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Télécharger le livre :  Peril and Promise
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Peril and Promise


Beverly Daniel Tatum


In this "timely and critically important book" (Eddie S. Glaude Jr.), a former college president and bestselling author offers leadership lessons for today’s troubled campuses Higher education is under assault from all sides. Scandals, protests, and...

Parution : 2025-09-02
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Télécharger le livre :  The Call of the Honeyguide
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The Call of the Honeyguide


Rob Dunn


A "soulful tribute" (New York Times) that shows how rethinking our relationships with other species can help us reimagine the future of humankind    In the woodlands of sub-Saharan Africa, sometime deep in our species’ past, something strange...

Parution : 2025-08-26
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Télécharger le livre :  The Invention of Design
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The Invention of Design


Maggie Gram


From a brilliant cultural historian, “a secret history of the twentieth century” (Louis Menand) told through the story of design and its utopian promises Design has penetrated every dimension of contemporary society, from classrooms to statehouses to...

Parution : 2025-06-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Freedom Season
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Freedom Season


Peniel E. Joseph


A “captivating and compelling” (Keisha N. Blain, coeditor of the #1 New York Times–bestseller Four Hundred Souls) narrative history of 1963, the pivotal moment in America’s long civil rights movement—the year of the March on Washington,...

Parution : 2025-05-13
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Télécharger le livre :  The Affirmative Action Myth
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The Affirmative Action Myth


Jason L Riley


From Wall Street Journal columnist and Manhattan Institute senior fellow Jason L. Riley, a "clear, concise, and humane account" (Christina Hoff Sommers) of how racial preferences have done more harm than good for black Americans After the...

Parution : 2025-05-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Main Currents in Sociological Thought: Volume Two
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Main Currents in Sociological Thought: Volume Two


Raymond Aron


The second volume of the landmark study, examining the work of sociology’s defining thinkers from the turn of the nineteenth century to the interwar periodMain Currents in Sociological Thought remains a foundational synthesis in the field. In this second and final...

Parution : 2025-05-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Main Currents in Sociological Thought: Volume One
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Main Currents in Sociological Thought: Volume One


Raymond Aron


The first volume of the landmark study, tracing the emergence and formation of sociological thought from the French liberal school to the Marxists Main Currents in Sociological Thought remains a foundational synthesis in the field. In this first part of his...

Parution : 2025-05-06
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Télécharger le livre :  The Evolution of Cooperation
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The Evolution of Cooperation


Robert Axelrod


“For anyone involved in settling disputes” (Richard Dawkins), a famed political scientist offers a classic argument for how to achieve a more cooperative world  We assume that, in a world ruled by natural selection, selfishness pays. So why cooperate?...

Parution : 2025-05-06
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Télécharger le livre :  More Everything Forever
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More Everything Forever


Adam Becker


'Disconcerting . . . a disturbing and important book' NEW SCIENTIST'Smart and wonderfully readable' NEW YORK TIMESThe bad science and sinister ideas behind Silicon Valley's foolish obsession with immortality, AI paradise and limitless growth.Tech billionaires have...

Parution : 2025-04-22
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Télécharger le livre :  More Everything Forever
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More Everything Forever


Adam Becker


This "smart and wonderfully readable" (New York Times) exposé shows why Silicon Valley’s heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions—with escaping death, building AI tyrants, and creating limitless growth—are about oligarchic power,...

Parution : 2025-04-22
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Télécharger le livre :  I Am a Part of Infinity
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I Am a Part of Infinity


Kieran Fox


A "beautifully written" (David Fideler) spiritual biography of Albert Einstein that reveals for the first time the scientific and religious origins of his personal philosophy — "a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the mind of the great...

Parution : 2025-04-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Migrations And Cultures
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Migrations And Cultures


Thomas Sowell


Most commentators look at the issue of immigration from the viewpoint of immediate politics. In doing so, they focus on only a piece of the issue and lose touch with the larger picture. Now Thomas Sowell offers a sweeping historical and global look at a large number of...

Parution : 2025-04-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Close to Home
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Close to Home


Thor Hanson


An award-winning natural-history writer presents "the perfect mix of science and story" (Sy Montgomery), opening the door to the nature that thrives in our yards, gardens, and parks: "I couldn't put it down" (Doug Tallamy).    We all...

Parution : 2025-03-11
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Télécharger le livre :  The Trouble of Color
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The Trouble of Color


Martha S. Jones


An “intimate and searching” (Natasha Trethewey, New York Times–bestselling author of Memorial Drive) memoir of family, color, and being Black, white, and other in America, from “one of our country’s greatest historians” (Clint...

Parution : 2025-03-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Making Sense of Slavery
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Making Sense of Slavery


Scott Spillman


An “essential” (James Oakes, author of The Crooked Path to Abolition) history of the study of slavery in America, from the Revolutionary era to the 1619 Project, showing how these intellectual debates have shaped American public life In recent years, from...

Parution : 2025-03-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Summer of Fire and Blood
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Summer of Fire and Blood


Lyndal Roper


Parution : 2025-02-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Lawless Republic
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Lawless Republic


Josiah Osgood


'A vivid, visceral and crucial read for our times' BETTANY HUGHES'Wonderful and insightful' ADRIAN GOLDSWORTHYThe collapse of law and order in the last years of the Roman Republic told through the rise and fall of its most famous lawyer, Cicero.In its final decades, the...

Parution : 2025-01-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Start Making Sense
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Start Making Sense


Steven J. Heine


A "beautiful, deep, thoughtful" (Angela Duckworth, New York Times-bestselling author of Grit) investigation into the science of why we crave meaning—and how we can pursue it in this age of anxiety  These days everyone feels on edge,...

Parution : 2025-01-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Tangled Fortunes
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Tangled Fortunes


Kathryn Schumaker


A “brilliantly researched and surprising” (Hendrik Hartog, Princeton University) history of Southern segregationists’ long war against interracial relationships, and the century-long fight to restore the freedom to love, marry, and inherit Interracial...

Parution : 2025-01-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Golden Years
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Golden Years


James Chappel


An “essential” (The New Republic) account of the history of old age in modern America, showing how we created unprecedented security for some and painful uncertainty for others On farms and in factories, Americans once had little choice but to work until...

Parution : 2024-11-19
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