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Selling and buying books differently: it’s vital!
Selling and buying books differently: it’s vital!Mr Globalization - Nov 29, 2023
Books play a fundamental social role. They impact imaginations and push individuals to act.
Books are sometimes the spark that will trigger initiatives beneficial to the common good. Thus, itinerant and second-hand bookstores, book villages and bookstore cafés are valuable and must be protected… in the face of capitalist behemoths like Amazon.
Pleasure seems to be the key word of small booksellers who offer an alternative to the big brands of cultural products. From the bookseller who reads two to three hours a day and is ecstatic to make discoveries every day to the traveling bookseller who sees her job like an ice cream seller, the opportunities for the seller to savor the moment as for the customer do not fail.
Full of gratitude for offering a space for exciting discussions between her customers under the parasols of her stand in Charente-Maritime, Mariel Moulin, 58, explains to the Kaizen journalist that her traveling bookstore promotes small publishers, offers her selections from heart and foam the markets, local events, festivals, and even service centers for the elderly. Small book brands can survive global competition thanks to a handful of enthusiasts.
Imagine, innovate, reinvent, reading enthusiasts turned booksellers are not short of ideas and never cease to amaze us with their way of combining freshness, good humor and work. These “transmitters of culture in rural areas (…) lovers of books and people” as displayed in issue 39 of the magazine, seem to have fun with books as well as with meetings, playing with life and words…
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Michel Desmurget: The book, the only antidote to stupidity
Michel Desmurget: The book, the only antidote to stupidityRadio Notre Dame - September 26, 2023
Michel Desmurget, author of the book “The factory of the digital cretin”, guest of Louis Daufresne on the show Le Grand Témoin (Radio Notre Dame)
The book, the only “antidote” to screens according to neuroscientist Michel Desmurget.
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A formidable pro-nuclear propaganda
A formidable pro-nuclear propagandaAge to do - March 03, 2023
This is the best-selling book of the year 2022: The Endless World. Problem: this comic is a real propaganda tool for nuclear energy.
The success of the comic strip Le Monde sans fin is both excellent and very bad news. For good reason: this book is both excellent and very bad…
The excellent is in the first part, in which the designer Christophe Blain illustrates with humor and talent the words of Jean-Marc Jancovici, highlighting our dependence on the energy system. The authors recall in particular that there has never been an energy transition since the beginning of the industrial era: to wood was added coal, then oil, gas, hydroelectricity, before the arrival of nuclear and renewable energies.
Result: by multiplying the sources, we have multiplied our energy consumption. We would thus have become sorts of Iron Man who are unaware of each other, with at our service superpowers offered by the machines that we have at our service. Or even moguls surrounded by hundreds of invisible slaves: a tractor offers the labor force of 600 humans, an airplane is equivalent to the power of a million people.
To limit climate change, we must drastically reduce our consumption of fossil fuels, even though almost all of our activities depend on it. And it's not just about air travel: the hospital alone would also represent 5% of the French carbon footprint.
The book does not address issues of wealth sharing, public services or the advertising essential to the consumerist model. According to the very debatable vision that it conveys, our standard of living would depend on only one parameter: our energy consumption. If it drops, goodbye health, leisure, retirement, hello great migrations, wars, famines...
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Schoolchildren, scientific fairies, witches… To read, to see this fall
Schoolchildren, scientific fairies, witches… To read, to see this fallReporterre - Oct 08, 2022
Among this new and rich selection of Reporterre: autonomous places, feminist witches, good green ideas, a sound bestiary...
Environmental news is also about culture. In the program :
- Scientific fairies
- Autonomous lives, a poetic investigation
- Campaign notebooks
- If men had their periods
- Living in contaminated land
- I am writing to you from the front of the Somme
- Planetary health
- Mapping the Anthropocene
- Live differently
- The way to sobriety
- Film and documentary
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Books: online alternatives to forget about Amazon
Mr Globalization - August 12, 2022
Through the Covid-19 pandemic, access to culture has been limited to more solitary activities, such as reading. A situation that mainly benefits e-commerce giants, such as Amazon, which saw its profits explode in 2020, to the detriment of the environment.
