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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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Télécharger le livre :  The Wine-Dark Sea Within
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The Wine-Dark Sea Within


Dhun Sethna


A revisionist history of medicine, in which blood plays the starring role  Inspired by Homer’s description of the ebb and flow of the “wine dark sea,” the ancient Greeks conceived a back-and-forth movement of blood. That false notion,...

Parution : 2022-06-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Unsettled Land
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Unsettled Land


Sam W. Haynes


A bold new history of the origins and aftermath of the Texas Revolution, revealing how Indians, Mexicans, and Americans battled for survival in one of the continent’s most diverse regions  The Texas Revolution...

Parution : 2022-05-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Mutinous Women
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Mutinous Women


Joan Dejean


The secret history of the rebellious Frenchwomen who were exiled to colonial Louisiana and found power in the Mississippi ValleyIn 1719, a ship named La Mutine (the mutinous woman), sailed from the French port of Le Havre, bound for the Mississippi. It was loaded with...

Parution : 2022-04-19
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Télécharger le livre :  The Song of Our Scars
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The Song of Our Scars


Haider Warraich


A doctor’s personal and unsparing account of how modern medicine’s failure to understand pain has made care less effectiveIn The Song of Our Scars, physician Haider Warraich offers a bold reexamination of the nature of pain, not as a simple...

Parution : 2022-04-19
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Télécharger le livre :  The Right
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The Right


Matthew Continetti


A magisterial intellectual history of the last century of American conservatismWhen most people think of the history of modern conservatism, they think of Ronald Reagan. Yet this narrow view leaves many to question: How did Donald Trump win the presidency? And what is...

Parution : 2022-04-19
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Télécharger le livre :  The Hated Cage
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The Hated Cage


Nicholas Guyatt


A leading historian reveals the never-before-told story of a doomed British prison and the massacre of its American prisoners of warAfter the War of 1812, more than five thousand American sailors were marooned in Dartmoor Prison on a barren English plain; the conflict...

Parution : 2022-04-05
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Télécharger le livre :  The Nature of the Beast
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The Nature of the Beast


David J. Anderson


A pioneering neuroscientist offers a new way of understanding how emotions drive behaviorDoes your dog get sad when you leave for the day? Does your cat purr because she loves you? Do bears attack when they’re angry? You can’t very...

Parution : 2022-03-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Pleading Out
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Pleading Out


Dan Canon


A blistering critique of America’s assembly-line approach to criminal justice and the shameful practice at its core: the plea bargain Most Americans believe that the jury trial is the backbone of our criminal justice system. But in...

Parution : 2022-03-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Oceans of Grain
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Oceans of Grain


Scott Reynolds Nelson


An "incredibly timely" global history journeys from the Ukrainian steppe to the American prairie to show how grain built and toppled the world's largest empires (Financial Times).   To understand the rise and fall of empires, we must follow the...

Parution : 2022-02-22
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Télécharger le livre :  The Tailored Brain
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The Tailored Brain


Emily Willingham


A candid and practical guide to the new frontier of brain customizationDozens of books promise to improve your brain function with a gimmick. Lifestyle changes, microdosing, electromagnetic stimulation: just one weird...

Parution : 2021-12-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Citizen Cash
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Citizen Cash


Michael Stewart Foley


A leading historian argues that Johnny Cash was the most important political artist of his timeJohnny Cash was an American icon, known for his level, bass-baritone voice and somber demeanor, and for huge hits like “Ring of Fire” and “I Walk the...

Parution : 2021-12-07
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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 :  James Madison
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James Madison


Jay Cost


An intellectual biography of James Madison, arguing that he invented American politics as we know it How do you solve a problem like James Madison? The fourth president is one of the most confounding figures in early American history; his political trajectory...

Parution : 2021-11-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Firepower
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Firepower


Paul Lockhart


The “fascinating” (Wall Street Journal) story of how military technology has transformed the worldThe history of warfare cannot be fully understood without considering the technology of killing. In Firepower, acclaimed historian Paul Lockhart tells the...

Parution : 2021-10-19
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Éditeur : Basic Books
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