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Bertrand Badie

Between Two Cultures

A subtle and sensitive account of a private part of Bertrand Badie’s life, which sheds new light on his interest in world affairs.

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).

Boris Cyrulnik

The Farmer and the Hot Air-Eaters

“How can we willingly obey, abandon ourselves to rote statements, accepting them as truth, without ever examining them?

Dominique Rousseau

Six Theses in Favor of Continuous Democracy

The question of a change in constitution has often been raised: it is entirely relevant in the electoral campaigns of 2022...

Laurent Bayle

A Musical 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.

Jacques Lévy

The Ethical Turning Point and the World Society

A fascinating and ambitious book, which gives back meaning to disparate and disturbing realities: the rise in protectionisms and nationalisms, the exacerbation of radicalisms by social networks, ecological and health challenges, etc…

Jean-Claude Carrière

To Life!

A short, intimate, and heartfelt book, the latest conversation to which Jean-Claude Carrière invites us

Christian Blanc

The Strength of Kanak Roots in New Caledonia

An exceptional account of a significant episode in the recent history of France, by one of its principal participants.

Laura Nattiez, Denis Peschanski, Cécile Hochard

November 13th

The book attempts to reconstruct both the precise unfolding of facts and the way in which those facts were experienced by those who were involved.

Philippe Ratte

Valéry Giscard d’Estaing The Other Great President

An original biography that convincingly and in a remarkably well-informed way develops arguments that support its position.

André Grimaldi, Frédéric Pierru

Your Health in the Future

How can we maintain the quality of care in hospitals? Is our health system equipped to respond to the challenges of the aging of the population and of chronic illnesses?

Boris Cyrulnik, Boualem Sansal

Resilience in the Mediterranean

The idea for this book was born out of a routine investigation into the revolution undertaken in February 2019 by young Algerians attempting to oust a corrupt government and replace it with true democracy.

Annick Perrot, Maxime Schwartz

Pasteur’s Nephew Or the Adventurous Life of Adrien Loir, Scholar and Globe-Trotter (1862-1941)

The book reads like a novel, part biography, part story of the development and history of Pasteurian science as seen through the life of Adrien Loir.

Yves Coppens

The Scholar, the Fossil, and the Prince From the Lab to Palaces

A storyteller with amazing talent, a scientist who is happy to reveal to the greatest of figures other facets of his personality: adventurous, refined, and full of humor.

Philippe Taquet

Georges Cuvier Anatomy of a Naturalist

The second of three volumes, this one dealing with scientific work between 1795 and 1803; the third will deal with the later years of the greatest biologist of his time.

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.

Laura Arnal, Charlotte Guttinger

I Beat Lyme’s Disease

With climate change, there is a risk of a proliferation of ticks and contractions of the disease. The book reads like a novel; alongside the main story, other accounts illuminate the struggles of Lyme disease sufferers.

Sylvain Kahn, Jacques Lévy

The Land of Europeans

Contrary to received ideas, this book shows that the European Union, far from keeping peoples under glass, is made along with them. And if they are the first to criticize European public policies, so much the better!

Henri Guaino

The End of the West?

A powerful, inspired text that calls upon the greatest voices in literature, philosophy, and history, and which is, through its writing, an illustration of the ideas it is defending.

Daniel Sibony

A new heart

A new and striking dive into the world of advanced surgery. But above all, it is a moving meditation on life, its backlash and unity.

Aldo Naouri

Bits of Existence

Short, narrative texts in which Aldo Naouri reflects on his formative life experiences that constructed the man he became and the pediatrician that has taken care of children his entire life.

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.

Sylvie Le Pelletier-Beaufond

A François Roustang Reader

A pivotal, essential book that enables the reader both to enter into the thinking of François Roustang, and one that carries on his work. The last book thought of and conceived by François Roustang with Sylvie Le Pelletier-Beaufond.

Kevin O'Rourke

A Short History of Brexit

This book is the story of a divorce, the one between the United Kingdom and Europe with the referendum of 23 June 2016.

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.

Boris Cyrulnik, Patrick Lemoine

Stories of Madness before Psychiatry

An original reflection on the future of the treatment of psychiatric illnesses based on its past mistakes.

Iannis Roder

Recovered Children of the Republic Reflections and Practices of Network of Priority Education

A book filled with Iannis Roder’s experiences, including many portraits of students and stories that tell us a lot about the reality of schools in the banlieues.

Élisabeth Dufourcq

The Spirit of Invention Power Play

A masterful panorama of the great scientific inventions. Much more than a history of science, an inquiry into the scientific mind, the logic of discoveries, the innovative strength of science.

Xu Bo

A Chinese Man from Paris Talks about the New China

A wonderful tale, teeming with anecdotes and portraits that bring to life from the inside the incredible revolution China has experienced in the past two decades.

Bernard Kouchner, Patrick Aeberhard, Jean-Pierre Daulouède, Bertrand Lebeau Leibovici, William Lowenstein

Toxicos Drug addiction: Thirty Years that Changed Everything – But Tomorrow?]

Against the institutional inertia and the comfort of habits of thought, the invigorating and instructive account by five uncommon brothers in arms, driven by the same will to care for those who in the past were despised.

Yves Quéré

A Shell in the Middle of the Ear Science, Education, and Other Shores

Written with happiness, with multiple formulations and aphorisms, this book is an invitation to meditate on the beauties and contradictions of life.

Vincent Lanata

The Days in May that Made History in Fran

The history of France is presented here in an amusing and unexpected way. The final chapter offers a consideration of themes that remain decisive in the life of France: war, Europe, geopolitics, and others.