«Tools and Weapons»: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age. With a foreword by Bill Gates.
From Microsoft’s President and one of the tech industry’s wisest thinkers, a frank and thoughtful reckoning with how to balance enormous promise and existential risk as the digitization of everything accelerates.
Microsoft President Brad Smith operates by a simple core […]
«Year of the Monkey»: A beautiful meditation by Patti on the year she turned 70. A little treasure of a book.
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train. A profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.
Following a run of New Year’s concerts at San […]
«En Camping-car». Ivan Jablonka fait preuve d’une sensibilité qui ne diminue en rien l’acuité de sa méthode d’investigation.
Le camping-car nous a emmenés au Portugal, en Grèce, au Maroc, à Tolède, à Venise. Il était pratique, génialement conçu. Il m’a appris à être libre, tout en restant fidèle aux chemins de l’exil. Par la suite, j’ai toujours […]
«The Nordic Theory of Everything»: a book you desperately need to add to your to-read pile.
A Finnish journalist, now a naturalized American citizen, asks Americans to draw on elements of the Nordic way of life to nurture a fairer, happier, more secure, and less stressful society for themselves and their children.
Moving to America in 2008, […]
«12 Rules for Life»: An Antidote to Chaos. The number 1 International Bestseller
Gripping, thought-provoking and deeply rewarding, «12 Rules for Life» offers an antidote to the chaos in our lives. Eternal truths applied to our modern problems.
Jordan Peterson’s work as a clinical psychologist has reshaped the modern understanding of personality. And now he has become one […]
«Bloody Brilliant Women»: A treasure of trove and inspiration for women of today and tomorrow.
In this freewheeling history of modern Britain, Cathy Newman writes about the pioneering women who defied the odds to make careers for themselves. And alter the course of modern history. Women who achieved what they achieved while dismantling hostile, entrenched views […]
«21 Lessons for the 21st Century»: the exploration of what it means to be a human in an age of bewilderment. By Yuval Noah Harari
In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innovative thinkers on the planet turns to the present. To make sense of today’s most pressing issues.
How […]
The Order of Time: an enlightening and consoling book by the bestselling author Carlo Rovelli.
The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics takes us on an enchanting, consoling journey to discover the meaning of time.
‘We are time, we are this space, this clearing opened by the traces of memory inside the connections between our neurons. We […]
«The Secret Life of Cows» : A lovely, thoughtful little book about the intelligence of cows.
Cows can love, play games, bond and form strong, life-long friendships. They can sulk, hold grudges, and they have preferences and can be vain. All these characteristics and more have been observed, documented, interpreted and retold by Rosamund Young. Based […]
«The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down»: How to be Calm in a Busy World. The Over three million copies sold bestseller by Haemin Sunim.
Is it the world that’s busy, or my mind?
The world moves fast, but that doesn’t mean we have to. Haemin Sunim is a Buddhist monk born in Korea […]
