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Anka Muhlstein

Pens and Brushes The influence of art on the 19th-century novel

A meticulous account which goes back to the source of the great classical authors' fascination for painting.

Jean Juras, Alain Bourcier

The Perineum Dialogues Lifting the veil on perineal disorders

A subject that can be hard to discuss, and a light-hearted yet well-documented way of addressing a taboo. Aimed at both women and men. Perineal issues after giving birth, after cancer treatments, in old age, after treatment for prostate cancer, etc..

David Elbaz

The 10,001 Nights of the Universe The Dance of the Cosmos

A modern version of Arabian Nights about the latest discoveries of the universe

Geneviève Delaisi de Parseval, Pierre Verdier

Nobody's Child

Adoption and medically assisted procreations reflect the same suffering and ask the same questions. In both cases, the institution, in the name of a mistaken conception of filiation, weighs upon the children's head with an absolute secrecy as to its biological origins. The authors show in this book the consequences this secrecy has upon the psychology of children and parents.

Jean-Paul Lévy

The Making of Man

Jean-Paul Lévy's book is marked by a resolutely materialistic reflexion, characteristic of biologists : the only thing that distinguishes man from all other living things is the capacity to reason. From this prospective, he explains how a human body is constructed, how and why it produces thoughts and why, one day, it finally ceases to function and dies. His thought process leads to a materialistic solution of the problem of the union of the body and soul. Jean-Paul Lévy is a hematologist and immunologist. He heads France's National Agency for AIDS Research

Thierry Vincent

Anorexia

Why are more and more young girls and women becoming anorexic ? Today it is a real social problem. The trend of diets, and the multiplication of magazines about losing weight are no longer enough to explain this phenomenon. Thierry Vincent poses fundamental questions in this book in order to understand how anorexica works. Perhaps the search for new ways of treating anorexia should depart from an examination of these questions. Thierry Vincent, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, is the medical director of the university health centre Georges Dumas, in La Tronche, near Grenoble, where high school and university students suffering from eating disorders are treated.

Temple Grandin, Richard Panek

The Autistic Brain

A cutting-edge account of the latest science of autism, from the best-selling author and advocate

Charles Martin-Krumm, Ilona Boniwell

Motivated Adolescents The Benefits of Positive Psychology

A method for a truly fulfilling education