Catalog Foreign Rights - Arts, Nature and Society - January to November 2024
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photo poche
9. Stéphane Duroy. Introduction by Hervé Le Goff
10. Bernard Plossu. Introduction by Laurie Hurwitz
11. Issei Suda. Introduction by Simon Baker
12. Susan Meiselas. Introduction by Marta Gili
13. Vivian Maier. Introduction by Anne Morin
photography
14. Finir en beauté. Sophie Calle
15. Chambre 207. Photographs by Jean-Michel André. Text by Clément Chéroux
16. Devenir Cheval. Photographs by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. Text by Clara Arnaud. Drawings by Emilie Haillot
arts
17. Savoir & Faire : la pierre. Collective, under the direction of Hugues Jacquet
18. Ernest Pignon-Ernest. Le Dessin, la mémoire ou la poésie. Citations et traductions. Text by Pascal Bonafoux. Illustrations by Ernest Pignon-Ernest
performing arts
19. Le Dibbouk, Fantôme du monde disparu. Edited by Samuel Blumenfeld
20. Chimères et autres animaux fantastiques
François Delaroziere
21. Contes et légendes. Text by Joël Pommerat. Photographs by Agathe Pommerat
music
22. Bernard Herrmann. Karol Beffa
23. Antonín DvoŘák. Martin Mirabel
24. C’est Jane, Birkin Jane. Gabrielle Crawford
cinema
25. Framboise : quelques hypothèses sur Françoise Dorléac. Aurélien Ferenczi
26. Mémoires. Bertrand Tavernier. With the contribution of Thierry Frémaux
NATURE
27. Nature et Préjugés. Convier l’humanité dans l’histoire naturelle. Marc-André Selosse. Preface by Erik Orsenna. Illustrations by Arnaud Rafaelian
28. Futurs obsolètes : ce que la conquête de l’espace nous dit de l’avenir. Julien Le Bot. Illustrations by Tom Haugomat
29. Éloge de la truffe. Journal d’un passionné. Jean-Marie Rocchia. Preface by Marc-André Selosse
30. Plaidoyer pour l’arbre. Francis Hallé [new edition]
31. Dans les bras du poulpe, Chroniques écologiques. David Grémillet
32. La Beauté du vivant. Francis Hallé. Preface by Ernst Zürcher
equestrian arts
33. Centaures et centauresses. Edited by Alexandre Blaineau
34. Champion olympique de saut d’obstacles, Alban Poudret. Preface by Pierre Durand
mondes sauvages
37. Rendre l’eau à la terre Alliance dans les rivières face au chaos climatique. Baptiste Morizot and Suzanne Husky. Preface by Joe Wheaton
38. L’Ours Polaire Vagabond des glaces. Rémy Marion
39. Vivent les Corneilles. Un plaidoyer pour une cohabitation responsable. Frédéric Jiguet
voix de la terre
41. Vivre en Arsenic. Écopoétique d’une vallée empoisonnée. Claire Dutrait
42. La forteresse des âmes mortes : Voyage initiatique dans les montagnes taoïstes. Sandrine Chenivesse. Preface by Juliette Binoche
jannuary to november 2024
SOCIETY
43. La méthode de la méthode Le manuscrit perdu. Edgar Morin
44. Des femmes et des hommes : le pouvoir en partage. Fabienne Alamelou Michaille and Bertrand Badré. Prefaces by Michelle Yeoh and Jean Todt, Emmanuel Faber
45. Réchauffement des esprits. La responsabilité sociétale des industries culturelles. Pascale Thumerelle le souffle de l’esprit
47. Pèlerinage sur soi. Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
With Justin Morin [new edition]
domaine du possible
53. Coopérer pour s’élever, l’école du Colibri. Isabelle Peloux and Anne Lamy
je passe à l’acte
54. Oser le congé paternité. Nathalie Petit. Illustrations by Marie Morelle
55. Vivre avec l’éco-anxiété l’éco lucidité. Tanguy Descamps and Maxime Ollivier. Illustrations by Orégane Plailly
56 Reprendre sa santé en main. Aline Mercan. Illustrations by Victoria Roussel
travel
57. Aux îles. Aurélia Coulaty. Illustrations by Clément Thoby
GRAPHIC NOVEL
58. Le Roi Méduse. Brecht Evens
59. Istrati ! À l’amitié. Golo [unabridged version]
60. Un avenir radieux. Muzo
61. Moisson 44 A Parisian child refugee in Normandy. Dav Guedin
62. Kinderzimmer. Ivan Gros. Based on the novel by Valentine Goby
63. Théorie d’Alger. Sébastien Lapaque. Illustrations by Jacques Ferrandez
ÉDITIONS ERRANCE & PICARD
64. Embarquements immédiats. Tome II. Du siècle des Lumières au futur. Didier Huon de Kervadec
65. Histoire des couverts. Pascal Reigniez
66. Le Sport dans l’Antiquité. Wolfgang Decker and JeanPaul Thuillier
68. Pérégrinations dans la Gaule romaine et dans les provinces des Alpes et de Corse. Jean-Claude Golvin and Gérard Coulon
69. Les Anciens Égyptiens Scribes, pharaons et dieux. Aude Gros de Beler
ÉDITIONS ROUERGUE
70. Semez ce qu’il vous plait ! Réussir ses semis en pleine terre ou sous abri. Élise Ruiba
71. Pour un jardin vivant Imaginer, planifier, créer. Stéphanie Dessy
72. Ripaille et marmaille. 42 recettes pour les enfants. Victor Coutard. Photographs by Rebecca Geret
PHOTO POCHE
Created in 1982 by Robert Delpire and acquired by Actes Sud in 2004, “Photo Poche” is an expending series of pocket books offering an accessible outlook on the history of photography.
The first series of photography books in pocket format (12.5 × 19 cm) is made of easy to handle, affordable and carefully printed works (duotone, 4 or 5 colors). Through 144 pages, “Photo Poche” renders the work of a great name in photography, a school of thought or a social issue. Each volume includes an introduction written by a renowned expert, 65 to 70 selected photographs and a set regularly updated records (biography, bibliography, exhibition list).
With a list exceeding 170 titles, currently going for 6 to 8 new publications a year, “Photo Poche” first focused on icons such as Henri-Cartier Bresson, Man Ray, Robert Capa, Bill Brandt, Elliott Erwitt, Sebastião Salgado, Helmut Newton, Walker Evans, Sarah Moon, Lewis Caroll and Don McCullin to lay the foundations of its history of photography, before turning to newer talents.
Thames & Hudson (Great Britain/USA), Contrasto editore (Italy), Braus im Watcher (Germany), Lunwerg editores (Spain), Sogensha (Japan), Apeiron (Greece), Cosanaïfy (Brazil), Ediciones Tecolote (Mexico) are some of the prestigious publishers who contributed to the international fame and diffusion of the “Photo Poche” collection.
In 2022, “Photo Poche” unveils a new graphic identity that upkeeps its legacy while moving towards renewal.
A cover makeover
The black background turns white, framed with a hint of color; the title is asserted, and the image placement varies from one volume to the next. Inside the book, nothing changes but the font type, stripped down to elevate the timeless, didactic structure that upholds the quality of these reference books.
PHOTO POCHE
It is to perpetuate its success that “Photo Poche” is evolving with the times, still bringing the classics to life while making room for other cultures and new photographic writing.
cirques profonde, (1940-2015) fait singulière capacité univers aussi impénétrables. d’un monde témoignant une tous ses sujets. des genres, documentaire, que réside qu’exercent les images
Mary Ellen Mark
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Bruce Gilden (né en 1946), membre de l’agence Magnum depuis 2001, s’intéresse aux personnages, à l’univers des différences sociales, des contrastes anatomiques, des particularités physionomiques. Son lieu est la rue et New York est son terrain préféré, mais à Moscou comme à Haïti, à Tokyo ou à Londres, il extrait ses protagonistes du flux de la vie, le temps d’un éclair. Sa vision exaltée renouvelle le concept et la pratique de la street photography.
Mary Ellen Mark
Bruce Gilden
PHOTO POCHE
Bruce Gilden
POCHE
ABBOTT Berenice 61
ÁLVAREZ BRAVO Manuel 137
APPELT Dieter 54
ARAKI 86
ATGET Eugène 16
ATWOOD Jane Evelyn 125
AXELSSON Ragnar 144
BALLEN Roger 140
BALTERMANTS Dmitri 70
BARBEY Bruno 84
BARNOR James 174
BASILICO Gabriele 152
BAYARD Hippolyte 91
BEARD Peter 67
BEATO Felice 57
BERENGO GARDIN Gianni 102
BISCHOF Werner 25
BLUMENFELD Erwin 171
BOUBAT Edouard 32
BOURDIN Guy 109
BRANDT Bill 60
BRASSAÏ 28
BURRI René 79
CAHUN Claude 85
CALLE Sophie 101
CAMERON Julia Margaret 124
CAPA Robert 36
CARON Gilles 73
CARROLL Lewis 75
CARTIER-BRESSON Henri 2
CASASOLA Agustín-Víctor 52
CHAMBI Martín 95
CLERGUE Lucien 156
COBURN Alvin Langdon 94
COURTINAT Jean-Louis 150
CURTIS Edward Sheriff 43
DAVIDSON Bruce 14
DEMACHY Robert 71
DEPARDON Raymond 81
DISFARMER Mike 122
DOISNEAU Robert 5
DRTIKOL František 92
DUROY Stéphane 176
ENGSTRÖM JH 167
ERWITT Elliott 35
EVANS Walker 45
Monographs
FAURER Louis 51
FLEISCHER Alain 62
FONTCUBERTA Joan 120
FOSSO Samuel 168
FRANCK Martine 111
FRANK Robert 10
FREED Leonard 90
FRIEDLANDER Lee 29
GARCIN Gilbert 157
GARDUŇO Flor 155
GAUMY Jean 128
GHISOLAND Norbert 48
GIACOMELLI Mario 19
GILDEN Bruce 148
GOLDBLATT David 151
GREENE Stanley 118
GRUYAERT Harry 108
HAAS Ernst 127
HERVÉ Lucien 139
HINE Lewis Wickes 50
HORVAT Frank 88
HOSOE Eikoh 154
HUET Henri 149
HUGUIER Françoise 142
ITURBIDE Graciela 136
IZIS 59
KALVAR Richard 158
KEÏTA Seydou 63
KERTÉSZ André 17
KLEIN William 20
KOUDELKA Josef 15
KRIMS Les 104
LARTIGUE Jacques Henri 3
LE GRAY Gustave 163
LEITER Saul 113
LEVINSTEIN Leon 164
LEVITT Helen 165
LONDE Albert 82
McCULLIN Don 53
MAIER Vivian 179
MARAT Dolorès 172
MAREY Étienne-Jules 13
MARK Mary Ellen 96
MARVILLE Charles 65
MEATYARD Ralph Eugene 87
MEISELAS Susan 180
MICHALS Duane 12
MOHOLY-NAGY László 77
MOON Sarah 78
MORIYAMA Daidō 141
NADAR 1
NEWTON Helmut 26
NIÉPCE Nicéphore 8
ORKIN Ruth 173
PARKS Gordon 147
PELLEGRIN Paolo 130
PERRIAND Charlotte 170
PETERSEN Anders 98
PLOSSU Bernard 178
RAY Man 33
RENGER-PATZSCH Albert 89
RIBOUD Marc 37
RICHARDS Eugene 68
RIIS Jacob August 72
RODTCHENKO Alexandre 23
RONIS Willy 46
ROUSSE Georges 123
ROVERSI Paolo 133
SALGADO Sebastião 55
SAMMALLAHTI Pentti 103
SANDER August 64
SCIANNA Ferdinando 115
SÉEBERGER Frères 105
SEYMOUR David 138
SIDIBÉ Malick 145
SLUBAN Klavdij 169
SMITH William Eugene 7
STAROSTA Paul 129
STEICHEN Edward 56
STETTNER Louis 76
STIEGLITZ Alfred 101
STRAND Paul 131
STRÖMHOLM Christer 106
SUDA Issei 177
SUDEK Josef 44
TABARD Maurice 93
UEDA Shōji 117
UMBO 66
VANDEN EECKHOUDT Michel 110
VISHNIAC Roman 153
WEEGEE 21
WEISS Sabine 166
WITKIN Joel-Peter 49
ZACHMANN Patrick 121
Theme and Technique
Affinités 159
L’Agence VU’ galerie 107
L’Amérique au fil des jours 9
Amérique. Les années noires 4
Anon. Photographies anonymes 143
Autochromes 22
Autoportraits de photographes 119
Camera Work 6
De la photographie comme un des beaux-arts 38
Du bon usage de la photographie 27
Étranges étrangers 39
Femmes photographes 160 161 162
Le Grand Œuvre 11
Histoires de voir 40 41 42
L’Homme transparent.
L’imagerie biomédicale contemporaine 83
Images d’un autre monde. La photographie scientifique 47
Je ne suis pas photographe 100
L’Un par l’autre 146
Magnum Photos 69
La Nature dans l’art 99
La Nature morte 80
Le Nu 24
L’Objet photographique 134
L’Opéra de Paris 18
L’Orientalisme 58
Photogrammes 74
La Photographie astronomique 97
La Photographie au saut du lit 175
La Photographie britannique 34
La Photographie mexicaine 135
La Photographie sociale 126
La Photographie surréaliste 116
Photomontages 31
Post mortem 112
Le Sténopé 114
Le Temps des pionniers 30
Tendance Floue 132
H1 Che Guevara. Photographies de René Burri
H2 La Commune. Paris, 1871.
H3 Mao.
H4 J. F. Kennedy.
H5 Gandhi.
H6 Jean Jaurès.
H7 Haines. Irlande, Balkans, Rwanda. Photographies de Gilles Peress
H8 Le Front populaire.
H9 François Arago.
H10 Sarajevo, ma ville, mon destin. Photographies de Milomir Kovačević
H11 La Guerre: 14-18.
H12 Chiapas. Photographies de Mat Jacob
S1 Mes Parisiens. Photographies de Robert Doisneau
S2 Cette Afrique-là. Photographies de Roger Ballen
S3 Extérieur nuit. Photographies de Jane Evelyn Atwood
S4 Serra Pelada. Photographies de Sebastião Salgado
S5 États d’enfances. Photographies de Francesco Zizola
S6 Carnet de visites. Photographies de Hien Lam Duc
S7 “Place de la Réunion”. Un atelier à Mulhouse avec Éric Vazzoler. Photographies de Atelier Balalaïka Photographes
S8 Les Noires Vallées du repentir. Photographies d’André Martin
S9 Extrême Asie. Photographies de Philip Blenkinsop
S10 Les Enfants du diable. Photographies de Jean-Louis Courtinat
S11 Aveuglément. Photographies de Gaël Turine
S12 Entre parenthèses. Photographies de Klavdij Sluban
S13 Un chameau pour le fils. Photographies de Fazal Sheikh
S14 Les Yeux brûlants. Photographies d’Antoine Agoudjian
S15 Aux marches de la Chine. Photographies de Wu Jialin
S16 Mineurs en peines. Photographies de Lizzie Sadin
S17 Sertão. Photographies de Tiago Santana
S18 Droits de regards. 1961-2011: Amnesty International et les photographes
S19 Le Mur et la Peur. Photographies de Gaël Turine
Stéphane Duroy
12.5 × 19 cm
144 pages
65 duotone and color photographs softback photo poche n° 176janvier 2024
january 2024 retail price: 14.50 €
STÉPHANE DUROY
Introduction by Hervé Le Goff
Echoing the tremors of a fragmented world, Stéphane Duroy’s photographs seize the viewer’s imagination with a haunting sense of absence. For over forty years, he has criss-crossed Europe and the United States in the wake of the cataclysms which shaped the 20th century. Building on his experience as a photographer for the Sipa press agency, Stéphane Duroy went on to tirelessly amass a body of work comprised of four major projects in England, Berlin, Eastern Europe and the United States. A member of the VU’ agency since 1986, he casts an unflinching eye on our epoch. In 2009, Duroy reinvented his book Unknown (2007), adding layers of material, collages of press clippings, anonymous photographs, paintings and torn pages.
Over the course of half a century, Stéphane Duroy’s camera has engaged with that portion of humanity who have fallen victim to poverty, war or social determinism. His oeuvre constitutes a unique work of art defying classification.
