SECRET and FORBIDDEN PLACES (Lieux Secrets Et Interdits) Discover Secret Places in the World, Where Access Is Generally Forbidden

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1. CULTURE & ART 3. HISTORY & IDEAS . L’Art du mensonge . . Mystères art Philosophie oubliée . Charge affective . Invention continents . Design . Chez nous, ça s’dit pas! . Héroïnes . Instinct paternel . Grande histoire . Lieux secrets-interdits parfum . Environnement . L’Éducation vraiment positive . Affiches . Géopolitique . Les 100 villages+series . Mur de Berlin . Non coupables! . . Bizarre but true . PL Histoire du monde Vie après la mort . 30, rue de Saintonge . QCM culture G 4. ESSAYS & NOVELS . Rupture, tarot & 2. ZAPPING . Épigénétique confiture . Secret des maths . Collection . Vie de licorne . Peur de la 5G? . Zapping Bible . Pouvoir rend-il fou? 5. ART ALBUMS . Zapping environnement . Hommes viennent de . Art Albums (2 pages) Vénus . Zapping géopolitique CULTURE, HISTORY, CULTURE,SCIENCE HISTORY,& ART SCIENCE & ART CULTURE & ART THE GREAT MYSTERIES OF PAINTING (Les Grands mystères de la peinture)

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Some details of famous paintings may appear . An art book to read like mysterious. This book pulls back the veil… a thriller. . Another way to look at Whom or what is the young women of Girl history of art. with a Pearl Earring looking at? Who is hiding Series: Single behind Titian’s Venus? Who are the characters Code: 6352998 of Géricault’s Raft of the Medusa? Who is Retail price: 24.95 € Publication date: 16/10/2019 Leonardo’s Mona Lisa?

Format: 230 x 280 mm Some paintings raise more questions than they Nb of pages: 216 Nb of illustrations: answer. Mystery emphasizes their beauty. Binding: Hard cover + jacket Nb of characters: 390,000 Audience: All public This book focuses on these shadows and gives an enriched point of view upon some famous Author(s): Gérard Denizeau masterpieces of history of art. General Knowledge GREAT ENIGMAS OF PAINTING

MYSTERIES OF PAINTING – PAINTING LIST

Pompéi, Villa des Mystères : The Initiation Frieze (1st Poussin : The Flood (1660) century BC) Vermeer : View from Delft (1660) / The Girl with a Giotto : La Crèche à Greccio (the Greccio Crib) (circa Pearl Earring 1298) Watteau : The Sign of Gersaint (1720) Masaccio : The Tribute Payment (Brancacci Chapel) Boucher : Diane at the Bath (1742) (circa 1425) Fragonard : The Swing (1769) Van Eyck : The Arnolfini Husbands (1434) David : The Sabines (1799) Piero della Francesca : The Flogging (circa 1455) Friedrich : Winter Landscape (2 paintings) (1811) Van der Goes : Adoration of the Shepherds (Portinari Goya : The Third of May 1808 (1814) Triptych, circa 1475) Ingres : The Great Odalisque (1814) Botticelli : The Spring (1478-1482) Géricault : The Raft of Medusa(1819) Bosch : The Garden of Earthly Delights (circa 1500) Delacroix : The Death of Sardanapalus (1827) Giorgione : The Tempest (circa 1505) Turner : Snowstorm (1842) Leonardo Da Vinci : Mona Lisa (circa 1506) Courbet : A Funeral in Ornans (1850) Michelangelo : The Creation of Adam (1510) Monet : Impression, Sunrise (1872) Raphaël : Parnassus (circa 1511) Böcklin : The Island of the Dead (1886) Cranach : The Melancholy (1532) Seurat : A Sunday Afternoon at the Isan of la Holbein : The Ambassadors (1533) Grande Jatte (1886) Véronèse : The Wedding at Cana (1563) Gauguin : The Vision after the Sermon (1888) Arcimboldo, The Seasons (1563) Sérusier : The Talisman (1888) Bruegel : The Tower of Babel (1563) Van Gogh : The Starry Night (1889) El Greco : The Burial of Count Orgasz (1586) Munch : The Scream (1893) Caravaggio : The Disciples of Emmaus (1603) Khnopff : The Sphinx (1896) Rubens : Paethon’s Fall (1605) Klimt : The Beethoven Frieze (1902) Gentileschi : Judith Beheading Holofernes (c. 1620) Cézanne : The Big Bathers (1905) Baugin : Still Life (1631) Malevitch : White Square on White Background Georges de la Tour : The Cheat with the Ace of (1918) Diamonds (circa 1635) Picasso : Guernica (1937) Rembrandt : The Feast of Balthazar (circa 1635) Magritte : The Empire of Lights (1953, version of Velazquez : The Menines (1657) the Guggenheim Venice) General Knowledge GREAT ENIGMAS OF PAINTING General Knowledge GREAT ENIGMAS OF PAINTING DESIGN, FROM THE POP ART YEARS TO TODAY (Le Design) 55 designers of the world

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55 worldwide designers and their work . Design: a trendy topic.

Discover the evolution of design from pop art . An overview on design time to today. from the 50’ to today.

55 designers such as: Harry Bertoia, Charles . 55 major designers. Series: Single Eames, Gae Aulenti, Eero Aarnio, Elisabeth Code: 3877252 Retail price: 30.00 € Garouste, Frank O. Gehry, Patrick Jouin, Publication date: 09/10/2019 Philippe Starck, Rashid Karim, Maarten Baas…

Format: 230 x 280 mm Their principles and specificities. Where does Nb of pages: 240 Nb of illustrations: their inspiration come from? Which creation Binding: Hard cover + jacket process did they follow? Which new Nb of characters: technologies did they use? What are their key All public Audience: works?... Author(s): Anne Bony General Knowledge DESIGN FROM THE POP ART TO TODAY

THE DESIGNERS

EERO AARNIO HELLA JONGERIUS RON ARAD PATRICK JOUIN GAE AULENTI SHIRO KURAMATA MAARTEN BAAS ROSS LOVEGROVE FRANÇOIS BAUCHET LUDOVICO, DIT «VICO» MAGISTRETTI MATHIAS BENGTSSON ENZO MARI MARC BERTHIER ALESSANDRO MENDINI HARRY BERTOLA MORRISON RONAN ET ERWAN BOUROULLEC NENDO ANDREA BRANZI MARC NEWSON HUMBERTO & FERNANDO CAMPANA PHILIPPE NIGRO NACHO CARBONELL ISAMU NOGUCHI ACHILLE CASTIGLIONI VERNER PANTON WENDELL CASTLE PAULIN PIERRE CHARPIN CHARLOTTE PERRIAND JOE COLOMBO GAETANO PESCE MATALI CRASSET ERNEST RACE MICHELE DE LUCCHI KARIM RASHID TOM DIXON PABLO REINOSO CHARLES EAMES & RAY EAMES TEJO REMY & RENÉ VEENHUIZEN ÉLISABETH GAROUSTE & MATTIA BONETTI EERO SAARINEN FRANK GEHRY SOTTSASS JR ETTORE MICHAEL GRAVES PHILIPPE STARCK KONSTANTIN GRCIC MARTIN SZEKELY GRUPPO STRUM ROGER TALLON MARC HELD MARCEL WANDERS ARNE JACOBSEN SORI YANAGI General Knowledge DESIGN FROM THE POP ART TO TODAY General Knowledge DESIGN FROM THE POP ART TO TODAY General Knowledge DESIGN FROM THE POP ART TO TODAY General Knowledge DESIGN FROM THE POP ART TO TODAY THE GREAT HISTORY OF PERFUME (La Grande histoire du parfum) An animated book about the art of perfume through ages.

