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Françoise Héritier
A Delight in Words
Property fills the mouth, Hatred is spit out, Credulity is a good girl, Decision cuts like a scalpel
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...
Bernard Besson
Greenland
“With an apocalyptic roar, Greenland’s Lauge Koch Kyst region had broken off from the mainland...
Michel Meyer
Rosewood: The Final Enigma of the Cold War
A gripping thriller that reveals the truth underlying the collapse of the Soviet Empire