Born in 1947, Hervé Le Goff is a journalist, art critic, and French essayist specialized in photography. Since 1999, he has collaborated on Encylopædia Universalis and La Science au présent. He is currently writing for L’Œil de la photographie and Chasseur d’images, for which he edits the “Events” page. He is the author of Picto 1950-2010 (Actes Sud, 2010) and the introduction to Richard Kalvar (Actes Sud, “Photo Poche”, 2018).
PHOTO
Bernard Plossu
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12.5 × 19 cm
144 pages
80 duotone and color photographs softback photo poche n° 178 june 2024 retail price: 14.50 €
Laurie Hurwitz is a curator, art critic and translator. The lead curator at Paris’ Maison Européenne de la Photographie, she regularly collaborates with American and British art magazines. She also contributed to the works Harry Callahan French Archives (Actes Sud, 2016) and Une Collection. Maison Européenne de la Photographie (Actes Sud, 2015).
BERNARD PLOSSU
Introduction by Laurie Hurwitz
For Bernard Plossu, photography is about movement and the sensation of the ground behind the feet.
When Bernard Plossu arrived in Mexico in 1965 at the age of twenty, he intended to study philosophy, but in the space of only a few weeks, he gave up school and took up a vagabond existence. Guided by the jazz musician, Bill Coleman, he set out on a road trip from Mexico to Texas and developed a relationship with activists in the American counterculture living along the California coast.
It was during this voyage of initiation that he discovered his themes of predilection: “life on the road, and that sensual, intimate relationship that builds between people and things.” More than ten years later, he published Le Voyage mexicain, which became a bible for a generation of photographers.
He returned to Europe in 1966 and spent the following decade working as a travel photographer, especially in India and Africa. In 1975, he definitively adopted the Nikkormat 24×36 (“the pauper’s Nikon”) with a 50mm lens. Although feted in France, he aspired to live in the desert and returned to the Far West where his son, Shane, was born in 1978. He finally settled in La Ciotat on the French Riviera in 1992, with his second wife, the photographer, Françoise Nuñez and their two children.
His fascinating photography finally joins the Photo Poche collection with a selection of different periods, from Mexico to the United States, and Africa to Europe.
PHOTO
ISSEI SUDA
Issei Suda
12.5 × 19 cm
144 pages
68 black and white photographs softback photo poche n° 177
june 2024 retail price : 14.50 €
A doctor in art history and graduate of University College London (ucl), in 2009, Simon Baker became the photography and international art curator at the Tate Gallery in London, before becoming its director in 2015. Since May 2018, he has directed the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris.
Introduction by Simon Baker
A photographer seeking out those marvelous manifestations of magic in our everyday lives.
Perhaps because he has never been associated with a specific school, Issei Suda (1940-2019) has stood apart in appraisals of Japanese photography. Another reason is perhaps his choice of subject: the banality of daily life and its small surprises, “like going for a walk and, by chance, picking something along the way.”
Issei Suda began his career as a set photographer for the Tenjo Sajiki theater troupe, from 1967-1970. In 1971, he launched himself independently and traveled the archipelago to photograph traditional festivities, the matsuri, in rural regions. He developed his
practice on the fringes of the Provoke group of which Daido Moriyama and Araki were a part. Like them, he photographed Tokyo’s swarming daily life in the 1970s and 1980s, beginning in the Kanda district in which he was born, known for its art bookstores.
Behind the apparent banality of his everyday scenes, the artist captures the theatrical substance of urban life. His black and white photography effectively witnessed the evolutions of the Japanese capital in the difficult post-war years.
His first series (His & Her, Passing Summer) brought his first success in 1978, with the publication of Fushi Kaden by Asahi Sonorama. With only two publications currently available in French despite his international acclaim, Issei Suda is a long-awaited and hugely welcome addition to the “Photo Poche” collection.
PHOTO
Issei Suda 113
Susan Meiselas
SUSAN MEISELAS
Introduction by Marta Gili
Born in 1948, a Magnum agency member since 1976, Susan Meiselas sees photography as a delicate and ambiguous medium: “There is a contradiction between the power of the camera and the powerlessness of the subject.” She navigates within this contradiction to compensate for the physical, optical and ultimately political distance with her model, by letting the him speaking, to create works at the intersection of photo story and documentary photography.
Frequently, she will return to shoot locations or correspond with those she has photographed to incorporate the effects of the passage of time on bodies and people into her work. Her photography is characterized by the renewal of the testimonial character of her photography, shifting the role of witness, and bringing voices to those without. Susan Meiselas makes the lives of his subjects visible through a multitude of experiences in order to construct meaning rather than impose it.
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12.5 × 19 cm
144 pages 91 duotone and color photographs softback photo poche n° 180 october 2024 retail price: 14.50 €
Born in Barcelona in 1957, Marta Gili is an art critic, exhibition curator and specialist in photography. In October 2006, she was appointed director of the Jeu de Paume where she stayed for twelve years. In 2019, she was appointed head of the École nationale supérieure de la photographie d’Arles until 2023. Marta Gili writes for catalogues, journals and magazines.
PHOTO POCHE
Vivian Maier
VIVIAN MAIER
Introduction by Anne Morin
Ananny during her lifetime, Vivan Maier (1926-2009) produced nearly one hundred and fifty thousand photographs and more than three hundred films. Her work only gained recognition posthumously, at an auction. Sensitive to their inherent sense of wonderment, she photographed children, especially, capturing their facial expressions, their emotions, and their play. At the intersection of humanist photography and street photography, she casts a sometimes-ironic glance at American society in the throes
of change. Drawn by those, who like herself, are invisible, she photographs those left behind by the American dream, the faces that speak of poverty and the relentless grind of work. Self-taught, she picked up the photographic language freestyle. Her various self-portraits are direct and frontal or oblique and enigmatic; we find her lurking in shadows or reflected in windows. All witness a quest for identity. Vivan Maier offers up evidence of her existence in a world where she herself seems to have no place.
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12.5 × 19 cm
144 pages
75 duotone and color photographs softback photo poche n° 179 october 2024 retail price: 14.50 €
Anne Morin (born in 1973) is an art historian and director of diChroma photography. She has curated a number of prestigious photography exhibitions like Berenice Abbott, Saul Leiter, Horst P. Horst, and Ruth Orkin. In 2022, she was awarded the Curator of the Year prize at the Lucie Awards at New York’s Carnegie Hall for her work on the Vivian Maier exhibition at the Musée du Luxembourg.
PHOTO POCHE
Vivian Maier
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12.5 × 18.7 cm
80 pages
50 color photographs softback separate english and french version june 2024 retail price: 25 €
FINIR EN BEAUTÉ
NEITHER GIVE NOR THROW AWAY
Sophie Calle
“Shortly before the opening of my exhibition À toi de faire, ma mignonne at the Musée Picasso in Paris, a storm damaged my storeroom and mold spores got into The Blind, one of the series that was to feature in the show. For a project that originated with the anniversary of Picasso’s death, and ended referencing my own eventual demise, the idea of decomposition seemed apt. To avoid any risk of contamination, the restorers determined it was preferable to destroy the works. Responding to the urgency of the situation, I staged their absence.
But the blind held too much importance in my own life for theirs to end in landfill.
That is when I remembered artist Roland Topor’s idea of burying an old sweater that he could not bring himself to give away nor to discard.
attacked the photographs on display and fungus had won the day. Instead of protecting them, the venue had, paradoxically, precipitated their destruction. That this should have happened in a city that plays a major role in the preservation of images is not without irony. I decided that I would bury my blind there, allowing them to continue disintegrating, so that their words, which speak of nothing but beauty, could seep into the city’s foundations.
Sophie Calle is an author, narrator, and character of her own photographic fantasies and fictions. She rose to fame in the 1990s in France and the United States, after the publication of several works with Actes Sud and the release of her first film, No Sex Last Night. She is considered to be one of the major artists of the 21st century.
The cryptoporticus at Arles is well suited to such a ceremony: the previous year, during the Rencontres, the persistent humidity in those subterranean galleries had insidiously
I noticed that the rot had carefully chosen its victims. Besides the blind, it had only affected those works that spoke of death or loss, as if their imperviousness were already compromised: bouquets of dried flowers; photographs of graves; the photograph of my mattress on which a man had set fire to himself; paintings of my mother’s last word. To these moribund works, which were being given a second death, I also added things from my life that I no longer had any use for but that I could bring myself to neither give nor throw away.”
Sophie Calle
The works in situ were photographed just before the exhibition opened. Readers must replace 15 numbered minicards in the slots provided throughout the book.
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21 × 29.7 cm
152 pages color photographs hardback october 2024 retail price: 39 €
CHAMBRE 207 ROOM 207
Photographs by Jean-Michel André Text by Clément Chéroux
Five August 1983, Jean-Michel André’s father was murdered along with six vacation companions in a hotel in Avignon.
At the frontier of autofiction, Chambre 207 is an imagined reconstruction of the author’s own childhood trauma, combining investigation, press archives, and family heirlooms. His moving account examines memory, grief, and reparation.
The book in A4, police dossier format is a visual essay, as much a part of reconstitution as reconstruction. The narrative transports us through anachronic time, combining the past and future in this tragic night. The author’s quest for truth gradually transforms into deliverance as the author’s poetic prose and its multiple layers of reading encompass this poignant tragedy.
Jean-Michel André was born in Nantes in 1976. A graduate of the École des Gobelins in 2000, he continued exploring photography through the optic of both fine art and documentary. He is represented by the Sit Down gallery in Paris. His approach to photography is based on a political and poetic vision of the territory.
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30 × 21.5 cm
252 pages
144 color photographs hardback november 2024 retail price : 49 €
Photographer, director and president of the GoodPlanet Foundation, Yann ArthusBertrand campaigns for a humanist ecology through his passion for the animal world and natural spaces.
The author of novels and travel narratives, Clara Arnaud’s writing is pervaded by travel and her relationship with others, especially horses. Her last work, Et vous passerez comme des vents fous, was published by Actes Sud in 2023.
Émilie Haillot is both an accomplished horse rider and a graphic artist, who has deepened her artistic understanding of horse portraiture.
DEVENIR CHEVAL
HOW TO BECOME A HORSE
Photographs by Yann Arthus-Bertrand Le Cense. Text by Clara Arnaud. Drawings by Émilie Haillot
In 2000, William Kriegel inaugurated the La Cense training center, a pioneering ethological equestrian institution, whose methods channel horse-human empathy.
Eager to share what La Cense has to give, Yann Arthus-Bertrand decided to expand his thirty-year-old equestrian photographic project and invited the travel writer Clara Arnaud and the equestrian artist Emilie Haillot to create a work exploring the power of our relationship to horses.
Clara Arnaud’s writing creates a dialogue with the photography, relating the special relationship of human and horse, while Émilie Haillot’s illustrations capture the
techniques and expertise at work at La Cense. Her sketches capture the immediacy of daily life, the postures and the impression of movement nurturing the poetry of the words.
For it is perhaps only poetry that can capture our special relationship with the horse and bring it to all those millions of horse lovers who claim to love horses without really knowing them. And here lies the heart of the argument: to convince the world that horses can make our lives better, individually and collectively. This book, with its sensitive powerful images and writing, goes one step towards this goal.
21 × 24 cm
258 pages
450 color photographs hardback coedition fondation d’entreprise hermès/actes sud october 2024 retail price: 49 €
SAVOIR & FAIRE : LA PIERRE
KNOWING AND DOING: STONE
Collective, under the direction of Hugues Jacquet
This sixth volume of the “Savoir & Faire” collection spotlights rock in more than forty pieces and essays devoted to its use throughout history. The geological world has a rich diversity and stone has accompanied human evolution for millions of years. The work begins with the classification of rocks and the history of their extraction since Antiquity, profoundly transformed by the development of transport and mechanization. The second part deals with stone construction techniques, past and present, in Europe and worldwide, from the pyramids of Egypt to Haussmann’s Paris, from the Acropolis in Athens to Gaudi’s architecture, finishing on 21st century architecture demonstrating how stone has always been at the heart of our architectural
masterpieces. By examining its role in architecture, we also encounter the artists of stone, their skills and the evolution of their art, as well as the transformation of tools. Sometimes criticized, construction in stone has never ceased and today is making a comeback, a sign of change in environmentally-conscious world. In the final chapter, stone is examined as a medium for creation par excellence. Beneath the chisel of Michelangelo, stone comes to life. In the art of the pietra dura, stone becomes precious and in the craft of the stonecutters rebuilding Notre Dame, stone becomes divine. Extensively illustrated, this work looks beyond time and borders to help us better understand and admire the stones that quietly tell the story of our humanity.
A sociologist and historian, Hugues Jacquet is an expert in expertise, the evolution of know-how over the centuries and their aesthetic and socioeconomic contributions. He is the author of L’Intelligence de la main (L’Harmattan, 2012) as well as essays for collections. He edited Versailles. Savoir-faire et matériaux (Actes Sud, 2019), as well as various volumes of the “Savoir & Faire” collection: Le Bois (2015), La Terre (2016), Le Métal (2018), Les Textiles (2020), and Le Verre (2022).
Ernest Pignon -Ernest
Pascal Bonafoux
ERNEST PIGNON-ERNEST
Le dessin, la mémoire ou la poésie
Citations et traductions
ERNEST PIGNON-ERNEST
Drawing, memory or poetry
Quotations and translations
Texts by Pascal Bonafoux
Illustrations by Ernest Pignon-Ernest
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17 × 24 cm
256 pages
130 color illustrations softback coedition fondation d’entreprise
hermès/actes sud october 2024 retail price: 33 €
Art historian, Pascal Bonafoux was a resident at the Villa Médicis in 1980 and 1981. An emeritus professor of Paris-VIII University where he lectures in art history, he is also a contemporary art curator, novelist and author of a number of essays on art, in particular on the theme of the self-portrait and artist biographies.
Ernest Pignon-Ernest is a visual artist who, from Naples to Soweto, from Charleville to Santiago, and even Palestine, has turned the street into a gallery celebrating memory, events, revolts and myths. He has written a number of works for Actes Sud.
y adhering silk screen prints and original drawings to walls in cities around the world, Ernest PignonErnest draws attention to the visible and the now invisible, bring the memory of sites back to life. In the process, he draws on his incomparable pictorial culture.
In parallel with his art works, Ernest Pignon-Ernest provides illustrations and, together with Pascal Bonafoux’s magnificent text, exposes how the artist’s inherently modern approach reveals the inherent
modernism of the past. He quotes El Greco and Caravaggio, Luca Giorano and Rubens, Ingres and Toulouse-Lautrec, but never verbatim; instead, he “corrects” or “translates” their wisdom to adapt it to the environment. At the heart of his work is always humankind and its bruised and battered dignity. The artist’s drawings are like parentheses in thought, insignificant moments of beauty that spark consciousness.
LE DIBBOUK
19.6 × 25.5 cm 240 pages hardback september 2024 retail price : 36 €
LE DIBBOUK Fantôme du monde disparu THE
DYBBUK
Ghost of a vanished world
Edited by Pascale Samuel and Samuel Blumenfeld
What do Marc Chagall, Natan Altman, the composer Leonard Bernstein, the filmmakers Michal Waszyński,, Sidney Lumet, and the Coen brothers, the writer Romain Gary and the contemporary artist Sigalit Landau have in common? A figure from Greek mythology: the Dybbuk – the spirit of a dead person that clings to the body of someone living and never leaves them.
Exploring this theme in literature, theater, cinema, and the visual arts, this work shows us how the Dybbuk is a key figure in contemporary culture which can help us understand Jewish identity, traumatized in the
past by the disappearance of a whole world, and a fear of dissolution into contemporary society.
It particularly explains how Shalom An-ski’s stage play Le Dybbuk, a tale of possession and forbidden love written in Yiddish and Russian in 1917, became an emblematic work of Jewish modernity at the crossroads of the orthodox and secular worlds, the living and the dead, the preservation of tradition and the appeal of modernity.
Samuel Blumenfeld is a journalist for Le Monde He is also the author of L’Homme qui voulait être prince, les vies imaginaires de Michal Waszynski (Grasset, 2006), the biography of the Polish director of the first cinematographic adaptation of the creature, Dybbuk (1937). A specialist of American cinema, with Laurent Vachaud, he cowrote Brian de Palma, a book of interviews with the iconic filmmaker (Calmann-Lévy, 2001).
