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27 février 2008

Black Swan

Black Swan
Black Swan, by Nassim Taleb Four hundred years ago, Francis Bacon warned that our minds are wired to deceive us. "Beware the fallacies into which undisciplined thinkers most easily fall--they are the real distorting prisms of human nature." Chief among...
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29 août 2007

Voices from S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot's Secret Prison

Voices from S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot's Secret Prison
Voices from S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot's Secret Prison, by David CHandler During the reign of the Khmer Rouge, S-21 was used as the prison, interrogation centre, and finally, the place of execution for several thousand Cambodians who were suspected...
18 août 2007

First Century After Beatrice

First Century After Beatrice
First Century After Beatrice, by Amin Maalouf This is a story about gender and population politics set in the first decades of the 21st century. In this elegant novel, a popular drug ensures women will give birth only to boys which has sharply reduced...
17 août 2007

Balthasar Odyssey

Balthasar Odyssey
Balthasar's Odyssey, by Amin Maalouf This book is the story of Balthasar, a merchant from a Genoan family long resident in the Levant. His trade is books and curios; in 1665 he heads off on a journey that leads him across Europe in pursuit of a rare book,...
8 juillet 2007

Une vie Française

Une vie Française
Une Vie Française, de Jean-Paul Dubois, Poche. Voici l’histoire de la vie de Paul Blick. Qui se confond avec celle de la cinquième République Française. Une France qui crut à de Gaulle après 1958 et à Pompidou après 68, s'offrit à Giscard avant de porter...
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6 mars 2007

Pity the Nation

Pity the Nation
Pity the Nation, by Robert Fisk Written by one of Britain 's foremost journalists, this remarkable book combines political analysis and war reporting in an unprecedented way: it is an epic account of the Lebanon conflict by an author who has personally...
17 février 2007

Blink

Blink
Blink, The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, by Malcolm Gladwell Have you ever wondered why love at first sight, so seemingly ill-advised, sometimes works out for the long-term? Malcolm Gladwell may have the answer. In Blink, Gladwell asserts that snap...
17 janvier 2007

Voyage au bout de la nuit

Voyage au bout de la nuit
Voyage au bout de la nuit, de Louis-Ferdinand Céline Voyage au bout de la nuit est une biographie romancée de Céline. Ferdinand Bardamu, héros du roman et double de l’auteur, raconte sa vie, ses vagabondages. À la suite d'un défilé militaire, Bardamu...
16 janvier 2007

The End of Poverty

The End of Poverty
. The End of Poverty, by Jeffrey Sachs In the late 1990s, aid officials — keen to revive the global fight against poverty — came up with a novel strategy. They proposed to both developed and developing countries that, rather than vague commitments in...
11 janvier 2007

Samarcande

Samarcande
Samarcande, de Amin Maalouf Avec Samarcande, Amin Maalouf nous offre une biographie romancée d’un homme génialement talentueux : Omar Kayyam. Ceci à partir d’un manuscrit égaré lors des invasions mongoles et retrouvé des siècles plus tard. Omar Kayyam...
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