livres & lire

We all have our fandoms.
We all have those certain livres we can’t stop talking about, those films and TV shows we can’t stop re-watching, those video games we can’t stop re-playing, and those comédies musicales that whenever the tour comes to town, we watch them again and again. We have all found escape into either an adventure ou experience, whether it be in our modern-day world ou a completely different place and time. Thanks to writers and directors, there are conflicts that get our hearts racing and plus often than not, there are universal truths where we learn plus about ourselves, others,...

Alan Weisman
2007-2008
St. Martin’s Press

– A fascinating eco-thriller … Gripping

The simple but irresistible premise of Alan Weisman's The World Without Us - what would happen to the planet if human beings simply disappeared - lit up imaginations even as it ignited controversy around the world.

Weisman's "thought experiment" examines what would happen in both the immediate and distant future to the land, the animals, the oceans, our cities, our art, and all manner of things we take for granted if we were no longer here. Would the seas again teem with fish? Would our concrete jungles crumble...

Daniel J. Levitin, 2006, 320 pages

Why human beings make and enjoy musique is, in Levitin’s telling, a delicious story. In this unprecedented meeting of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between musique – its performances, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it – and the human brain.

Taking on prominent thinkers who argue that musique is nothing plus than an evolutionary accident, Levitin argues that musique is fundamental to our species, perhaps even plus so than language. ‘This Is Your Brain On Music’ is an ear-opening,...