Nouveautés livres, Adverbum

Little treatise on sauces Olivier Gaudant Expressions that refer to sauces are so numerous that they attest to just how important these are in the culinary art. Giving dishes their final note, sauces are indeed the quintessence, but their history cannot be summed up by a list of (...) Nombre de pages : 112
ISBN : 978-2-911328-59-6
17.00 €

Cathedral Books and Libraries Céline Giordano From their very beginnings, cathedrals and their dignitaries have had need of books, whether for celebrating mass, preaching to worshippers, or managing their worldly goods. Starting with a rich corpus of more than two hundred archived texts (...) Nombre de pages : 192
ISBN : 978-2-911220-32-6
35.00 €

Typographic language Pierre Duplan Former student of the École normale supérieure de l’Enseignement technique, Pierre Duplan is an Honorary Professor of graphic arts and industries at the École supérieure Estienne des arts et industries graphiques better known as the École (...) Nombre de pages : 160
ISBN : 978-2-911220-38-8
25.00 €

The language of images Pierre Duplan Former student of the École normale supérieure de l’Enseignement technique, Pierre Duplan is an Honorary Professor at the École supérieure Estienne des arts et industries graphiques, better known as the École Estienne. Encouraged by former and (...) Nombre de pages : 160
ISBN : 978-2-911220-37-1
25.00 €

Big Treatise on Spices Mireille Gayet Spices. The word carries magic with it and takes us to far off tropical and exotic lands. It immediately conjures up an image of colorful market stalls in Asia, the Middle East or the Maghreb, or anywhere, for that matter, provided there are (...) Nombre de pages : 232
ISBN : 978-2-911328-64-0
39.00 €

The History of Typographical Printing The entire set of this several volume History of Typographical Printing is designed to offer an overall and relatively complete view of the subject, according to how we see it today. Pursuing typographic history, this third volume (...) Nombre de pages : 240
ISBN : 978-2-911220-34-0
45.00 €

Possessions and exorcisms Jean-André Dubreuil Here is a spiritual, doctrinal, and historic study that shows that the matters regarding the devil remain very real, for which modern science remains silent. Having uncovered stories, many of which have been previously unpublished, of (...) Nombre de pages : 288
ISBN : 978-2-914338-28-8
17.50 €

The Lost Drachma Michel Fromaget Michel Fromaget picks up and considerably enriches a previous version of a book that testifies to a very deep understanding of wonder and of love, of aging and of death and of which the contents belongs solely to the ternary “Body, Soul, Mind” (...) Nombre de pages : 224
ISBN : 978-2-914338-27-1
14.50 €

Gifts and Legacies in Public Libraries Several recent laws have multiplied the categories and conditions that enable heritage institution collections to be exploited. It is sometimes difficult for their managers, who rarely have backgrounds in law, to pinpoint the legislations they (...) Nombre de pages : 220
ISBN : 978-2-911220-33-3
35.00 €

70 Recipes for People with Food Allergies Florence Bourquard With these 70 Recipes for People with Food Allergies, people on special diets can now rejoin the tasty ranks and eat gratins, pizzas, one meal dishes, and cakes that have been customarily out of reach... People with food allergies can now (...) Nombre de pages : 80
Format : 15x22 cm
ISBN : 978-2-911328-61-9
15.00 €

Still... photos Starting out as a photojournalist, Jean Rey went on to be a cameraman and then a major television reporter. That is how, for years, he criss-crossed the world, with a camera on his shoulder, covering all sorts of events, but without ever (...) Nombre de pages : 120
ISBN : 978-2-915418-40-8
19.00 €

Risk-free Pilates Blandine Calais-Germain Starting with eight movements carried out with the use of a reformer, this book explains the connection between human anatomy and Pilates exercises. By taking into consideration body structure, it highlights the risks involved and offers (...) Nombre de pages : 112
ISBN : 978-2-915418-41-5
18.50 €

The History of Typographical Printing This book is the chronological continuation of the previous work by Yves Perrousseaux, devoted to the period that runs from the Gutenberg press to the 17th Century. The whole set is designed to give an overall and relatively complete view of (...) Nombre de pages : 240
Format : 21 x 29 cm cm
ISBN : 978-2-911220-24-1
45.00 €

How to eat 5 Fruits and vegetables every day Béatrice Vigot-Lagandré Everyone knows this recommendation, and sees it pop up all over. But how does one carry it out on a daily basis? Do fruit juice and tomato sauce count as a portion? And besides, why should we eat 5 fruits and vegetables per day? What are the (...) Nombre de pages : 96
Format : 17 x 24 cm cm
ISBN : 978-2-911328-56-5
10.00 €

