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The Sweet Spot (2021)
The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning
Sortie : 2 novembre 2021 (États-Unis). Essai, Version originale
livre de Paul Bloom
Résumé · Why do we so often seek out physical pain and emotional turmoil? We go to movies that make us cry, or scream, or gag. We poke at sores, eat spicy foods, immerse ourselves in hot baths, run marathons. Some of us even seek out pain and humiliation in sexual role-play. Where do these seemingly... Voir plus
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Motherland (2021)
A Feminist History of Modern Russia, From Revolution to Autocracy
Sortie : 21 octobre 2021 (États-Unis). Essai, Histoire
livre de Julia Ioffe
Résumé · In 1990, seven-year-old Julia Ioffe and her family fled the Soviet Union. Nearly twenty years later, Ioffe returned to Moscow—only to discover just how much Russian society had changed while she had been living in America. The Soviet women she had known growing up—doctors, engineers,... Voir plus
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Warnings
Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes
Sortie : 25 juillet 2017 (France).
livre de A.Richard Clarke et R.P. Eddy
Éditeur
A Book of American Martyrs (2017)
Sortie : 7 février 2017 (États-Unis). Roman, Version originale
livre de Joyce Carol Oates
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Lara
The Untold Love Story and the Inspiration for Doctor Zhivago
Sortie : 24 janvier 2017 (France).
livre de Anna Pasternak
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Ce qui gît dans ses entrailles (2016)
Heat and Light
Sortie : 30 mars 2017 (France). Roman
livre de Jennifer Haigh
Résumé · La petite ville de Bakerton, en Pennsylvanie, s’est assoupie depuis la fermeture de ses mines de charbon. Mais l’équilibre tranquille de cette communauté bascule lorsqu’un grand groupe industriel, Dark Elephant, propose aux fermiers de louer leurs terres pour en extraire un trésor enfoui : le gaz... Voir plus
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Against Empathy
The Case for Rational Compassion
Sortie : 6 décembre 2016 (France).
livre de Paul Bloom
Éditeur
The Terranauts (2016)
Sortie : 25 octobre 2016 (États-Unis). Roman, Version originale
livre de T. C. Boyle
Résumé · Linda is desperate to be one of the lucky eight chosen to take part in the world's most ambitious ecological experiment. She knows that she can survive two years under the glass dome of Ecosphere II. Competition is fierce between the hopefuls, among them smooth-talking PR man Ramsay, and Dawn, a... Voir plus
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I Contain Multitudes
The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
Sortie : 9 août 2016 (France).
livre de Ed Yong
Résumé · Joining the ranks of popular science classics like The Botany of Desire and The Selfish Gene, a groundbreaking, wondrously informative, and vastly entertaining examination of the most significant revolution in biology since Darwin—a “microbe’s-eye view” of the world that reveals a marvelous,... Voir plus
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The Muse (2016)
Sortie : 26 juillet 2016 (Royaume-Uni). Roman, Version originale
livre de Jessie Burton
Résumé · On a hot July day in 1967, Odelle Bastien climbs the stone steps of the Skelton gallery in London, knowing that her life is about to change forever. Having struggled to find her place in the city since she arrived from Trinidad five years ago, she has been offered a job as a typist under the... Voir plus
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Alibaba
The House that Jack Ma Built
Sortie : 12 avril 2016 (France). Biographie
livre de Duncan Clark
Résumé · An engrossing, insider’s account of how a teacher built one of the world’s most valuable companies—rivaling Walmart & Amazon—and forever reshaped the global economy. In just a decade and half Jack Ma, a man from modest beginnings who started out as an English teacher, founded and built Alibaba... Voir plus
