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La Reine Eugénia se meurt. Atteinte d’un mal inconnu, qui ronge les quelques forces qui lui restent, elle demeure alitée, incapable de se lever. Deux chevaliers qui ont fait le serment de la protéger partent alors pour une province lointaine afin de la sauver, emportant avec eux un sarcophage de verre au contenu précieux. Mais ils sont loin d’imaginer ce qui les attend en traversant le Continent. Les huit provinces vivent paisiblement depuis la chute du Tyran qui s’est produite des siècles plus tôt. Pourtant, des secrets profondément enfouis ne demandent qu’à refaire surface.

Nobody in the ancient world left behind more of himself than Marcus Tullius Cicero. Speeches, letters, treatises, private grumbles, public boasts, jokes at dinner parties recorded for posterity — the paper trail is so vast that we know his moods better than we know those of most politicians...

Aging is the leading cause of death, yet it remains largely unchallenged. Radical Life Extension confronts it directly, exploring three parallel strategies: biostasis, which preserves the body after death; replacement, which restores function through new tissues and organs; and advanced...

'Just Masa' is Masahiro Shibata alone, without Fandorin. The great detective's orphaned assistant returns to his native Japan, which has changed a lot during the wanderings of its prodigal son - and has remained forever unchanged. Masa is in for incredible shocks, incredible adventures...

Alan Turing broke the German naval Enigma, designed the machine you are almost certainly holding or sitting in front of, invented the test that still frames every argument about artificial intelligence, and explained why leopards have spots. He was prosecuted for being who he was, given hormone injections instead of prison, and died at forty-one beside a half-eaten apple that nobody thought to test. Thinking Machines tells that story, but it argues something most accounts leave out. Turing proved the same thing twice.

In 1946 a five-year-old from Queens stood under a tyrannosaur and decided, on the spot, what he would do with his life. He kept the promise for fifty-six years. What nobody could have predicted is that he would spend most of them arguing with people, cheerfully and at enormous length, in a prose...

What is it that we do when we think? We imagine the mind as a mirror, faithfully reflecting a world that shines in through the senses. It is nothing of the kind. The mind is a fire that exists only while it burns—an activity, not a container; a verb, not a vessel.

Twenty-four centuries ago, in a windblown town on the northern coast of Greece, a man who reportedly could not stop laughing made one of the strangest and most consequential claims in the history of thought. Everything you have ever seen or tasted or feared, he said, is built from just two ingredients: tiny indivisible bodies, and the empty space they move through. He called that empty space nothing, and then he did something no one had dared to do before him. He insisted that nothing is every bit as real as something.

Everything in the heavens turns. Moons wheel around planets, planets around stars, stars around the bright hubs of their galaxies, and galaxies around one another in gravitational waltzes so slow that a single step outlasts a mountain range. Rotation is the most ordinary fact in the sky. Yet by...

For eight hundred years, everything needed to print a book already existed. China was printing whole libraries from carved blocks in the ninth century. Korea was casting metal type before Gutenberg was born. Rome had the alphabet, the screw press, and the art of striking a hard punch into soft metal to make identical objects by the thousand. And nothing happened. Then, in a middling German river town, a bankrupt goldsmith with a talent for lawsuits put the pieces together, and within seventy years the unity of Western Christendom was gone.

We are told that the moral life is a matter of choices, and that a good person is someone who chooses well. Iris Murdoch spent a lifetime quietly dismantling that comfortable picture. For her, the decisive moral work happens long before any choice arrives, in the invisible labor of how we look at the world. By the time we act, the seeing is already done, and the seeing is nearly everything. This book takes the luminous, demanding philosophy of one of the twentieth century’s most original minds and sets it loose in our own restless age.

Under the old rule of the Sanhedrin, a man convicted by every single judge walked free. Seventy-one votes for guilt, and the court released him. The reasoning was not mercy. It was quality control. If nobody on the bench could find a word to say for the accused, then nobody had been looking, and a court that has stopped looking is not a court. Unanimity was treated as a sign that the instrument had broken. Modern life produces unanimity by the hour, and we treat it as proof. This book argues that our century is not less dogmatic than the ones we condescend to, merely better dressed.

Dans cet ouvrage incontournable, Robert Greene nous propose d’apprendre à reprendre le pouvoir sur notre vie, à travers 365 lois tirées de ses réflexions sur la nature humaine.

Renowned French neuropsychiatrist and psychoanalyst Boris Cyrulnik's parents were deported to a concentration camp during the Second World War. They never returned. This early personal trauma at the age of five led Cyrulnik to his life's work helping individuals and countries come to terms with their pasts and forge ahead to create positive futures. It is his firm belief that trauma does not equal destiny—that, rather, we can find strength in the face of pain.

Everybody agrees that Mark Twain was funny. This is one of the very few things about which everybody agrees, which ought to make a thinking person suspicious, and this book sets out to spoil the agreement by asking a rude question: why? Laughter looks like the most innocent thing in the world. It is not. A joke is a small machine for slipping a truth past a guard who would have stopped a sermon at the door. Twain understood this better than almost anyone before him and most who have come since.

For sixty years Barbara McClintock grew corn and read it the way other people read a page. What she found in it should have rearranged biology in 1951. Genes are not beads fixed on a string. They move. They switch one another on and off. A genome is not an instruction manual handed down intact from one generation to the next but a text that revises itself while it is being read.

We are taught to think of culture as a museum: a building full of finished objects, each with a little label, each waiting quietly to be admired. Yuri Lotman spent his life arguing that this picture is precisely wrong. Culture, he insisted, is not a warehouse of things but a living process of making meaning—a vast, restless conversation in which a poem, a duel, a city street, a silence, and a wedding ring are all sentences in the same enormous language. Nothing in it is ever neutral. Nothing in it ever quite finishes. This book is an invitation into that conversation.

Todos lo admitieron al mismo tiempo. Internet entero levantó la vista de su teléfono y confesó que sí , que piensa constantemente en el Imperio Romano. Lo convertimos en una broma, porque así solemos hacer con las cosas que nos asustan un poco. Pero la broma escondía un secreto, y el secreto es este: no podemos dejar de pensar en Roma porque, en realidad, nunca la abandonamos. Este libro se toma el meme en serio sin tomarse en serio a sí mismo. Argumenta algo genuinamente extraño y genuinamente cierto: que Roma no colapsó tanto como migró.

Some twenty-three centuries ago, a minor official in a doomed little state was offered the second-highest office in a great kingdom. He was fishing at the time. He did not look up. He asked the messengers whether they had heard of a certain sacred tortoise, three thousand years dead, whose shell the king kept wrapped in silk and stored in the ancestral temple. Would that tortoise, he wondered, rather be honored bones in a basket, or a living creature dragging its tail through the mud? The messengers admitted it would rather drag its tail. "Go away," he said.

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