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Perfume has been used since Antiquity. This  Perfume, a legendary title tells its story, from Ancient Egypt to today. fragrance. It includes:  A use coming from . Perfume routes during Antiquity, since Antiquity Middle Age and in Modern Times.  A title that treats all the Series: Animated books . Perfume as medicine or for hygienic matters aspects of the perfume Code: 1099599 but also as a pleasure, associated with many world. Retail price: 29.95€ olfactive legends. Publication date: 23/10/2019  A book that evokes in a . Producing perfume, from distillation and lively style the Format: 25 × 28 cm natural blending to synthetic fragrances, and Nb of pages: 128 fragrance-maker’s art Nb of illustrations: perfume types: cologne, watering fragrance, and adventures. Binding: Hard cover perfume extract… Nb of characters:  A dive into the world of . The major perfumers, purveyors of royal Audience: All public luxury. courts (Fargeon, Guerlain, Farina…) and their Author(s): Elisabeth de Feydeau relationship with haute couture (Poiret,  A reference animated worked for Chanel and Bourjois. She teaches at the International Institute Chanel, Dior, Lanvin, Schiaparelli…) book about the art of . of Perfume and Cosmetics in Paris and . The creative one-upmanship of master glass- perfume through ages is the author of several books about perfume and luxury. She is also an makers in matter of sumptuous perfume historian specialist of Versailles. bottles. . Nowadays trends and uses: perfumes for men, worldwide trade… General Knowledge THE GREAT HISTORY OF PERFUME General Knowledge THE GREAT HISTORY OF PERFUME General Knowledge THE GREAT HISTORY OF PERFUME General Knowledge THE GREAT HISTORY OF PERFUME General Knowledge THE GREAT HISTORY OF PERFUME POSTERS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD (Ces affiches qui ont changé le monde) From 1918 to 2018, a large overview of advertising, artistic and political posters.

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The political and artistic history of the 20th Over 150 posters, from century through the main posters of the 1918 to 2018, that disrupted century. graphic codes and the way to depict the world. . Introduction: the 1914 rupture  An analysis of the poster, . Series: single 1920’s: the Russian constructivism influence, its context, its making-of and Code: 4594565 the prevalence of forms, surrealism… a comparative study with Retail price: 29.95€ . 1930’s : the propaganda and advertising Publication date: 16/10/2019 other posters of the same codes, the role of tourism increase… period or created by the . Format: 25 x 30 cm War and resistance. The words impact. same designer. Nb of pages: 280 .1950’s to 1970’s : pop years, consumerism,  Nb of illustrations: over 150 protests, struggle times. An international Binding: Hard cover with jacket approach. Nb of characters: XXX . Contemporary world: the graphic work on Audience: All public letters, collage… An overview of graphic design history as well as Author(s): Michel Wlassikoff is a Poster designers: Russians as El Lissitsky or design and typography historian. Rodchenko, British as Michael English, Deutsch as Piet history of the whole society. Graduated in History at École des Zwart or Willem Sandberg, Japanese as Tadanori  An original way to Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, he Yokko, nicknamed the Japanese Warhol, Polish as understand the 20th century teaches in several Art and Design Cieslewicz or Mlodozeniec, German (Jan Tschichold, and its history. Schools: Esad Reims, Ensp Arles, École Uwe Loesch…), Swiss (Max Bill, Armin Hoffmann), Estienne (Dsaa Typo) Paris, Esag Italians (Pintori, Munari…) or American (Paul Rand, Penninghen, HEAD Genève. He Milton Glaser…) appear, as well as the French directed, from 1991 to 1998, the Cassandre, Colin, Ungerer, Savignac. Groups as Grapus magazine Signes, a reference in the design world. He also wrote books or Ostengruppe are presented too. about design. General Knowledge POSTERS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD

THE POSTERS

1919_El Lissitzky 1943_Carlu 1968_Wim Crouwell 1920_Maiakovski_Rodchenko 1943_Villemot 1968b_Kubrick 2001 1923_Joost Schmidt 1944_Anonyme 1969_Jean Widmer 1923b_Herbert Bayer 1944_FHK Henrion 1970_Fredman Hauss 1923c_Loupot Voisin 1944_Max Bill 1971_Tadanori Yokoo 1924_Alexey Brodovitch 1949_Carlo Vivarelli 1972_Grapus, TEP 1924_Colin Tabarin 1949_Charles Loupot 1974_Kiochi Sato 1995_Henning Wagenbreth 1925_Alexandre Rodchenko 1949_Willem Sandberg 1975_Cieslewicz, Amnesty) 1995_Pentagram 1925_Jan Tschichold 1950_Marcel Jacno 1975_MLF Berne 1995_Pentagram 1926_Gontcharova 1950_Paul Rand 1977_Jamie Reid, Sex Pistols 1997_Leonardo Sonnoli 1927_Cassandre 1952_Max Huber 1979_Grapus 2000_MM/Paris 1928_Stenberg Brothers 1953_Gene Federico 1980_Gunter Rambow 2002_Ralph Schraivogel 1928_Theo Ballmer Büro 1953_Olivetti, Pintori 1981_Paul Rand, IBM 2003_Philippe Apeloig 1930_Charles Loupot 1955_Armin Hofmann 1981_Roman Cieslewicz 2003_Reza Abedini 1930_Herbert Bayer 1955_Müller Brockmann 1982_Warhol, Perrier 2005_Ostengruppe 1930_McKnight Kauffer 1955_Saul Bass Preminger 1984_Wolfgang Weingart 2009_Stefan Sagmeister 1931_Max Bill 1960_A bout de souffle 1985_Henryk Tomaszewki 2012_Melchior Imboden 1932_Jean Carlu 1960_Roger Excoffon 1986_Bruno Monguzzi Widmer 2013_Stephan Bundi 1932_Man Ray 1963_Armin Hofmann 1986_Uwe Loesch 2014_Teschner Katalin Patkaï 1932_Piet Zwart 1965_Bruno Munari 1988_April Greiman 2017_Helmo Jazzdor 1933_Francis Bernard 1965 ?_André François 1990_Grapus 2018_BVH_Saison-graphique 1934_Schawinsky 1966_Villemot, Bally 1991_Iurii Bokser 1935_Cassandre (Normandie) 1967_Michael English 1992_NTE 1936_Herbert Matter 1967_Milton Glaser 1992_Piotr_Mlodozeniec 1936_Satomi Orient 1967_Seymour Chwast 1992_Troxler Niklaus 1937_Bernard Lancy 1967_Tomi Ungerer 1994_Makoto Saito 1937_Lester Beall 1968_MAI Capital 1994_Shigeo Fukuda 1937_Miro, Espagne 1968_Mai Pierre Bernard 1995_Graphistes associés 1939_Paul Colin 1968_Savignac 1995_Henning Wagenbreth General Knowledge POSTERS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD General Knowledge POSTERS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD General Knowledge POSTERS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD 100 BREATHTAKING VILLAGES OF THE WORLD (100 Villages à couper le souffle) In over 8,000 dates

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An overview of 100 amazing and spectacular • 100 villages among the villages all over the world. most spectacular.

From the Mount Saint-Michel to the isolated • A mainly European villages of the Cinque Terre, passing by Uchisar, selection but not only. the troglodyte village in Cappadoce, make a tour, mainly focused on Europe, rich in natural • Success of the 2 previous Series: Les 100… and architectural discoveries. volumes about Breathtaking Code: 6309045 Places. Retail price: 19,95 € The history of these villages will let you explore Publication date: 16/10/2019 unusual hidden lanes. Format: 23 × 28 cm Nb of pages: 208 Nb of illustrations: Binding: Hard cover Nb of characters: Audience: All public

Author(s): Brice Gruet Forthcoming in the series

100 îles à couper le souffle 100 BREATHTAKING ISLANDS OF THE WORLD General Knowledge 100 BREATHTAKING VILLAGES General Knowledge Les 100… – 100 AMAZING…

