LA BALUSTRADE, specialized in Social Sciences bookstore, located in Central Paris, between North and East railway station, offers some 5000 titles, for a better knowledge of today’s World and reflexion on the future of our societies.

LA BALUSTRADE, citizen bookstore, offers background topical works, classics, as well as the most recent works of younger scholars.

We mail orders to France and all countries

Orders may be passed thru E-mail, fax, letter, phone and paid by credit card or international post order.

We supply books in the various domains of Social Sciences such as :

COMMUNICATION : information, image, networks, media.

HISTORY : prehistory, modern, and contemporary history, history of labour relations.

PSYCHOLOGY : psychology of the child and the adult, social psychology, pedagogy, vocational training, social welfare.

PSYCHOANALYSIS : schools, trends, successes, problems.

PHILOSOPHY : metaphysics, ethics, materialism, idealism, existencialism, marxism.

ECONOMY : econonics history, contemporary economies, North-South relations, labour and its future, enterprise and management, trade unions.

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY IN THE SOCIETY : interface between sciences, technology and contemporary society, the future of sciences and their history : astronomics, mathematics, physics, chemistry, genetics, ecology.

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPPEMENT : space engineering, geography, town area planning, transports, risks, environmental protection.

SOCIOLOGY : methods and acquisitions, anthropology, gender relations, racisms, violence.

POLITICS : Government administration and management, local government and its evolution, diversity and variety of political regimes and institutions.