25.90 €

Stephen Hawking
The Grand Design

THE GRAND DESIGN is a book that will inform - and provoke - like no other. Here in one succinct, startling and lavishly illustrated volume is the accumulative wisdom of a lifetime of thinking by one of the world’s greatest thinkers about the questions that were once addressed by philosophy, but are now the province of science. In THE GRAND DESIGN, the most recent scientific thinking about the mysteries of the universe is presented in language marked by both brilliance and simplicity.

When and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? What is the nature of reality? Is the apparent grand design of our universe evidence for a benevolent creator who set things in motion? Or does science offer another explanation?

Kazuro Ishiguro
Never Let me go - Auprès de moi toujours

Jadis, Kath, Ruth et Tommy ont été élèves à Hailsham ; une école idyllique, où les enfants étaient protégés du monde extérieur et élevés dans l'idée qu'ils étaient des êtres à part. Mais pour quelle raison les avait-on réunis là ? Bien des années plus tard, Kath s'autorise enfin à céder aux appels de la mémoire et à tenter de trouver un sens à leur passé commun. Kath, Ruth et Tommy prennent peu à peu conscience que leur enfance apparemment heureuse n'a cessé de les hanter, au point de frelater leurs vies d'adultes. Traduit de l'anglais. Ishiguro est arrivé en Grande-Bretagne à l'âge de cinq ans. Il est l'auteur des Vestiges du jour.

Prix : 13,90 €

Ken Follett
Fall of Giants

Fall of Giants is his magnificent new historical epic. The first novel in The Century Trilogy, it follows the fates of five interrelated families-American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh-as they move through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage. Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man's world in the Welsh mining pits...Gus Dewar, an American law student rejected in love, finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House...two orphaned Russian brothers, Grigori and Lev Peshkov, embark on radically different paths half a world apart when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription, and revolution...Billy's sister, Ethel, a housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts, takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses deep into forbidden territory when she falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German embassy in London... These characters and many others find their lives inextricably entangled as, in a saga of unfolding drama and intriguing complexity, Fall of Giants moves seamlessly from Washington to St. Petersburg, from the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty. As always with Ken Follett, the historical background is brilliantly researched and rendered, the action fast-moving, the characters rich in nuance and emotion. It is destined to be a new classic.

Prix : 25.90 €