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42 | RECENTLY RELEASED ISBN: 978-0-7643-6952-0 Size: 7 1/2" x 10 1/2" (191 x 267 mm) Pages: 128 Price: $29.99 / £27.99 / 42.99 CAD Illustrations: 33 color images Binding: hardcover BISAC: GARDENING / Essays & Narratives Atlas of Elementary Botany by Jean-Jacques Rousseau By Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Illustrated by Karin Doering-Froger, Foreword by Marc Jeanson Explore the natural world through Jean-Jacques Rousseaursquos letters on botany—a beautifully written reflection on plants, nature, and philosophy by one of the Enlightenment,s greatest thinkers. Whether on his philosophical walks or his bucolic wanderings, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a Swiss-born philosopher, writer, and composer whose works profoundly influenced the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, always portrayed a deep passion for plant collecting. Between 1771 and 1774, he composed eight letters offering lessons in botany, addressed to Madame Delessert and destined to teach her young daughter Madelon. These letters constitute the thinker’s final work, alongside Reveries of a Solitary Walker , and reverberated throughout Europe in the early 19th century. Rousseau’s project was much more than a simple lesson in pedagogy; it is, rather, a genuine invitation to observe plants. Under his pen, the descriptions are elevated to the rank of art, and contemplation achieves the status of science. Liliaceous, cruciform, papilionaceous, and umbellate plants combine to compose a poetic herbarium. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) was a Swiss-born philosopher, writer, and composer whose works profoundly influenced the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. Known for The Social Contract and Emile , he championed individual freedom, direct democracy, and education reform, advocating that society should align with the natural goodness of humanity. Marc Jeanson is a botanist and the former director of the National Herbarium at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris and currently serves as botanical director of the Majorelle Garden in Marrakech, Morocco. ISBN 978-0-7643-6952-0 ISBN: 978-0-7643-6951-3 Size: 7 1/2" x 10 1/2" (191 x 267 mm) Pages: 120 Price: $29.99 / £27.99 / 42.99 CAD Illustrations: 32 color illustrations Binding: hardcover BISAC: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social Atlas of Lost Civilizations By Dominique Lanni, Illustrated by Camille Renversade This atlas takes us on an exploration of the world, to encounter some of the brilliant and more obscure civilizations that have shaped history. Like stars, civilizations and peoples are born; they live and they die. Sumerians, Spartans, Etruscans, Moche, Aksumites, Mayans, and Mongolian nomads have one thing in common: Over the course of several centuries or a few decades, they lived a remarkable way of life, developed elaborate skills, and shone through their artistic achievements, their culture, their medical expertise, or their knowledge of the stars. From the Aztecs with their fatal calendar, to the Rapa Nui with their strange Moai scanning the horizon, or, more recently, the Tasmanians and Herero with their tragic destiny, and the Ona and Alakaluf of Tierra del Fuego, this atlas takes us on a poetic exploration of the world, to encounter some of the brilliant and more obscure civilizations that have shaped history. Dominique Lanni is a professor at the University of Malta and specializes in the modes of representation of otherness and travel literature. He has published Bestiaire fantastique des voyageurs (2014), Atlas of Dream Lands (2023), Heureux qui, comme Hannibal (2020), and Mary (2022). Camille Renversade is an artist, author-illustrator, sculptor, and chemist who graduated from the École Émile-Cohl in Lyon. He specializes in cryptozoology and has produced seven books on the subject, including Créatures Fantastiques Deyrolle , published by Plume de carotte, as well as numerous artistic creations. ISBN 978-0-7643-6951-3