An eminent French cancerologist explains how nutrition can either check or incite the release or the proliferation of cancer cells. There are foods that act as boosters and others as inhibitors, and we should learn to identify them. Cancer is a chronic disease that can strike each and every one of us. Yet it can be kept at bay by adopting a healthier lifestyle and better eating habits — and by learning to make informed dietary choices.Is fish always as beneficial as official ...

An eminent French cancerologist explains how nutrition can either check or incite the release or the proliferation of cancer cells. There are foods that act as boosters and others as inhibitors, and we should learn to identify them. Cancer is a chronic disease that can strike each and every one of us. Yet it can be kept at bay by adopting a healthier lifestyle and better eating habits — and by learning to make informed dietary choices.

Is fish always as beneficial as official recommendations would have us believe? Are meat and certain drinks as harmful as is often alleged?

Dissociating himself from certain allegations, David Khayat examines the benefits and risks, in relation to cancer, of seven food groups: fish, meat, fruit and vegetables, dairy products, carbohydrates, fats, and drinks, in order to define the scientific foundations of anti-cancer nutrition.

The à-la-carte diets described here target different profiles (male or female, pre- or post-menopause, smoker or non-smoker, family history of cancer or not) and will allow readers to define their own anti-cancer diet.



• The impact of nutrition on cancer, explained by a top specialist who discloses his research results here.



• David Khayat’s findings lead him to conclusions that often contradict official health recommendations.



• Personalised anti-cancer diets targeting seven different profiles.



• Besides listing the benefits and risks of each food, the author also reviews environmental influences.



David Khayat is a professor at Pierre-et-Marie Curie University and chief of the Cancerology Department at Hôpital de La Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris. He is notably the author of Les Chemins de l’espoir and Le Guide pratique du cancer.

It is unusual for an analyst to take the time to seriously examine the difficulties or even the failures he has experienced with patients — particularly now when psychoanalysis is so often under attack for its alleged lack of therapeutic results. Yet, in this book, André Green reveals his reflections, the fruit of decades of psychoanalytic practice, much as Freud had done in his late text “Analysis Terminable and Interminable”. The questions Green asks here include: What could be ...

It is unusual for an analyst to take the time to seriously examine the difficulties or even the failures he has experienced with patients — particularly now when psychoanalysis is so often under attack for its alleged lack of therapeutic results. Yet, in this book, André Green reveals his reflections, the fruit of decades of psychoanalytic practice, much as Freud had done in his late text “Analysis Terminable and Interminable”. The questions Green asks here include: What could be the origins of failure? What is psychoanalytic language? What role does context play? What kinds of resistance are there? Where do crises come from?

Marilyn Monroe’s death has often been blamed on the failure and incapacity of her analyst, Ralph Greenson. Taking this specific case as his starting point, André Green goes on to propose many fruitful theoretical indications on various key points in the analytical process and recounts some difficult analyses he has experienced with his patients.





• The reality of psychoanalytical work explained by one of the great French masters of psychoanalysis.



• A solid introduction to psychoanalysis in general as well as to the thought of André Green, who has written extensively on borderline cases, on negation, seduction and the affects.



• While describing theoretical and some more clinical developments, André Green gives us a privileged insight into own practice.



André Green, who was born in Cairo in 1927, began his career as a psychiatrist. In the 1950s, while an intern at Hôpital Sainte-Anne in Paris, he met Jacques Lacan and was influenced by his ideas. But his subsequent encounters with Donald Winnicott and Wilfred Bion gradually gave him a broader, more international approach to psychoanalysis. He was elected a member of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society, but broke with Lacan in the 1960s. In the 1970s, he directed and helped to democratise the Paris Institute of Psychoanalysis.

This book shows how Darwin’s theory of evolution can be used to understand and change ordinary behaviour.It would seem that human behaviour mirrors the rules of natural selection: certain types of human behaviour may disappear, others proliferate (sometimes excessively), while others seem to serve no purpose at all and to occur randomly.The author argues that evolutionary theory, as well as advances in the natural and social sciences, can help us learn more about human ...

This book shows how Darwin’s theory of evolution can be used to understand and change ordinary behaviour.

It would seem that human behaviour mirrors the rules of natural selection: certain types of human behaviour may disappear, others proliferate (sometimes excessively), while others seem to serve no purpose at all and to occur randomly.

