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LESTER LITERARY AGENCY & ASSOCIATES

NON FICTION SPRING 2020

Russia

Ukraine

Belarus

08 Fall

CONTENTS

RECENT SUCCESSES .......................................................................................................................... 3

HIGHLIGHTS ..................................................................................................................................... 6

CURRENT TOPICS / SOCIETY ........................................................................................................... 13

INVESTIGATION ............................................................................................................................. 15

HISTORY ........................................................................................................................................ 16

BIOGRAPHIES ................................................................................................................................. 20

TRUE STORY / MEMOIRS ................................................................................................................ 25

CULTURAL ESSAY ........................................................................................................................... 27

SCIENCE ......................................................................................................................................... 32

NATURE ......................................................................................................................................... 33

APPLIED POP CULTURE ................................................................................................................... 34

PSYCHOLOGY & SELF-HELP ............................................................................................................. 35

PARENTING & EDUCATION ............................................................................................................. 38

HEALTH & WELL-BEING .................................................................................................................. 40

RECENT SUCCESSES

Antonio Talia STATALE 106

(Route 106. The Road of the ‘ndrangheta) Minimum Fax, October 2019, 200 pages

à Rights sold in: France (Grasset), Germany (Blessing Verlag), Poland (Czarne), Hungary (Cser Kiado).

à A journey of 104 kilometers on a two-way street, caught between the Ionian Sea and the Aspromonte slopes.

à A journey in history and psychogeography, deciphering the minds of the affiliates of the ‘ndrangheta (the most powerful organized crime group based in Italy) is its end point.

A journey through the most powerful mafia-type organized crime group at a global level.

From the homicide of the very powerful CEO of the Italian State Railways, to the maxi laundering operations in Hong Kong; from the privileged relations with Colombian narcos to the brutal assassination of the journalist Jàn Kuciak, in Slovakia; from the biggest ecstasy shipment of all times hidden in Melbourne port, to the wars that are bringing bloodsheds to Montréal and Toronto: “driving on Route 106 means to go back to the source of the global phenomenon of the 'ndrangheta”.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Antonio Talia is journalist who worked with foreign affairs. He worked for seven years in Beijing as a news correspondent for an Italian press agency: during this period he worked on different stories related to crime and on the international proliferation of the 'ndrangheta.

Igor Kostine TCHERNOBYL

(Chernobyl) Les Arènes, November 2019, 340 pages

à Rights sold: 7 licenses for the previous edition, including Poland (Albatros), Estonia (Sinisukk).

à Public interest in this historic event following the success of the eponymous TV series (HB0, 2019). A book filled with around 100 rare shots taken by a witness at the heart of the tragedy, the only photographer to have access to the power station from the day after the explosion.

A stunning collection of the photos and documents behind the eponymous series

A reporter’s confessions. Nicknamed the “man of legend” by the Washington Post, Igor Kostin is an important eyewitness of the Chernobyl disaster.

On 26 April 1986, just a few hours after the explosion, he flew over the power station. The radiation was so strong that his film turned black. Only one photograph was saved, which went on to be seen around the world. Surprised by both the scale of the disaster and the authorities’ silence, Igor Kostin decided to stay and live among the 800,000 liquidators who came on to the accident site.

While himself being exposed to radiation, he spent 20 years photographing the power station and the Exclusion Zone surrounding it. He saw the evacuation of villages, the despair and courage of local people, the construction of the sarcophagus, men moving radioactive bricks with their bare hands, machine cemeteries, and contaminated gardens and orchards, now a wilderness devoid of human life. Kostin’s story is entwined with Chernobyl’s story.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Igor Kostin, a Ukrainian photographer born in 1939, was the first photographer on site at the Chernobyl disaster on 26 April 1986. His photographs have been published by the world’s biggest newspapers and honoured in numerous prizes, including twice at the World Press Photo competition.

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Denis Demonpion HOUELLEBECQ LA BIOGRAPHIE

(Houellebecq. The Biography) Buchet Chastel, October 2019, 320 pages

à Rights sold in: Poland (Wydawnictwo Agora), Czech Republic (Euromedia / Odeon).

Based on some hundred documents and eyewitness accounts, the most recent of which have never been published before, the author redefines the border between Houellebecq’s work, the real person, and his public persona, gradually dissipating the diabolical fog shrouding this icon of postmodern literature.

He has been described as a racist, eugencist, antifeminist, Islamo-phobic fascist… But who really is Michel Houellebecq? In 2005, Libella/Maren Sell published Denis Demonpion “Unauthorized Houellebecq,” the first in-depth biography of the scandalous writer. Thanks to a meticulous and well-documented investigation into one of the most important contemporary French literary phenomena, Demonpion was able to reveal several important details about Houellebecq’s life, as well as pointing out some concealed facts, like his subject’s real last name and date of birth, and where he went to school.

Now Demonpion has picked up the investigation where he left off, presenting the period from 2005 to 2019. He recounts Houellebecq’s adventures in moviemaking, for example, and provides some clarification to the first version.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Denis Demonpion was born in 1954. As a journalist, he has practiced his profession at Paris-Match, AFP, Libération and Le Point. He now works at L’Observateur, where he is editor-in-chief of the Society pages. He is also a renowned biographer, most notably for his investigation into the life of J. D. Salinger, for which he received the 2018 Goncourt Prize for biography.

Frédéric Hermel ZIDANE (Zidane)

Flammarion, Novembre-19, 285 pages

à Rights sold in: Spanish (Espasa), Italian (Solferino/Corriere Della Sera) and Dutch (Xander).

à 41,000 copies sold!

à A reference biography.

Based on exclusive testimonies, Frédéric Hermel paints an intimate portrait of Zidane, the man behind the the star.

Zinédine Zidane is at once a myth, an icon, and a role-model. An immensely popular football coach, who returned to the benches of Real Madrid as a Messiah, his destiny is outstanding, punctuated by incredible successes and unforgettable fits of anger. Yet one may wonder how his exceptional career came to pass. What does his life look like on a daily basis? What keeps him motivated? And above all, how far will he go?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Frédéric Hermel is a French journalist based in Madrid since 1992. Focusing primarily on political and social issues, his career turned to sport in July 2001 when Zinédine Zidane signed as a player at Real Madrid. He becomes the correspondent of the daily newspaper "L'Equipe", "RMC" and "France Football", a position he still holds. Regarded as the great expert on Zidane, he was the special advisor to the directors of the movie Zidane, A 21st Century Portrait (released in 2006).


Alain Badiou TRUMP

(Trump Critical Perspective) PUF, January-20, 104 pages

à Rights sold: English (Polity), German (Passagen Verlag) Italian (Meltemi), Argentina (Capital Intelectual).

The first philosophical interpretation of Donald Trump phenomenom by one of the most significant philosopher of our time.

Enlightened minds like to make fun of Donald Trump. The man is the symbol of a form of political stupidity that only awaits the awakening of good willing people to pass out like a bad dream. Nothing could be further from the truth. Rather than a symbol, Trump is a symptom: that of the gradual disappearance of politics in a gigantic process of unification, where the seemingly most hostile camps are actually holding hands.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Alain Badiou is a philosopher. His work is one of the most important of our time. He gave a major interview for his book Trump.

Mark Alizart

LE COUP D'ÉTAT CLIMATIQUE (The Climate Coup)

PUF, February-20, 96 pages

à Rights sold in: Argentina (La Cebra).

There is no climate crisis but a political will of the heads of states to create one by voluntarily destroying the planet.

This is the provocative thesis that is defended in this brilliant work. According to Alizar, we must thwart the “carbofascist coup” waged against mankind.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Mark Alizart is one of the most unique thinkers of his generation. He is the author of POP THÉOLOGIE (2015) INFORMATIQUE CÉLESTE (2017), CHIENS (2018) and CRYPTOCOMMUNISME (2019), translated into several languages.

Jean Baudrillard ENTRETIENS

(Interviews) PUF, October 2019, 296 pages

à Rights sold in: Argentina (Materia Oscura)

This book assembles a first selection of interviews spanning Baudrillard’s whole career, reminding us how much we miss Baudrillard: now more than ever.

Jean Baudrillard was a sensual, virtuoso thinker of seduction and disappearance; of the fatal and the true; of simulation and hyper-reality – but that’s not all. He was also a formidable orator, deploying with delight and perspicacity – in front a wide variety of audiences – the most per- plexing interpretations and the most provocative analyses of whatever subjects he was asked about. The legacy of this verbal magician, his countless interviews given to the newspapers, magazines and journals all over the world constitute what is perhaps the most precious, lively corpus, most firmly in touch with what was going on in the world and in his own mind.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jean Baudrillard was one of the most important and controversial figures of French philosophy at the end of the 20th century. Among his books, now classics: LE SYSTÈLE DES OBJETS (Gallimard, 1968), SIMULACRES ET SIMULATION (Galilée, 1981), L’ESPRIT DU TERRORISME (Galilée, 2002).

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HIGHLIGHTS

Yoann Barbereau DANS LES GEÔLES DE SIBÉRIE

(Kompromat In Siberia’s prisons) Stock, February-20, 324 pages

à English sample available.

à N°10 in the bestsellers L’Express.

à 4th reprint, 17, 500 copies in total.

à A movie based on this true story is being shot right now in Siberia.

Midnight Express in Siberia. A gripping contemporary story of escape.

“The scene unfolds not far from Lake Baikal, where I live and love and am lucky enough to be loved, in Irkutsk, the capital of eastern Siberia. It’s morning, men in balaclavas appear out of nowhere. My daughter screams. She’s five years old. I’m arrested right in front of her, then beaten – expertly – and interrogated. Worst of all I’m branded with that ignominious word I struggle to commit to paper: paedophile. These men hidden behind balaclavas and shadows want my skin. They have set in motion an implacable and brutish process of destruction that has a name, a name I know, invented by the KGB: Kompromat.

Inside Siberia’s prisons, I try to understand. In the psychiatric hospital where I’m later interned, I try to understand. I’m guaranteed fifteen years of a gruelling camp. The story of my escapes can begin. Naming the people and places doesn’t matter much. I haven’t invented anything. It’s a film, but it isn’t. It’s a novel, but it isn’t. What matters is the beautiful turning point when literature makes life more interesting than literature; what I must do is grasp it like a dagger. The baying wolfpack pursuing me were afraid this would all end up in a book. Here it is.”

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Born in 1978, Yoann Barbereau worked in Russia for over ten years, including running the Alliance française in Irkutsk. To escape his captors, he used every modern method available, outmanoeuvring the signals from his electronic tag and travelling hundreds of kilometres across Siberia using the carpool app BlaBlaCar and then on foot. His story will be brought to the big screen by Jérôme Salle, the director of Zulu which was distributed internationally.

Cédric Gras ALPINISTES DE STALINE

(Stalin's Mountaineers) Stock March 2020, 324 pages

The unpublished story of the Abalakov brothers, two mountaineers working for the glory of the Soviet regime.

Vitali and Evgeni were Siberian orphans who enjoyed rock climbing before becoming expert mountaineers. They carried out many expeditions between Caucasus and Central Asia, culminating in the 1930s with their ascents of the impressive “Stalin Peak” and “Lenin Peak” in the name of power. In a culture where mountaineering was dictated by the ideology of a new world, by conquering new territories and war, Vitali Abalakov would still become a victim of the Great Terror and the purges in 1938. He was eventually released. Despite having lost several fingers to a high-altitude snowstorm, he returned to mountaineering and achieved elite status again, heading up Spartak. His brother Evgeni meanwhile was found dead in 1948 when he was preparing to climb Everest. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Born in 1982, Cédric Gras studied geography all over the world. Bewitched by the vast Eurasian expanses, he travelled the former Soviet Union for ten years. He is one of the rising voices in French travel writing, producing books as well as documentaries. His well-received


Elisabeth Cadoche & Anne de Montarlot LE SYNDROME D'IMPOSTURE

(The Impostor Syndrome) Les Arènes, March-20, 320 pages

à English sample chapter available.

à Rights sold in: Italy (Longanesi, pre-empt), the Netherlands (Ten Have).

à A very global problem women face in every country!

à A practical guide to becoming aware of your intrinsic value, to stop being so a hard on yourself and free yourself from doubt.

à Scientific data combined with clinical case studies and interviews with famous women to address every aspect of the deficiency in self-confidence, ranging from toxic shame to self-doubt.

à A chronic feeling of not being worthy of success.

à A guide to help you regain self-confidence.

« The Impostor Syndrome » can be defined as a lack of self-confidence that makes women think their success is thanks to luck, the sympathy of others, or a mistake in being selected for the role, and that they could be exposed at any time.

Today, girls get the best results in school and higher education. They land similar jobs to men, even though, statistically, there is still a glaring gap. So, at first glance, there are many reasons to be confident. However a great many women doubt their abilities, at times to the point of being terrified that their incompetence will eventually be revealed. This phenomenon has a name: the impostor syndrome. As a whole, numerous studies show that women have less self-confidence than men. The consequences of toxic shame are serious: from paralysis in the shape of procrastination, to perfectionism – the need to control everything and everyone – which leads to burnout. Not to mention chronic stress, the depletion of emotional energy and psychological suffering (impostors believe that others have absolute self-confidence). It is possible, however, to overcome these internal blocks.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Elisabeth Cadoche is a documentary filmmaker and author (L’Aventure photographique, Les Feux de la rampe). She has been editor-in-chief of numerous TV programs (France Télévisions, Téva, La Chaîne universitaire).

Anne de Montarlot moved on from a career in finance in New York, to become a psychotherapist. She has been practicing in London for fourteen years.

Claire Oppert LE PANSEMENT SCHUBERT

(The Schubert Treatment) Denoël, February-20, 250 pages

à English sample available.

à A book reminiscent of works by Howard Buten or Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.

à Through these portraits, we also discover Claire Oppert: an admirable woman and passionate artist whose discretion and humanity illuminate the book. The author punctuates her story with more personal anecdotes such as childhood memories alongside her doctor father, her fascinating and austere studies at the Conservatory in Moscow, or her decisive meeting with the autism expert Howard Buten.

Claire Oppert established the Schubert Treatment protocol with the help of Dr. Jean-Marie Gomas. This powerful story supports a new kind of medicine, which, in addition to the body, also cares for the mind and even the soul.

In March 2012, the cellist Claire Oppert finds herself at the palliative care unit at the Sainte-Périne Hospital in Paris. A patient is screaming and struggling with two nurses who are trying to change her bandage. Claire Oppert begins playing the theme of the slow movement Trio No. 2 by Schubert. The patient suddenly calms down. Thus the Schubert Treatment protocol was born, or music to alleviate pain. Here, Claire Oppert retraces her experiences with autistic children, end-of-life patients, or even those who are said to be insane. A date, a place, and a musical work introduce each of these portraits. There are, for example, the young autistics for whom music seems to fill the void of language, or a former boxer for whom Piaf’s “Je ne regrette rien” recalls his best fights. In addition to easing suffering, music also builds interpersonal bridges: a look, a smile, a tear, and sometimes (when words are still possible), memories, dreams, and far-off places...

The results of the 112 “Schubert Treatments” published in 2016 demonstrate a 50% decrease in pain for patients. The positive effect on patients’ anxiety was determined to be close to 90%. The positive effects on the nursing staff: 100%. What’s more, this last and massive benefit contributed in turn to better care.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Born in Paris into a family of doctors and artists, Claire Oppert obtained her degree from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow in 1993. She also earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the Sorbonne and a university degree in art therapy from the school of medicine in Tours.

