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Télécharger le livre :  Charter Schools and Their Enemies
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Charter Schools and Their Enemies


Thomas Sowell


Winner of the 2021 Hayek Book PrizeA leading conservative intellectual defends charter schools against the teachers' unions, politicians, and liberal educators who threaten to dismantle their success.The black-white educational achievement gap -- so much discussed...

Parution : 2020-07-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Political Junkies
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Political Junkies


Claire Bond Potter


A wide-ranging history of seventy years of change in political media, and how it transformed -- and fractured -- American politicsWith fake news on Facebook, trolls on Twitter, and viral outrage everywhere, it's easy to believe that the internet changed politics...

Parution : 2020-07-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Sexing the Body
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Sexing the Body


Anne Fausto-Sterling


Now updated with groundbreaking research, this award-winning classic examines the construction of sexual identity in biology, society, and history.Why do some people prefer heterosexual love while others fancy the same sex? Is sexual identity biologically determined or...

Parution : 2020-06-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Summer for the Gods
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Summer for the Gods


Edward J Larson


The Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the Scopes Trial and the battle over evolution and creation in America's schools In the summer of 1925, the sleepy hamlet of Dayton, Tennessee, became the setting for one of the twentieth century's most contentious courtroom dramas,...

Parution : 2020-06-16
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Télécharger le livre :  No Man's Land
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No Man's Land


Wendy Moore


The "absorbing and powerful" (Wall Street Journal) story of two pioneering suffragette doctors who shattered social expectations and transformed modern medicine during World War I.A month after war broke out in 1914, doctors Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett...

Parution : 2020-04-28
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Télécharger le livre :  The Abandonment of the West
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The Abandonment of the West


Michael Kimmage


This definitive portrait of American diplomacy reveals how the concept of the West drove twentieth-century foreign policy, how it fell from favor, and why it is worth saving.Throughout the twentieth century, many Americans saw themselves as part of Western civilization,...

Parution : 2020-04-21
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Télécharger le livre :  The Broken Heart of America
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The Broken Heart of America


Walter Johnson


A searing and "magisterial" (Cornel West, New York Times–bestselling author of Democracy Matters) history of American racial exploitation and resistance, told through the turbulent past of the city of St. Louis   From Lewis and Clark's 1804...

Parution : 2020-04-14
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Télécharger le livre :  The Betrayal of the Duchess
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The Betrayal of the Duchess


Maurice Samuels


Fighting to reclaim the French crown for the Bourbons, the duchesse de Berry faces betrayal at the hands of one of her closest advisors in this dramatic history of power and revolution. The year was 1832, a cholera pandemic raged, and the French royal family was in...

Parution : 2020-04-14
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Télécharger le livre :  The Sum of the People
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The Sum of the People


Andrew Whitby


This fascinating three-thousand-year history of the census traces the making of the modern survey and explores its political power in the age of big data and surveillance.In April 2020, the United States will embark on what has been called "the largest peacetime...

Parution : 2020-03-31
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Télécharger le livre :  The Sword and the Shield
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The Sword and the Shield


Peniel E. Joseph


This “landmark” (Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times–bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist) dual biography of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King transforms our understanding of the twentieth century’s most iconic African American...

Parution : 2020-03-31
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Télécharger le livre :  War Fever
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War Fever


Randy Roberts , Johnny Smith


A "marvelous" (Sports Illustrated) portrait of the three men whose lives were forever changed by WWI-era Boston and the Spanish flu: baseball star Babe Ruth, symphony conductor Karl Muck, and Harvard law student Charles Whittlesey. In the fall of 1918, a...

Parution : 2020-03-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Fighting Words
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Fighting Words


Nancy F. Cott


From a Harvard historian, this riveting portrait of four trailblazing American journalists highlights the power of the press in the interwar period. In the fragile peace following the Great War, a surprising number of restless young Americans abandoned their homes and...

Parution : 2020-03-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Existential Psychotherapy
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Existential Psychotherapy


Irvin D. Yalom


The definitive account of existential psychotherapy. First published in 1980, Existential Psychotherapy is widely considered to be the foundational text in its field— the first to offer a methodology for helping patients to develop more adaptive responses to...

Parution : 2020-03-17
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Télécharger le livre :  We Know It When We See It
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We Know It When We See It


Richard Masland


A Harvard researcher investigates the human eye in this insightful account of what vision reveals about intelligence, learning, and the greatest mysteries of neuroscience.Spotting a face in a crowd is so easy, you take it for granted. But how you do it is one of...

Parution : 2020-03-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Finding Flow
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Finding Flow


Mihaly Csikszentmihalhi


From the bestselling author of Flow and one of the pioneers of the scientific study of happiness, an indispensable guide to living your best life. What makes a good life? Is it money? An important job? Leisure time? Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi believes our obsessive focus...

Parution : 2020-03-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Illegal
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Illegal


Elizabeth F. Cohen


A political scientist explains how the American immigration system ran off the rails -- and proposes a bold plan for reform Under the Trump administration, US immigration agencies terrorize the undocumented, target people who are here legally, and even threaten the...

Parution : 2020-01-28
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Télécharger le livre :  American Queenmaker
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American Queenmaker


Julie Des Jardins


The first biography of Missy Meloney, the most important woman you've never heard of Marie "Missy" Mattingly Meloney was born in 1878, in an America where women couldn't vote. Yet she recognized the power that women held as consumers and family decision-makers, and...

Parution : 2020-01-21
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Télécharger le livre :  A Time to Build
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A Time to Build


Yuval Levin


A leading conservative intellectual argues that to renew America we must recommit to our institutionsAmericans are living through a social crisis. Our politics is polarized and bitterly divided. Culture wars rage on campus, in the media, social media, and other arenas...

Parution : 2020-01-21
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Télécharger le livre :  The Great Democracy
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The Great Democracy


Ganesh Sitaraman


A leading progressive intellectual offers an "illuminating" agenda for how real democracy can triumph in America and beyond (Ari Berman, New York Times).Since the New Deal in the 1930s, there have been two eras in our political history: the liberal era, stretching up to...

Parution : 2019-12-10
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Télécharger le livre :  A New World Begins
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A New World Begins


Jeremy Popkin


From an award-winning historian, a “vivid” (Wall Street Journal) account of the revolution that created the modern worldThe French Revolution’s principles of liberty and equality still shape our ideas of a just society—even if, after more than...

Parution : 2019-12-10
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