Books (and more) to put under the tree
At the Club, we regularly receive presentations of new works (usually related to journalism and media) but also from publishers’ press services. As Christmas approaches, we have selected four of them for you. And bonuses… Two books on the profession 100 Fake news in front of science Work of two read more
At the Club, we regularly receive presentations of new works (usually related to journalism and media) but also from publishers’ press services. As Christmas approaches, we have selected four of them for you. And bonuses…
Two trade books
100 fake news against science
Work of two sisters and a colleague of Curious!Florence Heimburger, Alexandre Marsat and Alexandrine Civard-Racinais, “100 fake news against science” humorously corrects a hundred preconceived notions about scientific knowledge. In various areas of food, memory and the brain, mathematics and physics, climate change and the environment, biodiversity, space, health and… sexology. Based on facts and based on scientific consensus on these questions, this book sweeps away ideas firmly rooted in our collective imagination.From the French paradox (drinking alcohol is positive) to the length of sexual action (a sign of pleasure), without forgetting the extra-terrestrials of course, a happy trampling further described by Clémence Gouy.
(Editions First, 2021, 240 pages, €16.95)
fight the press
Because feminist voices are almost unheard in the media landscape and because male discourse always dominates the treatment of current affairs, Isabelle Germain revisits Albert Londres’ formula that summarizes journalism in a formula. “Our job is not to please, or to cause harm, it is to put a pen to the wound”plants by Isabelle Germain “ The feather in the wound of sexism”. Information site founder TheNewsNews.Fr Isabelle Germain practices resistance to journalism by offering “another kind of information”. Above all, don’t miss it.
(LNNedition, 2022, 185 pages, €14)
two great books
Instant Bordeaux
The originality of this book illustrated with two hundred photos of Bordeaux is that it is based on both images captured by beginners and professionals and mainly disseminated to the masses through social networks. This is also the specificity of the “Instantaneous” collection. Christine Nicolas and Anne Chopin are behind this selection. We see there not only a heritage vision of the city but the rustle of everyday life caught by loving gazes. A small feature of the book: the year is divided into seasons and begins with summer. What ends in spring, a sign of eternal renewal.
(Edition Hervé Chopin, 2022, 192 pages, €24.50)
The Gironde of yesteryear
” Proud of its identity, its territory returning its favors, the Gironde of the Belle Epoque is steeped in its traditions and looks to the future. Reference port for the West Indies and departure point for Africa, Bordeaux concentrates all the activities of its feeder region“. Agathe Corre, guide lecturer and president of the Association des guides de Nouvelle-Aquitaine presents this very rich work, which organized around 300 postcards at the time, and deals with wines and agricultural campaigns, moors, rivers and coasts, economic activity , big cities, daily life, leisure and the birth of tourism… all this towards modernity.
(Editions Hervé Chopin, 2022, 128 pages, hardcover, €29.90)
A guide
If you want to find other types of gifts yourself, why not call the 2023 edition of Book of the City of Bordeauxpublished by Le Petit Futé that will give you many ideas for visits, restaurants, culture and original shopping.
(Editions Petit Futé, 2022, 256 pages, €5.95)
…and a game
To play as a family
Going in search of information, conducting investigations while working as a team: this is ” 36H in the editorial office“, a game about journalism designed for children (from 9 years old and +). The young players (from 2 to 9) slipped during a game (about 45 minutes) on the skin of a local television reporter in Bellemare-les-Fleurs after a loss on the way to Matéo school.
(36 hours in the editorial office, La poule qui pond edition, €16.50)