Pascale Samuel is heritage curator and head of modern and contemporary art at the Museum of Judaic Art and History. Of note, she has curated the exhibitions “Chagall, Modigliani, Soutine… The Paris School, 1905-1940”, “Hersh Fenster and the lost Montparnasse shtetl” and “Child Didi: the journey of a despoiled artwork by Chana Orloff”.
description
26 × 21 cm
208 pages
bilingual edition (french/english)
150 color illustrations hardback
september 2024
retail price : 42 €
CHIMÈRES ET AUTRES ANIMAUX FANTASTIQUES
CHIMERA AND OTHER FANTASTIC ANIMALS
François Delaroziere
For many years, the work of François Delaroziere and his awe-inspiring machinery with its complex mechanisms has fascinated old and young alike, enraptured by the stories they tell. But the story behind the machinery has never been told, especially its conception stage, the motifs and tales the artist dreams up before plucking out the toolbox. This book contains drawings of all his imaginary creatures. Each drawing has two stories, the myth
that inspired François Delaroziere and the fable he has composed to breathe life into his chimera to create fantastic worlds containing the silver Hydra, the Guardian of the Depths, the Phoenix of the Forge, the Lanrivan, the Giants of the Seven Seas, the Minotaur, and so many other hybrid and mysterious creatures besides. Some have already been brought to life and have performed, others are still in drawers awaiting their call to action.
A graduate of Marseille’s school of fine arts, François Delaroziere is the artistic director of “La Machine” company. His life’s passion has been to explore mechanisms and machinery in movement. An illustrator, inventor, and scenographer for stage and street for more than fifteen years, he has designed and directed the manufacture of some of the most spectacular performance machines in Europe.
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20,5 x 15 cm
144 pages hardback
20 photographs
october 2024
retail price : 25 €
CONTES ET LÉGENDES
TALES AND LEGENDS
Text by Joël Pommerat
Photographs by Agathe
Pommerat
CBorn in 1963, Joël Pommerat, author and director, founded his company Louis Brouillard in 1990. His stage shows center on contemporary reality and question our representations of it. He addresses the real in its multiple material, concrete, and imaginary aspects. He has already looked back on his artistic approach in two works: Théâtres en présence (2007) and, with Joëlle Gayot, Joël Pommerat, troubles (2009). His complete works are published by Actes Suds-Papiers.
ontes et légendes is a social science fiction tackling the construction of the teenage self and the myth of the artificial creature. Joël Pommerat’s previous show Ça ira (1) Fin de Louis examined the origins of our political organization from the French Revolution. Here the director continues his exploration of contemporary values and identities staging a futuristic world in which humans and social robots cohabit. Like an anthropologist of the world to come, he observes a series of relationships between adolescents, adults and androids. Rather than another critique on the dangers or wonders of artificial intelligence, Contes et légendes displays the ambiguities of these various modes of existence and truth through a constellation of touching,
humorous moments. With her photographs, like some photojournalist of fiction, Agathe Pommerat brings these various families to life. We discover the play’s characters in situ in their daily lives. Like Joël Pommerat’s creations, the photography of this work unsettles and blurs boundaries, as is his wont: what is robot and what is human? What is man and what is woman? It is for the reader to decide…
BERNARD HERRMANN
Karol Beffa
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10 × 19 cm
176 pages
softback
january 2024
retail price: 20 €
TA composer and pianist, Karol Beffa is a doctor in musicology and a research tutor. Since 2004, he has lectured at the École Normale Supérieure. In 2012-2013, the Collège de France elected him for the annual artistic creation chair. He was awarded the sacem’s grand prize for symphonic works in 2017 for his career contribution. In 2013 and 2018 he won “Composer of the Year” at France’s prestigious annual classical awards ceremony, the Victoires de la Musique. The author of a dozen works, he has also published with Fayard in 2016, György Ligeti (winner of the RenéDumesnil prize of the Academy of Fine Arts and the Muses-France Musique award). In 2018, alongside Jacques Perry-Salkow, with Actes Sud he published Anagrammes à quatre mains Une histoire vagabonde des musiciens et de leurs œuvres (winner of the Pelléas-Radio Classique award, 2019).
his book explores the life and work of the American composer Bernard Herrmann (1911-1975), who wrote the soundtracks to Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane (1941) and Martin Scorcese’s Taxi Driver, as well as Alfred Hitchcock’s famous films, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho, among many others. Herrmann also worked with the French director François Truffaut and the Hollywood greats such as William Dieterle, Joseph Mankiewicz, Robert Wise, Nicolas Ray, Henry King, Henry Hathaway, Fred Zinnermann and Raoul Walsh.
A seminal reference in score composition, Herrmann also had a career as a conductor and wrote orchestral works: a cantata, a symphony, quartet pieces, a clarinet quintet, Moby Dick, Echoes, Souvenirs de voyages, and the opera, Wuthering Heights, based on Emily Bronte’s novel. He also produced countless scores for radio dramas, such as that for War of the Worlds, narrated by Orson Welles, the broadcast of which caused panic in the United States.
A lively page-turner, this biographical essay examines the life of a provocative man, prone to angry outbursts, who also won admirers everywhere for his huge literary and musical culture, his astonishing, inspired works and the perfection of his craft.
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10 × 19 cm
176 pages softback
september 2024
retail price: 19 €
ANTONÍN DVO ŘÁK
Martin Mirabel
Preface by Martha Argerich
In the history of music, it is rare to find such a huge disparity between the degree of popularity of works such as The New World Symphony and the American Quartet, and the degree of knowledge about their composer. Who was Antonin Dvorak? In this sensitive and rigorous biography, Martin Mirabel plunges us into the compositor’s world. From
New York’s Carnegie Hall to Russia, via London and Vienna, not forgetting Prague and the Czech Republic, this work takes us on a journey through his life and work. By exploring the musical influences of Dvorak’s native Bohemian folklore and their encounter with the American musical culture, this biography sheds new light on the diversity and wealth of his repertoire.
Martin Mirabel is an author and director, especially of classical music films. In 2018, he wrote and directed a documentary on the pianist Lucas Debargue, Tout à la musique. His first book, a biography of the composer Domenico Scarlatti was published by Actes Sud in 2019. In 2022, he wrote and directed the documentary Jakub Jozef Orlinski, Music for a While, on the charismatic Polish countertenor. The following year, he completed the documentary Les Frères Castro-Balbi, begun seven years earlier.
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15.5 × 24 cm
304 pages softback october 2024 retail price: 19 €
C’EST JANE, BIRKIN JANE
THIS IS JANE. BIRKIN JANE
Gabrielle Crawford
Translated from English by Adélaïde Pralon
Before she was a great international artist, singer, actor, and director –Jane Birkin was a woman, a mother, a lover, and a party-animal, who was a consummate hostess, a hugely generous soul, and patron to a host of humanitarian causes. Her best friend of sixty years, Gabrielle Crawford, relates in fragments her memories of the woman, her humanity, and her struggles in a narrative is full of anecdotes from close family and friends.
Jane Birkin died a year ago and she is much missed by all. Gabrielle Crawford invites us
into her private world, from her first appearance on the silver screen to her final concerts, taking in the birth of her daughters, her touring, the people she met. She also tells the story of the loves in her life, the death of Kate Barry, her illness, in a portrait of woman gifted with freedom and loyalty, demanding and committed. It is a book about the joys of friendship, a tribute and a final farewell to France’s favorite Englishwoman, a friend, a woman and an exceptional artist.
Gabrielle Crawford is a photographer who met Jane Birkin in 1965, when her husband Michael Crawford was touring with her in The Knack… and How to Get It. She went onto become her official photographer for her whole career. Gabrielle Crawford’s work has also been exhibited in Japan, London and Paris.
176 pages softback coédition institut lumière/ actes sud may 2024 retail price: 17 €
The journalist, author, and screenplay writer, Aurélien Ferenczi has written extensively about cinema for the press, especially Télérama, and on television. A regular collaborator with the Institut Lumière, each year he edits the daily journal of the Lumière festival. He has already written works about Fritz Lang, Tim Burton, and Tom Cruise. To him, the impact of cinema on our lives is more important than the artistic value of films.
FRAMBOISE
Quelques hypothèses sur Françoise Dorléac
FRAMBOISE
Hypotheses on Françoise Dorléac
Aurélien Ferenczi
In this short essay, the journalist and critic Aurélien Ferenczi explores his admiration for the French actress and the meteoric rise of a woman destined to become one of the most emblematic actresses of the 1960s. So prominent was she that her influence can still be felt in actresses today.
This short work is a fast-forward replay of a woman who played her own life at double-speed. Words rattled out of Françoise Dorléac’s mouth; she grew up fast. She burned up the boards and singed the celluloid, blowing her directors away. In the blink of an eye, she fulfilled her childhood dream of becoming a star. It is also the tragic tale of a woman who drove too fast and, in June 1967, killed herself on the AlpesMaritimes motorway.
At the tender age of twenty-five, Françoise Dorléac had already appeared in more than twenty movies, working for directors as prestigious as François Truffaut and Roman Polanski. She had already posed for thousands of photos, each of which is its own enigma as she never looked the same twice. Her appearance was constantly changing – her hair, her make-up, by turns the chic Parisienne sophisticate and the untamed feline. She’d even got to appear with her big sister, Catherine Deneuve, in Jacques Demy’s Les Demoiselles de Rochefort. This work sets out to recount the actress’s brief but passionate fling with the world: how a girl from Paris’ well-to-do16th arrondissement, born to parent actors, became an actress, a model, a media figure, and a woman, who was capricious, free, unchained, ahead of her times, ridden with angst, and gifted with a deliciously complicated love-life. She was a fan of Swingin’ London. We don’t know whether May ’68 captured her imagination or horrified her. Could it be that the whole modern trip frightened her? Her trace, her intonation,
something of her spirit is to be found in actresses today, especially the intense and fragile.
The story of Françoise Dorléac also has resonances within my own family, for whom the 1960s were a period, at least in my eyes, of a paradise lost, a paradise I never knew. Thus, through this unforgettable figure, the work also goes in search of a distant age, an age of perhaps illusionary happiness, but an age nevertheless that has passed.
MÉMOIRES MEMOIRS
Bertrand Tavernier
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14.5 × 24 cm
528 pages softback coedition institut lumière/actes sud november 2024 retail price: 26 €
Born in Lyon, 25 April 1941, Bertrand Tavernier released his first feature film in 1974, adapted from a Georges Simenon novel, The Clockmaker which earned him the Louis Delluc prize. Dubbed Tatave by friends, the director met with new success in 1980 with A Week’s Vacation starring Romy Schneider. Reputed for his subtle, portrayals of human suffering, the director was appointed as head of the prestigious Lumière Institute in Lyon.
A political activist, he was a member of the International Communist Organisation. His career is a catalogue of accolades; to name but a few, there were the two Césars for best writing and best director for Let Joy Reign Supreme (1976), the best director award at Cannes Festival A Sunday in the Country (1984), a Bafta Award for best non-English language film for Life and Nothing But (1990), and a César for best director for Captain Conan (1997). In 2015, the Venice Festival awarded him a Golden Lion for lifetime achievement. 25 March 2021, he died in Sainte-Maxime, in the Var at the age of 79.
The seminal French filmmaker, and passionate defender of love and the Seventh Art began writing his Memoirs in 2020.
His death a year later prevented him from finishing the task, but the 700 pages covering the director’s life until the 1980s are a fascinating adventure.
From Tavernier’s childhood in Lyon to his Nickel Odéon film club adventure showcasing Hollywood adventure flicks, from his years spent as a press attaché to his beginnings as Jean-Pierre Melville’s assistant, from directing The Clockmaker and A Sunday in the Country, these unabridged memoirs tell the story of a life lived in and for cinema.
NATURE ET PRÉJUGÉS
Convier l’humanité dans l’histoire naturelle
NATURE AND PREJUDICE
Putting humanity into Natural History
Marc-André Selosse
Preface by Erik Orsenna
Illustrations by Arnaud Rafaelian
M14 × 20.5 cm
448 pages
50 black and white illustrations softback march 2024 retail price : 25 €
arc-André Selosse puts one foot in the humanities to reflect as a naturalist on the changes of the 21st century. Each chapter is devoted to a different received idea which prevents us from seeing nature (including our own human nature) as it is. Headings include: “Evolution as a vector of progress”, “Competition as a virtue”, and “The harm of waste”, certainties and simplifications that lurk within our discourses of nature in the modern age, which are also responsible for the blunders that have led us to our crisis point today.
The light that the natural sciences shed on such subjects, usually reserved for broadsheet “Climate” pages, is remarkable at a time when fake news relating to health and the environment is rife.
“By positioning humans in the present biosphere (drawing on ecology) as well as in in the past and future (drawing on evolutionary biology), I relate a history of nature that involves us directly in the natural world. I want to show how humanity is born of nature and how it gives meaning to our existences.”
Professor at the National Museum of Natural History,
Marc-André Selosse has taught at several universities in France and abroad. His research and teaching focuses on symbiosis and mushrooms, germs, ecology, and evolution. An editor of international scientific journals, such as Espèces, devoted to explaining science to the uninitiated, with Actes Sud, he has published Jamais seul (2017) and Les Goûts et les Couleurs du monde (2019).
With tact and humor, Marc-André Selosse dismantles such deceptive narratives using concrete examples from his life’s work in the natural sciences. The biologist offers us a close-up vision of a world we think we know to reveal the cunning of orchids, the metamorphoses of viruses, human seduction, and animal exhibitionism, taking in themes of waste management, gender relations, competition, and mutual aid. The work is a stimulating read that will inject readers with fresh optimism, while troubling our certainties and revealing how similar we are to what may seem to be a distant and primitive natural world.
Marc-André Selosse
china (china textile and apparel press)
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16 × 21.8 cm
232 pages 20 color illustrations softback with jacket february 2024 retail price: 26.50 €
Julien Le Bot is an independent journalist, author, and film director. He is interested in the intersection between technology, information and society. It is in this context that he published Dans la tête de Mark Zuckerberg (Actes Sud/Solin, 2019). He regularly works for Arte, France Culture and rfi. He is also head of innovation with Samsa.fr and Samsa Africa. Tom Haugomat is an author, illustrator, and animation film director. He works for the press (XII, New York Times, and Le Monde) and children’s publishing. He is notably the author of Travers (Thierry Magnier, 2017). His passion for space has earned him a collaboration with Nasa in 2025.
FUTURS OBSOLÈTES
Ce que la conquête de l’espace nous dit de l’avenir
OBSOLETE FUTURES
Space conquest and what it has to say about the future
Julien Le Bot
Illustrations by Tom Haugomat
Obsolete Futures: Space conquest and what it has to say about the future is an illustrated narrative examining the issues of the 21st century space race.
The work does not dwell on the plethora of already existing space initiatives around the world; neither is it a comparative of the recent space programs devised by new players in the space conquest. The work instead looks at what these initiatives tell us about our possible future for, contained within space-race ideologies, is a vision of humanity to come. Beginning with recent history and private entrepreneurs’ projects, it moves onto the historical actors – Nasa and space agencies across the world. The work then assesses the
repercussions of the adventure, its mirages, fantasies, and broken promises.
As the climate warms, the rich’s pipedreams of colonizing space attract more funding. The discourses of interstellar exploitation speak volumes about their attitudes to the world, to politics, and to the future of our civilizations.
While focusing on a several key historical figures of spatial exploration, Obsolete Futures leads us into the history of our imagination about space, while asking questions of the experiments by the recently arrived tech-barons to understand how they have managed to impose their visions of the world, their methods, and perspectives.
The work also confronts the promises of the new conquistadores with the reality of space rights, the physical limits imposed by space, and the absurdity of their business models which aim to turn interstellar landscapes into inexhaustible mines of wealth.
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16.5 × 22.5 cm
192 pages
79 color photographs softback
october 2024
retail price: 29 €
Jean-Marie Rocchia (d. 2013) founded the truffle-growers union in his home region. An iconic figure of Provence and passionate transmitter of knowledge, he has written many books devoted to truffles which are now out of print.
ÉLOGE DE LA TRUFFE Journal d’un passionné AN
ODE TO THE TRUFFLE
A truffle-lover’s journal
Jean-Marie Rocchia
Preface by Marc-André
Selosse
Jean-Marie Rocchia spent his life in truffles. From the age of eight until his dying breath, he has tried to understand, cultivate, and tame their underground life. All the knowledge he has gleaned in those oak glades he shares with us now in an unclassifiable book: an intimate portrait of a fungus like no other.
Impertinent and drole, this anti-academic manual combines his culinary and botanical discoveries with tales of the hunt. It recounts everything you will not find in an encyclopedia: surprising flavor combinations, the wonderment of discovery, the miraculous
harvests, and cultivators’ techniques for spotting fraud. With passion, he describes a lost world that is a delight to rediscover, the story of a land where the heart beats to the rhythm of the seasons in which folks know the value of what is beneath their feet.