100 AMAZING PLACES, EVENTS OR CREATIONS IN NATURE, SPORT OR ART  Surprising, 100 nouveaux lieux à 100 lieux à couper le 100 exploits de Les 100 films qu’il faut Les 100 œuvres d’art fascinating, couper le souffle souffle l’extrême avoir vus qu’il faut avoir vues historical, 100 NEW 100 BREATHTAKING 100 EXTREME ATHLETIC 100 CULT MOVIES OF 100 AMAZING WORKS BREATHTAKING PLACES PLACES FEATS ALL TIMES OF ART artistic… Collective work Collective work Pierre Auchatraire Laurent Delmas Gérard Denizeau  Books for the 90,000 char. Code: 1979615 85,000 char. Code: 3193105 90,000 char. Code: 7925922 240,000 char. 150,000 char. pleasure of the . 100 new photographs of . 100 photographs of the . Discover sport Code: 6956644 Code: 7149652 the most amazing places most amazing places on activities that are . Which movie has . The story of the eyes and to on the Earth! the Earth! definitely extraordinary! become iconic? Which paintings that left their remember . Follow these sometimes . Dizzy heights of the . In urban or natural movie should we see at mark on art history. exceptional unknown paths and Machu Picchu, salt figures areas, these activities are least once in our life? .From the paintings of the discover marvels. of the Natron Lake, green illustrated by Casablanca? Modern Chauvet or Lascaux caves, events and . Surprise, amaze and oasis of the Gobi Desert, exceptional, breathless… Times? Citizen Kane? Mona Lisa or The Raft of places. stirr is the aim of this luminescent waves of the and even dizzying . The 100 movies the Medusa, to The presented in this book  selection of breathtaking Maldives Islands… photographs! Luncheon on the grass, for a discovery places that photography . This selection of . Alpinism, BMX, have left an indelible Impression, Sunrise, Les or a rediscovery. enhances. breathtaking places, tightrope walking, mark and belong to Demoiselles d’Avignon… . A short text, placed which beauty is enhanced freerunning, extreme everyone’s memory. Each painting is plainly aside the photo, allows by photography, aims to skiing, wingsuit, apnea… Small or big box-office described, each detail and Format: 23 × 28 cm the reader to locate the surprise and amaze the Here are 100 extreme success, they hit the technique is analyzed. Nb of pages: 208 place where the photo reader. athletic feats for your headlines and changed . Follow the path of the Nb of illustrations: 100 was taken and explains . A short text, placed astonished eyes. the history of cinema. masters of art as Binding: Hard cover what causes a such aside the photo, allows .For each discipline, a .Discover or rediscover Michelangelo, Botticcelli, Nb of characters: striking effect. the reader to locate the detailed description of them, remember their De Vinci, Raphaël, 85,000 to 240,000 place where the photo the feat, the sportsman story, music, mythical Rembrandt, Vermeer, Audience: All public was taken and explains and/or the conditions in actors. The biggest Fragonard, Goya, Monet, classics of cinema will Renoir, Van Gogh, Retail price: 19.95 € what causes a such which it was carried striking effect. out… Pushing the limits! have no secret for you ! Cézanne… BIZARRE BUT TRUE (Bizarre mais vrai)

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An overview of 125 unusual places of the • 125 spectacular and world. unusual places of the world.

A collection of 125 must-see places, • Amazing photos masterpieces, buildings, animal or plant species! • A worldwide trip through mankind’s inventiveness Series: Single Houses lodged between big rocks in Portugal, and nature marvels. Code: 6496752 built at the top of a lighthouse, cube houses Retail price: 19,95 € piled up in Rotterdam, flipped upside down in Publication date: 16/10/2019 Belorussia or Germany, temples perched on Format: cm rocky outcrops in Utah, Turkey or Sahara, giant Nb of pages: 208 water lily in Amazonia or glow-worms Nb of illustrations: Binding: Hard cover illuminating a cave in New Zealand… Discover Nb of characters: 42,000 strange places, ghost towns, disconcerting Audience: All public street art, astonishing trompe-l’oeil, surprising animal and plant species while wandering all Author(s): Collective around the world. General Knowledge BIZARRE BUT TRUE General Knowledge BIZARRE BUT TRUE MISSION: GENERAL KNOWLEDGE IN 5 WEEKS (Mission Culture Gé. Un programme en 5 semaines chrono) An original method to acquire the maximum of knowledge in a minimum of time

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Over 400 MCQ to test your knowledge •To improve and acquire A 5-week program to refine your knowledge knowledge mainly about the and test it on various topics such as: contemporary world. . Contemporary history . Ecology • Information linked with Series: Single . Sustainable development over 400 MCQ. Code: 3690123 Retail price: 14,95 € . Mythology Publication date: 20/05/2020 . Philosophy Format: 185 x 240 mm . Geopolitics Nb of pages: 208 Nb of illustrations: . Cinema Binding: soft cover Nb of characters: . Music Audience: All public . Main figures Author(s): Collective. . Entertainment A second volume of general knowledge, focused on our contemporary world.

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The essential about THE book that founds • The Bible : the first best- seller in the world. Jewish, Christian and Islamic religions • A story, composed of 66 Who wrote the Bible? Why is the Promised books, that need to be land located in Mesopotamia? What are the completed by general Series: Miscellaneous real circumstances of Jesus’ crucifixion? Who information. Code: 1379735 are the apostles? Where do the great Jewish 17,95 € Retail price: and Christian celebrations come from? • With over 300 Publication date: 18/03/2020 illustrations. Format: 195 x 235 mm As many essential questions to who the book Nb of pages: 320 Nb of illustrations: over 300 answers. The greatest figures, the main Binding: Soft cover with flaps episodes of the Bible ( Noe’s Arch, the Flight Nb of characters: Audience: All public into Egypt, the Golden Veal, Solomon’s Judgement, Judas’ betrayal…), the everyday Author(s): Eric Denimal is the former priest of the protestant city of Nîmes life, the successive editions of the Bible… are and a French theologian. He is a explained and deciphered in a clear, original journalist, speaker and radio commentator. and playful way. General Knowledge MISCELLANEOUS OF THE BIBLE General Knowledge MISCELLANEOUS OF THE BIBLE ENVIRONMENT MISCELLANEOUS (Zapping de l’environnement) Protecting the planet

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Nature, climate, pollution, transports, animal • Preserving the planet : a welfare… : a review on the living planet to prominent topic today. understand the world today and imagine the • A clear and essential focus future. Series: Miscellaneous on current debates. Code: 13691845 Retail price: 17,95 € Do we have to distrust GMOs? Is sustainable • Authors involved at an Publication date: 06/05/2020 development realistic? Where is global institutional and scientific warming leading us to? What is digital ecology? level in the protection of Format: 195 x 235 mm the environment and the Nb of pages: 320 How to stop the extinction of species such as Nb of illustrations: over 300 insects? What does Europe do fort he planet. Binding: Soft cover with flaps environment? Nb of characters: Audience: All public Environment Miscalleanous answers these Author(s): Scientific Zapping des questions and many more. In about 10 key sciences (Miscellaneous of Sciences) and Zapping de la Médecine (Miscellaneous topics (oceans, the sky, materials, fauna, flora, of Medicine). Aurélien Lefrançois is a climate, space, environment sciences), the game developer and a workshop book gives clear and original explanations on conductor on environment. Belgo- the condition of the planet but also on French, Cécile Thibaut works in an organic farm, after having been formed attitudes and actions that can save it and on to Political Sciences and Environment solutions to find. Sciences.. She is a workshop conductor in agroecology, agriculture and gardening. General Knowledge MISCELLANEOUS OF ENVIRONMENT General Knowledge MISCELLANEOUS OF ENVIRONMENT General Knowledge MISCELLANEOUS OF ENVIRONMENT MISCELLANEOUS OF GEOPOLITICS (Zapping de la géopolitique) The essential about the political situation of the world, from past to present

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The essential about the state of the world, • Geopolitics: the subject of from past to present to be able to analyze many discussions today. what’s happening today. • A book bridging past and In times when present history. -local conflicts increase, -Europe is trying to find a new definition, • Over 100 clear, Series: Single -GAFA are powerful, pedagogical new maps Code: 4881749 -the environment and the planet preservation made by the magazine Retail price: 17,95 € become a real challenge, Geo’s cartographer. Publication date: 01/10/2020 this Miscellaneous of Geopolitics reviews the Format: 195 x 235 mm present situation. Nb of pages: 320 Nb of illustrations: Binding: Soft cover with flaps Continent by continent, with a thematical Nb of characters: approach divided in double page spreads, the Audience: All public book analyses, with the help of over 100 maps, the international relationships between the Author(s): Hugo Billard teaches history and geography at the military various countries and all the contemporary high-school of Saint-Cyr in Paris. He issues. manages a class textbook series in history. Historian of diplomacy at the contemporary times. Formerly A clear, pertinent and vivid view of the working for radio and TV, he writes international landscape. documentaries in geography for the Planet channel. General Knowledge MISCELLANEOUS OF GEOPOLITICS General Knowledge MISCELLANEOUS OF GEOPOLITICS HISTORY & IDEAS PHILOSOPHY FOR ALL (La Philosophie pour ceux qui ont tout oublié) A comprehensive and accessible book. Philosophy, from the Greek to today

