Lectures anciennes

Posted on Feb 8, 2011

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Lectures 2023 :

Bob (Wendy Mass)
Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope (Mark Manson)
80/20 Running (Fitzgerald Matt)
The PARA Method (Tiago Forte)
Peace Talks (Jim Butcher)
Mindfulness (Mark Williams, Danny Penman)
Mindsight (Daniel J. Siegel)
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking (Susan Cain)
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor (Donald John Robertson)
Weapons of Math Destruction (Cathy O’Neil)

Lectures 2022 :

Chatter (Ethan Kross)
Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace (Nikil Saval)
The Grand Unified Theory of Bullshit (Cecil Cicirello, Tom Curry)
The Magician’s Nephew (Narnia Book 1) (C. S. Lewis)
Software Engineering at Google (Hyrum Wright, Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck)
Calling Bullshit (Carl T. Bergstrom & Jevin D. West)
The Demon-Haunted World (Ann Druyan and Carl Sagan)
Amusing Ourselves to Death (Neil Postman)
Stoicism and the Art of Happiness: Practical wisdom for everyday life: embrace perseverance, strength and happiness with stoic philosophy (Donald Robertson)
Mistakes were made (But Not by Me) (Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson)
Smarter Faster Better (Charles Duhigg)

Lectures 2021 :

Thinking in Systems: A Primer (Donella Meadows)
How to Change (Katy Milkman)
The Cartoon Introduction to Philosophy (Michael F. Patton, Kevin Cannon)
Discourses and Selected Writings (Epictetus)
The God Delusion (Richard Dawkins)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert M. Pirsig)
Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life (Jim Benson, Tonianne DeMaria Barry)
Debugging: The 9 Indispensable Rules for Finding Even the Most Elusive Software and Hardware Problems (David J. Agans)
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals (Oliver Burkeman)
Le droit à la paresse (Paul Lafargue)
god is not Great (Christopher Hitchens)
The Data Detective (Tim Harford)
The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t (Julia Galef)
Their eyes were watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
Who moved my cheese? (Spencer Johnson)
Burn (Herman Pontzer)
The Dip (Seth Godin)
The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution (Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris)
Bullshit jobs: A Theory (David Graeber)
Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries #6) (Martha Wells)
Yes, And: How Improvisation Reverses “No, But” Thinking and Improves Creativity and Collaboration–Lessons from The Second City (Kelly Leonard, Tom Yorton)
No country for old men (Cormac McCarthy)
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy (Jenny Odell)
Make It Stick (Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel)
What Tech Calls Thinking (Adrian Daub)
How to live a good life : a guide to choosing your personal philosophy (Massimo Pigliucci, ed.)
The Stoic Challenge (William B. Irvine)
Silence: The Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise (Thich Nhat Hanh)
Finite and Infinite Games (James P. Carse)
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy (David Graeber)
Microservices Patterns: With examples in Java (Chris Richardson)
The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business (Erin Meyer)
Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
A Manual for Creating Atheists (Peter Boghossian)
Getting to Yes (Roger Fisher and William Ury)
Start Finishing (Charlie Gilkey)
How to Read a Book (Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren)
Between the World and Me (Ta-Nehisi Coates)
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century (Steven Pinker)
Version Control (Dexter Palmer)
Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)

Lectures 2020 :

12 Rules for Life (Jordan Peterson). Je ne recommande absolument pas! Un sous titre honnête aurait pu être quelque chose comme: Ou comment j’utilise 3 histoires de la Bible, à répétition, pour donner une apparence de profondeur à 12 recommendations plutôt banales, sur plus de 300 pages. Au moins j’aurais su à quoi m’en tenir et j’aurais évité la pontification biblique (chacun ses goûts).
I Don’t Want to Kill You (John Cleaver Book 3) (Dan Wells)
Mr. Monster (John Cleaver Book 2) (Dan Wells)
Deep Work (Cal Newport)
Stillness is the Key (Ryan Holiday)
I Am Not A Serial Killer (John Cleaver Book 1) (Dan Wells)
Outbreak: A Crisis of Faith: How Religion Ruined Our Global Pandemic (Noah Lugeons, Andrew Torrez)
Network Effect: A Murderbot Novel (Martha Wells)
The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen Covey)
Indistractable (Nir Eyal)
Start with Why (Simon Sinek)
Turn the Ship Around! (L. David Marquet)
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck (Mark Manson)
Smoke Bitten (Patricia Briggs)
Getting to Yes with Yourself: And Other Worthy Opponents (William Ury)
Last Argument of Kings (Joe Abercrombie)
Storm Cursed (Patricia Briggs)
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (James Clear)
The Bullet Journal Method: Track the Past, Order the Present, Design the Future (Ryder Carroll)
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking (Daniel Dennett)
Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything (BJ Fogg)
Before They Are Hanged (Joe Abercrombie)
The Productivity Project: Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time, Attention, and Energy Better (Chris Bailey)

