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Télécharger le livre :  Stayed On Freedom
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Stayed On Freedom


Dan Berger


A new history of Black Liberation, told through the intertwined story of two grassroots organizers  ​ The Black Power movement, often associated with its iconic spokesmen, derived much of its energy from the work of people whose stories have never...

Parution : 2023-01-24
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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 :  Essential
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Essential


Jamie K Mccallum


How essential workers’ fight for better jobs during the pandemic revolutionized US labor politics Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, essential workers lashed out against low wages, long hours, and safety risks, attracting a level of support unseen in...

Parution : 2022-11-15
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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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Télécharger le livre :  Freely Determined
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Freely Determined


Kennon M Sheldon


A renowned psychologist argues that free will is not only real but essential to our well-being  It’s become fashionable to argue that free will is a fiction: that we humans are in the thrall of animal urges and unconscious...

Parution : 2022-11-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Elderflora
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Elderflora


Jared Farmer


The epic story of the planet’s oldest trees and the making of the modern world   Humans have always revered long-lived trees. But as historian Jared Farmer reveals in Elderflora, our veneration took a modern turn in the eighteenth...

Parution : 2022-10-18
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Télécharger le livre :  The Self Delusion
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The Self Delusion


Gregory Berns


A New York Times–bestselling author reveals how the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, are critical to our lives  We all know we tell stories about ourselves. But as psychiatrist and neuroscientist Gregory Berns argues in The Self Delusion, we...

Parution : 2022-10-18
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Télécharger le livre :  To Sanctify the World
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To Sanctify the World


George Weigel


A leading Catholic intellectual explains why the teachings of the Second Vatican Council are essential to the Church's future—and the world'sThe Second Vatican Council (1962–1965) was the most important Catholic event in the past five hundred years....

Parution : 2022-10-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Barred
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Barred


Daniel S. Medwed


A groundbreaking exposé of how our legal system makes it nearly impossible to overturn wrongful convictions  Thousands of innocent people are behind bars in the United States. But proving their innocence and winning their release is nearly impossible. ...

Parution : 2022-09-20
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Télécharger le livre :  You've Been Played
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You've Been Played


Adrian Hon


How games are being harnessed as instruments of exploitation—and what we can do about it Warehouse workers pack boxes while a virtual dragon races across their screen. If they beat their colleagues, they get an award. If not, they can be fired. Uber...

Parution : 2022-09-20
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Télécharger le livre :  The Invention of Tomorrow
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The Invention of Tomorrow


Adam Bulley , Jonathan Redshaw , Thomas Suddendorf


A spellbinding exploration of the human capacity to imagine the future Our ability to think about the future is one of the most powerful tools at our disposal. In The Invention of Tomorrow, cognitive scientists Thomas Suddendorf, Jonathan Redshaw, and Adam Bulley...

Parution : 2022-09-20
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Télécharger le livre :  A Voice in the Wilderness
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A Voice in the Wilderness


Joseph L Graves


Why understanding evolution—the most reviled branch of science—can help us all, from fighting pandemics to undoing racism Evolutionary science has long been regarded as conservative, a tool for enforcing regressive ideas, particularly about race and...

Parution : 2022-09-13
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Télécharger le livre :  The Third Reconstruction
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The Third Reconstruction


Peniel E. Joseph


One of our preeminent historians of race and democracy argues that the period since 2008 has marked nothing less than America’s Third ReconstructionIn The Third Reconstruction, distinguished historian Peniel E. Joseph offers a powerful and personal new...

Parution : 2022-09-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Free Market
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Free Market


Jacob Soll


From a MacArthur “Genius,” an intellectual history of the free market, from ancient Rome to the twenty-first centuryAfter two government bailouts of the US economy in less than twenty years, free market ideology is due for serious reappraisal. In Free...

Parution : 2022-09-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Two Cheers for Politics
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Two Cheers for Politics


Jedediah Purdy


One of the country’s most astute legal scholars explains how American political culture disempowers ordinary citizens and makes the case for a reinvigorated democracy  Americans across the political spectrum agree that our democracy is in...

Parution : 2022-08-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Partisans
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Partisans


Nicole Hemmer


A bold new history of modern conservatism that finds its origins in the populist right-wing politics of the 1990s  Ronald Reagan has long been lionized for building a conservative coalition sustained...

Parution : 2022-08-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Algebra the Beautiful
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Algebra the Beautiful


G. Arnell Williams


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Parution : 2022-08-23
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