosophy and history of art, brain physiology and mathematics.

Daniel Sibony

Shakespeare

An author popular with readers interested in psychoanalysis and books about literature. A highly original and exhaustive examination of one of the world’s most popular playwrights.

Karine Alavi

Over-Living

A relatable psychological drama: chaos is never far from the apparent normality of life.

More than 30 years of French cultural life, especially that of music, by a world-class participant. A series of portraits of French and international artists and intellectuals, at the heart of contemporary creation.

Philippe Siou

Living

Starting with an account from the field written in an unrestrained tone by a practitioner dealing with a patient’s end of life, an unprecedented questioning on the deontology of a doctor and the intricacies of our hospital system.

Sébastien Balibar

The Child and the Concerto

An amateur pianist blends the present of a concert, recounted as it unfolds, and an inner monologue, with different episodes from the past and from his musical memories, and ends up telling the story of a life.

Benefits of Music for the Brains of Children and Adults (The)

Pierre Lemarquis

The Benefits of Music for the Brains of Children and Adults

Music shapes and caresses our brain, it contributes to the development of individuals, to learning, to care, at every age in life.

Anouk Grinberg

The Actor, the Game, and the “I”

The activity of an actor viewed from the wings, told from the inside by one of the greatest French actresses.

Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer, Céline Jurgensen

Nuclear Imaginaries

A cross-sectional approach: from the curious to the specialist, all audiences will find food for thought here. From fiction (cartoons, cinema…) to the military perspective, and including literary references, a great variety of subjects are broached.

France Schott-Billmann

Therapy through Rhythmic Dance Healing through dance

Dance: an inner movement that can liberate any person who allows him or herself to be carried away by music.

Jean-Claude Carrière

Studios

The heretofore unknown reflections of Jean-Claude Carrière on theater, film, directing, and culture. A sincere account of the difficulties of creation. Numerous encounters with essential figures in theater and film from the past 60 years.

Marc Augé

Resuscitated

A realistic and almost contemporary story that questions the progress of medicine and our quest for immortality.

Coralie Miller, Dominique Miller

First Lady

Written by a mother and her daughter, a surprising work that launches the reader into fictional tremors while plunging him or her into the depths of analytical reflections on women and politics.

Polo Tonka

I Am the Crazy One

In the vein of his earlier work, the author, a true writer, speaks with great clarity about his mental state, and shares the excesses of it with humor and irony.

Élisa Brune, Paul Qwest

Life as an Event What Art and Science Expand in Us

In this final book, Élisa Brune and Paul Qwest share a reflection that is as rich as it is stimulating on our relationship with knowledge. A reflection based on 66 strokes of genius in the arts and sciences.

Serge Braun

The Pact of Atropos

After Le Syndrome de Babel, new fiction by a renowned scientist. A scientific-historical “whodunnit,” for fans of full-bodied police mysteries.

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.

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.

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.

André Miquel

Chateaubriand’s Memoires from Beyond the Grave Selections chosen and presented by André Miquel

For the 250th birthday of François-René de Chateaubriand: colloquia, commemorations (Saint-Malo, Combourg, Châtenay-Malabry) celebrate the great writer.

Lucy Vincent

Make Your Brain Dance

Fatigue, bad mood, stress, eating disorder, sleep problems… : a scientifically-based explanation of the effects of dance to improve your everyday life.

Éric Nataf

The Hidden Son of the Moon

A space odyssey combining suspense, surprise guests, horror, revenge, and even humor, with very well-documented scientific data.

Jean-Claude Carrière

The Valley of Nothingness

An intimate reflection on universal questions, written with the finesse and intelligence we have come to know in Jean-Claude Carrière’s writing.

Isabelle Peretz

Learn Music What’s New in the Neurosciences

The fruit of more than thirty years of research on the neurobiological foundations of music in conjunction with education, which tells us everything about the way in which music acts and transforms our brain.

Ghislaine Thesmar

A Life on Pointe Dance as destiny

The story of an exceptional principal dancer which in a very beautiful style offers an impassioned look at her life. With Ghislaine Thesmar, the reader enters fully into that long line of transmission of the art of dance, one that is constantly renewed and enriched.

Specter of Atacama (The) - A Trio for the End of Time

Alain Connes, Danye Chéreau, Jacques Dixmier

The Specter of Atacama A Trio for the End of Time

From a mysterious source there appeared a first message that had just been received by the Alma Observatory in Chili, and was saved from oblivion by the main character in the book by a mathematician obsessed with a conjecture.

Revolution in Eye Surgery (The) - the Journey of a Great Surgeon

Yves Pouliquen

The Revolution in Eye Surgery the Journey of a Great Surgeon

The exceptional journey of one of the greatest specialists in ocular surgery. A reflection on medicine and the extraordinary progress carried out in 50 years.

René Depestre, Marc Augé

Good Evening Tenderness

The life of an intellectual, revolutionary, and adventurer. An important figure in the négritude movement, alongside Aimé Césaire and Frantz Fanon. An original reflection on identity and skin color. A look back on his revolutionary dreams and the Cuba regime, in the time of Castro and Che.