France Well

French women don't get fat, but they do eat bread and pastry, drink wine, and regularly enjoy three-course meals. In her delightful tale, Mireille Guiliano unlocks the simple secrets of this "French paradox", how to enjoy food and stay slim and healthy. Hers is a charming, sensible, and powerfully life-affirming view of health and eating for our times.

"We'll Always Have Paris" - The latest laugh-out-loud adventure from million-selling comedy writer Bernice Bloom! Buckle up for a hilarious Parisian escapade with Mary Brown and her mother, Rosie, as they celebrate Rosie's 60th birthday in the City of Love. Armed with just three words of French and big dreams of Parisian glamour, this mother-daughter duo is in for the surprise of their lives! What starts as a simple birthday getaway quickly spirals into a whirlwind of family secrets, outrageous mishaps, and unforgettable encounters. Picture this: A "Save the Badger" parade down the Champs-...

At once a memoir, a cookbook, a how-to handbook, and a delightful exploration of how the French manage to feed children without endless battles and struggles with pickiness, French Kids Eat Everything features recipes, practical tips, and 10 easy-to-follow rules for raising happy and healthy young eaters - a sort of French Women Don’t Get Fat meets Food Rules.

A well-told story takes your mind off plans, worries, and recapitulations, providing a safety net beneath your brain. It takes your mind off any thoughts that could be occupying your mind and relieves anxiety and reduces your stress levels, leaving you no other option but to relax and fall asleep within minutes.

When she moved her young family to her husband's hometown in northern France, Karen Le Billon expected some cultural adjustment. But she didn't expect to be lectured for slipping her fussing toddler a snack, or to be forbidden from packing her older daughter a school lunch. Karen is intrigued by the fact that French children happily eat everything-from beets to broccoli, from salad to spinach - while French obesity rates are a fraction of what they are in North America.

Set in Provence, London, and New York, this is a daughter’s wonderfully evocative and witty memoir of her mother and stepfather—Dee Wells, the glamorous and rebellious American journalist, and A. J. Ayer, the celebrated and worldly Oxford philosopher—and the life they lived at the center of absolutely everything.

In Erotic Exchanges, Nina Kushner reveals the complex world of elite prostitution in 18th-century Paris by focusing on the professional mistresses who dominated it. In this demimonde, these dames entretenues exchanged sex, company, and sometimes even love for being "kept". Most of these women entered the profession unwillingly, either because they were desperate and could find no other means of support or because they were sold by family members to brothels or to particular men.

H.G. Wells sets forth an intriguing first-hand observation of Italy, France, and Britain under severe duress during the "War to End All Wars," World War I. He insightfully examines the technological effects of modern warfare, particularly the introduction of the tank and aerial bombing on human nature.

"Perhaps there was no other purpose in loving than...to love. To feel and share joy. And perhaps there was no other purpose to art than to create beauty. But it had been a long time since he had loved for the sake of love, or created art for its own sake." When Jeannie Carson was a young college student, she spent a year in Paris and fell deeply in love with Pierre Delacroix, a struggling young artist. But Pierre's passion was his art, and when Jeannie returned to Loving's Forge, she tried to forget what had happened in Paris, and married her high school sweetheart. Decades later, now ...

Alan Riding introduces a pageant of 20th-century artists who lived and worked under the Nazis and explores the decisions each made about whether to stay or flee, collaborate or resist. We see Maurice Chevalier and Edith Piaf singing before French and German audiences; Picasso painting and occasionally selling his work from his Left Bank apartment; and Marcel Carné and Henri-Georges Clouzot, among others, directing movies....

Les années Freud racontent l'histoire de l'introduction de la psychanalyse en France : la rencontre de Freud et de Charcot, la découverte de l'hystérie, la fondation à Vienne du premier Cercle freudien, l'essor international du mouvement et, en contrepoint, l'aventure des grands pionniers français. Les années Lacan relatent l'évolution de la psychanalyse au sein de la culture française à partir de 1925, et l'émergence de la deuxième implantation du freudisme dans ce pays autour de la personnalité de Jacques Lacan.

