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Télécharger le livre :  The Ballad of Roy Benavidez
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The Ballad of Roy Benavidez


William Sturkey


The dramatic life of Vietnam War hero Roy Benavidez, revealing how Hispanic Americans have long shaped US history, from "a major new voice [with] lyrical powers as a biographer” (David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Frederick Douglass) In...

Parution : 2024-06-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Reds
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Reds


Maurice Isserman


"The wisest, most eloquent history of the Communist Party USA that has ever been written" (Michael Kazin, author of What It Took to Win), revealing how party members contributed to struggles for justice and equality in America even as they championed a...

Parution : 2024-06-04
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Télécharger le livre :  The CIA
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The CIA


Hugh Wilford


In this “superb” (Kathryn Olmsted) new history of American intelligence, a celebrated historian uncovers how the CIA became the foremost defender of America’s covert global empire As World War II ended, the United States stood as the dominant power on...

Parution : 2024-06-04
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Télécharger le livre :  The End of Everything
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The End of Everything


Victor Davis Hanson


An instant New York Times bestseller, this “profound book” (Wall Street Journal) charts how and why some societies chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible in our time War can settle disputes, topple...

Parution : 2024-05-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Then I Am Myself the World
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Then I Am Myself the World


Christof Koch


"Deeply personal and infinitely digestible, Then I Am Myself the World is a remarkable must-read for anyone interested in knowing their mind.”―Judson Brewer MD, PhD, New York Times–bestselling author of Unwinding Anxiety The world’s leading...

Parution : 2024-05-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Waves in an Impossible Sea
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Waves in an Impossible Sea


Matt Strassler


Longlisted for the 2025 PEN / EO Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardBig Think's Best Science Book of 2024 A theoretical physicist takes readers on an awe-inspiring journey—found in "no other book" (Science)—to discover how the universe...

Parution : 2024-03-05
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Télécharger le livre :  The Age of Revolutions
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The Age of Revolutions


Nathan Perl-Rosenthal


A panoramic, "persuasive and inspiring" (New Yorker) new history of the revolutionary decades between 1760 and 1825, from North America and Europe to Haiti and Spanish America, showing how progress and reaction went hand in hand The revolutions that raged...

Parution : 2024-02-20
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Télécharger le livre :  True Believer
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True Believer


James Traub


A celebrated historian recounts Hubert Humphrey’s role as a liberal hero of twentieth-century America   Hubert Humphrey was liberalism’s most dedicated defender, and its most public and tragic sacrifice. As a young politician in 1948, he defied...

Parution : 2024-02-13
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Télécharger le livre :  The Waltz of Reason
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The Waltz of Reason


Karl Sigmund


"A mind-bending jaunt ... that makes clear in fascinating detail how math is more than a sum of its parts" (Publishers Weekly) “Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here,” Plato warned would-be philosophers. Mathematician Karl Sigmund agrees. In...

Parution : 2023-12-19
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Télécharger le livre :  State of Silence
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State of Silence


Sam Lebovic


An "essential guide" (Beverly Gage, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of G-Man) to how the Espionage Act gave rise to a vast American security state that keeps citizens in the dark In State of Silence, political historian Sam Lebovic uncovers the...

Parution : 2023-11-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Equality
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Equality


Darrin M. Mcmahon


The definitive history of the idea of equality—and why we’re so ambivalent about it  Equality is in crisis. Our world is filled with soaring inequalities, spanning wealth, race, identity, and nationality. Yet how can we strive for equality if we...

Parution : 2023-11-14
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Télécharger le livre :  America's Black Capital
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America's Black Capital


Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar


The remarkable story of how African Americans transformed Atlanta, the former heart of the Confederacy, into today’s Black mecca      Atlanta is home to some of America’s most prominent Black politicians, artists, businesses, and HBCUs. Yet,...

Parution : 2023-11-14
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Télécharger le livre :  American Anarchy
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American Anarchy


Michael Willrich


FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY A "lively, fast-paced history" (Adam Hochschild, bestselling author of American Midnight) of America’s anarchist movement and the government’s tireless efforts to destroy it   In the early...

Parution : 2023-10-31
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Télécharger le livre :  Mischievous Creatures
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Mischievous Creatures


Catherine Mcneur


The untold story of two sisters whose discoveries sped the growth of American science in the nineteenth century, combining "meticulous research and sensitive storytelling" (Janice P. Nimura, New York Times-bestselling author ofThe Doctors Blackwell) In...

Parution : 2023-10-31
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Télécharger le livre :  The Hollow Crown
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The Hollow Crown


Eliot A. Cohen


What Shakespeare’s plays can teach us about modern-day politics  William Shakespeare understood power: what it is, how it works, how it is gained, and how it is lost.  In The Hollow Crown, Eliot A. Cohen reveals how the battling princes of Henry IV and...

Parution : 2023-10-24
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Télécharger le livre :  The One
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The One


Heinrich Päs


A "fascinating [and] provocative" argument by a particle physicist—marshalling a "heady mix of history, philosophy and cutting-edge theory" (Wall Street Journal)—for monism, the ancient idea about the universe that...

Parution : 2023-01-17
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Télécharger le livre :  No Right to An Honest Living (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize)
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No Right to An Honest Living (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize)


Jacqueline Jones


WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY A “sensitive, immersive, and exhaustive” portrait of Black workers and white hypocrisy in nineteenth-century Boston, from “a gifted practitioner of labor history and urban history” (Tiya Miles, National...

Parution : 2023-01-10
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Télécharger le livre :  General Relativity
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General Relativity


André Cabannes , Leonard Susskind


The latest volume in the New York Times–bestselling physics series explains Einstein’s masterpiece: the general theory of relativity He taught us classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, and special relativity. Now, physicist Leonard Susskind, assisted...

Parution : 2023-01-10
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Télécharger le livre :  We Are Not One
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We Are Not One


Eric Alterman


A bestselling historian uncovers the surprising roots of America’s long alliance with Israel and its troubling consequences  Fights about the fate of the state of Israel, and the Zionist movement that gave birth to it, have long been a staple of both Jewish...

Parution : 2022-11-22
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Télécharger le livre :  As Gods
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As Gods


Matthew Cobb


The thrilling and terrifying history of genetic engineering  In 2018, scientists manipulated the DNA of human babies for the first time. As biologist and historian Matthew Cobb shows in As Gods, this achievement was one many scientists have feared from the start of...

Parution : 2022-11-15
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