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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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Daniel Sibony

A Radical Love Belief and Identity

An original analysis of the relationships between religions, between Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. Key concepts in psychoanalysis applied to religions: denial, repressions, impulses, illusions.

Vincent deGaulejac, Isabelle Seret

Preventing Radicalization: Jihadism, Terrorism

Undertaken first in Belgium shortly after the attacks that occurred in that country, this approach has received a great deal of attention from public authorities, and is seeing increasing interest in France, given the failure of de-radicalization policies.

Alain Bauer, Marie-Christine Dupuis-Danon

The Bloodhounds: A Story of the French Intelligence Services in Their Own Words

Interviews with the great leaders in French Intelligence. These interviews break with a culture of secrecy; what the leaders say in no way glosses the difficulties, or the missteps, of the Services, or the manipulations that occur for reasons of high-level – or low-level – politics.