Lectures 2019 :

Norse Mythology (Neil Gaiman)
Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick (Wendy Wood)
The Blade Itself (Joe Abercrombie)
The God Delusion (Richard Dawkins)
Silence Fallen (Patricia Briggs)
Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries #4) (Martha Wells)
Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries #3) (Martha Wells)
Team Geek: A Software Developer’s Guide to Working Well with Others (Ben Collins-Sussman and Brian W. Fitzpatrick)
Fire Touched (Patricia Briggs)
Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries #2) (Martha Wells)
Night Broken (Patricia Briggs)

Lectures 2018 :

Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (Daniel Dennett)
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries #1) (Martha Wells)
Time Management for System Administrators (Thomas A. Limoncelli)

Lectures 2017 :

Altered Carbon (Richard Morgan)
Remnant Population (Elizabeth Moon)
The State of the Art (Ian M. Banks)
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman)
How to be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life (Massimo Pigliucci)
The Three-Body Problem (Liu Cixin)
Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think (Brian Wansink)
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard (Chip Heath and Dan Heath)
Seveneves (Neal Stephenson)

Lectures 2016 :

Norstrilia (Cordwainer Smith)
The Attention Merchants (Tim Wu)
Frost Burned (Patricia Briggs)
River Marked (Patricia Briggs)
Silver Borne (Patricia Briggs)
The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself (Sean Carroll)
Bone Crossed (Patricia Briggs)
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (David Graeber)
Iron Kissed (Patricia Briggs)
Blood Bound (Patricia Briggs)
Moon Called (Patricia Briggs)
Water Sleeps (Glen Cook)
The Aeronaut’s Windlass (Jim Butcher)

Lectures 2015 :

Children of the Thunder (John Brunner)
Make Room! Make Room! (Harry Harrison)
Dad is Fat (Jim Gaffigan)

Lectures 2014 :

Food: A Love Story (Jim Gaffigan)
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
You Are Now Less Dumb (David McRaney)
Skin Game (Jim Butcher)
You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You’re Deluding Yourself (David McRaney)
Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Richard H. Thaler et Cass R. Sunstein)
Cold Days (Jim Butcher)
Ghost Story (Jim Butcher)
The Signal and the Noise (Nate Silver)
Side Jobs (Jim Butcher)
Changes (Jim Butcher)
Turn Coat (Jim Butcher)
Backup (Jim Butcher)
Small Favor (Jim Butcher)
White Night (Jim Butcher)
Proven Guilty (Jim Butcher)
The Man in the High Castle (Philip K. Dick)
Dead Beat (Jim Butcher)

Lectures 2013 :

Blood Rites (Jim Butcher)
Death Masks (Jim Butcher)
Summer Knight (Jim Butcher)
Grave Peril (Jim Butcher)
Fool Moon (Jim Butcher)
Storm Front (Jim Butcher)
The Crucible of Time (John Brunner)
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Neil Gaiman)
Rainbows End (Vernor Vinge)
All Tomorrow’s Parties (William Gibson)
What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets (Michael J. Sandel)
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Douglas Adams)
All Clear (Connie Willis)
Blackout (Connie Willis)

Lectures 2012 :

Gagner la guerre (Jean-Philippe Jaworski)
She Is the Darkness (Glen Cook)
Bleak Seasons (Glen Cook)
REAMDE (Neal Stephenson)
The Lost World (Michael Crichton)
Jurassic Park (Michael Crichton)
Starship Troopers (Robert A. Heinlein)
Sixty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong: Why We Love France but Not the French (Jean-Benoit Nadeau, Julie Barlow)
Google Démocratie (David Angevin et Laurent Alexandre)

Lectures 2011 :

