More regular heat waves, heavier precipitation and storms, melting Arctic ice, rising sea levels... Most of these natural phenomena are linked to global warming. However, there is always someone who tells us that "the climate is not warming up because it is getting colder" or "it is not man's fault, it is the sun! They are called climate sceptics. Who are they really?

What is the difference between climate and weather? Why do we always talk about not exceeding 2°C? What is the impact of greenhouse gases? Are there economic, sociological or political issues at stake? What can we do about it?

Today, with scientific progress and the emergence of new technologies, medicine sometimes takes on the appearance of science fiction. By combining medical discoveries and high-tech innovations, some dream of transforming human beings through science, improving the human condition, living longer in good health... 

But not everything is simple. While transhumanists believe they are working for the good of humanity, others question the validity of this approach: should we change the nature of man? Who really benefits from this medical revolution? How far can we go?

Learning about emotions: each book features a small, funny and endearing character, which represents a feeling or an attitude. Through this fun geometrically shaped character, the book deals with our ability to tame and control our emotions.aToday, the world of information technology is often misunderstood even though we use its tools on a daily basis! Not a day goes by without us using new technologies. We work, play, communicate and phone thanks to computers. And all this is thanks to the hacker community! But who are they really? Why is a hacker associated with a computer pirate?

At the end of the book, a guide to cyber defence will give everyone the tools to protect themselves and deepen their knowledge of computers.

Feminism has existed for hundreds of years! This struggle is led mainly by women, but it concerns the whole of society!

Too many stereotypes are still widespread. They have an impact on the way we view women. The right to vote, the right to drive, the right to education, the right to control one's own body...

This book traces the history of feminism and the struggles waged at different times and in different countries. It gives an overview of the status of women in the public and private spheres and challenges the reader on the role of each and everyone...

Today, information is everywhere: continuous news channels, notifications, social networks... But how to sort out what is true, what is false, what is essential? How do journalists work? Are they free to tackle all subjects? Are they objective?

That's a lot of questions! Sophie Eustache has conducted an investigation to help the reader take the necessary distance from the mass of information we receive every day.

"I went seven times in China [...]. I've discovered peaceful neighborhoods in frantic cities, tumultuous villages in splendid landscapes, and an infinity of tiny activities, held by simple people who, like in the rest of the world, smile, complain, eat, make noise, are agitated, are having fun, are worried, and try to get through to give a chance to their children."

Aya Ahoutou, a young Ivorian woman with a degree in archaeology and a specialization in Prehistory, is called to Mali to conduct surveys on a potential excavation site. Oscar Bonogo, an elderly Burkinabé man, must take to the road to earn the money he needs to repay the tontine. Kim, a young Malian girl, recruited into a band of mercenaries, suddenly finds herself in the role of a soldier of God. Three protagonists take turns telling their stories... while we follow the journey of Nourh and Dhib, our distant ancestors who disappeared 300,000 years ago.

Aïku and Tutti grow up together in the pure Amerindian tradition, in Antecum-Pata, deep in the Amazon rainforest, where leaving the village to attend middle school is a challenge for everyone...

A deep dive into the Guyanese reality, where the distress of Amerindian teenagers can sometimes lead to suicide.

I stood at the back of the cage. I wished I could push through the concrete wall and slip between the bars. I closed my eyes. I wished I could wake up back there, in Africa, in the heart of the savannah where I used to run free.

In a zoo in a large Middle Eastern city torn by war, Labiwa the lioness is trapped in her cage. Will Maya, the little girl, and the old man Hamid manage to set her free?

Christmas 1916. Léon Malaterre is fighting in the trenches of Lorraine. The letters from Louison, his wife, help him endure this cursed war and also provide him with insight into the lives of women on the home front in his native Tarn. But Louison, a feminist ahead of her time, also sends him press articles by Marcelle Capy... This remarkable woman endured censorship for her militant writings. She speaks of peace; she supports the soldiers, defends women, and criticizes the shirkers. When she attempts to publish her book, Une voix de femme dans la Mêlée (A Woman's Voice in the Battle), the censorship responds: 'If this text had been written by a man... But if we let women speak, where will we go?'

"You were born girls. At no point, from your very first second, did I imagine this could mean anything other than a conviction of equality..."

Two resonating texts:

• From Intertwined Fibers by Thomas Scotto
• Paris 1909, and if my house burns by Cathy Ytak

Indira, the daughter of a good Indian family, is sent to England to follow her studies and perfect her education. She's a studious student but appalled by the misery in India, her country, she befriends a young British man who welcomes her to a circle of young revolutionary activists. The young lady is confronted by her choices: love and violence or renouncement and peace. Indira Gandhi became Prime Minister of the Indian government from 1966 to 1977 then from 1980 to 1984.

Cleopatra, the young princess of Egypt, cannot stand her people's suffering, confined in her protecting universe as a high-ranking princess, and surrounded by devoted, but hypocritical, servants. Despite the sarcasm of her big sister Berenice, heiress to the throne, Cleopatra keeps trying to draw attention on the people's misery to the Pharaon. But, when her father, Grand Ruler of the Empire disappears, Cleopatra only wants to find the one who always protected her, and to whom she has endless admiration.

Young Golda, a Russian Jewish girl from Ukraine, landed in the American Midwest with her family to escape poverty and pogroms. However, life in Wisconsin is hardly better than in her native country. Her village is tyrannized by an alcoholic, racist, and violent sheriff. Nevertheless, Golda manages to form a bond with Samy Brown, an elderly black worker who lovingly watches over her. Their miserable existence could be bearable if the sheriff hadn't sworn their downfall.

Before becoming Genghis Khan, the supreme leader of the Golden Horde, which seized all of Asia as well as the outskirts of Europe, Tejmüdjin was just the orphan of Yesugeï, a Mongolian shepherd treacherously murdered. Promised before the tragedy to Boerte, the daughter of the chief of a powerful tribe, our hero sets out to find the statue of the god Kök Tengri, Lord of Heaven and Earth, stolen from his promised tribe. The young but ambitious shepherd would regain his dignity and honor by thwarting the plans of the mysterious thieves.

Kinsaku, the youngest of a long line of warriors serving Japan's lords, doesn't speak much. To the point where the others call him "Kinsa the mute". He doesn't like to fight either, to his father's despair, who persists in teaching him combat lessons. Kinsaku dreams of something else, of poetry, of words dancing and organizing in his head but cannot get out of his lips... He'll have to learn how to fight, but to be heard. Basho-Kinsaku Matsuo is one of the founding fathers, in the 17th century, of poems as haikus.

Attia, a young child from the steppes, spends his time playing Latroncules (a kind of Asian chess) with his friends. The child, the youngest of the siblings, is brilliant and renowned as such. But when his older brother introduces him to the deadly virtues of an innocuous plant, Moundi, who will later become Attila, cannot resist experimenting with it on every animal he encounters. A vocation seems to be born for this budding strategist, to experiment with the seeds of destruction. A calling that will drive him to become "the Scourge" of the World.

During the Crusades times, Hassan's group kidnapped two Francs kids in the Balbeek souk, a little Syrian merchants' city on the edge of the Orient's Francs principality. The city is buzzing between occidental parents looking for the children and the inhabitants in disbelief. According to Hicham, from Hassan's group but a friend of Youssef, son of the governor and future King of all the Muslim world, only he can help them. But, Hassan hates Youssef and thinks gaining glory by sacrificing the enemy's children.