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Aristotle: Metaphysics

If the composite character of Metaphysics has given rise to numerous debates, relating to its ordering and the authenticity of the treatises which compose it, a certain thematic unity emerges from the latter. After having verified, through a comparison with the doctrine of causes and principles of his predecessors, the theory of causes exposed in Physics, Aristotle sets out to construct a theory of forms, capable of…

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Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics

The Nicomachean Ethics is not only one of Aristotle's most famous works, one of those which best testify to his philosophy today. It is also, more generally, one of the great texts in the history of thought. What is the activity that, ultimately, gives meaning to human life? This is the question that Aristotle begins by raising, knowing that the human being is a rational being, capable of developing multiple projec…

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Aristotle: Physics

“The fundamental book of Western physics,” said Heidegger about Aristotle’s Physics. Few works, it is true, will have had such a profound and lasting impact on our ways of thinking and, on one point at least, Heidegger is right: Aristotelian nature, in its opposition to the supernatural, to art and to history, is still our nature. By taking as its object the study of change, Physics delivers, in the shadow of the m…

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Aristotle: Poetics

What is a good tragedy? What is a really funny comedy? How to understand the rules of their composition? What is the method for becoming a good literary and dramatic critic? The questions posed by the Poetics resonate with particular acuteness in the Greece of theatrical competitions known to Aristotle. But they go beyond the ancient context to nourish contemporary reflections linked to literature and the fine arts.…

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Aristotle: Politics

The extraordinary interest that our time has in Aristotle's Politics is not only an effect of the reverence due to the great books, but a mark of insight. Because behind a text which sets as its horizon a moribund reality in Aristotle's own time – the city – today's reader cannot help but detect the foundation and therefore the foundation of the way in which we think of the relationships between men, and more genera…

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Aristotle: Rhetoric

The Rhetoric is a foundational text in many respects. In addition to the capital interest it presents for specialists in ancient Greek civilization, it constitutes a mine of information and questions for theorists of language, for historians or practitioners of what we today call “communication”. But its interest is above all philosophical. Recognize the importance of persuasion in social and political relationships…

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Asimov, Volume 1: Foundation

Using the psychohistory he invented, Hari Seldon predicts the collapse of the Galactic Empire, followed by a thirty thousand year era of darkness. The only solution to reduce this period to a thousand years: the Foundation. But it has many powerful enemies...

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Asimov, Volume 2: Foundation and Empire

At the start of the thirteenth millennium, the Empire has never been so powerful, so extended throughout the galaxy. It was in its capital, Trantor, that the eminent scholar Hari Seldon invented psychohistory, a new science making it possible to predict the future. Thanks to her, Seldon predicts the collapse of the Empire within three centuries, followed by an era of darkness lasting thirty thousand years. Reducing …

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Asimov, Volume 3: Second Foundation

Designed by psychohistorian Hari Seldon to curb the era of chaos resulting from the decline of the Galactic Empire, the Foundation is now in the hands of the Mule, an unpredictable mutant capable of manipulating minds and imposing his will on anyone. With his powers and the immense resources provided by the Foundation, he has set himself the objective of extending his domination to the last vestiges of the deceased …

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Asimov, Volume 4: Foundation struck by lightning

Knowing the Galactic Empire was on the verge of collapse, psycho-historian Hari Seldon created two Foundations, one official, the other secret, which manipulate the evolution of Humanity. In 498, after their establishment, lightning suddenly threatened. Someone is distorting the cards of the game. Is it the Second Foundation, which the First believed to have eliminated, is it a third force, which works in the shadow…

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Asimov, Volume 5: Earth and Foundation

Superhuman mission for Golan Trevize: choose the best future for humanity. A future that will not repeat the errors of the Galactic Empire, between the materialism of the First Foundation and the mentalism of the Second. A future whose model is Gaia, the thinking planet, and whose name is Galaxia. Trevize has chosen, but he would like to know why. And the answer to his questions lies on Earth. But where to find it, …

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Asimov: Dawn of Foundation

The united universe is over. The Galactic Empire is falling apart. Thirty thousand years of chaos are on the agenda. And I've done too much and I'm tired. Yes, my name is Hari Seldon and I see that name means something to you. All I did was pose the equations and take action. I continue to come here to my office. I sometimes think I hear voices there, those of my parents, my students, my colleagues... but the corrid…

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Asimov: Prelude to Foundation

Hari Seldon had just invented psychohistory and he saw it as pure speculation, with no practical application. Psychohistory couldn't predict the future? The politicians didn't care! People were going to believe it. Then the equations would say whatever we made them say. And if Seldon didn't agree, too bad for him!<br> So the young researcher fled. Hunted, he crisscrossed the underground mazes of the planet Trantor, …

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Descartes: Discourse of method

A manifesto of Cartesian philosophy, the Discourse on Method (1637) is both the story of an intellectual journey and the masterful illustration of a project: to found the unity of the sciences and constitute a universal science. Home to an abundant work, the Discourse claims the rights of reason against all tradition and authority. This is why he assigns a task to philosophy: to rise to certainty. The present editi…

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Descartes: Metaphysical meditations

In Metaphysical Meditations, Descartes plans to give a solid foundation to knowledge: what allows me to think that I hold a truth? It is necessary to sort out the true from the false, and the philosopher will endeavor to reject everything that is doubtful. A first incontestable truth will emerge from this methodical doubt: “I think therefore I am” (the famous cogito).

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Descartes: Rules for the direction of the mind

The Rules for the Direction of the Mind, composed between 1628 and 1629, and published posthumously, constitute the first major philosophical text by Descartes (1596-1650). Through these rules, the author aims to explain the mode of resolution of all the questions that may arise for man, and to manifest the fundamental unity of the spirit, in a way which announces the Discourse of the method (1637). The method is pr…

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Descartes: The Search for Truth

"No other writing by Descartes, even the Discourse on Method, provides us with a better approach and a better introduction to his universe of thought. "Ernst Cassirer.The Search for Truth through Natural Light introduces us to a little-known Descartes, eager to transmit his thoughts, not only through meditation but also through dialogue. In this philosophy, what is most individual and most intimate, consciousness, i…

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Divergent told by Four

Four's story before meeting Tris During the choice ceremony, a young altruist stands against his family and his faction: he joins the bold. He chooses a new destiny, and becomes Four. But what he discovers endangers his future, and that of society as a whole. Will he have to stand up against his new faction?

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Divergent, Volume 1

In a world where you can only belong to one faction out of 5, a young girl brings chaos. In a post-apocalyptic Chicago, society is divided into 5 factions: the Selfless, the Bold, the Sincere, the Erudite and the Fraternal. Each is dedicated to the worship of a virtue in the hope of creating a perfect civilization. Children grow up in the faction where they were born. At 16 they must choose what theirs will be, f…

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Divergent, Volume 2: The Insurrection

Abandoning a city of fire and blood, Tris is on the run. Thanks to her Divergent abilities, she managed to escape the Erudite program which manipulated and launched the Dauntless soldiers to attack the Altruists. In three days, Tris lost her faction, her friends, her parents. However, she does not have the right to give up. Only she can stand against the Scholars. With her brother Caleb and her boyfriend Tobia…

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Divergent, Volume 3: Beyond the Wall

What if a revelation, like a choice, could change everything? What if love and loyalty forced you to do things you never would have done? The faction-based society that Tris Prior believed in is now destroyed, fractured by violence and battles for power, marked by loss and betrayal. So when Tris is offered the chance to explore the world beyond the boundaries she's always known, she's ready. Perhaps Tris and Tobias …

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Epictetus: Interviews

“My goal is to finally make of you men freed from all constraints, from all constraints, from all obstacles, free, peaceful, happy, who turn their eyes towards God in both small and big things. » A lame slave who became a philosopher, Epictetus orally gave his students and disciples lessons which, through the study of exemplary models, aimed at their edification. Recorded by one of them, his teaching is above all ba…

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Epictetus: Manual

A summary of Epictetus' thought bequeathed by his disciple Arrian, the Manual - that is to say the enkheiridion, the dagger that we have on hand to face any eventuality - is dedicated to ethical effectiveness. It is brief and incisive by necessity. It is not addressed to the wise, who have no need of it, but to those, among the unwise, who are progressing and practicing wisdom. An exercise book for philosophical edu…

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George R.R. Martin, The Origins of the Saga

"This is the comprehensive guide to all things Game of Thrones and beyond. From the prehistory to the coming of the First Men, through the reign of the Targaryen kings and Robert's Rebellion, this guide--co-written by George R.R. Martin and the immensely knowledgeable founders and keepers of the www.westeros.org site--will tell series readers old and new all they might want to know about the history and culture of W…

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George R.R. Martin: Chronicles of the Knight Errant

Whether he jousts or fights, the knight-errant has no ties other than those of his heart, no other code than that of honor. He praises his services to noble causes and defends the oppressed. A line of conduct that Ser Arlan of Pennytree has always followed, and which he strived to instill in his squire, Dunk. But the latter's meeting with a strange boy who calls himself The Egg, the future Aegon Targaryen, will chan…

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George R.R. Martin: Fire and Blood

Fire and Blood, the novel behind the original TV series "House of the Dragon". "At its zenith, Valyria was the greatest city in the known world, the center of civilization. Within its shining walls, twice twenty rival houses vied for power and glory, at court and council, rising and falling in an endless, subtle and often fierce struggle for dominance. The Targaryens were far from the mightiest dragonlords, and thei…

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Harry Potter, Volume 1: The Philosopher's Stone

On his eleventh birthday, Harry Potter, an orphan raised by an uncle and aunt who hate him, sees his life turned upside down. A giant comes to pick him up to take him to Hogwarts, a school of witchcraft! Flying on a broom, casting spells, fighting trolls: Harry Potter proves to be a gifted wizard. But a mystery surrounds his birth and the terrible V..., the mage whose name no one dares to pronounce. Friendship, surp…

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Harry Potter, Volume 3: The Prisoner of Azkaban

Sirius Black, the dangerous criminal who escaped from the Azkaban fortress, is looking for Harry Potter. It is therefore under guard that the apprentice sorcerer makes his third return to school. On the program: divination lessons, making a Shrinking potion, training hippogriffs... But is Harry really safe from the danger that threatens him? The third volume of the Harry Potter adventures will take you into a whirlw…

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Harry Potter, Volume 4: Goblet of Fire

After a horrible summer with the Dursleys, Harry Potter enters his fourth year at Hogwarts. At fourteen, he would simply like to be a young wizard like the others, reunite with his friends Ron and Hermione, attend the Quidditch World Cup with them, learn new spells and try unknown potions. Big news awaits him upon his arrival - the holding at Hogwarts of a magic tournament between the most famous schools of witchcra…

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Harry Potter, Volume 5: Order of the Phoenix

<p>At fifteen, Harry enters his fifth year at Hogwarts, but he has never been so anxious. Adolescence, the prospect of exams and those strange nightmares... Because He-Whose-Name-Must-Not-Pronounce is back. The Ministry of Magic seems not to take this threat seriously, unlike Dumbledore. Resistance is then organized around Harry who will have to count on the courage and loyalty of his lifelong friends... Of rare inv…

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Harry Potter, Volume 6: The Half-Blood Prince

In an increasingly worrying world, Harry prepares to find Ron and Hermione. Soon, it will be back to school at Hogwarts, with the other sixth year students. But why does Dumbledore come in person to pick Harry up from the Dursleys? What extraordinary journeys into the heart of memory will he take him on? Emotion, humor, art of suspense... J.K. Rowling reveals in this sixth volume the fascinating complexity of the un…

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Harry Potter, Volume 7: The Deathly Hallows

This year, Harry is seventeen and is not returning to Hogwarts. With Ron and Hermione, he devotes himself to the last mission entrusted by Dumbledore. But the Dark Lord reigns supreme. Hunted, the three faithful friends are forced into hiding. From trials to revelations, Harry's courage, choices and sacrifices will be decisive in the fight against the forces of Evil. With the outcome of the heroic story of Harry Pot…

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Heroes of Olympus, Volume 1: The Lost Hero

When Jason, Piper and Leo arrive at Camp Half-Blood, they have no idea what awaits them. Apparently, this would be the only place where the children of the Greek gods would be safe. Because Jason is the son of Zeus, Piper the daughter of Athena and Leo, son of Hephaestus...They were chosen for a very dangerous quest for inexperienced demigods. Their mission? Free Hera, the queen of the Gods, victim of a terrible cur…

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Heroes of Olympus, Volume 2: The Son of Neptune

The goddess Gaia is preparing to raise the army of Giants, recalled from Styx, to bring chaos to the world. Faced with such a threat, all the demigods must unite... At Camp Jupiter, two young Romans are designated for this desperate quest: Hazel Levesque, daughter of Pluto, and Frank Zhang, a descendant of the Argonauts. But the ancient prophecy speaks of a trio. And it is a Greek demigod, with a well-known name, wh…

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Heroes of Olympus, Volume 3: The Mark of Athena

Annabeth, Athena's daughter, is about to reunite with her friend Percy Jackson. As she approaches the Roman camp, she has only one fear: what if Percy had changed? What if these months of captivity had made him a Roman? Worse, what if he had forgotten her? <br> But a terrible prophecy will soon unite the Greek and Roman demigods: it announces that seven of them will have to find and close the Gates of Death. <br> An…

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Heroes of Olympus, Volume 4: The House of Hades

Annabeth and Percy are prisoners in the Underworld, on the Tartarus side, facing a thousand monsters. The five other demigods - Jason, Piper, Hazel, Frank, Leo - bury their disagreements and unite to find the entrance to the Gates, on the mortal side. Their mission: seal the Underworld and defeat the armies of Gaia. But victory will have a price... Percy and Annabeth would remain locked in the unwelcoming House of H…

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Heroes of Olympus, Volume 5: The Blood of Olympus