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Julia Kristeva DOSTOÏEVSKI

(Dostoyevsky) Buchet Chastel, March-20, 256 pages

à In every reader’s life, there are certain authors who hold a special place. The “Authors of My Life” series invites today’s great writers to share their admiration for a literary classic. In a similar vein to Corrêa/Buchet Chastel’s “Immortal Pages” series from the 1930s and 40s, each volume is composed of a presentation of the chosen author followed by a personal anthology.

Born in Bulgaria, Julia Kristeva was able to read Dostoyevsky’s work in the original Russian as a teenager. Having gone on to become one of the major European intellectual figures of our times, in this book, she provides a deep and stimulating analysis of an author who has influenced her life.

“With his eyes riveted on the Bulgarian edition of The Idiot, my father sternly advises me not to read it: ‘Destructive, diabolical, and sticky. It’s over the top, you won’t like it, forget about it.’ His dream was for me to escape ‘The Bowels of Hell,’ as he referred to our native Bulgaria. In order to help make that desperate dream come true, the best thing was for me to develop my innate taste for clarity and freedom… in French, needless to say, since he had introduced me to the language of La Fontaine and Voltaire. I obviously disobeyed the paternal advice, as usual, and dove headfirst into Dosto. Awed, overwhelmed, swallowed up.”

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Bulgarian by birth, Julia Kristeva has lived in France for over 50 years. She is a writer, psychoanalyst, emeritus professor at Paris 7-Diderot University, and a full member of the Psychoanalytic Society of Paris. She has received honorary degrees from numerous universities in the USA, Canada, and Europe where she teaches regularly. In December 2004, she became the first winner of the Holberg Prize; she was awarded the Hannah Arendt Prize two years later, and the Vaclav Havel Prize in 2008. She has written nearly 30 books, all of which have been entirely translated into English.

Jacques Ravenne LA CHUTE

(The Fall: The Last Days Of Robespierre) Perrin, January-20, 277 pages

à French pocket rights sold to: Pocket.

à A riveting and entirely true story, drawn from undisputed sources, a “historical thriller” that keeps readers on the edge of their seats from start to finish.

The decline and fall of Robespierre – known as “the incorruptible” – A ground-breaking account combining history and suspense.

July 26, 1794. As the tumbrils roll, taking those condemned that day to the guillotine, Paris is all agog: after weeks of absence, Robespierre is going to speak. What will the most feared man in France say? Will he announce the end of the Terror or, on the contrary, proclaim a dictatorship? From the deadly prisons to the painter David’s studio, from the Palais Royal gambling houses to behind the scenes at the National Convention, who will triumph? Robespierre, who wants to purify the republic, or his opponents who claim they will save it? Eleonora or Teresa, each in love with a man who, if he loses the battle he is fighting, will take her down with him? Three decisive days when everything becomes denunciation, manipulation, conspiracy. Three days when winning means survival. Three days when the republic will have its blood baptism. Three days that will shake up France’s destiny.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Author of detective novels and historical essays, Jacques Ravenne (and his co-author Éric Giacometti) have created two successful series: The Investigations of Commissaire Marcas and the saga SOLEIL NOIR, translated into twenty languages. Ravenne is also the author of LES SEPT VIES DU MARQUIS DE SADE (The Seven Lives of the Marquis de Sade), Fleuve éditions, 2014/Pocket, 2015 and LES TRIBULATIONS DE JEAN ACACIO (The Tribulations of Jean Acacio), Pocket, 2016.


Laurent Testot & Laurent Aillet COLLAPSUS

(Change or Disappear? The True Record of Our Planet)

Albin Michel, March-20, 352 pages

à Global-warming, the sixth mass extinction, world-wide pollutions, wars fought over water and other resources, massive climate migrations… all these dangers converge into one sole danger: that of the global collapse of human civilisation.

Forty experts and militants contribute to the reference book on the disintegration.

The most distinguished experts voice their opinion, in order to help readers to be better armed to understand the dynamics of the current situation, and to make their choices as repsonsoble, aware citizens. It takes a stock of the grave concernes aroused by paralyses (political, economic, psychological), exposes the ongoing dynamics (ecological, democratic, military) and finally, configures the outlook of the coming decades.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Laurent Testot is a journalist, a specialist of world histpory and a contributor to the magazine Sciences Humaines.

Laurent Aillet is a specialist in risk assessment who has worked for several international companies, notably Bosch, Alqtom and General Electrics.

Christine Lombard & Lucille Bernie CHIC

(The Style Guide) Le Cherche Midi, February 2020, 208 pages

à A fun guide to remaining fashionable at any age, giving precedence to the style and allure that suits us best.

à This book also advocates consuming less and more responsibly, sharing all the useful addresses and tips and tricks. An essential guide!

Created by two ex-journalists who are passionate about fashion, this guide is aimed at all women who want to be chic and comfor- table in their own skin, offering them tips on how to dress with ease and above all with pleasure.

Just because as we get older, clothes can start to become too small and too tight, that’s no reason for us to give up! The trick is to introduce a personal touch, giving priority to style and allure. Not becoming a fashion victim is about being at ease in your own skin and discovering your own uniqueness – your own ‘signature’ look.

CHIC is for every woman who has experienced a change in lifestyle, physical appearance or job and finds herself at a loss in front of her overflowing wardrobes. It will help you to build up an efficient, chic and modern range of clothing with a note of fantasy and a hint of sexy. At the age of fifty and over, French women are delving into different styles, reinventing themselves, having fun, mixing and matching and ending up looking very stylish: it’s called being free!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Christine Lombard was head of section for Cosmopolitan then for Marie Claire and fashion director for Marie France. All in all, thirty years of fashion passion!

Lucille Renié began her career as a model, then was a freelance stylist and fashion editor for various women’s magazines - she notably directed the fashion section of Femme Actuelle and Prima. She is also the founder of the fashion coaching site L’Épingle du Je.

« Un guide ludique et bourré de conseils pratiques ! » Avantages

« Le nouveau guide incontournable des femmes qui se sentent perdues au milieu des nombreuses tendances et d’une mode de plus en plus destinée aux jeunes. » Fashion-spider

« Enfin un guide pratique de la mode pour toutes les femmes à tous les âges ! » FemininBio

« Bourré d’idées, [...] décomplexé et fun, avec des photos non retouchées à l’appui [...]. » Point de vue

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Emanuele Coccia MÉTAMORPHOSES

(Metamorphosis) Payot Rivages, January-20, 192 pages

à Rights sold in: Italy (Einaudi), Germany (Hanser Verlag), Brazil (Dantes Editora), World English (Polity Press).

à Spanish offer.

à Metamorphosis has always fascinated both scientists and fiction writers, yet it has rarely been considered by philosophers. All living things are subjected to it: metamorphosis is the most basic and original experience of life, the one that defines its strengths and limitations.

Through the results of contemporary biology research, as well as myths and literature, the author of “The Life of Plants” lays down the foundations for a philosophy of the mysterious phenomenon that is the metamorphosis.

Butterflies and frogs aren’t the only ones affected by it. The fact is, since Darwin, we have known that all species and all forms of life are just metamorpho-ses of other forms, many of which have since disappeared. Thus, humanity is no more than the metamorphosis that myriad animal-life forms were subjected to before becoming what we now are. We experience metamorphosis on the scale of our own lives as well, when we are born, going from an “amniotic” existence to an “air-supported” life form. More generally, feeding of all types is a perfect example of it: eating means being the place where the eaten undergoes metamorphosis into the flesh of the eater. All life, as a metamorphic act, is the simultaneous fashioning of a body and of the world in which it lives.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Emanuele Coccia is Senior Lecturer at the EHESS and one of our most innovative contemporary philosophers.

Emanuele Coccia LA VIE DES PLANTES

(The Life of Plants) Rivages, November 2017, 192 pages

à Rights sold in: World Spanish (Miño & Davila Editores), Germany (Hanser Verlag), Italy (Il Mulino), Finland (Tutkijaliitto), English (Polity Press, World), the Netherlands (Leejmagazijn), Japanese (Keiso Shobo), Portuguese (Cultura e Barbarie, Brasil and Sistema solar, Portugal), Turkish (Is Bank Culture).

à Intertwining examples drawn from philosophy, natural sciences and art, this book attempts to penetrate the mystery of these singular beings.

A singular and striking book about the philosophical side of these living beings that are often overlooked.

They are among the most prolific inhabitants of our planet, yet philosophy has neglected and even scorned them: plants have always been the victims of metaphysical snobbery. Despite our growing concern for ecology and increasing attention to issues concerning nature and animals, plants, their life forms and nature remain an enigma for philosophy. Autotrophic beings living on the cusp between the inorganic and the organic; beings entirely focused on the effort of taking shape, of fashioning their own bodies; beings with no possibility of uprooting themselves and moving about, plants still participate fully in the world around them. As such, they represent the most intense and paradigmatic form of being-in-the-world.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: After studying both in Italy and in Paris, Emanuele Coccia, philosopher, is now an associate professor at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. He has also taught at the University of Freiburg (and, more recently, at Columbia University .


Michel Cymes & Patricia Chalon SUR L'AMOUR

(On Love) Stock, April-20, 232 pages

à As a man and a woman, both specialists in their fields, at he authors went about challenging each other’s point of view with determination, empathy and humour.

A psychologist and a doctor discuss everything about love. From "orgasm" and "fantasy" to "lover" and "mother"…

“We definitely don’t understand each other... we might as well be speaking different languages!” This is more or less how a good many heated conversations between men and women end.

Eventually, once the crisis is over, we realise that – despite our love, our good faith and our best efforts – it was all a huge... misunderstanding.

It’s in an attempt to clear up this very misunderstanding (because we are old friends, one a man, the other a woman, one a doctor, the other a psychologist), that we felt we wanted to try to get to know each other so as to have a real chance of better understanding each other’s language, despite our obvious differences.

We searched through our respective professional practices for anything that might explain behavioural differences from a psychological or medical point of view. We also interviewed people around us, particularly the younger generation, because we wanted to understand how their vision of the world differed from our own.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Michel Cymes is a specialist doctor as well as a popular television presenter. Stock has published his commercial successes including VIVEZ MIEUX ET PLUS LONGTEMPS (330,000 copies sold), VOTRE CERVEAU and CHERS HYPOCONDRIAQUES all of which have been sold in translation. Previous titles published in Russia by Ripol Classic.

Patricia Chalon is a psychologist and psychotherapist who specialises in interactive therapy.

Frédéric Saldmann ON N'EST JAMAIS MIEUX SOIGNÉ QUE PAR

SOI MÊME (We Are Our Own Best Doctor)

Plon, January-20, 366 pages

à Under option in: Russia (Eksmo).

à Ongoing offers from: Spain, Bulgaria.

à 55,000 copies sold.

à All the little things we should be incorporating into our daily routines if we would like to stay healthy for as long as possible.

à A true health bible!

After the recent success of Vital, Dr. Frédéric Saldmann presents fascinating new research full of revelations and advices on what you can do every day to live better and longer.

A healthy lifestyle plays a major role in our self balance as our longevity, because energy, happiness, well-being depend on the quality of our health but also on everyday gestures that we forget to do or that we simply ignore.

Saldmann's goal is to share this knowledge with the widest possible audience in order to give everyone a chance to live better and longer with a maximum of joyful and at the top.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Frédéric Saldmann (born 1953) is a French cardiologist and physician of preventive medicine at the Hôpital Européen Georges-Pompidou. He has treated many actors, businessmen and politicians, including French President François Hollande. He is the author of twelve books on preventive medicine.

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Alexandre Stern LE SINGE CUISINIER

(How Cooking Made Us Human) Odile Jacob, March-20, 240 pages

à The human epic told through culinary inventions and practices, from our ancestors to the present day.

à How the invention of culinary and agricultural practices, the discovery and exchange of products, through the millennia have contributed to the civilization of humankind.

à Cooking is an integral part of human evolution.

For close to three million years, our way of choosing and preparing our food has shaped our humanity, both physiologically and culturally. The past and present of humanity told through culinary inventions and practices.

In matters of food, we find ourselves today confronted with a paradox: while culinary arts achieve unprecedented heights, many, notably the poorest among us, only have access to industrial, low-quality, low nutrition food. Prepared dishes, ultra-processed food, industrial farms; in the past fifty years we have witnessed a dis-invention of culinary practices patiently developed over millennia. In this context of a loss of our gastronomic bearings, what can we learn from the past? More than any other uniquely human accomplishment, cooking has played the most important role in the evolution of our species. For close to three million years, our way of choosing and preparing our food has shaped our humanity, both physiologically and culturally.

Through a panorama of the stages in the evolution of cooking – from hunter-gatherer societies to the industrialization of our food – the author puts the origin of our food-eating behavior in perspective. This great human epic told through the history of cooking allows us to question our current practices and consider what we will aspire to in the future.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Alexandre Stern is a gastronomy specialist and a member of the prestigious College Culinaire de France which brings together the greatest chefs and experts in gastronomy. He is also a graduate of the French HEC and INSEAD business school as well as New York University, Enthralled by the history of taste and food, he divides his activities between the development of his gastronomy institute, advising entrepreneurs, and writing. He is the author of L’Explorateur du goût (2019).

Christophe André & Rébecca Shankland CES LIENS QUI NOUS FONT VIVRE

(Never Without Others) Odile Jacob, January-20, 336 pages

à Rights sold in: Romania (Trei).

à The transformations of self-esteem: from personal roots to collective roots.

à The transformations of social connections: from competition and every man for himself

à (status, image...) to collaboration.

à The transformations and developments of psychology: integrating elements of sociology (understanding the person through their affiliations) and elements of human ecology (understanding the person through their interdependencies).

Together these two specialists shed new light on how our relationships with others contribute to our inner sense of security and take us on a voyage of what it truly means to be human!

In contemporary society, our connections to others have been replaced by autonomy, individualism and new technology, whereas before these were imperative to our survival. What does the latest research in psychology tell us about interdependency and its importance for our well-being and inner sense of security ? André and Shankland lucidly explore interdependency using the most up-to-date studies to show how social interactions and proximity with others shape us at our core, and why cultivating our relationships is so essential to our wellbeing, not forgetting the benefits for our society at large. From friendships to romantic relationships to creating a family, this is an exploration of what makes us profoundly human.

An ode to interdependency or the relationships that help us live better.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS: L’Express previously called Christophe André “the Wise Man of French psychotherapy”, the best-selling author who has made psychology and meditation accessible to readers all around the world, with hit titles such as MÉDITEZ AVEC NOUS; IMPARFAITS, LIBRES ET HEUREUX; L'ESTIME DE SOI and so many more! His books have been translated into more than 20 languages!!

Rébecca Shankland is one of the foremost French specialists in positive psychology, a Senior Lecture in Psychology at the University Grenoble-Alpes and Research associate as UQAM in Canada, who has previously written LES POUVOIRS DE LA GRATITUDE published by Odile Jacob in 2016.


CURRENT TOPICS / SOCIETY

Nathalie Gontard & Hélène Seignier PLASTIQUE, LE GRAND EMBALLEMENT

(Plastic, The Whole Package) Stock, April-20, 220 pages

à We now need to face the facts: millions of recyclers and hundreds of inventers of “new materials” won’t be able to stop the steady contamination of our environment. We must eradicate the source of the danger and question politicians and industrialists blinded by their belief in purely material progress.

A necessary book about our society’s addiction to plastic.