The world's leading online bookstore, the firm has imposed its hegemony in defiance of all social and ecological considerations. But more and more citizens, aware of the excesses of the Amazon model, are keen to turn to more ethical resellers. Alternatives do indeed exist, which sell second-hand books while committing themselves to the planet. Focus on three of these alternatives.
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Interview in 442 - Christine Deviers-Joncour
Interview in 442 - Christine Deviers-JoncourThe Media in 4-4-2 - August 02, 2022
Known by the nickname of “the whore of the Republic”, Christine Deviers-Joncour reappears in the light through writing.
On the occasion of the release of her latest novel In silico, Christine, as she likes to call herself, granted us a sincere and moving interview revealing a strong woman, full of conviction and thirsty for freedom. A breath of fresh air far from the gossip of the past!
“Citizens who believe they are protected by their rulers now realize that they are their worst enemies! »
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The irreversible damage of transgenderism in adolescence
The irreversible damage of transgenderism in adolescenceDreuz Info - May 6, 2022
In Irreversible Damage, a gripping essay that is never ideological but purely factual, journalist Abigail Shrier at the Wall Street Journal shows how American teenage girls decide to change sex under the influence of the internet. A phenomenon that could soon affect France.
Gender dysphoria, formerly known as "gender identity disorder", is characterized by a deep and persistent discomfort with one's anatomical sex. […]. Historically, it has only affected a tiny part of the population (approximately 0,01%) and almost exclusively boys. Over the past decade, the situation has changed dramatically. The West has seen a surge in the number of teenagers claiming to suffer from gender dysphoria and identifying as “transgender”.
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“Living with less is better. There is pleasure in sobriety”
“Living with less is better. There is pleasure in sobriety”Media Citizens Diois - March 5, 2022
Journalist, author and documentary filmmaker specializing in environmental issues, Laure Noualhat offers those who are trying to reduce their carbon footprint to put their ecological guilt into perspective.
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The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil - Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov
The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil - Omraam Mikhaël AïvanhovRARE AND UNPRECEDENTED DOCUMENTS - Oct 19, 2021
Discover a book, in audio format, by Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanov dealing with the Tree of Knowledge and the Tree of Life. Discover an esoteric teaching concerning these Trees and their occult significance.
Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov is a spiritual teacher of Bulgarian origin who continued the work of his own Master, Peter Deunov (Beisa Douno) by creating a spiritual community in Fréjus.
“Being an adult or being a child is not a question of age but a question of attitude. »
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COVID-19: Investigating a virus
COVID-19: Investigating a virusNice Provence Info - Sep 16, 2021
Philippe Aimar is a great reporter, he embarked on an impossible mission: to investigate the Covid-19 virus. He publishes a book revealing his research.
You can get it in his publishing house, the Garden of Books.
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The world of 5G: democracy in danger - Denis Bourgeois' book
The world of 5G: democracy in danger - Denis Bourgeois' bookRobin des Toits - Sep 1, 2021
The intention of Denis Bourgeois' book is to draw attention to the danger that 5G poses to our democracy. It is an edifying alert in the face of the overpowering of industrialists and political power, which have embarked without real public consultation on the adventure of everything connected, to switch to a dictatorship of the XNUMXst century.
Among other things, he mentions the fact that 5G and the multiple connected objects that will be connected to it will create an infinite breach in personal data...
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The Great Reset Explained by a Lawyer
The Great Reset Explained by a LawyerDeep Geopolitics - Jul 22, 2021
Marc Gabriel Draghi, author of the book "Le Grand Reset en Marche!" presents the Great Reset, this political program born of the World Economic Forum which was made public by Klaus Schwab.
Under the pretext of “reviving the economy”, the Great Reset is positioned as “THE solution”.