While the Greek and Roman members of the Argo II crew have made progress in their various quests, they still do not seem ready to defeat Mother Earth, Gaia. Its giants have risen – all of them, and they are stronger than ever. They must be stopped before the Feast of Spes, the time when Gaia planned to sacrifice two demigods in Athens. She needs their blood – the blood of Olympus – in order to wake up. The demigods …

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Hunger Games, Volume 0.5: Sunrise over the Harvest

At the dawn of the fiftieth Hunger Games, fear grips the districts of Panem. This year, in honor of the Atonement Games, the number of tributes taken from their families to participate in these cruel games will be doubled! In District 12, Haymitch Abernathy tries not to think too much about the terrible draw. He is focused on surviving himself and the one he loves. So, when destiny designates him as tribute, h…

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Hunger Games, Volume 0: The Ballad of the Serpent

At 18, Coriolanus Snow hopes to extricate himself from his family's loss of fortune in the aftermath of the Dark Days. To receive a scholarship allowing him to enter the University, he volunteers to become the mentor of a tribute on the occasion of the tenth edition of the Hunger Games and do everything so that the latter wins. To make matters worse, he is assigned Lucy Gray Baird, the girl from the twelfth district…

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Hunger Games, Volume 1

A compulsory game, 24 candidates, the winner will survive! The Hunger Games have begun. The winner will become rich and famous. The others will die... In a dark future, on the ruins of the United States, a game show is created to control the people through terror Twelve boys and twelve girls chosen at random take part in this sinister reality show, which everyone is forced to watch live. Only one rule in th…

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Hunger Games, Volume 2: Catching Fire

After the success of the last Hunger Games, the people of Panem are eager to reunite with Katniss and Peeta for Victory Tour. But for Katniss, it is above all a last chance tour. The one who dared to challenge the Capitol has become the symbol of a rebellion that could well set Panem ablaze. If it fails to restore calm to the districts, President Snow will not hesitate to drown the fire of revolt in blood. At dawn, …

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J. K. Rowling: Quidditch Through the Ages

If you've ever wondered about the origin of the Snitch, how the Bludgers came to be, or why the Wigtown Wanderers wear the image of a butcher's knife on their robes, you need to read Quidditch Through the Ages. This edition is an exact reproduction of the volume kept in the Hogwarts library where it is consulted almost daily by Quidditch fanatics.

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J. K. Rowling: The Tales of Beedle the Bard

The Tales of Beedle the Bard are the five fairy tales that rock the childhood of young wizards. Each of his tales has a particular magic that will enchant readers and make them laugh or shiver in turn. The fascinating and mischievous comments of Professor Albus Dumbledore which accompany each story will be appreciated by wizards and Muggles alike. The Professor gives many keys and reveals, at the same time, ma…

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J. R. R. Tolkien: Beren and Lúthien

Discover the love story that gave birth to the world of Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit! Thousands of years before Aragorn and Arwen, a man and an Elf attempt to experience a forbidden love and embark on the most formidable adventure in Middle-earth: taking back a treasure, the Silmaril, from the terrible god Morgoth. By crossing a thousand perils towards his fortress, the Elf Lúthien shows us that the greatest of …

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J. R. R. Tolkien: The Children of Hurin

“Thousands of years before The Lord of the Rings, Middle-earth was plagued by struggles between Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, and the Elves, allied with Men. It is against Túrin and Niënor, the children of Húrin, that Morgoth will launch a terrible curse, forcing them to an unhappy and wandering life, to take revenge on the hero who dared to defy him. The Children of Húrin, a work undertaken by Tolkien during the Fi…

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J. R. R. Tolkien: The Fall of Gondolin

Follow Tuor into the hidden paths of the city of Gondolin, built by the Elves to escape the god Morgoth, as their prideful blindness and Meglin's betrayal threaten to destroy it. When Morgoth launches his armies led by dragons and Balrogs, the last hope may lie with the child born of Tuor and the Elf Idril. Illustrated by Alan Lee, this book contains successive versions of the story of Gondolin presented by Christop…

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J. R. R. Tolkien: The Fellowship of the Ring

In a peaceful Shire village, young Frodo is about to receive a gift that will change his life forever: the Ring of Power. Forged by Sauron in the heart of Fire Mountain, the Ring was believed lost since a man tore it from the Dark Lord before chasing him out of the world. Now dark omens once again stalk Middle-earth, evil creatures multiply, and in the Mist Mountains Orcs stalk the Dwarves. The enemy wants to recove…

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J. R. R. Tolkien: The Return of the King

As Sauron's armies gather and his evil shadow extends ever deeper into Middle-earth, Men, Dwarves, Elves and Ents join forces to fight against the Darkness. Gandalf, for his part, develops a desperate strategy to triumph over evil. Mordor has armed itself, its evil creatures have multiplied, the response is being prepared. If the Ring falls into the hands of the Dark Lord, who can stop him? All hopes rest on Frodo a…

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J. R. R. Tolkien: The Two Towers

The Brotherhood of the Ring continues its journey to Fire Mountain where the One Ring was forged, and where Frodo is tasked with destroying it. This terrible quest is strewn with pitfalls: Gandalf has disappeared in the Mines of Moria and Boromir has succumbed to the power of the Ring. Frodo and Sam escaped to continue their journey to the heart of Mordor. Now they walk alone in the desolation that surrounds Sauron'…

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J. R. R. Tolkien: Unfinished Tales and Legends

Texts by J. R. R. Tolkien remaining unfinished and collated by his son Christopher, interesting for understanding the cycle of "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Silmarillion". Contains, among other things, the story of Celeborn and Galadriel, that of the Istari, a description of Nùmenor and the Palantiri, a prose version of the History of the Children of Hùrin and an episode from the life of Tuor.

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J.R.R. Tolkien: The Hobbit

The hobbit Bilbo Bessac leads a quiet life, without much ambition, rarely venturing beyond his home in Cul-de-Sac. His existence is suddenly disrupted by the arrival of the magician Gandalf who, accompanied by thirteen dwarves, takes him on a long and improbable journey towards the Lonely Mountain. Their plan is to steal the treasure of Smaug the Mighty, an enormous and very dangerous dragon... Published in 1937, th…

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J.R.R. Tolkien: The Silmarillion

The First Days of the World are barely drawing to a close when Fëanor, the most gifted of the elves, creates the three Silmarils. These jewels contain the precious Light of the Two Trees of Valinor. Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, who inhabits Middle-earth, then decides to steal the Silmarils to set them on his crown before taking refuge in the fortress of Angband. Following this theft, the elves confront the Dark Lor…

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Leibniz: Discourse on metaphysics

A complex route leads to the Discourse on Metaphysics (1686), considered the first almost perfect exposition (but unknown until 1846) of Leibnite's doctrine. To rehabilitate “substantial forms”, we must in fact deploy a philosophy of conciliation which encourages us to read the concepts of the Ancients under the results of the Moderns. The “Cartesian sect” does not emerge unscathed from this quest at the end of whic…

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Leibniz: Essays on theodicy

How can we reconcile the evil at work on Earth and the holiness of God who created it? In the Essays on Theodicy on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil (1710), Leibniz sets himself the Promethean task of resolving the problem of evil and exonerating God. According to him, torment, suffering and loss are necessary data to be integrated into an overall perspective, a general harmony. It is …

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Leibniz: New essays on human understanding

The imaginary dialogue of Théophile and Philathèle in the New Essays on Human Understanding (1765) is the substitute for a dialogue that never took place: that of Leibniz with Locke. In this work published posthumously, the philosopher of the monad makes the alternating voices of empiricism and rationalism heard. The fundamental question that Locke asks himself is that of the powers of knowledge: the wisdom of man …

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Marcus Aurelius: Thoughts for myself

Emperor of Rome, Marcus Aurelius was first a student of the Stoic masters. This learning will allow him to overcome the difficulties and contradictions that his role imposed on him: a man of peace, he led numerous wars; a thoughtful and reserved man, he had a destiny that took center stage. From the Stoics he learned resistance and self-control. He has also developed techniques that he describes in this work in orde…

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Percy Jackson, Volume 1: The Lightning Thief

The phenomenon series by the master of mythology Percy Jackson is not a high school student like any other. His history teacher is actually a terrible mythological monster! And the gods of Mount Olympus enter his life, here and now, in the middle of New York. They accuse him of stealing Zeus' lightning bolt. In this succession of disasters, there is only one piece of good news: Percy is gradually discovering extraor…

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Percy Jackson, Volume 2: Sea of ​​Monsters

A year ago, Percy Jackson discovered that characters from Greek mythology existed, and that he was the son of Poseidon. But the Half-Blood Colony can no longer guarantee the safety of the demigod children: its defenses are weakening because Thalia's tree has been poisoned. The cure: the Golden Fleece, held by the Cyclops Polyphemus. In order to reach Polyphemus Island, Percy and his friends will have to navigate the…

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Percy Jackson, Volume 3: The Fate of the Titan

The monsters are always determined to kill the demigods. Percy and his friends Annabeth, Grover and Thalia find themselves facing a horrible manticore. Their lives are only saved thanks to the intervention of the goddess Artemis and her Huntresses. But, when Annabeth and then Artemis disappear, a new quest strewn with pitfalls awaits: Percy will have to be more wary than ever of the manipulations and traps of Cronus…

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Percy Jackson, Volume 4: The Battle of the Labyrinth

The Half-Blood colony is in grave danger! Percy's refuge is about to be invaded by the fearsome Kronos and his army of monsters. Are they planning to go through the famous Daedalus labyrinth? Percy and his friends must find Daedalus before that happens, but a series of trials will hinder their mission, involving a dragon, Sphinxes, an enchanted island? as the final battle draws near.<i>“Is Percy Jackson's fourth and…

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Percy Jackson, Volume 5: The Last Olympian

In preparation for the final battle against Kronos' army, Percy and his friends spent the year building an army of young demigods. However, they know that their chances are slim against the formidable Titans. And time is running out for Percy: soon, he will be sixteen years old and the prophecy will come true, he will have to make a decision putting the fate of the entire world in his hands. But beware of misleading…

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Plato: Apology of Socrates

Athens, 399 BCE. Socrates, a citizen without wealth or political power, appears before the city tribunal. What are the alleged facts? He is accused of not recognizing the existence of traditional gods, of introducing new deities and of corrupting the youth. Faced with his judges, Socrates alone defends himself and warns the Athenians: the philosopher is a blessing to the city and the city condemns itself by putting …

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Plato: Crito

In 399 BCE, in Athens, Socrates appeared before the city tribunal. Accused of not recognizing the existence of traditional gods, of creating new deities and of corrupting youth, he is condemned to death. We have few testimonies left of his trial, but the one that Plato gives us in the Apology of Socrates elevates to the rank of founding myth of philosophy a fact that could have remained banal in the light of history…

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Plato: Gorgias

The tone of Gorgias is particularly violent, and not only with regard to rhetoric. The dialogue formulates one of the most radical critiques that have been addressed to Athenian democracy, its dominant values ​​and its prestige politics. Indeed, Socrates attacks all aspects of this policy, from the most concrete to the most ideological. But most of the criticism targets the condition which gives Athenian democracy i…

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Plato: Phaedo

The Phaedo tells of a death, that of Socrates. But the story of these singular farewells is an opportunity to have a different discourse on this subject. Because Socrates dies after speaking, after tearing off his frightening “mask” of a witch from death, and betting on the immortality of our souls. With him, death and philosophy engage in the same work as Penelope, undoing what life has woven and freeing the soul …

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Plato: Phaedrus

How to speak, why write? This is what two Athenians are discussing, at the end of the 5th century BC, lying near a flowering chaste tree, in the shade of a plane tree under which a spring flows, on the banks of the Ilissos, a few hundred meters from the Acropolis. But how can we evoke the power of discourse without speaking of the reality which produces discourse and over which its power is exercised, the human soul…

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Plato: The Laws

The Laws are undoubtedly the last of the dialogues written by Plato. In the twelve books of this legislative sum of extraordinary ambition, the philosopher pronounces on an exorbitant number of aspects of human and civic life, produces a true political history of humanity, and recalls, with a clarity which has hardly any equivalent in the other dialogues, the general principles of his "physics" and his cosmology: th…

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Plato: The Republic

What do artists do? The question runs through these two texts of Plato with sovereign irony. In the Ion, Socrates pushes to his limits a rhapsode who claims to interpret Homer by art: what he believes he has mastered is only divine possession – a favor granted by the Muses, not technical acquired through work. In book Together, these founding texts outline a question that philosophy has never ceased to reopen: if ar…

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Plato: The Symposium

They lie on beds and talk about love and beauty. Their speeches follow one another, sometimes responding to each other, because there are several loves and several ways of desiring Beauty. To these men living in a time and place where the education of boys is inseparable from the sexuality which regulates the relationship between master and disciple, a foreigner, Diotima, opposes a feminine model of transmission of …

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Plato: Timaeus

How to talk about origins? How can we say what was the birth of the universe, that of man, that of society? From Timaeus to Critias, the answer does not vary: it is to a discourse which constitutes its object that the explanatory task falls. On the one hand, the cosmology of Timaeus which seeks the conditions for knowledge of the sensible world. On the other, the story of the war which opposed ancient Athens to Atla…

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Seneca: Anger

In his treatise On Anger (or The Art of Calming Anger), Seneca defines this emotion as a passing madness and the worst of passions, characterized by the desire to punish unjustly. He radically distinguishes it from reason and justice, asserting that it deprives the individual of his ability to think and inevitably leads to personal and social destruction. Seneca maintains that the wise should never feel angry, e…

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Seneca: Benefits

Seneca is a Roman Stoic philosopher who wrote Benefits, a seven-book treatise dedicated to Aebutius Liberalis and published around 54 AD. JC This text offers an in-depth analysis of the ethical notions of gratitude, ingratitude and benefit, aimed at defining how to properly grant, receive and return social favors. Benefit lies in the intention and act of giving, not in the material value of the object. Seneca m…

