Monique and Michel Pinçon-Charlot are sociologists and researchers at the CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research), specializing in studies of dominant social classes. They have authored such works as “Le President des riches”.
A mockumentary comic illustrated by Marion Montaigne, now in a softcover edition.
London, 1943. The actors David Niven, then a colonel in the British Army, and Peter Ustinov, his batman, take part in a diversion operation known as Operation Copperhead, with the aim of feeding misinformation to the Germans. The plan was to recruit a look-alike — Clifton James — who could impersonate General Montgomery, and thus throw the enemy off the scent of the real location chosen for the Normandy landings. An extraordinary tale based on real events, with echoes of Ernst Lubitsch’s 1942 comedy “To Be or Not To Be.”
The softcover version of Opération Copperhead is on the shelves now!
A few months before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, kicking off the U.S. civil rights movement, making headlines around he world and becoming an enduring symbol of the fight for dignity and equality, another young black woman refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in the same city. She was the wrong person at the right time, and so History did not choose her. Her name was Claudette Colvin and this is her story.
Another paperback edition to watch out for!
Bob is inconsolable ever since the death of his faithful companion, Rick, crushed by a meteorite while reporting from the Moon. But Rick comes back to help him solve the ultimate mystery, a mystery that will totally shake up his conception of reality. In the quantum world the concept of life and death is of little importance. Quantum physics is all around us, both in the infinitely large and in the infinitely small. But what it says about the world around us is different to our everyday perception of it. The reader will meet Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Prince de Broglie, Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, Niels Bohr, Max Born, Hugh Everett III. A mind-boggling tale!
Check out this nice softcover version of Le Mystère du monde quantique!
Born in Saudi Arabia, a country that offers him no future because of his Chadian nationality, Mohammed El Gorani decides to go and study in Karachi, Pakistan at the age of 14. Two months after he arrives, he is sold to the American government by the Pakistani secret services, who claim he belongs to Al‐Qaida. He finds himself in the fast lane to a living hell. He is imprisoned and tortured in Afghanistan before being taken to Guantanamo, where he is subjected to routine torture and interrogation. Mohammed is one of the youngest prisoners at the camp, and one of the only black detainees. After an arduous battle lasting eight long years, Mohammed’s innocence is finally recognized.
Experience this story again with the new paperback edition.
This is the biography of the famous Canadian pianist, a reclusive genius who decided, at the top of his game, to stop giving concerts and to withdraw from the public eye. Why did he stop his concert career so abruptly, making him one of the first figures of the media age to want to disappear from public view? Glenn Gould was born in Toronto in 1933. At three years old, he gave his first recital. At five, he played one his own compositions in public for the first time. At twelve, he passed the professional soloist exam and gave his first professional concert. This man was, without doubt, a ‘complete’ musician, capable of memorizing entire musical scores in less than an hour. His style is personal, unconventional, spectacular, one could even say eccentric. He was signed by Columbia, winning him worldwide recognition. In 1964, he decided to withdraw from public life, his sole aim being to live the life of a true artist.
Relive Glenn Gould’s amazing story with this pocket version graphic novel.
