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Télécharger le livre :  The Story Paradox
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The Story Paradox


Jonathan Gottschall


Storytelling, a tradition that built human civilization, may soon destroy itHumans are storytelling animals. Stories are what make our societies possible. Countless books celebrate their virtues. But Jonathan Gottschall, an expert on the science of...

Parution : 2021-11-23
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Télécharger le livre :  The Next Apocalypse
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The Next Apocalypse


Chris Begley


In this insightful book, an underwater archaeologist and survival coach shows how understanding the collapse of civilizations can help us prepare for a troubled future.Pandemic, climate change, or war: our era is ripe with the odor of doomsday.In movies, books, and...

Parution : 2021-11-16
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Télécharger le livre :  A Brave and Cunning Prince
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A Brave and Cunning Prince


James Horn


The extraordinary story of the Powhatan chief who waged a lifelong struggle to drive European settlers from his homelandIn the mid-sixteenth century, Spanish explorers in the Chesapeake Bay kidnapped an Indian child and took him back to Spain and subsequently to Mexico....

Parution : 2021-11-16
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Télécharger le livre :  The Generation Myth
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The Generation Myth


Bobby Duffy


Millennials, Baby Boomers, Gen Z—we like to define people by when they were born, but an acclaimed social researcher explains why we shouldn't.Boomers are narcissists. Millennials are spoiled. Gen Zers are lazy. We assume people born around the same time have...

Parution : 2021-11-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Life as We Made It
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Life as We Made It


Beth Shapiro


From the first dog to the first beefalo, from farming to CRISPR, the human history of remaking nature When the 2020 Nobel Prize was awarded to the inventors of CRISPR, the revolutionary gene-editing tool, it underlined our amazing and apparently novel powers to...

Parution : 2021-10-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Your Life Depends on It
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Your Life Depends on It


Talya Miron-Shatz


"With a fine combination of humor, compassion and vast knowledge, Talya Miron-Shatz offers clear and useful guidance for the hardest decisions of life.”-Daniel Kahneman, Nobel award-winning author of Thinking, Fast and SlowA top expert...

Parution : 2021-09-28
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Télécharger le livre :  You Bet Your Life
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You Bet Your Life


Paul A Offit


One of America’s top physicians traces the history of risk in medicine—with powerful lessons for today  Every medical decision—whether to have chemotherapy, an X-ray, or surgery—is a risk, no matter which way you choose. In You Bet Your...

Parution : 2021-09-21
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Télécharger le livre :  The End of Trauma
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The End of Trauma


George A. Bonanno


With “groundbreaking research on the psychology of resilience” (Adam Grant), a top expert on human trauma argues that we vastly overestimate how common PTSD is in and fail to recognize how resilient people really are. After 9/11, mental health...

Parution : 2021-09-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Flashes of Creation
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Flashes of Creation


Paul Halpern


A respected physics professor and author breaks down the great debate over the Big Bang and the continuing quest to understand the fate of the universe. Today, the Big Bang is so entrenched in our understanding of the cosmos that to doubt it would seem crazy. But...

Parution : 2021-08-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Conquests and Cultures
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Conquests and Cultures


Thomas Sowell


This book is the culmination of 15 years of research and travels that have taken the author completely around the world twice. Its purpose has been to try to understand the role of cultural differences within nations and between nations, today and over centuries of...

Parution : 2021-08-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Voyagers
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Voyagers


Nicholas Thomas


An award-winning scholar explores the sixty-thousand-year history of the Pacific islands in this dazzling, deeply researched account.One of the Best Books of 2021 — Wall Street JournalThe islands of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia stretch across a huge...

Parution : 2021-06-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Coming to Our Senses
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Coming to Our Senses


Susan R. Barry


A neurobiologist reexamines the personal nature of perception in this groundbreaking guide to a new model for our senses.We think of perception as a passive, mechanical process, as if our eyes are cameras and our ears microphones. But as neurobiologist Susan R. Barry...

Parution : 2021-06-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Maverick
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Maverick


Jason L Riley


A “fascinating” and “rare” (National Review) biography of Thomas Sowell, one of America’s most influential conservative thinkers Thomas Sowell is one of the great social theorists of our age. In a career spanning more than a half century,...

Parution : 2021-05-25
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Télécharger le livre :  The Ledger and the Chain
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The Ledger and the Chain


Joshua D. Rothman


An award-winning historian reveals the harrowing forgotten story of America's internal slave trade—and its role in the making of America.Slave traders are peripheral figures in most histories of American slavery. But these men—who trafficked and sold...

Parution : 2021-04-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Stalin's War
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Stalin's War


Sean Mcmeekin


A prize-winning historian reveals how Stalin—not Hitler—was the animating force of World War II in this major new history.World War II endures in the popular imagination as a heroic struggle between good and evil, with villainous Hitler driving its events....

Parution : 2021-04-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Hawking Hawking
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Hawking Hawking


Charles Seife


Stephen Hawking was widely recognized as the world's best physicist and even the most brilliant man alive–but what if his true talent was self-promotion?WhenStephen Hawking died, he was widely recognized as the world's best physicist, and even its smartest...

Parution : 2021-04-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Meditations
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Meditations


Marcus Aurelius


A handsome hardcover edition of Robin Waterfield’s definitive translation, with rich annotations providing everything readers need to understand this timeless masterpiece of practical philosophy. “A treat (and an eye-opening experience) … If you...

Parution : 2021-04-06
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Télécharger le livre :  The Janus Point
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The Janus Point


Julian Barbour


In a universe filled by chaos and disorder, one physicist makes the radical argument that the growth of order drives the passage of time -- and shapes the destiny of the universe. Time is among the universe's greatest mysteries. Why, when most laws of physics...

Parution : 2020-12-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Operation Moonglow
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Operation Moonglow


Teasel Muir-Harmony


The moon landing was an important moment in history, but many forget what was happening behind the scenes -- discover the groundbreaking political history of the Apollo program in this riveting exploration of America's space missions.Since July 1969, Neil Armstrong's...

Parution : 2020-11-24
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Télécharger le livre :  White Fright
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White Fright


Jane Dailey


A major new history of the fight for racial equality in America, arguing that fear of black sexuality has undergirded white supremacy from the start.In White Fright, historian Jane Dailey brilliantly reframes our understanding of the long struggle for African American...

Parution : 2020-11-17
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