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Télécharger le livre :  The Origin of Ideas
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The Origin of Ideas


Mark Turner


What makes human beings so innovative, so adept at rapid, creative thinking? Where do new ideas come from, and once we have them, how can we carry them mentally into new situations?What allows our thinking to range easily over time, space, causation, and agency-so...

Parution : 2014-01-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Burning the Reichstag
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Burning the Reichstag


Benjamin Carter Hett


In February 1933, Adolf Hitler had only a tenuous grasp on power. Chancellor of Germany for merely four weeks, he led a fragile coalition government. The Nazis had lost seats in the Reichstag in the recent election, and claimed only three of thirteen cabinet posts. Then...

Parution : 2013-12-04
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Télécharger le livre :  The Life Sciences in Early Modern Philosophy
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The Life Sciences in Early Modern Philosophy


Ohad Nachtomy , Justin E. H. Smith


The present volume advances a recent historiographical turn towards the intersection of early modern philosophy and the life sciences by bringing together many of its leading scholars to present the contributions of important but often neglected figures, such as Ralph...

Parution : 2013-12-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Drugged
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Drugged


Richard J. Miller


"Morphine," writes Richard J. Miller, "is the most significant chemical substance mankind has ever encountered." So ancient that remains of poppies have been found in Neolithic tombs, it is the most effective drug ever discovered for treating pain. "Whatever advances...

Parution : 2013-11-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Drugged
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Drugged


Richard J. Miller


"Morphine," writes Richard J. Miller, "is the most significant chemical substance mankind has ever encountered." So ancient that remains of poppies have been found in Neolithic tombs, it is the most effective drug ever discovered for treating pain. "Whatever advances...

Parution : 2013-11-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Israel's Clandestine Diplomacies
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Israel's Clandestine Diplomacies


Clive Jones , Tore T. Petersen


For over sixty years the state of Israel has proved adept at practising clandestine diplomacy--about which little is known, as one might expect. These hitherto undisclosed episodes in Israel's diplomatic history are revealed for the first time by the contributors to...

Parution : 2013-11-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Apostles of Reason
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Apostles of Reason


Molly Worthen


Evangelical Christianity is a paradox. Evangelicals are radically individualist, but devoted to community and family. They believe in the transformative power of a personal relationship with God, but are wary of religious enthusiasm. They are deeply skeptical of secular...

Parution : 2013-10-01
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Télécharger le livre :  WRONG
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WRONG


Richard S. Grossman


In recent years, the world has been rocked by major economic crises, most notably the devastating collapse of Lehman Brothers, the largest bankruptcy in American history, which triggered the breathtakingly destructive sub-prime disaster. What sparks these vast economic...

Parution : 2013-09-23
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Télécharger le livre :  The Iliad
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The Iliad


Barry B. Powell


The Iliad is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma, for which Barry Powell, one of the twenty-first century's leading Homeric scholars, has given us a magnificent new translation. Graceful, lucid, and energetic, Powell's translation renders the Homeric Greek...

Parution : 2013-09-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Appomattox
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Appomattox


Elizabeth R. Varon


Winner, Library of Virginia Literary Award for Nonfiction Winner, Eugene Feit Award in Civil War Studies, New York Military Affairs Symposium Winner of the Dan and Marilyn Laney Prize of the Austin Civil War Round Table Finalist, Jefferson Davis Award of the Museum of...

Parution : 2013-09-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Believing in Magic
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Believing in Magic


Stuart A. Vyse


While we live in a technologically and scientifically advanced age, superstition is as widespread as ever. Not limited to just athletes and actors, superstitious beliefs are common among people of all occupations, educational backgrounds, and income levels. In this...

Parution : 2013-09-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Roosevelt's Second Act
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Roosevelt's Second Act


Richard Moe


"In Roosevelt's Second Act Richard Moe has shown in superb fashion that what might seem to have been an inevitable decision of comparatively little interest was far from it." --David McCullough On August 31, 1939, nearing the end of his second and presumably final term...

Parution : 2013-08-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Atherothrombosis in Clinical Practice
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Atherothrombosis in Clinical Practice


Deepak L. Bhatt


Atherothrombosis refers to the coupling of atherosclerosis and thrombosis, and it is the leading cause of the majority of preventable deaths in the modern world. The medical, economic, social, and societal consequences or atherothrombosis are enormous, which make it a...

Parution : 2013-08-06
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Télécharger le livre :  American Epic
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American Epic


Garrett Epps


In 1987, E.L. Doctorow celebrated the Constitution's bicentennial by reading it. "It is five thousand words long but reads like fifty thousand," he said. Distinguished legal scholar Garrett Epps--himself an award-winning novelist--disagrees. It's about 7,500 words. And...

Parution : 2013-07-29
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Télécharger le livre :  The American Senate
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The American Senate


Richard A. Baker , Neil Macneil


Winner of the Society for History in the Federal Government's George Pendleton Prize for 2013 The United States Senate has fallen on hard times. Once known as the greatest deliberative body in the world, it now has a reputation as a partisan, dysfunctional chamber....

Parution : 2013-05-31
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Télécharger le livre :  The Battle Hymn of the Republic
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The Battle Hymn of the Republic


Benjamin Soskis , John Stauffer


It was sung at Ronald Reagan's funeral, and adopted with new lyrics by labor radicals. John Updike quoted it in the title of one of his novels, and George W. Bush had it performed at the memorial service in the National Cathedral for victims of September 11, 2001....

Parution : 2013-05-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Resistance
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Resistance


Nechama Tec


Nechama Tec's Defiance, an account of a Jewish partisan unit that fought the Nazis in the Polish forests during World War II, was turned into a major feature film. Yet despite the attention this film brought to the topic of Jewish resistance, Tec, who speaks widely...

Parution : 2013-05-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Everybody Ought to Be Rich
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Everybody Ought to Be Rich


David Farber


Today, consumer credit, employee stock options, and citizen investment in the stock market are taken for granted--fundamental facts of American economic life. But few people realize that they were first widely promoted by John Jakob Raskob (1879-1950), the innovative...

Parution : 2013-04-18
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Télécharger le livre :  The Inevitable Caliphate?
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The Inevitable Caliphate?


Reza Pankhurst


While in the West 'the Caliphate" evokes overwhelmingly negative images, throughout Islamic history it has been regarded as the ideal Islamic polity. In the wake of the "Arab Spring" and the removal of long-standing dictators in the Middle East, in which the dominant...

Parution : 2013-04-12
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Télécharger le livre :  The Real North Korea
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The Real North Korea


Andrei Lankov


Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been. A native of the former Soviet Union, he lived as an exchange student in North Korea in the 1980s. He has studied it for his entire career, using his fluency in Korean and personal contacts to build a rich,...

Parution : 2013-04-10
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