Biographies, Memoirs All books
Christian de Duve
Seven Lives in One Nobel Prize winner's Memoirs
The life of an exceptional Nobel Prize winner, from childhood to scientific recognition and acclaim
Kofi Annan
Interventions A Life in War and Peace
The story of Kofi Annan’s forty years at the centre of the world stage
Yves Pouliquen
Cabanis: An Ideologue’s Life
The brilliant intellectual life of the French Revolutionary period is vividly revived here in this biography of Cabanis, physician, physiologist and Enlightenment philosopher.
Colin Powell, Joseph E. Persico
My American Journey
Colin Powell is the incarnation of the American dream. Born of Jamaican parents, he lived a tough urban life before embarking on a brilliant career in the army, then at Washington. The rest is history. The man who was once at the head of the United States Armed Forces, and is today one of the most important figures in American politics recounts his progression in life : from the dangers of Vietnam to the garrisons of Korea, from the deep South to the corridors of the Pentagon and then the White House, under Reagan and Bush, at the time of the Star Wars, Irangate, and the Gulf War. With the collaboration of Joseph E. Persico.
Annick Perrot, Maxime Schwartz
Pasteur and his Lieutenants Roux, Yersin and the Others
The greatest medical revolution, recounted as an adventure story
Colin Powell, Tony Koltz
It Worked for Me In Life and Leadership
A natural storyteller, Powell offers warm and engaging parables with wise advice on succeeding in the workplace and beyond.
Boris Cyrulnik
A Child in the War: Memoirs
For the first time, Boris Cyrulnik recounts his early years, the war, his life as a hidden child, police roundups and how he found the strength to survive.
Daniel Sibony
Marrakech, Departure Point
During a weekend trip to Marrakech — his hometown — a novelist has a love affair that becomes intertwined with reminiscences of his childhood.
Dominique Schnapper
Work And Love Memoirs
A review of the greatest half-century in French sociology, by a leading intellectual