The author argues that evolutionary theory, as well as advances in the natural and social sciences, can help us learn more about human behaviour, thus enabling us to surpass ourselves and change the way we act.

The practical methods proposed here — developed at the crossroads of science and psychology — will enable us to acquire good habits (or overcome bad ones) and to work toward what really matters to us. Based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and on cognitive and behavioural therapies, these methods tell us to use the support of others to change, to develop positive reflexes, overcome obstacles that hinder change, refuse to struggle against impossible odds and, sometimes, to learn to accept things as they are.



• “Personal Darwinism” is an exciting new approach to personal development that draws on evolutionary theory.

• Written in a clear, accessible style, this book will appeal to readers who are interested in evolution and in determining what constitutes our humanity, as well as to those seeking practical advice on how to determine, and commit themselves to, their core concerns.



Jean-Louis Monestès, a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist, is a member of the Laboratory for Functional Neurosciences and Pathologies at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). He teaches several postgraduate courses and trains professional caregivers, psychologists and psychiatrists.

Yves Coppens uses the same approach here that made his earlier book (also published by Editions Odile Jacob) so immensely successful. Taking as his starting point a recent event related to prehistory — a new archaeological finding, an original thesis in palaeontology, a current publication in ancient history — he goes on to introduce us, in a simple, clear, often entertaining manner, to a crucial event in the history of our ancestors.About one hundred short but dense rubrics have ...

Yves Coppens uses the same approach here that made his earlier book (also published by Editions Odile Jacob) so immensely successful. Taking as his starting point a recent event related to prehistory — a new archaeological finding, an original thesis in palaeontology, a current publication in ancient history — he goes on to introduce us, in a simple, clear, often entertaining manner, to a crucial event in the history of our ancestors.

About one hundred short but dense rubrics have been gathered here and are presented chronologically, starting about 10 million years ago till the first centuries of our era, and covering such varied subjects as the earliest pre-humans and the first human beings; Lucy’s thirty years or Neanderthal DNA; the world’s oldest bow or the rock drawings of the Sahara; France and the Americas; the Celts and Lutetia.

• A lively and alert introduction to prehistory, with the basics presented in an entertaining manner.

• The follow-up of the immensely successful Le Passé du présent: L’Actualité de l’histoire de l’homme (1), published in Spring 2009.

Yves Coppens is a palaeontologist. An honorary professor at the Collège de France and a member of the French Academy of Sciences, he is internationally recognised as the discoverer of the hominid Lucy. He is the author of Préambules (1998; Odile Jacob paperback, 2001), Le Genou de Lucy (1999), Yves Coppens raconte l’homme (2008), L’Histoire de l’homme. 22 ans d’amphi au Collège de France (2008) and Le Passé du présent I (2009).



Yves Coppens is a palaeontologist. An honorary professor at the Collège de France and a member of the French Academy of Sciences, he is internationally recognised as the discoverer of the hominid Lucy. He is the author of Préambules (1998; Odile Jacob paperback, 2001), Le Genou de Lucy (1999), Yves Coppens raconte l’homme (2008), L’Histoire de l’homme. 22 ans d’amphi au Collège de France (2008) and Le Passé du présent (2009).

Thirty billion cups of coffee are consumed annually in France alone. Coffee procures the same effect as a number of other foods and drinks containing caffeine. This explains the popularity of tea and cola drinks, as well as of cacao and chocolate, whose main active agent is closely related to caffeine’s.In this book, two eminent physicians who are also pharmacologists reveal the chemical secrets behind these pleasure-inducing products, which all contain xanthines.What ...

Thirty billion cups of coffee are consumed annually in France alone.

Coffee procures the same effect as a number of other foods and drinks containing caffeine. This explains the popularity of tea and cola drinks, as well as of cacao and chocolate, whose main active agent is closely related to caffeine’s.

In this book, two eminent physicians who are also pharmacologists reveal the chemical secrets behind these pleasure-inducing products, which all contain xanthines.

What is the impact of these products on our health? Besides procuring pleasure, how do they affect the brain, sleep, moods, etc.?



• What should we drink? How? When? How much? What is to be feared? What are the benefits? The authors reveal the latest scientific truths on some common light drugs.



Jean Costentin is a member of the French National Pharmacy Academy. He directs a research unit on neuro-psycho-pharmacology, in association with the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).

