Title: In the Secret of Living Beings - Journey of a Biologist - Nicole Le Douarin - book Summary : Bernard Pivot: It's true that you are amazing! Nicole Le Douarin: I had no complexes, I dared. This is the story of a little girl from Brittany who became a great lady of biology. Nicole Le Douarin, a sought-after academic worldwide, professor at the Collège de France, and CNRS gold medalist, recounts her astonishing personal adventure for the first time in a unique scientific memoir. Born into a modest background, encouraged by her schoolteacher mother, she never stopped wanting to enter the world that fascinated her: research. Passionate, she managed to convince laboratory directors and university presidents—previously reluctant to hire women—to let her carry out her embryology experiments, explained here in a very educational manner. They would bring her international recognition. Chimeras, clones, stem cells... None of these major advances were foreign to her. The reader then discovers the scientific intuitions and immense perseverance of the biologist, and enters with her into the little-known behind-the-scenes of research. In an unexpected way, Nicole Le Douarin even makes us feel how "liberating" science is! As her two great friends, the philosopher Mona Ozouf and the historian Michelle Perrot, write in their admiring preface, the reader is invited to meet a true "princess of science." In the secret of living beings was voted best science book of 2012 by the editors of Read . EAN : 9782221111437 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Four Love Letters - Niall Williams - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782080674296 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Missing - Jonathan Valin - book Summary : Harry Stoner is hired by Cindy Dorn to find her friend Mason Greenleaf. They have lived together for several years, but before living with a woman, Mason shared the life of a man. His body is found in a hotel room. Suicide by a mixture of alcohol and barbiturates. He also bears signs of beatings. Stoner will try to discover what happened during the four days preceding his "suicide," which will lead him to rub shoulders with the homosexual community and its anxieties: society's view of him, police violence, illness, death, love and hate, revenge, etc. In sober and effective language, Missing in Action deals with a more than delicate subject: AIDS. It also speaks to us of love, tolerance and compassion but also of guilt, anti-gay racism and the fear of disease, all without complacency. Missing in Action, or how to live "harmoniously" in an intolerant and unjust society when one does not "conform to the norms" established by public morality. EAN : 9782070497690 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The only one of my race - Daysse-N - book Summary : "I turn off my phone. Lying on the bed, I spend a moment replaying the strange proposition that has just been made to me. I don't know if I should be happy about it, if I have the right to be happy about it. The woman who just called me wants to try to repair the enormous harm she caused me more than forty years ago. This woman simply abandoned me at birth. And I found her without her even looking for me." EAN : 9782810003471 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Well - Matthew McIntosh - book Summary : "Maybe not always, but often. Oh, it can happen to me anywhere. In front of my mailbox, or in the morning in my car when I leave for work: all of a sudden I get the thing - it's a impression rather than an image, a kind of sensation, like when you walk in the dark, avoiding bumping into furniture, There you go - the feeling of being at the bottom of a well." Imagine the Northwest United States ten years after the Kurt Cobain's suicide... Federal Way, a working-class suburb of Seattle. Coming from nowhere, bartender, boxer, computer scientist, fisherman, mother, imaginary rock star, bandit - lives in prey to the darkest impulses struggle desperately against the distress that afflicts them. Well, there are so many variations subtle on the major themes of everyday life: the unemployment, dependency, separation. Humanity will never had been embodied in a novel with "as much noise and fury. The torments and defeats of middle America are examined as signs and symptoms of disillusionment but also the hopes of a disillusioned society. “More than characters in a novel, the author describes beings with all their hopes, their dreams, their fears, their hatreds, their passions, their illusions and their power of reason which are part of the dilemma of the human species. This book is a reading pleasure, a wonderful human experience... It still resonates within me." EAN : 9782020613354 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Hold Firm Your Crown - Yannick Haenel - book Summary : A man has written a huge screenplay about the life of Herman Melville: The Great Melville, which no producer wants. One day, he is given the phone number of the great American filmmaker Michael Cimino, the legendary director of The Deer Hunter and Heaven's Gate. A meeting takes place in New York: Cimino reads the manuscript. A series of incredible adventures ensue between the Musée de la Chasse in Paris, Ellis Island off the coast of New York, and a lake in Italy. We meet Isabelle Huppert, the goddess Diana, a Dalmatian named Sabbat, a demonic neighbor, and two shady mustachioed men; there is also a pretty doctoral student, a devious concierge, and a very aggressive butler who looks like Emmanuel Macron. What truth glitters between cinema and literature? The comedy of our life hides a sacred story: this novel sets out to find it. EAN : 9782070177875 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The sea has all the time in the world - Bernard Cazaubon - book Summary : La mer a tout son temps (The Sea Has All Its Time) takes us into the world of two unsettling women: "Her queenly gait, her short black dress with an open back are to die for. Everything is perfect from the ankles to the nape of her neck. An indescribably demonic Asian woman like those in Kill Bill. A killer with a jet-black bun carrying death and erection. A shadow in a Quentin Tarantino fresco." She is the first woman that lawyer CAZANOVA is confronted with. "Maryline, she has no children, no alter ego, no more daddy-mommy. When it comes to guns, she's as good as the guys from RAID 33 in shooting competitions. And, at home, her husband does what she tells him to do, including dinner. Except when she calls to say she's eating