A Selection of French Titles 2020 – 2021 2020 Non- Fiction A Selection of French Titles 2020 – 2021 2020 Non- Fiction For further information Claire Mauguière [email protected] +33 (0)1 44 41 13 02 Translation Anna Howell Graphic Conception Line Célo Printed by Graphiprod March 2020 This catalogue has been published by BIEF – Bureau International de l’Édition Française 115, Boulevard Saint-Germain 75006 Paris – France T. +33 (0)1 44 41 13 13 F. +33 (0)1 46 34 63 83 www.bief.org/[email protected] Publication Director Nicolas Roche This publication received the support of the Ministère de la Culture and of the Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires étrangères BIEF is the professional association responsible for promoting French publishing on the international scene. Our activities serve our vocation: to encourage and develop trade between French and foreign publishers. Many French publishers of Non-Fiction (Human and Social Sciences, Law, etc.) have decided to present a selection of their books in this publication, both from their backlist and new titles, which they believe will interest 2 – 3 foreign publishers due to their subjects, authors, etc. As well as a short text about the book, you will find contact information for each publishing house and general information about the publisher’s list. This catalogue is intended for all those who are interested in French editorial production in the domain of Non-Fiction. The information provided here is also available on the BIEF website (www.bief.org). Publishers Actes Sud → 6 Adverbum → 10 Bayard Editions → 14 Calmann-Lévy → 18 Le Cavalier Bleu → 22 4 – 5 Des Femmes - Antoinette Fouque → 26 Desclée de Brouwer Groupe Elidia → 30 Editions de l’EHESS → 34 Fayard → 38 Grasset → 42 Editions de L’Herne → 46 Presses de l’Inalco → 50 Mama Editions → 54 Métailié → 58 Editions Odile Jacob → 60 Payot & Rivages → 64 Presses de Sciences Po → 68 Editions du Rocher Groupe Elidia → 72 Rue de l’Echiquier → 76 Le Seuil → 80 Editions du Signe → 84 Actes Sud Hubert Nyssen and Christine Le Bœuf, joined by Françoise Nyssen, Bertrand Py and Jean- Paul Capitani, founded Actes Sud in 1978 in the south of France and developed the company into a general publishing house. Far from Paris, Actes Sud also stands out thanks to its graphic identity and editorial choice to publish authors from all over the world. Actes Sud moved to Arles in 1983 and has since continued to grow while remaining independent. Driven by the desire to discover and share, its catalogue (with more than 13,000 titles) is mainly devoted to literature (translations from 60 different languages as well as French titles) and welcomes authors from all artistic disciplines. Place Nina-Berberova BP 90038 A Selection Titles of French 13633 Arles Cedex Contact France Nathalie Alliel T. +33 (0)4 90 49 86 91 Rights Assistant www.actes-sud.fr [email protected] The Art of False Generosity into the child’s brain and, through Essays Lionel Astruc this repetition, become even more deeply ingrained. What started out 2019 / 128 pages as encoding becomes a little 9782330118778 / 13 € autonomous network that will be The very epitome of wealth and activated at a later date. an information technology giant, Extremely rich in information and Bill Gates has also become an icon concrete examples, practical of philanthropy in recent years. exercises and games that are easy Major media outlets regularly to implement in everyday life, refer to him as the archetype of this book covers a wide range generosity. But behind this apparent of subjects, including emotions about-face, Bill Gates’ philanthropic and beliefs, memory functioning, work is actually a tool for thought hygiene and the importance multinationals that are highly of physical engagement. detrimental to the environment, 6 – 7 health and social justice. Sometimes it even benefits Bill Gates’ own The Tastes and Colors economic interests. This book makes Essays of the World a convincing case by following the Marc-André Selosse cash flows that fuel the so-called 2019 / 352 pages “charities” of the Bill and Melinda 9782330126773 / 24 Gates Foundation. € After Never Alone, which introduced us to the world of germs and Living Like a Bird their role in the lives of plants and Essays Vinciane Despret animals, Marc-André Selosse invites us to accompany him into the world 2019 / 224 pages of tannins. These molecules 9782330126735 / 20 € determine the tastes and colors What does a territory look like of the world, but what are they from an animal’s perspective? and how do they work? By calling Vinciane