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Luc Ferry

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Wisdom and madness of a world to come

Why do so many intellectuals indulge in that evil joy that is pessimism? Why do we no longer see the considerable progress made by our societies in terms of life expectancy, health and working ...

Wisdom and madness of a world to come

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Jean Arcelin

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You’ll see, you will be fine, mum

For the first time, the director of a retirement center for dependent elderly people (EHPAD) testifies For nearly three years, Jean Arcelin managed an EHPAD in the south of France, before giving ...

You’ll see, you will be fine, mum

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Marek Halter

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I dreamed of changing the world

What an incredible life! For the first time, Marek Halter traces back his remarkable destiny   Once upon a time… there was a young Jewish boy who was born in Warsaw a few years before the ...

I dreamed of changing the world

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Christian Jacq

These Women Who Created Egypt

AN ODE TO ANCIENT EGYPT AND TO WOMEN In These Women Who Created Egypt Christian Jacq shows us the fundamental role that women, famous or not, played throughout the history of Pharaonic Egypt. ...

These Women Who Created Egypt

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Muriel Robin

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Fragile

Are we going to all kill each other in this car? Mom is annoyed with everything, dad cannot calm her anymore, and my sisters just want to disappear. I am five years old and I have the intuition ...

Fragile

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José Frèches

Once Upon A Time In China

José Frèches, writer and passionate storyteller of the “country of the middle”, tells here the extraordinary story of China, its beauties and mysteries. How to understand today’s China without ...

Once Upon A Time In China

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Patrick Sébastien

And If We Were Kind

Kindness… It’s when a smile is the reflection of a tear, When the sound of a “I love you” covers an alarm ringing… I started this book with a poem. Whispering to you. You ...

And If We Were Kind

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Michel Vaujour

Love Saved Me From Sinking

A book of a rare power, on the meaning of life, the price of freedom and the strength of feelings. This is the story of a child abandoned at a very early age. Then the story of a teenager marked ...

Love Saved Me From Sinking

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Max Gallo

1914-1918

1914 & 1918: two crucial years during which the fate of the World was played out In 14 as in 18, the Germans are less than sixty kilometers from Paris. Each time, the patriotism and the ...

1914-1918

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Florence Henry

The Confinement

For a long time, Oceane was this curled upon herself child, who looked at no one and seemed to count the stars in the sky. At kindergarten, doctors and teachers were formal: the child is autistic ...

The Confinement

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Mike Horn

Antarctica

“Crossing Antarctica was my childhood dream. I decided to face this white immensity by following an unexplored itinerary, the longest that one could imagine: 5100 kilometers in an almost ...

Antarctica

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Solène Revol

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A little voice told me to keep losing weight

“I head for the scale: 33.8 kilos. I’ve lost some more weight, part of me is satisfied. But I’m also sad: if I keep losing weight I’ll have to stay in the hospital for a long time. And I ...

A little voice told me to keep losing weight

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