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Jean-François Sirinelli

France in an Age of Major Upheaval 1962-2017

A look at France’s recent history by an historian attempting to define a consistent theme and perhaps also paint a picture of what the future may have in store.

Jean-Claude Cousseran, Philippe Hayez

Intelligence Handbook

For the first time, the real practice of intelligence comes in out of the shadows. Very timely issues, from the international fight against terrorism to cyberthreats and economic intelligence.

Serge Bahuchet

Nature’s Gardeners What kind of nature do we want?

A new view of the ties between man and nature. Covers a wide array of subjects, full of interesting details - a real pleasure to read

Deeply Troubled Teens in Search of Life-giving Support - Treating troubled teens in a society paralyzed by its own fears

Written by a young child psychiatrist in touch with the anxiety experienced by teenagers and their parents. Beyond adolescent malaise, the book examines the fears of French society and methods for overcoming feelings of powerlessness.

Boris Cyrulnik

Psychotherapy from God

Combining developmental psychology, attachment-based therapy, psycho-sociology, and the neurosciences, a psychotherapy of the sacred that takes into account all forms of belief, without distinction and without judgment, to analyse their foundations, their practices, their inner workings, and also their benefits. An original enlightening study of the major role played by attachment (secure or insecure) in religious feeling.

Laurent Cohen

How Do You Read With Your Ears? And 40 other stories about the human brain

The new book by one of our most brilliant neurologists gives us a concise and comprehensive overview of the latest advances in neuroscience. Forty short, strange, entertaining but always instructive stories about the functioning and dysfunctioning, ordinary or extraordinary, of our brain.

Pierre-Henri Tavoillot

Better and better and worse and worse Understanding our world better, and using it with optimism

An antidote to the pessimistic discourse on decline, it shows that the only lucid and worthwhile attitude is to accept the limits of progress without renouncing confidence in the future. A book which reconnects with the idea of progress without falling either into naïvete or into demagogy.

Jacques Lesourne

A Pragmatic Approach to the Way of the Future How can we innovate and bring about change in society?

The originality of the author’s method, i.e. drawing the outlines of the world of tomorrow, and based on this futurist perspective, defining the changes that need to be made.

Long Term as a Horizon (The) - How do companies take the future into account and anticipate what lies ahead?

Philippe Durance, Régine Monti

The Long Term as a Horizon How do companies take the future into account and anticipate what lies ahead?

Interviews with senior executives of major companies: Danone, Michelin, Saint-Gobain, SPIE, Veolia, Caisse des Dépôts, Malakoff Médéric etc. Long-term issues are essential to corporate strategy and management.

Jean-Pierre Hansen, Jacques Percebois

Electricity in Transition What Europe and the markets couldn’t tell you

The history of electricity as you’ve never heard it before. A genuine mini-guide to economic issues through the example of electricity: price formation, transmission costs, monopolies.

Gilles Mondoloni

Guide to Osteopathy Edition 2017

Osteopathy, an effective treatment for commonplace aches and pains

François-Xavier Poudat, Marthylle Lagadec

Sex Out Of Control Overcoming Addiction

A unique practical guide that dares to tackle sex addiction without taboo. Information on sexual addiction, both in terms of research and treatment. Advice on how to deal with possible relapses.

Flavia Mannocci

The powers of curiosity

Curiosity is a fundamental value of positive psychology. It is an indicator of mental well-being. Exercises and case studies train and develop curiosity.

Alain Braconnier, Daniel Marcelli

The Many Facets of Adolescence

Adolescents seem to be governed by paradoxes: they are simultaneously dependant and autonomous, individualistic yet fascinated by groups, peremptory but prone to doubts.

Liliane Zylbersztejn

Itinerary of an Abused Child Hate, love, and life

A powerful testimony enriched with a reflection on children’s psychological defences against abuse. Seen as a positive psychological process, this approach to hatred — an unusual concept — can light the path of many people who consider themselves affected.

Éric Crubézy, Dariya Nikolaeva

Archeology of the Vanquished or History of the Victor?

An analysis of natural selection, the evolution of societies, and adaptation to climate and the environment. A different way of looking at history, by questioning what ensures the survival of certain societies facing extreme natural conditions as well as invasions and colonization.

Jean-Pierre Pharabod, Gérard Klein

Fortune and Misfortune in Quantum Physics (Re)discovering the great theories of physics

The great theories of physics seen through the controversies they provoke. Quantum physics and general relativity, the two pillars of modern physics, are a source of fascination to many. Difficult subjects tackled in their historical context and without scientific tools.

Christine Moussot

Women, Make Yourselves Heard!

The first 100% vocal coaching book for women that addresses the vocal difficulties they most often encounter: light or self-effacing voices, voices that are too high or that speak too fast.

Aldo Naouri

Three Questions On The Family

Aldo Naouri’s complete reference work! The fruit of all his experience related to the fragile and essential parent-child relationship

Laurent Schmitt

Secret The role of secrecy throughout human life

A reflection on the benefits of secrecy to the psyche that goes against the tide of transparency. Secrecy can be useful or even indispensable to our psychic survival. A contemporary and historical account of the role of secrecy in psychology.

Henry de Lumley

The Domestication of Fire

A reference work, lavishly illustrated, on one of the most essential subjects in the history of mankind. The author is one of the greatest paleontologists of the time, and a passionate researcher. The domestication of fire is a subject of interest to a wide public.

Déborah Ducasse, Véronique Brand-Arpon

BPD Sufferers: Overcoming the Daily Challenges A practical guide to home therapy

A guide based on the daily clinical practice of the University Hospital of Montpellier, one of the French centres of excellence in the management of borderline disorder. A practical self-care guide that allows you to follow a programme to overcome the difficulties that a borderline person encounters on a daily basis.

Françoise Brochard-Wyart, David Quéré, Madeleine Veyssié

Incredible Mister Pierre Gilles de Gennes Memories

A revival of "The French Feynman" through selected pieces, most of them previously unpublished. Scientific curiosity knows no borders; sharing it can abolish them.

Aldo Naouri

Hearing the Child

The role of the mother, the place of the father, what it means to educate: with great coherence, Aldo Naouri presents and reevaluates many of his key themes as they come together to illuminate the psychic development of the child. A reflective work on the profound meaning of what it means to raise a child.

The Shift Project, Zeynep Kahraman, André-Jean Guérin, Jean-Marc Jancovici

Let's De-Carbonize Europe! Nine propositions for Europe can move on

Hulot’s Pact sold 100,000 copies. How will Jancovici’s Manifesto do?

History of the World is Made in Asia (The) - Another vision of the twentieth century

Pierre Grosser

The History of the World is Made in Asia Another vision of the twentieth century

A "de-westernized" story: many episodes that are often overlooked are described here — the Russian civil war in the Far East, the Anglo-Japanese confrontation in Manchuria, the harshness of the Korean War…

Edmund Phelps

Mass Prosperity

A profound reflection, at the meeting-point of economics and psychology, on the forces of innovation and economic well-being and the motivations of both. A view of innovation that confronts many accepted ideas — the Schumpeterian view of the entrepreneur, the development of science as a source of innovation, and so on — and which needs to be debated.