Even if the work has been out of print since 1992, this new edition seems even more relevant today: the respect of endemic species, how they react with agriculture around, the health of the soil and the biological interactions that promote it. In the age of intensive farming and systematic recourse to watering, this work is a breath of fresh country air.
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21 × 24 cm
256 pages color illustrations hardback november 2024 retail price: 31 €
(edizioni nottetempo)
(libros del jata)
Born in 1938, the botanist and biologist, Francis Hallé is a specialist in sylvan architecture and rainforest ecology. He is the author of a series of works including Éloge de la plante (Seuil, 1999), Atlas de botanique poétique (Arthaud, 2016), Pour une forêt primaire en Europe de l’Ouest (Actes Sud, 2021), La Beauté du vivant (Actes Sud, 2024). An internationally renowned researcher, he is currently working on the re-establishment of a virgin forest in Western Europe.
PLAIDOYER POUR L’ARBRE
IN DEFENSE OF TREES
Francis Hallé [new edition]
The wood that keeps us warm, the paper on which we write, the rubber in our wheels, every time we eat fruit: there are few areas of human life that do not have some connection to trees. Although we exploit trees mercilessly, we still know little about them.
Botanists have tried over the years to define this unique life, and eminently changing, life form, but it is no simple affair. Here Francis Hallé provides a seminal
examination of trees that is still vital today ten years after its first publication. The reader discovers the lives of olive trees, eucalyptus trees, and the durian tree, with the author’s familiar combination of wonderment and detail.
This new edition has been redesigned to allow more space for both the author’s illustrations and for contemplation and reconnection.
acception soulève des difficultés. Des herbes comme la Luzerne, la Scrofulaire ou l’Hellébore accumulent à leur base, en vieillissant, de petites quantités de bois, sans pour autant devenir des arbres. Pour ces raisons, je préfère ne pas utiliser le terme “ligneux”. Le tronc d’un arbre est-il nécessairement formé de bois,
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11.5 × 21.7 cm
144 pages 10 color illustrations softback october 2024
retail price: 18 €
DANS LES BRAS DU POULPE
Chroniques écologiques
IN THE ARMS OF THE OCTOPUS
Chronicles of ecology
David Grémillet
“I decided to write about animal lives to escape our climate of anxiety and connect with new potentialities. I’m not playing down the drama connected to global warming. But another natural history exists, often hidden from our eyes. Still today, the wildernesses described by naturalists sparks terror in people, exhausted by drama.”
David Grémillet
Parrots with their own aircon, field insects seeking refuge in urban gardens, tropical ants taking individual initiatives to advance the colony, the hypnotic dance of the octopus’ arms: in fifty short essays, the author sheds light on the incredible creativity of the natural world.
An oceanographer specializing in marine birdlife, David Grémillet humorously summons the wonderment that science feels about the existences, ecology and evolution of our planetary companions. Bénédicte Martin’s ten pen and ink drawings add a touch of poetry to his chronicle.
An oceanographer and research director in functional and evolutive ecology (Montpellier), David Grémillet has already published Manchots de Mandela (2021) in the “Mondes sauvages” collection. For the same collection, he is currently preparing a work on sea turtles for publication in autumn 2025.
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22 × 32 cm
160 pages color illustrations hardback october 2024 retail price: 36 €
Born in 1938, the botanist and biologist, Francis Hallé is a specialist in sylvan architecture and rainforest ecology. He is the author of a series of works including Éloge de la plante (Seuil, 1999), Plaidoyer pour l’arbre (Actes Sud, 2005), Atlas de botanique poétique (Arthaud, 2016), Pour une forêt primaire en Europe de l’Ouest (Actes Sud, 2021). As a researcher, he is internationally renowned for his illustrations of specimens. In 2018, some of his work was exhibited at the botanical gardens in Montréal. He is currently working on the re-establishment of a virgin forest in western Europe.
LA BEAUTÉ DU VIVANT
THE LIVING WORLD IN ALL ITS BEAUTY
Francis Hallé
Preface by Ernst Zürcher
There is no need to prove the beauty of the living world, we see it right before our eyes. It is rare, however, to hear scientists talk about it. Aesthetics lack seriousness and instead betray subjectivity and naivety. It is as if the beauty of the animal, vegetable, or mineral world do not deserve serious reflection.
This book sets out to show how different science can be: beauty has a primordial function and meaning in the living world, which Francis Hallé is delighted to share.
In this contemplative work illustrated by his own hand, the drawings have a more
important role than in the author’s previous works. There are fossils thousands of years old, giant leaves, and fleas with a gift for resistance. For the reader too, some of the beauty on show will provide fresh discoveries; other examples remind us of those small perfections that through habit we forget.
A book of wonderment, reading between the lines of evolution, La Beauté du vivant is a scientific work which proves that the understanding of the world begins with love and observation of its forms, even the most simple.
CENTAURES ET CENTAURESSES
CENTAURS AND CENTAURIDES
Edited by Alexandre Blaineau
14.5 × 24 cm
288 pages
20 black and white illustrations
softback
january 2024
retail price: 23 €
Alexandre Blaineau is the author of Les Chevaux de Rimbaud (Actes Sud, 2019), winner of the Pégase and the Khôra-Institut of France prizes.
For
more than two millennia, centaurs have roamed our imaginations. Generators of chaos and wisdom, human-horse hybrids titillate our logical minds. Defying the laws of nature,
they are somehow disturbing, yet our fascination for them predominates.
To help better understand these composite beings, this book examines their role in Western culture.
Depuis plus de deux millénaires et demi, les centaures peuplent nos imaginaires. Générateurs tout à la fois de chaos et de sagesse, ils intriguent nos esprits décidément trop logiques. Leur dualité contre nature nous inquiète en même temps qu’elle nous fascine. Cette anthologie montre combien les centaures et centauresses agissentcommedepuissantsrévélateursdesrapportsentrel’homme et l’animal, mais aussi combien semble pertinente leur assimilation au couple que forment le cavalier et son cheval.
Alexandre Blaineau est écrivain et docteur en histoire. Il a notamment publié Xénophon. L’intégrale de l’œuvre équestre (Actes Sud, 2011) et Le Neveu de Rimbaud (L’Harmattan, 2023). Il est également l’auteur des Chevaux de Rimbaud (Actes Sud, 2019), prix Pégase et prix Khôra-Institut de France.
Les Cahiers Arts équestres
It is a resolutely hybrid anthology bringing together various texts – short stories, research articles, essays, poems and interviews), from Greco-Latin Antiquity to the present day. Each text is a barometer to its age, appraising the diversity of representations across the ages. The book encompasses Ovid, Augustine of Hippo, Dante, Shakespeare, Ronsard, Maurice de Guérin, José-Maria de Heredia, and Primo Levi, with emblematic works by Botticelli, Fromentin, Rodin, and even Caesar for the pictorial perspective. The work is accompanied by a long interview with Manolo Bez, a founder of the Centaure theatre troupe in Marseille, who examines how the performance arts have portrayed the character over time.
The work examines what centaurs and centaurides have had to say about human-animal relations over history, and how they encapsulate the qualities of the perfect couple: the horse and rider.
Centaures et centauresses
Sous la direction d’Alexandre Blaineau Arts équestres ACTES SUD couv_centaures.indd 1,3
DÉP. LÉG. : JANV. 2024 23 € TTC France www.actes-sud.fr ISBN 978-2-330-17550-4
ALEXANDRE
BLAINEAU
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As a high-profile specialist journalist, a passionate speaker, competition organizer for forty years, and the sporting director of the chi Geneva for thirty, with his mastery of the sport, its winners, and three languages, Alban Poudret was the perfect person to interview these exceptional champions, especially because he witnessed their Olympic triumphs live. A fascinating, expansive subject to coincide neatly with the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
CHAMPION OLYMPIQUE DE SAUT D’OBSTACLES
Les secrets des 10 derniers médaillés d’or
HOW TO BE AN OLYMPIC CHAMPION SHOWJUMPER
The secrets of the last ten gold medal winners
Alban Poudret
Preface by Pierre Durand
Olympic showjumping is a mentally and technically demanding discipline and Alban Poudret is the perfect person to ask what it takes to become an Olympic champion. In this work, Alban Poudret interviews the last ten Olympic champion showjumpers (from Los Angeles 1984 to Tokyo 2021) to glean advice, anecdotes, and confessions. All leapt at the chance.
The work looks at how to prepare the horse, a task that requires many years of patience. Unless the horse is a genuine wonder and the rider can develop that special complicity, there can be no champion. What mental preparation is necessary to reach beyond one’s limits while staying calm under pressure in an unfamiliar environment? How differently do riders approach the event? Each has their own recipe; the most punctilious talk of luck, while the more devilmay-care talk of polishing their art and the importance of support staff. Which begs the question, what of the role of sports psychologists? Some admit to consulting therapists; others say, “Never!” even though all have all been assailed by the same doubts and terrors of the big stage.
Many believe that only after a huge, disillusioning defeat, can success be truly built. Each talk of their own superstitions. Three ex-champions confess to sharing between them a lucky dollar folded into eight.
A collection that rethinks our relationship to the natural world, edited by Stéphane Durand, the co-author and scientific advisor to Jacques Perrin’s epic natural history movies.
In their tribal assemblies, the Iroquois began each utterance with the phrase “In the name of the wolf…”
This collection follows the Iroquois credo and creates a forum for expression for scientists, philosophers, poets and artists who look at the ways that animals and plants express themselves. It is a collection for interpreters of the nature, people who listen to the wild world and to its naturally existing, speech-less, non-human inhabitants and who try to make sense of its own communication strategies. Civilization meets the wilderness and tries to make sense of its subtle vocabulary.
The collection is aimed at a broad public, and brings together tales of exploration, discoveries in the natural sciences, and presents the mindexpanding world of animals so that we might all get along better through understanding.
LIST OF TITLES:
• Rendre l’eau à la terre, Alliance dans les rivières face au chaos climatique, Baptiste Morizot and Suzanne Husky, 2024
• L’Ours polaire, Vagabond des glaces, Rémy Marion, 2024
• Vivent les corneilles, Un plaidoyer pour une cohabitation responsable, Frédéric Jiquet, 2024
• Les Fantômes de la nuit, Des chauves-souris et des hommes, Laurent Tillon, 2023
• Quand les montagnes dansent, Récits de la Terre intime, Olivier Remaud, 2023
• Vivre en renard, La traversée du siècle, Nicolas Baron, 2023
• Histoire naturelle du silence, Jérôme Sueur. Preface by Gilles Bœuf, 2023
• Héliosphéra, fille des abysses, D’amour et de plancton, Wilfried N’Sondé, 2022
• Sangliers, Géographie d’un animal politique, Raphaël Mathevet and Roméo Bondon, 2022
• Au nom des requins, François Sarano, 2022
• Les Manchots de Mandela, Et autres récits océaniques, David Grémillet, 2021
• Apprendre à voir, Le point de vue du vivant, Estelle Zhong Mengual, 2021
• Parmi les arbres, Essai de vie commune, Alexis Jenni, 2021
• Être un chêne, Sous l’écorce de Quercus, Laurent Tillon, 2021
• La Vallée de l’abeille noire, Yves Élie. Postface by Lionel Garnery, 2021
• Autobiographie d’un poulpe, Et autres récits d’anticipation, Vinciane Despret, 2021
• Je est un nous, Enquête philosophique sur nos interdépendances avec le vivant, Jean-Philippe Pierron, 2021
• Penser comme un iceberg, Olivier Remaud, 2020
• Ovibos, Le survivant de l’Arctique, Rémy Marion and Robert Gessain, 2020
• L’Europe réensauvagée, Vers un monde nouveau, Gilbert Cochet and Béatrice Kremer-Cochet. Preface by Baptiste Morizot, 2020
• Psychologie positive et écologie, Enquête sur notre relation émotionnelle à la nature, Lisa Garnier, 2019
• Chimpanzés, Mes frères de la forêt, Sabrina Krief, 2019
• Le Parrain, Au cœur d’un clan d’éléphants, Caitlin O’Connell, 2019
• Réensauvageons la France, Plaidoyer pour une nature sauvage et libre, Gilbert Cochet and Stéphane Durand, 2018
• Sur la piste animale, Baptiste Morizot. Preface by Vinciane Despret, 2018
• L’Ours, L’autre de l’homme, Rémy Marion. Preface by Lambert Wilson, 2018
• 20 000 ans ou la Grande Histoire de la nature, Stéphane Durand, 2018
• Les Français et la Nature, Pourquoi si peu d’amour ?, Valérie Chansigaud, 2017
• Le Retour de Moby Dick, ou Ce que les cachalots nous enseignent sur les océans et les hommes, François Sarano. Illustrations by Marion Sarano, 2017
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352 pages
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october 2024
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RENDRE L’EAU À LA TERRE Alliance dans
les rivières
face au chaos climatique
PUTTING WATER BACK INTO THE EARTH
The river alliance against the climate chaos
Baptiste Morizot and Suzanne Husky
Preface by Joe Wheaton
“Water is life and, currently, because of the simplified hydrographic networks of modern planning, life is draining into the oceans,” writes the author. An alarming thought, but Baptiste Morizot, a beacon of French environmental philosophy, reveals that there is one small world-building creature, the first designer of mega-basins, who
has lived in and fought for the preservation of our rivers for 8 million years, who might be able to help. This book plunges us into the river’s depths while composing a political manifesto to promote a fresh alliance with the beaver, in the interests of all, especially humankind.
The text sits side-by-side with some sixty watercolors.
A figurehead of the philosophy of the living world, Baptiste Morizot has already published three hit books with Actes Sud, translated into several languages.
A graduate of Bordeaux’s School of Fine Arts, Suzanne Husky lives and works in France and the United States. She has developed a creative multimedia practice focusing on the relationship between humans, plants, and the earth. Her work is exhibited around the world.
L’OURS POLAIRE Vagabond des glaces
THE POLAR BEAR
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Vagabond of the glaciers
Rémy Marion
“What do polar bears bring to the floes? Very little, actually, apart from a few seal carcasses for the gulls and foxes. But what do they bring to our imaginations? The essence of the wilderness, the bond that connects us to life on Earth. The polar bear and its image represent a vital connection that we have a duty to protect.”
Rémy Marion
Rémy Marion is a chemist in the it industry. In the 1980s, he turned his attention to science and the exploration of boreal, Arctic and Antarctic regions. He has organized many polar expeditions and is constantly sharing his passion in books and documentaries, like L’Ours (Actes Sud, “Mondes sauvages”, 2018) and, alongside Olivier Lavigne, L’Ours. Petit traité humoristique à l’usage des humains (Actes Sud, “Mondes graphiques”, 2023).
Few animals stir so many passions as polar bears. They are at the forefront of our struggle against climate warming, and a majestic symbol of a disappearing world. For more than thirty years, the Arctic predator par excellence has attracted media attention. Close to its cousin the brown bear, the polar bear has become a geopolitical pawn in negotiations between the countries of the North as well as a source of profit for zoos and ngos. Wearier of their media exposure than the melting ice floes,
polar bear populations have not imploded as expected, and so in recent years, attention to their plight has dissipated.
For decades, Rémy Marion has organized expeditions with Innuits and conferences with top international experts, building up a vast wealth of knowledge and experience of the polar ice caps and polar bears, in particular. After years of research, what has struck him are the species’ paradoxes and contradictions, notably in its lifestyle and our relationship with it, a complexity that is too often dumbed down by dominant reductionist discourses.
The author invites us on a long journey across the ice ages and the infinite expanse of the Arctic in search of the polar bear and the people who have lived alongside it for millennia. The work privileges field experience and in situ observation to paint a clear portrait of this magnificent mammal, its origins, and its future.
VIVENT LES CORNEILLES
Un plaidoyer pour une cohabitation responsable FOR THE LOVE OF CROWS
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176 pages
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january 2024
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As an agronomical engineer, lecturer at mnhn, researcher at the Centre for Ecology and Conservation Sciences (Cesco), Frédéric Jiguet has long directed the Centre for Research into Bird Population Biology (crbpo) and coordinated the tagging of birds on a national scale. He is an internationally renowned expert in bird migration and the evolution of bird populations as shaped by climate change. He has written a number of works about ornithology for a broader readership. He is also a member of the National Council for Nature Protection (cnpn), alongside Laurent Tillon and Maxime Zucca, also authors of the “Mondes Sauvages” collection.