Soups, I Love You... Olivier Gaudant Aude Mairey Soups make up one of the oldest dishes in the world. What is simpler than cooking vegetables, herbs, meat and fish in a liquid? After having received the cold-shoulder treatment for several years, they are popular again and have been so for the (...) Nombre de pages : 72
ISBN : 978-2-911328-62-6
10.00 €

Salads, I Love You Béatrice Vigot-Lagandré Oak-leaf lettuce, escarole, rocket, garden lettuce or lamb's lettuce – without forgetting iceberg – salads go all out to attract us! Popular from time immemorial, they grow staggered throughout the seasons and can therefore be served all year (...) Nombre de pages : 72
ISBN : 978-2-911328-63-3
10.00 €

Adieu, Sunday! Hélène Bodenez Endangered by the proposition of the Mallié law, Sundays are dying in France. This book launches a call to Christians to resist. The religious argument has not really been developed enough in a debate that is essentially political and social. (...) Nombre de pages : 64
ISBN : 978-2-914338-29-5
7.50 €

Emergency Revise the laws dealing with bioethics? Do we dare ask the question: Is there a relationship between social violence (roughness, sexual attacks, addiction) and bioethics (contraception, IVF, surrogate mothers, cloning?) Curious question (...) Nombre de pages : 64
ISBN : 978-2-914338-32-5
7.50 €

Chinese writing Since the first traces of a process of writing, appeared in Northern China around 1200 BC., the Chinese writing system has been used by millions of users of great number of languages. This book presents one of the oldest writing systems in (...) Nombre de pages : 96
ISBN : 978-2-911220-35-7
19.00 €

Taï Chi Chuan Kenji Tokitsu Is Tai Chi Chuan simply the Chinese-inspired gymnastics for staying healthy, a more or less mystical energetic practice, or a real martial art? And in the latter case, does Tai Chi Chuan enable one to acquire and develop the capacity to carry (...) Nombre de pages : 128
ISBN : 978-2-915418-47-7
14.50 €

70 Recipes for Athletes Corinne Dejean Béatrice Vigot-Lagandré, author of many cook books, and Corinne Dejean, a dietician specializing in sports nutrition, have combined their talents here to give us a book for athletes that is above all, practical to use. 70 Recipes for Athletes (...) Nombre de pages : 80
Format : 22 x 15 cm cm
ISBN : 978-2-911328-54-1
13.90 €

Theology of the Word This second volume of the Sermons of Saint Bonaventure include the Christmastime sermons: Three sermons on the Nativity and three sermons on the Epiphany. The incarnation and the coming of Christ among men gives the Seraphic Doctor the perfect (...) Nombre de pages : 304
Format : 15,5 x 18 cm
ISBN : 978-2-914338-24-0
15.00 €

Stress Management Eric Marlien It is obvious that stress has become the greatest “epidemic” that the Western world has ever known, with sometimes dramatic effects on stressed-out people or those in their surroundings. After a clear and precise theoretical account of stress (...) Nombre de pages : 96
Format : 17 x 24 cm cm
ISBN : 978-2-915418-43-9
19.00 €

Algeria Algeria remains a less well-known country despite the immensity of its natural, cultural and archeological wealth. Traveling in Algeria means discovering surprisingly diverse landscapes – luxurious oases and valleys of infinite dessert species (...) Nombre de pages : 208
Format : 12x22 cm cm
ISBN : 978-2-911328-25-1
25.00 €

Little Treatise on Pasta Pierre-Brice Lebrun Pierre-Brice Lebrun mercilessly interrogates legends that surround macaroni, cannelloni, farfalle, and other lasagna. Did Marco Polo really bring these from China? Did the Italians invent tomato sauce? Is there really a magic tree in the town (...) Nombre de pages : 112
Format : 14 x 22 cm cm
ISBN : 978-2-911328-58-9
14.50 €

Papyrus One of the most remarkable inventions of ancient Egypt was making a "paper" from the papyrus plant. Early as 3000 BC, sheets and rolls of papyrus provided a writing surface ideal for copying text by using reeds dipped in pigments based on (...) Nombre de pages : 132
Format : 16 x 23 cm cm
ISBN : 978-2-911220-31-9
20.00 €

Les tranchefiles Jane Greenfield Jenny Hille Le regain d'intérêt pour la reliure a entraîné la publication de nombreux manuels pratiques sur toutes les techniques de base mais non sur certains aspects particuliers de cet art. Par exemple, la confection des tranchefiles, ces broderies (...) Nombre de pages : 88
Format : 16 x 23 cm cm
ISBN : 978-2-911220-30-2
17.00 €