elsewhere. That a woman like her who orders like a boss, who can shamelessly cheat on her husband as well as her lover, can experience a hidden love, a secret passion of a midinette, is simply incredible." This is the second woman. Two creatures of violence and impulses that fate brings face to face. And in the middle, a man in search of redemption. EAN : 9782354521721 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Christians - Volume 1 - The Soldier's Coat - Max Gallo - book Summary : In his new three-volume epic, Max Gallo recounts the birth of Christian France through three great figures: Martin, the first evangelist of Gaul; Clovis, converted barbarian, first great Christian king, who unified Gaul; Bernard, the great Cistercian founder who preached the Second Crusade. In the first part of this triptych, Julius and Antonius Galvinius, a tribune and his son, are at odds: supporters of two conflicting worlds, they attempt to convert each other, one to ancient tradition, the other to the new faith. They clash over the life of Saint Martin. Also torn between two worldviews, Martin chose to devote himself, in prayer and solitude, to his God. But this God decided otherwise: elected Bishop of Tours, Martin was called to convert and destroy pagan worship, armed with prayer and preaching. His discipline, the poverty of his subsistence, and the miracles he performed attracted a growing community around him, who soon recognized him as the first great Christian master. A worthy disciple of Martin, Antonius died a martyr after saving his father Julius from the hands of the barbarians. This sacrifice led the latter to replace him in his hermitage after rallying to the true faith. Martin, Clovis, Bernard: on these three foundation stones, Max Gallo recounts with strength and faith the birth of Christian France. EAN : 9782213613475 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Our Wild Years - Karen Joy Fowler - book Summary : "I was only five years old when she disappeared from my life, but I remember her. I remember her vividly: her smell, her touch, fragmented images of her face, her ears, her chin, her eyes. Her arms, her feet, her fingers." Once upon a time, there were two sisters, a brother, and their parents who lived happily together. Rosemary was a very talkative little girl, so talkative that her parents told her to start in the middle when telling a story. Then her sister disappeared. And her brother left. So, she stopped talking... until today. This is the story of this extraordinary family that Rosemary is going to tell you, and in particular that of Fern, her sister who is not quite like us... "There have been many books written about sibling love and rivalry, but few, I'm sure, can tear your heart out and shake you like this one... Prepare to be enchanted and traumatized." The Times "A touching portrait of an American family that raises unexpected questions and feelings: about humanity, psychology, and love in all its forms." Psychologies "It's been years since I've felt this passionate about a book. When I finished it at 3 a.m., I was crying, and then when I woke up, I reread the end and started crying again." Ruth Ozeki, author of At the same time, the whole earth and the whole sky EAN : 9782258118430 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: In your image - Louise L. Lambrichs - book Summary "Not a single man, I believe, would hesitate to sacrifice his soul to experience this miracle which I was given the opportunity to witness, which I was even given the opportunity to experience, a few minutes before he condemned me to death. Not a single man because all my actions, down to the last one, which should earn me the death penalty, I have accomplished out of love. A love which has inspired in me every curiosity and, it is true, every recklessness." Jean, a young doctor with a promising career, has married an older woman, Françoise. She wants a child and falls into a depressive state when she learns she is sterile. To avoid losing her, Jean is prepared to do anything. Starting from the theme of human cloning, Louise L. Lambrichs develops a plot that transcends the initial theme to highlight what underlies it: this blind force that since the dawn of time has made us seek, at any price, immortality – for ourselves and also, perhaps, for those we love. We find in In your image The purity of style and psychological subtlety that characterize Louise L. Lambrichs' novels. But the atmosphere of suspense maintained by the author until the last page undoubtedly makes this book her darkest novel. EAN : 9782879291543 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Titeuf, volume 6 - Tchô, cruel world - Zep - comic book Summary : There are more and more of us on the planet, so we have to squeeze together... I'm happy to squeeze together, especially if it's against Nadia... Manu and Hugo and I even found a solution: we agreed to give up our places at school... But of course, no one listens to us... With this sixth volume, Titeuf continues his discovery of the world and its secrets: girls' funny clothes, Supermegakillgore 3 on Manu's Game Boy, Vomito's sister's piercings and, of course, the incomprehensible reactions of adults... An essential character in comics at the end of the century, Titeuf is a philosopher in short pants whose every truth is an irresistible gag. EAN : 9782723423885 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Read and write - Brigitte Balmes, Coralie Vallageas - book Summary : Reading and writing is a major learning experience for a child and a key moment in their development. This book answers the 16 essential questions that children ask themselves on this theme. The author answers the following questions: - Who invented writing? - Reading and writing, what's the point? - Does everyone read and write in the same direction? - Why do we read manga backwards? - Can we live without knowing how to read and write? - How do I write without my pen? - Have books always existed? - Why doesn't the writing in books look like the writing in my notebooks? - When do we learn to read and write? - Why do people tell me I write like a cat? - Is learning to read easy? - I read a sentence, but I didn't understand anything, why? - Do you have to go to school to learn to read and write? - My grandmother can hardly see anymore, how can she still read? - I don't really like reading... is that serious? - Is writing a profession? EAN : 9782745974594 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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