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Michel Zink
Books from the Past, Readings for Today
When you read an ancient text — which is what you do whenever you read anything besides today’s paper or the latest bestseller...
Georges Ugeux
Finance Under the Magnifying Glass Twelve Reforms to Restore Trust
Most analyses of the crisis and its aftermath are the work of theoreticians and ideologues
Nicolas Mariot, Claire Zalc
Faced with persecution The Destruction of the Jews of Lens, 1940-1945
The history of the Holocaust in France, seen from an entirely new angle. This book does not simply describe the numerous possible attitudes: it aims to explain them.
Jean-Pierre Mohen
Rites of the Afterlife
Humans define themselves in the way they relate to death. Funerary rites are the manifestation of this essential relationship to the afterlife
Denis Knoepfler
Narcissus and the Greek City
In this remarkable, erudite and beautifully written investigation, a renowned expert in Ancient Greek history sets out to uncover the true historic origins of a familiar figure from Greek mythology — Narcissus.
Boris Cyrulnik
Telling and Dying of Shame
It is shame’s “intimate theatre” that Cyrulnik explores here, in his new book
Alain Bentolila
Talk to People You Don’t Like The Challenge Of Babel
A virulent criticism of everything that keeps the French from sharing a common language