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From the greek origins to today’s great • A clear and educational text debates and authors for students, but also for teachers and amateurs. This book presents a broad overview of • Amusing and original Western philosophy in all its components: drawings to help get into the philosophers and their works, schools and texts and analysis more easily. philosophical currents. • A book that is both popular Series: Single and well documented. Code: 7549527 - The analysis of the life and work of nearly 70 • PHILOSOPHERS ADDED: Anaxagore, Retail price: 19,95 € great philosophers: Pythagoras, Confucius, Lao-Tseu, Empédocle, Vico, Bentham, 08/01/2020 Publication date: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Voltaire, Rousseau, Durkheim, Jaspers, Carnap, UPDATED NEW EDITION Descartes, Alain, Sartre, Foucault… with, for Horkheimer, Adorno, Jonas, each one, explanations on his thoughts and Jankélévitch, Godman, de Beauvoir, Format: 195 x 235 mm Austin, Ricoeur, Althusser, Henry, Nb of pages: 368 commentaries on their most iconic works. Kuhn, Girard, Deleuze, Chomsky, Nb of illustrations: Baudrillard, Derrida, Rorty, Searle, Binding: soft cover with flap - The main philosophical currents: the Greek Fodor et Dennett. Nb of characters: 1,200,000 schools, cynicism, Epicureanism, Stoicism, •NEW TOPICS ADDED: l’animal, Audience: All public skepticism, empiricism, and also Eastern l’anthropologie, la logique, la métaphysique, le monde, la mort, la Collective work. philosophies. Author(s): politique et la responsabilité Updating: Sébastien Barbara - New topics added, dedicated to the study of concepts: animal, anthropology, logic, metaphysics, the world, death, politics, responsibility. General Knowledge PHILOSOPHY FOR ALL THE INVENTION OF CONTINENTS & OCEANS (L’Invention des continents et des océans) The splitting of the world into continents and oceans is not as obvious as it may seem…

DESCRIPTION KEY ARGUMENTS Questioning the obvious about the repartition of continents and oceans • The way in which we divide Why does a compass indicate the direction of the world is not a self-evident the North? Who discovered Oceania? How fact. many continents are there? Five, as we think, • Considering the various or six, as the English people believe? Is Turkey points of view, the author part of Europe? shows that this division has been moving through time, Series: Single What seems obvious to us is in fact the product according to historical, Code: of an historical heritage. Cutting the world into Retail price: € religious, and scientific Publication date: Fall 2020 “islands” called continents is a matter of point matters. of view. Explorers, geographers, traders, Format: 230 x 280 mm colonizers don’t necessarily share the same • Magnificent illustrations Nb of pages: 240 or 256 view. show the way in which the Nb of illustrations: This book, questioning the limits of continents and oceans, brings us back to the world was depicted through Binding: hard cover time. Nb of characters: reasons why things have been done like that. Audience: all public From the Middle Age world maps to globes and Author(s): Christian Grataloup is a baroque ceilings, from the Renaissance former professor at Paris-Diderot University. He also taught in Dakar, allegories to the imperialist sculptures of the Liège (Belgium) and Geneva Chambers of commerce, the book invites us to (Switzerland). PhD in geography, he is a trip through the vision that we have of the a specialist of geohistory. planet : in fragments, contradictory, questionable and constantly amended. HEROINES (Héroïnes) The real or imaginary heroines who left their print in women and family memories

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An illustrated, original and funny panorama of • A title about both real and over 160 women, imaginary or real, who imaginary women. remain in our memories. • Considering that fiction, as well as reality, help us define Fiction helps us build our gender identity. ourselves. Heroines like Lara Croft or Harry Potter’s Hermione, anti-heroines like Emma Bovary or •An original and funny Scarlett O’Hara give women a model to follow panorama of over 160 women, Series: Single or avoid and help them chose what they would thematically organized by Code: women types. Retail price: € like to be. Heroines therefore mixes fiction Publication date: Fall 2020 characters with women who existed. • With 16 focus on specific themes. Format: 195 x 235 mm Over 160 women are presented in 13 chapters Nb of pages: thematically organized: fairy tales, Nb of illustrations: Binding: soft cover adventurers, spies and policewomen, super Nb of characters: heroines, pupils and students, with broken Audience: Mainly women destiny, femmes fatales and prostitutes, princesses and noblewomen, warriors, Author(s): housewives, kick-ass girls, lovers, magic or super-natural women. Focus are made on specific themes: women of all kinds or origins : baby-boomers, Japan, Shakespeare’s films, opera, songs, novels, comics, video games, grandmas’ heroines, business, sex symbols, feminists… General Knowledge HEROINS

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Adèle Blanc-Sec (comics) Cathy (Wuthering Heights; Harley Quinn (Batman) Madame de Renal (and Nana (Zola) Sœur Marie-Thérèse des Agrippine (comics and heroin Kate Bush’s song) Heidi (books) Mathilde de la Mole) Natacha (comics) Batignolles (comics) of Britannicus) Catwoman Hermione Granger (Harry Stendhal, Le Rouge et le noir Nikita (film) Sophie (Les Malheurs de Alice (Alice in Wonderland) Cécile (Bonjour tristesse, Potter) Mademoiselle Jeanne Odette (Search of Lost Time, Sophie, Comtesse de Ségur) Alice (Resident Evil) Hello Sadness, Françoise Hester Prynne (The Scarlet (comics Gaston Lagaffe) Proust) Super Jaimie (TV series) Ally McBeal (series) Sagan) Letter) Mademoiselle Julie (August Olive (Popeye the Sailor Man) Supergirl Amélie Poulain Charlie’s Angels Hit-Girl (Kick-Ass) Strindberg) play, films Padmé Amidala Sydney Bristow (Alias) Angélique (marquess of the Cherry (Planet Terror) Isa (comics Les Passagers du Mafalda Pamina (Mozart’s opera The Sydney Prescott (Scream) Angels) Chloé (L’Écume des jours, The vent, François Bourgeon) Maguy Magic Flute) Tess d'Urberville (Thomas Anna Karenine Froth of Days, Boris Vian) Isabelle (Captain Fracasse) Manon Lescaut Paulette (comics) Hardy, novel, film) Anne Darrow (King Kong) Cindarella Jackie Brown Marge Gunderson (Fargo) Peau d’âne (Donkeyskin) Thelma and Louise Antonia (and the automate Clarice Starling (Silence of the Jane (Tarzan) Marguerite (nicknamed Peggy Olson (series Mad Thérèse Desqueyroux Olympia) in Hoffmann’s Tales Lambs) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) Gretchen, Faust, Goethe) Men) (Mauriac’s novel, 3 films) (text, opera) Claudine from Colette Jasmine (Aladin) Marguerite Gautier (The Lady Pélisse (Loisel & Le Tendre’s Thérèse Raquin (Zola, 4 Arya Stark (Game of Thrones) Cléo (film, Agnès Varda) Jean Grey (X-men) of the Camellias, Alexandre comics La quête de l'oiseau films) Barb Wire (film) Consuelo (George Sand) Jessica Jones Dumas jr) du temps, The Quest of the Tornade (X-men, comics, Barbarella Cosette (les Misérables) Jo March (Little Women) Marquise de Merteuil (Les Bird of Time) films) Batgirl Dana Scully (X-Files) Juliette (Romeo and Juliette) Liaisons dangereuses, Piper (Orange is the new Trinity (Matrix) Beatrice Prior (Divergent, Dr. Queen, medicine woman and derived films as for Maria Dangerous Liaisons) black) Vampira from Veronica Roth, novel, Elektra in West Side Story Martha (Who’s Afraid of Poison Ivy (Batman) Varla (Faster, Pussycat Kill film) Ellen Ripley (Alien) Katniss Everdeen (The Hunger Virginia Woolf ?, play, film) Princess of Clèves Kill) Beatrix Kiddo (Kill Bill) Emma Bovary (Madame Games) Mary Poppins Punky Brewster Venexiana Stevenson Beauty (Beauty and the Bovary) Lady Snowblood (film) Mathilda (Léon) Raiponce (Tangled) (Corto Maltese) Beast) Emma Peel (The Avengers) Lady Vengeance (film, Korea) Mathilda (Roald Dhal) Rosemary (Rosemary's Baby) Veronica Mars Bécassine Esmeralda (Notre-Dame de Lara Croft Meredith Grey (Grey’s Roxane (Edmond Rostand’s Wendy (Peter Pan) +Tinker Betty Boop Paris) Laura (film) Anatomy) Cyrano de Bergerac, play, Bell Black Widow (Avengers) Eugénie Grandet (Balzac) Laureline (comics, Valérian) Michonne (The Walking film, song) White Snow Blanche DuBois (A Tram Falbala (Astérix) Laurie Strode (Halloween) Dead) Samantha (Bewitched) Winnie (Happy Days, Named Desire) Fantômette LeeLo (The Fifth Element) Mindy Lahiri (series The Sanseverina (Gina Del Dongo’ Samuel Beckett’s play) Bridget Jones Fiancée de Frankenstein Leia Organa Solo (Star Wars) Mindy Project) nickname in Stendhal, The Wonder Woman Buffy (Frankenstein’s Fiancée) Lisa Simpson (The Simpsons) Miss Marple (Agatha Christie, Charterhouse of Parma) Xena, the warrior woman Carmen (short story, opera, Fifi Brindacier + Marge with also Prudence Petitpas, Sarah Connor (Terminator 2) Yoko Tsuno (comics) film) Fiona (Shrek) Lisbeth Salander (Millenium) “Miss Marple of comics”) Scarlett O’Hara (Gone with Yu Jiao Long (Dragons and Carmen Cru (commics) Fleur-de-Marie (The Mystères Little Red Riding Hood Mistress Branican (Jules the Wind) Tigers) Caroline Chérie (film) de Paris) Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov) Verne’s novel) Schtroumpfette (comics) Yvonne (Le Grand Carrie (novel, films) Furiosa (Mad Max) Lucy (film, Besson) Mortelle Adèle (comics) Seccotine (comics Spirou & Meaulnes) Casca, from the manga Gilda (film) Lucy Ricardo (series I Love Mrs Dalloway (1925) Virginia Fantasio) Zazie (Queneau, Zazie in the Berserk, Kentaro Miura Giselle, from the ballet Lucy) Woolf Sheherazade Metro) Cathrine Trammel (Basic Gretel (Hansel & Gretel) M (James Bond) Mulan Instinct) SECRET AND FORBIDDEN PLACES (Lieux secrets et interdits) Discover secret places in the world, where access is generally forbidden

