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NEDERLAND & VLAANDEREN

NAJAAR 2012

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Ameisen, Jean Claude: Sur les épaules de Darwin

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Bullen, Daniel: The Love Lives of the Artists

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Cayol, Christine & Wu, Hongmiao: A quoi pensent les chinois en regardant Mona Lisa ? 4 Cohen-­‐Ahnine, Candice: Rendez-­moi ma fille

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Dalarun, Jacques: Gouverner, c’est servir

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Durand, Jacky: Cuisiner, un sentiment

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Les Economistes atterrés: L’Europe mal traitée

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Farrely, Elizabeth: Blubberland

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Ferro, Marc: La vérité sur la tragédie des Romanov

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Gaensler, Bryan: Extreme Cosmos

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Gilbert, Guy: Selected titles

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Hennezel, Marie de & Vergely, Bertrand: Une vie pour se mettre au monde

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Janssen, Thierry: Confidences d’un homme en quête de coherence

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Latouche, Serge: Bon pour la casse

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Leichter-­‐Flack, Frédérique: Le laboratoire des cas de conscience

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Mathiot, Maurice: Carnets d’un vieil amoureux

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Olivier, Laurent: Nos ancêtres les Germains

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Séry, Macha: Ceci est pour vous

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Faucher, Marie: Les cahiers de Lili Rose

Giraud, Gaël & Renouard, Cécile: Facteur 12

Werth, Alexander: La bataille de Moscou, 1941

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THE LOVE LIVES OF THE ARTISTS. Five Stories of Creative Intimacy – Daniel Bullen

Literary Essay | Counterpoint Press (USA) | 336 pp. | 2011 | Sold: Brazil and Korea

Five artist couples, five open relationships: Lou Andreas-­‐Salomé and Rilke, Stieglitz and O'Keeffe, Sartre and Beauvoir, Diego and Frida, and Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin. The Love Lives of the Artists follows these artists' relationships from childhood and artistic development through years of shared vision, affairs, crises of conscience, deepening intimacy and continued creativity. Taken together, these five stories examine the challenges and the rewards of practicing creativity in love.

A captivating exploration ~ Kirkus | Totally engrossing ~ Amity Gaige, author of The Folded World | The Love Lives of the Artists will have significance for anyone with a creative streak ~ The Erotic Review Magazine

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BLUBBERLAND. The Dangers of Happiness – Elizabeth Farrelly

Society -­‐ Architecture| New-­‐South Wales UP (AUS) | 288 pp. | 2007

Why is western humanity richer and safer than ever before, also fatter, sadder and more fearful? Blubberland is a witty and engaging critique of the way we live now. It covers architecture and city-making but looks also at why we desire, what we mean by beauty, our friend-foe relationship with nature and why truth is a life and death thing, even when we think we don’t believe in it.

Elizabeth Farrelly is a leading architecture critic and writer.

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EXTREME COSMOS – Bryan Gaensler

Astronomy – Popular Science | New-­‐South Wales UP (AUS) | 224 pp. | 2011

Sold: Italy (Dedalo), World English excl ANZ (Penguin US) Extreme Cosmos provides a stunning new view of the way the universe works, seen through the lens of extremes: the fastest, hottest, brightest, densest and even the loudest. It not only offers amazing facts and figures but also reveals the richness of the universe and the incredible physics that modern astronomy has unveiled.

Bryan Gaensler succeeds, in a refreshing, direct and uncomplicated style, to take us on journey through the extreme Universe. The result is a book that is as entertaining as educational and which fascinates both amateurs and professionals ~ Prof. Dr. Michael Kramer, Director - Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany

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SUR LES EPAULES DE DARWIN (On the Shoulders of Darwin) – Jean Claude Ameisen

French | Popular Science | Les Liens Qui Libèrent | 380 pp. | October 2012

Jean Claude Ameisen takes us on a journey to meet ourselves, the world, birds, nature, evolution... He makes us discover a universe that is always richer and more mysterious than we can perceive, that has made us come into existence, and that we’ll never finish exploring. His journey leads us to perceive the relationships between science and ethics, which are constantly renewed and on which the future of the societies we construct depends. A dazzling performance!

