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Collection "Les Symboles Maçonniques"

Référence incontournable dans le domaine de l'initiation, cette collection propose des études approfondies des symboles, des concepts et des idéaux de la Franc-Maçonnerie initiatique, à partir de travaux de loge et de recherches inédites. Fruits d'une expérience vécue, ces ouvrages s'adressent à tous ceux et à toutes celles qui considèrent les symboles comme des clés de la vie en esprit.

Collection "Franc-Maçonnerie initiatique"

Donnant la parole à des Franc-Maçons qui s'attachent à la dimension initiatique de la Franc-Maçonnerie, cette collection s'adresse tant aux Soeurs et aux Frères désireux d'approfondir la signification de leur rituels qu'à ceux et à celles recherchant la porte du temple. Elle présente les multiples facettes de l'initiation et retrace le vécu maçonnique à travers sa spiritualité et ses rites.

Collection Les Archives de la Franc-Maçonnerie

Notre but au travers de cette collection est de faire découvrir des œuvres majeures qui ont, aux travers des siècles, formées la pensée maçonnique, mêlant mythes, symboles et enseignement des Loges.

Témoignages Maçonniques

Michio Kaku The future of Humanity

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The Future of Humanity
Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth
By Michio Kaku
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Feb 20, 2018 | 368 Pages

About The Future of Humanity
The #1 bestselling author of The Future of the Mind traverses the frontiers of astrophysics, artificial intelligence, and technology to offer a stunning vision of man’s future in space, from settling Mars to traveling to distant galaxies.
Formerly the domain of fiction, moving human civilization to the stars is increasingly becoming a scientific possibility–and a necessity. Whether in the near future due to climate change and the depletion of finite resources, or in the distant future due to catastrophic cosmological events, we must face the reality that humans will one day need to leave planet Earth to survive as a species. World-renowned physicist and futurist Michio Kaku explores in rich, intimate detail the process by which humanity may gradually move away from the planet and develop a sustainable civilization in outer space. He reveals how cutting-edge developments in robotics, nanotechnology, and biotechnology may allow us to terraform and build habitable cities on Mars. He then takes us beyond the solar system to nearby stars, which may soon be reached by nanoships traveling on laser beams at near the speed of light. Finally, he brings us beyond our galaxy, and even beyond our universe, to the possibility of immortality, showing us how humans may someday be able to leave our bodies entirely and laser port to new havens in space. With irrepressible enthusiasm and wonder, Dr. Kaku takes readers on a fascinating journey to a future in which humanity may finally fulfill its long-awaited destiny among the stars.

Praise
“The wide popular interest in Elon Musk’s recent launch of one of his own Tesla cars into space shows the extent to which space travel has again become mass entertainment as well as, perhaps, mass aspiration. It is good timing, then, for a book by the theoretical physicist Michio Kaku on the possible paths to our future as a galaxy-trotting species. . . . With admirable clarity and ease, Mr. Kaku rehearses the history of rocketry and the formation of the planets, and explains how we might colonize not only Mars but some of the rocky moons of the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn. . . . The book has an infectious, can-do enthusiasm.”
—Steven Poole, The Wall Street Journal

“Kaku is a practiced and very effective popularizer of science for a general audience; he’s unfailingly interesting, with an unerring instinct for the most thought-provoking aspects of his various subjects. The sheer amount of technical scientific speculation in The Future of Humanity is amazing, and yet Kaku is in smooth, perfect control of it the entire time.”
—Steve Donoghue, Christian Science Monitor
About Michio Kaku
MICHIO KAKU is a professor of physics at the City University of New York, cofounder of string field theory, and the author of several widely acclaimed science books, including Hyperspace, Beyond Einstein, Physics of the Impossible, and Physics



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Hardcover | $29.95
Published by Doubleday
Feb 20, 2018 | 368 Pages | 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 | ISBN 9780385542760

Steven PINKER Enlightment now. The case for reason, science, humanism and progress

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About Enlightenment Now

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“My new favorite book of all time.” –Bill Gates

If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science.

Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, cognitive scientist and public intellectual Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases. Instead, follow the data: In seventy-five jaw-dropping graphs, Pinker shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness are on the rise, not just in the West, but worldwide. This progress is not the result of some cosmic force. It is a gift of the Enlightenment: the conviction that reason and science can enhance human flourishing.

Far from being a naïve hope, the Enlightenment, we now know, has worked. But more than ever, it needs a vigorous defense. The Enlightenment project swims against currents of human nature–tribalism, authoritarianism, demonization, magical thinking–which demagogues are all too willing to exploit. Many commentators, committed to political, religious, or romantic ideologies, fight a rearguard action against it. The result is a corrosive fatalism and a willingness to wreck the precious institutions of liberal democracy and global cooperation.

With intellectual depth and literary flair, Enlightenment Now makes the case for reason, science, and humanism: the ideals we need to confront our problems and continue our progress.

London, Pengui Random House, 2018. 576p.

Hardcover | $35.00 
Feb 13, 2018 | 576 Pages | 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 | ISBN 9780525427575