Where does our food come from? Should we eat animals? Does our food reflect who we are? Jonathan Safran Foer marries his own experience and a deep study into the battery farming system to help us answer these questions, leading us to a critic of our society.

Edward W. Said is known as one of the founding figures of postcolonial studies. Orientalism remains to this day his most famous and influential book. It explores the process of identity construction through the identification of the Other. Said shows how Western constructions of the Orient are...

Although it is not a novel, this book tells us a story. The story of a young couple, Jerôme and Sylvie, who seems haunted by their material aspirations. 1965 represents the beginning of Georges Perec's career as a writer: when he receives the Renaudot Price in 1965 for « Things », he still is...

Refreshingly and edgy, Novella Carpenter tells her story about urban agriculture in her work Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer that she experienced in Oakland, California. In order to prove that city life as well as fresh and healthy food are reconcilable, and possible for anyone,...

Social impact measurement is a subject that is more and more heard of, it is an instrument that is being used by many organizations – in the Anglo-Saxon world especially – to justify the relevance of their social activities and to legitimize their funding. French foundations, that are quite...