Nathalie Gontard has been exploring and studying plastic in her laboratory and all over the world for 30 years. Initially fascinated by this magic material’s potential, she watched as stealthily invaded the planet, making traditional materials look dated. She found its footprints on beaches, deep in the soil and even inside countless animals.

It’s up to us to mobilise ourselves and bring an end to this catastrophic overproduction. It’s up to us to find a way of ensuring our comfort without destabilising this little planet whose tenants we are. We must acknowledge our addiction in order to reduce our consumption to what is strictly necessary. A perfectly accessible challenge that this book encourages us to take up straight away.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Nathalie Gontard, a researcher at INRA (the French national instate for agronomic research), is one of the world’s top experts on plastics. She came to the attention of the general public in 2018 in the popular French television programme Cash Investigation devoted to plastic. She has continued to further her understanding by combining her research with her experience as a consumer.

Hélène Seingier is a journalist on the editorial board of the weekly magazine Le 1.

Denis Colombi OÙ VA L'ARGENT DES PAUVRES (Where Does Poor People’s Money Go?)

Payot Rivages, January-20, 352 pages

à Revealing the mechanisms of poverty is a way of exploring possible solutions: reforming public assistance, the gleaning economy, micro-credit, universal income and more.

Is it better to give a homeless person a meal ticket or a coin? We all think we’re good money managers who spend our income wisely, but is that really so?

A homeless person with a state- of-the-art cellphone is a shocking image... but why? Because it’s an unjustifiable expense? A sign of bad money management? Although they don’t have much, even the poor do have some money, and it inspires all sorts of delusions: people suppose that it is poorly managed, poorly spent, poorly apportioned. Yet we rarely stop to wonder about how they manage their money, what happens to it, and who gets rich from it. Based on real-life examples drawn from current events, this book deconstructs our perceptions of poverty. But asking where poor people’s money goes also leads us to explore our own relationship to consumerism: the share of luxury or the superfluous in our lives, the things we feel obliged to buy, the need – or lack thereof – for the “little splurges” we pamper ourselves with, and the extent to which other people’s opinions influence our purchasing habits.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Author of a well-known popular- science blog in which he shares a sociologist’s stance on current events, Denis Colombi teaches economics and social sciences in a Parisian high school.

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Maïa Mazaurette SORTIR DU TROU, LEVER LA TÊTE

(Out of the Hole. Heads Up) Anne Carrière, January-20, 300 pages

à « Sex-Appeal » is a collection run by par Camille Emmanuelle. Essays, documents, narrations, short stories and non-fictions about sex, sexuality in the plural, love, seduction, genre and porn culture.

Contemporary sexuality seems to be at its lowest. Or disenchanted, at least. Troubled by the questions raised by the MeToo movement, but also by the international decline of libido, by power issues and unrealistic injunctions. The result being a huge lassitude. Who or what is to blame ?

A sexuality designed as a matter of orifices, an imagined conception of women as reduced to a void to be filled, whereas they do have a sex, pulsating and powerful. The first part of this essay, Out of the Hole, describes how History, culture and psychoanalysis have drastically restricted our sexual practices. Yet, as satire won’t help us find the way back to joy and pleasure, the second part, Heads Up, offers an optimistic, practical and ambitious ars erotica focusing on an ethical and imaginative basis. The programme is : a glorious and radiant sexual life, within everyone’s reach. Another approach to sexuality is possible, you just have to make it happen. Out of the Hole explains why. Heads Up shows how.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Maïa Mazaurette is a writer, a columnist and an illustrator. Most of her editorial and fictional work deals with the issues of sexuality and the place of the body in society. She is a regular columnist for Le Monde, GQ Magazine, Usbek & Rica and Le Temps, and she decodes the norms, injunctions and stereotyped representations in regard to genre and sexuality. A fierce nomad, she’s been an expatriate for twelve years and currently lives in Brooklyn.

Iris Brey LE REGARD FÉMININ

(The Female Gaze A Revolution On The Screen) L'Olivier, February-20, 252 pages

From the golden age of cinema to more art house works, and very contemporary series and films, Iris Brey invites us to question the hidden meaning of images.

Iris Brey theorizes the female gaze, a way of filming women without making objects of them, by sharing the singularity of female experiences with each spectator, no matter their gender. Without falling into the trappings of voyeurism, she redefines the representation of desire.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Iris Brey has a PhD in film theory. She teaches at the French campuses of the University of California and New York University. A specialist in gender and its representations, she has published in numerous magazines, such as Les Inrocks, France culture, Cinemateaser, Soap, Cheek Magazine and Series Mania, in which she has a regular column. She is also a documentary filmmaker. She lives in Paris.

Geneviève Brisac SISYPHE EST UNE FEMME

(Sisyphus is a Woman) L'Olivier, Octobre-19, 216 pages

The first version (The Walk of the Rider, published in 2002) is a major essay concerning the works by Grace Paley, Virginia Woolf, Karen Blixen, Jean Rhys, Ludmila Ulitskaya, Rosetta Loy, Christa Wolf and Sylvia Townsend Warner.

This revised and expanded new edition on women and writing, Sisyphus is a Woman, now includes chapters on Natalia Ginzburg, Christiane Rochefort, Doris Lessing and Vivian Gornick.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Geneviève Brisac was born and raised in Paris in a left-wing, intellectual and anglophile family. Her books have been translated in many countries, including Great Britain. A novelist as well as an essayist, she has written more than ten books and essays. She also writes children books and screenplays. Her last novel LE CHAGRIN D'AIMER was out in 2018 (Grasset).


INVESTIGATION

Milena Makarius ALIAS JANNA

(Aka Janna) Anne Carrière, March-20, 256 pages

à A gripping tale about politics and family

à A journey to the shady territories of communism…

Aka Janna tells about a frightening discovery the author made in 2014 in the records of the Bulgarian secret police as she was with her daughter who was filming a documentary about her origins.

This revelation opposed mother and daughter, caught in a generation gap, in their search for the truth and the past. Stuck in between a political fiction and a cinematographic fable that puts her back to the wall, Milena Makarius goes back in time to understand her own story and that of her double, whose code name is Janna. She lends her voice to the ghosts from the past who lead her to get the full measure of the law of silence and lying imposed by the totalitarian system. An implacable tale in which reality serves fiction – and fiction, reality.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Born in Bulgaria, Milena Makarius has been living in France for 25 years. An assistant professor in literature, she shares her time between drawing, painting and writing.

Vincent Noce FAUX ET USAGE DE FAUX

(The Ruffini Affair: an investigation into the Art’s Market Greatest History)

Buchet Chastel, March-20, 304 pages

à This book goes back over the four-year-long investigation, describing the paintings’ “adventures” around the world, shedding light on both the forgers’ technical ingenuity and the experts’ conflicting statements, and describing the colorful characters involved in this lucrative business.

à It also exposes a worrisome side of the art world, hamstrung by crooked dealings in which millions of dollars change hands before disappearing without a trace.

The story of one of the largest art-market frauds in history, paired with a fascinating tour of the world of art experts and analytical laboratories. The case has already been tried in Great Britain and Italy and will soon get its day in court in France, too.

Giuliano Ruffini, his son Mathieu, and Lino Frongia, a painter, are suspected by a French judge of having forged and sold dozens of “Old Masters” painting that have appeared over the past 30 years in Europe and America.

Major institutions like New York’s Metropolitan Museum, the Getty, London’s National Gallery, the Louvre, Vienna’s Kunsthistoriches Museum and the National Gallery of Parma are all involved, albeit to different degrees. Sotheby’s, Christie’s in Paris, London and New York; prominent London-, Paris-, and Munich-based galleries; recognized experts throughout Europe and the USA are all embroiled in the largest scandal the art world has ever known.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Vincent Noce was in charge of the art section for the French daily Libération for many years. He now works for the English monthly The Art Newspaper, whose investigations are recognized as authoritative around the world. Noce is also the author of DESCENTES AUX ENCHÈRES (Auction House Hell), which exposed the seamy practices of the renowned Parisian auction house Hôtel Drouot, and of LA COLLECTION ÉGOÏSTE, which relates the fabulous adventures of the serial art theft Stéphane Breitwieser.

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HISTORY

Alain Corbin TERRA INCOGNITA (A History of Ignorance)

Albin Michel, March-20, 256 pages

à Under option in: Spain, Brazil, English, China, Korea, Japan, Russia, Ukraine.

à This book is a lesson in modesty for all scientists.

After a life of research, Alain Corbin comes back to basics: a history of ignorance, a history of all the things we did not know, for centuries - indeed millennia - about a fundamental subject: the Earth.

In this extraordinary book, Corbin reveals all the most outlandish theories that ever emerged. Sometimes brilliant errors, often very strange. For example, did you know that in 1778, a scholar published a book claiming that the heat of the earth came from its core, hence it would go on cooling? Others wrote that before the Flood, giant men and animals wandered the Earth, and that their remains were still visible in calcareous rocks. Ignorance was a stimulant to the imagination. The absence of certitudes opened the gates to anxieties, but also to optimistic theories.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Alain Corbin is one of the greatest French historians alive today. A pioneer in the history of representations, sensitivities and the body, he has authored several successful books.

Raphaël Meltz HISTOIRE POLITIQUE DE LA ROUE

(A Political History of the Wheel) Albin Michel, February-20, 288 pages

à Telling the story of the wheel, the author invites us to take a fresh look at the history of humanity.

What could be simpler - and more brilliant - than the wheel? Yet it took hundreds of thousands of years after the invention of the first tools for humans to have the idea of using this basic shape that was to change their existence…

What is the mastery of the wheel, more than a technical issue, were a political question? Thanks to the wheel, a model of development that permitted man to abolish distance and time came into existence. With speed came the collision course with time, the course of a capitalisme that can no longer stop istself.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Raphaël Meltz is a writer and has been the editorial director of several magazines.


Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach UN MOT, UN DESTIN

(One Word, One Destiny. Intimate Encounters With Famous Women)

Albin Michel, April-20, 250 pages

à Using familiar and unusual words, the author shares her enlightening vision as she revisits the destinies of remarkable women who have left their mark on history.

à Rich in anecdotes and rare knowledge, this fascinating book takes us behind the scenes of history and arouses our curiosity.

This book is an intimate journey in the company of famous women.

Did you know that Melitta coffee filters take their name from the woman who invented them, Melitta Benz? That Queen Catherine de Medici is forever associated with the mule, whose urine she drank daily to overcome her sterility? Or that Selma Lagerlöf was the first woman to obtain a Nobel prize?

Also includes intimate encounters with Marie-Antoinette, George Sand, Sissi, Marilyn Monroes, Arletty and many more.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach is a journalist and a historian. She is also the author of several successful books: HISTOIRE D'OS (JC Lattès), LES GRANDS ZHÉROS DE L'HISTOIRE (JC Lattès), LES SECRETS DE PARIS (Vuibert).

Valérie Perthuis-Porteret VOUS N'AUREZ PAS LES ENFANTS

(You Won’t Get The Children) XO, February-20, 234 pages

à This is the untold story of the greatest rescue of Jewish children, destined for death, undertaken in France during the Second World War by an incredible chain of men and women working together.

à An exceptional historical document accompanied by photos of the camp of Vénissieux.

à A voice of remembrance and a homage to the virtuous.

As she flicked through the entry-and-exit records of children taken into a chateau in the Drôme region of France during WWII, Portheret’s attention was seized by a detail: little “V”s added in lead pencil after a dozen names. What did it mean?

She was told that the names were probably those of Jewish children hidden in the chateau under a false identity after being rescued from a camp situated at Vénissieux in the suburbs of Lyon. “V” for Vénissieux. That was where 1,016 foreign Jews, rounded up on 26 August 1942, were held awaiting “sorting”.

26 August 1942. In response to Nazi demands, the French Vichy government ordered the rounding up of foreign Jews in the region of Lyon. Early that morning, 1,016 were arrested and assembled in a “sorting” camp in Vénisseux. Night of 28 to 29 August 1942. Members of welfare organisations present in the camp managed to convince parents to sign papers abandoning their own children to the care of a Christian charity, the only way to save them from deportation.

Despite the mothers’ shouting, weeping and suicide attempts, 108 children are separated from their parents and surreptitiously removed from the camp. At the same time, gendarmes take 545 adults by coach to the station of St Priest – direction Drancy and then Auschzwitz, where the great majority of them will be gassed. In the following hours, the police launch a search for these children hidden in a former convent. In leaflets, the Resistance declares: “You won’t get the children”.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: After 25 years of research, historian Valérie Portheret has recreated the rescue from the camp of Vénissieux and has managed to identify 90 of the 108 children saved from deportation, now living all over the world, collecting testimonies from many of them. This extraordinary story captivated public opinion at the time, forcing Vichy to refuse the Nazis’ demands to deport further Jews.

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Bernadette Costa-Prades LA LISTE DE VARIAN FRY

(Fry’s List. August 1940 – September 1941) Albin Michel, January-20, 244 pages

à The Rescue of Intellectuals by the first American “Righteous among the nations Bringing to life all the players with her pen, the author recounts this amazing story.

à A breath-taking escapade that no scenarist would have dared to invent.

In 1940, Varian Fry exfiltrated 2,000 people from the Nazi threat, including Hannah Arendt, Max Ernst, André Masson, André Breton, Benjamin Perret, Marc Chagall, Jacques Schiffrin…

In Berlin in 1935 American journalist Varian Fry witnessed a progrom that traumatized him. As a result, when one clause of the armistice treaty stated that “France was required to turn over all the German nationals requested by the Reich authorities”, he joined the committee of defence of German artists and intellectuals, who were placed under threat of expulsion and death.

Missioned by Eleanor Roosevelt, his task was to organize the departure of 200 among them, from Marcheille to the United States. He soon realized that lesser-known figures and Jews were in as great a danger, and created a clandestine rescue network. Over thirteen months, he exfiltrated 2,000 people.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Bernadette Costa-Prades, journalist, is the author of biographies - Niki de Saint-Phalle, Frida Kahlo, Simone de Beauvoir- as well as many works of popular psychology.

Marie Moutier LES CHAMPS DE LA SHOAH 1941-1944

(The Fields of the Shoah) Passés Composés, January-20, 480 pages

à The research is based on an exclusive and impressive amount os archives from 5 languages.`

à The book gives voice to victims and witnesses too, in order to bring a better understanding of daily genocide.

à This book is the result of more than ten years of research. Marie Moutier-Bitan tells us about a world that came to an end: when the war was over, there were whole villages without a single Jewish inhabitant.

The extermination of the Jews in the Occupied Soviet Union,1941-1944

When the Germans invaded the Soviet Union on 22nd June 1941, there were about five million Jews living there, two million of whom became victims of the Nazi policy of genocide.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Marie Moutier-Bitan has been a researcher with the Yahad-in Unum Association since 2009, where she is in charge of the archives.


Simone Veil L'AUBE À BIRKENAU

(Dawn in Birkenau) Les Arènes, Novembre-19, 300 pages

à English material available.

à Rights sold in: Italian (Guanda) and Portuguese (Quetzal).

à The voice of a remarkable woman, which will touch all generations.

à 200 pages about Simone Veil, and her childhood, her deportation, her return from the camps, memory and anti-Semitism, as well as the impact of these events on her later causes, in particular, women's rights.

à 100 pages of dialogue in three series: between Simone Veil and her elder sister Denise, and btween Simone Veil and two friends from deportation, Marceline Loridan-Ivans and Paul Schaffer.

à Containing 40 colour photos.

