The Harpy de Megan Hunter

Genre : Fantastique, Contemporaine

Editeur : Grove Press

Année de sortie : 2020

Nombre de pages : 202

Titre en français : pas encore traduit

Synopsis : Lucy and Jake live in a house by a field where the sun burns like a ball of fire. Lucy has set her career aside in order to devote her life to the children, to their finely tuned routine, and to the house itself, which comforts her like an old, sly friend. But then a man calls one afternoon with a shattering message: his wife has been having an affair with Lucy’s husband, Jake. The revelation marks a turning point: Lucy and Jake decide to stay together, but make a special arrangement designed to even the score and save their marriage–she will hurt him three times. As the couple submit to a delicate game of crime and punishment, Lucy herself begins to change, surrendering to a transformation of both mind and body from which there is no return.

 

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Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men de Caroline Criado-Pérez

Genre : Essai

Editeur : Harry N. Abrams

Année de sortie : 2019

Nombre de pages : 325

Titre en français : Femmes invisibles : Comment le manque de données sur les femmes dessine un monde fait pour les hommes

Synopsis : BIENVENUE DANS UN MONDE FAIT POUR LES HOMMES… Imaginez un monde où votre téléphone portable vous glisse des mains parce qu’il est trop grand, où vous faites la queue des heures pour aller aux toilettes, où les médicaments que l’on vous prescrit peuvent être mauvais pour votre corps, et où un grand nombre de vos heures travaillées ne sont pas payées… Si l’un de ces scénarios vous est familier, c’est sans doute que vous êtes une femme.

Cela semble incroyable, mais c’est pourtant une réalité : la plupart des infrastructures et équipements que l’on utilise quotidiennement ont été pensés sans égard aux différences entre les sexes. Pourquoi ? Parce que ce sont des hommes qui ont imaginé le monde dans lequel on vit, et qu’ils l’ont imaginé pour des hommes, à leur image. Ainsi, si les femmes ont souvent froid sur leur lieu de travail, c’est parce que la température des bureaux est basée sur le métabolisme d’un homme.

Si elles sont plus susceptibles d’être gravement blessées lors d’accidents de la route, c’est parce que les tests de sécurité sont effectués sur des hommes d’1,77 m pesant 76 kilos. Enfin, si elles ont davantage de risques de mal réagir à certains médicaments, c’est, encore une fois, parce que les tests scientifiques sont effectués sur des hommes, sans prendre en compte les spécificités du corps féminin.

Tout au long de cette enquête stupéfiante, Caroline Criado Perez montre que les femmes sont tout simplement absentes de la majorité des études statistiques, au détriment de leur santé, de leur sécurité, et parfois même de leur vie.

 

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Come as You Are: the surprising new science that will transform your sex life d’Emily Nagoski

Genre : Essai, Science

Editeur : Scribe

Année de sortie : 2019 [2015]

Nombre de pages : 335

Synopsis : An essential exploration of women’s sexuality that will radically transform your sex life into one filled with confidence and joy.

After all the books that have been written about sex, all the blogs and TV shows and radio Q&As, how can it be that we all still have so many questions?

The frustrating reality is that we’ve been lied to — not deliberately, it’s no one’s fault, but still. We were told the wrong story.

Come As You Are reveals the true story behind female sexuality, uncovering the little-known science of what makes us tick and, more importantly, how and why. Sex educator Dr Emily Nagoski debunks the common sexual myths that are making women (and some men!) feel inadequate between the sheets.

Underlying almost all of the questions we still have about sex is the common worry: ‘Am I normal?’ This book answers with a resounding Yes! We are all different, but we are all normal — and once we learn this, we can create for ourselves better sex and more profound pleasure than we ever thought possible.

 

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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think de Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling et Anna Rosling Rönnlund

Genre : Essai

Editeur : Sceptre

Année de sortie : 2019 [2018]

Nombre de pages : 259

Titre en français : Factfulness

Synopsis : Factfulness:The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts.

When asked simple questions about global trends – why the world’s population is increasing; how many young women go to school; how many of us live in poverty – we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers.

In Factfulness, Professor of International Health and a man who can make data sing, Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators Anna and Ola, offers a radical new explanation of why this happens, and reveals the ten instincts that distort our perspective.

It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think. But when we worry about everything all the time instead of embracing a worldview based on facts, we can lose our ability to focus on the things that threaten us most.

Inspiring and revelatory, filled with lively anecdotes and moving stories, Factfulness is an urgent and essential book that will change the way you see the world.

 

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To Hold Up the Sky de Cixin Liu

Genre : Science-fiction, Nouvelle

Editeur : Tor

Année de sortie : 2020

Nombre de pages : 336

Titre en français : pas encore traduit

Synopsis : From New York Times bestselling author Cixin Liu comes a short story collection of captivating visions of the future and incredible re-imaginings of the past.

In To Hold Up the Sky, Cixin Liu takes us across time and space, from a rural mountain community where elementary students must use physicas to prevent an alien invasion; to coal mines in northern China where new technology will either save lives of unleash a fire that will burn for centuries; to a time very much like our own, when superstring computers predict our every move; to 10,000 years in the future, when humanity is finally able to begin anew; to the very collapse of the universe itself.

Written between 1999 and 2017 and never before published in English, these stories came into being during decades of major change in China and will take you across time and space through the eyes of one of science fiction’s most visionary writers.

Experience the limitless and pure joy of Cixin Liu’s writing and imagination in this stunning collection.

Stories included are:
Contraction
Full Spectrum Barrage Jamming
The Village Teacher
Fire in the Earth
Time Migration
Ode to joy
Cloud of Poems
Mirror
Sea of Dreams
Cloud of Poems
The Thinker

 

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