Several million crows and related species are killed each year in France because they are classified as pests. There are no holds barred to their cull. In 2015, however, Paris became the first French council to attempt to regulate them. With the National History Museum, the city launched a study into how, instead of destroying the crow, we might better cohabit with the bird. The author, Frédéric Jiguet, a professor at the Center for Ecology and Conservation Sciences (Cesco), decided to take up the Corvus’ cause. The internationally reputed ornithologist and researcher is used to tracking rare birds across the world, but it has been in the more prosaic setting of his office window at Paris’ Botanical Gardens that he has made some of his most startling discoveries, especially about the so-called “harbinger of doom”. Meanwhile, out in the streets of the capital, its inhabitants still rale against the bird and its intrusive habits: “They even attack newborns in their prams, you know?”
Written as a captivating investigation, for the first time, the text takes us into the private lives of crows, while offering a surprising bird’s eye of the City of Light.
The work advocates tolerance, cohabitation and participative scientific observation.
Voix de la Terre
NEW ANALYSES, FRESH NARRATIVES
A COLLECTION THAT RETHINKS OUR RELATIONSHIP TO THE LIVING WORLD
SERIES DIRECTED BY SABAH RAHMANI
“Learning to be Earth, learning to be the self: this is the central precept of our cosmo-philosophy.”
These words of wisdom come from a Mapuche doctor and express the subtle vision of the vital bond between human beings and nature.
“Voix de la Terre” is a collection of narratives of the art of living and being on Earth from the multitude of perspectives provided by the wondrous people of the planet. It describes a humanity in touch with the living world, in a multiplicity of visible and invisible worlds, on our own doorsteps or at the farthest most reaches of the world. It is a world where women and men live in deep harmony with water, soil, air, fire,
minerality, plant life, animals, the cosmos, spirits, and ancestors, constantly engaging in fertile dialogues with all living entities whatever their essence. They know and they never forget that our lives depend on this vast wealth of life and have invaluable lessons to teach us about lifestyles which can open up to new horizons of awareness. Our world has lost its sense of meaning and values, it is severed from its vital roots, exhausting its primary resources and is prey to the greed of egology to the detriment of ecology. There is hence an urgency to give a voice with different visions who can shed light on a journey where humanity reconnects with the source of its deeper nature as Earth-being.
LIST OF TITLES:
• Pour une insurrection des sens, Jean-Philippe Pierron. Preface by Laëtitia Dosch, 2023
• La Forteresse des âmes mortes, Voyage initiatique dans les montagnes taoïstes, Sandrine Chenivressse. Preface by Juliette Binoche, 2024
• Viver en arsenic, Écopoétique d’une vallée empoisonnée, Claire Dutrait, 2024
• Férale, Réensauvager l’art pour mieux cultiver la terre, Charlotte Cosson. Illustrations by Damien Manuel. Postface by Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, 2023
• Naviguer sur les sentiers du vent, Olivier Le Carrer. Preface by Isabelle Autissier. Illustrations by Sybille Le Carrer, 2023
• Yanomami, l’esprit de la forêt, Bruce Albert and Davi Kopenawa. Preface by Emanuele Coccia, 2022
• Kogis, le chemin des pierres qui parlent, Dialogue entre chamans et scientifiques, Éric Julien. Preface by Pierre Richard, 2022
• Les Vies autonomes, Une enquête poétique, Clara Breteau. Preface by Camille de Toledo. Illustrations by Lauriane Miara, 2022
• Uyaïnim, mémoires d’une femme Jivaro, Hélène Collongues. Preface by Dominique Bourg, 2022
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11,5 × 21,7 cm
240 pages
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april 2024
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VIVRE EN ARSENIC Écopoétique d’une vallée empoisonnée
LIFE IN ARSENIC
The eco-poetics of a poisoned valley Claire Dutrait
Lands have died in silence while others are being gagged. Territories and bodies are being poisoned without so much as a murmur.
Born outside Paris in 1975, and once a university lecturer of classics and teacher of didactics, today Claire Dutrait is an author, investigative journalist, and researcher in eco-poetics. Her research and creations (stories, poems, exhibitions, and performances) sit at the crossroads between art and science as part of the “ecological humanities”, which examine polluted zones and their narratives.
Using prose and poetry, the author leads us through the twists and turns of an environmental catastrophe: the pollution of the Orbiel Valley.
The Orbiel Valley, southwest France: home to the remains of gold and arsenic mines that, since their closure in the 20th century,
have been openly seeping their invisible poisons into the soil. With sensitivity and creativity, the author captures the texture of this world, its words and discourse, unraveling modernity’s tangled web to relate, not without irony, the science, expert analyses, public policies, and economic interests of the disaster.
Gold is our dream while arsenic is our landscape: it is everywhere around us, in pesticides, weed killer, computer components and ink, bullets, missiles, std remedies, and so much more, creating a world turned upside down that builds its foundations on poison in pursuit of a better life.
Voix de la Terre
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11,5 × 21.7 cm
480 pages
10 duotone illustrations
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october 2024
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LA FORTERESSE DES ÂMES MORTES
Voyage initiatique dans les montagnes taoïstes
THE FORTRESS OF DEAD SOULS
A voyage of discovery through the Taoist mountains
Sandrine Chenivesse
Preface by Juliette Binoche
WSandrine Chenivesse is an anthropologist, transgenerational psychoanalyst and writer. Founder of L’Arbre dénoué – a teaching center for her practice, she also runs writing workshops focusing on family trees and life stories. She is currently writing a novel.
hat if the end were instead a beginning? What if death opens the way to a new and extraordinary adventure? Metaphorically, at least, this is what happened to a young ethnologist who dared to brave taboos in 1990s China and to pierce the veil of secrecy. Sandrine Chenivesse was 25 years old when she embarked on research into death in the Taoist tradition which led her to an isolated village at the foot of Mount Fengdu. From her bedroom in the Communist Party boarding house, she discovered a ghost
town haunted by tragedy. Amid the vestiges of its thousand-year-old history, its silent villagers, the site and its ritual sent the young woman into an existential whirl which physically affected her. This fascinating narrative, where worlds collide and where divinity and secrecy, the visible and the invisible, the unspeakable and emotional, the social and political collide, is a voyage of discovery, revealing surprising dimensions of being, among the living and dead, which unveil the hidden recesses of the Earth and ancestral memory.
LA MÉTHODE DE LA MÉTHODE Le manuscrit perdu
THE METHOD OF THE METHOD
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400 pages
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april 2024
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Emeritus research director of the cnrs and honorary professor of twenty-seven universities worldwide, Edgar Morin has produced an extensive body of research, translated into twenty-seven languages and forty-two countries. Edgar Morin describes his own work thus: “We need a method, an approach to knowledge that translates the complexity of the real, recognizes the existence of beings and examines the mystery of things.”
italy (editoriale la lettere)
moroco (afrique orient)
The lost manuscript
Edgar Morin
In 1977, Edgar Morin published the first volume of a series that went on to become the researcher’s seminal work, La Méthode, published in six volumes over thirty years. What nobody knows is that in 1983, Edgar Morin lost the manuscript that would have been the third and final volume of the series. In the meantime, his existential and intellectual exploration spawned new ideas, branching out into education, sociology and politics, enriching his already complex work. Despite the loss of the manuscript, the adventure of La Méthode has continued into the 21st century and, with its multidisciplinary approach, the work has universal dimensions. To confront the fundamental problems of our world, it elaborates a method that draws bodies of knowledge together to begin to reform of thought and humanism. Just as he thought the series had ended with the publication of what was then the final volume 6 (Éthique) in 2006, Edgar Morn discovered the lost manuscript and set about revising it. Its final form here does not replace the volumes 3 to 6 that followed but is rather a precursor to them, enriching their message.
“Method is a discourse of the second order, i.e. a discourse about discourse; it is knowledge about knowledge, a theory of theory, a science of science. Epistemology obviously comes into play but, in my eyes, it cannot posit itself as some supreme court to knowledge, and it must always be relativized, complexified, open to uncertainty and the scrutiny of the subject and history, while always being ready to rethink and revolutionize itself.”
“The paradigm of complexity that connects, in antagonistic and complementary ways, order and disorder, interaction and organization, is primordial to me. It is a question of relativization and of provoking interrelations and interactions between fields of knowledge to burst the disciplinary bubbles of biologism, psychicism, and narrow-minded anthropologism, which posit humans as separate from life on the planet, all the while neglecting how humanity’s global dominance emerged from the constant eco-re-organization of the environment.”
Edgar Morin
Volume 1: The Nature of Nature (Éditions du Seuil, 1977)
Volume 2: The Life of Life (Éditions du Seuil, 1980)
Volume 3: The Knowledge of Knowledge (Éditions du Seuil, 1986)
Volume 4: Ideas (Éditions du Seuil, 1991)
Volume 5: The Humanity of Humanity (Éditions du Seuil, 2001)
Volume 6: Ethics (Éditions du Seuil, 2006)
Volume 7: The Method of Method (Actes Sud, 2024)
DES FEMMES ET DES HOMMES Le pouvoir en partage
WOMEN AND MEN SHARING POWER
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272 pages softback april 2024 retail price: 23 €
Fabienne Alamelou Michaille has been a director with the lvmh group, then turned her attentions to issues of women’s accession to governmental functions in her theology studies at Lyon Catholic University. Today, she has a consultancy practice, Leadtogether, which advises businesses on the feminization of management.
Bertrand Badré was a financial director with several major banking groups and the General Director of the World Bank. Today he is the associate-founder of Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital, an investment fund with gender equality at the heart of its strategies. In his recent works he has also addressed issues of gender in finance.
Fabienne Alamelou Michaille and Bertrand Badré Prefaces by Michelle Yeoh and Jean Todt, Emmanuel Faber
Summer 2023, as the repercussions of the #metoo movement continue to make themselves felt, Barbie (and Ken) take box offices by storm. The fifth un sustainable development objective aiming at male-female equality adopted in 2015 is finally becoming more ingrained in our minds and we are beginning to see a considerable increase in female representation within administrative bodies which is impacting the higher-echelons of power. But there is still a long way to go before equality between men and women is achieved across society. What is the obstacle to women’s rise to positions of power? And why are there still so few at the head of the major organizations? How can the movement be speeded up? Why indeed the need to promote women? Is it an issue of justice or efficiency, or both?
Answering these questions requires us to explore history and analyze the role of culture and religion in the construction of our patriarchal societies. Recent research in neurosciences and behavioral psychology gives a very different picture of the subject. The authors deconstruct preconceived ideas and soften the debate to offer a different vision that will empower women to shatter the glass ceiling and share in the governance of
nations, businesses and religious communities. Many figures of the economic, political and religious world – among them, Isabelle Kocher de Leyritz, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, Muriel Pénicaud, Paul Polman, and Denis Machuel - provide testimonies of the changes and concrete examples to map out how progress can be made.
Gender equality is essential to civilization. Women need comprehensive recognition of their place in the world. The struggle will only end when women and men are working authentically together to achieve sustainable diversity and confront the challenges of this age.
RÉCHAUFFEMENT DES ESPRITS La responsabilité sociétale des industries culturelles
BRAIN OVERBURN
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14 × 20.5 cm
208 pages
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january 2024
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Pascale Thumerelle is a pioneer in the issue of the social responsibility of the culture industries and featured in the Economist’s 2015 Global Diversity Top 50. In 2018, she founded Respethica, a consultancy practice, specializing in the creation of sustainable value, which advises companies in socially responsible approaches. She has developed her own curriculum on the issue that she teaches at escp Business School and Sciences Po.
The culture industry and social responsibility
Pascale Thumerelle
Films, books, media, social networks, video games, music, stage shows, exhibitions: all inspire joy and curiosity, and offer food for thought, but can also create a dangerous greenhouse effect inside our brains. While climate warming threatens our planet, the culture industry menaces our little gray cells with overheating. Stereotypes, hate-speech, and fake news act like pollutants, and are harmful to individual well-being and social cohesion. The concentration of cultural production among a small number of corporations also threatens to format our imaginations, exhaust our creativity and weaken our critical analysis. The culture industry needs to rethink its influence, monitored by a tuned-in civil society. This book sets out to assess the field, appraise the situation, and deliver solutions bringing together industry, local authorities and people under a banner of responsible viewing.
What is at stake are our democratic values and human rights, our freedom of expression and cultural diversity, and our children’s interests and well-being. The book aims to influence people with a connection to the entertainment industry: investors and ngos but also consumers, artists and public powers.
The work outlines various courses of action so that, in a spirit of transparency, all actors can evaluate the impact and involvement of the culture industry while becoming aware of their new watchdog role in the battle against brain overburn.
LIST OF TITLES:
Created by Christian Dumais-Lvowski in 1999, with now more than seventy titles, the collection “Le Souffle de l’esprit” is still as faithful as ever to its original mission: to create a space for reflection on spiritual issues through prayer, contemplation, and meditation. Whether it is poetry, prose, essays, or fiction, the authors from a myriad of perspectives, whether atheist, agnostic, or adept, share their thoughts on human wisdom and its future.
Christian Dumais-Lvowski describes the project thus: “The initial idea was to publish books that would create dialogues between different faiths, religions, and modes of thinking, so we needed a very open editorial policy. This is why we welcome believers, non-believers, atheists, and agnostics. The collection includes authors from very different professional backgrounds: religious figures, psychoanalysts, intellectuals, and artists. If offers a broad panoply of convictions and questions.”
• Revenir. Dialogues sur les figures du Retour dans la tradition juive, Myriam AckmannSommer and Michaël de Saint-Cheron, 2023
• La pièce du cœur, Frère Jean, 2023
• Spinoza et l’exprérience mystique, André Ramel, 2023
• Être vivant, méditer, créer, Philippe Filliot, 2016 [New revised edition 2024]
• À la lumière de son visage, Rabbin Pauline Bebe, 2014
• Paul, l’apôtre qui “respirait le crime”. Pulsions et Résurrection, Jean-Michel Hirt, 2014
• Portrait de l’artiste en déshabillé de soie, Brigitte Fontaine, 2012 [New revised edition 2024]
• Le yoga comme art de soi, Philippe Filliot, 2012 [New revised edition 2024]
• Le fait Jésus, Philippe Lestang, 2012
• Le rendez-vous de Moissac, Claire Daudin, 2011
• Tentatives de louange, Henry Bauchau, 2011
• Oraisons, Michel Lonsdale, 2011
• Brins d’herbe, Carolyn Carlson, 2011
• Freud jusqu’à Dieu, Marie Balmary, 2010
• La Voie hésychaste, Marc-Antoine Costa de Beauregard, 2010
• Découvrir l’unité de l’esprit, Jean-Raoul Sansen, 2009
• Voyage spirituel dans le bouddhisme zen, Frère Benoït Billot, 2009
• La lumière Antigone Poèmes pour le livret de l’opéra de Pierre Bartholomée, Henry Bauchau, 2009
• Entretien intempestif sur le Tao, Henri FaliuBlanc, 2007
• Pèlerinage sur soi, Saidi Lardi Cherkaoui, with Justin Morin, 2006 [New revised edition 2024]
• À corps et à Toi, Rabbin Haïm Korsia, 2006 [New revised edition 2024]
• Prier par les cinq sens, Père Alain de La Morandais, 2003
• La Chine intérieure, Henry Bauchau, 2003
• Le soi et le rien, Carolyn Carlson, 2002
• La voie du bonheur, Lama Denys, 2002
• Universalité du Coran, Mohamed Talbi, 2002
• À ton nom, Damien Saez, 2001
• Les mots du rosaire, Sœur Emmanuelle, 2001
• Lettres à un jeune danseur, Maurice Béjart, 2001 [New revised edition 2024]
• Poèmes et prières des années de guerre (19391945), Jules Roy, 2001
• La pierre sans chagrin, Henry Bauchau, 2001
• Tantra, spontanéité de l’extase, Daniel Odier, 2000 [New revised edition 2024]
• Épreuves d’espérance, Rabbin Philippe Haddad, 2000
• Échanger la vie, Danielle Mitterand, 2000
• Paroles, Abbé Pierre, 1999
• Zen, l’éveil au quotidien, Roland Yuna Rech, 1999 [New revised edition 2008]
• Exercices du matin, Henry Bauchau, 1999
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PÈLERINAGE SUR SOI
PILGRIMAGE INTO THE HEART OF THE SELF
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui With Justin Morin [new edition]
Born in Anvers in 1976 to a Moroccan father and Flemish father, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui is today an internationally renowned choreographer and dancer. His work is imbued with multiculturalist themes that he has inscribed into landmark works for the stage, such as Foi, Tempus fugit, and In memorium. Pèlerinage sur soi takes us into the choreographer’s heart and mind and explores those themes so dear to him: memory, time, and sharing.