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Seneca: Letters to Lucilius

Seneca, a Latin philosopher born in Cordoba, lived between the 1st century BC and the 1st century AD. He studied rhetoric and philosophy in Rome but was forced into exile in 41 BC. On his return to Rome, he became the tutor of the young Nero and composed an excessively biting satire of his society. In these letters he addresses his old friend Lucilius. Of modest origin, Lucilius rose, through merit, to the rank of k…

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Seneca: On providence

“You ask me, Lucilius, why, if the world is governed by a Providence, good people experience so much evil. The answer would more easily find its place in the body of a treatise where we would demonstrate that this Providence presides over all things and that a God dwells in our midst. »

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Seneca: On the brevity of life

In “On the Brevity of Life,” Seneca the Younger explores the timeless themes of time and wisdom. This philosophical text, written in the form of an essay, is addressed to his friend Paulinus, to whom Seneca gives advice on how to live fully. The author develops the idea that human life, often perceived as too short, is in reality long enough if used well. Seneca criticizes inaction, procrastination and the incessant…

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Seneca: On the happy life

On the Happy Life (or De vita beata), Stoic treatise by Seneca written around 58 AD. JC, defines happiness as virtue and agreement with reason (nature), and not as the possession of material goods. The work responds to critics accusing Seneca of hypocrisy (a wealthy Stoic) by establishing that: The sovereign good resides in virtue, which provides indestructible inner autonomy in the face of the vagaries of f…

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Seneca: On the tranquility of the soul

On the Tranquility of the Soul is a Stoic philosophical dialogue by Seneca addressed to his friend Serenus, who seeks to overcome persistent inner turmoil. The work explores ways to achieve inner peace (tranquillitas or euthymia) by identifying and healing the causes of anxiety, such as misdirected desires, vain ambition and dispersion of the mind. Seneca, playing the role of the doctor of the soul, offers ther…

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Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Red

The first adventure of Sherlock Holmes. Full text. This work is part of a project to safeguard and promote ancient libraries and heritage funds belonging to 19th and 20th century literature. A collection of great classics, writings for the theater, poetry, but also books on history, philosophy or economics, travel stories or books for young people to find via online bookstores or to read on paper with a layout desig…

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Sherlock Holmes: His Last Bow

In 1908, abandoned by his creator for more than three years, Sherlock Holmes returned to service in The Adventure of Wistera Logde. Seven other investigations were published until 1917, including Son Dernier Coup d'Archet, the first not to be narrated by Doctor Watson. But also the author's second attempt to get rid of the famous detective, in vain, by sending him into retirement... from which he will soon emerge!

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Sherlock Holmes: Memories

Scandal in Baker Street! Arthur Conan Doyla has decided to put an end to the days of the detective whose investigations fascinated millions of readers... This is something to do in 1893, in the adventure entitled The Final Problem: pushed into the void by the evil Professor Moriarty, the man with the briar pipe is the victim of a premeditated literary assassination... That's not knowing Sherlock Holmes well, w…

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Sherlock Holmes: Resurrection

Sherlock Holmes is dead, long live Sherlock Holmes! Dead, fallen under the violence of Moriarty's blows? Doctor Watson is convinced of this, and it is with amazement that he meets his friend, moves in with him again at 221B Baker Street, and follows him in his numerous investigations to right the wrongs of Victorian society, arrest criminals or solve mysteries. In this collection of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes…

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Sherlock Holmes: The Adventures

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of detective stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and featuring his famous private detective. The original book was illustrated by Sidney Paget. These are the first adventures of Sherlock Holmes. They were originally published in Strand Magazine between July 1891 and June 1892. The collection was published in England on October 14, 1892 by the publisher George N…

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Sherlock Holmes: The Archives

The Sherlock Holmes Archives Arthur Conan Doyle

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Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles

If most of Sherlock Holmes' adventures have the format of a short story, "The Hound of the Baskervilles" is a short novel. Perhaps the most successful, certainly the most famous. Here, the famous detective Sherlock Holmes makes his comeback after his presumed death in The Last Problem, although the author wrote the novel as a plot set outside of chronology. The sudden and tragic death of Sir Charles Baskerville has …

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Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of Four

Every year, young Mary Morstan, whose father, an officer in the Indian army, has long since disappeared, receives a pearl by post. The day a letter sets a mysterious appointment for her, she asks the famous Sherlock Holmes to accompany her...<br>However, while the good Dr. Watson is won over by the young girl's charm, we plunge into one of the darkest enigmas that have been offered to the detective's sagacity. The I…

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Sherlock Holmes: The Valley of Fear

Full text. This work is part of a project to safeguard and promote old, rare or forgotten libraries and heritage funds, belonging to the literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. A collection of great classics, writings for the theater, poetry, but also books on history, philosophy or economics, travel stories or books for young people to re-discover via online bookstores or to read on paper with a layout designed …

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Spinoza: Ethics

The starting point of Spinoza's reflection is his own experience: he knows, through observation, that he has a body, and he is aware of its affects. But, if this is indeed a kind of knowledge, it is an incomplete and painful knowledge: to be conscious is, for the human being, if not always to suffer, at least to suffer, to be constrained, overwhelmed. According to Spinoza, it is important to have an idea of ​​one's…

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Spinoza: Political Treatise

The Political Treatise draws all the conclusions from The Ethics: after having addressed individuality, Spinoza attacks the life of man in society. It traces the genesis of the political constitution of a group. It shows how the right to preserve one's life takes precedence over the right to live according to one's will. Everyone must cede to others the power to govern them. And this other must ensure the safety and…

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Spinoza: Principles of Descartes' Philosophy

Descartes' Principles of Philosophy (Renati Descartes Principiorum philosophiae pars I et II, more geometrico demonstratae) is the only work that Baruch Spinoza published during his lifetime, under his own name, in Amsterdam in 1663 (editor J. Rieuwertsz). Written at the request of a student, it takes up the Principles of Philosophy of Descartes (1644) by exposing them according to geometric order (more geometri…

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Spinoza: Short treatise

Long neglected, even mistreated, the Short Treaty has acquired, since the work of Filippo Mignini, the status of the first formulation of Spinoza's system. But for this very reason, it still too often remains in the shadow of Ethics. The Short Treatise deserves to be read (and reread) for itself, and not only with a view to understanding the genesis of Ethics. This is the main goal pursued by the contributions of th…

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Spinoza: Theological-political treatise

“I am currently composing a treatise on the way in which I view Scripture, and my reasons for undertaking it are the following: 1° The prejudices of theologians; I know in fact that it is these prejudices which are especially opposed to men being able to apply their minds to philosophy; I therefore consider it useful to expose these prejudices and to rid thoughtful minds of them. 2° The opinion that the vulgar have…

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Spinoza: Treatise on the Reform of the Understanding

“After experience had taught me that everything that frequently happens in common life is vain and futile, I saw that everything which was for me a cause or object of fear had in itself nothing good or bad, except to the extent that the soul was agitated by it, I finally decided to seek if there was something which was a true good, capable of being communicated and by which alone, all other things having been reject…

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The Cycle of Robots, Volume 2: A parade of robots

How is a robot programmed for a lunar environment likely to react if it finds itself lost on Earth? Can a robot lie in a trial to protect the interests of its user? Doctor Susan Calvin, robopsychologist, dialogues with the androids to shed light on these strange affairs. And discovers more programming faults in man than in his faithful creations...

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The Cycle of Robots, Volume 4: Facing the Fires of the Sun

It is now on the distant planet Solaria that Elijah Baley and R. Daneel Olivaw will exercise their investigative talents. In this world, men no longer agree to meet physically but “view” each other through television projections. However, a murder has been committed, a murder apparently impossible since no Solarian would have enough courage to approach one of his compatriots. What's more, everything seems to indicat…

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The Hunger Games, Volume 3: The Revolt

Katniss miraculously survived her second Hunger Games. Saved by a commando from District 13, she learns to live again in the underground of this mythical district. There she finds her mother, her little sister Prim and even Gale, Haymitch, Plutarch and some of the tributes, as bad as she is. Once back on her feet, however, Katniss agrees to return to the front of the stage. She will be the Mockingjay, the face of th…

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The Robot Cycle, Volume 1: Robots

First Law: A robot cannot harm a human being nor, remaining passive, leave this human being exposed to danger. Second Law: A robot must obey orders given by human beings, unless such orders conflict with the First Law. Third Law: A robot must protect its existence to the extent that this protection does not contradict the First or Second Law.

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The Robot Cycle, Volume 3: The Caves of Steel

The assassination of Doctor Sarton in Spacetown throws the community into disarray. Who would have an interest in eliminating the very person who campaigns for rapprochement between Earthlings and Spacers? Medievalists, who do not view the proliferation of robots very favorably? The Spacers themselves, ready to do anything to maintain their privileges? Detective Baley's problem, however, is not only finding a murder…

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The Robot Cycle, Volume 5: The Robots of Dawn

Upon arriving on Aurora, Elijah Baley knows that he is facing his most perilous mission. He must find out who killed Jander Panell, the most sophisticated positronic robot ever created, a creature reaching an unprecedented level of “humanity”. However, the only being capable of committing such a crime is none other than its own designer, Dr. Fastolfe. Fortunately for Baley, R. Daneel Olivaw, now the only humaniform …

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The Robot Cycle, Volume 6: Robots and the Empire

Several decades have passed since the events recounted in “The Robots of Dawn”. Doctor Amadiro has an unquenchable hatred for Glardia Gremionis for having foiled his plans to dominate the galaxy. With the help of Mandamus, a young and brilliant scientist, he once again hatches a plan to eradicate humanity. To counter it, Gladia is always assisted by Daneel, the humaniform robot, and Giskard, the telepathic android, …

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The Witcher, Volume 2: The Sword of Providence

An international bestseller: David Gemmell Legend Award 2009 for Best Fantasy Novel. Geralt of Rivia is not done with his wandering life as a monster slayer. Faithful to the rules of the cursed corporation of witchers, Geralt assumes his mission without failing in a hostile and corrupt world that leaves no room for hope. But the meeting with little Ciri, the Chosen Child, will give new meaning to the existence of th…

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The Witcher, Volume 3: Blood of the Elves

An international bestseller: David Gemmell Legend Award 2009 for Best Fantasy Novel. The kingdom of Cintra has been completely destroyed. Only little princess Ciri survived. As she tries to flee the capital, she crosses paths with Geralt of Rivia. Sensing exceptional gifts in the child, he leads her to Kaer Morhen, the witchers' lair. Initiated into the magical arts, Ciri quickly reveals her true nature and the exte…

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The Witcher, Volume 4: Time of Contempt

The time is no longer for cordial understanding between kings and magicians. In the witcher's country, something is brewing that will turn into a tragedy. Young Ciri, raised to become a witcher, finds herself at the heart of rivalries. What do we expect of her? What is his destiny? The general assembly of magicians will reveal the intrigues and reveal the traitors. What will happen to Ciri, the object of all desire?…

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The Witcher, Volume 5: The Baptism of Fire

Will the child of destiny manage to escape to help her friends? This is what the fifth and final volume of the Witcher saga reveals to us by taking us on a journey through time and space. The Witcher was seriously injured during the last assembly of magicians. Treated by the dryads, he learns that Ciri has been kidnapped and that she is to become the wife of the Emperor of Nilfgaard. He rushes to her aid without a s…

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The Witcher, Volume 6: The Swallow's Tower

Convinced that Ciri is preparing to marry the Emperor of Nilfgaard, the witcher continues his journey south.<br>But this journey is long and dangerous, because many enemies stand before him. While traitors are revealed and plots break out, doubts about Ciri's true destiny haunt everyone's minds. Especially since she is in the hands of a monstrous bounty hunter...

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The Witcher, Volume 7: The Lady of the Lake

The destinies of Geralt, Yennefer and Ciri took different paths. While Yennefer is held prisoner, Geralt spends the entire winter in a very pleasant way in Toussaint, the principality of fairy tales. There, the magician Fringilla deploys her charms to keep the witcher there as long as possible. As for Ciri, she was projected into a parallel world by entering the Swallow Tower to escape her tormentor. Restrained by t…

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The Witcher, Volume 8: The Season of Storms

THE SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE VIDEO GAME! We stole the famous Witcher swords! And he needs it more than ever: a palace intrigue is brewing and the Prince of Kerack has requested Geralt's help. But the latter will have to thwart the maneuvers of a beautiful and mysterious red-haired magician before setting off in search of her thief. Fortunately, his faithful bard companion Dandelion will be of great help to him, as wil…

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The Witcher, Volume 9: The Crow's Crossroads

You are not born a witcher. We become one.Before being known as the White Wolf or the Butcher of Blaviken, Geralt of Rivia was a young witcher trained in Kaer Morhen, taking his first steps in a world incapable of understanding or accepting those of his kind. When an act of naive heroism goes wrong, Geralt is only saved from the rope by Preston Holt, a witcher with a mysterious past and secret motivations. Under his…

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Book 2025

Lenoir: The Five Pillars of Wisdom

"There is an amazing convergence between all the great philosophical and spiritual currents of the world around fundamental qualities to develop in order to lead a good and happy life. This is what I call the 5 pillars of wisdom: knowledge, love, ethics, presence and acceptance. Beyond their cultural or metaphysical differences, the messages of Buddha, Lao-tse, Socrates, Plato, Epicury, Jesus, Epictetus, Rûmi, Monta…

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Book 2024

Gounelle: An almost perfect world

A young researcher, David Lisner lives with the Reguliers, a hyper-connected society that ensures the well-being of individuals. He is sent on a mission to the exiles, a group of rebels, in order to get in touch with Eve Montoya. Eve Montoya, the niece and sole heir of the eminent sociologist Robert Solo, has an explosive relationship that could endanger the social balance of the Reguliers.

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Percy Jackson, Volume 7: The Three-Faced Goddess

To get a second letter of recommendation, Percy agrees to look after the animals of the goddess Hecate. When the creatures escape into New York and his mansion is devastated, Percy, Annabeth and Grover have only seventy-two hours to repair the damage.

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Book 2023

Lenoir: The Odyssey of the Sacred

Since his appearance, Homo sapiens has felt terrified and admired in the face of Nature and wondered about his existence. From this feeling of the sacred were born all the great spiritual and religious currents of the world. Why is he the only animal that seeks to give meaning to his life, practices funeral rituals and invents great collective stories?Frédéric Lenoir tries to answer these questions and shows, over t…

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Book 2023

Percy Jackson, Volume 6: The Chalice of the Gods

Percy hopes to get into the University of Mount Olympus, but first he needs to obtain three letters of recommendation from God. His first mission is to find the stolen chalice of Ganymede before the other gods discover his disappearance. Annabeth and Grover take up the quest with him.

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Book 2022

Fantastic Beasts, Volume 3: Dumbledore's Secrets

Unable to directly confront Grindelwald, Albus Dumbledore entrusts Norbert Scamander and his allies with a mission intended to counter his rise. This third scenario takes the group into the heart of a global conflict and reveals several secrets from Dumbledore's past.

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Gounelle : The Awakening

"Tom, a young engineer, finds himself confronted in his country with a worrying situation that sows fear in the population. In this unprecedented context, measures are adopted by the power, binding and liberticide. Tom finds himself caught in the turmoil of events, but he has a Greek friend who alerts him then: the fears of people are very useful to some. It is by discovering truths sometimes hidden in the open, tha…

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Lenoir : Desire, a philosophy

"To desir life is not simply to be alive. It is to let ourselves be driven by the vital momentum that leads us to create, to love, to overcome us. It is to cultivate the power of desire that is the driving force of our lives. Yet, in everyday life, we feel many limitations - 'I am not capable', 'It is too risky', 'It is not for you' - which inhibit us. We are often also trapped in the impulses of our primary brain, …

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Book 2021

Gounelle : Intuitio

Timothy Fisher, a young polarist, leads a quiet life on Queens Street in New York, with his cat Al Capone. When two FBI agents come to his door asking him to help stop the most wanted man in the country, he believes in a joke. But after a moment of rejection, he ends up accepting their strange proposition: to join a secret program aimed at forming intuitives, people able to access their intuitions at will.First skep…

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Book 2021

Lenoir : Jung, a journey to yourself

"Carl-Gustav Jung (1875-1961), a Swiss physician, pioneer of psychoanalysis, is one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century. He remains quite unknown in France, while his ideas have exerted a profound influence on our contemporary culture and he has been the inventor of many revolutionary concepts, such as synchronicity, collective unconsciousness, archetypes or complexes.He is with Spinoza one of the authors w…

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Book 2021

Robert Greene : The Daily Laws

If you think that mistakes, failures or conflicts must be avoided at all costs, that the school you have attended or that the people you know are the indispensable key to your success or that creativity is an innate gift, it is that you are still a prisoner of your illusions and that it is time for you to lift the veil on the reality that surrounds you. Over the past twenty-five years, Robert Greene, the world's exp…

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Book 2020

Lenoir: Living! in an unpredictable world

"It was enough to have a far-off virus for the course of the world and our lives to be upset.""I am convinced that nothing will be as before and that we must learn to develop our inner resources in order to live the best possible way in an unpredictable world. May this book written in the urgency of time bring light and comfort to all those who will read it."F. L. In a language accessible to all, Frédéric Lenoir off…

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Book 2020

Rhonda Byrne : The Greatest Secret

After the worldwide success of her book The Secret – which helped you to be and realize what you wanted – Rhonda Byrne continued her quest for universal truth. For fourteen years, she studied the ancient and modern texts of Buddhist, Hindu, Christian and Taoist thought. It is housed in the heart of these writings, in the sight of all, that she discovered The Greatest Secret. This secret, an amazing but profound simp…

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Book 2019

Hal Elrod : The Miracle Equation

Hal Elrod presents a method based on two commitments: an unwavering faith in an objective and an extraordinary effort maintained until the result. The book helps to transform this discipline into practice.

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Book 2018

Fantastic Beasts, Volume 2: The Crimes of Grindelwald

After his escape, Gellert Grindelwald gathers followers to enforce wizard domination over non-magicals. Albus Dumbledore asks Norbert Scamander to help him foil his plans. The work presents the full text of the second film.

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Book 2018

Gounelle: I promise you freedom

With his new suspense novel, Laurent Gounelle takes you to the heart of an exciting story in which you are going to get lost... and find yourself. Imagine: your employer leaves you ten days to save your job and, that very evening, your spouse suggests that your couple has more for a long time... In both cases, you are criticized for your personality, but what can you do?When a friend talks to you about a mysterious …

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Book 2018

Lenoir : Meditate with open heart

"This is the ultimate goal of the art of meditating: to be fully human by harmonising our mind, our body and our heart." Meditation is a thousand-year-old practice used both in the East by Buddhists and in the West by the ancient Greeks, and today validated by scientific research. By developing our attention, it teaches us not only to calm the agitations of our mind but also to broaden our sensory perceptions. In th…

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Book 2018

Lenoir : Wisdom explained to those who seek it

"You undoubtedly aspire, reader friend, to a successful life. Not necessarily to succeed in life, but to lead a good and happy existence. Ever since, all over the world, men and women have been nourishing this aspiration and working to implement it. Everyone believes that what makes our life meaningful is to grow in humanity. I am convinced that this philosophical ideal of wisdom remains the object of a quest we can…

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Book 2018

Miguel Ruiz : The Three Questions

The way of inner power If the Four Toltec Accords have changed your vision of life, The Three Questions will transform you. Don Miguel Ruiz commits us to discover the power hidden in us, and to free ourselves from fears and false beliefs that prevent us from finding inner peace. The Three Questions, the legacy of the ancestral Toltec tradition, illuminates the way for a true transformation: Who am I? "You will know …

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Book 2018

Robert Greene : The Laws of Human Nature

HOW TO DISCUSSION THE BEHAVIOUR OF THE PEOPLE WHO ENTERED US? Human nature is stronger than any individual, than any institution, than any technological invention. It shapes what we create. It moves us like pawns on its chessboard. We are social animals, and knowing the deep motivations of our fellows is a supreme advantage without which our other talents quickly show their limits. Inspired by Pericles, Queen Elizab…

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Book 2017

Lenoir : The Spinoza Miracle

Baruch Spinoza, 23 years old of the Jewish community for heresy, decides to devote his life to philosophy. His objective? To discover a real good that would "provide him for eternity the enjoyment of supreme and incessant joy." During the twenty years remaining to live, Spinoza builds a revolutionary work. How could this man, in the middle of the seventeenth century, be the forerunner of the Enlightenment and our mo…

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Book 2016

Fantastic Beasts, Volume 1

In 1926, magizoologist Norbert Scamander arrived in New York with a suitcase full of magical creatures. When several of them escape, he finds himself embroiled in a crisis that threatens to expose the wizarding world. The book reproduces the complete screenplay of the film.

• Fantasy
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Book 2016

Gounelle : And you will find the treasure that sleeps in you

It all begins on the day when Alice, a dynamic and bold young woman, finds her childhood friend, Jérémie. As a country priest, he entrusts to him that he is overwhelmed by the small number of faithful who follow him. Atheus and a communication adviser, Alice puts herself at the head of helping him... in her own way. Driven by the force of things to plunge into the world of spirituality, Christianity to Hinduism, fro…

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Book 2016

L'Écriture de scénarios

Jean-Marie Roth offers a complete method for developing a screenplay, from finding the initial subject to writing the final dialogue script. He explores the principles of dramaturgy, character creation, story structure, and narrative progression, while also providing guidance on how to present a project clearly. The book therefore supports screenwriters through the different stages involved in turning an idea into a…

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Book 2016

Paulo Coelho : The Spy

Arriving in Paris without a penny, Mata Hari quickly imposed herself as a star dancer of the early 20th century. She was indissociable and independent, and seduced the public, enchanting the richest and most powerful men of the time. But her flamboyant way of life made a scandal and soon attracted suspicions while the paranoia seized the country at war. Arrested in 1917 in her hotel room on the Champs-Elysées, she w…

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Book 2015

Lenoir: The Power of Joy

"Is there a more desirable experience than that of joy? More intense and deeper than pleasure, more concrete than happiness, joy is the manifestation of our vital power. Joy is not decreed, but can it be tamed? To provoke it? To cultivate it? I would like to propose here a way of self-fulfillment based on the power of joy. A way of liberation and love, to the opposite of the false happiness proposed by our narcissis…

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Book 2015

Lise Bourbeau: Healing the 5 wounds

"You've been thousands of people around the world demanding it! And here's this long-awaited continuation of Lise Bourbeau's successful book, "The 5 Injuries that Prevent Yourself." The first volume, published in 2000, is constantly breaking sales records, year after year, with its editions in 16 languages. With the help of numerous examples, the author shares in this book her many professional discoveries and perso…

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Book 2015

Miguel Ruiz : The Toltec Art of Life and Death

History of a discovery In 2002, Don Miguel Ruiz was the victim of a heart attack that almost took him away. He spent nine weeks in a coma. The spiritual journey he undertook, while he was suspended between this world and the next, constitutes the heart of this new opus, which is the story of a profound mystical adventure and of a spiritual struggle. While his body lay unconscious, Miguel Ruiz's spirit went to meet t…

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Book 2014

Gounelle: The Day I Learned to Live

And if it all started today? Imagine: you walk around the docks of San Francisco on a Sunday, when suddenly a bohemian grabs your hand to read your future there. Fun, you let yourself be done, but in the moment her gaze freezes, she becomes livid. What she will finally tell you... you would have preferred not to hear it. From there, nothing will be as before, and it will be impossible for you to remain on the tracks…

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Book 2014

Lise Bourbeau: The Power of Acceptance

"This book reveals the heart of Lise Bourbeau's teaching: the key to happiness is to practice the acceptance of who we are. Let's stop blaming ourselves or criticizing others, but let's learn to listen to us. Lise Bourbeau will teach you how to differentiate between accepting, submitting and understanding. You will discover the meaning of true love - which we too often confuse with dedication, pity or passion. This …

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Book 2014

Montrez votre travail !

Austin Kleon presents ten principles for making creative work visible without turning every post into an exercise in self-promotion. He encourages creators to document the stages of a project, share their methods, pass on what they learn, and reveal the process as much as the finished result. The book promotes a more open and gradual way of building an audience, based on consistency, generosity, and meaningful excha…

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Book 2014

Paulo Coelho : Adultery

Linda is 31 years old and, in the eyes of all, a perfect life: she has a loving husband, well-bred children, a rewarding job as a journalist and lives in a magnificent property in Geneva. However, she can no longer pretend to be happy when, in truth, she feels nothing but a growing feeling of indifference and apathy. Until the day she finds a former boyfriend. Jacob is a leading politician and, in an interview, he a…

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Book 2013

Aristotle: Ethics to Eudemus

The time has come for Ethics in Eudeme. Like the Nicomachean Ethics, this other Ethics attributed to Aristotle has as its object the completion of humanity in man, a completion which is confused with happiness. But while the first treatise is expressly linked to a political project, the second insists on the intimate – and nevertheless universal – dimension of ethics: “If the beauty of a life resides in things obtai…

• Philosophy

Book 2013

Daniel Goleman : Focus

"A few years ago, with "Emotional intelligence", Daniel Goleman made us discover the prominent role of emotions. Today, it is on the crucial importance of attention and the priority to give him that he insists. Daniel Goleman gives the keys to train his brain to remain attentive, in the same way that one maintains his muscles by an adequate gymnastics. An intelligent practice of development that can both make us mor…

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Book 2013

Lenoir : Happiness, a philosophical journey

A magnificent collector's edition with artist's cover, laser cut paper, firm book like a box. Blue Jaspage. What do we mean by happiness? Do we depend on our genes, luck, our sensibility? Is it a lasting state or a series of fleeting pleasures? Is it only subjective? Should we look for it? Can we cultivate it? Can we cultivate it? Can we coexist in pain and happiness? To try to answer these questions, Frederic Lenoi…

• Essay
• Self-help
• Philosophy

Book 2013

Rhonda Byrne : Hero

This is the story that tells why you are here on planet Earth. There is something special about you. Among the seven billion of us, you were born to be and do something unique. There is a life that you are destined to live. There is a journey that you are destined to undertake. This book deals with this journey. Twelve people - among those who have been the most successful and currently living in the world - have fo…

• Essay
• Self-help

Book 2012

Gounelle : The Philosopher Who Was Not Wise

The tropical forest seemed to hold its breath in the moist heat of dusk. Sitting in front of its hut, Elianta turned her eyes to Sandro, who was advancing.Why was this mysterious stranger trying to secretly destroy the peace and serenity of his tribe? She no longer recognized his loved ones, she no longer understood their reactions. What had they done to deserve this? Every hour, Elianta felt her determination to pr…

• Novel
• Self-help

Book 2012

Hal Elrod : The Miracle Morning

Standing up! You have an appointment have success. What is the common point between Richard Branson, boss of Virgin, Anna Wintour, director of the US Vogue, Tim Cook (Apple), Marissa Mayer (Yahoo!)? Success? Certainly. A schedule of the minister's time? Also. But above all a secret so far well kept, and bright once revealed. All these personalities are used to getting up before dawn, and starting their day by one to…

• Essay
• Self-help

Book 2012

Lenoir : The Soul of the World

"Presenting the imminence of a planetary cataclysm, seven wise men from all over the world gather in a lost monastery of the Tibetan mountains to transmit to Tenzin and Natina, two teenagers, the keys to universal wisdom. Beyond the differences of their respective traditions but inspired by what the ancient philosophers called the "soul of the world" - this benevolent force that maintains the harmony of the universe…

• Essay
• Self-help
• Philosophy

Book 2012

Rhonda Byrne : The Magic

For more than two thousand years, the words found in a sacred text have mystified, and troubled most of those who have read it. Only a few people throughout history have understood that it was a riddle to solve and that, once the mystery is clarified, a new world would then open up before their eyes. In Magic, Rhonda Byrne reveals to the world a knowledge capable of changing everything. Then, during an incredible 28…

• Essay
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Book 2012

Robert Greene : Mastery

Millions of readers in the world have already read Power, the 48 laws of power!But the ultimate power is to be able to achieve excellence...Robert Greene analyses the biographies of the greatest figures in history to shed light on what enables each one of us to take power over his life and his destiny.What did Charles Darwin, a mediocre schoolboy, do to become an illustrious naturalist?What were the similar choices …

• Essay
• Self-help

Book 2011

Construire un récit

Yves Lavandier offers a clear method for turning an idea into a structured and engaging story. He examines dramatic progression, goals and obstacles, character development, and the narrative choices that strengthen the audience’s interest and involvement. The book provides practical guidance for building a coherent, dynamic, and effective narrative.

• Writing
• Essay

Book 2011

James Redfield : The Twelfth Insight

Frisson, suspense and spirituality: to close the series of The Prophecy of the Andes, a captivating and visionary thriller, between Scott Peck and Indiana Jones.The narrator and his friend Wilson make an incredible discovery: a fragment of ancient manuscript that announces the coming of a better world, in which men would live in harmony with the beings and things that surround them. While the Maya calendar predicts …

• Novel
• Self-help

Book 2010

Gounelle : The Gods Always Travel Incognito

Imagine. Paris, the summer. A man offers to save your life, provided you do everything he asks you... for your good. Back to the wall, you accept but understand that you are no longer the master of your existence, even more exciting than before. Little by little, you doubt. Who is this man? Why have you chosen? And who are these enigmatic characters around him? What you discover is nothing reassuring.This story open…

• Novel
• Self-help

Book 2010

Lenoir: Small treatise of inner life

Of all my books of philosophy and spirituality, this one is certainly the most accessible, but probably also the most useful. For it is not a theoretical knowledge that I seek to convey, but a practical knowledge, the most essential one: how to lead a good, happy life, in harmony with oneself and others. What I say here with simple words and concrete examples, as in a conversation with a friend, is the fruit of thir…

• Essay
• Self-help
• Philosophy

Book 2010

Miguel Ruiz : The Fifth Agreement

In his world best seller, The Four Toltec Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz revealed how the educational process, our "domestication", makes us forget the inherent wisdom with which we come to the world. Throughout our lives, we conclude agreements that go against what we are and thus create unnecessary suffering. The Four Toltec Agreements serve to break these agreements that limit us, to replace them with others that gi…

• Essay
• Self-help

Book 2010

Paulo Coelho : Aleph

Deciding. Changing. Reinventing. Acting. Experimenting. Successful. Oser. Dreaming. Winning. Discover. Demanding. Engaging. Thinking. Belief. Growing. Appearing. Awakening. Sometimes we need to regain a sense of our life, to give it breath and balance. What if a book had the power to make you discover a new world? And if, thanks to the magic of words and history, you start a new chapter in your life? Aleph is this b…

• Novel
• Self-help

Book 2010

Rhonda Byrne : The Power

In this book, I want to tell you the way that leads to an extraordinary life. There are so many things you need to know about life, all better than each other. In fact, these things of life are more than good, they are phenomenal! Life is so much easier than you think, as you understand its workings as well as The Power that resides in you, you will experience the magic of life in its quintessence - and it will be f…

• Essay
• Self-help

Book 2009

Lenoir : Socrates, Jesus, Buddha

The crisis that we are experiencing is not simply economic and financial, but also philosophical and spiritual. It refers to universal questions: What makes the human being happy? What can be considered as real progress? What are the conditions for a harmonious social life?Contains a purely materialistic vision of man and the world, Socrates, Jesus and Buddha are three masters of life. A life that they never lock up…

• Essay
• Self-help
• Philosophy

Book 2009

Robert Greene : The 50th Law

"What people are most afraid of is being themselves. They want to be 50 cents or someone else. They do like everyone else, even if it is neither the right place nor the right person. But by doing so, we don't get anywhere. We suffer from a lack of energy and nobody pays attention to you. We get away from the gallop of the only thing we have: what makes each person a unique being. This fear, I lost it, and when I fel…

• Essay
• Self-help

Book 2008

Eckhart Tolle : Oneness with All Life

Eckhart Tolle brings together essential passages of New Earth around the transcendence of ego, presence and feeling of unity. A short book designed for reading and meditation.

• Essay
• Self-help

Book 2008

Gounelle: The Man Who Wanted to Be Happy

Imagine... You are on vacation in Bali and shortly before you return, you are consulting an old healer. For no particular reason, just because his great reputation has made you want to meet him, in case... His diagnosis is formal: you are in good health, but you are not... happy. A bearer of infinite wisdom, this old man seems to know you better than yourself. The very p. particular lighting that he brings to your e…

• Novel
• Self-help

Book 2008

Rhonda Byrne : The Secret Daily Teachings

The Secret reveals clear principles on how to live in accordance with the natural laws of the Universe, but the most important thing is to integrate these principles into our everyday life. With The Secret in everyday life, Rhonda Byrne accompanies you throughout a year, sharing with you words of wisdom and deep thoughts so that you can live in harmony with the laws that govern all human beings and thus become the m…

• Essay
• Self-help

Book 2008

Robert T. Kiyosaki : Increase Your Financial IQ

In 1997, with his book, Father Riche, Father Poor, Robert T. Kiyosaki stifled his readers with the following statement: "Your home is not an asset." While shouting protests were on all sides at ... In a world of financial turbulence, your best asset is your financial IQ and here's how to increase it. In 1997, with its book, Father Wealthy, Father Poor Robert T. Kiyasaki stuttered its readers with the statement that …

• Essay
• Self-help

Book 2007

L'Anatomie du scénario

John Truby presents a method of story construction based on the organic development of the narrative rather than on a simple sequence of acts. He connects the premise, the character’s desire, weaknesses, opposing forces, revelations, and story world to show how each element contributes to the same dramatic progression. The book places particular emphasis on the protagonist’s transformation and on building a coherent…

• Writing
• Essay

Book 2007

The Witcher, Volume 1: The Last Wish

An international bestseller: David Gemmell Legend Award 2009 for Best Fantasy Novel. Geralt of Rivia is a disturbing man, a mutant who became the perfect assassin thanks to magic and long training. In these dark times, ogres, ghouls and vampires abound, and magicians are expert manipulators. Against these threats, you need a hitman up to the task, and Geralt is more than a warrior or a mage. He's a witcher. During h…

• Adventure
• Fantasy
• Dark fantasy

Book 2006

Daniel Goleman : Social Intelligence

In his world best seller, "Emotional Intelligence", Daniel Goleman defended a revolutionary thesis: success depends less on the intellectual quotient than on the ability to understand, master and cultivate the emotions that are within us. Today he extends his field of research to the field of our relations with others. He makes us penetrate the arcanes of neurosciences in a clear and living way. Feeding many example…

• Essay
• Self-help

Book 2006

Paulo Coelho : The Witch of Portobello

Athena is the adopted daughter of a Lebanese couple. She goes to live in London with her family when the war breaks out in their country, a war of which she predicted the advent and gravity. At the university, she gets acquainted with the one who will be the father of her child. The two young men marry against the opinion of their families, but their marriage does not last long. Being a mother, Athena cannot help bu…

• Novel
• Self-help

Book 2006

Rhonda Byrne : The Secret

"You hold in your hands a great secret ... it has been transmitted through the ages, it has been ardently coveted, it has been hidden, lost, stolen and bought at a price of gold. This secular Secret has been understood by some of the most famous characters in history: Plato, Galileo, Beethoven, Edison, Carnegie, Einstein – as well as by other inventors, theologians, scientists and great thinkers. Now, The Secret is …

• Essay
• Self-help

Book 2006

Robert Greene : The 33 Strategies of War

The 33 most effective strategies (historically proven!) to defeat the subtle social game of our daily life. Inspired by the bloodiest wars of all history, discover the 33 most effective ways to defeat the social and subtle game of our everyday life. The world is an arena where power struggles, sometimes complex and insidious, are part of everyday life. Last part of Robert Greene's best-selling trilogy, Strategy, the…

• Essay
• Self-help

Book 2005

Eckhart Tolle : A New Earth

Based on the fantastic success of his book The Power of the Present Moment, Eckhart Tolle offers readers a new book in which he looks honestly at the present state of humanity. He implores us to see and accept that this state, based on an erroneous identification with the ego and the mind, approaches dangerous madness. However, the author affirms that there is also good news, if not even a solution to this potential…

• Essay
• Self-help

Book 2005

Game of Thrones (Complete), Volume 4

Lady Brienne, known as the Maid of Tarth, continues the desperate quest with which Jaime Lannister charged her. Accompanied by Septon Meribal, Podrick, her faithful squire, and Ser Hyle, she tirelessly surveys the kingdom in search of Sansa Stark. But in the absence of the daughter, it is the mother, Catelyn, that she will find... or at least what is left of her. Because Sansa, since the regicide in which she was in…

• Fantasy
• Dark fantasy

Book 2005

Les Règles élémentaires pour l'écriture d'un scénario

Blake Snyder offers a screenwriting method built around a series of clearly defined dramatic beats. He explains how to craft an effective premise, define the protagonist, choose the right story type, and organize the key moments that give a narrative its rhythm and progression. The book also addresses how to present a project clearly and professionally, making the method a practical tool for developing, structuring,…

• Writing
• Essay

Book 2005

Paulo Coelho : The Zahir

A famous writer questions all the principles that governed his life when his wife disappeared without leaving any trace. As he travels from Paris to Central Asia, he crosses the steppe, his desert, his magic and his legends to find the one that gives more meaning to his life. Paulo Coelho revisits ancient myths and distant traditions to evoke the themes of the quest for love, eternal woman, pilgrimage, the search fo…

• Novel
• Self-help

Book 2004

Game of Thrones (Complete), Volume 5

Tyrion Lannister, a prominent member of the family ruling Westeros, never imagined he would one day be reduced to playing a buffoon. Captured by slavers during the crossing that would bring him to Meereen, then sold to a rich merchant, he must learn to master the difficult art of jousting on the back of a pig to ensure his own survival. But no matter the manner, all that matters is the result: if it takes this to at…

• Adventure
• Fantasy
• Dark fantasy

Book 2004

Miguel Ruiz : The Voice of Knowledge

How can we know what the truth is when almost everything we have learned is a lie? How can we recognize what is real in us? After the global success of the Four Toltec Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz reminds us of a profound truth: the only way to put an end to our emotional suffering and recover our innate happiness is to stop believing lies. If you do not believe in your own lies, they will not survive and you will be…

• Essay
• Self-help

Book 2004

Stephen R. Covey : The 8th Habit

The 7 habits of those who realize everything they undertake have been a global success whose principles are timeless. Today, in the information and Internet age, an eighth habit is essential: finding one's "voice" and encouraging others to find one's own. Being effective is not enough. Stephen Covey's holistic approach will allow you to get out of frustration and lack of commitment, giving meaning to your profession…

• Essay
• Self-help

Book 2003

Eckhart Tolle : Stillness Speaks

For Eckhart Canvas, calm does not consist of a mere absence of noise. "It is the essence of all galaxies and of all strands of grass; of all flowers, of all trees, of all birds and of all other forms." By accessing this inner calm, we align ourselves with the power and intelligence of life itself. In this state, there is neither suffering nor fear, just a source of intensely living love, joy and peace. Written in a …

• Essay
• Self-help

Book 2003

Paulo Coelho : Eleven Minutes

"Every young Brazilian from the Nordeste, Maria only aspires to the Adventure, to the Great Love. During a week of holiday in Rio de Janeiro, on the beach of Copacabana, a Swiss offers her to become a cabaret dancer in Geneva. She sees there the beginning of a fairy tale ... But the reality will be very different. Maria comes to prostitute herself - without shame, since she teaches her soul not to complain about wha…

• Novel
• Self-help

Book 2003

Plotinus: Enneads IV

The fourth Ennead brings together nine treatises devoted to the soul: its essence, its immortality, its memory, its perception, its descent into the body and the question of the unity of all souls. Plotinus specifies the links between the individual soul, the Soul of the world and the intelligible world.

• Philosophy
• Classical

Book 2003

Plotinus: Enneads V

The fifth Ennead explores Intelligence, intelligible realities and their relationship with the One. His nine treatises describe the procession of beings from the first principle, the nature of Ideas and the way in which the soul can rise towards intelligible beauty.

• Philosophy
• Classical

Book 2003

Plotinus: Enneads VI

The sixth Ennead examines the kinds of being, the unity and omnipresence of being, numbers, freedom and the will of the One. It leads Plotinus' reflection to the Good, the supreme principle located beyond being and thought.

• Philosophy

Book 2002

La Guerre de l'art

Steven Pressfield calls “Resistance” the inner force that drives people to postpone, abandon, or avoid the creative work that truly matters to them. Through reflections on discipline, fear, self-doubt, and procrastination, he explores how to recognize the mechanisms that hinder creativity and learn to confront them. The book advocates commitment, consistency, and a professional mindset as ways to overcome creative b…

• Writing
• Essay

Book 2001

Eckhart Tolle : Practicing the Power of Now

In a very short time, the power of the present moment has gained the reputation of being among the greatest spiritual writings published in recent years. The power of this work goes beyond words. It brings us directly to a peaceful place within ourselves out of the control of our ego. In these pages, Eckhart Tolle shared with us his experience of enlightenment experienced as a result of a personal transformation. In…

• Essay
• Self-help

Book 2001

J. K. Rowling: Fantastic Beasts: Life and Habitat

It is rare that a wizarding house does not have a copy of Fantastic Beasts in its library. From now on the Muggles will in turn have the opportunity to learn where the Quintaped lives, what the Puffskein eats and why it is better not to leave a saucer of milk intended for a Knarl in the garden...

• Fantasy
• Young readers

Book 2001

Robert Greene : The Art of Seduction

Learn the laws of a ruthless and timeless game to bewitch and force your opponent to surrender. Seduction is the most accomplished but also the most subtle, most intelligent form of power. In politics, in marketing and advertising, the media, within the company, in the time of Cleopatra, Napoleon or today, those who succeed know the workings of seduction – an art, in short, universal, unshakeable.From Freud to Kierk…

• Essay
• Self-help

Book 2000

Game of Thrones (Complete), Volume 3

In this third complete, George R.R. Martin continues to draw us into a fabulous world where the families of his heroes branch out into the heart of regions, each more mysterious than the next: caves, hollow hills, hamlets of leaves, impregnable fortresses. Here also enter the scene of terrifying monsters, slaves of evil forces who have only one goal on earth: to eradicate all traces of humanity. Odious mutilations, …

• Fantasy
• Dark fantasy

Book 2000

Lise Bourbeau: The 5 wounds that prevent you from being yourself

Rejection, abandonment, humiliation, betrayal and injustice: five fundamental wounds at the origin of our physical, emotional or mental ills. Lise Bourbeau, thanks to a very detailed description of these wounds, leads us to the path of healing. For understanding these mechanisms depends on the true development, the one that leads us to finally be ourselves. A simple and practical guide to transforming all our small …

• Essay
• Self-help

Book 2000

Miguel Ruiz : The Four Agreements Companion Book

The Four Toltec Agreements have introduced a simple but powerful code of conduct to achieve personal freedom and true happiness. Learning to put into practice and live daily with these four agreements will help you to fully recover the consciousness and wisdom of your true Self. This book is a precious gift for the readers of Don Miguel Ruiz, but especially for anyone who feels ready to leave his sufferings aside an…

• Essay
• Self-help

Book 2000

Paulo Coelho : The Devil and Miss Prym

"Isolated in a mountainous region, the small village of Bescos lives as if out of time. Evil does not seem to have taken place. Until the day when a mysterious stranger occurs. Temptation and envy enter the hearts of the inhabitants: the village has seven days to choose between honor and misery, crime and fortune. Is man born good or bad? Through the thoughts of Miss Prym, the young and pretty barmaid of the hotel, …

• Novel
• Self-help

Book 2000

Robert T. Kiyosaki : Rich Dad's Guide to Investing

By the author of the best seller Rich father, poor father!" The word investment does not mean the same to everyone. The rich, poor and middle class invest differently. This book offers a long-term path for anyone who wants to become a prosperous investor and invest their capital in sectors that favour rich people. As its title indicates, this book is a "guide" and offers no guarantee... only advice." –; Robert Kiyos…

• Essay
• Self-help

Book 1999

Harry Potter, Volume 2: Chamber of Secrets

"A shattering return to school in a flying car, a strange curse that falls on the students... this new year at the wizarding school does not promise to be easy! Between magic potions classes, Quidditch matches and bad spell fights, will Harry and his friends Ron and Hermione find the time to unravel the mystery of the Chamber of Secrets?"--Back cover.

• Fantasy
• Young readers

Book 1999

James Redfield : The Secret of Shambhala

Guided to the mountains of Tibet, the narrator is looking for the legendary community of Shambhala, where he discovers a teaching dedicated to the energy of prayer and the influence of intention.

• Novel
• Self-help

Book 1999

Miguel Ruiz : The Mastery of Love

Don Miguel Ruiz highlights the beliefs and assumptions based on fear, which undermine our ability to love, create conflict and suffering in our relationships. With the help of powerful stories and allegories, to give life to his message, Don Miguel Ruiz tells us how to heal our emotional wounds, how to recover the freedom and joy that are our birth rights, as well as the spirit of play, indispensable for establishin…

• Essay
• Self-help

Book 1999

Plotinus: Enneads III

Philosopher of the 3rd century AD, Plotinus constructed one of the most important metaphysics in Western history. His work was brought together by one of his disciples, Porphyry, who ordered the fifty-four treatises into six Enneads of nine treatises each.

• Philosophy

Book 1998

Conduire sa barque : l'écriture

Ursula K. Le Guin offers a practical guide to the essential tools of narrative writing. She explores rhythm and the sound of language, sentence construction, punctuation, verb tenses, point of view, and the art of showing, suggesting, and telling. Drawing on examples and exercises from her experience as both a writer and workshop leader, the book encourages readers to experiment with each technique in order to devel…

• Writing
• Essay

Book 1998

Game of Thrones (Complete), Volume 1

Once upon a time, lost in the distant past, the kingdom of the Seven Kingdoms... In those times shrouded in mist, when the good season could last for years, the bad for a lifetime, alarming omens multiplied one day. North of the Wall which protected the kingdom, dark forces suddenly gathered; in the south, the established order tottered, lust and incest, murder and corruption, cowardice and lies inexorably surrounde…

• Action
• Fantasy

Book 1998

Game of Thrones (Complete), Volume 2

The kingdom of the Seven Kingdoms is torn apart as several claimants claim the Iron Throne. Beyond the Wall, an ancient threat awakens. This complete collection brings together the French volumes The Battle of the Kings, The Evil Shadow and The Invincible Fortress.

• Science fiction
• Fantasy
• Dark fantasy

Book 1998

J'écris mon premier polar

Louis Timbal-Duclaux offers a practical introduction to writing crime fiction, from choosing a subgenre to building the plot. He explains how to construct an investigation, create suspense, distribute clues and red herrings, develop characters, and gradually lead the reader toward the resolution. The book also addresses the rewriting process in order to strengthen the story’s coherence, pacing, and overall effective…

• Writing
• Essay
• Self-help

Book 1998

Lise Bourbeau: Your body says: Love yourself!

Lise Bourbeau, a pioneer of personal development for nearly 30 years, has completely re-edited this world-renowned best seller: Since then, she has realized that the metaphysical message of maladies and diseases is not enough. She had to help people to devulpably and, above all, to accept themselves as they are at every moment. A world-renowned writer, she has written 20 books, including the best seller: Listen to Y…

• Essay
• Self-help

Book 1998

Paulo Coelho : Veronika Decides to Die

Veronika has the same dreams, the same desires as all the young people of the world. She has a reasonable job and lives in a small apartment, thus offering the pleasure of having a corner to her. She goes to bars, meets men. Yet, she is not happy. Something she misses. So, on the morning of November 11, 1997, Veronika decides to die. Imagination and dreams, love and madness. Desire and death. As she approaches, Vero…

• Novel
• Self-help

Book 1998

Plotinus: Enneads II

Philosopher of the 3rd century AD, Plotinus constructed one of the most important metaphysics in Western history. His work was brought together by one of his disciples, Porphyry, who ordered the fifty-four treatises into six Enneads of nine treatises each.

• Philosophy

Book 1998

Robert Greene : The 48 Laws of Power

Power...we want it, we fear it, we protect it..."The feeling of having no power over people and events is hard to bear: impotence makes it unhappy. No one demands less power, everyone wants more."Amoral, intelligent, ruthless and captivating, this colossal book condenses 3,000 years of power history in 48 laws. True manual of manipulation, it analyses the quintessence of this thousand-year-old wisdom, drawn from the…

• Essay
• Self-help

Book 1998

Syd Field : Comment identifier et résoudre les problèmes d'un scénario

A renowned screenwriter, Syd Field developed an effective tool designed to identify and solve problems within a screenplay. Most screenwriters, even the most accomplished, struggle to pinpoint exactly where a script’s weaknesses lie. Beyond diagnosis, this book also helps find solutions to common problems: a plot that is too long or overly complex, characters that are either overdeveloped or insufficiently define…

• Writing
• Essay

Book 1997

Eckhart Tolle : The Power of Now

Eckhart Tolle teaches us that it is possible to live without suffering, without anxiety and without neurosis. But to reach this state of awakening we must come to understand that we ourselves are the creators of our own suffering. That our mind, not the others and our surrounding world, is at the origin of our problems. It is our mind, with its almost continuous flow of thoughts, that cares about the past and is wor…

• Essay
• Self-help

Book 1997

James Redfield : The Celestine Vision

James Redfield deepens the spiritual ideas of The Prophecy of the Andes and places them in a broader view of human evolution, history and the transformations of consciousness.

• Novel
• Self-help

Book 1997

Le Travail du style

Louis Timbal-Duclaux focuses on the work of language that turns a narrative framework into a fully developed text. He explores word choice, sentence rhythm, imagery, dialogue, and overall coherence, showing how each stylistic decision affects the strength of a story. The book also gives an important place to revision, an essential stage for clarifying, tightening, and gradually developing a distinctive authorial voi…

• Writing
• Essay
• Self-help

Book 1997

Miguel Ruiz : The Four Agreements

Discover or rediscover The four Toltec agreements, and take as millions of readers in France and throughout the world the path of personal freedom. In this book, Don Miguel reveals the source of the limiting beliefs that deprive us of joy and create unnecessary suffering. He shows in very simple terms how one can free oneself from the collective conditioning - the "dream of the planet", based on fear - in order to r…

• Essay
• Self-help

Book 1997

Paulo Coelho : Manual of the Warrior of Light

The warriors of light recognize themselves at first glance. They are in the world, they are part of the world. Often, they find that their life has no meaning. But they have not renounced to give it one. They question themselves, refuse passivity and fatalism. This is what makes them warriors of light. This short, simple and precious book offers a true synthesis of Paulo Coelho's humanist philosophy: a message of tr…

• Novel
• Essay
• Self-help

Book 1997

Plotinus: Enneads I

Plotinus opened a school of philosophy in Rome and obtained the respect of his contemporaries through his virtues and his knowledge. He then obtained permission from the Emperor Gallienus to build a city to realize Plato's ideal republic, but envious people caused this project to fail. Plotinus had proposed to found eclecticism by taking as a basis the doctrine of Plato and striving to reconcile with it the other do…

• Philosophy

Book 1997

Robert T. Kiyosaki : Rich Dad Poor Dad

Rich Father, Poor Father - The best work of all time in terms of personal finances! Rich Father, Poor Father - a book that: Breaks the myth that you have to earn a lot of money to become rich. Question this belief that your home is an asset. Explains to parents why they should not rely on the system ... Rich Father, Poor Father - The best work of all time in terms of personal finances! Rich Father, Poor Father - a b…

• Essay
• Self-help

Book 1997

Stephen R. Covey : The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families

The author gives a compass, a direction of thought and a way of acting applicable to family life.

• Essay
• Self-help

Book 1996

James Redfield : The Tenth Insight

The narrator resumes his quest to find Charlene and understand a tenth revelation. The adventure explores memory, choices of life and how individual destiny can be joined.

• Novel
• Self-help

Book 1996

Paulo Coelho : The Fifth Mountain

Nine centuries B.C.E., God commanded the prophet Elijah to leave Israel, who had fallen into the power of the ungodly kings. His path led him to Phoenicia, to the city of Sarepta, besieged by the Assyrians. There he would lose everything, especially that which he loved. And he would revolt against God. Why evil, tragedy, suffering? To this eternal question of humanity, an angel would give the answer. Elijah would th…

• Novel
• Self-help

Book 1995

Daniel Goleman : Emotional Intelligence

"An exciting journey to the country of emotions to discover unexplored feelings. The traditional conception of intelligence neglects an essential part of human behavior: emotional reactions. IQ is not the only criterion; there is another form of intelligence, emotional intelligence, which can be stimulated and developed from childhood. Refusing to listen to emotions can lead to general instability, while self-contro…

• Essay
• Self-help

Book 1995

James Redfield : The Celestine Prophecy: An Experiential Guide

"Guide-companion of the best-seller "The prophecy of the Andes", this book presents explanations and exercises to find the way to its inner fulfilment.

• Novel
• Self-help

Book 1994

Descartes: The Passions of the Soul

The last work published by Descartes, the Treatise on the Passions of the Soul (1649) is the fruit of his entire philosophy. This treatise, which is based on a summary of Cartesian biology, moves towards a concrete medicine for psycho-physiological conditions and blossoms into an apology for generosity. To scientific observations, Descartes does not disdain to add psychological notations whose finesse sometimes evok…

• Philosophy

Book 1994

Epicurus: Letters, maxims and sentences

Human life, hideous to behold, lay on the earth, crushed under the weight of a religion which reared its head from the heavenly regions, towering over mortals, looking horrible, when for the first time a Greek, a mortal, dared to turn his eyes upon it, and the first to stand against it; neither what was said about the gods, nor the lightning, nor the sky and its menacing rumble stopped him (...). Therefore, the vigo…

• Philosophy

Book 1994

La dramaturgie - L'art du récit

Yves Lavandier examines the mechanisms that make dramatic storytelling work, regardless of format or medium. He explores character goals, the obstacles placed in their way, conflict, characterization, structure, and the meaning created by a story. Drawing on numerous examples from theatre, film, television, radio, opera, and comics, the book offers an in-depth examination of the principles that give a narrative cohe…

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Book 1994

Paulo Coelho : By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

A story of love contains all the secrets of the world. Pilar and his companion have known each other in childhood, far away during their adolescence, and here they find themselves eleven years later. She, a woman to whom life has learned to be strong and not to be overwhelmed by her feelings. He, a man who has the gift to heal others and seeks in religion a solution to his inner conflicts. Both are united by the des…

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Book 1994

Paulo Coelho : Maktub

Maktub is a collection of stories, parables that, if they have no claim to constitute an apprenticeship, represent a colorful treasure of wisdom in fragments. These short texts, inspired to the author by the most diverse sources and folklores, were born from a contribution by Paulo Coelho to the Brazilian daily La Folha de São Paulo. In view of the success encountered by the section, the author decided to select his…

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Book 1994

Stephen R. Covey : First Things First

The management of his professional and personal time by a great American expert in personal development.

