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Télécharger le livre :  The Fair Chase
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The Fair Chase


Philip Dray


An award-winning historian tells the story of hunting in America, showing how this sport has shaped our national identity. From Daniel Boone to Teddy Roosevelt, hunting is one of America's most sacred-but also most fraught-traditions. It was promoted in the 19th century...

Parution : 2018-05-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Bibi
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Bibi


Anshel Pfeffer


A deeply reported biography of the scandal-plagued Israeli Prime Minister, showing that we cannot understand Israel -- its history, present, and future -- without first understanding the life and worldview of the man who leads it Benjamin Netanyahu is embroiled in...

Parution : 2018-05-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Weird Math
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Weird Math


Agnijo Banerjee , David Darling


A teenage genius and his teacher take readers on a wild ride to the extremes of mathematics Everyone has stared at the crumpled page of a math assignment and wondered, where on Earth will I ever use this? It turns out, Earth is precisely the place. As teen math prodigy...

Parution : 2018-04-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Hadrian's Wall
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Hadrian's Wall


Adrian Goldsworthy


From an award-winning historian of ancient Rome, a definitive history of Hadrian's Wall Stretching eighty miles from coast to coast across northern England, Hadrian's Wall is the largest Roman artifact known today. It is commonly viewed as a defiant barrier, the end of...

Parution : 2018-04-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Insane
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Insane


Alisa Roth


An urgent exposéf the mental health crisis in our courts, jails, and prisons America has made mental illness a crime. Jails in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago each house more people with mental illnesses than any hospital. As many as half of all people in America's...

Parution : 2018-04-03
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Télécharger le livre :  The Language of the Game
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The Language of the Game


Laurent Dubois


Essential reading for soccer fans as the 2022 World Cup approaches, this lively and lyrical book is "an ideal guide to the world's most popular sport" (Simon Kuper, coauthor of Soccernomics)....

Parution : 2018-03-27
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Télécharger le livre :  A Season in the Sun
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A Season in the Sun


Randy Roberts , Johnny Smith


The story of Mickey Mantle's magnificent 1956 season Mickey Mantle was the ideal batter for the atomic age, capable of hitting a baseball harder and farther than any other player in history. He was also the perfect idol for postwar America, a wholesome hero from the...

Parution : 2018-03-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Advice and Dissent
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Advice and Dissent


Alan S. Blinder


A bestselling economist tells us what both politicians and economists must learn to fix America's failing economic policies American economic policy ranks as something between bad and disgraceful. As leading economist Alan S. Blinder argues, a crucial cultural divide...

Parution : 2018-03-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Blood Letters
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Blood Letters


Lian Xi


The staggering story of the most important Chinese political dissident of the Mao era, a devout Christian who was imprisoned, tortured, and executed by the regimeBlood Letters tells the astonishing tale of Lin Zhao, a poet and journalist arrested by the authorities in...

Parution : 2018-03-20
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Télécharger le livre :  In Defense of Troublemakers
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In Defense of Troublemakers


Charlan Jeanne Nemeth


An eminent psychologist explains why dissent should be cherished, not feared We've decided by consensus that consensus is good. In In Defense of Troublemakers, psychologist Charlan Nemeth argues that this principle is completely wrong: left unchallenged, the majority...

Parution : 2018-03-20
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Télécharger le livre :  The Heavens Might Crack
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The Heavens Might Crack


Jason Sokol


A vivid portrait of how Americans grappled with King's death and legacy in the days, weeks, and months after his assassination On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. At the time of his...

Parution : 2018-03-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Discrimination and Disparities
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Discrimination and Disparities


Thomas Sowell


An empirical examination of how economic and other disparities ariseEconomic and other outcomes differ vastly among individuals, groups, and nations. Many explanations have been offered for the differences. Some believe that those with less fortunate outcomes are...

Parution : 2018-03-20
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Télécharger le livre :  What Is Real?
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What Is Real?


Adam Becker


"A thorough, illuminating exploration of the most consequential controversy raging in modern science." --New York Times Book ReviewAn Editor's Choice, New York Times Book ReviewLonglisted for PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science...

Parution : 2018-03-20
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Télécharger le livre :  The Biological Mind
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The Biological Mind


Alan Jasanoff


A pioneering neuroscientist argues that we are more than our brains To many, the brain is the seat of personal identity and autonomy. But the way we talk about the brain is often rooted more in mystical conceptions of the soul than in scientific fact. This blinds us to...

Parution : 2018-03-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Separate and Unequal
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Separate and Unequal


Steven M Gillon


From a New York Times bestselling author, the definitive history of the Kerner Commission, whose report on urban unrest reshaped American debates about race and inequality In Separate and Unequal, New York Times bestselling historian Steven M. Gillon offers a revelatory...

Parution : 2018-03-06
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Télécharger le livre :  The Roosevelt Women
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The Roosevelt Women


Betty Boyd Caroli


The Roosevelt name conjures up images of powerful Presidents and dashing men of high society. But few people know much about the extraordinary network of women that held the Roosevelt clan together through war, scandal, and disease. InThe Roosevelt Women, Betty Boyd...

Parution : 2018-02-27
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Télécharger le livre :  The Counterrevolution
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The Counterrevolution


Bernard E. Harcourt


A distinguished political theorist sounds the alarm about the counterinsurgency strategies used to govern Americans Militarized police officers with tanks and drones. Pervasive government surveillance and profiling. Social media that distract and track us. All of these,...

Parution : 2018-02-27
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Télécharger le livre :  The Field of Blood
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The Field of Blood


Nicholas Morton


A history of the 1119 Battle of the Field of Blood, which decisively halted the momentum gained during the First Crusade and decided the fate of the Crusader states During the First Crusade, Frankish armies swept across the Middle East, capturing major cities and...

Parution : 2018-02-20
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Télécharger le livre :  The Amorous Heart
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The Amorous Heart


Marilyn Yalom


An eminent scholar unearths the captivating history of the two-lobed heart symbol from scripture and tapestry to T-shirts and text messages, shedding light on how we have expressed love since antiquity The symmetrical, exuberant heart is everywhere: it gives shape to...

Parution : 2018-01-09
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Télécharger le livre :  The Last 100 Days
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The Last 100 Days


David B. Woolner


A revealing portrait of the end of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's life and presidency, shedding new light on how he made his momentous final policy decisions The first hundred days of FDR's presidency are justly famous, often viewed as a period of political action without...

Parution : 2017-12-12
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