IN THE SAME COLLECTION :
DOMAINE DU POSSIBLE
Human society is in deep crisis. Climate change, social exclusion, the unbridled exploitation of natural resources, the desperate dehumanizing drive for profits, and the gaping divide between rich and poor are at the heart of contemporary problems. All around the world, men and women are mobilizing to create innovative projects and offer fresh hope for the future. Solutions already exist, original initiatives have already been created around the world and, although often only small-scale, they contain the basis for a veritable transformation of society. “Domaine du possible” is a collection with a message. Its aim is to enlighten and motivate.
MANIFESTE
PIERRE RABHI
PIERRE
LIST OF TITLES:
AGRICULTURE AND FISHING
• La Ferme du rail, Pour une ville écologique et solidaire, Clara and Philippe Simay, 2022
• Demain, une Europe agroécologique, Pierre-Marie Aubert, Xavier Poux, in collaboration with Marielle Court, 2021
• L’agroécologie peut nous sauver, Marc Dufumier and Olivier Le Naire, 2019
• Pour une révolution dans la mer, De la surpêche à la résilience, Didier Gascuel, 2019
• L’Agroécologie, une éthique de vie, Pierre Rabhi, 2015
• Changeons d’agriculture, Jacques Caplat, 2014
• Permaculture, Perrine and Charles Hervé-Gruyer, 2014
• Le Manuel des jardins agroécologiques, preface by Pierre Rabhi, 2012
• L’Agriculture biologique pour nourrir l’humanité, Jacques Caplat, 2012
• Basculons!, Cahier militant. Collective work, coordinated by Tanguy Descamps and Maxime Ollivier, 2022
• Animal, Cyril Dion, 2021
• L’Avenir de Terre-Patrie, Cheminer avec Edgar Morin, edited by Alfredo Pena-Vega, 2021
• Vers la sobriété heureuse [new edition], Pierre Rabhi. Preface by Mathieu Ricard, 2021
• François Sarano, Réconcilier les hommes avec la vie sauvage, Coralie Schaub. Preface by Pierre Rabhi, 2020
• Imaginer le monde de demain, Le rôle positif des médias, Gilles vanderpooten. Postface by Éric Fotorino. With Reporters d’espoirs, 2020
• Les Médias, le monde et nous, Anne-Sophie Novel, 2019
• Manifeste pour la Terre et l’humanisme, Pierre Rabhi, 2019
• Paroles des peuples racines, Plaidoyer pour la terre, Sabah Rahmani, 2019
• Petit manuel de résistance contemporaine, Cyril Dion, 2018
• Le Cercle vertueux, Vandana Shiva and Nicolas Hulot, 2018
• Écologie et Solidarité, Lionel Astruc, 2018
• Le Chant des colibris, Cyril and Fanny Dion, 2018
• Demain, Un monde nouveau en marche, Cyril Dion, 2015
• Le Pouvoir d’agir ensemble, ici et maintenant, Rob Hopkins and Lionel Astruc, 2015
• Vandana Shiva. Pour une désobéissance créatrice, Lionel Astruc, 2014
• Pierre Rabhi semeur d’espoirs, Olivier Le Naire and Pierre Rabhi, 2013
• (R)évolutions, Lionel Astruc, 2012
• Éloge du génie créateur de la société civile, Pierre Rabhi, 2011
ECOLOGY AND BIODIVERSITY
• Marseille, ville sauvage, Baptiste Lanaspeze, 2020
• Raviver les braises du vivant, Baptiste Morizot, 2020
• Océan plastique, Enquête sur une pollution globale, Nelly Pons. Preface by François Sarano, 2020
• Renaissance écologique, 24 chantiers pour le monde de demain, Julien Dossier, 2019
• Arne Næss, Mathilde Ramadier, 2017
• Earthforce, Captain Paul Watson, 2015
• La Biodiversité, une chance, Sandrine Bélier and Gilles Luneau, 2013
• Plaidoyer pour l’herboristerie, Thierry Thévenin, 2013
• Du bon usage des arbres, Francis Hallé, 2011
ECONOMY, MANAGEMENT AND POLITIC
• Le Syndrome du poisson lune [new revised edition], Emmanuel Druon, 2023
• Quand écologie et économie font cause commune [new revised edition], Emmanuel Druon, 2023
• Algocratie, Vivre libre à l’heure des algorythmes, Arthur Grimonpont, 2022
• La Ville stationnaire, Comment en finir avec l’étalement urbain ?, Philippe Bihouix, Clémence de Selva and Sophie Jeantet, 2022
• Libérer son entreprise, Pierre-Yves Antras. Preface by Isaac Getz, 2021
• Passage délicat, Penser et panser le territoire, Pierre Leroy, 2021
• Vers un numérique responsable, Repensons notre dépendance aux technologies digitales, Vincent Courboulay. Preface by Jacques-François Marchandise, 2021
• À mon allure, Éthologie d’un entrepreneur, William Kriegel, 2018
• Le Maire qui aimait les arbres, Jean Chalendas, 2017
• Ces maires qui changent tout, Mathieu Rivat, 2017
• Le Revenu de base, Olivier Le Naire and Clémentine Lebon, 2017
• L’Économie symbiotique, Isabelle Delannoy, 2017
• Le Pouvoir de faire, Jack Lang and Patrick Bouchain, 2016
• Écolonomie, Entreprendre sans détruire, Emmanuel Druon, 2016
• Équicoaching, L’intelligence émotionnelle au cœur de l’entreprise, Arnaud Camus, 2016
• Le Syndrome du poisson lune, Emmanuel Druon, 2015
EDUCATION
• Coopérer pour s’élever. L’école du colibri, Isabelle Peloux and Anne Lamy, 2024
• L’Enfant, l’École et le Cheval, Lisa Paret and Alicia Vaïsse, 2022
• Dessine-moi un avenir, Plaidoyer pour faire entrer le xxie siècle dans l’école, Rodrigo Arenas, Édouard Gaudot and Nathalie Laville. Preface by Philippe Meirieu, 2020
• Guide du cerveau pour parents éclairés, Stéphanie Brillant, 2019
• Pourquoi j’ai créé une école où les enfants font ce qu’ils veulent, Ramïn Farhangi, 2018
• La paix ça s’apprend!, Thomas d’Ansembourg and David Van Reybrouck, 2016
• L’École du Colibri, Isabelle Peloux and Anne Lamy, 2014
• Enseigner à vivre, Edgar Morin, 2014
• Ces écoles qui rendent nos enfants heureux, Antonella Verdiani, 2012
• La Ferme des enfants, Sophie BouquetRabhi, 2011
ENERGY
• Dieselgate, Repenser la mobilité sans diesel, Karima Delli and Xavier Manuel, 2019
• Changeons d’énergies, Marc Jedliczka and Thierry Salomon, 2013
• Manifeste NégaWatt, Marc Jedliczka, Yves Marignac, and Thierry Salomon, 2012
FOOD
• Du bon sens dans notre assiette, Anthony Berthou. Preface by Thierry Marx, 2023
• À la recherche du blé vivant, Jean-Philippe de Tonnac and Roland Feuillas, 2021
• Ensemble pour mieux se nourrir, Enquête sur les projets solidaires et durables pour sortir de la précarité alimentaire, Frédéric Denhez and Alexis Jenni, 2021
• À la recherche du pain vivant, Roland Feuillas and Jean-Philippe de Tonnac, 2017
• Plaisirs cuisinés ou poisons cachés, Gilles-Éric Séralini and Jérôme Douzelet, 2014
• Le Manuel de cuisine alternative, Gilles Daveau, 2014
• Manger local, Lionel Astruc and Cécile Cros, 2011
MEDECINE, PREGNANCY & BIRTH PREPARATION
• Reliance, Manuel de transition intérieure, Michel Maxime Egger, Tylie Grosjean and Elie Wattelet. Prefaces by Sophy Banks and Rob Hopkins, 2023
• L’Incroyable pouvoir de l’amour, Faites-vous pousser des ailes, Stéphanie Brillant, 2022
• Revivre. 12 étapes pour sortir de l’addiction, Philippe Cavaroz and Michel Henry, 2022
• L’Incroyable pouvoir du souffle, Prenez les commandes de votre vie, Stéphanie Brillant, 2021
• Le Pouvoir du lien, Quand hippothérapie et neuroscience cheminent ensemble, Hélène Viruega-Bogros and Manuel Gaviria, 2020
• Artemisia, Une plante accessible à tous pour éradiquer le paludisme, Lucile Cornet-Vernet and Laurence Couquiaud, 2018
• Bougez, faites confiance à votre dos, Marc Picard, 2018
• Pour une grossesse et une naissance heureuses, Magali Dieux, Patrice Van Eersel, and Benoît Le Goëdec, 2015
• Mère et père en devenir, Esther Wiedmer, 2015
COOPÉRER POUR S’ÉLEVER
L’école du colibri
COOPERATION FOR BETTERMENT
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14 × 19 cm
208 pages
softback
august 2024 retail price: 22 €
Isabelle Peloux is a retired teacher and researcher in education and cooperation. Throughout her career, she has taught children and adults practical learning tools for a more balanced life with oneself, others and the environment. With Actes Sud, she has already published L’École du Colibri (Actes Sud, 2014) and Comprendre les enfants pour mieux les éduquer (Actes Sud, “Je passe à l’acte”, 2019).
Anne Lamy is a journalist, specializing in psychology, education and society. She has authored or co-authored more than fifteen books. She also writes documentaries for younger readers and biographies.
The Colibri school
Isabelle Peloux and Anne Lamy
In 2006, Isabelle Peloux founded the Colibri School, an elementary school with forty pupils at the agro-ecology center in Amanins, in France’s southern Drôme region. In 2022 when she retired, she decided to look back on her career and at the role of cooperation in her approach to education. At the helm of the Colibri School, she allotted specific time periods during the week when children would learn to live together, debate the issues of the day, understand how others think, and learn from those who relate differently to the world.
In this latest book, as well as appraising her innovative teaching approaches, Isabelle Peloux shows us how the contribution of the neurosciences has shed light on how children do or do not learn, as well as how her approach became more refined in the last years of her teaching career. For the author, the work is also a chance to to defend pupils’ interests and vent her spleen about the educational issues of the day.
The “Je passe à l’acte” series develops the theme of the movie Demain to bring scope for action to anyone who, after a movie, has a desire for action and change.
It provides an indispensable resource for initiating projects. Each work tackles the same issues – “Why?”, “Finding support”, “Building the right team”, “Starting out”, “Keeping going” and “What next?”
LIST OF TITLES:
• Oser le congé paternité, Nathalie Petit. Illustrations by Marie Morelle, 2024
• Vivre avec l’éco-anxiété l’éco-lucidité, Tanguy Descamps and Maxime Ollivier. Illustrations by Orégane Plailly, 2024
• Reprendre sa santé en main, Aline Mercan. Illustrations by Victoria Roussel, 2024
• Réapprendre à respirer, Stéphanie Brillant. Illustrations by Gomargu, 2023
• S’unir pour mieux se nourrir, Violette Queuniet. Illustrations by Le Cil Vert, 2023
• S’habiller mieux en achetant moins, Claire Sejournet. Illustrations by Emmanuelle Teyras, 2022
• Cuisiner cru et vivant, Le Sens du poil. Text by Charlotte Blondel. Illustrations by Anne-Laure and François-Étienne Marchand, 2022
• (Re)devenir paysan, Jacques Caplat. Illustrations by Mélaka, 2022
• S’éveiller à la nature avec un enfant, Emmanuelle Grundmann. Illustrations by Élodie Balandras, 2022
• Déplastifier sa vie, Nelly Pons. Illustrations by Pome Bernos, 2022
• Procrastiner pour mieux créer, Fleur Daugey. Illustrations by Marie de Monti, 2021
• Devenir consom’acteur: le gluten, Angèle Ferreux-Maeght. Illustrations by Le Cil Vert, 2021
• Montessori à la maison, 12-15 ans, Nathalie Petit. Illustrations by Pauline Amelin, 2021
• Changer l’école de l’intérieur, Philippe Viard. Illustrations by Ivan Loncle, 2021
• Tendre vers la sobriété numérique, Frédéric Bordage. Illustrations by Marie Morelle and toad, 2021
• Brasser sa bière, Charlotte Champoiseau and Claire Sejournet. Illustrations by Emmanuelle Teyras, 2021
• Planter un arbre, Ernst Zürcher. Illustrations by Caroline Attia, 2021
• Montessori à la maison, 6-9 ans, Nathalie Petit. Illustrations by Pauline Amelin, 2020
• Engager son entreprise dans la transition, Édouard Sellier. Illustrations by Matthieu Marty, 2020
• Mettre de l’éthique dans ses cosmétiques, Claire Sejournet. Illustrations by Emmanuelle Teyras, 2020
• Redonner du pouvoir à son argent, Julien Vidal. Illustrations by Le Cil Vert, 2020
• Cuisiner simple et bon, Gilles Daveau and Bruno Couderc. Illustrations by Fanny Coutin, 2019
• Montessori à la maison, 3-6 ans, Nathalie Petit. Illustrations by Pauline Amelin, 2019
• Oser prendre la parole, Aurore Debierre. Illustrations by Lauranne Quentric, 2019
• Comprendre les enfants pour mieux les éduquer, Isabelle Peloux. Illustrations by Étienne Friess, 2019
• Repenser nos rituels: le mariage, Nelly Pons. Illustrations by Évelyne Mary, 2019
• Faire connaissance avec les légumes, Xavier Mathias. Illustrations by Cécilia Pepper, 2019
• Faire progresser son potager en permaculture, Xavier Mathias. Illustrations by Cécilia Pepper, 2018
• Composer sa pharmacie naturelle maison, Sylvie Hampikian. Illustrations by Valentina Principe, 2018
• Devenir consom’acteur. L’huile de palme, Emmanuelle Grundmann. Illustrations by Adrienne Barman, 2018
• Choisir des vacances solidaires, Véronique Bury. Illustrations by Philomène Longchamp, 2018
• Découvrir les vins bio et nature, Olivier Le Naire. Illustrations by Zoé Thournon, 2018
• Réenchanter la mort, Youki Nattier. Illustrations by Marie Belorgey, 2018
• Montessori à la maison, 9-12 ans, Nathalie Petit. Illustrations by Pauline Amelin, 2018
• Méditer puis agir, Youki Vattier.
Illustrations by Lisa Zordan, 2017
• Débuter son potager en permaculture, Nelly Pons. Illustrations by Pome Bernos, 2017
• Montessori à la maison, 0-3 ans, Nathalie Petit. Illustrations by Virginie Maillard, 2017
• S’engager dans une amap, Françoise Vernet and Marie-Noëlle Himbert. Illustrations by Cécilia Pepper, 2017
• Faire la fête sans détruire la planète, Emmanuelle Vibert. Illustrations by Le Cil Vert, 2017
• Réparer nos objets ensemble, Aude Raux and Marie-Noëlle Himbert. Illustrations by Jean-Jean Arnoux, 2017
• Choisir de ralentir, Nelly Pons. Illustrations by Pome Bernos, 2017
• Moins d’auto pour aller au boulot, Corentin Le Martelot. Illustrations by Younn Locard, 2017
• Manger moins (et mieux) de viande, Gilles Daveau. Illustrations by Étienne Friess, 2017
• Rénover une vieille bâtisse, Agnès Galletier. Illustrations by Pome Bernos, 2017
Marie Morelle is an illustrator for the press and publishing. She regularly works with the national press, for children’s literature, and television. She has notably illustrated Tendre vers la sobriété numérique by Frédéric Bordage (Actes Sud, 2021). description
t is no mystery, but the arrival of a child does throw their parents’ life into disarray. The postpartum period is a crucial stage in the adventure, both for the perennity of the couple and the establishment of a parent-child bond. In France, since July 2021, paternity leave of 28 days is now available to fathers, a chance, perhaps, for fathers to understand the changes their own lives are undergoing.
Rather than an argument for male-female equality, this work reaches out to fathers to tackle questions of paternity and sheds light on the importance of the first few weeks in appropriating this new role and the neuronal and hormonal changes that even fathers
undergo when a newborn arrives. Fathers will be surprised to discover how their child, like their partner, finds great benefit in paternal presence. They will discover the personal rewards of connecting with their newborn and how their professional lives can benefit too.