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Push the door of an unknown and/or A rather unusual theme. forbidden world Can you place geographically Sentinel Islands? A selection of curious and Do you know where atomic secrets or deadly unknown places to depart from the beaten tracks. Series: single viruses are kept? What do the great museums Code: 6229141 storehouses contain? What do data centers Retail price: 24.95€ hide? Do you know that there is a forbidden Publication date: 23/10/2019 A theme appealing to room in Pompei? curiosity. Format: 23 x 28 cm Nb of pages: 216 There are numerous places, all around the Nb of illustrations: world, that you cannot reach for economical, Binding: Hard cover with jacket Nb of characters: 300,000 military, scientific reasons or for nature Audience: All public preservation, or simply because they are reserved to initiates. Author(s): Johann Protais and Eloi Rousseau teach history. They already wrote many titles for Larousse. This book opens the doors and let you know their secrets. General Knowledge SECRET AND FORBIDDEN PLACES

III) Deserted locations and lost cities I) Top secret . Cities in ruin (Tikal Mayans Ruins, Angkor, Great Zimbabwe, Palmyra) . Secret bunkers (PC Jupiter, Stalin's bunker, Mount Weather . Ghost towns (ghost towns in the US; Centralia, the town that’s always in the US). Secret military bases. on fire; Rhyolite and the Gold Rush; Villedieu in Doubs, France) . Watch out, they are spying on us! (ECHELON surveillance . Deserted locations (Parisian subway stations, Moscou subway, the program bases, RAF Minworth based in Harrogate, etc.) Bouzloudja monument in Bulgaria) . Military wrecks (Sonoran desert, French National Navy boat . Buried cities (Santorini, Pompeii, Saint-Pierre de la Martinique) graveyard, Murmansk, French ship Minerve) . Submerged location (Pavlopetri, Greek city from bronze age; Port Royal . Atomic secrets (Albion plateau missiles, Île Longue) In Jamaica) . In the Intelligence Agency’s den (location and history of . The last unknown worlds (North Sentinel Island, remote locations) different intelligence agencies: MI6, KGB, CIA, etc.) . Prison and politics (the Gulag Archipelago, Guantanamo) . Borders (the 51st parallel, the border between North and IV) For members only Sough Koreas, United Nation Buffer Zone in Cyprus, Kashmir) . Nuclear test sites (Algeria, Bikini Atoll, Moruroa Atoll, . Holy of holies (Temple in Jerusalem, Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion in Ethiopia, the Kaaba) Novaya-Zemlya) . Places of power (La Lanterne in Versailles, Camp David, Russian dachas, Castel Gondolfo) . Military forbidden islands (Spratly islands, Paracel islands) . The Forbidden cities in Asia (from the Forbidden Purple City in Hue to Zhongnanhai, the headquarters of the Communist Party of China; the Tokyo Imperial Palace, residence of the Emperor of Japan) II) Careful, there are treasures here! . For adults only! Erotic places (the forbidden room in Pompei, Catherine The Great’s secret erotic cabinet, the Parisian brothels, Herbertstraße in Hambourg) . Great museums’ storerooms (Louvre’s storerooms, Musée . Secret meetings and private societies (Automobile Club de France, English societies, etc.) du Quai Branly’s treasures) . VIP only! (inaccessible palaces) . The treasures of Cinema (French cinema archives in the Fort . Secret societies’ locations (Freemasonry, Skulls, Carrefour de l’Horloge or Club de l’Horloge) de Bois-d’Arcy or in the Congress library) . Precious libraries (BNF, Congress library) . Vatican’s secrets (Vatican secret archives, Hell) V) The significant places of Science . Ingots and banknotes (Bank of France’s vault, Société Générale central agency’s vault, the FED in New York) . Digital world, the data centers (China, the world database; Google’s data center) . Sunken treasures (Chinese junks, galleons, etc.) . Humanity heritage (Svalbard Global Seed Vault, natural reserve forbidden to humans, Mormon . Lost treasures (Buddhas of Bamyan, the Amber Room, genealogy records) Assyrian Cherubim, etc.) . Research stations in Antarctica (Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Concordia station) . Expensive old wrecks (the 1925 Brescia Bugatti found in . Space (Baikonur Cosmodrome, Cap Canaveral, Soyuz, Kourou) Lake Geneva, the USS Lexington) . Highly confidential scientific locations. (the P4 Laboratory in Lyon, telescopes, Cadarache, etc.) . The world most beautiful mines (the vastest, the most . Contaminated locations (Pripyat, Chernobyl, Fukushima, etc.) dangerous, etc.) General Knowledge SECRET AND FORBIDDEN PLACES General THE WORLD OF SECRET Knowledge AND FORBIDDEN PLACES LET’S TALK ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT! (Parlons environnement !) Find answers to your questions, even the most tricky ones!

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Let’s take a closer look at the environment. • Environment: one of the Find an answer to each one of your questions, major questions of our even the most tricky ones! time. • A pertinent and accurate What will our world look like in a few years ? reflexion in a dynamic and What are the real problem induced by the accessible style. pollution, climate disruption, the decline of bio diversity? • A book accessible to young Series: Single adults as well as older Code: 5286357 And what is the real weight of lobbies in the people. Retail price: 16,95 € matter? Publication date: 23/09/2019

Format: 14 × 22.5 cm Rodolphe Meyer, aware of these questions, Nb of pages: gives around 50 clear and instructive answers Nb of illustrations: to the contemporary questions in matter of Binding: Soft cover Nb of characters: environment. Energy, air and plastic pollutions, Audience: All public, school public climate, endangered and extinct species, are deciphered here, with the help of key figures Author(s): Rodolphe Meyer is an and infography. ingeneer and a PhD in environment sciences. His scientific background allows him to analyse and decipher accurately the great challenges of environment while distinguishing spreading myths. LET’S TALK ABOUT GEOPOLITICS! (Parlons géopolitique!) Find answers to your questions, even the most tricky ones!

