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Sylvie Royant-Parola
How to Beat Insomnia By Yourself
Thirty-five percent of all French people suffer from insomnia. The lives of those who have difficulties sleeping often turn into nightmares of fatigue, anxiety, irritability and lack of concentration. How can the vicious circle of insomnia be broken? In this practical manual, Dr. Royant-Parola offers straightforward tips to help insomniacs. Sylvie Royant-Parola is a psychiatrist and neuro-biologist.
Dominique Servant
How Not to Crack Up at Work
What can be done, in a concrete fashion, to overcome work-related problems and to obtain professional satisfaction and fulfilment?
Marion Aufseesser
Rebounding How to Turn a Career Change into a Real Break
An effective coaching method to help you make that career change or find a new job
Yves-Alexandre Thalmann
Feeling Great With Positive Psychology
Discover the path to wellbeing through positive psychology, a scientifically based method.
Antoine Pelissolo, Stéphane Roy
Stop Blushing — Accepting that Others See You
Blushing deeply in public can cause embarrassment.
Christine Mirabel-Sarron, Nayla Chidiac
Managing Your Time Well
Feeling overwhelmed and short of time is not inevitable. We can all “make” time and lead better lives.
Yves Simon, Isabelle Simon-Baïssas
How to Help Your Anorexic Child
Is your teenage daughter anxious about her weight? Is she losing weight? Are you worried? Why is her behaviour so destructive? Why does her personality seem changed? Is she anorexic?
Steven Laureys
Meditation Exercises to Improve Your Brain
A range of meditation exercises carefully guided by the great neurologist Steven Laureys, enabling a practical implementation, whose duration and level can be adapted.
Stéphanie Hahusseau
How Not to Endure Any Longer Deconditioning Oneself from One’s Past
A book for a general audience and for health-care professionals that explains how behavioral disorders, can be hiding repressed issues of abuse
Danièle Brun
Femininity Restored
A psychoanalyst’s look at femininity, a notion that today is unpopular and above all misunderstood
Didier Pleux
Developing Your Teen’s Concentration
Concrete advice to help adolescents concentrate. A book that addresses adolescents directly.
André Miquel
Itinerary of an Arabist
The exemplary journey of a great scholar, historian, and man of letters, a lover of the Arabic language, of which he is one of the greatest translators into French, notably of the Thousand and One Nights.
Maurice Taieb, Doris Barboni
Once Upon a Time There Was Lucy
The discovery of Lucy told to children by one of her historic discoverers. Illustrations by Cécile Gambini.
Édouard Gentaz, Solange Denervaud, Léonard Vannetzel
The Secret Life of Our Children
Understanding our children to help them through their development
Jean Hamburger
Beautiful Imprudences
"Man has broken all the commandments to which living beings are bound. We had the audacity to want the weak to be protected. We gave rights to the individual. We decreased the rate of infant mortality and doubled the rate of life expectancy. But can we avoid the punishments of these beautiful imprudences?" Jean Hamburger Jean Hamburger was at the forefront of modern necrology and the principals of medical resuscitation. A member of the Académie Française and the Académie de Médecine, he was also President of the Académie des Sciences.
Lionel Coudron, Corinne Miéville
Yoga Therapy: Treating Back Pain
Explanations to understand the origins of one’s back pain, to treat and prevent it; advice to adopt good posture in one’s daily life.
Christophe André, François Lelord
Self-esteem Liking Oneself in Order to Live Better with Others
A format adapted to the individual: tests for self-evaluation; keys for understanding how self-esteem is formed at every age, in private as well as professional life; concrete solutions to help live in the best harmony with oneself… and with others.
Lionel Coudron, Corinne Miéville
Treating Respiratory Disorders Yoga – to breathe easier
The advice of Lionel Coudron, a medical expert on treating health issues with yoga, yoga-therapy, an approach that is recognized and now practiced in many hospitals.
Denis Jeambar
A State Secret
From a resounding victory, full of promises, to a surprise, humiliating defeat, the presidency of Jacques Chirac didnt manage to astonish the French nation or the world. This book lifts the lid on the plotting and secrets of the presidency. Denis Jeambar is the editor of the Express.
Martin Collet
Is Taxation Confiscation?
Who should decide on the legitimacy of taxation? The Law’s reply to a social issue
Jean-Claude Carrière
To Life!
A short, intimate, and heartfelt book, the latest conversation to which Jean-Claude Carrière invites us
Rita Levi Montalcini
Praise of Imperfection New Edition
Rita Levi Montalcini's life has been entirely dedicated to scientific research. She grew up in a tightly knit Jewish family and studied medicine in Turin. Forced into inactivity by the racist laws of Fascist Italy, she set up a makeshift laboratory in her bedroom and began studying the development of the nervous system. Her research, which she completed in the United States after the war, led to the discovery of the nerve growth factor whose role is to stimulate the growth of nerve fibres. Her autobiography, written with warmth and simplicity, traces the progress of her life, including being awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine.