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Alain Braconnier

How to Be a Parent love and common sense

The new art of parenting, or how to reconcile love and common sense from infancy to adolescence

Judging Well - An Essay on the Judicial Ritual

Anka Muhlstein

Balzac at Table

A luminous essay of “literary gastronomy” for food lovers as well as for anyone interested in the nineteenth-century novel

Being a Step-parent - The Recomposition of the Family

More than one million children in France live permanently or occasionally with a step-parent. What place does a step-parent hold in the family of a child whose parents are divorced or separated? What role does he or she play? Is it sufficient to know how to love in order to succeed in reconstructing a family? This is the first French investigation into the relations between step-parents and step-children that allows both the adults and the children to freely express themselves. Sylvie Cadolle teaches philosophy and educational sociology.

Lionel Naccache

On Being a Subject in Oneself The Talmudic Experience of Spirituality

What does it mean to be oneself? What does it mean to believe? An exploration of the neuroscience and philosophy of subjectivity

Jean-Paul Betbèze

French people's economic fear

France has economic possibilities, but it remains blocked in several areas. Although the country's leaders are aware of this, they seem unable to make the necessary reforms to move forward. France seems to be the prey of fears that paralyse it, but which have benefited a new class of economic as well as social rentiers who constitute a powerful economic, ideological and political group. These new rentiers are fully cognisant that the defence of their acquired privileges is not a practical long-term solution - as has been shown by rising deficits, decreased competitiveness and job losses. The author argues that it is necessary to make changes and implement reforms - and to do so it is essential to understand and overcome existing fears. It cannot be expected that everything will be changed at once, but some initial efforts must be made. The single reform that will fix everything does not exist, he says, but this is hardly an excuse for refusing to make a start. In other countries, programmes for economic reform are being implemented. Yet France is only beginning to consider such reforms. The object of this book is to provide a greater understanding of the present situation, in the form of a how-to manual. A ruthless analysis of some of France's psychological blocks, apprehensions and economic fears, this book can be regarded as a sort of economic psychotherapy. In addition, the author provides a critique of the false solutions that hinder modernisation and proposes his own solutions for change and reform. Jean-Paul Betbèze is a professor of economics at the University of Paris Panthéon-Assas and a member of the French prime minister's Council for Economic Analysis. He is a consultant to the president and the C.E.O. of a major bank and the author of Les Dix Commandements de la finance, which was awarded the Risques-Les Echos Prize in 2004.

Michel Raymond

Why I Didn’t Invent the Wheel

Between nature and culture, a fascinating, widely accessible book about human evolution

Élisa Brune

A Heavy Heart Reflections on Cioran

This moving text on existential suffering is an invitation to read or reread Cioran

Jean-Marie Bourre

Chrono-dietetics

For an optimum absorption of the nutrients our bodies require we must pay close attention to our biorhythms

Olivier Spinnler

Living Happily With Others A New Approach Of Human Relations

An analytical, thought-out, conscious and active approach to human relations.

Psychopathology of Collective Violence (The)

Françoise Sironi

The Psychopathology of Collective Violence

Gustave-Nicolas Fischer

The Mark of Others

Enigmas of Pleasure (The) - Between Psychoanalysis and Neurosciences

François Ansermet, Pierre Magistretti

The Enigmas of Pleasure Between Psychoanalysis and Neurosciences

A fascinating exploration of some contemporary forms of malaise, individual and collective: destructiveness, fanaticism, violence, as well as boredom, depression, dependence on gadgets, hyperactivity and addictions

Michel Aglietta, Sandra Rigot

Financial Crisis and Renewal

Robert Germinet

An Engineer at Democracys Bedside

Philippe Boudaroua

Keeping Your Pet in Perfect Health

Yves Pouliquen

The Action and the Mind

What does it signify for a surgeon to run the numerous risks, present in every slightest move, in accepting to operate on an eye ? What does it mean for the patient undergoing the operation to place themselves in the hands of strangers, inevitably with a degree of mistrust, in order to be able to see again ? The surgeon and the patient are in fact the protagonists of a human adventure, a scientific conquest and a forgotten medical revolution, which deserve to be related. This is especially since the surgery of the 21st century will also demand creativity, ingenuity, faith and discipline all the forms of engagement that one calls human intelligence Yves Pouliquen An internationally known specialist in ocular surgery, Professor Yves Pouliquen is the author of several books published with Odile Jacob, such as The Transparency of the Eye.

Bernard Lechevalier

Baudelaires Brain Neurology and Music

Frank Dangeard

Crisis Decision-Making in Businesses 12 Tales of Governance

Based on his extensive experience as a manager and administrator, and illustrated with numerous examples from recent business history...

Gifted Child (The) - Reconciling Intelligence

Arielle Adda, Hélène Catroux

The Gifted Child Reconciling Intelligence

Exceptionally gifted, gifted and intellectually precocious children make up as much as 5 % of any given age group. Yet they often seek failure, both at school and in their personal lives, because they suffer from being different from other children. This book is addressed to the parents and teachers of gifted children. Besides reviewing the current state of knowledge on the subject, it explains how such children can be taught to manage their potential and to overcome their excessive sensitivity and weaknesses. Arielle Adda is a psychologist. Hélène Catroux is an educational psychologist.