A very special relativity Sander Bais The theory of special relativity, initially published by Einstein in 1905, radically changed our understanding of the world. Familiar notions of space, time, and energy were turned upside down, and the struggle with the unintuitive (...) Nombre de pages : 120
ISBN : 978-2-915418-31-6
29.50 €

Chemins de croix Michel-Gabriel Mouret « Sache que tous les mystères, toutes les manifestations de ma vérité en ce monde, accompagnées ou non de la présence de ses disciples, sont des figures pour l'âme de mes serviteurs et pour toutes les créatures. Il en est ainsi pour que vous (...) Nombre de pages : 320
Format : 15,5 x 18 cm cm
ISBN : 978-2-914338-25-7
20.00 €

Sabbath Masters Jean-François Froger The Biblical revelation summons God's People to cease all work on the seventh day. This accounts for the institution of the "Sabbath" by Moses, sacred day where one is to "imitate God," who ceased creating on the seventh day. The Sabbath (...) Nombre de pages : 176
Format : 15,5 x 18 cm
ISBN : 978-2-914338-20-2
17.00 €

Relics and reliquaries For 40 years now, the word "relic" has become a synonym of abuse, of a lie on the part of the Church, or even the symbol of a form of piety based on various types of superstition... Are all relics false and is it best to look at all of them in (...) Nombre de pages : 280
Format : 24 x 29 cm
ISBN : 978-2-914338-21-9
50.00 €

Speech defects This book seeks to define the history of forms of speech that have been judged as abnormal in our culture since the Renaissance. What are these abnormal ways of speaking? We willingly recognize language pathologies from stuttering to aphasic (...) Nombre de pages : 360
Format : 14 x 22 cm
ISBN : 978-2-915418-27-9
28.00 €

The art of bath Devoted to the discovery of the senses, The Art of baths proposes recipes for baths, accompanied by musical suggestions, which open a space for relaxation and pleasure; the book's key notions. From recipes made with flowers and plants, to (...) Nombre de pages : 64
Format : 20 x 20 cm cm
ISBN : 978-2-911328-44-2
19.50 €

Arabic writing This book, abundantly illustrated with examples, very clearly presents the evolution of Arab writing styles, and particularly shines light on the importance of materials used; both media and instruments, as well as the difficulties that needed (...) Nombre de pages : 112
Format : 17 x 24 cm
ISBN : 978-2-911220-23-4
25.00 €

Marseille in the Middle Ages This collection is like no other: it combines texts, images, thoughts, and objects, all presented by a team of researchers from French and foreign institutes, from Europe to North America, from everywhere where Marseille in the Middle Ages (...) Nombre de pages : 432
Format : 29 x 29 cm
ISBN : 978-2-915418-35-4
39.00 €

The hidden structure within reality Jean-François Froger Robert Lutz This book is the fruit of nine years of research about the structural links that bond Metaphysics, Physics and Christian Theology together. It highlights the existence of an universal structure. John-Paul II 's Encyclical "Fides et Ratio" (...) Nombre de pages : 280
Format : 14 x 22 cm
ISBN : 978-2-915418-37-8
35.00 €

The language of science Maurice Crosland From where do scientific terms come? The Language of Science analyzes the development of scientific vocabulary from its origins, linked to daily farming and the need to have a system of measure for commercial trade, up to 17th Century (...) Nombre de pages : 96
Format : 12 x 21 cm
ISBN : 978-2-915418-32-3
9.50 €

Kinetic Anatomy Robert S. Benhke Created expressly for those who will work in physical activity fields, Kinetic Anatomy addresses how anatomy affects movement—how the human body is constructed and how it moves—by discussing bones, tying the bones together to make (...) Nombre de pages : 240
Format : 21 x 28,8 cm
ISBN : 978-2-915418-26-2
38.00 €

Giving birth in movement Blandine Calais-Germain To be born, the baby adapts its head to mother's pelvis. But is it possible for the latter too to adapt to suit baby? After writing "The feminine perineum and child birth," Blandine Calais Germain's new book focuses on the PELVIS during (...) Nombre de pages : 176
Format : 18 x 28 cm
ISBN : 978-2-915418-36-1
28.50 €

Tomatoes, how I love you Valérie Gaudant, Nathalie Gaudant Mireille Gayet Just think of the distance the tomato has travelled since first discovered in South America, probably Peru, before reaching our tables! Red, orange, yellow, even white, smooth or ribbed, round or long, the Incas had already selected a number (...) Nombre de pages : 72
Format : 14x22 cm
ISBN : 978-2-911328-50-3
10.00 €