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Dominique Barbier
A Factory of Perversity
How our liberal society has favoured the development of individual perversity
Joël Dehasse
Change Your Dog’s Behaviour in Seven Days
A highly effective training method to transform any dog into the perfect pet!
Philippe Cury, Daniel Pauly
Eat Your Jellyfish! Human Impact on Nature
An uncompromising picture of overexploitation, especially of marine resources. Examples of certain actions that have been successfully undertaken show (perhaps) that all has not yet been lost.
Robert Rochefort
The Consumer-Entrepreneur
The author shows in this new book how in the age of the consumer-entrepreneur professional life and private life tend to merge ; thus on one hand, the consumer tends to manage his family life as he would a company - paying attention to efficiency, cost effectiveness, optimization. On the other hand, he uses more and more products that have a professional and personal use - portable phones, computers - and buys more half finished, do-it-yourself products that he completes. This book profiles a society of individual entrepreneurs that is emerging from the previous salary society of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Robert Rochefort is the director of the Research Center for the Study and Observances of Living Conditions.
Gilbert Lagrue
Ageing Well is Possible: I’ve Done It
Everything you need to know to age well, by a celebrated 91-year-old doctor
Pierre Humbert, Jérôme Palazzolo
A Short History of Masturbation
A physician and a psychiatrist trace the medical and psychological history of masturbation...
Bruno Humbeeck
A Heartache Can Help You Grow Up
Understanding the pain caused by an unhappy love affair can help you pick up the pieces — and start loving again
Alain Braconnier, Daniel Marcelli
The Many Facets of Adolescence
How can parents avoid abusing their position of authority, without becoming too chummy? When should adolescent expressions of anxiety and depression warrant serious concern? What is a "problem adolescent"? What should be done in response to the dangers of drugs and of AIDS? First published by Editions Universitaires in 1988, The Many Facets of Adolescence has rapidly became a classic. It has been completely revised for the present edition, in particular the epidemiological data and the sections concerning adolescent depression and the relations between adolescents and their family. Alain Braconnier is a psychiatrist and director of the Centre Alfred Binet in Paris; he also teaches at the University of Paris-V. Daniel Marcelli is a psychiatrist specialising in childhood and adolescence.
Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Beda Romano
The Short-Term View Conversations About the Big Crash
A leading figure in Italian and European politics and economics provides a critical synthesis of the conduct that led to the crash, and suggests paths to be explored to mould new thinking in economics.
Claude de Calan, Pierre Etaix
The Clown and the Wise Man
"One of us is an acrobat and a filmmaker who tries to provoke laughter; the other one tries to contribute to the progress of mathematical physics. Yet, we could endlessly throw our ideas back and forth. The surprising closeness of our approaches, the strange fraternity between our two disciplines, which are as far away from each other in their goals as in their techniques, gave us great joy. It is our feeling of wonder that wed like to share here," write Pierre Etaix and Claude de Calan. Sometimes known as the French Buster Keaton, Pierre Etaix is a master of burlesque and the inventor of unequalled visual gags. Claude de Calan is a scientist at the Centre of Theoretical Physics at the Ecole Polytechnique.
Marie-France Le Heuzey
The Hyperactive Adolescent
A book to help parents understand hyperactive adolescents and adopt the right approach
Martin Desseilles, Moïra Mikolajczak
Living better With Your Emotions
Learning to master your emotions will make you stronger to overcome life’s difficulties
Edouard Pélissier
The Truth About Sugar and Sweeteners
Everything you should know about what you eat and drink — in order to protect your health
Robert Rochefort
A Disorientated France
This book argues that France is seeking an impossible model: on one hand, it wishes to hold fast to its exception, constituting a society which is unlike other western ones. Yet, on the other hand, France is not only obliged to accept neo-liberal globalisation, but it actively participates in doing so, through its large industrial and banking groups. Though constantly seeking to act rationally and to be the master of its fate, the future of Descartes country is probably as unpredictable as the trajectory of a billiard ball, no matter how talented the player wielding the cue may be.
Éric Giuily
A Question of Spin Winning Strategies, Losing Strategies
A leading expert reveals in six crucial points how to communicate convincingly
Frédéric Fanget
Getting Rid Of All Those Demands We Make on Ourselves
The book that shows you how to accept yourself and find freedom and serenity
Christian Saint-Étienne
France : emergency A strategy for tomorrow
The Real Solution to Exit the Economic Crisis
François-Bernard Michel
Van Gogh Psychological Portrait Of the Creative Genius
A fascinating psychological portrait of a brilliant painter that illuminates the complexity of the creative genius