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A QUOI PENSENT LES CHINOIS EN REGARDANT MONA LISA ?

(What Do The Chinese Think When They Look At The Mona Lisa?)

– Christine Cayol & Wu Hongmiao

Sociology | Tallandier | approx. 250 pp. | October 2012

A new dialogue that shares the philosophies, ethics and politics of two civilizations, that don’t know each other well, and questions together the notion of society. What do the Chinese think when they discover in the Louvre what we consider a masterpiece?

What do they think of us? What do they think of our culture? These western works of art occupy such a visual place and feed our perception of the world in such a loaded way that we consider them our works.

Art becomes a pretext to bridging mutually unknown civilizations and a means to compare two schools of thought – Paris and Beijing.

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RENDEZ-­MOI MA FILLE (Give Me Back My Daughter) – Candice Cohen-­Ahnine

True Story | L’Archipel | 264 pp. | November 2011

Sold: UK (John Blake), Czech Rep. | English sample available soon

Candice was 18 when she fell in love with Sattam, a Saudi prince, heir to the royal family. But when their daughter Haya is born in 2001, her prince charming reveals another face. The young French woman is kidnapped by his family, and suffers physical and mental abuse until she manages to find shelter at the French Embassy in Riyadh.

Since September 2008, Aya is held prisoner in Saudi Arabia by her father’s family.

Candice escaped death sentence and could fly home thanks to French foreign affairs.

She died under suspicious circumstances in Paris in August 2012. Since her return, she had been fighting to regain custody of her daughter.

A mother’s ordeal as gripping as Betty Mahmoody’s Not Without My Daughter

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GOUVERNER C’EST SERVIR (To Rule Is To Serve) – Jacques Dalarun

History | Alma Editeur | 300 pp. | March 2012

The Political Paradox of the Middle Ages In the thirteenth century, the founders of religious orders - starting with Francis of Assisi revolutionize “governance.” According to the Gospel, he who holds the power must be at the service of those he governs, and challenged constantly. A very topical message.

Using unpublished sources, the author vigorously brings the actors of this revolution back to life. In the wake of Michel Foucault, he sheds light on an anti-establishment and political Judeo-Christian tradition that is different from the Greco-Roman model, and which is still applied in the democracies of the twenty-first century

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CUISINER, UN SENTIMENT (Cooking, An Emotion) – Jacky Durand

Food Philosophy | Carnets Nord | 342 pp. | April 2012

Jacky Durand is a journalist for Libération, in which he has a weekly food column.

Combining sketches of his meetings, personal reflections, considerations on the world as it goes, and recipes, without the slightest hint of nostalgia, this book will make your mouth water and your heart fill up with emotions. Because life is vaster when you're cooking with your heart.

It is the perfect companion for the food lover and it will appeal to readers of Anthony Bourdain as well as to those who have always been fascinated by the unique relationship the French have with cooking.

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L’EUROPE, MALTRAITEE (Europe, Badly Treated) – Les Economistes Atterrés

Economics -­‐ Current Affairs | Les Liens Qui Libèrent | 65 pp. | May 2012

By offering a detailed analysis and a sharp critique of the EU Fiscal Compact, the appalled economists follow their vocation: they give citizens the information allowing us to seize the debate and let ourselves be heard so that no-­‐one but us will decide the future.

The Appallled Economists are a collective of French academics (more than 700 signed their manifesto which was translated into 20 languages and has sold more than 80,000 copies in France alone). For the most part they work in research institutes from where they attack the established and eternal economic models and the so-­‐ called truths presented in the media and by politicians.

Also available: -­‐ The Manifesto of the Appalled Economists -­‐ Change our Economy!

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LES CAHIERS DE LILI ROSE. 9 ans en 1940 (The Notebook of Lili Rose. 9 Years Old in 1940) – Marie Faucher

History | Carnets Nord | 208 pp. | January 2012

Paris, 1940: Marie-­‐Julie Rosenrot, who goes by the nickname of Lili Rose, is nine years old when the Exodus begins. The Rosenrot family leaves Paris to set off on its journey, and Lili begins her diary in which she recounts her daily life with innocence.

