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Maxime Schwartz
How the Cows Became Mad
Fear of the condition popularly known as mad cow disease has created a state of collective hysteria: some consumers are so afraid of contracting the disease that they have stopped eating beef; others havent stopped eating beef simply because they believe it is too late to do anything to prevent catching the illness. This book examines the outbreak of this disease and concludes with the reply to the question that is on everyones lips: Should we be afraid? Maxime Schwartz teaches at the Institut Pasteur, in Paris.
Mustapha Chérif
Abd el-Kader, Apostle of Reconciliation
An important historical figure whose works help us understand contemporary relations between Algeria and France, between East and West
Elena Pasquinelli
How to Use Screens in Your Family A Guide for Parents 3.0
Everything you need to know on strategies to encourage a reasonable use of screens for our children and… for ourselves!
Pierre Grosser
The History of the World is Made in Asia Another vision of the twentieth century
A "de-westernized" story: many episodes that are often overlooked are described here — the Russian civil war in the Far East, the Anglo-Japanese confrontation in Manchuria, the harshness of the Korean War…
Claudine Attias-Donfut, Martine Segalen
Twenty-Somethings Today: The New Generation Gap
By two specialists in the sociology of the family and of generations, themselves grandmothers of twenty-somethings
Colette Chiland
Changing Sex
Some human beings refuse to take the path that leads from being male to becoming a man or from being female and becoming a woman and want to belong to the sex for which their bodies were not designed -and this at any price. In our culture, these transsexuals want to both occupy the other place in the network of symbolic exchanges and have a mark of this change in their bodies. Their sadness is irremediable, for although they can change their social sex, they cannot change their bodily sex. "It's better " states one transsexual, "to change what's in the mind". Will we succeed in doing so ? A university professor, Colette Chiland taught psychology and psychopathology of children and adolescents, then clinical psychology at the Sorbonne University in Paris.
Antonin Bergeaud, Gilbert Cette, Rémy Lecat
The True Impacts of Growth Toward an Awakening?
A condensed look at what you should know to understand what is at stake in the current debate on growth
Marie Rose Moro, Jean-Louis Brison
For the Well-Being and Health of Young People
A new approach to well-being as a condition for the academic success of our children: one learns better when one feels good!
Lisa Letessier
Dealing With Breakups
This complete, practical book shows how to move on after a relationship breaks up
Claude Hagège
Music or Death The language of music explained by an eminent linguist
Music does indeed have a strong message to convey
Alain Peyrefitte
The Economic "Miracle"
The 20th century has been marked by the growing awareness of the unbearable gap between developed and under-developed countries. And the most outstanding fact of the next century will probably be the worsening in this imbalance. In order to find a solution to the under-development scandal, Alain Peyrefitte attempts to understand the miracle of development. He examines the successive miracles which have allowed a part of humanity to pull through the turns of dictatorship or anarchism, violence and destitution.