Dreams of Steel (Glen Cook)
Shadow Games (Glen Cook)
The White Rose (Glen Cook)
Shadows Linger (Glen Cook)
The Black Company (Glen Cook)
A Dance with Dragons (George R. R. Martin)
The Eye of the World (Robert Jordan)
Shadow of the Giant (Orson Scott Card)
Shadow Puppets (Orson Scott Card)
Shadow of the Hegemon (Orson Scott Card)
The Graveyard Book (Neil Gaiman)
Ender’s Shadow (Orson Scott Card)
Demain les chiens (Clifford Donald Simak)
Wold War Z (Max Brooks)
Unseen Academicals (Terry Pratchett)
Bug Jack Barron (Norman Spinrad)
2010: Odyssey Two (Arthur C. Clarke)
Blue Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson)

Lectures 2010 :

Freakonomics (Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner)
Green Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson)
Red Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson)
Krucifix (Serge Brussolo)
La meute (Serge Brussolo)
Cauchemar à louer (Serge Brussolo)
Burning Chrome (William Gibson)
Bartleby, the Scrivener (Herman Melville)
Pattern Recognition (William Gibson)
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (Robert A. Heinlein)
Mona Lisa Overdrive (William Gibson)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Arthur C. Clarke)
Nation (Terry Pratchett)
Sur l’onde de choc (John Brunner)
Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert A. Heinlein)
A Feast for Crows (George R. R. Martin)
A Storm of Swords (George R. R. Martin)
Spook Country (William Gibson)
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (Douglas Adams)
Count Zero (William Gibson)
A Clash of Kings (George R. R. Martin)
A Game of Thrones (George R. R. Martin)
Le Donjon de Naheulbeuk : La Couette de l’Oubli (John Lang)
La seconde chance (Anne Vernet)

Lectures 2009 :

Le texte Japon (Maurice Pinguet)
Anathem (Neal Stephenson)
The Illuminatus! Trilogy (Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson)
Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk)
The Diamond Age (Neal Stephenson)
Children of the Mind (Orson Scott Card)
Wintersmith (Terry Pratchett)
Making Money (Terry Pratchett)
Tetraktys (Ari Juels)
A Hat Full of Sky (Terry Pratchett)
676 (Yan Gérard)
Xenocide (Orson Scott Card)
Gourous, sorciers et savants (Henri Broch)
Guillon aggrave son cas (Stéphane Guillon)
A Deepness in the Sky (Vernor Vinge)
Speaker for the Dead (Orson Scott Card)
Schachnovelle (Stefan Zweig)
La stratégie du choc (Naomi Klein)
La Zone du Dehors (Alain Damasio)
Millénium, Tome 3 : La reine dans le palais des courants d’air (Stieg Larsson)
Millénium, Tome 2 : La fille qui rêvait d’un bidon d’essence et d’une allumette (Stieg Larsson)
Millénium, Tome 1 : Les hommes qui n’aimaient pas les femmes (Stieg Larsson)
Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes)

Lectures 2008 :

Fragile Things (Neil Gaiman)
Nazis dans le métro (Didier Daeninckx) [Le Poulpe n^o 7]
Arrêtez le carrelage (Patrick Raynal) [Le Poulpe n^o 4]
La Petite écuyère a cafté (Jean-Bernard Pouy) [Le Poulpe n^o 1]
Fool’s Fate (Robin Hobb)
Golden Fool (Robin Hobb)
Fool’s Errand (Robin Hobb)
La Horde du Contrevent (Alain Damasio)
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (Cory Doctorow)
Cinq leçons sur la psychanalyse (Sigmund Freud)
Œuvres complètes (tome 1) (Ivan Illich)
Uncharted Territory (Connie Willis)
Du contrat social (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
The Dosadi Experiment (Frank Herbert)
Les origines du totalitarisme : Le système totalitaire (Hannah Arendt)
Les origines du totalitarisme : L’impérialisme (Hannah Arendt)
Les origines du totalitarisme : Sur l’antisémitisme (Hannah Arendt)
Si c’est un homme (Primo Levi)
Anansi Boys (Neil Gaiman)
Demain, une oasis (Ayerdhal)
Doomsday Book (Connie Willis)
La Divine Comédie (Dante Alighieri)
Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
L’art de la paix : Enseignements du fondateur de l’aïkido (Morihei Ueshiba)
Gulliver’s Travels (Jonathan Swift)
The Science of Discworld II: The Globe (Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen)
The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
Les vraies lois de l’économie (Jacques Généreux)
To Say Nothing of the Dog (Connie Willis)
Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)

Lectures 2007 :