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Book 1993

Dale Carnegie : The Leader in You

Do you want to increase your personal and professional success?In this practical and concrete guide, with principles that are easy to implement, you will learn to:• identify your leadership skills,• build relationships of trust,•communicate more effectively,• motivate others,•work as a team,•create a leadership dynamic,•get more respect and success.Go to action!Apply these simple but fundamental techniques, they wil…

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Book 1993

J'écris mon premier roman

Louis Timbal-Duclaux guides beginning writers through every stage of creating a first novel. He explores the choice of subject, character creation, plot construction, point of view, and style, while providing practical guidance for organizing and developing the story. The book also addresses revision and manuscript preparation, helping writers turn an initial idea into a coherent and fully developed novel.

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Book 1993

James Redfield : The Celestine Prophecy

In Peru, a man goes to search for a mysterious manuscript composed of nine revelations. His initiatory journey leads him to reconsider coincidences, human relations and the sense of existence.

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Book 1993

Lise Bourbeau: Who are you?

Because of the great popularity of his first book and the general demand of his readers, Lise Bourbeau decided to follow it up. Readers wishing to discover Who He is will draw treasures of information from this book. Thanks to practical examples from everyday life, he will be amazed to recognize himself through what he says, thinks, sees, hears or feels. Even the observation of the clothes he wears and the place whe…

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Book 1993

Napoleon Hill : A Year of Growing Rich

A fifty-two-step program, one per week, to clarify its objectives, build confidence and gradually apply the principles of success developed by Napoleon Hill.

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Book 1992

Le Guide du scénariste

Christopher Vogler adapts the major stages of the hero’s journey to the needs of contemporary storytelling. He shows how archetypes, trials, threshold crossings, alliances, confrontations, and the protagonist’s transformation can be used as tools for structuring a narrative. Originally developed with screenwriting in mind but widely applicable to novels and other forms of fiction, the book offers a method for organi…

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Book 1992

Libérez votre créativité

Julia Cameron offers a twelve-week program designed to reconnect with creativity and overcome the blocks that hinder artistic expression. Through regular practices such as Morning Pages, Artist Dates, and a series of progressive exercises, she encourages readers to rediscover confidence, curiosity, and freedom in the creative process. The book combines introspection with practical work to help build a more lasting, …

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Book 1992

Paulo Coelho : The Valkyries

In 1988, the year in which the Alchemist was published, Paulo Coelho and his wife, Chris, began a forty-day journey into the Mojave Desert, California. There they met Vahalla, the first of the Valkyries – the mysterious bunch of women crisscrossing the desert on horseback. Following his example, Paulo Coelho faced the demons of his past, sought his guardian angel and asked: Are we condemned to destroy what we love m…

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Book 1990

Comment écrire de la fantasy et de la science-fiction

Orson Scott Card presents the fundamentals of writing fantasy and science fiction, drawing on his experience as an author. He explores the creation of believable worlds, their rules and inhabitants, exposition, and narrative consistency, while explaining how to structure a story around milieu, idea, character, or event. From the initial concept to the construction of the narrative, the book offers practical guidance…

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Book 1990

Créer des personnages inoubliables

Linda Seger examines the elements that make characters believable, complex, and memorable. She explores their motivations, contradictions, relationships, internal consistency, and development throughout a story. Through practical tools, the book helps writers create characters capable of carrying a narrative and engaging an audience, both in film and in fiction.

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Book 1990

Exercice du scénario

Jean-Claude Carrière and Pascal Bonitzer approach screenwriting through concrete situations, problems, and exercises. Drawing on their experience in cinema, they explore story construction, scene writing, the role of image and dialogue, and the constraints of collaborative work. The book offers a practical approach to screenwriting, closely connected to the realities of filmmaking.

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Book 1990

Le Zen dans l'art de l'écriture

In this collection of essays, Ray Bradbury reflects on his relationship with imagination, reading, and the craft of writing. He advocates a creative practice driven by curiosity, enthusiasm, and consistency, while emphasizing the need to overcome fear and self-censorship. Through memories, reflections, and advice, the book presents a deeply personal vision of writing as a living practice fueled by pleasure, experien…

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Book 1990

Paulo Coelho : Brida

Brida is a young Irish woman with supernatural powers who embarks on an unbridled quest for wisdom and magic. Enchanting characters, wise men, magicians and other mysterious beings will help her discover the world around her while discovering herself. A novel about self-searching, the mysteries of life, love, desire, fidelity and communication.

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Book 1989

Stephen R. Covey : The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Inescapable work, The 7 habits of those who realize all that they undertake have been translated into forty languages and have inspired millions of people around the world. Stephen R. Covey synthesizes centuries of wisdom and offers a true odyssey at the heart of human nature and its values. Thanks to a clever mix of talent, compassion and experience, each page contributes to fundamental awareness. Don't delay, disc…

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Book 1988

Paulo Coelho : The Alchemist

"My heart fears suffering," said the young man to the Alchemist, one night that they were looking at the sky without a moon.""Tell him that the fear of suffering is worse than suffering itself. "And that no heart has ever suffered while he was in pursuit of his dreams." Santiago, a young Andalusian shepherd, leaves in search of a treasure buried at the foot of the Pyramids. When he meets the Alchemist in the desert,…

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Book 1988

Personnages et Point de vue

Orson Scott Card explores the techniques used to create believable characters and choose the point of view best suited to their story. He shows how motivations, background, conflicts, relationships, and behavior gradually bring a protagonist to life, while also examining how the narrator’s position determines what readers know, feel, and understand. By working with narrative distance and the flow of information, the…

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Book 1987

Faire d'un bon scénario un scénario formidable

Linda Seger shows how to turn a good idea into a stronger screenplay through a genuine process of rewriting. From the initial concept to the final revisions, she offers practical methods for improving structure, dialogue, imagery, point of view, and dramatic effectiveness. The book also helps writers identify weaknesses in a screenplay and find solutions to make the story clearer, more powerful, and more compelling.

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Book 1987

Lise Bourbeau: Listen to your body

Thanks to her perseverance and her great faith, Lise Bourbeau brings a great message through her experience. Among other things, she continually proves that by loving herself and accepting this inner God, everything is possible because it is in perfect harmony with the great natural laws. For several years she has been teaching, making lectures, writing articles in magazines and newspapers and is regularly invited t…

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Book 1987

Paulo Coelho : The Pilgrimage

In 1986, Paulo Coelho began the pilgrimage of Santiago de Compostela, on the road taken by millions of believers since the Middle Ages. From this initiatory journey, the stages of which he recounts here, the man came out transformed, convinced that "the extraordinary is on the path of ordinary people". He restores, in a simple and fluid style, his adventure as a universal experience. "This edition is published with …

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Book 1986

J. R. R. Tolkien: The Book of Lost Tales

These tales from the writer's youth (1916-1917) will be of particular interest to those who are familiar with his work. [SDM].

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Book 1986

L'Écriture créative

Louis Timbal-Duclaux presents five techniques designed to stimulate the imagination, generate ideas, and develop more inventive writing. The book explores the connections between creativity, written expression, and communication, showing how to overcome creative blocks, renew one’s approach, and find more personal ways to express ideas. It offers a practical method that can enrich both literary writing and everyday …

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Book 1986

The Robot Cycle, Volume 7: The robot who dreamed

In this collection, Isaac Asimov explores the relationships between humans, robots and artificial intelligence. The new title features LVX-1, a robot who claims to dream and forces robopsychologist Susan Calvin to question what a mechanical consciousness could become.

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Book 1982

Aristotle: Of the soul

What is the soul? This fundamental question finds in Aristotle an answer which may seem confusing. We expect a psychology, and he places the soul within the framework of a natural science; we are about to read a reflection on the mind or thought, and it deals with the constitutive principle of all living things - plants and animals included - to define the soul by the nutritive, sensitive, appetitive and intellectiv…

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Book 1982

The Robot Cycle, Volume 8: We the robots

This vast anthology brings together Isaac Asimov's new robotics, from the first automatons to the machines closest to human beings. Through the Three Laws of Robotics, it depicts the logical, moral and social dilemmas caused by their coexistence with humanity.

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Book 1979

Le Langage de la nuit : Essais sur la science-fiction et la fantasy

In this collection of essays, Ursula K. Le Guin reflects on the place of science fiction, fantasy, and imaginative literature more broadly within culture and literature. She explores their symbolic power, their ability to imagine alternative forms of society, and their role in understanding reality, while also addressing themes such as feminism, anarchism, and children’s literature. Together, these essays form a com…

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Book 1979

Syd Field : Scénario Les bases de la narration cinématographique

Syd Field presents the fundamentals of cinematic storytelling, from the initial idea to the construction of a screenplay through acts and scenes. He explains the role of plot points, conflict, and characters in dramatic progression, while offering a clear method for structuring a story intended for the screen.

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Book 1967

Napoleon Hill : Grow Rich! With Peace of Mind

Napoleon Hill connects material success with inner peace. He proposes to master his fears, habits and relationship to time in order to pursue prosperity without sacrificing his balance.

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Book 1959

Napoleon Hill : Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude

Napoleon Hill and W. Clement Stone show how a positive mental attitude, coupled with specific goals and persevering action, can turn difficulties into opportunities for progress.

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Book 1954

J. R. R. Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings (Complete)

Frodo Baggins inherits the One Ring, the instrument of power forged by Sauron. Accompanied by his allies, he must cross Middle-earth to destroy it in the flames of the Mountain of Destiny. This edition brings together the entire novel in Daniel Lauzon's translation.

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Book 1954

Leibniz: Principles of nature and grace founded in reason

Leibniz's philosophy posed a thousand questions to his contemporaries. On the essentials: the notions of monad, force and matter, the union of the soul with its body, the problem of Evil – and on the validity of the solutions proposed by pre-established harmony. Hence the writing, in 1714, two years before his death, of two systematic abridgements of his philosophy, the famous Monadology and the exemplary Principles…

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Book 1953

Napoleon Hill : How to Raise Your Own Salary

Through a dialogue dedicated to success, Napoleon Hill sets out concrete principles to develop its professional value, initiative and ability to obtain better pay.

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Book 1950

Descartes: Principles of Philosophy

In the Principia philosophiae, published for the first time in Latin in 1644, Descartes sets out in a synthetic form what the analyzes of the Meditations and the Discourse had brought to light, namely the articulation between the general principles of human knowledge, the principles of the sciences and his discoveries on the structure of the physical world. It is in the Letter-preface to its French translator, Abbe …

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Book 1949

Le Héros aux mille et un visages

Joseph Campbell explores major mythological narratives across cultures and eras to reveal a recurring structure he calls the “monomyth,” or hero’s journey. The call to adventure, trials, encounters, transformation, achievement, and return form the major stages of this archetypal path. By drawing connections between ancient myths, religions, legends, and heroic tales, the book shows how widely different stories can s…

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Book 1948

Dale Carnegie : How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

Dale Carnegie proposes concrete methods to reduce anxiety, analyse problems in hindsight and act on what depends on oneself. Examples illustrate each principle.

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Book 1945

Napoleon Hill : The Master-Key to Riches

In short, it is an indispensable reading for anyone who wants to improve his life, the word "rich" is often used to speak of economic benefits or material goods. However, Napoleon Hill shows in this text that the term encompasses much more than that. It reveals the method by which every adversity, every failure, every disappointment, every error of judgment and every past defeat can be transformed into priceless ric…

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Book 1937

Napoleon Hill : Think and Grow Rich

What do you want more than anything? Money, glory, power, development, personality, serenity, happiness? The thirteen steps towards wealth described in this book offer the shortest ever illustrated philosophy on which one can rely for individual development, for the benefit of the man or woman who seeks a specific goal in life. After reading this book carefully, Dr. Miller Reese Hutchison, known at the national leve…

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Book 1936

Dale Carnegie : How to Win Friends and Influence People

Our relationships with others are crucial to our quality of life!Easy contact is a powerful engine of success: to be sought for its human qualities, to create sympathy, to pass on its ideas, to motivate, to correct without ruining a working relationship... It learns! This book, useful for all ages and in all trades, will give you all the advice to develop quality human relations, necessary for professional and perso…

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Book 1928

Morphologie du conte

Vladimir Propp examines the structure of wonder tales by focusing less on the characters themselves than on the functions they perform within the story. Drawing on a large body of tales, he identifies a series of recurring actions—departure, prohibition, trial, assistance, confrontation, return—that tend to follow relatively stable patterns. His analysis reveals a common architecture beneath stories that may otherwi…

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Book 1928

Napoleon Hill : The Law of Success

It was in 1908 that Napoleon Hill was approached by Andrew Carnegie. Following an interview to write an article for a magazine, Mr. Carnegie offered Mr. Hill to make him meet the most powerful men of the time, with the aim of discovering the secrets of their success. Once this philosophy was clearly described, it could be used by all those who wanted to help create their own success and realize their dreams. In 1927…

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Book 1926

Dale Carnegie : Public Speaking and Influencing Men in Business

To overcome the fear that bothers a group, to be listened to, to appreciate, to be able to captivate its listeners, is learnt. To train to communicate well, the Carnegie methods remain the most effective.

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Book 1895

Les 36 situations dramatiques

Georges Polti develops the idea that a limited number of fundamental situations can generate an infinite variety of stories. He identifies thirty-six of them, each defined by specific forces, roles, and tensions: revenge, rivalry, sacrifice, pursuit, supplication, family conflict, and more. Drawing on examples from theatre, novels, folktales, and history, he shows how these situations can be varied, combined, and tr…

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Book 1837

Hegel: Lectures on the Philosophy of History

Hegel interprets universal history as the progressive development of the consciousness of freedom. Through the great political and cultural forms, the Spirit transforms conflicts, passions and institutions into moments of a rational process whose necessity philosophy seeks to understand.