By breaking taboos surrounding sexuality, phantom pregnancies, and the fears surrounding fatherhood, this work will help both parents come to terms with their new adventure, and, within the testimonies, find resonances with their own emotional journey, to be able to find a fresh parent-couple balance, together.
Author, coach and trainer in neurocognitive and behavioral approaches, Nathalie Petit has made parenthood her specialty. She has already published the iconic series, Montessori à la maison (Actes Sud, 2007-2021).
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14 × 19 cm 64 pages 10 monochrome illustrations softback january 2024 retail price: 10.80 €
VIVRE AVEC L’ÉCO-ANXIÉTÉ L’ÉCO-LUCIDITÉ
LIVING WITH ECO-ANXIETY ECO-LUCIDITY
Tanguy Descamps and Maxime Ollivier Illustrations by Orégane Plailly
“We are eco-lucid, politico-anxious and ultra-motivated!”
In this work, the authors examine eco-anxiety, the angst caused by climate crisis, and by sharing hope to make it bearable. In opposition to the reductionist labels our “eco-anxious generation”, they posit the idea of “eco-lucidity” to counter the media’s over-diagnosis of a perfectly legitimate emotion to a genuinely alarming situation.
According to the authors, what needs to be done is locate the source of the anxiety – the incapacity of current political classes to
confront, alleviate, and adapt to the climate emergency – and politicize it. The idea of “politico-anxiety” thus frees us from the sense of helplessness we feel in the face of ambitious collective initiatives. Eco-lucidity fosters commitment and, by transforming the fear of the future into a desire to act, it can have a positive impact on the eco-anxious. Complemented with testimonies from activists and humorous illustrations by Orégane Plailly, this guide is a must for the eco-anxious as it encourages a feeling of belonging to a radical, rational, creative, and fun-loving community.
Tanguy Descamps divides his time between writing, photography and teaching ecology and art. With his experience as part of La Bascule, he co-edited the collection of activist testimonies, Basculons! (Actes Sud, 2022).
Maxime Ollivier is a social justice and climate activist. He has engaged in a whole range of protest strategies – demonstrations, lobbying with La Bascule, civil disobedience with Extinction Rebellion, and campaigning for La Primaire Populaire at the last election – ultimately, he has turned to art as a tool of mobilization with “Le Bruit qui court” collective.
REPRENDRE SA SANTÉ EN MAIN
CONTROLLING YOUR HEALTH
Aline Mercan
Illustrations by Victoria Roussel
Are you feeling fighting fit and want to stay that way? Or perhaps under the weather and seize back control of your health yourself?
A nutritionist, doctor, phytotherapist, and health anthropologist, Aline Mercan devotes her life to oncology care work, teaching, research and writing. She is the author of Traité de phytothérapie écoresponsable (Terre vivante, 2021) and various ethnobotanical works.
Fascinated by nature, Victoria Roussel translates her unconditional love for the living world into dreamscapes and fantastic characters on various supports. This is her third collaboration with Actes Sud.
Aline Mercan, a doctor passionate about plants, looks at health and sickness through the perspective of patient autonomy. Instead of providing miracle pills, this guide focuses on the pillars of health and offers a wide range of simple tools to identify our strengths and weaknesses and understand what our body is trying to say to us. Maintaining a balance between our inner world and an outside environment contaminated by pollutants, the hectic pace of
everyday life, and social injustice is a complex task. But with a few pointers, it is possible to reconfigure our lives to better answer our needs, alone or accompanied by suitable practicians.
Ultimately, health can never be simply an individual issue when we are subjected to an uncontrollable world that affects our collective health. Taking control of our health is a personal quest for our own freedom in the face of illness, itself also part of a broader approach to well-being in our daily lives.
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21.5 × 30 cm 96 pages color illustrations
hardback
october 2024
retail price: 28 €
AUX ÎLES
TO THE ISLANDS
Aurélia Coulaty
Illustrations by Clément Thoby
The poetics of geography, or how to travel without moving…
Aurélia Coulaty and Clément Thoby take us on a journey across the seas and oceans of the world, whether real or imaginary, to different island shores. Mythological, paradisiacal, sunken, desolate, volcanic, deserted or overpopulated islands: from Atlantis to Ithaca, Borneo to Socotra, the Marquesas to the Faroes…
This island “atlas” questions our fascination with deserted islands: what would you take with you? What do you need to live? There is no right or wrong answer. Everyone thinks of islands based on their own personal experience and their greater or lesser desire to be isolated. This unique journey poetically blends legends and encyclopaedic elements.
Aurélia Coulaty is a writer and performer. She has also published non-fiction, musical and geographical texts, literary critiques, essays on the history of art, and articles on the environment and migration for the press. She is an artistic director in the performing arts and created a European project based on the musical heritage of migrant families, Migratory Musics.
Clément Thoby studied applied arts at Paris, École Estienne and Institut Sainte-Geneviève. He then specialised in animation at emca in Angoulême. He loves colour and worked for five years as a decorator and artistic director for animation films. He now works as an illustrator.
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19 × 26 cm
288 pages hardback
january 2024 retail price: 32 €
LE ROI MÉDUSE
THE JELLYFISH KING
Brecht Evens
Arthur is being brought up by his demanding, conspiracy-theorist, survivalist father, in a permanent battle against Evil. After the father’s mysterious disappearance, Arthur undertakes a heroic quest applying everything he has learned from his father: observation, and how to counter-attack and master the self.
In this tale of the “Breton Harry Potter”, this Armorican “Da Vinci Coder”, this “Vendée for Vendetta”, the author of Panthère and Rigoles Brecht Evens is at the apogee of his art. Inspired by his own wild interpretative experiences, he examines the relationship between a father and a son, combining techniques and media to reinvent his own work and create a potentially endless saga.
Brecht Evens was born in Hasselt, in Flemish Belgium in 1986. His first book Les Noceurs won the Audacity prize at Angoulême, an audacity that never left him as he multiplied techniques and began publishing in several languages. He has written Amateurs, Panthère, Rigoles, and Idulfania (Actes Sud bd, 2014-2021), as well as Travel Book Paris (Louis Vuitton). He is represented by the Galerie Martel and the lithographer, Michael Woolworth.
“Le Roi Méduse” will be published in two parts. The second volume is due for release in 2025.
ISTRATI ! À l’amitié
ISTRATI!
To friendship
Golo
“Every single one of Panaït Istrati’s lines is a portrait of him. Never has a writer been so present, body and soul, in his work,” wrote Joseph Kessel about the self-taught Romanian writer, traveler, and Communist militant, whose work people are largely unfamiliar with today. In Istrati!, Golo, the author of Mendiants et Orgueilleux and Mes mille et une nuits au Caire, pays a beautiful tribute to the man, enveloping his tumultuous life in vibrant black and white, while telling the story of his loyal friendships, his passionate idealism, and his discovery of the world.
Laurence Le Saux, Télérama description
19.5 × 26 cm
480 pages hardback
january 2024 retail price: 38 €
Golo has already adapted Mendiants et Orgueilleux and Les Couleurs de l’infamie by Albert Cossery and attempted to resolve the mystery of the identity of the famous writer B. Traven in Portrait d’un anonyme célèbre, so the work of Panaït Istrati was the next logical port of call. Born in 1884 in Romania, the son of a laundry worker and a Greek smuggler, Panaït Istrati wrote in French. His extraordinary tales of integrity and courage won him, from the writer Romain Rolland, the nickname “the Gorki of the Balkans”. He died in poverty and anonymity in 1935. When he died, the French Communist newspaper L’Humanité ’s obituary was scathing, defamatory. In 1929, he had published Vers l’autre flamme in which he tells of his journey across the ussr and describes the reality of a country that has betrayed the promises of the October Revolution. The Party needed him to pay for his crimes of lese-Stalinism. Golo’s story begins here. His protagonist, the young journalist Juliette Parry, is outraged after reading the obituary, so sets about investigating his life. Her first port of call is Georges Ionesco, a Romanian bootmaker living in Paris who was a friend of Istrati. Ionesco relates how, 26 December 1913, a vagabond bursts into his store and embarks on his fight against injustice around the world, and his search for freedom and friendship.
First Part
In this first part, we discover the man, a “free spirit” passionate about his friendships and reading. Like his love of the Greek language, his need for friends possibly compensated for the loss of a father he never knew. The author paints a portrait of Panaït Istrati as a celestial roamer, with an extraordinary employment record as a sign painter, manual worker, lemonade seller in the dusty streets of Cairo and Alexandria, waiter in a hotel, and a hiring agent for housemaids. He is also a man who never deviates from his poetic quest no matter what hardships or setbacks he experiences. Like Rimbaud, he is a storyteller “with soles of wind”.
Second Part
In part two, we discover the grown-up Istrati and Golo focuses on his construction as a writer, how he learned the French language, the language he used to write his novels and essays, from Kyra Kyralina to Vers l’autre flamme. Istrati sends his first manuscript to Romain Rolland and the package returns unopened. In his despair, he slashes his throat in a park before being rescued from death. Ultimately, Rolland reads the manuscript, a promise of novels to come. The pair becomes great friends and Romain Rolland encourages Istrati to write with the same passion. It is with this passion that he denounces the reality of Stalinism on his return to Russia.
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14 × 20 cm 112 pages softback
january 2024
retail price: 13.90 €
UN AVENIR RADIEUX
A RADIANT FUTURE
Muzo
With sixty world-weary and darkly humorous illustrations, Muzo caricatures and makes light of our concerns about the future of the planet. He examines humanity, our quirks and foibles, and the denial in which we live. The target of his derision: government inaction and peoples’ fatalism in the face of heatwaves, forest fires, pollution, threats to biodiversity, overconsumption, and excess waste. The causes and consequences of global warming are all victims to his pen, as his pictures both make us think and laugh.
A dose of humor as an antidote to our eco-anxiety, laughter to fight desperation. After all, you gotta laugh, or else…
A perfect gift for climate change sceptics (if they still exist), the eco-anxious, fatalists, and all those, who like Groucho Marx, would say, “Why should I care for future generations? What have they ever done for me?”
Born in 1960, throughout his career, Muzo has collaborated with a number of journals and magazines such as Hara-Kiri, Charlie Mensuel, Métal hurlant, Libération, and Le Monde. Of note, he has also illustrated three works by Christophe André. With Actes Sud Jeunesse he has also published the series, Les petits tracas de Théo et Léa
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23 × 31 cm 112 pages hardback may 2024 retail price: 26.50 €
Illustrator and screenplay writer, Dav Guedin first made a name for himself by founding the Crazy Dolls collective, bringing together doll- and toymakers to create exhibitions and a website. His early books were published under the Guedin Bros. name by Le Dernier Cri publishers. Dav published a few graphic novels with the illustrator Craoman as well as an emotional narrative about his time as a care worker for the physically disabled and a work about Breton skinheads based on real life.
With Une vie d’huissier, Dav began an autobiographical trilogy examining his family tree. Moisson 44 is the second volume.
MOISSON 44 Un petit Parigot réfugié en Normandie
HARVEST 44
A Parisian child refugee in Normandy
Dav Guedin
Jacques lives in Paris and, in 1944, takes refuge on a farm in Normandy. A young orphan finds himself at the center of a polyphonic narrative, a history within history, of the men and women who survived two world wars and took in dozens of refugees. This graphic novel pays tribute to the rural world to which Dav Guedin himself kissed farewell and to his family caught in the turmoil of the D-Day landings.
As in his previous book, La Vie d’huissier, the author’s mother is once more fittingly the source of invention, sharing another family tale that, she said, “would make great grist for your mill, son”. In this work, however, the narrative begins, not with the arrival in the capital of a distant cousin who is a
power-hungry bailiff, through whom Dav Guedin recounted Paris’ sordid underbelly in the 1980s, but the unexpected appearance of the orphan, Jacques, at a farmhouse in the small Normandy village of Tourouvre. On the eve of the daring allied landings, the 8-year-old is welcomed into a Norman farmhouse, and like so many other refugees of the time, becomes another city kid forced to discover country life. The author takes us on a journey back up his family tree to pay tribute to the rural world: “I wanted to depict the hard work, the fields, and the cows, to bring back to life an age I never knew, the age of my grandparents, their parents, all farmers during the war, tilling the soil beneath the bombs.”
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17 × 23 cm
400 pages in duotone included a 32-page color folder of drawings by women resistance fighters in the camps hardback august 2024 retail price: 33.50 €
KINDERZIMMER
Ivan Gros
Based on the novel by Valentine
Goby
When drawings become historical testimony… Ivan Gros adapts Valentine Goby’s novel of a pregnant woman deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp and pays tribute to those incarcerated who spent their time drawing to tell of their experiences and survive.
Critically acclaimed at its release in the fall 2013, Kinderzimmer has received ten literary prizes, including Le Prix des Libraires in 2014, and has sold more than 70,000 copies (both hardback and softback). In his adaptation of this powerful novel of a pregnant woman’s trials and tribulations in the Ravensbrück concentration camp, Ivan Gros uses pictures drawn by the deportees themselves. The works are now scattered around Europe, valuable family legacies, that Ivan Gros spent almost ten years collecting and compiling. In his graphic novel, a subtle play
of representation comes into play between fiction and archive material. The original drawings support the fiction while the fiction brings a narrative framework in return. At the end of the book is a historical essay paying tribute to deported artists.
“I wrote the novel to relate that mad courage it takes to view the camp not as some other world but as a part of the self. These women weren’t heroes and activists, battle-hardened by politics or the Resistance movement. Their heroism lay in the small everyday things they did around the camp, taking care of the most vulnerable in captivity – the newborns – to help them nurture their own human instinct to survive. My character, Mila, is one of those women. Kinderzimmer might feel dark, but it is a novel bursting with light.”
Valentine Goby
A literary researcher, journalist, illustrator, and engraver, Ivan Gros has taught at the Taiwan’s National Central University. Today he lives in Paris. Kinderzimmer is his first published graphic novel, the fruit of twelve years’ work.
THÉORIE D’ALGER
THE ALGIERS THEORY
Sébastien Lapaque
Illustrated by Jacques Ferrandez
T15.5 × 23 cm
156 pages color illustrations hardback october 2024 retail price: 24 € description
The winner of the Prix François Mauriac from the Académie Française for Les Idées heureuses (Actes Sud, 1999) and the Prix Goncourt for best short story collection for Mythologie française (Actes Sud, 2002), Sébastien Lapaque received the Prix Jean Freustié for his last novel, Ce monde est tellement beau (Actes Sud, 2022).
An illustrator and screenplay writer, Jacques Ferrandez was born in Algiers in 1955.
A former pupil at the École Nationale des Arts Décoratifs in Nice, in 1987, he began work on his Carnets d’Orient, a vast fresco of the history of Algeria, from conquest to independence. In 1998, he began exploring the graphicdocumentary form with his Mediterranean notebooks, visiting, Syria, Istanbul, Iraq, Lebanon, and BosniaHerzegovinia before writing Retours à Alger (Casterman). After adapting Albert Camus’ works, in 2019 he published an adaptation of Jean Giono’s novel, Le Chant du monde (Gallimard).
he author of Carnets d’Orient , Jacques Ferrandez, illustrates Sébastien Lapaque’s journey through modern Algiers. His documentary pictures echo the travel writer’s reflections. Traumatized, chaotic, and eminently touching, to Sébastien Lapaque, Algiers is a city that is reserved yet generous, familiar and mysterious, but above all, is a close friend. Time after time he returns, his wonderment and curiosity intact, and with every return he rediscovers the magic of the first time. Between the alternating breaths of his meanderings, this flâneur par excellence offers us the emotions of early morn, the gentle intoxication of spontaneous conversations,
the melancholy of cemeteries and the melody of birdsong. Soccer mingles with history, music summons memory, the past is lurking at every corner of the street. Ever conscious of his foreigner status but caught up in his affection and joy, in his Theory of Algiers, the author sets “intelligence to work on both sides of the Mediterranean. My motto: distinction equals union.”