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You think that geopolitics is too complicated  Geopolitics, a strong for you?! This book shows that this is wrong contemporary topic and how geopolitics is your concern!  A book accessible to all Why are there two Koreas? What’s happening in to understand the world Venezuela? In a dynamic and accessible style, where we live. the author suggests 50 clear and precise answers to the most up-to-date questions of  50 major questions. Series: Single geopolitics, even the most tricky ones.  Code: 4538560 After a historical introduction to the sources of 30 maps. Retail price: 16,95 € Publication date: 20/08/2019 geopolitics and the world changes before the 20th century, the book: Format: 14 × 22.5 cm . Presents the major powers of the 21st century Nb of pages: 320 . Nb of illustrations: Analyzes the issues, continent by continent: Binding: Soft cover Europe and the question of the European Nb of characters: Union, Americas and North-South tensions, Audience: All public, school public Africa and the Middle-East… Author(s): Baptist Cornabas teaches . Wonders about the place of Asia, the world’s history. In 2011, he decided to create new heart a YouTube program on history that . Mixes geopolitics and the contemporary world became popular. He knows how to challenges: explain complex matters in a simple richness and poverty, global way. warming, virtual world, cyber space, grey matter… AFTER THE BERLIN WALL FELL… (Mur de Berlin, le monde d’après) 30 years later, the fall of the Berlin Wall still has consequences

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30 years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. This book  A flagship event in updates our knowledge about the changes it German and European brought. history. The author, Michel Meyer, was in Berlin on the  Unpublished records. 9th of November 1989. He witnessed this founding event from inside!  A relevant analysis. Series: Single Code: 5203182 What happened afterwards? Which Europe Retail price: 16,95 € was born after the Wall fell? How can we  An author, journalist at Publication date: 20/08/2019 understand it nowadays? that time in Berlin, who became a consultant in Format: 14 × 22.5 cm Unpublished records of male and female international strategy. Nb of pages: 288 politicians who witnessed this fall are Nb of illustrations: Binding: Soft cover included in the book. Nb of characters: An analysis of the circumstances and the Audience: All public, school public consequences of the Berlin Wall fall made by Author(s): Michel Meyer was a one of the most relevant witnesses. journalist and editor-in-chief for the French radio and TV national services, A new way of looking at the European permanent correspondent for Eastern situation and its future. and Western Germany, Poland and Denmark. He has been, for 2008, Inside the book, an insert with about 20 consultant in international strategy photos. and economic intelligence for Germany, Russia, and East Europe. PETIT LAROUSSE OF WORLD HISTORY (Petit Larousse de l’histoire du monde en plus de 8 000 dates) In over 8,000 dates

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• A chronology of over 8,000 dates that have • A new edition including marked the history of the world the latest international events • Gathered in 6 main periods • A very educational work, • A summary of each period: the main political, accessible to all, that meets cultural and social events. a strong demand in Series: Petit Larousse of reference history books. Code: 4468512 • A commented and ordered presentation of Retail price: 19,95 € • An annotated chronology Publication date: 14/05/2019 the central facts and figures. helps the reader understand Format: 13 × 19 cm • A 32-page insert with 50 color maps (from the importance and the Nb of pages: 960 Duby works) to help place events in time and meaning of each event. Nb of illustrations: Binding: Hard cover locate places. Nb of characters: Audience: All public, school public • An over 20,000 names index, to easily find a kind, a treaty, a battle, a cultural fact, etc. Author(s): Collective

NEW EDITION ESSAYS THE EPIGENETICS REVOLUTION (L’Épigénétique, une revolution dans votre vie) We are able to modify our genes to meliorate our life and our descendants’ life

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Epigenetics: you will no longer be the victim of your genetic legacy!  A theme at the heart of the most recent Epigenetics is a science that studies the effects researches in biology. of environment on our genome (our genetic ID). It relies on the fact, for example, that  A way to understand monozygotic twins, who have the same better how our genetic genome, can be totally different physically, legacy works and why our Series: Single emotionally, and in their behavior. life is not written in Code: 8467683 advance thanks to our Retail price: 19.95 € genome Publication date: 17/04/2019 Epigenetics reveals that our genes are regularly modified by our beliefs, emotions,  The hope to create a Format: 14 x 22.5 cm attitudes and that these epigenetic alterations more efficient preventive Nb of pages: 304 are transmitted from one generation to the Nb of illustrations: medicine. other. Binding: soft cover  The hope to fight against Nb of characters: genetic fatality, and Audience: All audiences Therefore, it appears that, by adopting a good answer questions about lifestyle, we can change our genetic legacy and Author(s): Isabelle Mansuy, autism or psychologic neurogenetics professor at Zurich transmit the changes to the following troubles. University, Jean-Michel Guret, generations. psycho-therapist and founder of the French Institute of emotional and cognitive psycho-therapy, Alix Lefief- The book presents the last scientific Delcourt, journalist specialized in discoveries in this area in a clear and accessible well-being health. language. It adds numerous advice, examples and diagrams. General Knowledge THE EPIGENETICS REVOLUTION

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PART 1. THE GREAT HISTORY OF THE INFINITESIMALY PART 2. THE EPIGENETIC LEGACY: MECHANISMS SMALL: FROM GENETICS TO EPIGENETICS Chapter 4. How do genes express themselves of are silent Chapter 1: Genetics: genome as a little bit frozen code 1. From DNA to protein. Expressed or silent: the chromatin 1. Chromosomes and genetic legacy condensation 2. The DNA and the birth of molecular biology 2. The 3 main epigenetic mechanisms: DNA methylation, 3. The genome sequencing modification of basic proteins associated to DNA to form 4. Genetics does not explain everything… the basic structure of chromatin. 3. The decoding RNAs Chapter 2. Epigenetics: a genome but multiple 4. From causes to effects: which proves? possibilities 1. The source of epigenetics Chapter 5. How are epigenetic marks transmitted? The 2. Genome and epigenome: intimate and constant epigenetic legacy interactions 1. Plants epigenetic legacy. 3. Influences on the epigenome: environment matters. 2. The central role of germinal cells. 3. Reprogramming the epigenetic legacy: never perfect. Chapter 3. The epigenetic legacy 4. The transmission of stress and traumas: what mice teach 1. Programmed by our parents and grand-parents us: key role of mother care, consequences of stress, can 2. Pesticides: nasty effects transmitted to the future stress be positive. generations 3. Stress and traumas also transmissible Chapter 6. How to take care of our epigenome, for ourselves and our posterity 1. Towards a new lifestyle. 2. Environmental choices. 3. Freeing from our own and inherited traumas MATHEMATICS, A FABULOUS ADVENTURE (Dans le secret des mathématiques) Let mathematics talk to you simply!

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Mathematics are one of the most fascinating  A title aimed at a large adventures of the human mind! Let them talk public, from the most to you in a clear and easy way. curious to the most angry ones with mathematics. You’re edgy to mathematics? Allergic to equations or geometry? You’ve never  An easy way to explore a understood anything to the complexity of fascinating world. fractals, to the question of infinity, to the basis Series: Single of number pi? Code: 1464440  A good way to discover Retail price: 18.95 € Publication date: 29/01/2020 For most of us, mathematics are synonymous the updated researches of torture! Yet they are one of the most on topics that concern our Format: 14 x 22.5 cm extraordinary adventure of the human everyday life: algorithms, Nb of pages: 320 thought. artificial intelligence, Nb of illustrations: Binding: soft cover computer programing… Nb of characters: We just have to look at them with a renewed Audience: All audiences point of view, without preconception, to find that they are present everywhere in our daily Author(s): Ivan Kiriow has a PhD in science. Scientific journalist, he is life, and in common as well as unexpected keen to communicate the best of forms. science to a large public. He is the author for Larousse of Zapping des sciences (Miscellaneous of Science). This books invites you to (re)discover them. For sure, you’ll be seduced by maths! SHOULD WE BE AFRAID OF 5G? (Faut-il avoir peur de la 5G?) Questions around the upcoming of 5G technology on our mobiles

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Technological and commercial war, data • 5 G : a topic that impacts our spying, impact of new frequencies on human near future with the health and the environment… Should we fear opening of the market to the upcoming 5G? several operators. • To know everything about The upcoming new 5G technology for personal data surveillance. computers and mobile phones is producing a stream of questions. Should we worry about • Health, environment, daily Series: Single our health? Will it cause an uncontrolled life: a topic that intrests Code: 5615929 prapagation of noxious relay antenas? What everyone. Retail price: 17.95€ Publication date: 23/09/2020 feats or dangers are hidden behing the 5G technology? Will we be all be spied on with it? Format: 140 x 225 mm Nb of pages: 304 This book, written by an uncontested expert, Nb of illustrations: 0 Binding: Soft cover answers all the questions that we ask Nb of characters: ourselves, individually or collectively, with Audience: All public both a political point of view and that of the consumer. Author(s): Guy Pujolle computer ingeneer and international specialist of networks, is Professor at Paris 6 Know everything about 5G, separate fact and University and professor honoris fiction and be prepared with full knowledge… causa of Beijing BUPT University, member of the scientific Council of the Telecommunication lab of CNRS. His research concerns analysis and networks and protocoles modelling. DOES POWER CAUSE MADNESS? (Le Pouvoir rend-il fou?) An immersion inside our managers’ brain