Marie Faucher was Lili, and she found her notebooks again in an attic, years later.

Today, these notebooks are still tinged with humor and sorrow: it is through the innocence of childhood that Lili sees this life that causes so much anguish for parents, that is made up of ration cards, deprivation, and fear of war.

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LA VERITE SUR LA TRAGEDIE DES ROMANOV (The Truth About the Romanov Tragedy) – Marc Ferro

History | Tallandier | 150 pp. | October 2012

On the night of the 16th of July 1918, the Bolsheviks executed Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra and their children. That is the official version of events, one that Marc Ferro never believed. This book charts his journey to uncover the truth. The recent discovery of Olga’s diary proves that the Tsarina and daughters were not murdered that night. Ferro remarks that historians have been happy to regurgitate the White Russian version of how the story unfolded. He feels there were too many improbabilities in the judicial report and too many unofficial witnesses were eliminated. At last Ferro sheds light on one of the greatest secrets of the 20th century and one of history’s true taboos.

World-­‐famous historian Marc Ferro has been haunted by this story for 20 years. His biography of Nicholas II: The Last of the Tsars was published in 1990 by Payot & Rivages and was then translated into numerous languages.

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Guy Gilbert

Society -­‐ Religion | Philippe Rey

Each spring, since May 2008, Guy Gilbert’s series of “Little Books” sheds a different, spiritual and caring light on major issues in contemporary society. They have all been very popular with the public and have become long-­‐sellers, with sales that vary between 25,000 and 6,000 copies.

Recently published: The Couple. How To Succeed the Great Adventure of Love Take Care of Others. Solidarity, The Urgency of Our Time

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FACTEUR 12. Pourquoi il faut plafonner les revenus (Factor 12. Why Income Should Be Capped) – G. Giraud & C. Renouard

Economics – Current Affairs | Carnets Nord | 246 pp. | March 2012

An economist and a philosopher indicate how reducing income disparities could help overcome the crisis and move on to tomorrow's economy. They bring us irrefutable arguments with supporting evidence: disparities are factors of economic inefficiency.

Criticizing in passing the “German model,” they blame the increase in economic disparities for the unbearable debt increase-­‐-­‐-­‐the more a society is unequal, the more health and social costs are significant-­‐-­‐-­‐and advocate a reduction of these disparities to finance the transition to an economy that is less energy-­‐craving and budget-­‐craving.

This economics book scans all the arguments that naturally come to mind ~ Le Monde supplement, May 2012

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UNE VIE POUR SE METTRE AU MONDE (A Life Delivered. All Is Well That Ends Well) – M. de Hennezel & B. Vergely

Personal Development -­‐ Spirituality | Carnets Nord | 224 pp. | 2010

Today when we think of getting old we think of “loss”. Loss of strength, loss of work (retirement), loss of place in society. It has become pejorative. It is as if growing old has become a sickness when it is, in fact, the lot of mankind, from birth. Life from the very beginning is about getting older. And so much the better, argues this book. This book stems from a seminary on “ageing well” held by the authors during which they discussed growing old, maturing and accomplishment with warmness and humanity. To mature is to age well, it is to deepen, to gain substance, gravity and nobility. It is the distinction between green and ripe fruit, one is acidic and uneatable the other tasty and full of goodness.

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CONFIDENCES D’UN HOMME EN QUETE DE COHERENCE (Confessions of a Man in Search of Coherence) – Thierry Janssen

Self Help -­‐ Memoir | Les Liens Qui Libèrent | 180 pp. | September 2012

In 2009, aged 36, the author fell victim to facial paralysis while he was touring the world to give lectures on the meaning of illness. But is anyone ever simply a victim?

This book helps us to reflect on the possibility of taking control of our destiny by making choices that aren’t always easy. By training himself first in different psychotherapeutic approaches, and then initiating himself to healers’ techniques, he manages to establish a bridge between many practices, traditions and cultures and becomes what he calls a “surgeon of the soul.”