Principia Discordia: Or How I Found Goddess, and What I Did to Her When I Found Her (Greg Hill)
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland suivi de Through the Looking-Glass (Lewis Carroll)
Tristes tropiques (Claude Lévi-Strauss)
Eureka Street (Robert McLiam Wilson)
Ask the Dust (John Fante)
Peter Pan (James Matthew Barrie)
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Miller Hemingway)
Sur le rêve (Sigmund Freud)
Petit déjeuner chez Tyrannie suivi de Le crétinisme alpin (Éric Naulleau, Pierre Jourde)
An Imaginary Life (David Malouf)
Das Jesus Video (Andreas Eschbach)
Portnoy’s Complaint (Philip Roth)
Traité d’athéologie : Physique de la métaphysique (Michel Onfray)
Idoru (William Gibson)
The Sandman: Book of Dreams (Neil Gaiman, Ed Kramer éditeurs)
Le Capital (livre 1) (Karl Marx)
Totem et tabou (Sigmund Freud)
Antimanuel d’économie : 2. Les cigales (Bernard Maris)
Fictions (Jorge Luis Borges)
The System of the World (Neal Stephenson)
Contre-feux, tome 2 (Pierre Bourdieu)
Contre-feux, tome 1 (Pierre Bourdieu)
L’art du roman (Milan Kundera)
Le rideau (Milan Kundera)
Antimanuel d’économie : 1. Les fourmis (Bernard Maris)
Le grand bond en arrière (Serge Halimi)
Trois leçons sur la société post-industrielle (Daniel Cohen)
Ship of Destiny (Robin Hobb)
Zodiac (Neal Stephenson)
De l’art de persuader (Blaise Pascal)
L’art d’avoir toujours raison (Arthur Schopenhauer)
The Mad Ship (Robin Hobb)
We the media: Grassroots Journalism By the People, For the People (Dan Gillmor)
The Science of Discworld (Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen)
Ecce Homo (Friedrich Nietzsche)
The Confusion (Neal Stephenson)
Ship of Magic (Robin Hobb)
Syllogismes de l’amertume (Emil Michel Cioran)
Quicksilver (Neal Stephenson)
Propos sur le bonheur (Alain)
Why I Am Not a Christian, and other essays on religion and related subjects (Bertrand Russell)
Le rire du lance-flammes (Serge Brussolo)

Lectures 2006 :

Thud! (Terry Pratchett)
Éloge de l’oisiveté (Bertrand Russell)
Going Postal (Terry Pratchett)
Sécurité absolue (Serge Brussolo)
Neuromancer (William Gibson)
Le moine (Matthew Gregory Lewis)
Cryptonomicon (Neal Stephenson)
Manuel de civilité pour les petites filles à l’usage des maisons d’éducation (Pierre Louÿs)
Fonds de tiroir (Pierre Desproges)
Assassin’s Quest (Robin Hobb)
Royal Assassin (Robin Hobb)
Assassin’s Apprentice (Robin Hobb)
Impostures intellectuelles (Alan Sokal, Jean Bricmont)
Médias en campagne (Henri Maler et Antoine Schwartz)
L’insoutenable légèreté de l’être (Milan Kundera)
Défense et illustration de la novlangue française (Jaime Semprun)
The Unix-Haters Handbook (collectif)
Devenez sorciers, devenez savants (Georges Charpak, Henri Broch)
The War of the Worlds (Herbert George Wells)
Monstrous Regiment (Terry Pratchett)
La littérature sans estomac (Pierre Jourde)

Lectures 2005 :

The Wee Free Men (Terry Pratchett)
Night Watch (Terry Pratchett)
The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents (Terry Pratchett)
The Last Hero (Terry Pratchett)
Thief of Time (Terry Pratchett)
The Truth (Terry Pratchett)
The Fifth Elephant (Terry Pratchett)
Carpe Jugulum (Terry Pratchett)
The Last Continent (Terry Pratchett)
Jingo (Terry Pratchett)
Le dictateur et le hamac (Daniel Pennac)
Hogfather (Terry Pratchett)
Dune (série originale) (Frank Herbert)
Feet of Clay (Terry Pratchett)
Maskerade (Terry Pratchett)
Interesting Times (Terry Pratchett)
Soul Music (Terry Pratchett)
Men at Arms (Terry Pratchett)
Lords and Ladies (Terry Pratchett)
American Gods (Neil Gaiman)
Miroirs et fumées (Neil Gaiman)
Animal Farm (George Orwell)