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Télécharger le livre :  The Rise and Fall of Al-Qaeda
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The Rise and Fall of Al-Qaeda


Fawaz A. Gerges


In this concise and fascinating book, Fawaz A. Gerges argues that Al-Qaeda has degenerated into a fractured, marginal body kept alive largely by the self-serving anti-terrorist bureaucracy it helped to spawn. In The Rise and Fall of Al-Qaeda, Gerges, a public...

Parution : 2011-09-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Science and the Written Word
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Science and the Written Word


Lou Massa


In order to meet the growing scientific requirements of an increasingly complex society, it is essential for us to have an appreciation of the power and breadth of science. Science and the Written Word is a collection of interviews featuring some of the world's...

Parution : 2011-08-17
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Télécharger le livre :  The Forum and the Tower
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The Forum and the Tower


Mary Ann Glendon


As Mary Ann Glendon writes in this fascinating new book, the relationship between politics and the academy has been fraught with tension and regret-and the occasional brilliant success-since Plato himself. In The Forum and the Tower, Glendon examines thinkers who have...

Parution : 2011-08-01
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Télécharger le livre :  The Bible Now
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The Bible Now


Shawna Dolansky , Richard Elliott Friedman


For millennia, people have used the Bible as a touchstone on important social and political questions, and rightly so. But many use the Bible simply as a weapon to wield against opponents in a variety of debates--without knowing what the Bible actually says about the...

Parution : 2011-07-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Economics of Good and Evil
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Economics of Good and Evil


Tomas Sedlacek


Tomas Sedlacek has shaken the study of economics as few ever have. Named one of the "Young Guns" and one of the "five hot minds in economics" by the Yale Economic Review, he serves on the National Economic Council in Prague, where his provocative writing has achieved...

Parution : 2011-07-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Taking Liberties
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Taking Liberties


Susan N. Herman


In this eye-opening work, the president of the ACLU takes a hard look at the human and social costs of the War on Terror. A decade after 9/11, it is far from clear that the government's hastily adopted antiterrorist tactics--such as the Patriot Act--are keeping us safe,...

Parution : 2011-06-15
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Télécharger le livre :  The Rise and Fall of Al-Qaeda
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The Rise and Fall of Al-Qaeda


Fawaz A. Gerges


In this concise and fascinating book, Fawaz A. Gerges argues that Al-Qaeda has degenerated into a fractured, marginal body kept alive largely by the self-serving anti-terrorist bureaucracy it helped to spawn. In The Rise and Fall of Al-Qaeda, Gerges, a public...

Parution : 2011-05-01
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Télécharger le livre :  The Siege of Washington
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The Siege of Washington


John Lockwood , Charles Lockwood


On April 14, 1861, following the surrender of Fort Sumter, Washington was "put into the condition of a siege," declared Abraham Lincoln. Located sixty miles south of the Mason-Dixon Line, the nation's capital was surrounded by the slave states of Maryland and Virginia....

Parution : 2011-04-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Once and Future Giants
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Once and Future Giants


Sharon Levy


Until about 13,000 years ago, North America was home to a menagerie of massive mammals. Mammoths, camels, and lions walked the ground that has become Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles and foraged on the marsh land now buried beneath Chicago's streets. Then, just as the...

Parution : 2011-03-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Europe's Angry Muslims
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Europe's Angry Muslims


Robert Leiken


Europe's Angry Muslims traces the routes, expectations and destinies of immigrant parents and the plight of their children, transporting both the general reader and specialist from immigrants' ancestral villages to their new enclaves in Europe. It guides readers through...

Parution : 2011-02-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Payback
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Payback


David P. Barash , Judith Eve Lipton


From the child taunted by her playmates to the office worker who feels stifled in his daily routine, people frequently take out their pain and anger on others, even those who had nothing to do with the original stress. The bullied child may kick her puppy, the stifled...

Parution : 2011-02-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Oxford American Mini-Handbook of Hematologic Malignancies
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Oxford American Mini-Handbook of Hematologic Malignancies


Gary Lyman


In recent years, there has been considerable progress in our understanding of the treatment and diagnosis of cancer, leading to the development and availability of an increasing array of novel therapies. Concurrently, there has also been an increase in understanding and...

Parution : 2011-01-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter
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Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter


E. Stanly Godbold, Jr.


Covering their lives from childhood to the end of the Georgia governorship, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter is one of the few major biographies of an American president that pays significant attention to the First Lady. So deeply were their lives and aspirations intertwined,...

Parution : 2010-10-06
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Télécharger le livre :  A Call for Judgment
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A Call for Judgment


Amar Bhide


Our prosperity requires the enterprise of innumerable individuals and businesses who exercise their imagination and judgment-and bear responsibility for outcomes. And widespread enterprise is fostered through dialogue and relationships, not merely prices in anonymous...

Parution : 2010-10-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Silence is Not Golden
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Silence is Not Golden


Christopher A. Kearney


Chronic shyness can pose a serious threat to a child's academic, emotional, and social development. Children who are extremely shy may miss out on important learning opportunities, have trouble making friends, and avoid activities and events that they might otherwise...

Parution : 2010-09-21
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Télécharger le livre :  New Atlantis
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New Atlantis


John Swenson


At its most intimate level, music heals our emotional wounds and inspires us.At its most public, it unites people across cultural boundaries. But can it rebuild a city? That's the central question posed in New Atlantis, journalist John Swenson's beautifully detailed...

Parution : 2010-09-01
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Télécharger le livre :  The Grand Design
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The Grand Design


Donald Stoker


Despite the abundance of books on the Civil War, not one has focused exclusively on what was in fact the determining factor in the outcome of the conflict: differences in Union and Southern strategy. In The Grand Design, Donald Stoker provides for the first time a...

Parution : 2010-07-20
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Télécharger le livre :  The Rule of Empires
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The Rule of Empires


Timothy Parsons


In The Rule of Empires, Timothy Parsons gives a sweeping account of the evolution of empire from its origins in ancient Rome to its most recent twentieth-century embodiment. He explains what constitutes an empire and offers suggestions about what empires of the past can...

Parution : 2010-06-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Life After Grad School
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Life After Grad School


Jerald M. Jellison


Most of the 2.5 million graduate students in the U.S. are in programs designed for a career in academics. But the unspoken truth is that less than five percent will realize their dream of becoming a professor. The rest have little idea how to begin making a living in...

Parution : 2010-05-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Diabetes: Improving Patient Care
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Diabetes: Improving Patient Care


Vivan Fonseca


Over 20 million people in the United States have diabetes, a metabolic disorder characterized by the body's lack of production or ineffective use of insulin, and the rate is on the rise. Diabetes can cause acute, as well as long-term complications when not properly...

Parution : 2010-03-29
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