A historical document bringing to readers the sharp and raw voice of a deported at the age of 16, Simone Veil, who went on to become the most popular French woman of the 20th century.

At the end of the 1990s, David Teboul, a young filmmaker, asked Simone Veil if he could make a documentary about her. This was the start of a friendship that would last until her death. Over the years, her recoded more than 40 hours of interviews. The intimacy between them was such that it was to him her children entrusted the ceremonuy at the Pantheon after she passed. These recordings, until now unseen, see the light of day in this deeply moving book.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Simone Veil was a French lawyer and politician who served as Minister of Health under Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, President of the European Parliament and member of the Constitutional Council of France. A survivor of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp where she lost part of her family, she was elected to the Académie française in November 2008. She was best known for ministerially pushing forward the law legalizing abortion in France on 17 January 1975. She and her husband were buried in the Panthéon on July 1, 2018. Only the fifth woman in history to be accorded this burial honor, she was eulogized during the reinterment ceremony by President Emmanuel Macron

Laurent Pfaadt NOUS ÉTIONS DES MALGRÉ-NOUS

(We Were “Malgré-Nous”) Le Cherche Midi, March 2020, 304 pages

à A poignant historical account of the author’s family tossed about according to the an- nexations of history. A tribute that extends to all these French Alsatians who were forcibly incorporated into the German army and condemned to suffer their fate.

à The little-known story of les «Malgré-Nous» (the Unwilling Ones) who deserted the Wehrmacht and were interned, and died, in the Soviet camps.

à A non-fiction work blending narrative and history.

1914. The outbreak of the First World War abruptly brought to an end the carefree days of the Pfaadt family, natives of Bischwiller in Alsace. Guillaume and Fredericke watch their four sons - Guillaume, Charles, Henri and Eugène - head off to the front. Much later, as tradition demands, the oldest of the four boys will name his own first son Guillaume, meaning that three generations of Guillaume Pfaadt will experience the hardships of world wars.

The brothers join the German ranks except for Henri who, residing in Paris, is enlisted into the French army. They endure life in the trenches, while back in Bischwiller the inhabitants have to comply with the strict ordinances of their German overlords and renounce their French heritage. Nobody knows if brothers Henri and Charles confronted each other on the battlefields - in which the much-loved youngest brother Eugène were killed.

After the war, Alsace once again reverts to France, but the respite for the Pfaadt family is short-lived, as is peace in Europe. Would Guillaume, who fought against the Tsarist army in 1917, have ever imagined that his eldest son might once again be taking on the Russians some twenty years later? But on this occasion, Guillaume Pfaadt refuses to be enlisted in the Wehrmacht and chooses to desert instead, seduced like so many of the other Unwilling Ones by the Soviet rhetoric. But the reality of the conditions in the Russian camp of Tambov will soon shatter Guillaume’s dreams of freedom...

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: A graduate in political science, Laurent Pfaadt is the author of several political biographies (JACQUES CHIRAC A DIT..., Mazarine, 2016; FRANÇOIS HOLLANDE DE A À Z, City, 2012; SIMONE VEIL, UNE PASSION FRANÇAISE, City, 2011).

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BIOGRAPHIES

Frédéric Granier LES BEATLES

(The Beatles: Four Boys in the Century) Perrin, January-20, 566 pages

à Behind pop music’s most beautiful score, another fascinating story finally emerges. Mass culture, psychedelics, artificial paradises, peace activism --the phenomena they experienced or helped launch not only tell the history of the 1960s, they also highlight a social and cultural revolution with still perceptible impacts.

Through rare documents and unpublished interviews, with true narrative art, the author unravels the threads of an epic that was less smooth and successful than the record sales (more than two billion records sold since 1962) suggest. The author elucidates what McCartney has rightly said: ‘‘We were not only in the spirit of the moment; we were in the spirit of the century.’’

From their erratic beginnings in Liverpool and Hamburg to On April 10, 1970, the news made headlines around the world: Paul McCartney was leaving the Beatles. His departure not only signaled the split-up of the most popular group of all time, it also meant the end of an extraordinary adventure: four teenagers who came out of the cellars of Liverpool to become accomplished musicians, embodiments of the entire post-war generation’s thirst for freedom. While Let It Be, their testament song, was proving to be a final success, McCartney sued his three former associates. The dream was over. And yet, fifty years later, their legend remains.

She Loves You, Help, Yesterday, Hey Jude, Come Together, Something... The two hundred songs recorded by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in just eight years are still revered by millions of fans. Their twelve albums constitute an awesome and irreplaceable discography, a source of inspiration for all musicians today.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Journalist and author Frédéric Granier is a department head at the French magazine, Geo. A collector of rare recordings and films, he has written numerous books on pop culture.

Andreï Kozovoï BREJNEV

(Brezhnev: The Anti-Hero) Perrin, April-20, around 300 pages

à The author has put to use a vast body of sources, notably Brezhnev’s Diaries published in Russian as well as many unpublished USSR archives.

The book, which recounts with precision Brezhnev’s uncertain ascent to the top, his apogee and then his decline, illustrates how he enabled the USSR to reach its highest level of power, while sowing the seeds of its dissolution. The parallel with Putin’s Russia becomes self-evident and it provides a better understanding of the period in which Brezhnev was immersed, and of the political model that shaped him.

Leonid Ilitch Brezhnev led the USSR from 1964 to 1982, a period marked by a number of pivotal events: the crackdown on the Prague Spring (August 1968); the implementation of the “détente” policy, first with France (De Gaulle’s visit in 1966, numerous Brezhnev meetings with Georges Pompidou and Giscard d’Estaing), then Brandt’s Germany, and most remarkably Nixon’s United States; the invasion of Afghanistan (December 1979); the conflict in Poland, which created tension in Europe; the exile of the famous dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn; and others.

To explain how Brezhnev managed to stay in power for so long, the author depicts him in his daily life, disregarding the usual clichés of the senile leader with his medals and reminding us that he was a responsible dictator, focused on his country’s interests. Brezhnev is seen as a seductive character, capable of feeling, which distinguishes him from his predecessors Stalin and Khrushchev whom he knew personally.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: A lecturer at the University of Lille, Andrei Kozovoï has published several books including Russie, réformes et dictatures (Russia, reforms and dictatorships), published by Perrin.


Thierry Sarmant PIERRE LE GRAND

(Peter the Great) Perrin, March-20, 500 pages

à Based on the most recent findings of Russian, German, French, British and American researchers.

Peter the Great or the birth of modern Russia. The first biography with a comparative history approach exploring the man and the myth and incorporating the most recent contributions of international historiographical research.

Peter the Great is one of the most extraordinary figures in Russian history. Tsar of Russia from 1682 to 1725, he modernized his empire at the pace of a forced march; reformed the army, the State and the Church; founded Saint Petersburg; created a navy; and initiated a genuine “cultural revolution” that helped create modern Russia. He was one of the first heads of state to have a global geopolitical vision.

His drive for conquest pointed him in many directions: towards the Black Sea and the Baltic, but also towards Siberia, Central Asia and Persia, and as far away as India and North America. The life of this sovereign thus raises questions both about Russian identity and also about the mechanisms of the world’s Westernization. The new biography compares this remarkable character with his “monarch colleagues” at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries – Louis XIV, William of Orange, Frederic- Guillaume of Prussia – as well as with history’s other great reformers.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Thierry Sarmant, paleographic archivist with a doctorate from the University of Paris I, is director of collections at the Mobilier national (National Museum of Furniture - formerly La manufacture des Gobelins founded by Louis XIV in 1662). He has published several works, including, with Perrin, 1715. LA FRANCE ET LE MONDE (1715. France and the world). He was one of the curators of the 2017 exhibition “Peter the Great. A tsar in France. 1717” held at the Grand Trianon, Versailles.

Alain Blondy PAUL Ier

(Paul I: The Madness of a Tsar) Perrin, January-20, 333 pages

à Basing his account on multiple sources, Alain Blondy revives the Shakespearean destiny of this unpopular tsar whose actions reflected both his neurotic desire for retribution and his genius for self-sabotage.

The first major biography of the “Russian Caligula” whose dark reputation has overshadowed his intelligence and his efforts to reform his country.

History and the Russians were quick to forget Paul I. The illegitimate son of the great Catherine II, he was nonetheless tsar of Russia from 1796 until his death in 1801. A mercurial man, marked throughout his life by the wounds of his unhappy childhood, he came to power only when his mother died, after being kept on the sidelines for forty-two years.

Taking the opposite direction from Catherine’s during her reign, he reformed the country and tightened the rules regarding the nobles. His measures, numerous and trivial, displeased the court, the army and the people simultaneously. Outside Russia, he quarreled with his allies, and particularly with England over his insistence on proclaiming himself master of Malta.

Gifted in the art of making enemies, Paul I was ignobly assassinated by a group of officers in his entourage on the night of 21 March 1801. His murder, an outcome of the Russian nobility’s animosity, also appears to have been linked to underhanded maneuvers by England.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Alain Blondy is a university professor who taught for forty years at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences de l’information et de la communication, Sorbonne Université and at the University of Malta. Considered one of the top current experts on the Mediterranean world, he is the author of the NOUVELLE HISTOIRE DES IDÉES (New History of Ideas) and of LE MONDE MÉDITERRANÉEN, 15 000 ANS D’HISTOIRE (The Mediterranean world, 15,000 years of history) both published by Perrin.

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François-Guillaume Lorrain LOUIS XIV L'ENFANT ROI

(Louis XIV The Child King) XO, Janvier-20, 336 pages

à A passionate writer of historical fiction, François-Guillaume Lorrain brings to life, before our eyes, the private childhood of one of the most fascinating figures of French history. This childhood and adolescence was one of the most epic, painful and fascinating of any French statesman.

à Plunge into the harsh, extraordinary apprenticeship of solitude and power that was the childhood of Louis XIV

à A child both full of life and gravely serious – and already a commanding presence. A likeable, somewhat lost child, weighed down by his onerous destiny.

How did the young Louis become the Sun King, the monarch under whom France’s grandeur shone so dazzlingly?

The childhood of Louis XIV was both unhappy and romantic. Crushed by his teachers, watched over by Mazarin who initiated him into the art of intrigue and taught him how to be a king, whipped by his mother Anne of Austria, who let him get away with nothing, his upbringing was draconian.

Sovereign at five years old, he found himself thrown into one of the most turbulent periods in the history of France. Parliament pushes him around, princes challenge him and the people invade his palace. Louis is both a capricious, stubborn child and a young king who must suffer his elders’ contempt in silence.

Before the rising of the sun had been a “little man” and the humiliated Louis’ sole ambition became to exert his power.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: François-Guillaume Lorrain is a journalist and writer. Graduate of the Ecole Normale, lecturer in literature, he is the author of ten novels and non-fiction works. In 2019 he was awarded the Contemporary History Book Prize.

“An authentic, extraordinary novel that retraces the early years of the future Sun King […] An intensely pleasurable and seductive read from the talented pen of storyteller François-Guillaume Lorrain”. Le Figaro Magazine

“A great and finely orchestrated ballet about the education of a king.” L’Obs

Véronique Richebois & Alexandre Debouté PIERRE BERGÉ, LE PYGMALION

(Pierre Bergé, The Pygmalion) Kero, January-20, 306 pages

à In the footsteps of a secretive man, who said to never look back, yet owed a lot to his past.

à Gathering dozens of exclusive accounts from different stages of Pierre Bergé’s life, the authors offer a complete and detailed biography, from the 17-year-old young man’s little-known debut in Paris to the good and bad of his passionate relationship with Yves Saint Laurent through the highs and lows of his life with the tortured painter Bernard Buffet.

A portrait depicting a complex, determined, ever-valiant and acerbic Pierre Bergé, until the end of his life, through the eyes of those who greatly influenced his existence.

Pierre Bergé died in 2017, leaving behind a life of “stories within a story”. The exceptional journey of a teacher’s son, who left home before finishing school to try and make it in Paris, where he would become one of the richest, most powerful and formidable men in the city. Openly gay, he was both lover and agent to two gifted artists, Bernard Buffet in the 50s and Yves Saint Laurent up until the designer’s death in 2008. He was a ruthless businessman, patron of the arts, friend of President François Mitterrand and president of the Paris Opera.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Véronique Richebois is a journalist for the Échos newspaper. She previously worked for L’Obs and the Nouvel Économiste. She published L’HISTOIRE SECRETE D’ENDEMOL (Flammarion) in 2006.

Alexandre Debouté is a journalist for the Figaro. This biography of Pierre Bergé is his first book.


Laurent Schang VON RUNDSTEDT

(Von Rundstedt) Perrin, February-20, 400 pages

A biography of Field Marchhal von Rundstedt, “the last Prussian” who served Hitler, for whom the honor of serving outweighed any other consideration.

His name appears in all books related to the Second World War in Europe, yet he is probably the least known of the great generals of the Wehrmacht. Gerd von Rundstedt (1875-1953), a Prussian aristocrat, veteran of the Great War and senior commander of the German armed forces, took part in the main European campaigns of the conflict, both as the designer and executor of invasion plans: Poland in 1939 was his project, as was, in part, France in 1940, and France and Russia in 1941.

He was an old-school officer, a great tactician, a master of the art of operations, but not a great strategist – that domain, in any case, was taken over by Hitler after 1941. He had the unique honor of being dismissed from his post three times in a single war by the Führer, who could not, in fact, do without him. For example, he was removed from his command for failing to save the situation after the D-Day landing, but recalled at the end of the summer of 1944 to preside over the military court that tried a number of his peers for their part in the July 20 assassination attempt on Hitler.

Dismissed definitively in March 1945 -- he had failed to prevent the Reich’s enemies from crossing the Rhine -- he was arrested by the Americans in Bavaria where, exhausted and suffering from rheumatism, he was being treated in a sanatorium.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Laurent Schang, journalist and publisher, is a specialist of the Second World War and the author of several books dealing with European wars down through the ages, including LE BRAS DROIT DU MONDE LIBRE (The Free World’s Right Arm) (Perrin) and KRIEGSPIEL 2014 (Retour aux sources editions).

Christian Destremau IAN FLEMING

(Ian Fleming) Perrin, April-20, 384 pages

Christian Destremau, with his extensive knowledge of British culture, skillfully paints an intimate portrait of this creative genius whose hero, from episode to episode, continues to fascinate millions of people.

Born into a wealthy Scottish family and growing up surrounded by strong personalities, Fleming, after a typical upper-class education, wandered far and wide seeking his destiny. His early years included the aborted start of a military career; a crucial passage at Reuters, where he learned to write simply and quickly; a few years in banking. He seemed headed towards a relatively mediocre future, distinguished only by his female conquests – he was inclined to be a womanizer. The war was the real impetus. Fleming joined the naval intelligence service, concocting the most daring plans and standing out due to his problem-solving abilities and lack of respect for the hierarchy. Immediately after the war, he resumed his haphazard lifestyle, between freelance journalistic assignments and stays in Jamaica where he acquired a house in 1946 named “Goldeneye”.