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Omnipotence, high stress, isolation… When  The “Power and Brain” power corrupts the brain. topic: a popular theme.  At the crossroad of 4 Disconnection from reality, uncontrolled fields: neurosciences, communication, incomprehensible decisions, politics, business and scandals… Powerful people often make the medias, this book headlines of newspapers and social medias. What provides new is going on inside their brain? neuroscientific data. Series: Single Social vertigo and paranoid isolation, hyper- Code: 5012118 control and meltdowns, quick ascent and ruthless  A book written by an Retail price: 17.95€ Publication date: 02/01/2020 removal, this book studies the brain of powerful author with an extensive people (hormonal change, sense of impunity, knowledge, with the help Format: 140 x 225 mm deprived and/or altered areas of the brain, brain of several experts: 250 Nb of pages: assaults, poor cell renewal inducing autopilot, neuroscientists, Nb of illustrations: 0 failing memory, decrease of emotion). Binding: Soft cover neurobiologists, doctors, Nb of characters: At the crossroad of neurosciences, politics, psychologists and Audience: All public business and the medias, the book helps better powerful people Author(s): Erwan Devèze is a understand the impact of power on the brain and (businessman, politicians consultant in neurosciences, an suggests concrete solutions to have a healthier etc.). author and a lecturer. He already and happier relationship to power. published for Larousse 24 heures dans votre cerveau (24 Hours Inside Your Portraits of personalities such as Danone or Accor Brain) and 24 heures dans le cerveau CEO close each chapter but the book can be used de votre enfant (24 Hours Inside Your without. They can be partly deleted if necessary. Child’s Brain) MEN ARE SENSITIVE AS WELL (Les Hommes aussi viennent de Vénus) How to get out of stereotypes on masculinity and look at the NEW contemporary man

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How to get out of certain masculinity clichés! • The new masculinity: a trendy topic. In the West, women have gained an • An opposite view to the unprecedented position and in spite of some recent « Men are porks » well-worn speeches, it’s now rather on the speech: since #MeToo, men side that we have a problem. men became scapegoats Too floppy, too sensitive, not enough or too • Hints to get out of the much male, too harsh, aggressive… Accused to stereotypes and show that be dominant as soon as they are born, they are masculinity is not where Series: Single rarely what we expect them to be. we think it is. Code: 4088108 Retail price: 16.95 € • Une auteure solide This book explains how this situation Publication date: 08/09/2020 régulièrement interviewée Format: 140 mm × 225 mm happened and invites us to get out of the dans les médias Nb of pages: 240 caricature and of the double binds. Nb of illustrations: 0 Binding: Soft cover Nb of characters: 250,000 The author shows that masculinity is not where Audience: all public we put it and proposes new educational models, more respectful of each one’s Author: Christine Castelain-Meunier is a sociologist and a researcher for personnality. CNRS and EHESS and teaches at the Psychologist Practioners School. She is well-known for her works on masculinity and feminity in France and abroad. THE ART OF LYING (L’Art du mensonge) Are we all liars ?

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A trip in the art of lying  Lying is everywhere, it Are we all compulsive liars? even became a “mark of intelligence”. At the time of the internet and fake news, the frontier between reality and fiction as become  Social little lies are a so tenuous and so porous that lie has invaded common practice, our lives. accepted and encouraged. Series: Single In the political world, of course, but also in the Code: 2719590 economic and scientific areas, and in our Retail price: 17.95€  Disclosing its main Publication date: 22/04/2020 personal lives, with the unpleasant idea that “everybody lies”. mechanisms is a good Format: 140 x 225 mm way to understand our Nb of pages: 288 Slightly provocative and transgressive, this world. Nb of illustrations: 0 book breaks down the mechanisms of lie and Binding: Soft cover reveals how lying, far from being a noble Nb of characters: Audience: All public activity, can also become an art!

Author(s): Catherine Monroy, former journalist, is a screenwriter for the television. She was also Parliamentary attaché at the Senate. A route where truth and lie are tightly linked. HOW TO AVOID EMOTIONAL BURN-OUT (La Charge affective: comment éviter le burn-out émotionnel) The keys to anticipate affective overload

DESCRIPTION KEY ARGUMENTS What if mental exhaustion would come from the difficulty to manage affect excesses ?  The affective load, altogether emotional, The affective load includes everything we feel. sensitive and relational, The more involved, eager and empathic we Series: Single affects all the dimensions Code: 5012365 are, the greater this load is. When of the everyday life of Retail price: 14.95 € relationships are difficult, this load becomes an both men and women: Publication date: overflowing and tiresome overload of relationships, love, emotions and feelings. Format: 135 x 215 mm friendship, children Nb of pages: 250 In order to avoid emotional stress and burn- education, etc. Nb of illustrations: 0 out, this book gives the keys to understand Binding: Soft cover  The way to avoid Nb of characters: the mechanisms that lead to this overload, to Audience: All public recognize the signs (anger, irritability, emotional burn-out: keys insomnia, tiredness, etc.) and to develop our to anticipate overload Author(s): Author and psychoanalyst, and better know his Saverio Tomasella wrote around 20 emotional management skills. books. He has PhD in Psychopathology resources and limits. and Psychoanalysis, and is the founder Knowing our skills, resources and limits, of the Research and Studies Center of developing our kindness, empathy and  Expert authors. Psychoanalysis, he created the altruism, while being able to get rest, sort Observatory of Hypersensitivity things out and delegate on the emotional level (Midal) and the Association of Hypersensitive people. make it possible to have a smoother and more Charlotte Wils studied coaching fulfilling social life. This is what this book is techniques, NLP and systemic and about. strategic therapy at the Palo Alto School, and is specialized in hypersensitivity. THE WEIGHT OF FAMILY SECRETS (Chez nous, ça s’dit pas!) Family secrets, although hidden for generations, represent a heavy burden…

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Incest, rape, bankruptcy, suicide etc. are Family secrets: a very secrets often carefully hidden in the family. important topic in our lives. For a long time, silence has been considered a  The author: a well-known mark of tact and dignity. These secrets are psychologist. nevertheless significant and their weight goes through time from one generation to the next.  An essay to go back to the So many unsaid things have been burried but origins of family secrets and the secret has an underground impact, in the the way they impact our Single , even several Series: form of a repetition or other psychosomatic lives Code: 1501495 generations later. Retail price: 14.95 € reactions. Publication date: 08/09/2020  - It provokes unexplained symptoms: pains, Hints to free ourselves Format: 135 mm × 215 mm from this weight. Nb of pages: 288 diseases, addictions, depression, deadly Nb of illustrations: 0 thoughts… A pedagogical approach Binding: Soft cover - Without being conscious, we can repeat the through Nb of characters: 300,000 real life cases Audience: all public same family patterns and the same dramas as analyzed. the ones that our parents or grandparents  Author: Yvonne Poncet-Bonissol is a suffered from. An accessible style for clinician psychologist specialist of every one. family relationshships and president This book explores these mechanisms with of the Association against moral which these secrets are transmitted, how they harassment. Alix Lefief-Delcourt is a journalist. impact our lives and mainly how to get rid of them and free ourselves. PATERNAL’S INSTINCT (L’Instinct paternel) Men too have a right to undertake parenhood!

