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![True Liberalism - A Critical History of Economic and Fiscal Policies](https://s0.odilejacob.fr/couvertures/9782738149824.jpg)
Pascal Salin
True Liberalism A Critical History of Economic and Fiscal Policies
A notable figure of liberalism in France, Pascal Salin is former president of the Société du Mont-Pèlerin, and is the author of many seminal works on liberalism.
![Transforming the Growth System](https://s2.odilejacob.fr/couvertures/9782738149855.jpg)
Michel Aglietta
Transforming the Growth System
An essential book for thinking in other ways about the relationships between finance, growth, and the climate, and for situating oneself within a long term perspective.
![At the Origins of Funerary Rituals - Seeing, Hiding, Making Sacred](https://s0.odilejacob.fr/couvertures/9782738149794.jpg)
Éric Crubézy
At the Origins of Funerary Rituals Seeing, Hiding, Making Sacred
From prehistory to history, descriptions of funeral rituals, known or less so, with first-hand documentation.
![Revolution of Finance: Act II (The)](https://s1.odilejacob.fr/couvertures/9782738150042.jpg)
André Lévy-Lang
The Revolution of Finance: Act II
Precise, concrete, this book will enthrall anyone who is interested in economics and finance and in new technologies.
![Protectors (The) - An Inside History of the French Gendarmerie](https://s3.odilejacob.fr/couvertures/9782738150073.jpg)
Alain Bauer, Marie-Christine Dupuis-Danon
The Protectors An Inside History of the French Gendarmerie
Following Les Guetteurs [the Lookouts], the first history of French Intelligence as told by its heads, here is Les Protecteurs, the inside history of the National Gendarmerie.
![Against Harassment - at School, at Work, and On the Net](https://s0.odilejacob.fr/couvertures/9782738149404.jpg)
Bruno Humbeeck
Against Harassment at School, at Work, and On the Net
Concrete solutions for an individual to escape the violent situation he or she is enduring, but also in the form of guidelines for prevention in the professional or educational realm.
![Resuscitated](https://s2.odilejacob.fr/couvertures/9782738150486.jpg)
Marc Augé
Resuscitated
A realistic and almost contemporary story that questions the progress of medicine and our quest for immortality.
![Confronting the New World - Epistle to Paul and to Our Contemporaries](https://s0.odilejacob.fr/couvertures/9782738149435.jpg)
Jean-François Bensahel
Confronting the New World Epistle to Paul and to Our Contemporaries
It so happens that a man was confronted with the same challenges, experienced the same anguish...
![African Urgency - Escaping the False Narratives of Emergence](https://s1.odilejacob.fr/couvertures/9782738148933.jpg)
Kako Nubukpo
African Urgency Escaping the False Narratives of Emergence
His very critical positions on the CFA franc led to his being suspended from his position at the Organisation internationale de la francophonie. A highly-publicized dismissal!
![Letters on Life and Death](https://s3.odilejacob.fr/couvertures/9782738147059.jpg)
Frédéric Worms
Letters on Life and Death
Frédéric Worms is an important figure in contemporary philosophy, and has important institutional and media connections. Thanks to its epistolary form, reminiscent of Enlightenment writers, this book is written in clear language, and is addressed to all of us.
![Preparing the children for kindergarten](https://s0.odilejacob.fr/couvertures/9782738145796.jpg)
Boris Cyrulnik
Preparing the children for kindergarten
Boris Cyrulnik, accompanied by a dozen early childhood experts, leads an exploration of how we can build the kindergarten of tomorrow and how we can give our little ones the very best chance of success
![Trial of the Revolution (The)](https://s2.odilejacob.fr/couvertures/9782738148681.jpg)
Emmanuel Terray
The Trial of the Revolution
In the first part, the author begins by letting the prosecution talk about the French Revolution. In the second part, Emmanuel Terray asks: where are we today, after two other revolutions, in Russia and in China?
![Where is the United Kingdom Headed - Brexit and Beyond](https://s0.odilejacob.fr/couvertures/9782738148537.jpg)
Pauline Schnapper, Emmanuelle Avril
Where is the United Kingdom Headed Brexit and Beyond
A burning reality. Brexit, which was supposed to take effect officially on 29 March 2019, has been postponed to October, but already its effects are being felt, and this is only the beginning!
![Life as an Event - What Art and Science Expand in Us](https://s1.odilejacob.fr/couvertures/9782738147738.jpg)
Élisa Brune, Paul Qwest
Life as an Event What Art and Science Expand in Us
In this final book, Élisa Brune and Paul Qwest share a reflection that is as rich as it is stimulating on our relationship with knowledge. A reflection based on 66 strokes of genius in the arts and sciences.
![A Diplomat Drinks and Eats for His Country](https://s3.odilejacob.fr/couvertures/9782738148322.jpg)
Stéphane Gompertz
A Diplomat Drinks and Eats for His Country
Stéphane Gompertz’s book is neither an autobiography, nor a university course. Based on the author’s experience, it is the defense and portrait of an often caricatured profession.