Fleming took up literature more or less by chance in 1952, embarking on a decade of intense creativity and delivering, one after the other, about ten episodes of James Bond. The first, in 1953, was Casino Royale. Combining exotic adventures, elaborate intrigue, outlandish “bad guys”, torture, sadomasochism, seduction and sex, the series completely renovated the genre and attracted an ever-increasing number of readers. By the late 1960s, James Bond was a major export product, an element of “Soft Power”: 007 contributed, in the same way as the Queen, to the United Kingdom’s global prestige. His influence was such, in the context of the Cold War, one wonders to what extent he might have influenced British and American foreign policy.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Christian Destemau is a historian of the Second World War and a keen connoisseur of British culture, having spent a good part of this childhood in the United Kingdom. He has written a masterful biography of LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (2014) and the highly acclaimed CE QUE SAVAIENT LES ALLIÉS (What the Allies knew) (2007), LE MOYEN-ORIENT PENDANT LA SECONDE GUERRE MONDIALE (The Middle East during the Second World War) (2011) and CHURCHILL ET LA FRANCE (Churchill and France)(2017), all published by Perrin.

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Michel Faure AUGUSTO PINOCHET

(Pinochet) Perrin, January-20, 380 pages

à Based on several years of research, Michel Faure’s forceful portrait of Pinochet unravels the mysteries of an introverted, cautious and cunning man.

The life of an enigmatic 20th century dictator. Augusto Pinochet is one of the most hated figures of the last century. The author, however, views him as an enigma and approaches the Chilean dictator’s biography as a major investigation.

How did a legitimist soldier, in the great “Prussian” tradition of the Chilean army, suddenly become the brutal leader of a coup d’état? And how could this heinous putschist, whose dictatorship was marked by implacable ferocity, feel, from the very first moments he came to power, a reverence for democracy and eventually restore it? Why did a general who worshipped order, authority and vertical command open his door to young liberal economists who would deregulate and undermine the foundations of his regime by carrying out a forced modernization of Chile? And finally, how did this ill-fated dictator manage to escape justice and die quietly in his bed?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Michel Faure is a journalist and former foreign correspondent for the magazine L’Express, for which he covered Latin America, and Chile in particular, for many years. He is the author of Une Histoire du Brésil (A History of Brazil) published by Perrin.

Catherine Dufour ADA OU LA BEAUTÉ DES NOMBRES (Ada or the Beauty of Numbers. Lovelace, the

Computing Pioneer) Fayard, September 2019, 300 pages

A fascinating biography of Ada Lovelace exploring the little known destiny of a woman whose genius and audacity would shape the world as we know it today.

Augusta Ada King, the Countess of Lovelace and the daughter of the poet Lord Byron, was an English aristocrat trapped in the confines of a 19th century that had yet to embrace modernity. Yet it was this same sickly young woman, squeezed into a corset and caught between a cumbersome husband and an abusive mother, who developed the world’s first computer program. If not for her pioneering work with numbers, there would be no computers, no Internet, and no space exploration...

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Catherine Dufour is a computer engineer, a columnist at Le Monde Diplomatique, and a lecturer at Sciences Po. She also writes works of fantasy and science fiction, for which she has twice received the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire, and is the author of L'HISTOIRE DE FRANCE POUR CEUX QUI N'AIMENT PAS ÇA (2012) and the GUIDE DES MÉTIERS POUR LES PETITES FILLES QUI NE VEULENT PAS FINIR PRINCESSES (2014).


TRUE STORY / MEMOIRS

Shaparak Shajarizadeh & Rima Elkouri LA LIBERTÉ N'EST AS UN CRIME

(Freedom Is Not A Crime) Plon, February-20, 304 pages

à Offer received from Canada.

à A 43-years-old "ordinary" mother with extraordinary courage, has become a leading figure in the movement of the Girls of the Street of the Revolution in Iran who are protesting against the compulsory wearing of the hijab.

Iranian Shaparak Shajarizadeh was sentenced in 2018 to two years in prison and 18 years on probation for removing her veil in public and inciting other women to do the same.

After walking down the street in May 2017, hair flying, her white scarf hoisted as a flag at the end of a stick, the activist was threatened, arrested, imprisoned and tortured. But she has to pay a high price for this magnificent symbolic act. Without complaining. Without lowering her head.

From her childhood in Iran to her painful exile in Canada through the horrors of her prison term, Vivre libre tells the story of the extraordinary fate of an amazing fighter, Shaparak Shajarizadeh, honored in 2018 by the BBC as one of the 100 most inspiring women in the world.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Rima Elkouri is a Canadian journalist and author. Winner of the Jules Fournier Prize of the Superior Council of the French Language of Quebec, she is interested, among other things, in issues related to women's rights around the world, whether in the wake of the Arab Spring in the Middle East, the movement #MeToo in Canada or the migration crisis in Europe. In 2014, she published the collection Pas envie d’être arabe (I don’t want to be Arab, Somme toute editions) which brings together her best work created between 2000 and 2014. She has also collaborated on several collective works.

Leïla Mustapha LA FEMME, LA VIE, LA LIBERTÉ

(Women, Life And Liberty) Stock, February-20, 234 pages

The untold story of the woman who wants to rebuild Raqqa, in war-stricken Syria.

"The people of Raqqa chose me to give them a life, a voice and a democracy, not to add my tears to the torrent of theirs."

On 17th April 2017, Leïla Mustapha was appointed mayor of the former Islamic State capital; she was the only woman in an assembly of 130 men. Who better than her – a daughter of Raqqa, a freshly qualified civil engineer, three times top of her year, not isolated but committed out of choice and necessity – to rebuild bridges, schools, hospitals, mosques, the 25,000 buil- dings flattened by bombing and the 30,000 more damaged by artillery fire? Who better than her – a Kurd who grew up among Arabs and attended their universities – to restore both the city and peace?

An exceptional trajectory, for woman who brings hope.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: A Kurd born into Arab culture in Raqqa, Leïla Mustapha is in her thirties and is currently mayor of the Caliphate’s former capital in Bachar el-Assad’s Syria, not far from Erdoğan’s Turkey. She raises high and strong the standard for "another" Syria, a tolerant open Syria. Her personal destiny is bound up with the region as she guides it towards peace or chaos.

Marine de Tilly is a journalist for Le Point. She travelled to Raqqa to witness Leïla Mustapha’s day-to-day life first-hand.

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Gérard Depardieu AILLEURS (Elsewhere)

Le Cherche Midi, April 2020, pages

à In this collection of his most personal thoughts, the author tells us everything about his unique life.

à A much more intimate story than his two previous books.

In this spiritual legacy, Gérard Depardieu confides in. Friendship, love, trips, pleasure, distress, indignation.

« I have been both an innocent person and a monster in turns. I have never been interested in living between those two extremes.

Everything that stands in between is corrupted. Only innocent people and monsters are elsewhere. Elsewhere means in this little distance to find so as to remain profoundly human.»

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Gérard Depardieu is a French actor, producer and movie director. Famous for his panache, his excesses, his outspokenness, he wrote about his life so as to better explain who stands behind this character he modeled for himself. He already published two books at Cherche Midi: INNOCENT (2016, rights sold in Bulgaria, Russia/ Knijniki 36.6, Italy, Turkey) and MONSTRE (2017, rights sold in Bulgaria).

Patrick Modiano Illustrated by Pierre Le-Tan

MEMORY LANE Stock, January-20, 96

23 black and white illustrations pages

à Under option in: Russia (Text).

à This edition, first published in the 1970s, has been unavailable for many years.

à An illustrated jewel to discover and peruse.

Rhapsody of the lost time by the Literature Novel Prize Winner and the Legendary illustrator of the New Yorker.

Twilight memories redolent of illicit intrigues, nostalgia for a past remembered in fleeting glimpses that may well mask crises, formidable passions, fears and short-lived pleasures.

How better to illustrate Modiano’s unforgettable world than Pierre Le Tan’s illustrations?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature, Patrick Modiano shared in this journey by writing a preface for the book.

Pierre Le-Tan is a writer and illustrator. He has written some ten books and, most notably, has illustrated many covers of the New Yorker.

« Le-Tan’s drawings managed to encapsulate like no other the intrinsic and essential mystery of Modiano’s writings. » Vanity Fair


CULTURAL ESSAY

Philippe Boulanger LA GÉOGRAPHIE, REINE DES BATAILLES

(Geography, Queen of Battles) Perrin, March-20, 368 pages

à Military engagement in several theatres of operations, the securing of national territory against terrorist threat, regional geopolitical and geostrategic upheavals, mapping of viral and bacterial infections, management of natural disasters, support for determining areas to be rebuilt, learning about local cultures -- military geography today, at the heart of the digital and cartographic revolution and with new high-tech tools such as navigation satellites enabling real-time geolocation, is undergoing profound changes.

“Geography is used, first and foremost, to make war.” (Yves Lacoste). Boulanger provides a masterful treatment of military geography, its links to military operations and its future.

Geography has always been of concern to princes and strategists. Knowledge of the physical environment, routes, resources, fortified cities, populations to be administered, for example, does indeed constitute one of the foundations of conquests and territorial governance. This has been understood since Antiquity -- Sun Tzu, for one, devoted lengthy passages to the topic in The Art of War and Julius Caesar, in his Gallic Wars, wrote about the tactical exploitation of the terrain in maneuvers. It was not until the 19th century, however, that the elements of geographical knowledge in Europe were rationalized and a purely military geography emerged. It became, among other things, a means of combating the occupation of territories by Napoleonic armies.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: A professor of geography at the Sorbonne, specializing in military geography, geostrategy and geopolitics, Philippe Boulanger also teaches in various academic institutions and military academies. He has written LA GÉOGRAPHIE MILITAIRE FRANÇAISE 1871-1939 (French Military Geography) (Economia, 2002, winner of the 2003 Lucien Wyse-Bonaparte Prize of the Société de géo- graphie de Paris), GÉOGRAPHIE MILITAIRE (Military Geography) (Ellipses, 2006) and GÉOGRAPHIE MILITAIRE ET GÉOSTRATÉGIE, ENJEUX ET CRISES DU MONDE (Armand Colin, 2011).

Laurent Chauvaud LA COQUILLE SAINT-JACQUES,

SENTINELLE DE L’OCEAN (A Brief History of Scallops)

Équateurs, Novembre-19, 144 pages

à With clarity and humour, Laurent Chauvaud takes us to the very heart of his laboratory located at the end of the harbour in Brest, but also to the field in Ouessant, in Morocco, in Norway or New Caledonia, from the South Pole to the North Pole.

à During his explorations, he tells us stories about shells, his stunning discoveries, his enthralling profession that improves serendipity, or the art of finding what you weren’t looking for.

Once upon a time...scallops! Since its first appearance 25 million years ago in Europe on the Atlantic coast, the scallop has never ceased to fascinate.

During Antiquity, it was used as an ornament; then it became a religious symbol (on St James’s Way) as well as an artistic one (related to Venus, femininity and maternity). It was only in the early 20th century that Bretons started fishing and eating them. Thanks to recent research led by Laurent Chauvaud and others, this animal has become a scientific object, a mathematical model, a calendar, a thermometer, a witness of contaminations, an environmental record, a sentinel of past and present evolutions of the marine environment, and of global warming more generally (melting of the ice caps, evolution of temperatures, luminosity variations), and even a musical instrument through which we can hear the valves’ clapping, yet another sound that bears a message: it tells us the state of the sea.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Laurent Chauvaud is a research director at the CNRS.

"The fascinating tale of a human adventure animated by curiosity and the search for meaning." Le Monde

"A delicious little book that you must read urgently!" Le Figaro

"Laurent Chauvaud brilliantly shows us that scallops are environemental archives that witness global warming" Arte

"Laurent Chauvaud advocates for serendipity in scientific research in this captivating

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Baptiste Morizot MANIÈRES D'ÊTRE VIVANT

(Different Ways of Being Alive) Actes Sud, February-20, 336 pages

à This book looks at animal-life in general, including that of humans, as “different ways of being alive”.

Philosopher Baptiste Morizot expands his philosophical enquiry into the notion of tracking, not only tracking living creatures in their natural habitat but also our ideas of them in literature and thought.

After Sur la piste animale, Baptiste Morizot’s second work in the Mondes Sauvages collection expands his philosophical enquiry into the notion of tracking, not only tracking living creatures in their natural habitat but also our ideas of them in literature and thought. In his work we set out on the trail of a pack of wolves in the Vercors snow, investigating the mysterious meanings of nocturnal howling shared with them by night. This leads us to the trail of the very appearance of the notion of animality in the history of our own culture. We then trace our ancestors right back to sea sponges, before setting out on the mark left in our thought by our “inner-animals”, the animal metaphors used to describe our feelings. Then we set out on the trail of the interdependencies inherent in a Provencal prairie ecosystem inhabited by sheep, shepherds and predators to imagine an alternative approach to life. Each trail brings us back the importance of our sensitivity to living creatures and how we have to learn to live side-by-side with them and consider them differently. The animal kingdom cannot be reduced to the stuff of children’s tales or considered as inferior life-forms. We cohabit the Earth alongside them and we share the same ascendancy, and thus the enigma of life itself. The mystery of living within a body, a body that has to interpret and negotiate its life is shared throughout animal- and human-kind: it is the vital universal condition, one which gives us the strongest sense of belonging.

Here lies the paradox: through our shared ancestry, animals are both related to us yet foreign to us, because their different bodies suggest forms of existence incomprehensible to our minds. This book looks at animal-life in general, including that of humans, as “different ways of being alive”.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Baptiste Morizot is a writer and lecturer in philosophy at the University of Aix-Marseille. His work is devoted to the relationship between the human and living and is based on extensive fieldwork, especially in tracking wild animals. He has also written DIPLOMATES. COHABITER AVEC LES LOUPS SUR UNE AUTRE CARTE DU VIVANT (Wildproject, 2016).

Marc Petitjean L’AMI JAPONAIS (The Japanese Friend)

Arléa, March-20, 160 pages

à Rights sold in: USA (The Other Press)

The fascinating and romantic life of Master Kunihiko Moriguchi, painter of kimono.

Kunihiko Moriguchi was born in Kyoto in 1941. He has been practicing kimono painting for almost half a century. In Japan, where craftsmanship is considered an art in its own right, he received the prestigious title of Living National Treasure, just like his father before him. In the 1960s, he studied graphic design at the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris (after an extraordinary thirty-day boat trip) and became friends with the painter Balthus who influenced his artistic career. He lived there the happy years of post-war Paris and kept a deep nostalgia and a wonderful French about it. Returning to Kyoto, he worked alongside his father who passed on to him the demanding art of Yuzen. Kunihiko will nevertheless renew the tradition by introducing abstract patterns.

His kimonos are exhibited in major museums in Japan and abroad. The kimono then ceases to be a garment and becomes something subtle and immaterial: it keeps in it the memory and the life of those who wore it.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Filmmaker, photographer and author, Marc Petitjean has made many documentaries, including Blessures atomiques and De Hiroshima à Fukushima, about Doctor Hida, doctor who survived the Hiroshima bomb; Trésor vivant, on a Japanese kimono painter; Zones grises, which was already investigating the figure of the father, between personal history and history of the years of occupation.


Alain Cabantous & François Walter LES TENTATIONS DE LA CHAIR

(Temptations of the Flesh: Virginity and Chastity from the 16th to the 21st Century)

Payot Rivages, February-20, 416 pages

à This remarkable overview provides an exploration over an extended period of time of the wide range of practices covered in the west by two terms that are often mistakenly used interchangeably, and are more complex than they might seem at first glance.

à From the hymen, an unreliable proof of virginity, to the misbehavior of priests who take a vow of celibacy, from the continence imposed on the newly married until the 17th century to the first “sex strike” promoted in the late 19th, you’ll learn everything there is to know about our difficult relationship to sexuality.

A cultural history spanning five centuries that explores our relationship to sexuality and the impact of male fantasies on the female condition.

