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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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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 :  The Ottomans
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The Ottomans


Marc David Baer


SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE'Magnificent . . . Important and hugely readable' William Dalrymple, Financial Times'A wildly ambitious and entertainingly lurid history' James Barr, The Times'Highly readable . . . Baer's fine book gives a panoramic and...

Parution : 2021-10-14
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Télécharger le livre :  The Dying Citizen
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The Dying Citizen


Victor Davis Hanson


The New York Times bestselling author ofThe Case for Trump explains the decline and fall of the once cherished idea of American citizenship.Human history is full of the stories of peasants, subjects, and tribes. Yet the concept of the “citizen” is...

Parution : 2021-10-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Making Darkness Light
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Making Darkness Light


Joe Moshenska


'Making Darkness Light is an illumination' Adam Phillips'His sympathetic yet challenging account will undoubtedly win Milton new readers - and for that a chorus of Hallelujahs' SpectatorFor most of us John Milton has been consigned to the dusty pantheon of English...

Parution : 2021-09-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Rule of the Robots
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Rule of the Robots


Martin Ford


In this sequel to his prescient New York Times bestseller Rise of the Robots, Martin Ford presents us with a striking vision of the very near future. He argues that AI is a uniquely powerful technology, a kind of "electricity of intelligence" that is altering every...

Parution : 2021-09-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid
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Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid


Thor Hanson


*A New York Times Editor's Choice pick*Shortlisted for the 2022 Pacific Northwest Book AwardsA beloved natural historian explores how climate change is driving evolution  In Hurricane Lizards and Plastic...

Parution : 2021-09-28
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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 :  Survival of the City
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Survival of the City


David Cutler , Edward Glaeser


From New York to New Delhi, COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on our urban world, turning the physical proximity which is central to the creative energy of the city into a potentially deadly threat to our health and well being. Yet most of us live or work in...

Parution : 2021-09-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Life is Simple
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Life is Simple


Johnjoe Mcfadden


'The most sheerly enjoyable history of science of recent years' The Spectator'This is one of the best science books I have read in a decade' Paul DaviesLife is Simple tells the remarkable story of how a thirteenth century monk's search for simplicity led to the...

Parution : 2021-09-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Fear of a Black Universe
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Fear of a Black Universe


Stephon Alexander


"The rabbit hole gets wrestled here. An old school saying applies: the more you know, the more you don’t know. Dance along this read into the unknown and find out that this book may be the best ever answer to ‘What is soul?'"—Chuck D,...

Parution : 2021-08-31
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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, as well as on other travels in the Mediterranean, the Baltic, and around the Pacific rim. Its purpose has been to try to understand the role of...

Parution : 2021-08-10
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Télécharger le livre :  The Einstein Syndrome
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The Einstein Syndrome


Thomas Sowell


The Einstein Syndrome is a follow-up to Late-Talking Children, which established Thomas Sowell as a leading spokesman on the subject of late-talking children. While many children who talk late suffer from developmental disorders or autism, there is a certain...

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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