The illustrations follow his footsteps down winding alleys, across landscapes, sharing his own knowledge and his stubborn hopes for a brighter future. It is perhaps from here more than elsewhere that his travel philosophy comes: “Sleep well, dream well.”
en roseau, le mandole, les percussions et même le piano. Le banjo, c’était la contribution des soldats américains, débarqués à Alger le 8 novembre 1942 pour délivrer la ville du drapeau frappé de la croix gammée qui flottait sur la villa Sésini, le siège du consulat allemand établi boulevard Bru. Dans la Casbah libérée, les musiciens avaient immédiatement fait de cet instrument un citoyen algérien. Ces hommes avaient l’inspiration généreuse et le cœur large. Ils vivaient comme des princes, le regard perdu vers la ligne d’horizon ou vers quelque royaume englouti… “L’innocence a disparu, ô vous qui m’écoutez, je le dis fort de mon expérience”… Cette façon de se pencher au-dedans et ces larmes d’enfant, à la fin du morceau il ne se lassait pas des romances qu’avaient interprétées Lili Labassi, Cheikh El-Anka, Mustapha Skandrani et Lili Boniche… Sans oublier Sultana Daoud, dite Reinette l’Oranaise, qui fit la plus grande partie de sa carrière à Alger, comme son nom ne l’indiquait pas. Déchirantes MEP theorie d'alger 10-07.indd 12-13 MEP
90 “C’est là. Enfin, je crois. Quelques années après l’Indépendance, ils ont même tourné un film. Ils avaient creusé un trou. Je m’en souviens encore. On nous avait empêchés d’entrer dans le cimetière pour les laisser travailler.” C’était là, sous ce carré d’argile rouge sur lequel poussait du trèfle, que reposait Catherine Sintès ? Ils échangèrent un regard dubitatif avec Saïd. “Je crois”, répéta Brahim. Sur la route du retour, il avait l’air penaud, avec son pot de fleurs, assis à la droite du conducteur, au milieu d’un trafic de plus en plus dense à l’approche d’Alger. Ce n’était pas la tombe de la mère d’Albert Camus Le gardien n’avait pas l’air de connaître si bien que ça son affaire, lui dit Saïd. Il y aurait eu une plaque avec son nom, peutêtre même des fleurs. Qu’est-ce qu’il nous a montré, alors ? Il nous a parlé d’un tournage dans le cimetière. Je pense qu’il a confondu l’enterrement reconstitué par le cinéaste italien Luchino Visconti pour la réalisation de L’Étranger en 1966 et les obsèques véritables de Mme Camus.
C’est quoi, ce film Une œuvre étrange, pleine de soleil et de crissements de cigales, tournée à Alger et à Marengo, avec Marcello Mastroianni dans le rôle de Meursault et Anna Karina dans celui de Marie. Le film
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Tome II. Du siècle des Lumières au futur
NOW BOARDING
Volume 2 – from the Enlightenment to the future
Didier Huon de Kervadec
14.5 × 24 cm 440 pages softback september 2024 retail price: 29.50 € description
After the success of the first volume spanning the history of population displacement from prehistory to the Renaissance, the second volume picks up the story in the great age of exploration, from the 18th century to modern times. We step aboard the ships of sailors, scientists, adventurers, traders, missionaries, soldiers, and settlers in search of warmer climes. The author’s migration epic continues to show
how across history, when their lives have been turned upside down by poverty, famine, war, or disease, people have traveled to survive. From the Enlightenment to the present day, this volume sets out on the trajectories of millions of slaves, migrants, and refugees, today intersected by the millions of tourists crossing the world in such different ways in search of different goals.
A former high-level sportsman who retired from a career in real estate, Didier Huon de Kervadec is passionate about geography and history. His many travels have led him across five continents.
HISTOIRE
DES COUVERTS
THE HISTORY OF CUTLERY
Pascal Reigniez
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14.5 × 24 cm
208 pages
50 black and white illustrations, softback april 2024 retail price: 20 €
nbeknownst to us, perhaps, even everyday objects have their history. This work studies the evolution of our eating utensils. The table irons we take for granted are a relatively new development in human evolution and until recently humankind was eating with its fingers. Where utensils were used, they might be simple sticks or tools, or cobbled together from whatever available.
In the west, since Roman times, three items of cutlery have persisted – knife, fork and spoon. Of the three, the knife and spoon are the oldest, while the fork, it is said, arrived in the luggage of a Byzantian aristocrat and, at the time, only had two prongs. The author also demonstrates how the history of utensils is indissociable from the history of gastronomy. Gastronomy has evolved considerably since the Grand Siècle, and the utensils used to prepare and eat it have
influenced what we eat as well as our individual and collective behavior. There are, of course, economic factors to consider. In the 19th century, during the Industrial Revolution, the discovery of new metals and alloys enabled the mass production of cutlery which brought down its cost and, gradually, manufactured utensils began to replace the wooden spoon and pocketknife. Setting the table became a daily ritual. In the 19th century, combination eating utensils appeared, which met with great success a century later as the leisure industry developed.
A fascinating journey into the origins of our table manners. An accessible and dynamic work offering an absorbing panorama of a forgotten history.
Pascal Reigniz was an associate researcher at the cnrs and has taught the anthropology of techniques at the University of Paris. His research has focused on tools as intermediaries between individuals and their environment in the broad sense, and in pre-industrial techniques.
LE SPORT DANS L’ANTIQUITÉ SPORT IN ANTIQUITY
Wolfgang Decker and Jean-Paul Thuillier
How and why the ancient world practiced sports?
11 × 18 cm
336 pages
80 black and white illustrations softback june 2024 retail price: 14.50 €
Sport is an integral part of human culture, and antiquity was somewhat a heyday for sport, practiced at once as a form of military training, a leisure activity, and a cultural phenomenon. While many other studies of ancient sports exist, this one looks further afield than Greece and Rome to their spiritual and material influences, Mesopotamia and Egypt. After all, previous civilizations left their mark on Greco-Roman religion, writing, calendars, trade, technology, philosophy, and more besides, so why should sport be any different?
The first recorded sporting occurrence dates to 3,000 years bc, so we know sport was not a Greek invention, despite the importance they gave to agonism (competition) and gymnastics (training) and the prestige given to chariot racing in Ancient Rome. In
this respect, the Etruscans were not totally dependent on the Greeks, as was believed until recently, while the history of the Olympic Games in Greece only really took shape in the 6th century bc. Each author is a specialist in the history of sport and together they brilliantly encapsulate previous work on Greco-Roman sport. But the work’s true strength lies in its study of other civilizations from Egypt to Eritrea – traditionally terrae incognitae to sporting history. The work also shows how, like sport, the history of its research gets better results with international cooperation, and that sporting endeavor is not to be found simply in Greece vs. Rome but everywhere else and beyond.
Wolfgang Decker who died in 2020 was a German historian of physical exercise specializing in Greek and Egyptian antiquity, and cofounder of the Nikephoros journal which studies the subject.
Jean-Paul Thuillier is a world-recognized historian of Antiquity. A former member of the French School in Rome, he is a sports specialist of the ancient era, especially Etruscan civilization.
RÉENCHANTER L’EAU Plaidoyer anthropologique
REKINDLING OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH WATER
An anthropological appeal
Claudine Brelet
T12.5 × 19 cm
220 pages
softback
may 2024 retail price: 25 € description
An anthropologist and literary figure in France, Claudine Brelet, has long campaigned for human and environmental health issues through the appropriation of local technologies since the 1970s. At who and Unesco, she defends cultural diversity and biodiversity, the knowledge of indigenous peoples and the universal right to water access.
his book invites us to reconnect with water, the same water inside us and that keeps us alive. It invites us to dig into our deeply buried ancestral imagination and immerse ourselves in the hopes and dreams of non-industrialized societies that have preserved their ethical and emotional connections with the water of their landscapes. The aim of this work is to rekindle our relationship to water, a relationship that has often been overlooked in modern societies and reduced to a molecular, three-character form: h2o This book takes readers into the minds of Australian Aboriginals when, during the monsoon season, they celebrate the marriage of fresh and salt waters to the red earth of this vast continent. It takes us on a journey down Niger’s immense river, the Djoliba of Mali, to listen to the Bozos, the “masters of the waters” to discover the knowledge
of Bambara initiates whose secrets go back to prehistoric times. It then leads us into the depths of Nigeria, into the heart of the sacred Osogbo forest where priestesses of Oshun, the goddess of love, water and abundance among the Yoruba people, still bless women who cannot conceive on the sands of her eponymous river. Today, 370 million people at least, representing the world’s remaining indigenous populations, depend on the direct resources of their natural environment of which water is a central aspect. Living in ninety different countries, today they protect 80% of our planet’s surviving biodiversity, but are among the 15% of the world’s poorest. Which begs the question of “the right to water”, a recent concept in the modern world, which was only recognized in July 2010 by the un general assembly. The respect in which the age-old traditions of animist societies have held for water spirits and divinities and nature is beginning to find some kind of legal framework.
This work is a passionate anthropological appeal encompassing many contemporary, climatic and social issues.
PÉRÉGRINATIONS DANS LA GAULE ROMAINE
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21 × 28 cm 224 pages 200 color illustrations hardback october 2024 retail price: 34 €
Gérard Coulon is a leading heritage curator. He was director at the Argentomagus Archaeological Museum in central France before becoming head of departmental monuments and museums in Touraine. A trained architect, Jean-Claude Golvin is a leading world specialist in the reconstruction of ancient sites and has illustrated and authored a series of works for Errance.
et dans les provinces des Alpes et de Corse
PEREGRINATIONS THROUGH ROMAN GAUL, THE ALPS, AND CORSICA
Watercolors by Jean-Claude Golvin
Text by Gérard Coulon
This work invites us on a trail across France in search of Gallo-Roman remains from the most spectacular to the unknown. The work includes seventy-four sites, classified in alphabetical order, in chapters corresponding to the various provinces of Gaul: the Narbonne and Lyon areas, Aquitaine, Belgium, Germania, Corsica and the Alps.
Founded on solid archaeological documentation, with analysis by Gérard Coulon, a renowned specialist in Roman Gaul, and illustrations by Jean-Claude Golvin, a leading international specialist in archaeological reconstructions, the work brings the sites back to life, makes the era accessible to a wider audience, while helping to deepen our understanding of Roman-occupied Gaul.
The journey is illustrated by almost a hundred and forty watercolors, providing a wealth of detail rare in city and monument reconstruction and featuring an extensive series of annexes to complement the examination.
LES ANCIENS ÉGYPTIENS
Scribes, pharaons et dieux
THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS
Scribes, pharaohs, and gods
Aude Gros de Beler
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10 × 18 cm
340 pages black and white maps and plans
softback march 2024 retail price: 19.50 €
A lecturer at Vauban University, Nîmes, Aude Gros de Beler is an Egyptologist specialized in the daily lives of the Ancient Egypt and has written a number of works in tandem with Jean-Claude Golvin: Voyage en Égypte ancienne (3th edition, 2021), L’Antiquité retrouvée (4th edition, 2020), and Guide de l’Égypte ancienne (2002).
his book invites us to reconnect with water, the same water inside us and that keeps us alive. It invites us to dig into our deeply buried ancestral imagination and immerse ourselves in the hopes and dreams of non-industrialized societies that have preserved their ethical and emotional connections with the water of their landscapes. The aim of this work is to rekindle our relationship to water, a relationship that has often been overlooked in modern societies and reduced to a molecular, three-character form: h2o This book takes readers into the minds of Australian Aboriginals when, during the monsoon season, they celebrate the marriage of fresh and salt waters to the red earth of this vast continent. It takes us on a journey down Niger’s immense river, the Djoliba of Mali, to listen to the Bozos, the “masters of the waters” to discover the knowledge of Bambara initiates whose secrets go back to prehistoric times. It then leads us into the depths of Nigeria, into the heart of the sacred Osogbo forest where priestesses of Oshun, the goddess of love, water and abundance among the Yoruba people, still
bless women who cannot conceive on the sands of her eponymous river. Today, 370 million people at least, representing the world’s remaining indigenous populations, depend on the direct resources of their natural environment of which water is a central aspect. Living in ninety different countries, today they protect 80% of our planet’s surviving biodiversity, but are among the 15% of the world’s poorest. Which begs the question of “the right to water”, a recent concept in the modern world, which was only recognized in July 2010 by the un general assembly. The respect in which the age-old traditions of animist societies have held for water spirits and divinities and nature is beginning to find some kind of legal framework.
This work is a passionate anthropological appeal encompassing many contemporary, climatic and social issues.
SEMEZ CE QU’IL VOUS PLAÎT
Réussir
ses semis en pleine terre ou sous abri
SOW? JUST DO IT!
Successful sowing in open ground and beneath shelter Élise Ruiba
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17.8 × 22 cm 160 pages color illustrations softback march 2024 retail price: 21.80 €
After several years working as a cultural administrator in Nantes in northeast France, Élise Ruiba chose a different form of cultivation: gardening. At first, she worked at a start-up supplying French organic seeds and, in 2022, she left the city for the countryside and changed her life around. After professional training, she took up her real passion: growing her own kitchen garden, tending to her greenhouses, and working the soil. She shares her experimentations in the garden on Instagram @sicauplants.
here are only good reasons to sow your own seeds. The main one, however, is perhaps the great pleasure of seeing young seedlings grow from nothing in a few weeks. It is almost an act of magic, almost an art, but all you need to do is sow the right seeds, at the right time, in the right place.
Elise Ruiba has been nurturing seedlings for over a decade. In this work she recounts her difficulties, her failures, and her successes, to avoid the pitfalls and increase our chances of success.
Choosing the right seeds, what equipment to buy, seeding in pots or directly into the soil, when to water, when to repot, and thinning out.
Seeding is also the chance to understand our lifestyles, what we eat, the seasons, and origins. Elise Ruiba distills the information and encourages us to think without us noticing. This work is a perfect initiation into the art of seeding. The only risk is that once you start, you might never want to stop…
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17 × 23.5 cm
152 pages color illustrations softback march 2024 retail price: 22 €
Born in the forest-clad Belgian Ardennes region, nature lover Stéphanie Dessy graduated in the sciences and today is a professional gardener and photographer. Combining the arts and sciences, she focusses on aesthetics and biodiversity and is fond of transmitting her experiences and expertise as much as her wonderment for the living world.
POUR UN JARDIN VIVANT
Imaginer, planifier, créer
THE LIVING GARDEN
Design, planning, creation
Stéphanie Dessy
What kind of garden are you? Punk passion? Nursery vibes? A playland or dream cloud? The only limit is our imagination. Stéphanie Dessy has carried out a fair few house-moves in her career and, each time, taken charge of a new garden, which she has then fashioned to her image. For her, the most important is to respect the living world and never forget that we are not alone in natural spaces. In this book, the author offers us her experience and methods. It is both a source of contemplation and a practical manual. The work explains all the stages to designing your own garden, featuring ideas, and selections of flowers according to the season. Biodiversity is paramount and the work explains how to respect our gardens’ natural micro-climates while encouraging new species to flourish there.
This extensively illustrated, detailed and methodical work is the perfect gateway to imagining, planning, and creating the garden of our dreams depending on the space and time available.
RIPAILLE ET MARMAILLE 42 recettes pour les enfants
A FEAST FOR KIDS
42 recipes for kids (or the big-kid-inside)
Victor Coutard
Photographs by Rebecca Genet
“M17 × 24 cm
152 pages color illustrations
hardback
october 2024
retail price: 26 €
: 27 €
Rebecca Genet is a photographer and food stylist in Paris. When she is not in the kitchen, she likes working in artists’ studios creating flavorsome photo stories, fascinated by natural light and color. When she finally downs tools, she sets off on her next escapade into frozen climes. description
Victor Coutard is an author, journalist, and editor-in-chief of the Regain magazine. As an author he celebrates the freedom to create, the quality of primary materials, the quest for efficacity, traditions, and the expertise of craftsfolk and producers.
y kids love eating badly. They’d gladly eat beige everyday: fries for starter, spaghetti for main course, and cookie ice cream for dessert. It’s pretty hard to change” – such is the start of Victor Coutard’s book. As any parent (generally) knows, kids prefer processed over homemade, fat to fiber, and sugar to salad. What if there were a physiological and not simply a cultural explanation? Can globalization genuinely influence diets so greatly? Come what may, the pleasure that kids feel in fast food is matched only by the energy parents expend conjuring up healthy meals that finish in the trash. For parents, getting food right is a tricky tightrope to walk; too many interdictions may be only counterproductive. In this book, Victor Coutard cunningly marries feasibility with flavor to create kidfriendly dishes using quality ingredients – there are crunchy rice bars, smooth spreads, and healthy pizzas, as well as alternatives to industrial street food and dishes to share with the whole family. Naturally, the best way to get children into food is to get them cooking, so each recipe has a kid section containing the kid-suitable tasks to help the chef along.
One of the books’ great qualities is how it also creates dishes to appeal to the adult tastebud. After all, us grown-ups are allowed to like scrummy kids’ food too.
