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Iannis Roder
Explaining the Shoah and Genocide to Our Children
This book desacralizes the Shoah and shows that though that genocide had specific characteristics, it can be compared to others.
Nicolas Franck
Stress and Mental Health The Odyssey of the 2020 Lockdown
Scientific and historical data to better understand the nature of confinement, this extreme experience imposed on a population.
Marek Edelman
Unpublished Notebooks from the Warsaw Ghetto
A work enriched with many elements that clarify the text and enable it to enhance the previously known history of the Warsaw Ghetto.
Aurélien Rousseau
The Wound and the Recovery Crises from Within the State’s Black Box
A book that helps better understand how health crises are managed (in particular Covid and lead pollution after the Notre-Dame fire).
Régis Debray
Believe, See, Do Crossings
In this work, Régis Debray gives free rein to his thoughts and tackles the varied subject matter provided by daily events encountered " in the news, out of the blue, or through friendship or surprise, at a moments notice and without great forethought. " The subjects he writes about range from " the Gulf War to a photo exhibit, from Tatis Jour de Fête to copyright registration, from a daydream about water to a meditation on road travel. " Other works by Régis Debray published by Editions Odile Jacob include Que Vive la République!, Tous Azimuts, and Transmettre.
Sylvie Vauclair
Dialogues With the Universe
A great scientist recounts astrophysics, clearly and accessibly
Yasmine Liénard
How Meditation Can Help You to Really Be Yourself Meditation, a path to finding your true Self
Dealing with and resolving the widespread malaise and mental suffering that characterise the society we live in. A psychological approach inspired by Buddhism.
Gabriel Wahl
Hyperactive Adults
A recognition of hyperactivity at adult age. All the facts to understand hyperactivity. Information on testing and stages of diagnosis. Approaches and treatments: psychotherapy and drug treatments explained and evaluated.
Daniel Sibony
Muslims and Jews in the Arabic World
Shedding an original and doubtless controversial light on the question of the relationship between Islam and the secular world.
Perla Kaliman, Miguel Aguilar
Feed Your Brain Neuroscience, food and gourmet recipes
A cook and a scientist work together to help our brain give its best. Preventative health for our brain through diet. An original cookbook that brings together neuroscience, ingredients and recipes.
Bernard Sablonnière
Hopes For a Long and Good Life
A very accessible, clear book with rigorous scientific explanations, enabling the reader to see the differences between false miraculous recipes and true possibilities to act against aging.
Gérard Apfeldorfer
Madness Multiplied by 3
Everything seems to be going smoothly for Doctor Crissie Weil, a dynamic psychiatrist who treats her patients through the Internet -until a mad lawyer moves into her building, steals Crissies husband and tries to sabotage her career. Crissie cannot accept such behaviour without fighting back. Quickly, the two female characters of this psychological thriller are locked in a love-hate relationship, on the very brink of madness. In the novel, we are made to reflect on the future of psychiatry, which is gradually being revolutionised by the Internet. In the United States, Britain and Italy, psychotherapy is now readily available on-line, and such services are also being developed in France. Gérard Apfeldorfer is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist.
Julien Cohen-Solal
Cinq sous de glace Fifty Years of Pediatrics
Julien Cohen-Solal has made some of the greatest progress over the past several decades in France in understanding the needs of young children. After many of his books have become classics in the field and served as landmarks to many families, Cohen-Solal tells today of his childhood and adolescence in Algeria during the 30s and 40s, of his discovery of the Parisian post-war medical world, of the influences and discoveries that punctuated his education, and of relationships with parents and children that were important to him. Now is the occassion to celebrate fifty years of pediatrics in France, fifty years of scientific, clinical, and psychological advances.