Pierre Delaveau is an honorary professor at the University René Descartes-Paris-V, a member of the National Academy of Medicine and a former president of the National Pharmacy Academy.

Costentin and Delaveau are the authors of Les Médicaments du cerveau (1993) and Halte au cannabis ! (2006).

Alcohol dependence has become increasingly common among women in France — particularly among university graduates with highly responsible jobs.Alcohol has made many victims among “hyper-women” — women with exaggerated stereotypically “female” characteristics. These women tend to be emotionally dependent, hypersensitive, self-sacrificing; they have poor self-esteem and lack recognition. Such hyper-women suffer from constantly having to face society’s ...

Alcohol dependence has become increasingly common among women in France — particularly among university graduates with highly responsible jobs.

Alcohol has made many victims among “hyper-women” — women with exaggerated stereotypically “female” characteristics. These women tend to be emotionally dependent, hypersensitive, self-sacrificing; they have poor self-esteem and lack recognition. Such hyper-women suffer from constantly having to face society’s contradictory messages regarding female identity: high job performance and wide availability must be reconciled with the tenets of “femininity” and of being a good mother. Unable to cope, some women suffer breakdowns.

This book aims to help them, by:

• inciting them to de-dramatise: they are suffering from an illness that can be treated. Talking about it is the beginning of the healing process;

• providing the tools to overcome their problems, so as not to suffer a new breakdown;

• enabling them to stop feeling shame and guilt; teaching them to like themselves, so as to develop self-confidence; showing them how to maintain a critical eye on social contradictions, so as not to fall into society’s traps.



The author, the greatest specialist is her field, is known for her strongly committed positions. Her therapeutic, intelligent book, written with empathy, will provide salvation, strength and hope for many women.

Is female alcoholism the backlash of a false form of women’s emancipation? More generally, this book alerts us to the urgency of dealing with the question of the psychological health of working women in the twenty-first century. Besides providing psychological advice on the personal level, the author also proposes social solutions that have been tried successfully in other countries.



Fatma Bouvet de la Maisonneuve is a physician and psychiatrist, with a consultancy in alcohol-related problems at Hôpital Sainte-Anne, in Paris. She is also a local councillor for the Paris suburb of Montrouge.

The best of traditional folk knowledge and some tried-and-tested but often forgotten tricks known by our grandmothers have been compiled here from interviews with elderly people and from antiquarian works. The information thus gleaned covers the healthcare and beauty secrets as well as the housekeeping tips that were passed down over the ages from mothers to daughters. Underlying the now-fashionable revival of our folk heritage is a simple goal: to enable all of us to rediscover the simple gestures of our ...

The best of traditional folk knowledge and some tried-and-tested but often forgotten tricks known by our grandmothers have been compiled here from interviews with elderly people and from antiquarian works. The information thus gleaned covers the healthcare and beauty secrets as well as the housekeeping tips that were passed down over the ages from mothers to daughters. Underlying the now-fashionable revival of our folk heritage is a simple goal: to enable all of us to rediscover the simple gestures of our ancestors — gestures that are both economically and ecologically friendly — and to teach us how to make our own products (creams, unguents), whether to relieve minor aches and pains or to aid in housekeeping. To do so we need to learn about a few basic ingredients, such as essential oils, and, most importantly, to discover the unique pleasure of making something that is good for us and for the environment. The products described here are 100% natural, easy to use, inexpensive (a real boon in times of economic crisis) and they actually work!





• For lovers of authenticity who wish to save money while helping to save the environment: 615 simple hints, tips and tricks for everyday life.



• The pleasure of taking charge and making your own products.



• This book responds to a widespread demand for a return to authenticity and traditional ways.



• The author has gathered a wealth of traditional folk knowledge. She gives us here the essentials of our collective memory to help us lead better, healthier lives.



A lawyer by training, Catherine Fructus is an entrepreneur who has transformed her interest in traditional folk knowledge into a profession. Her company distributes goods that are produced using traditional methods.

Eating delicious, healthy and inexpensive meals: theoretically this should not be difficult. All you need is a little know-how and a bit of time. But the problem is we all lack time. Our current lifestyle means that many people take only a ten-minute break for lunch and generally consume some sort of fast food: sandwiches, quiche, pizza, hamburgers, salads. So does this mean that eating a balanced meal is an impossible goal? Instead of feeling guilty about our poor eating habits, let’s ...