Despret endeavors to upon the power of observation and answer that question alongside the excitement it incites, this work ornithologists. is a reminder of sensory pleasure For the subject that interests him and how our senses help us to the most is the birth and understand our environment. development of scientists’ interest in birds. Little Handbook of Essays Contemporary Resistance The Enlightened Parents’ Cyril Dion Essays Guide to the Brain 2018 / 160 pages Stéphanie Brillant 9782330101442 / €15 2019 / 304 pages In this incisive and practical little 9782330123864 / 22 € book, the author of Tomorrow All experiences – both good and explores the nature and breadth bad – structure the brain. And the of the answer to the following earliest (from even before birth question: are we not facing an to the first years of life) are the most upheaval tantamount to a world fundamental. But although the brain war? Is it not necessary to organize is sensitive and fragile, it can also a resistance against the logic at be incredibly resilient. the heart of the massive and frenetic Repeated behaviors are encoded destruction of our ecosystems, like others fought against Nazi blueprint of capitalism as his ideas barbarism? But whom should we went on to infuse the entirety resist? Isn’t this logic within us as of modern liberal economic thought, well as around us? Resistance thus from Adam Smith to Friedrich becomes as much an act of internal Hayek. transformation as an act of societal engagement. Extending the Gift Essays Alain Caillé That Which Is Without 2019 / 336 pages Essays Exactly Being 9782330120900 / 22.80 Étienne Klein € Extending the Gift brings together 2019 / 176 pages and summarizes the majority of the Actes 9782330125530 / 13.99 € threads patiently woven over nearly Sud People generally say that the void forty years by Alain Caillé and is what remains after everything has his friends from the MAUSS (Anti- been removed. But if you removed utilitarian Movement in the Social absolutely everything, nothing would Sciences). For years, the MAUSS be left... not even a void. So can has criticized the rise in power you really create a void? When you of economism, countering it with come down to it, does the void really lessons that can be drawn from exist? The void has a whole world a powerful paradigm – the “gift” – as and history unto itself. Like time and presented in a work that is little- matter, it has haunted philosophers known by the general public, but and physicists, for whom it rarely has influenced numerous means the same thing. For the intellectuals and researchers: former, it has given rise to intense The Gift, by the anthropologist debates regarding nothingness and Marcel Mauss (1925). nonbeing going back to Antiquity. For the latter, the void is an object of experimentation whose existence was proven (at least of a certain void) in the mid-17th century and contributed to the birth of “modern” physics. Ever since, each new theory has put forward “its” void. Screw Your Neighbor Essays Dany-Robert Dufour 2019 / 192 pages 9782330127411 / €18 This essay is the result of the shocking realization that struck me when I came across a now-forgotten work: “An Enquiry into the Origin of Moral Virtue” by Bernard de Mandeville. In 1714, at the dawn of the first industrial revolution, A Selection Titles of French Mandeville, a philosopher and doctor, published this inflammatory essay along with his famous Fable of the Bees. This work is the hidden Adverbum Created in 1989, Adverbum is a publishing company with four imprints: — Editions Désiris (sciences, health, human sciences, sports) — Editions Le Sureau (food, way of life, regionalism) — Editions Grégoriennes (religion, mysticism, religious art) — Atelier Perrousseaux Editeur (typography, graphic design, page layout, semiology) Adverbum’s catalogue of 220 titles is enriched by approximately 20 new titles each year, all written by specialists. This eclectic production is meticulous and includes many reference books. Place Gavotte A Selection Titles of French 05000 Gap Contact France Milena Ascione T. +33 (0)4 92 66 63 53 Rights www.adverbum.fr [email protected] Correct Your Posture helps to prevent sprains. 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Thanks to its three reading a consultant in human biomechanics. levels, No-Risk Abs outlines precautions He developed the posture-dynamic to take while doing common and biomechanical approach of exercises and helps to identify the body in movement (EAD, the best approach depending on Empilement Articulaire the desired results.