![Science and Democracy](https://s0.odilejacob.fr/couvertures/9782738144102.jpg)
Philippe Kourilsky
Science and Democracy
An analysis of democracy to understand the current crisis in our political system
![Governing is an Ambition For Which One Must Have Talent](https://s2.odilejacob.fr/couvertures/9782738144881.jpg)
Atticus
Governing is an Ambition For Which One Must Have Talent
What is power? This wonderfully written book, powerfully argued, enhanced with contemporary examples, attempts to respond to that crucial question.
![Globalization and Finance](https://s0.odilejacob.fr/couvertures/9782738148032.jpg)
Patrick Artus
Globalization and Finance
Patrick Artus is one of the most brilliant analysts of today’s economy and finance. All his books are best-sellers.
![Babel 2.0 - Where does machine translation go?](https://s1.odilejacob.fr/couvertures/9782738148490.jpg)
Thierry Poibeau
Babel 2.0 Where does machine translation go?
The complexity of natural language and its ambiguities are well designed to confuse the fully rational algorithms of our computers. The
![Sharing wealth](https://s3.odilejacob.fr/couvertures/9782738148520.jpg)
Philippe Askenazy
Sharing wealth
At a time when democracies are threatened by populism and the risk of authoritarian drift, rehabilitating those who drive growth through their efforts is simply an imperative for survival.
![New Feminisms (The) - Struggles and Dreams in the Post-Weinstein Era](https://s0.odilejacob.fr/couvertures/9782738147820.jpg)
Barbara Polla
The New Feminisms Struggles and Dreams in the Post-Weinstein Era
New light shed on feminism by a woman involved in the women’s movement. To find oneself in a galaxy of feminist currents. A reflection on the status of women.
![Square and the Tower (The) - Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power](https://s2.odilejacob.fr/couvertures/9782738146816.jpg)
Niall Ferguson
The Square and the Tower Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power
Most history is about the people at the top of the towers of power. But what if the real action is in the social networks down below, in the town squares ? Niall Ferguson brilliantly recasts past and present as an unending contest between hierarchies and networks.
![Memoirs of a Protohistorian - In Search of Peoples Without Writing](https://s0.odilejacob.fr/couvertures/9782738146427.jpg)
Jean Guilaine
Memoirs of a Protohistorian In Search of Peoples Without Writing
By one of the preeminent specialists in protohistory, the tale of a simple passion for archeology in the Mediterranean region, fed by a deep attachment to the peasant world and to childhood.
![End of the West? (The)](https://s1.odilejacob.fr/couvertures/9782738147615.jpg)
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.
![Missteps of Finance (The)](https://s3.odilejacob.fr/couvertures/9782738147677.jpg)
Georges Ugeux
The Missteps of Finance
Using plain language, a serious warning about the threats looming over the financial sphere. Georges Ugeux is a colorful figure in finance, and a free thinker.
![A new heart](https://s0.odilejacob.fr/couvertures/9782738147851.jpg)
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.
![Innovating Like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Steve Jobs](https://s2.odilejacob.fr/couvertures/9782738147110.jpg)
Alain Dupas, Jean-Christophe Messina, Cyril de Sousa Cardoso
Innovating Like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Steve Jobs
Large companies are no longer what they once were: rockets, electric cars, technological breakthroughs, dematerialized commerce and services are all on the rise.
![Toxic Handlers - Generators of Goodwill in Companies](https://s0.odilejacob.fr/couvertures/9782738144539.jpg)
Gilles Teneau, Géraldine Lemoine
Toxic Handlers Generators of Goodwill in Companies
Criteria to enable HR professionals and company managers to recognize, recruit, and support these unique personalities who are so valuable to organizations.
![How to Govern a People-King? - A New Treatise on the Art of Politics](https://s1.odilejacob.fr/couvertures/9782738146458.jpg)
Pierre-Henri Tavoillot
How to Govern a People-King? A New Treatise on the Art of Politics
Pierre-Henri Tavoillot offers us a voyage through time and space: to the great authors of the past, to the heart of the world’s political experiments, but also among the latest technological innovations.
![China Is/and the World - A Look at Sino-globalization](https://s3.odilejacob.fr/couvertures/9782738146540.jpg)
Sophie Boisseau du Rocher, Emmanuel Dubois de Prisque
China Is/and the World A Look at Sino-globalization
By stressing the gap between today’s international system and what it would be in the event of Chinese hegemony, we will understand better what is at play, and what is lost, with the “de-Westernization” of the world.
![Artificial Intelligence and the Chimpanzees of the Future - For an Anthropology of Intelligence](https://s0.odilejacob.fr/couvertures/9782738145611.jpg)
Pascal Picq
Artificial Intelligence and the Chimpanzees of the Future For an Anthropology of Intelligence
Confronted with future challenges connected with the emergence of AI, a lucid and enlightening look by a paleoanthropologist, specialist in evolution.
![Third Man (The) - Between Personal Breakdown and Catholic Crisis](https://s2.odilejacob.fr/couvertures/9782738146632.jpg)
François Roustang, Ève-Alice Roustang
The Third Man Between Personal Breakdown and Catholic Crisis
An important stage in the intellectual journey of François Roustang, presented by Ève-Alice Roustang, a writer and daughter of the author. The text of François Roustang is put into perspective by three eminent specialists of the history of Catholicism.