Eating delicious, healthy and inexpensive meals: theoretically this should not be difficult. All you need is a little know-how and a bit of time. But the problem is we all lack time. Our current lifestyle means that many people take only a ten-minute break for lunch and generally consume some sort of fast food: sandwiches, quiche, pizza, hamburgers, salads. So does this mean that eating a balanced meal is an impossible goal?

Instead of feeling guilty about our poor eating habits, let’s learn to eat healthily even if we don’t have much time. We must learn how to select tasty, good quality, satisfying food that we enjoy, but that is not fattening, and that follows the rules of balanced nutrition — and that is not too expensive.

This unique guide explains some of the nutritional advantages and disadvantages of a number of fast foods and tells us which to choose from; it offers tips on how to associate, or complement, fast foods to make balanced meals, and it shows us how to create smart, healthy menus.

A highly useful book for tight budgets!





• For millions of people lunch generally consists of a sandwich or some greasy fast food — and many of them then feel guilty about the unhealthy meal they have just eaten.



• In this guidebook to good lunchtime habits you will discover:

how to reconcile speed with nutrition how to create healthy menus, put together a nutritious meal, or complement a fast-food lunch a qualitative analysis of the food on offer at the main fast-food and sandwich chains lists of ingredients contained in various foods and a comparative table with a nutritional analysis of 400 products (sandwiches, hamburgers, salads, etc.) to help you make better choices.

Jacques Fricker, a physician and nutrition specialist, is the author of many highly successful works on nutrition and slimming. Besides working as a nutritionist at Hôpital Bichat, in Paris, he teaches at several medical faculties and was for many years a research fellow at the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM).

Audrey Aveaux is a dietician with extensive knowledge of the fast-food sector.

Ariane is a medical student and a rather anxious young woman. After breaking up with her boyfriend, she has just moved into an apartment building in the Montparnasse area of Paris. Outwardly, the building seems quite ordinary, but Ariane soon discovers that she has some strange neighbours, like the ageing harp teacher who favours a heady tuberose perfume and holds forth on strange subjects. While working as an intern at the Forensics Institute, Ariane has to perform an autopsy on the corpse of a ...

Ariane is a medical student and a rather anxious young woman. After breaking up with her boyfriend, she has just moved into an apartment building in the Montparnasse area of Paris. Outwardly, the building seems quite ordinary, but Ariane soon discovers that she has some strange neighbours, like the ageing harp teacher who favours a heady tuberose perfume and holds forth on strange subjects.

While working as an intern at the Forensics Institute, Ariane has to perform an autopsy on the corpse of a young man, whose body is covered with stab wounds. As Ariane uncovers the body she suddenly recognises one of her friends, Jérémie. He was murdered in the basement of Ariane’s building, and so she becomes the prime suspect. Shaken but firmly convinced that she can prove her innocence, she sets out to uncover the strange goings-on in her new apartment building.



• A well-plotted story told in a lively cinematic style.



• Action, strange happenings, a suspicious death, disturbing characters, an engaging heroine: all the ingredients for a successful thriller are reunited in Laura Sadowski’s latest book.

Laura Sadowski is a lawyer. She is the author of L’Origine du sexe (2009) and L’Affaire Clémence Lange (2008, paperback 2009), which is currently being adapted for television.

Imagine for a moment that you are attending a court hearing for the first time. You would probably be more impressed by the strange spectacle unfolding before you than by the content of the judicial discussion. That’s because judging is not just a moral faculty, it is primarily a momentous occasion. Even before there were laws, judges or law courts, there was a ritual. This book seeks to reveal every facet of a hearing, showing for example how everything in the courtroom is arranged to intimidate the ...

Imagine for a moment that you are attending a court hearing for the first time. You would probably be more impressed by the strange spectacle unfolding before you than by the content of the judicial discussion. That’s because judging is not just a moral faculty, it is primarily a momentous occasion. Even before there were laws, judges or law courts, there was a ritual. This book seeks to reveal every facet of a hearing, showing for example how everything in the courtroom is arranged to intimidate the accused and to make him feel guilty and submissive toward the judicial order. But do judges really need such dramatisation in order to judge well? This is the question that Antoine Garapon’s reflection then tries to tackle, notably by comparing the French and American judicial systems, by analysing the intrusion of the media while the trial is in process, and by referring to certain works by Aeschylus, Freud and Kafka. If the philosophy of law is a quest for justice in abstracto, through rules and an ideal, this book shows that the goal of “judging well” obliges judges to immerse themselves in concreto in the experience of the act of judging. There is thus no such thing as a “pure” act of judgment, because justice — with its daily experience of evil, of human cruelty, of factual resistance, of the perishable character of political institutions, of the fragility of evidence and of the foreclosure of truth — is constantly in contact with the brut material of humanity.