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Book 1820

Hegel: Elements of the Philosophy of Right

Published in 1820 by Hegel, the Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts, a work known in France under the title of Principles of the Philosophy of Law, is one of the major works of modern philosophy. On the basis of a considerably expanded idea of law, corresponding to all the manifestations of what he calls “objective spirit”, Hegel successively exposes the structures of “abstract law” (which corresponds to private …

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Book 1817

Hegel: Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences

Hegel's Encyclopedia of Philosophical Sciences is the first, but also the last total thought of reality which bases its necessity on the identity of the rigorously respected self-identity of thought and the concretely explored difference from itself of reality; concept and experience triumph here jointly. This first part of the work - the science of logic - which dialectically deploys all the meanings organically en…

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Book 1807

Hegel: The Phenomenology of Spirit

The Phenomenology of Spirit is not only a decisive work in the history of philosophy: it is also, alongside Shakespeare's theater or Dante's Divine Comedy, one of the major works of Western culture. Completed in a hurry, published in 1807 in a Europe agitated by the Napoleonic wars, it had a late success: in France, it was not until the 20th century that we recognized in it the summit of German idealist philosophy –…

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Book 1797

Kant: The Metaphysics of Morals

Kant applies the principles of his moral philosophy to law and virtue. The Doctrine of Law analyzes the external conditions allowing the freedom of each person to coexist with that of others; The Doctrine of Virtue sets out the duties that the subject gives to himself, towards himself and towards others.

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Book 1795

Kant: Toward Perpetual Peace

Towards Perpetual Peace appeared in 1795. The work, which was a great success, closed a movement to rationalize the law which determined universal norms for peace without regard for the cultural or religious identity of the parties involved. It thus continues the movement of legal theologians who had to reflect on the legal aspects of the conquest of America, where most historians of international law trace the syst…

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Book 1793

Kant: Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason

A small treatise on philosophical theology, and not strictly biblical, this is how Kant presented his work to the theologian Matern Reuss in 1793. This work deals with natural religion as conceived by the philosopher Konisgberg, that is to say a religion above all rational and reasonable. Its object is in fact the faith of man which is based solely on reason: a faith in which every man could and should rediscover, b…

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Book 1790

Kant: Critique of Judgment

Kant studies the faculty of judging through beauty, the sublime and the organization of life. Aesthetic judgment claims a common validity without relying on a determined concept; teleological judgment thinks of natural beings as ends. The work thus seeks a passage between nature and freedom.

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Book 1788

Kant: Critique of Practical Reason

“The moral law is holy (inviolable). Man is undoubtedly very far from holiness, but the humanity in his person must be holy for him. In all of creation, whatever one wants, and whatever one has power over, can also be used simply as a means; man alone, and with him every reasonable creature, is end in himself. He is, in fact, thanks to the autonomy of his freedom, the subject of the moral law, which is holy. It is p…

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Book 1785

Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

What are the Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals and the Critique of Practical Reason about? On the foundation of moral discourse, of a coherent discourse, absolutely valid for all beings endowed with reason, binding on everything that is finite and reasonable. It is not a question of morality in the traditional sense of the term, of a system of rules of conduct for concrete situations, of precise prescriptions…

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Book 1783

Kant: Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics

Kant presents in a more accessible form the central problem of the Critique of Pure Reason: how is synthetic a priori knowledge possible? By examining the conditions of mathematics, physics and metaphysics, he clarifies the limits of reason and the foundations of his critical philosophy.

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Book 1782

Rousseau: Confessions

The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau is an autobiography covering the first fifty-three years of Rousseau's life, until 1765. The twelve books of the Confessions are divided into two distinct sets, defined by Rousseau himself: the first part consisting of books i to vi with the Preamble, written in 1765-1767, covers the years 1712-1740 (years of training, from birth in Geneva to settling in Paris at age 28) whil…

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Book 1782

Rousseau: Reveries of a Solitary Walker

After the "Confessions" and "Rousseau judge of Jean-Jacques", the philosopher wrote between 1776 and 1778 these "Rêveries d'un promeneur solitaire" before ending his days with René-Louis de Girardin at the Château d'Ermenonville. Sketched out day by day on playing cards before being composed and structured into ten “walks” – the last remaining unfinished – they were only published posthumously in 1782, in Geneva, by…

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Book 1781

Kant: Critique of Pure Reason

The Critique of Pure Reason revolutionized our relationship to knowledge. The Introduction from 1787 reproduced in the present edition is the royal road to enter this cathedral work. The text offers a powerful definition of the overall objective of Critique: to trace the boundaries of human knowledge. But the stakes are even greater. It is a question of determining the destiny of metaphysics, whether to place it bac…

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Book 1770

Voltaire: Questions on the Encyclopedia

Voltaire "undertook to bring together, in the form of a dictionary, all the ideas, all the views which offered themselves to him on the various objects of his reflections, that is to say on the almost complete universality of human knowledge. In this collection, modestly entitled Questions à des amateurs <i>sur l'Encyclopédie, he speaks in turn about theology and grammar, physics and literature; he discusses sometim…

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Book 1766

Voltaire: The Ignorant Philosopher

Voltaire was 72 years old in 1766 when The Ignorant Philosopher was published, a mischievous invitation to a journey around the world of philosophy. Mocking Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz – the will is no more free than it is blue or square, he opposes the first –, praising the analyzes of Pierre Bayle and John Locke, Voltaire criticizes above all the systematic spirit of philosophers, which lies in wait for the fai…

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Book 1764

Voltaire: Philosophical Dictionary

On February 28, 1766, the Chevalier de La Barre, an eighteen-year-old young man accused of having kept his hat on and singing impious songs as a procession passed, was condemned to have his tongue cut out, his hand cut off, and to be burned slowly. On his pyre, as a symbol, a copy of the Philosophical Dictionary is also burned. This shows the role of Voltaire and his “diabolical Dictionary” in the fight of the Enlig…

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Book 1763

Voltaire: Treatise on Tolerance

A philosophical essay published in 1763 then completed in 1765, the “Treatise on Tolerance” is based on the death sentence in 1762 of the Protestant Jean Calas. Unjustly accused of having killed his son who wanted to convert to Catholicism, he was tried and condemned without evidence by thirteen judges in Toulouse. Denouncing the fanatical religious character which animated this trial, Voltaire first exposes the sit…

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Book 1762

Rousseau: Emile, or On Education

The publication of L'Émile, in 1762, restored the problem of education to its central place in philosophy. From his first months until his romantic encounter, Émile is followed at each stage, through experiences which first attest to the concern to consider “the child within the child”, instead of taking him out of his age. Rousseau shows that it is possible to educate a man according to nature and how vices and ine…

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Book 1762

Rousseau: The Social Contract

In The Social Contract, Rousseau establishes that a “just” social organization is based on a pact guaranteeing equality and freedom between all citizens. This pact is contracted between all the participants, that is to say the exhaustive set of citizens. In the social compact, everyone gives up their natural freedom to gain civil freedom. Popular sovereignty is the fundamental principle of the social contract. The i…

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Book 1761

Rousseau: Julie, or the New Heloise

“I saw the customs of my time, and I published these letters”: it is with these words that the “editor” Rousseau opens La Nouvelle Héloïse, a romantic correspondence between Julie d’Étange and her tutor Saint-Preux. On the shores of Lake Geneva, these “beautiful souls” form a small ideal society, where gentle passions and sincerity of feeling prevail, away from the evils of civilization. In line with Montesquieu's …

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Book 1759

Voltaire: Candide

In our time, Candide is Voltaire's most famous work. It was not always this way. Even for mortals like Voltaire, less condemned to oblivion than the rest of us, we don't really choose our destiny. That’s how it is, we spend our lives making mistakes, we fight against chimeras, we are deceived, flouted, betrayed, we hope, we are disappointed, and we end our lives by returning to the starting point. That way, we proba…

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Book 1755

Rousseau: Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Men

The "Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Men" is one of the greatest texts ever written, one of the most beautiful of the Enlightenment, and one of Rousseau's two great essays with "The Social Contract". For Chomsky, it is a fundamentally revolutionary text avant la lettre. Rousseau sees inequality as the origin of social ills: wars, poverty, violence of all kinds. From the persistence of ine…

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Book 1751

Hume: An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

Hume seeks the origin of our moral judgments in human experience. He examines utility, benevolence, sympathy and the feeling of approval to show that morality is neither reduced to personal interest nor to an abstract reason: it is rooted in our sensitivity and in common life.

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Book 1750

Rousseau: Discourse on the Sciences and Arts

The Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts is a text by Jean-Jacques Rousseau written as part of the Dijon Academy competition of 1750. Jean-Jacques Rousseau gives voice to the Roman hero Fabricius through prosopopeia in his Discourse. Winner of the competition, Rousseau saw his essay widely commented on and owed his fame to it, well before his magnum opus The Social Contract. As required by the competition, the spe…

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Book 1748

Hume: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“It is vain to pretend to teach the principles and contents of Hume's philosophy. And the problem is not to leave room for controversy, but to understand that we are not dealing with a system, that the principles are obscure and that the contents are skeptical. The career of commentary is indefinitely open, as long as one does not fall into dogmatism. Through a constantly deceptive rationality, Hume brings all those…

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Book 1748

Montesquieu: The Spirit of the Laws

A true political summation, On the Spirit of the Laws (1748) is Montesquieu’s masterpiece. The author engages in reflection on the different governments, a survey of human societies and a comparative analysis of laws, in order to train everyone to evaluate legislative intervention. By attempting to grasp the “spirit of the laws” – or the relationships that the laws have with the climate, religion, morals, wealth an…

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Book 1741

Hume: Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary

Through their diversity, depth of reflection and elegance of style, these essays perfectly serve Hume's purpose: that of developing a practical philosophy, closely linked to common life. Some titles of these essays: The Delicacy of Taste and the Delicacy of Passion, On Freedom of the Press, On Impudence and Modesty, On Love and Marriage, On the Study of History, On the Independence of Parliament...

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Book 1739

Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature

It was in 1734, at the age of twenty-three, that the young David Hume began writing A Treatise on Human Nature. Complex and polymorphous, this Treatise aims to establish a “science of man”, that is to say a science whose object would be the human being, studied as a phenomenon. It consists of three books, the first two of which appeared in 1739 and the third in 1740.

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Book 1734

Montesquieu: The Rise and Fall of the Romans

Writing about Rome: after Bossuet, Saint-Evremond and so many others, the company no longer had, in 1734, the merit of novelty. However, Montesquieu was able to renew this “worn material”, in the words of Voltaire who recognized in the Considerations “very fine reflections and very strong paintings”. As a true historian – and no longer as a storyteller – the writer describes ancient Rome, its power, its abuses and i…

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Book 1734

Voltaire: Philosophical Letters

Compared to the work of Diderot, Montesquieu and Rousseau, the philosophical work of Voltaire does not seem to carry much weight. We know Voltaire as a storyteller, poet, playwright, historian, politician... what about Voltaire as a philosopher? The texts brought together in this volume, from his first polemical work – the famous Philosophical Letters – to his latest writings on God, less known, invite us to discove…

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Book 1728

Blaise Pascal: On the Geometrical Spirit

Pascal analyzes the method specific to geometry: defining the terms, starting from clear principles and stringing together demonstrations with rigor. He also specifies its limits, since all knowledge is based on primary notions that are impossible to define, and thus links scientific method, the art of persuasion and reflection on the powers of reason.

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Book 1721

Montesquieu: Persian Letters

The East and the West, the seraglio and the salons, the intrigues of the sultanas and the coquetry of the Parisians, the muftis and the pope... This is what nourishes the correspondence maintained by Usbek and Rica, Persian lords who left to discover the France of Louis XIV, with their friends who remained in Isfahan. Under the cover of a distant gaze, Montesquieu draws up in the Persian Letters (1721) an uncomprom…

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Book 1689

Locke: A Letter Concerning Toleration

What are the relationships that should exist between the State and the Church, or rather between the State and the Churches? To answer this question, the Letter on Tolerance takes the path of a double reflection on the nature of belief and power. Belief does not depend on will, while power, which is essentially coercive, can only influence the conduct of men in actions where they have the possibility of modifying th…

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Book 1689

Locke: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Published in 1689, Locke's Essay on Human Understanding completed the reconfiguration of the philosophical landscape of modernity. Philosophy now has the task no longer of increasing our knowledge of things, but of analyzing their materials - the ideas - and providing criticism. She sees in man a being dedicated to sensation, desire and anxiety, who can no longer rely on the resources of innateness or divine inspira…

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Book 1670

Blaise Pascal: Thoughts

After the brilliant Provincial campaign, Pascal would have planned to compose an Apology for the Christian religion. When he died, his loved ones undertook to reconstruct this work from the scattered fragments found in his papers: this is how the Pensées were born. Neither a metaphysical treatise, nor mystical autobiography, nor even just an apology for the Christian religion, the Thoughts describe man in his great…

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Book 1655

Hobbes: De Corpore

Published for the first time in 1655, this text is Hobbes' major work in logic, first philosophy and physics, but also one of the greatest metaphysical texts of the 17th century. There we find a theory of logic as calculation, one of the decisive elements of which is a critique of language. This logic is the condition of a first philosophy.

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Book 1651

Hobbes: Leviathan

Leviathan by Hobbes (which appeared in 1651) is one of the rare founding texts of philosophy, like Plato's Republic, to which its author compared it. He lays, in fact, the foundations of the modern political tradition, by inventing the myth of sovereignty: considering their natural state, frightened by the deadly exacerbation of their passions, men decided, through their own faculty of wanting and thinking, to equip…

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Book 1650

Hobbes: The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic

The Elements of Natural and Political Law is Hobbes's first political work. Written in 1640, they circulated in manuscript, just before Hobbes returned to France where he remained in exile for eleven years to escape the horrors of the English civil war. The writing of this work is therefore directly linked to the political context. However, Hobbes accomplished a radical deterritorialization of politics. Far from sta…

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Book 1642

Hobbes: On the Citizen

Retranslated in full for the first time in more than three centuries, Du Citoyen (1642 then 1647) turns out to be much more than a step towards Leviathan. Initially conceived as the third and final section of the Elements of Philosophy, the work was ultimately written and printed before the other two. If the circumstances of the civil war are the occasion for this change of calendar, they above all allow Hobbes to p…

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