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Plea for a happy and endorsed fatherhood. • A investigation on the evolution of paternity While mother instinct has been glorified for a today. long time, paternal instinct has often been denied. • An plea for this « new » paternity type and 10 ingle Series: S At a time when women ask men to share more practical suggestions to Code: 6945956 and more family responsibilities, when family Retail price: 16.95 € help. Publication date: 10/09/2019 patterns are changing and when positive education opens new horizons, it is the high • A book that mixes several Format: 13.5 x 20.1 cm time to redefine the father’s role and shake Nb of pages: 224 disciplines: philosophy, Nb of illustrations: the stereotypes. sociology, psychology, Binding: soft cover neurosciences and Nb of characters: This book is based on a survey on the father’s anthropology. Audience: All audiences role evolution and on the way his new Author(s): Christine Castelain- evolvement works. Meunier is a sociologist at the National center of Scientific Research A plea to encourage these « new » fathers. and at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. She teaches at the Psychology Practitioners’ School. She 10 efficient and simple ideas to succeed in this is well known for her works on project. masculine and feminine genders. She has written about 12 books, some of them translated in several countries. THE TRULY POSITIVE EDUCATION (L’Éducation vraiment positive) How to find balance to get radiant children as well as happy parents?

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How to find balance to get radiant children as  An essay that goes partly well as happy parents? against the main stream of positive education Positive education definitely has a lot of positive aspects. Besides, it :  A sharp, thorough and . Promotes an ideal that can seem subtle analysis (for all unattainable, that this is not about . Increases the women’s mental load going back to the good Series: Single old authoritarianism!) Code: 6460316 . Often requires significant financial resources Retail price: 14,95 € Publication date: 04/09/2019 The author points out the necessity to Format: 140 mm × 205 mm question this new education dogma and go for Nb of pages: 224 a more balanced option. Nb of illustrations: . Where does positive education come from? Binding: Soft cover Nb of characters: 220,000 . What kind of parents is it addressed to? . Is positive education scientifically based? Audience: Parents . How to distinguish between a new credo and Author: Béatrice Kammerer is a the necessity to think the relationship between journalist (Slate, Sciences humaines), parents and children differently? expert on education issues. . How to find balance for both parents and children to be happy? How to approach conflicts between them? FREE YOURSELF FROM THE DOGMA OF POSITIVE PARENTING! (Non coupables! Se libérer des injonctions de la parentalité positive)

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Stop to the “perfect family” dictature!  A book freeing parents of guilt and denouncing When all the positive parenting gurus blame the effects of the parents for being responsible of all the pains positive parenting and miseries of their children, this book conforming speeches questions the concept of positive parenting.  A quirky book with Series: Single It is not trying to justify child rearing violence sketches staging Code: 7410179 situations parents will Retail price: 14.95 € but to stop parents from feeling guilty by Publication date: 02/10/2019 analyzing the so-called miraculous methods recognize used nowadays to explain their failure. Format: 135 mm × 215 mm  A book written in the Nb of pages: 200 form of an anti-manual Nb of illustrations: 0 This book will intend to point out what’s Binding: Soft cover wrong in our society and give non guilt- with tips that can be Nb of characters: 350,000 inducing anti-advice. used in real life! Audience: Parents Author: Vincent Joly is a psychologist and a psychotherapist specialized in childhood, adolescence and parenting support who lives in Paris. He teaches clinical psychology at the University Paris V and publish on several referenced website dedicated to psychology and psychoanalysis: paradoxa and psy-endant.fr. Aude Sécheret is a literary translator and a single parent. LIFE AFTER DEATH. WHY YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE IT. (La vie après la mort. Pourquoi il faut y croire) The scientific proofs of the survival of consciousness.

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Life after death: what science knows. • A scientific approach on the « life after death » topic. Although death remains a taboo, 52% of the • Based on 45 years of body Europeans believe that there is a life after exit, mediumship, former death. lives, IME experiments and on the most recent studies. In this book, for the first time, the authors have Series: Single gatered 45 years of scientific studies and • A complete panorama of all 5480711 Code: testimonies on the topic. the strange phenomenons Retail price: 16.95€ Publication date: 08/04/2020 appearing around death. They present a comprehensive picture of the • Authors coming from the Format: 140 x 225 mm various experiments made between life and Nb of pages: 340 death (IME, body exit, mediumship, former medicine, psychiatry and Nb of illustrations: 0 psychology area. Binding: Soft cover lives…) and they answer point-to-point to Nb of characters: sceptical argumentation. • A message of hope for all Audience: All public those frightened by death By 99%, these studies support the hypothesis of Author(s): Olivier Chambon is a that changes our way to see physician and a psychotherapist- the independance of individual consciousness life. psychiatrist. PhD in neurosciences, he from the brain. Therefore, consciousness worked on behavior and cognitive survives death. therapies for psychotics, wrote books and newspaper articles on psychotherapies, altered states of consciousness, Death is only a change in the state of experiences near death. consciousness and there’s no matter to be Marie-Odile Riffard is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist. afraid of it! NOVELS SAINTONGE STREET, 30 (30, rue de Saintonge) An historical thriller, taking place during the French Revolution

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During the French Revolution, in the Terror • A mix between fiction and time, a young lieutenant dives right into a History : this book reveals diabolic conspiracy that hides a terrible an unknown but true scandal. secret of State. An historical thriller on a State secret • An immersion in the unknown from a large public and unveiled in French Revolution, a true the book. taste of it! Series: Single June 1794. Massacres, executions, murders, • Written in a colorful style Code: 5012611 using 18th century words Retail price: 15.95 € rapes… the Great Terror cause a bloodshed in Publication date: 08/04/2020 the French territory. Axel, a young lieutenant and expressions and of the famous ParisDragoon Regiment, colorful language to Format: 140 x 205 mm narrowly escapes the guillotine. He is attracted recreate the revolution Nb of pages: 320 Nb of illustrations: 0 towards Arras by the sinister Le Bon, atmosphere. Binding: Soft cover Robespierre’s damned soul. His mission : find • A breathtaking story, with Nb of characters: his former captain charged with treason. Audience: All public its final twist. From sordid jails to crummy hostels, from • A novel for all public, not Author(s): Françoise Dag’Naud is a secret meetings to nefarious encounters, he French teacher. She taught in France only history fans. as abroad. She wrote Lieux insolites et will have to twart the traps on his route and secrets de Normandie (Secret and discover a secret that concerns one of the Bizarre Places of Normandy) and highest figures of the Revolution: writes detective short stories.. Robespierre’s homosexuality. BREAK-UP, TAROT AND JAM (Rupture, tarot et confiture) When Camille is released by her partner, she has only one idea: revenge…

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For 4 years, Camille, a 30-year-old free-lance  A feel good novel in line film director, lived in the shadow of her with Bridget Jones’s talented but overly narcissistic scriptwriter Diary: a main female boyfriend Eric until he discarded her like a character to whom the used Kleenex! reader can identify with. Forced to start over (she lives in a small,  shabby studio, and does the cover of the This book is a series of Series: Single funny moments and jokes Code: 6561509 intercommunal tournament of a children’s Retail price: 14.95 € team from an unknown provincial city), she where Camille acts as a Publication date: 21/01/2020 decides to revenge and ruin his life (she stalks ridiculous, shameless and limitless girl. Format: 140 x 205 mm him on social medias, etc.). Nb of pages: 200 Nb of illustrations: 0 She will go through a series of experiences:  A well written, funny and Binding: Soft cover personal development lessons, meeting with dynamic novel from an Nb of characters: an extravagant fortune teller, stay at her author who is also a Audience: All public mom’s house in the North of France, shamanic scriptwriter. Author(s): Born in Belgium, Céline retreat in the French department of the Holynski is a popular actress, scriptwriter Creuse, swinger’s club on a shoot in Mexico… for television and video creator. From to finally understand that trying to destroy her Polish origin, she still speaks Polish with her mother. ex’s life is actually ruining hers… Until she meets her new crush/boyfriend, Erwan, a restaurant owner who has opened a tea room and sells homemade jams. MY UNICORN LIFE (Ma vie de licorne) A unicorn’s life is no picnic…

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A funny graphic novel whose hero is • Unicorns: a very trendy a unicorn girl. topic, not only for children or teenagers. She tells her story, with all its disappointments, from the most absurd mythologic beliefs to its • A funny and entertaining candy-colored emoticon. book.

Series: Single She deals in an humoristic way with narcissism, • A talented author- Code: 6622917 philosophy, psychoanalysis, poetry… illustrator. Retail price: 14.95 € Publication date: 02/10/2019 From a shopping session to a party with her pal Format: 185 x 230 mm Pegasus, from her meeting with her Nb of pages: 80 psychologist to her love stories, over 80 Nb of illustrations: Binding: Soft cover drawings full of fun and humor on the life of a Nb of characters: unicorn that looks very similar to a human Audience: All public being’s life…

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