Antoine Garapon is a magistrate, the founder of the Institut des Hautes Etudes sur la Justice and a member of the editorial board of the French magazine Esprit. He is the author of, most notably, Le Gardien des promesses (1996), Des crimes qu’on ne peut ni punir ni pardonner (2002) and Juger en Amérique et en France (2003).

His other works include Et ce sera justice (2001) and Peut-on réparer l’histoire? (2008).

“This book owes a lot to my adolescent experiences. For a long time I used to skip classes at the lycée, to spend entire afternoons wandering around the Louvre. I wasn’t trying to increase my knowledge. I just abandoned myself to the contemplation of a small number of works — and always the same ones. A few hours later, I would enter into the poetic world into which they invited each viewer. And then the objects of my contemplations would detach themselves from their material ...

“This book owes a lot to my adolescent experiences. For a long time I used to skip classes at the lycée, to spend entire afternoons wandering around the Louvre. I wasn’t trying to increase my knowledge. I just abandoned myself to the contemplation of a small number of works — and always the same ones. A few hours later, I would enter into the poetic world into which they invited each viewer. And then the objects of my contemplations would detach themselves from their material support. They would suddenly become immaterial images. The paintings exhibited existed only because I viewed them; yet once looked at, they produced memorable, complex, precise constructions that could not be reduced to simple mental images. Increasingly, those constructions were stored in my mind, so I could remember them at will and query them. With the passing of time, these reasoned contemplations seemed to me to possess an almost objective character. The idea of dedicating my life to such experiences attracted me, though I didn’t know how to go about it. To me, those secret sessions had nothing to do with academic art history. It took ten years for me to realise that I was mistaken. Forty years later, I now see that this youthful experience was scarcely new. It was born in the eighteenth century.” Pascal Griener



This way of looking at painting dates back the eighteenth century, when new venues (cabinets, galleries) made possible new forms of aesthetic experience and the emergence of the sensitive subject. This is what the great art historian Pascal Griener, a follower of the British art historian Francis Haskell, describes here as he examines most notably the changes that curiosity and aesthetic experience underwent, the institution of the gallery, the emergence of the connoisseur, the transformations in art history, etc.



This is the history of how the modern Western world constructed the way we look at painting, its venues and codes.

The aesthetic experience is not a simple one: it implies a context, a construction and cultural values that have a history. This book shows how the European eighteenth century laid the foundations of how we look at painting.

This innovative work will be a landmark in European art history.



Pascal Griener teaches art history at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

For many of us, finding happiness in love is not easy. For some, it is finding a soul mate that seems difficult. For others, it is making a relationship last that is hard. Some suffer because they are too passionate, others because they never feel that they are “in love”.Much of the advice that is given on the subject of love and on how to “manage” its ups and downs — “don’t lose your head”, “avoid conflict to make things last” — ...

For many of us, finding happiness in love is not easy. For some, it is finding a soul mate that seems difficult. For others, it is making a relationship last that is hard. Some suffer because they are too passionate, others because they never feel that they are “in love”.

Much of the advice that is given on the subject of love and on how to “manage” its ups and downs — “don’t lose your head”, “avoid conflict to make things last” — is totally useless. And so we end up feeling that we are to blame and that we have failed in our relationships.

This book aims to help us have a happier love life.



• The author has written several successful works for the general reader.

• This highly accessible book, which is both sensitive and humorous, is a joy to read.

• Clear explanations so we can understand our “love profile”.

• Practical advice to enable us to live through the successive steps in a relationship or love affair more happily.

• Tests and practical tips that have been shown to work.



Stéphanie Hahusseau is a physician, psychiatrist and psychotherapist specialising in the emotions. She works in Toulouse, where she divides her time between her practice, teaching and writing. She is the author of Comment ne pas se gâcher la vie (2003) and Tristesse, peur, colère. Agir sur ses émotions (2006), and a co-author of Guide de psychologie de la vie quotidienne, edited by Christophe André (2008).