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Illustrated encyclopaedias

These lavishly illustrated, pocket-sized books are packed with fascinating information covering all areas of human knowledge and experience.
Informative and authoritative writing, the latest research, and hundreds of pictures – some familiar, many which may be new to you – bring each subject vividly to life.

“Wonderfully readable …exceptionally lucid and informative companions’“
Times Literary Supplement

“A revolutionary series … literally spectacular”
The Mail on Sunday

Jean-Guy Michard, Le monde perdu des dinosaures

Long extinction or violent disappearance? The disappearance of dinosaurs is still a mystery.
Through an astonishing travel in time, Jean-Guy Michard
attracts the reader in a true paleontological inquiry, looking for the dinosaurs’ lost world.

Alessandro Vezzosi,  Leonardo da Vinci

A new biography had to come out in order to understand
Leonardo da Vinci, beyond myths and mystery, beyond the rhetoric and the legends that always surrounded him, an incursion throughout the many manuscripts and documents he wrote.

Pierre Gilbert, Le Bible. Le livre, les livres

This book, the most translated all over the world, is itself a story about its evolving for more than nineteen centuries. How was written, read and received the Bible: this is the adventure Pierre Gilbert recast in the present book.

Jean-Louis Gaillemin, Dali,  le grand paranoiaque

At 16 he was writing: I’ll be a genius and the world will admire me.
From the purism of the ’20s and to the great mystic paintings of the ‘50s, Jean-Louis Gaillemin initiates us in the complex way of the artist who transformed paranoia in an art of painting and the challenge in an art of life.

Jean Vercoutter, A la recherche de l’Egypte oublié

From the transportation of the Luxor obelisk in Place de
la Concorde to the amazing discovery of the thesaurus of
Tutakankamon, Jean Vercoutter recounts the episodes of the most thrilling adventure of Archaeology.

Hervé Drévillon, Pierre Lagrange, Nostradamus

Written in the 15th century, Nostradamus’ Prophecies
express the anguish and the evil which haunted that era.
But The Prophecies are also a philosophy of history which
reveal a superior order in the apparent chaos of the events.

Françoise Balibar, Einstein. La joie de la pensée

E=mc2, enigmatic equation symbolizing one of the most
famous myths of the 20th century.
Francoise Balibar re-enacts Einstein’s life, exceptional scholar and person, whose existence was governed by one quotation: Die Freude am Denken, the joy
of thinking.