Edward Chisholm's spellbinding memoir of his time as a Parisian waiter takes you below the surface of one of the most iconic cities in the world and right into its glorious underbelly. He inhabits a world of inhuman hours, snatched sleep and dive bars; scraping by on coffee, bread and cigarettes, often under sadistic managers, with a wage so low you're fighting your colleagues for tips. Colleagues—including thieves, narcissists, ex-Legionnaires, paperless immigrants, wannabe actors and drug dealers—who are the closest thing to family that you've got.

How to Survive a Plague by David France is the riveting, powerful and profoundly moving story of the AIDS epidemic and the grass-roots movement of activists, many of them facing their own life-or-death struggles, who grabbed the reins of scientific research to help develop the drugs that turned HIV from a mostly fatal infection to a manageable disease.

De nouvelles découvertes sur le développement du cerveau et de l'intelligence ont modifié en profondeur nos connaissances sur la psychologie de l'enfant. À partir d'expériences simples que chacun peut réaliser à la maison ou à l'école, mais aussi en faisant le point sur les apports des sciences cognitives à propos du singe, du bébé, de l'enfant et de l'adulte, Olivier Houdé explique avec clarté comment se construit la cognition humaine.

Vainquez vos peurs une bonne fois pour toutes ! Les auteurs vous proposent un programme personnel en 21 jours pour transformer vos peurs en alliées avec des illustrations et schémas pour mieux comprendre et assimiler les idées fortes. Grâce aux explications, aux exemples, aux exercices et aux pratiques vous pouvez expérimenter une vitalité nouvelle dans votre relation avec vos parties psychiques, avec votre enfant intérieur et dans votre relation avec votre environnement.

Everyone wants to stay young for as long as they can. Health and beauty has long been the ultimate dream for many people. Aging is a natural process that affects us all and as we get older, most of us wish we could slow down the effect that age has on our bodies. In this audiobook, you will discover 101 beauty tips that are practical and easy to follow and will help you stay young and healthy. Get tips about the proper food you need to eat, skin care regimen, hygiene and different products you can try, how to keep yourself looking well and many more!

When Geoff Thomas struggled to play a friendly game of tennis while on holiday in Mallorca in May 2003, he thought little of it. Recently retired as a footballer, he believed it was a sign of ageing and perhaps a pulled muscle. But when the pain wouldn't go away, his wife Julie persuaded him to go to a doctor. He was diagnosed as having leukaemia. Riding Through the Storm focuses on his journey round the Tour de France in the summer of 2005.

Une heure de promenade auditive en compagnie de François Marthouret pour lever le voile sur les secrets de famille et combattre leurs méfaits à partir du texte de Serge Tisseron, telle est l'invitation de ce livre audio.

Vous perdez facilement votre voix, vous êtes à bout de souffle, vous stressez facilement devant un auditoire ? Voici un programme de travail quotidien, facile à suivre, qui vous permettra d'utiliser votre voix sans la fatiguer. Vous pourrez travailler la respiration, le souffle, le rythme et la chaleur de votre voix. Des conseils et une banque d'exercices qui vous amuseront et que vous pourrez faire et refaire chez vous, au travail ou en automobile.

Pur discendendo da una cultura lontana dalla nostra e da una disciplina molto antica, lo yoga è una pratica assai diffusa nel mondo occidentale contemporaneo, che si è dimostrata utile per il benessere fisico, psichico e per lo sviluppo della conoscenza di sé. La parola sanscrita "yoga" indica ogni metodo indiano di ascesi e di meditazione; così inteso, lo yoga ha avuto un ruolo cruciale in tutti i sentieri spirituali indiani che mirano a una trasformazione completa dell'essere umano.