Although they had seemed to have become bygone notions since the “sexual revolution”ofthe 1960s-1990s, virginity and chastity have actually been undergoing a huge revival. Both individuals and groups have established them as their life goal, without necessarily basing it on religious belief. Numer- ous health-centered websites extol the “advantages of abstinence,” even for couples. And around the Western world, despite a hyper-sexualized society, the “No Sex” movement has been booming.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Alain Cabantous, is an emeritus professor of history at Paris University 1, and François Walter, honorary professor of history at the University of Geneva. This is those two eminent historians of sensibilities and mentalities’ second book published by Payot, after NOËL. UNE SI LONGUE HISTOIRE... in 2016.

Guy Bechtel LA SORCIÈRE ET L'OCCIDENT

(A History of Witches) Plon, November-19, 1272 pages

à The title of reference on the true story of witches and the West, repeatedly cited by Mona Chollet in her recent best-selling “Witches”.

Who were the witches, or so-called? Did they really cast spells? Did they inhabit the cities, the countryside? Were they all elderly women? Why, especially, after having tolerated them for long years, were they killed one day? These questions have always puzzled historians, who willingly left the subject to novelists.

Over the past twenty years, there have been considerable discoveries about the life and death of witches and about their distribution in Europe - more than half of them were burned in less than sixty years in a very limited region (roughly the south and the east the Holy Empire, from Lorraine to Westphalia) - made it possible to better situate the problem.

The massive liquidation of witches around 1600 in west-central Europe was less the last murder in the Middle Ages than the first of modern times. Seen from the broad perspective of the author, it is linked to the emergence of the religious and social modernity of the continent, a phenomenon of exclusion among others in a vast history of persecution that has not stopped producing alleged ethnic or political purifications.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Guy Bechtel, doctor of history has published many books for a wide audience such as ARCELSE (1970), L’AFFAIRE GAUFRIDY (1972), 1907, LA GRANDE RÉVOLTE DU MIDI (1976), GUTENBERG ET L’INVENTION DE L’IMPRIMERIE (1992).

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Hélène L’Heuillet ÉLOGE DU RETARD

(In Praise of Lateness. Where has the time gone?) Albin Michel, January-20, 184 pages

Being late is a bit like playing truant, taking shortcuts, beating about the bush... Ultimately, just living. To confront our modern society’s dominant values, being late is a veritable resistance strategy.

“ I don’t have time.” He, who can afford to keep people waiting, is a prince. There is always a temporal aspect to inequality... But today more than ever, the balance of power has become the balance of time. Strength consists of making urgent demands. When power is measured by the ability to demand the impossible in terms of time, a new form of psychic violence is established which results in unbearable mental stress. Saying “I don’t have time” is saying “No” to this abuse of power. The only remaining sovereignty is the possibility of being late.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Hélène L’Heuillet is a philosopher and psychoanalyst. A leading figure in the new generation of French philosophers, she teaches at the Paris-Sorbonne University. Among other books, she published DU VOISINAGE. RÉFLEXIONS SUR LA COEXISTENCE HUMAINE (2016) and TU HAÏRAS TON PROCHAIN COMME TOI-MÊME (2017) with Albin Michel.

Yves St-Arnaud PETIT CODE DE LA COMMUNICATION

(A Brief Communication Code) L'Homme, February-20, 120 pages

à Over 6,000 copies of the first edition sold.

à An essential book on communicating while respecting your emotions and those of the person you’re speaking with.

à A clear demonstration of the basic rules for living in harmony with others.

à Several tools for preventing or resolving conflicts.

Everything you need to know to prevent communication road accidents.

This book puts the results of thirty years of research on the psychology of human relations within reach of everyone. It’s a practical book, complemented by many dialogues evoking scenes of daily life.

The car-driving analogy illustrates how to be a good naviga- tor on the communication road. There are three basic in- struments: emotional radar, so we can put to positive use what we feel in the presence of another person; an alterna- tor, to ensure a balance between the transmitter and re- ceiver; and traffic lights, to determine whether the lane is open, dangerous or closed.

The author suggests proven techniques for deciding when you can speed up, slow down or even gently put the brakes on a dialogue. He also offers five safety rules and ten tips inspired by the experience of informed communicators. This book will definitely turn you into an unparalleled com- municator.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Holder of a doctorate in psychology, Yves St-Arnaud has worked for many years as a consultant in human relations. He has written twenty-five books, several of which attest to his ability to make theoretical knowledge understandable to the general public.


Santiago Amigorena IL Y A UN SEUL AMOUR

(There Is Only One Love) Stock, March-20, 128 pages

à The concept: an author is invited to spend a whole night in a museum and writes afterward a book on his/her experience.

Santiago Amigorena’s love letter to paintings and the woman he loves.

Deep in a sleeping museum, questions about love become statements, and statements questions. Clinging resolutely to the thread of love, Amigorena waits through sleep and dreams for the paintings to guide him and give him answers. During this night of enforced solitude – peopled by Picasso, Giacometti or perhaps Vermeer and Bataille – he gently but in great depth explores love, writing, art and the inextricable links between them.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Born in Buenos Aires in 1962, Santiago H. Amigorena is an Argen- tine writer, director, screenwriter and producer who lives in France. His books are published by P.O.L. His tenth novel, Le Ghetto intérieur, was a renowned success in France and was sold all over the world.

Leonor de Recondo LA LEÇON DE TÉNÈBRES (A Lesson From The Darkness)

Stock, January-20, 160 pages

à The concept of the collection: authors spend a night in a museum and write a text inspired by this unusual experience.

à Previously published: Le peintre dévorant la femme by Kamel Daoud, Marcher jusqu’au soir by Lydie Salvayre, Nuit espagnole by Christophe Ono-dit-Biot and Abel Abssemed.

Book #4 of "My Night in a Museum" series, a magical night in the private world of the great master of the Spanish School at the El Greco Museum in Toledo.

One summer night Léonor de Recondo was given exclusive access to the El Greco Museum in Toledo to get to know the most original painter of the Sixteenth Century: Dominikos Theotokopoulos, known as El Greco.

In this overheated museum which recreates the artist’s home, her heart beats faster. While she waits to meet the artist, she plays the violin, admires his poorly lit paintings emerging from the shadows, and collates snatches of the painter’s little-known life story.

Will El Greco, who died in in 1614, be there to meet her?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Writer and violinist Léonor de Récondo has recorded some fifteen albums and published six novels, including AMOURS (winner of the Prix des Libraires and the Prix RTL/Lire) and POINT CARDINAL (winner of the Prix du Roman France-Culture/Télérama).

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SCIENCE

Laurent Cohen LE PARFUM DU ROUGE LA COULEUR DU Z (The Perfume of Red and the Colour of “Z”, 20 trues

stories of the brain) Odile Jacob, March-20, 240 pages

à Twenty stories, twenty enigmas, twenty clues about what it is to be human.

à A precise and complete panorama of the recent advances in the neurosciences.

Twenty true, unique and personal stories of cerebral “break-downs,” each of which opens a door to uncovering the mechanisms of our mental lives, which are both universal and hidden.

ollowing a series of strokes, Mr A. was persuaded that a double was taking the place of his wife as soon as her back was turned; Mr B. had awoken incapable of reading a word or even a letter; Mr C. had been found in a train station not knowing who he was; Mrs D. no longer knew how to use a pair of scissors or a toothbrush; Mrs E. spent her days without being bored, seated, immobile, in front of her blank television; Ms F. saw medieval knights riding through Paris and herds of cattle coming out of public parks; Mr G. filled his living room, basement, and bathtub with old televisions...

These stories and others go well beyond being anecdotal. They reveal the very workings of our minds, and raise questions to which neurology, the neurosciences, and brain imaging are providing an increasing number of answers...

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Laurent Cohen is professor of neurology at the Pitié-Salpétrière Paris-VI hospital. He is the author of L’Homme-thermomètre, Pourquoi les chimpanzés ne parlent pas, Pourquoi les filles sont si bonnes en maths, and Comment lire avec les oreilles, all best-sellers.

Emmanuelle Pouydebat QUAND LES ANIMAUX ET LES VÉGÉTAUX

NOUS INSPIRENT (How Animals and Plants Inspire Us)

Odile Jacob, September 2019, 208 pages

à Currently #3 on Amazon in Pop Science!!

à N°13 On the Bestsellers list of l’Express.

à Two offers for the Spanish rights

à From dragonflies to new wind turbines, and from crawfish legs to new bionic hand prostheses: stupefying examples that push the limits of the human imaginary.

à A subject – bio-inspiration – that is central to current research in science, ecology and economics.

Clear and accessible, illustrated and written in lively prose, a book on ecology that invites us to set off on a journey to discover the stupefying mysteries of nature. You will never look at plants or animals the same way again…

How do we battle pollution naturally? Cool our homes in the middle of the desert? Or survive in an extreme environment? How can one be inactive without losing muscle mass? Invent glues that function even in water? Travel without motors? Or even live for more than 20,000 years? By observing nature, Pouydebat tells us in her new book, we will discover incredible systems developed by animals and plants to conserve energy, heal themselves, or optimize their survival. From cars to chemistry, including ecology, electronics, aeronautics, robotics, artificial intelligence, and medicine, there is no realm of existence that cannot benefit from what nature is able to teach us, provided we study it attentively and compassionately!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Emmanuelle Pouydebat is head of research at the CNRS, where she received the Silver Medal for her work, as well as at the Muséum national d’histoire naturelle. A specialist in the strategies used by multiple species to manipulate and use tools, from crawfish to elephants, including spiders and the great apes, and has received several scientific awards. She is the author of international bestseller L’INTELLIGENCE ANIMALE which has sold around the world.

“ Every page of this book will amaze you and transport you from surprise to surprise” - L’EXPRESS


NATURE

François Sarano RÉCONCILIER LES HOMMES AVEC LA VIE

SAUVAGE (Reconciling Men and Wildlife)

Actes Sud, January-20, 240 pages

An extensive interview about a life in the ocean depths, thoughts and experiences: it is only in contact with wildlife, nature untamed, that Homo will can finally become Sapiens and live in society in peace.

François Sarano started his career far from the oceans and the animal world, closer to rocks and men. The call of the wide-open sea and his love of deep-sea diving however proved too strong for him and he went to study for a doctorate in oceanography and became a professional diver. One day in 1985, his life changed when he met Jacques-Yves Cousteau. Suddenly he found himself on board Cousteau’s Calypso as its scientific advisor and, over thirteen years, worked on over twenty missions with the renowned deep-sea explorer. In his work, wildlife within the ocean depths becomes a source of wisdom, reflection, philosophy and harmony.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: François Sarano is a doctor in oceanography, a professional diver, the expedition leader of le Calypso project, research director of the Deep Ocean Odyssey research program and cofounder of the Longitude 181 association. He was scientific consultant for Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud’s movie, Oceans. He has written a number of books about whales and the ocean, including RÉFLEXIONS SUR 40 ANS D’OBSERVATIONS SOUS-MARINES (Gap edition, 2011), CHERCHE ET TROUVE OCÉANS (Seuil jeunesse, avril 2007), OCÉANS. UN FILM DE JACQUES PERRIN ET JACQUES CLUZAUD (Le Seuil, 2009).

Anne-France Dautheville MISCELLANNÉES DES FLEURS

(Miscellaneous Flowers) Buchet Chastel, March-20, 144 pages

à The stunning illustrations and lively layout make reading this book a real pleasure.

This anthology, a veritable cabinet of curiosity for flowers, contains nearly 250 anecdotes that range from serious to playful, scientific to practical, and useful to frivolous… but are always both enchanting and informative. Readers can skip from one interesting tidbit to the next, in any order they please.

Do you know when the first flower appeared? Where does the frangipani shrub’s name come from? How do orchids attract bees? Why did Victoria regia, a giant water lily from the Amazon rainforest that is sturdy enough for a child to sit on become the star of the first World’s Fair, in 1851? What legend hides behind an almond tree? What colors do flowers count on to attract pollinators?

This book contains nearly 250 articles, anecdotes, myths and legends about flowers. We learn about the existence of punishments for plants and naps for bees. We’ll run into Pliny the Elder, Malherbe, Arcimboldo, Darwin, Napoleon I, Cleopatra and others. We’ll find out what tubers, sepals and stigmas are.

Ranging from serious to playful, scientific to practical, useful to frivolous – but always enchanting – these surprising stories are like an invitation on a journey, and can be dipped into at will.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Anne-France Dautheville is a journalist and a writer. She has traveled the world by motorcycle on her own: her travels and the information she gleans from gardeners everywhere she goes have inspired her articles and books. She is neither a botanist nor a scientist: her degree is in callouses and curiosity.

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APPLIED POP CULTURE

Marianne Chaillan ILS VÉCURENT PHILOSOPHES ET FIRENT

BEAUCOUP D'HEUREUX (They Lived as Philosophers and Made A Lot of People

Happy) Équateurs, Octobre-18, 224 pages

à Rights sold in: Japan (Kanki).

à 10,000 copies sold in France.

à This small and entertaining book shows that philosophy is not an intellectual discipline and can be seen everywhere in popular culture.

à A perfect way to practice philosophy while rewatching your favorite movies !

In this enlightening and accessible book, Marianne Chaillan explores Disney movies through the lens of philosophy.

From Snow White to Frozen or Zootopia, the Disney-Pixar universe is a provider of dreams and magic for young and old alike. Is it only regressive joy ? Many scholars proved the values of the tales inspiring many Disney movies. But what if the magic also came from a purely philosophical reading of these films? When we set upon discovering their philosophy, we find golden mines! With Aladdin, we can ponder what is the best thing to ask the Genie for. Or, more precisely, what are the conditions for happiness. In The Lion King, we initiate ourselves to the Tao by singing «Hakuna Matata». We encounter Montaigne and his reflexions about cannibalists in Pocahontas. In The Jungle Book, we wonder what is the role of the other in the making of the self. Wall-E allows us to study the robots : can they think or have feelings? Plato is at the heart of Atlantis. One Hundred and One Dalmatians initiates us to animal ethics. Maleficent, the villain from Sleeping Beauty, makes us question the roots of evil. Frozen guides us toward the Sartrian philosophy of freedom.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Marianne Chaillan teaches philosophy. She is the author of Harry Potter at the school of philosophy and The Ultimate Game of Thrones and Philosophy (Open Court, 2016).

“A great book to explain to our children that behind every Disney movie there is philosophy.” Europe 1

“An original initiation to philosophy.” Le Monde

“Marienne Chaillan shows how much entertainment and philosophy are linked.” Libération

Jean-Victor Blanc POP & PSY

(Using Pop Culture in Psychiatry) Plon, Octobre-19, 181 pages

à As a young psychiatrist used to see a lot of Millennials amongst his patients, Dr. Blanc includes pop-cultural reference in his practice, making his misunderstood field more accessible to a wide audience.

à Both pop and serious, scientific and entertaining, Dr. Jean-Victor Blanc focused his personal research on the struggle against the discrimination that people with mental disorders still face.

In this veritable pop guide to modern psychiatry (and vice versa), Dr. Jean-Michel Blanc sheds new light on key pathologies and describes mental health in a more positive way, one that corresponds more closely to his daily medical practice. When pop stars and TV shows help us understand mental disorders better…

The representation of psychological disorders in popular culture is both erroneous and paradoxical. On the one hand, troubled stars’ disorders have a certain power of fascination (Britney Spears’s popularity was never as high as when she shaved her head in front of a horde of paparazzi), and people with mental disorders are popular subjects in books, films and TV shows. On the other, those disorders inspire fear, and their often terrifying representations in art are taken at face value.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: A psychiatrist in Paris, Jean-Victor Blanc specializes in addictions among Millennials, and patients with bipolar disorder. A huge fan of pop culture, he gives conferences on “Pop Culture and Psychiatry” whose goal is to reduce the stigma surrounding mental disorders.


