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Télécharger le livre :  The Art of Creating Power
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The Art of Creating Power


James Gow , Benedict Wilkinson


The Art of Creating Power explores the intellectual thought and wider impact -- on military affairs, politics and the universities -- of Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on strategy, conflict and international politics. In this...

Parution : 2017-09-01
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Télécharger le livre :  A Place Called Home
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A Place Called Home


Mark R. Lindblad , Kim R. Manturuk , Roberto G. Quercia


Since the onset of the mortgage lending crisis and the subsequent Great Recession, there has been ongoing debate about the economic benefits of homeownership. Some say homeownership remains an important contributor to wealth creation, while others believe that renting...

Parution : 2017-09-01
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Télécharger le livre :  The Creative Destruction of New York City
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The Creative Destruction of New York City


Alessandro Busà


Bill de Blasio's campaign rhetoric focused on a tale of two cities: rich and poor New York. He promised to value the needs of poor and working-class New Yorkers, making city government work better for everyone-not just those who thrived during Bloomberg's tenure as...

Parution : 2017-08-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Assembly
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Assembly


Michael Hardt , Antonio Negri


In recent years "leaderless" social movements have proliferated around the globe, from North Africa and the Middle East to Europe, the Americas, and East Asia. Some of these movements have led to impressive gains: the toppling of authoritarian leaders, the furthering of...

Parution : 2017-08-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Finding Meaning in an Imperfect World
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Finding Meaning in an Imperfect World


Iddo Landau


Does life have meaning? Is it possible for life to be meaningful when the world is filled with suffering and when so much depends merely upon chance? Even if there is meaning, is there enough to justify living? These questions are difficult to resolve. There are times...

Parution : 2017-07-01
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Télécharger le livre :  The Human Predicament
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The Human Predicament


David Benatar


Are our lives meaningful, or meaningless? Is our inevitable death a bad thing? Would immortality be an improvement? Would it be better, all things considered, to hasten our deaths by suicide? Many people ask these big questions -- and some people are plagued by them....

Parution : 2017-05-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Avenging the People
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Avenging the People


J.M. Opal


Most Americans know Andrew Jackson as a frontier rebel against political and diplomatic norms, a "populist" champion of ordinary people against the elitist legacy of the Founding Fathers. Many date the onset of American democracy to his 1829 inauguration. Despite his...

Parution : 2017-05-01
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Télécharger le livre :  The Making of Black Lives Matter
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The Making of Black Lives Matter


Christopher J. Lebron


Started in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has become a powerful and uncompromising campaign demanding redress for the brutal and unjustified treatment of black bodies by law enforcement in the...

Parution : 2017-05-01
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Télécharger le livre :  The Martyr and the Traitor
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The Martyr and the Traitor


Virginia Dejohn Anderson


In September 1776, two men from Connecticut each embarked on a dangerous mission. One of the men, a soldier disguised as a schoolmaster, made his way to British-controlled Manhattan and began furtively making notes and sketches to bring back to the beleaguered...

Parution : 2017-05-01
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The Making of Black Lives Matter


Christopher J. Lebron


Started in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has become a powerful and uncompromising campaign demanding redress for the brutal and unjustified treatment of black bodies by law enforcement in the...

Parution : 2017-05-01
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Télécharger le livre :  The Martyr and the Traitor
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The Martyr and the Traitor


Virginia Dejohn Anderson


In September 1776, two men from Connecticut each embarked on a dangerous mission. One of the men, a soldier disguised as a schoolmaster, made his way to British-controlled Manhattan and began furtively making notes and sketches to bring back to the beleaguered...

Parution : 2017-05-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Good People, Bad Managers
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Good People, Bad Managers


Samuel A. Culbert


There's far more bad management behavior taking place today than the well-intentioned doling it out realize... and even more than those on the receiving end are aware of!There's little mystery about what good management entails; the biggest mystery is why people are...

Parution : 2017-05-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Bouncing Back
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Bouncing Back


Richard Wanlass


Decline in our physical and mental abilities may be due to injury, illness, or chronic pain, or may simply be the results of normal aging. Sometimes changes in ability are gradual enough and minor enough that we adapt to them effortlessly. In other circumstances,...

Parution : 2017-04-03
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Télécharger le livre :  The Ideas Industry
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The Ideas Industry


Daniel W. Drezner


The public intellectual has a long and storied history. Previously, the public intellectual was always expected to opine on a broad array of topics, from foreign policy to economics. Yet in recent years a new kind of thinker has supplanted that archetype: the thought...

Parution : 2017-03-01
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Télécharger le livre :  The Code Economy
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The Code Economy


Philip E. Auerswald


What do Stone Age axes, Toll House cookies, and Burning Man have in common? They are all examples of code in action. What is "code"? Code is the DNA of human civilization as it has evolved from Neolithic simplicity to modern complexity. It is the "how" of progress. It...

Parution : 2017-01-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Governing Global Health
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Governing Global Health


Chelsea Clinton , Devi Sridhar


The past few decades have seen a massive increase in the number of international organizations focusing on global health. Campaigns to eradicate or stem the spread of AIDS, SARS, malaria, and Ebola attest to the increasing importance of globally-oriented health...

Parution : 2017-01-12
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Télécharger le livre :  The Politics of Fear
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The Politics of Fear


Sokhieng Au , Michiel Hofman


The 2014-2015 Ebola epidemic in West Africa was an unprecedented medical and political emergency that cast an unflattering light on multiple corners of government and international response. Fear, not rational planning, appeared to drive many decisions made at...

Parution : 2017-01-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Singapore
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Singapore


John Curtis Perry


Singapore has gained a reputation for being one of the wealthiest and best-educated countries in the world and one of the brightest success stories for a colony-turned-sovereign state, but the country's path to success was anything but assured. Its strategic location...

Parution : 2017-01-04
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Télécharger le livre :  The Happiness Effect
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The Happiness Effect


Donna Freitas


Sexting. Cyberbullying. Narcissism. Social media has become the dominant force in young people's lives, and each day seems to bring another shocking tale of private pictures getting into the wrong hands, or a lament that young people feel compelled to share their each...

Parution : 2017-01-02
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Télécharger le livre :  In the Midnight Hour
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In the Midnight Hour


Tony Fletcher


He was the Wicked Wilson Pickett, the legendary soul man whose forty-plus hits included "In the Midnight Hour," "634-5789," "Land of 1000 Dances," "Mustang Sally," and "Don't Let the Green Grass Fool You." Remarkably handsome and with the charisma to match, Wilson...

Parution : 2016-12-06
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