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Claude Hagège

Against Uniform Thinking

The threat of uniform thinking, relayed notably through the English language, should lead us to react in defence of linguistic and cultural diversity.

Alain Braconnier

How to Be a Parent love and common sense

The new art of parenting, or how to reconcile love and common sense from infancy to adolescence

Jean Costentin

Against Legalising Canabis

Contrary to popular belief, cannabis is not such a “soft” drug

Claude Olievenstein, Carlos Parada

Like A Cannibalistic Angel Drugs, Adolescents and Society

Does it make sense to place hallucinogens and hard drugs in the same category and to regard them all as addictive? Should tobacco and alcohol be put on the same plane as heroin, cocaine and crack ? With the assistance of Carlos Parada, his collaborator at the Centre Médical de Marmottan, Claude Olievenstein offers the reader his latest thoughts and ideas on the highly distinctive world of substance abusers, which is characterised by pleasure, withdrawal, the need for warmth and haste and, above all, by instability and chaos. Claude Olievenstein is the head doctor at the Centre Médical de Marmottan, in Paris, and a senior research fellow at the University of Lyon-II. Carlos Parada, a physician specialising in drug addiction, works at the Centre Médical de Marmottan.

David Khayat

Of Blood and Tears

An eminent physician recounts his deepest feelings as he faces death and pain, as well as his own suffering, in the course of treating his patients.

Michel Raymond

Why I Didn’t Invent the Wheel

Between nature and culture, a fascinating, widely accessible book about human evolution

Laurent Cohen-Tanugi

Backlash The West in the Post-Cold War Period

Anne de Kervasdoué

Women's Questions New, revised and enlarged edition

This is the revised and expanded fourth edition of Anne de Kervasdoué's highly successful handbook on women's health, Questions de Femmes. The author, a gynaecologist, answers a large range of questions about the female body, sexuality and the control of fertility. She provides an extensive survey of gynaecological information for each stage of a woman's life, from birth to old age. What type of contraception should be used before the age of twenty, and after forty? How can a woman increase her chances of becoming pregnant when she wishes? What should be done if a woman has one miscarriage after another? How can medicine further sexual fulfilment? What can plastic surgery do for breast enhancement? How does breast cancer develop? What are the effects of AIDS on maternity? What are some of the symptoms of sexually transmitted diseases? Anne de Kervasdoué also offers precise and detailed information about such recent developments as intracytoplasmic sperm injections (ICSI) for the treatment of male sterility, she explains what is the third-generation Pill, and she examines the secondary effects of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT). Most of the changes in this new edition concern the treatment of the menopause. Following the recent publication in Britain and the United States of three studies revealing a higher incidence of breast cancer and cardiovascular diseases among women who take hormones, questions are being raised about the benefits and risks of HRT, and women want to be able to make informed decisions. Included here are a practical guide and a list of useful addresses, which have also been updated. Anne de Kervasdoué is a gynaecologist working in the maternity clinic Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, in Paris. She is the author of Jours de Femmes, and the co-author (with Janine Mossuz-Lavau) of Les Femmes ne sont pas des hommes comme les autres and (with Dr. Jean Bélaïsch) of Questions d'Hommes, all three published by Editions Odile Jacob.

Stéphane Mazevet

Exoplanets and Life in the Universe In Search of Our Origins]

The tale of the great advances of the last half-century up to the discovery of extrasolar planets.

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.

Bill Clinton

Between Hope and History Meeting America's Challenges for the 21st Century

For many people, America remains a model. A model of an economy in full growth, a model of a society which has created millions of jobs, a model of a nation reuniting men and women from the most diverse origins. Today, like before, America demonstrates her amazing capacity to adapt and to bounce right back. For the first time in print, the President of the United States expounds his personal vision of the American dream, a dream which he intends, from this moment forward, to transform into reality. A political document, but also offering many subjects, from education to budgetary concerns, for general reflection.

Anne-Lise Schwing

A Method for Avoiding Burnout

How not to become overwhelmed at work. Tests, questionnaires, work on thoughts to know how to assert oneself and get back on top of things. A lively and dynamic tone.

Jean-Didier Vincent

Life Is a Fable

Karine Alavi

Over-Living

A relatable psychological drama: chaos is never far from the apparent normality of life.

Luc Ferry, Conseil d'analyse de la société

In Defense of Civic Service

Alfred Sauvy

The Sources of Humour

With a view as encyclopedic as it is malicious, Alfred Sauvy invites us to journey through centuries and cultures in search of that eternal antidote to sadness and pedantry: humor. Faithful to his own voice, the author voluntarily leaves the floor to the humorists and offers us a pivotal reference work that combines erudition with an anthology that is full of alacrity. Alfred Sauvy (1898-1990) was a professor at the Collège de France, created and directed the Institut de Conjoncture, and later the National Institute of Demographic Study. Member of the Economic and Social Council of Paris, he was a longtime representative of France at the United Nations.

Serge Renaud

A Healthy Diet

It is possible to eat in a manner that reconciles the demands of staying slim, good health, and general well being - although the steady stream of unhealthy and sometimes dangerous slimming diets would tend to make us believe otherwise. The new health diet proposed here draws much from traditional Cretan eating habits - which seem to be responsible for the populations tenaciously long life. Crete has the highest life-expectancy rate, and its people have the lowest incidence in the western world of cardiovascular diseases, that scourge of the industrialised nations. Serge Renaud is the scientist who discovered that wine can play a role in protecting against cardiovascular diseases - a finding that has become known as the French paradox. After spending much of his career in the United States, he directed a research unit of INSERM (France) for twenty years.

Wealth of Nations and the Well-Being of Individuals (The) - Economic Performance and Social Progress

Joseph Stiglitz, Amartya Sen, Jean-Paul Fitoussi

The Wealth of Nations and the Well-Being of Individuals Economic Performance and Social Progress

“If we do not want our future, our children’s future and that of succeeding generations to be strewn with financial, economic, social, ecological and, consequently, human catastrophes, we must change our way of life, how we consume and how we produce...

Camille Cellier

Healing Anorexia

A personal account of overcoming anorexia, contrary to all institutional treatments

Ricardo Bofill, Jean-Louis André

Life's Spaces

Catalonian Ricardo Bofill is probably today's most famous and most controversial architect. In this book, illustrated with sketches and outlines, written directly in French with the help of journalist J.-L. André, he reveals an analysis of his art and an invitation to read the city.

Xavier Emmanuelli

Prelude to the Symphony of the New World

Yves Jacquin Depeyre

The Solar Revolution

The author writes as a player on the field. His practical experience allows him to explain why the move toward solar energy will prove to be infinitely more beneficial than what has been expected.

Jean-Didier Vincent

Celui qui parlait presque

When a rich English woman, a grouchy scientist, a bonobo monkey and a young man interested in religion meet together in a castle of Provence, what do they do? They talk. And what do they talk about? About the origins of life, the appearance of language, about the secrets of memory, or about the emergence of desire. Subtle and witty, J.-D. Vincent, a neurobiologist, author of The Biology of Passions, offers us here a defense and an illustration of material reason.

French White Paper on Defence and National Security (The) - The Debats

Commission du Livre blanc

The French White Paper on Defence and National Security The Debats

Patrice Huerre, Philippe Petitfrère

Questions of Authority At School, at Home, in Business

An increasing demand to review relationships of authority has been emerging over the past fifty years.

Michel Rocard

Putting One's Heart into One's Work

In this intellectual and political autobiography, former French Prime Minister Michel Rocard explains the ethical requirements which underlied his every political action. This book provides an uncompromising analysis of French society and politics by examining the economic, cultural and social questions which France poses itself today.