PSYCHOLOGY & SELF-HELP

Michel Odoul DIS-MOI COMMENT ALLER CHAQUE JOUR

DE MIEUX EN MIEUX (Tell Me How to Feel Better Every Day 50 keys to

enjoy good health with full awareness) Albin Michel, March-20, 256 pages

à Under option in Russia (Eksmo).

à A real treasure chest, this book is full of practical tools, each one a key: physical resources (respiration, stretching, 5 flavours, essential oils…), energy points and work on mindfulness (symbolic cleaning, meditation), etc.

à An authentic ikigai - reconciliation with the being, whose bond and linking element are love and respect for life.

à This essential, positive book addresses all readers.

Keen to help us achieve harmony physically and psycho-emotionally, Michel Odoul invites us to (re)discover “5 right actions” that guarantee harmony between body and spirit (the right effort, the right rest, the right diet, the right way to think and the right desire) as well as essential advice for good balance (breathing, reception and respect of the seasons, falling asleep and waking up).

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Michel Odoul is a shiatsu practitioner and the author of several books published by Albin Michel among them: Dis-moi où tu as mal, je te dirai pourquoi»; Dis-moi quand tu as mal, je te dirai pourquoi; Cheveu, parle-moi de moi, L’Harmonie des énergies. He is also an educator and conferencier.

Anne-Claire Gagnon LA THÉRAPIE PAR LES CHATS

(Cat Therapy) Robert Laffont, April-20, 300 pages

à Based on the most recent scientific publications, real-life cases, field experience, and testimonies from friends to cats around the world.

à Anne-Claire Gagnon, a veterinarian and behaviorist specializing in felines, gives us the keys to the physical and mental well-being that cats can bring us.

The first book written by a veterinarian revealing the benefits cats have on our health.

Thanks to their unique cognitive and sensorial abilities and their intuitive communication, cats help us to preserve our mental and physical health. They are masters at calming us down, as well as stimulating us and providing our bodies with unexpected benefits: reducing stress, lowering heart rates, relieving asthma... An anatomical mirror to humans and a privileged subject in the neurosciences, they are also “doctors” and are leading to advances in research for battling cancer and Alzheimer’s.

At any age, whether at home, at school, on social networks, at a café, at the hospital, or a retirement home, their proximity influences our mental state. They are resilient creatures that bring us joy and help us meditate or come out of isolation. They are liberators who serve as artists’ muses and the loyal companions of psychoanalysts, calming our depressive states.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: A veterinarian, Dr. Anne-Claire Gagnon is a specialist in feline behavior. As a journalist for the general public, she is also the author of several books on cats: My Cat on the Couch (Larousse, 2014), The Cat that Changed My Life (Larousse, 2015 and 2016), and Be a Cat! (Larousse, 2018).

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Simon Lord RÉUSSIR SA CARRIÈRE SANS S'ÉREINTER

(Succeeding In Your Career Without Wearing Yourself Out)

L'Homme, March-20, 272 pages

à Funny, entertaining and surprising, the book presents situations in which readers will recognize themselves or some of their colleagues.

à Useful in the same way as a self-defence course: the description of a number of strategies for advancement will help readers recognize their enemies, protect themselves from them, thwart them and, who knows, maybe replace them!

à The style is clear, caustic and often funny: smiles and giggles guaranteed!

A practical and Machiavellian guide to workplace success. Instructive and entertaining, this guide clearly describes the unfair and manipulative tactics that run rife in some corporate offices.

Maybe you believe that the key to climbing the ladder at work is simply to be more competent or qualified than your peers? Well, that’s not the case: in reality, all you have to do is understand and use the most devious machinations to move up the ranks. A manual for the consummate opportunist and extreme careerist, Succeeding in Your Career Without Wearing Yourself Out uncovers effective—and particularly Machiavellian—tactics to help you finally achieve long-lasting success in the company you work for.

The author of this satire on the world of work doesn’t shrink from tackling any taboos in teaching you the best ways to protect and advance your pawns. Inspired by the writings of great experts on the dynamics of power and manipulation, such as Han Fei Zi, Machiavelli, and Donald Trump, the advice presented may also actually advance your career, with laughs and smiles as a bonus. Have you ever been en- trapped by a colleague or a clever boss? After reading this book, you’ll never be fooled again! Forget competencies and climb the professional ladder by deploying your most devious tricks!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Simon Lord is a journalist who has specialized in the world of business for ten years.

J.-D. Nasio TOUT LE MONDE PEUT-IL TOMBER EN

DÉPRESSION ? (A Different Way to Treat Depression)

Payot Rivages, April-20, 192 pages

A novel explanation of the causes of depression and a surprising new cure.

Depression doesn’t happen all at once; it’s the result of a slow process in which the past invades the present. The causes are both an emotional shock and a predisposition for depression. In this instance, predisposition means that the person had experienced trauma in their childhood (abandonment, child abuse, or sexual abuse) and that they have taken shelter in a world of illusion that makes them more susceptible to falling apart. So depression is tied to the loss of an illusion. How can it be treated? Nasio explains his unique graphic-interpretation method that allows patients to learn to think about themselves in less self-deprecating ways than brooding over their earlier failures.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: A psychiatrist and psychoanalyst with over 50 years of analytic experience, J.-D. Nasio is one of the most renowned popular-science writers in the field of psychoanalysis. He has written over 30 books, many of which have become classics, and have been translated into over a dozen language.


Judith Petitpas BIEN VIVRE LA CRISE DE LA

QUARANTAINE (Better Understanding the Midlife Crisis)

L'Homme, February-20, 192 pages

à The author suggests many exercises to help readers evaluate every sphere of their lives: physical, personal, romantic, familial, social, professional and spiritual.

Enjoying the second half of your life with peace of mind!

This book helps us better understand what the midlife crisis is, why we go through it and what changes occur during this period. It also helps readers ask themselves questions about the gap between the lives they envisaged and the lives they actually lead, and establish new foundations for peacefully enjoying the years still to come.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Judith Petitpas holds a master’s degree in social work and a BA in anthropology. She offers individual and group psycho-social counselling, and is the author of a number of books on eating disorders.

Dr Bruno Bubos LES ÂGES CLANDESTINS

(Why People Don’t Always Act their Age) Payot Rivages, January-20, 240 pages

Acting younger than your age, or older, or seeming to be ageless... We are like puppets in the hands of “underground” ages that can turn into handicaps. This book reveals a problem that is far more complex than it might seem at first glance.

Do we act our age? Should we act our age? How can we (not) act our age? In western society, those questions have taken on greater importance over the last twenty years. Hidden beneath our “real” or “official” age – the one on our birth certificates – are unofficial, “underground” ages that we can’t always control. We feel like teens again when we’re at a party, or we romp like kids at the beach. Those “emotional crystallizations” create a reservoir of specific sensations and emotional states that can constrain us, create issues, or even poison our existences (creating issues in our relationships and sexuality, addictions, eating disorders and more). How can we recognize and reign in those crystallizations in order to use them for our own good?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Dr. Bruno Dubos is a psychiatrist and a hypnotherapist who has been practicing Ericksonian hypnosis for 25 years. He defined the concept of underground ages. As a member of the European Society of Hypnosis (ESH), the International Society of Hypnosis (ISH) and the Confédération francophone d’hypnose et de thérapie brève (CFHTB), he has worked in Rennes and taught at the University of Nantes.

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PARENTING & EDUCATION

Etty Buzyn LAISSEZ-MOI LE TEMPS DE RÊVER

(Mom, Dad, Give Me Time to Dream!) Albin Michel, January-20, 192 pages

Too many sources of stimulation, too much information, too many outof-school activities … In the name of increased performance, our children no longer have time to dream or invent. Etty Buzyn pleads for a return to the freedom to play for… well, to play for its own sake.

Why is play so necessary for children? In what way is inactivity constructive? How does a child benefit from moments of “boredom”?

What role do screens play in a child’s time for dreaming? The richness of imagination is a decisive factor for creativity, and consequently, for the abilities to adapt and innovate.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Etty Buzyn is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist.

Sophie Flak & Jacques De Coulon RESTEZ ZEN, VOS ENFANTS SONT

CONNECTÉS (Your Kids Are Connected! How Yoga Can Help You in

the Digital Era) Payot Rivages, February-20, 240 pages

A unique, original method to help parents who are overwhelmed by the first digital-native generation, but who still want to raise their children intelligently.

This book explains to parents how to teach their children to: step out of their virtual bubble and reconnect with the people around them; not lose control of their social-media image; fight cyber-harassment; break an addiction to screens; sort and rank data and information; spot fake news by developing critical reasoning; live in their physical bodies, which are too often neglected when they are on line all the time; adopt good posture in front of their computers and take care of their eyesight; develop good sleep habits; use the internet as a learning tool; enjoy video games wisely; develop their attention span and capacity for concentration, which are often adversely affected by digital media; surf the web mindfully and reasonably.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Sophie Flak manages both sustainable development and digital technology. She also teaches at Sciences Po, presides RYE – Research into Yoga in Education – and is a member of the National Advisory Board on Digital Technology.

A Former School Superintendent and President of the Swiss Board of Education, Jacques de Coulon is above all a hands-on person. Having participated in founding RYE back in 1978, he has trained thousands of teachers within that framework.


Laurence Pernoud J'ATTENDS UN ENFANT

(I’m Expecting A Baby) Albin Michel, January-20, 480 pages

à The leader on the pregnancy market: published in more than 70 countries and translated in more than 40 languages..

In 1956, Laurence Pernoud,visionnary journalist, writes - with the help of a multidisciplinary team- I’m Expecting a Baby, the first essential guide to pregnancy. It immediately becomes a great succes : Laurence Pernoud wins the Academy of Medecine prize.

Often imited but never equalled- I’m Expecting a Baby is a complete guide for women through their pregnancies. It answers the many questions that future parents may have on pregnancy and childbirth. Every aspect of daily life is addressed : food, exercise, travel, medical appointmens, psychological and emotional changes, the father’s role,etc.

For 2020, «I’m Expecting a Baby » covers many contemporary methods :

-Pregnancy well-being : haptonomy, mindfulness mediation, sophroplogy, prenatal singing, prenatal hypnosis…

- Preparation for labour : technics to give birth safely.

- A step by step brest or artificial feeding technique.

- Pregnancy after forty : everything women is their forties need to know about a late pregnancy.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Laurence Pernoud, journalist, received an award from the Academy of Medicine in 1956. When she passed away in 2009, her collaborator Agnès Grison updated these two reference works, surrounded by a team of experts..

Laurence Pernoud J’ÉLÈVE MON ENFANT (I’m Raising my Baby)

Albin Michel, January-20, 528 pages

à Updated every year, Laurence Pernoud’s book reassures, advises and informs its readers on all topics relating to babies.

The go-to book for every step of a baby’s life.

After I’m Expecting a Baby, I’m Raising a Baby, unbeatable bestseller since 1964, offers help to parents in their first steps with a baby. After the birth, a thousand questions arise : how to feed the baby, why is it crying, how to make it sleep…

In 2020, the main updates are :

Sleep : how to understand the sleeping patterns, how to deal with some sleeping desorders (insomina, night terrors…).

Early learning : focus on the games, readings, screen time…

Vaccination : updates, focus on some diseases.

Speech impairment : advices and alerts.

Adoption : the updated process.

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HEALTH & WELL-BEING

Jean-François Harvey COURIR MIEUX 2

(A Personalized Program To Adapt Your Race) L'Homme, April-20, 304 pages

à Rights of the previous edition sold to France, China, Canada (World English), Korea and Italy.

à 40,000 copies sold in Québec.

à A unique book that aims to maximize both performance and the enjoyment of running.

à A thorough text, bolstered by the most recent research on the topic and made understandable by the writer’s humorous approach.

à A book that all seasoned runners will want to add to their library!

For running fanatics, here’s the highly awaited sequel to THE reference on running technique, a bestseller with over 40,000 copies sold!

You don’t put on our running shoes “because I have to”. You run to release your stress, to feel free, to get a breath of fresh air, to feel your best, in short, because it does you a world of good!

But what if you could get even more out of it? After having learned how to run biomechanically with Running Better, now is the time to discover how to run better on every other level. Because running is also deciding on the content of your training, drawing up routes, planning your running season, adapting your outings to all conditions, eating to support your training sessions, warming up correctly, man- aging your races, meeting your objectives... If you want to improve your sprinting, exercise tolerance, training motiva- tion, training logistics, aerodynamics, ease in trail running and even your ability to meditate while running, you’ve found the shoe that fits! This book contains a myriad of advice and specific tips that, taken together, will make a huge difference in your running life, by enabling you to get the most benefit and enjoyment out of your favourite sport.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: An athlete, coach, physiotherapist and renowned osteo- path, Jean-François Harvey is fascinated by the body’s move- ments and mechanics. He runs two clinics in Montréal, where he treats many high-level athletes and dancers. He also provides training to professionals and the general public.

Dr Marchand JE SUIS LÀ

(An Indispensable Guide For All Caregivers) Michel Lafon, February-20, 240 pages

à Drawing on 15 years’ experience as a clinician, Dr Marchand- Pansart outlines a path of kindness and understanding to help you care for others without losing yourselves in the process.

à This book will teach you how to tap into your own resilience and protect yourself when caring for a loved one, the objective being to see things through to the end while at the same time enjoying some freedom and serenity.

With a generous dose of humanity, Je suis la highlights the indispensable role played by carers and shares precious tips to help them manage the pressure.

Full of practical tips and illustrated by real-life experiences, it offers advice on how to manage such emotionally charged decisions such as:

- how to deal with the patient’s potential refusal to be treated,

- how to manage conflicting priorities between the patient’s needs and your own,

- should you consider outside help? or placement in a retirement home?

- how to deal with anxieties about the future, how to avoid feeling guilty, deal with the loneliness and look after yourself.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Dr Stéphanie Marchand-Pansart is a consultant geriatrician and a researcher at the cutting-edge Neurospin brain-imaging centre where she studies the effects of advancing age on the human brain. For 15 years, she has been treating patients at every stage of Alzheimer’s and other related conditions. She offers daily consultations for carers, whether they are relatives or people supporting the sufferer in one capacity or another.


Martin Bilodeau GUIDE PRATIQUE DU TANTRISME

(A Practical Guide to Tantrism) L'Homme, March-20, 176 pages

à A simple and playful approach to sexuality and love.

à Keys for experiencing harmonious romantic relationships and reuniting within yourself sexuality, love and spirituality.

à Exercises for waking up your senses, living mindfully in the present moment, transforming sexual urges and following the impulses of your heart.

à Illustrations that make the text accessible and enjoyable to read.

A merging of sexuality, love and spirituality, Tantrism places joy at the centre of your life!

Simple, joyful and profound at the same time, this book is for all those wishing to develop their sensuality and awareness, while responding to the urgency of loving in an authentic way. In it, the author suggests a refreshing approach to the practices of sacred sexuality and the art of love, as well as to Tantric rituals inspired by Buddhist, Hindu and neo-Tantric traditions.

