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Télécharger le livre :  The Rise of the Creative Class
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The Rise of the Creative Class


Richard Florida


World-renowned urbanist Richard Florida's bestselling classic on the transformation of our cities in the twenty-first century -- now updated with a new prefaceIn his modern classic The Rise of the Creative Class, urbanist Richard Florida identifies the emergence of a...

Parution : 2019-09-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Letters to a Young Chef
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Letters to a Young Chef


Daniel Boulud


From the reinvention of French food through the fine dining revolution in America, Daniel Boulud has been a witness to and a creator of today's food culture. A modern improviser with a classical foundation (a little rock 'n' roll and a lot of Mozart, he'd say), he...

Parution : 2019-08-27
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Télécharger le livre :  What We Talk About When We Talk About Books
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Books


Leah Price


Reports of the death of reading are greatly exaggerated Do you worry that you've lost patience for anything longer than a tweet? If so, you're not alone. Digital-age pundits warn that as our appetite for books dwindles, so too do the virtues in which...

Parution : 2019-08-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Bureaucracy
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Bureaucracy


James Q. Wilson


The classic book on the way American government agencies work and how they can be made to work better -- the "masterwork" of political scientist James Q. Wilson (The Economist)In Bureaucracy, the distinguished scholar James Q. Wilson examines a wide range of...

Parution : 2019-08-13
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Télécharger le livre :  When Nietzsche Wept
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When Nietzsche Wept


Irvin D. Yalom


In nineteenth-century Vienna, a drama of love, fate, and will is played out amid the intellectual ferment that defined the era. Josef Breuer, one of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis, is at the height of his career. Friedrich Nietzsche, Europe's greatest...

Parution : 2019-08-06
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Télécharger le livre :  T.R.
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T.R.


H. W. Brands


From the New York Times bestselling author, an acclaimed biography of President Teddy Roosevelt "A rip-roaring life... Every red-blooded American should read this entertaining book." — Wall Street Journal In his time, there was no more...

Parution : 2019-07-23
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Télécharger le livre :  The Vision Of The Annointed
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The Vision Of The Annointed


Thomas Sowell


One of America’s pre-eminent economists offers a provocative critique of the failures of liberalism In The Vision of the Anointed, Thomas Sowell presents a devastating critique of the mind-set behind the failed social policies of the past thirty years. Sowell...

Parution : 2019-07-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Uncommon Grounds
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Uncommon Grounds


Mark Pendergrast


The definitive history of the world's most popular drugUncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks. Mark Pendergrast reviews the dramatic changes in coffee culture over the past decade, from the...

Parution : 2019-07-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Bleeding Out
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Bleeding Out


Thomas Abt


From a Harvard scholar and former Obama official, a powerful proposal for curtailing violent crime in America Urban violence is one of the most divisive and allegedly intractable issues of our time. But as Harvard scholar Thomas Abt shows in Bleeding Out, we actually...

Parution : 2019-06-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Life Finds a Way
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Life Finds a Way


Andreas Wagner


How the principles of biological innovation can help us overcome creative challenges in art, business, and scienceIn Life Finds a Way, biologist Andreas Wagner reveals the deep symmetry between innovation in biological evolution and human cultural creativity. Rarely is...

Parution : 2019-06-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Why Cities Lose
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Why Cities Lose


Jonathan A. Rodden


A prizewinning political scientist traces the origins of urban-rural political conflict and shows how geography shapes elections in America and beyond Why is it so much easier for the Democratic Party to win the national popular vote than to build and maintain a...

Parution : 2019-06-04
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Télécharger le livre :  The MVP Machine
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The MVP Machine


Ben Lindbergh , Travis Sawchik


Move over, Moneyball―this New York Times bestseller examines major league baseball's next cutting-edge revolution: the high-tech quest to build better players."A convincing, and faith-restoring, case that genuine, unadulterated miracles can happen in...

Parution : 2019-06-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Anointed with Oil
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Anointed with Oil


Darren Dochuk


A groundbreaking new history of the United States, showing how Christian faith and the pursuit of petroleum fueled America's rise to global power and shaped today's political clashesAnointed with Oil places religion and oil at the center of American history. As...

Parution : 2019-06-04
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Télécharger le livre :  The Universe Speaks in Numbers
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The Universe Speaks in Numbers


Graham Farmelo


How math helps us solve the universe's deepest mysteriesOne of the great insights of science is that the universe has an underlying order. The supreme goal of physicists is to understand this order through laws that describe the behavior of the most basic particles and...

Parution : 2019-05-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Mind in Motion
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Mind in Motion


Barbara Tversky


An eminent psychologist offers a major new theory of human cognition: movement, not language, is the foundation of thoughtWhen we try to think about how we think, we can't help but think of words. Indeed, some have called language the stuff of thought. But pictures are...

Parution : 2019-05-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Don't Read Poetry
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Don't Read Poetry


Stephanie Burt


An award-winning poet offers a brilliant introduction to the joys--and challenges--of the genreIn Don't Read Poetry, award-winning poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers an accessible introduction to the seemingly daunting task of reading, understanding, and...

Parution : 2019-05-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Power Trip
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Power Trip


Michael E. Webber


A global tour of energy--the builder of human civilization and also its greatest threat.Energy is humanity's single most important resource. In fact, as energy expert Michael E. Webber argues in Power Trip, the story of how societies rise can be told largely as the...

Parution : 2019-05-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Beeline
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Beeline


Shalini Shankar


An anthropologist uses spelling bees as a lens to examine the unique and diverse traits of Generation Z--and why they are destined for successAt first glance, Generation Z (youth born after 1997) seems to be made up of anxious overachievers, hounded by Tiger Moms and...

Parution : 2019-04-30
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Télécharger le livre :  The Socialist Manifesto
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The Socialist Manifesto


Bhaskar Sunkara


A "razor-sharp" introduction to this political and economic ideology makes a galvanizing argument for modern socialism (Naomi Klein) -- and explains how its core tenets could effect positive change in America and worldwide.In The Socialist Manifesto, Bhaskar Sunkara...

Parution : 2019-04-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Children of the Dream
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Children of the Dream


Rucker C. Johnson


An acclaimed economist reveals that school integration efforts in the 1970s and 1980s were overwhelmingly successful -- and argues that we must renew our commitment to integration for the sake of all AmericansWe are frequently told that school integration was a social...

Parution : 2019-04-16
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