Initial print run: 20,000 copies

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BON POUR LA CASSE (Breakdown Guaranteed) – Serge Latouche

Society -­‐ Environment | Les Liens Qui Libèrent | 138 pp. | October 2012

An original book on the little-­‐known but stupefying phenomenon, which affects us all – planned obsolescence. This process was first put into practice in the United States in the middle of the 19th century and it was designed to stimulate consumption and get people hooked on a product. This is the dark side of capitalism revealed by Serge Latouche, who gives us numerous eloquently cited examples. He also rings the alarm bell: Can we accept to live in a society, where resources are scarce, which multiplies demand through wastage, one knock on effect being massive environmental damage?

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LE LABORATOIRE DES CAS DE CONSCIENCE (The Matter of Conscience Laboratory) – F. Leichter-­Flack

Philosophy, Literary Studies | Alma Editeur | 180 pp. | February 2012 How far should our solidarity go for someone who means nothing to us? How to do justice when there is a loss of life, but neither responsible nor culprit can be summoned? Is it right to die for one's ideas? Frédérique Leichter-­‐Flack, assistant professor in the humanities and comparative literature, proposes us to ponder about today's crucial philosophical and ethical issues with Kafka and Gogol, Camus and Melville, Dostoyevsky and Hugo.

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NOTES FROM AN OLD LOVER – Marcel Mathiot

Memoir | Philippe Rey | 208 pp. | May 2011 | German Translation Available

Sold: Brazil (Objetiva), China (Shanghai Literature and Arts), Germany (Piper), Italy (Rizzoli), Romania (Humanitas), Spain.

Preface by Philippe Delerm, author of the highly successful We Could Almost Eat Outside: An appreciation of life’s small pleasures (Picador).

For 77 years, Marcel Mathiot wrote one page per day in his diary, until his death in 2004. He covers everything: the War, the German occupation, his job as a teacher, but above all, he writes of love in all its forms. Written with a vigorous style, these notes make an exceptional document that shatters the image of sexless old age. It is an elixir against giving up.

A passionate document ~ Nouvel Observateur | This stunning book […] is not only a celebration of the very elderly's sexuality, but also a moving journey through the 20th century ~ Le Monde des Livres

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NOS ANCETRES LES GERMAINS (Our Ancestors the Germans) – Laurent Olivier

History | Tallandier | 250 pp. | August 2012

Put to work by the Nazis, archaeology supplied scientific legitimacy to racial purification and the “Germanification” carried out by the Third Reich.

It was an embarrassing secret that weighed heavily on post-­‐war European archaeology.

It was impossible to recognize that, while Nazi planners were reorganizing Europe through exterminations and displacing whole populations to people a new Europe dominated by a “Greater Germany”, archaeologists were rewriting the history of a European continent; mastered since the origin of man by the conquests of a “superior German race”.

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CECI EST POUR VOUS (Friendship to the Letter) – Macha Séry

Essay | Philippe Rey | 334 pp. | September 2012

Starting from the idea that “books are letters that one writes to one’s friends” (Roger Nimier), this accessible and perfectly documented book gives us access to an oddly neglected aspect of some of the most famous writers of French literature and their works.

To whom does one address a novel? To the reader, of course; one and the same anonymous person. But authors sometimes slip in a private message, and thus turn their book into a personal offering to a person, present or not, who has supported or inspired them. This is how names, often mentioned in the dedication, have unjustly remained in the shadow and the margin of books. Macha Séry sets off to look for them.

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LA BATAILLE DE MOSCOU, 1941 (The Battle of Moscow, 1941) – Alexander Werth

History | Tallandier | 304 pp. | October 2012

Presented by Alexander Werth – Translated by Evelyn Werth

The Battle of Moscow 1941 is a unique account of a key moment in the war on the Eastern front, when the Nazis seemed invincible.

The first of three War Notes by Alexander Werth from his time in the USSR, Moscow 41 describes the atmosphere in the Soviet capital during the terrible summer of 1941.

A summer marked by the first months of Operation Barbarossa, the collapse of the Red Army and the Battle of Moscow.

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