The book includes some fifty exercises (breathing techniques, inspiring meditations, body awareness games, aphrodisiac recipes, etc.) with the goal of freeing up your sexual energy, putting love back into the centre of your life and transforming your existence into a daily celebration. Thanks to this practical guide, adapted to the challenges of modern life, you will be able to achieve your full potential in the bedroom, in your daily life and in your relationships with others.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Martin Bilodeau has been studying and practising various oriental traditions for twenty years. A lecturer and an author of he guides retreats and spiritual journeys all over the world. He shares his passions with enthusiasm, humour and authenticity.

Caroline Harris THE M-WORD

(Reclaiming the Menopause Conversation) The History Press, October 2020, 288 pages

à Menopause is a ‘trending’ topic due to women such as Gwyneth Paltrow, Viola Davis and Patsy Kensit speaking out • The ‘menopause market’ is set to be worth $5.28 billion by 2023

à The first collection of essays on the menopause, covering an extraordinary breadth and depth of issues surrounding the menopause

à This book marks a vital contribution to the conversation surrounding the menopause

Can we finally say the M-word out loud? A stunning collection of diverse voices shapes a new conversation about the menopause

The menopause has for so long been one of the many taboos surrounding the female body – something we simply don’t talk about. Yet, it is transformational for each and every woman who goes through it, marking a fundamental change in their lives. For some it comes with many challenges, for others it heralds a shift in the way they see themselves and the way in which they wish to be seen. For many, it marks a midway point on their journey.

Globally, there are diverse perceptions of a woman’s midlife – from the stereotyped sweaty, hot-flush-beleaguered female to the liberated cougar; the infertile ‘crone’ to the wise woman – but the reality of the experience is rarely shared, leading to uncertainty, confusion and sometimes even shame. The women in this book change that – a diverse range of original voices discuss the menopause’s influence on their bodies, their relationships, their lives at work and at home, and their place in the world. They openly talk about their symptoms and experiences, surgical approaches and science, sex and gender, motherhood and daughterhood, grief and loss, creativity and awakenings, prejudice and position, culture and context, and what it means to be ‘a woman’.

They shape a new courageous conversation about how we can and should view the menopause and a woman’s midlife.

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SPRING 2020 .................................................... 1

RECENT SUCCESSES ....................................... 3 Antonio Talia ................................................... 3

STATALE 106 ............................................................ 3 (Route 106. The Road of the ‘ndrangheta) ............. 3

Igor Kostine ..................................................... 3 TCHERNOBYL ........................................................... 3 (Chernobyl) ............................................................. 3

Denis Demonpion ............................................ 4 HOUELLEBECQ LA BIOGRAPHIE ............................... 4 (Houellebecq. The Biography) ................................. 4

Frédéric Hermel ............................................... 4 ZIDANE .................................................................... 4 (Zidane) ................................................................... 4

Alain Badiou .................................................... 5 TRUMP .................................................................... 5 (Trump Critical Perspective) .................................... 5

Mark Alizart ..................................................... 5 LE COUP D'ÉTAT CLIMATIQUE ................................. 5 (The Climate Coup) .................................................. 5

Jean Baudrillard ............................................... 5 ENTRETIENS ............................................................. 5 (Interviews) ............................................................. 5

HIGHLIGHTS .................................................. 6 Yoann Barbereau ............................................. 6

DANS LES GEÔLES DE SIBÉRIE ................................. 6 (Kompromat In Siberia’s prisons) ............................ 6

Cédric Gras ...................................................... 6 ALPINISTES DE STALINE ........................................... 6 (Stalin's Mountaineers) ........................................... 6

Elisabeth Cadoche & Anne de Montarlot ......... 7 LE SYNDROME D'IMPOSTURE ................................. 7 (The Impostor Syndrome) ....................................... 7

Claire Oppert ................................................... 7 LE PANSEMENT SCHUBERT ..................................... 7 (The Schubert Treatment) ....................................... 7

Julia Kristeva ................................................... 8 DOSTOÏEVSKI ........................................................... 8 (Dostoyevsky) .......................................................... 8

Jacques Ravenne ............................................. 8 LA CHUTE ................................................................. 8 (The Fall: The Last Days Of Robespierre) ................. 8

Laurent Testot & Laurent Aillet ........................ 9 COLLAPSUS .............................................................. 9 (Change or Disappear? ............................................ 9 The True Record of Our Planet) .............................. 9

Christine Lombard & Lucille Bernie .................. 9 CHIC ......................................................................... 9 (The Style Guide) ..................................................... 9

Emanuele Coccia ............................................ 10 MÉTAMORPHOSES ................................................ 10 (Metamorphosis) .................................................. 10

Emanuele Coccia ............................................ 10 LA VIE DES PLANTES .............................................. 10 (The Life of Plants) ................................................ 10

Michel Cymes & Patricia Chalon ..................... 11 SUR L'AMOUR ....................................................... 11 (On Love) ............................................................... 11

Frédéric Saldmann ......................................... 11 ON N'EST JAMAIS MIEUX SOIGNÉ QUE PAR SOI MÊME ................................................................... 11 (We Are Our Own Best Doctor) ............................ 11

Alexandre Stern ............................................. 12 LE SINGE CUISINIER ............................................... 12 (How Cooking Made Us Human) ........................... 12

Christophe André & Rébecca Shankland ......... 12 CES LIENS QUI NOUS FONT VIVRE ......................... 12 (Never Without Others) ........................................ 12

CURRENT TOPICS / SOCIETY ........................ 13 Nathalie Gontard & Hélène Seignier ............... 13

PLASTIQUE, LE GRAND EMBALLEMENT ................ 13 (Plastic, The Whole Package) ................................ 13

Denis Colombi ................................................ 13 OÙ VA L'ARGENT DES PAUVRES ............................ 13 (Where Does Poor People’s Money Go?) ............. 13

Maïa Mazaurette ........................................... 14 SORTIR DU TROU, LEVER LA TÊTE ......................... 14 (Out of the Hole. Heads Up) .................................. 14

Iris Brey .......................................................... 14 LE REGARD FÉMININ ............................................. 14 (The Female Gaze A Revolution On The Screen) ... 14

Geneviève Brisac ............................................ 14 SISYPHE EST UNE FEMME ..................................... 14 (Sisyphus is a Woman) .......................................... 14

INVESTIGATION ........................................... 15 Milena Makarius ............................................ 15

ALIAS JANNA ......................................................... 15 (Aka Janna) ............................................................ 15

Vincent Noce .................................................. 15 FAUX ET USAGE DE FAUX ...................................... 15 (The Ruffini Affair: an investigation into the Art’s Market Greatest History) ...................................... 15

HISTORY ...................................................... 16 Alain Corbin ................................................... 16

TERRA INCOGNITA ................................................ 16 (A History of Ignorance) ........................................ 16

Raphaël Meltz ................................................ 16 HISTOIRE POLITIQUE DE LA ROUE ......................... 16


(A Political History of the Wheel) ......................... 16

Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach ...................... 17 UN MOT, UN DESTIN ............................................ 17 (One Word, One Destiny. Intimate Encounters With Famous Women) .................................................. 17

Valérie Perthuis-Porteret ............................... 17 VOUS N'AUREZ PAS LES ENFANTS ........................ 17 (You Won’t Get The Children) .............................. 17

Bernadette Costa-Prades ............................... 18 LA LISTE DE VARIAN FRY ....................................... 18 (Fry’s List. August 1940 – September 1941) ......... 18

Marie Moutier ............................................... 18 LES CHAMPS DE LA SHOAH 1941-1944 ................ 18 (The Fields of the Shoah) ...................................... 18

Simone Veil ................................................... 19 L'AUBE À BIRKENAU .............................................. 19 (Dawn in Birkenau) ............................................... 19

Laurent Pfaadt ............................................... 19 NOUS ÉTIONS DES MALGRÉ-NOUS ....................... 19 (We Were “Malgré-Nous”) ................................... 19

BIOGRAPHIES ............................................. 20 Frédéric Granier ............................................. 20

LES BEATLES .......................................................... 20 (The Beatles: Four Boys in the Century) ............... 20

Andreï Kozovoï .............................................. 20 BREJNEV ................................................................ 20 (Brezhnev: The Anti-Hero) .................................... 20

Thierry Sarmant ............................................. 21 PIERRE LE GRAND ................................................. 21 (Peter the Great) .................................................. 21

Alain Blondy .................................................. 21 PAUL Ier ................................................................ 21 (Paul I: The Madness of a Tsar) ............................. 21

François-Guillaume Lorrain ............................ 22 LOUIS XIV L'ENFANT ROI ....................................... 22 (Louis XIV The Child King) ..................................... 22

Véronique Richebois & Alexandre Debouté ... 22 PIERRE BERGÉ, LE PYGMALION ............................. 22 (Pierre Bergé, The Pygmalion) .............................. 22

Laurent Schang .............................................. 23 VON RUNDSTEDT .................................................. 23 (Von Rundstedt) ................................................... 23

Christian Destremau ...................................... 23 IAN FLEMING ........................................................ 23 (Ian Fleming) ......................................................... 23

Michel Faure .................................................. 24 AUGUSTO PINOCHET ............................................ 24 (Pinochet) ............................................................. 24

Catherine Dufour ........................................... 24

ADA OU LA BEAUTÉ DES NOMBRES ...................... 24 (Ada or the Beauty of Numbers. Lovelace, the Computing Pioneer) .............................................. 24

TRUE STORY / MEMOIRS ............................ 25 Shaparak Shajarizadeh & Rima Elkouri .......... 25

LA LIBERTÉ N'EST AS UN CRIME ............................ 25 (Freedom Is Not A Crime) ...................................... 25

Leïla Mustapha .............................................. 25 LA FEMME, LA VIE, LA LIBERTÉ .............................. 25 (Women, Life And Liberty) .................................... 25

Gérard Depardieu .......................................... 26 AILLEURS ............................................................... 26 (Elsewhere) ............................................................ 26

Patrick Modiano ............................................ 26

Illustrated by Pierre Le-Tan ........................... 26 MEMORY LANE ...................................................... 26

CULTURAL ESSAY ........................................ 27 Philippe Boulanger ........................................ 27

LA GÉOGRAPHIE, REINE DES BATAILLES ................ 27 (Geography, Queen of Battles) .............................. 27

Laurent Chauvaud ......................................... 27 LA COQUILLE SAINT-JACQUES, SENTINELLE DE L’OCEAN ................................................................ 27 (A Brief History of Scallops) ................................... 27

Baptiste Morizot ........................................... 28 MANIÈRES D'ÊTRE VIVANT .................................... 28 (Different Ways of Being Alive) ............................. 28

Marc Petitjean ............................................... 28 L’AMI JAPONAIS .................................................... 28 (The Japanese Friend) ........................................... 28

Alain Cabantous & François Walter ............... 29 LES TENTATIONS DE LA CHAIR ............................... 29 (Temptations of the Flesh: Virginity and Chastity from the 16th to the 21st Century) ......................... 29

Guy Bechtel ................................................... 29 LA SORCIÈRE ET L'OCCIDENT ................................. 29 (A History of Witches) ........................................... 29

Hélène L’Heuillet ........................................... 30 ÉLOGE DU RETARD ................................................ 30 (In Praise of Lateness. Where has the time gone?) ............................................................................... 30

Yves St-Arnaud .............................................. 30 PETIT CODE DE LA COMMUNICATION ................... 30 (A Brief Communication Code) .............................. 30

Santiago Amigorena ...................................... 31 IL Y A UN SEUL AMOUR ......................................... 31 (There Is Only One Love) ....................................... 31

Leonor de Recondo ....................................... 31 LA LEÇON DE TÉNÈBRES ........................................ 31

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(A Lesson From The Darkness) .............................. 31

SCIENCE ...................................................... 32 Laurent Cohen ............................................... 32

LE PARFUM DU ROUGE LA COULEUR DU Z ........... 32 (The Perfume of Red and the Colour of “Z”, 20 trues stories of the brain) ..................................... 32

Emmanuelle Pouydebat ................................. 32 QUAND LES ANIMAUX ET LES VÉGÉTAUX NOUS INSPIRENT ............................................................. 32 (How Animals and Plants Inspire Us) .................... 32

NATURE ...................................................... 33 François Sarano ............................................. 33

RÉCONCILIER LES HOMMES AVEC LA VIE SAUVAGE .............................................................................. 33 (Reconciling Men and Wildlife) ............................. 33

Anne-France Dautheville ............................... 33 MISCELLANNÉES DES FLEURS ................................ 33 (Miscellaneous Flowers) ........................................ 33

APPLIED POP CULTURE ................................ 34 Marianne Chaillan ......................................... 34

ILS VÉCURENT PHILOSOPHES ET FIRENT BEAUCOUP D'HEUREUX ........................................................... 34 (They Lived as Philosophers and Made A Lot of People Happy) ....................................................... 34

Jean-Victor Blanc ........................................... 34 POP & PSY ............................................................. 34 (Using Pop Culture in Psychiatry) .......................... 34

PSYCHOLOGY & SELF-HELP .......................... 35 Michel Odoul ................................................. 35

DIS-MOI COMMENT ALLER CHAQUE JOUR DE MIEUX EN MIEUX .................................................. 35 (Tell Me How to Feel Better Every Day 50 keys to enjoy good health with full awareness) ................ 35

Anne-Claire Gagnon ....................................... 35 LA THÉRAPIE PAR LES CHATS ................................. 35 (Cat Therapy) ......................................................... 35

Simon Lord .................................................... 36 RÉUSSIR SA CARRIÈRE SANS S'ÉREINTER ............... 36 (Succeeding In Your Career Without Wearing Yourself Out) ......................................................... 36

J.-D. Nasio ...................................................... 36 TOUT LE MONDE PEUT-IL TOMBER EN DÉPRESSION ? ............................................................................ 36 (A Different Way to Treat Depression) ................. 36

Judith Petitpas ............................................... 37 BIEN VIVRE LA CRISE DE LA QUARANTAINE .......... 37 (Better Understanding the Midlife Crisis) ............. 37

Dr Bruno Bubos .............................................. 37 LES ÂGES CLANDESTINS ........................................ 37 (Why People Don’t Always Act their Age) ............. 37

PARENTING & EDUCATION .......................... 38 Etty Buzyn ...................................................... 38

LAISSEZ-MOI LE TEMPS DE RÊVER ........................ 38 (Mom, Dad, Give Me Time to Dream!) ................. 38

Sophie Flak & Jacques De Coulon ................... 38 RESTEZ ZEN, VOS ENFANTS SONT CONNECTÉS ..... 38 (Your Kids Are Connected! How Yoga Can Help You in the Digital Era) .................................................. 38

Laurence Pernoud .......................................... 39 J'ATTENDS UN ENFANT ......................................... 39 (I’m Expecting A Baby) .......................................... 39

Laurence Pernoud .......................................... 39 J’ÉLÈVE MON ENFANT ........................................... 39 (I’m Raising my Baby) ............................................ 39

HEALTH & WELL-BEING ............................... 40 Jean-François Harvey ..................................... 40

COURIR MIEUX 2 ................................................... 40 (A Personalized Program To Adapt Your Race) ..... 40

Dr Marchand .................................................. 40 JE SUIS LÀ .............................................................. 40 (An Indispensable Guide For All Caregivers) ......... 40

Martin Bilodeau ............................................. 41 GUIDE PRATIQUE DU TANTRISME ........................ 41 (A Practical Guide to Tantrism) ............................. 41

Caroline Harris ............................................... 41 THE M-WORD ........................................................ 41 (Reclaiming the Menopause Conversation) .......... 41

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