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Télécharger le livre :  The Mystery of Numbers
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The Mystery of Numbers


Annemarie Schimmel


Why is the number seven lucky--even holy--in almost every culture?Why do we speak of the four corners of the earth?Why do cats have nine lives (except in Iran, where they have seven)? From literature to folklore to private superstitions, numbers play a conspicuous role...

Parution : 1994-04-07
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Télécharger le livre :  American Holocaust
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American Holocaust


David E. Stannard


For four hundred years--from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the U.S. Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s--the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America endured an unending firestorm of...

Parution : 1993-11-18
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Télécharger le livre :  The Lopsided Ape
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The Lopsided Ape


Michael C. Corballis


How great is the evolutionary distance between humans and apes, and what is it that creates that gulf? Philosophers and scientists have debated the question for centuries, but Michael Corballis finds the mystery revealed in our right hands. For humans are the only...

Parution : 1993-06-10
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Télécharger le livre :  In My Father's House
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In My Father's House


Kwame Anthony Appiah


The beating of Rodney King and the resulting riots in South Central Los Angeles.The violent clash between Hasidim and African-Americans in Crown Heights.The boats of Haitian refugees being turned away from the Land of Opportunity. These are among the many...

Parution : 1993-05-27
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Télécharger le livre :  In My Father's House
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In My Father's House


Kwame Anthony Appiah


The beating of Rodney King and the resulting riots in South Central Los Angeles.The violent clash between Hasidim and African-Americans in Crown Heights.The boats of Haitian refugees being turned away from the Land of Opportunity. These are among the many...

Parution : 1993-05-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Jazz Changes
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Jazz Changes


Martin Williams


Jazz Changes is the late Martin Williams's third and perhaps best collection of jazz portraits, interviews, narrative accounts of recording sessions, rehearsals, and performances, important liner notes, and far reaching discussions of musicians and their music. The...

Parution : 1993-05-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Secession Debated
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Secession Debated


William W. Freehling , Craig M. Simpson


The critical northern antebellum debate matched the rhetorical skills of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in an historic argument over the future of slavery in a westward-expanding America. Two years later, an equally historic oratorical showdown between...

Parution : 1992-10-29
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Télécharger le livre :  The Fate of Liberty
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The Fate of Liberty


Mark E. Neely


If Abraham Lincoln was known as the Great Emancipator, he was also the only president to suspend the writ of habeas corpus. Indeed, Lincoln's record on the Constitution and individual rights has fueled a century of debate, from charges that Democrats were singled out...

Parution : 1992-08-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Iphigeneia in Tauris
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Iphigeneia in Tauris


Euripides , Richmond Lattimore


The modern reader may have difficulty conceiving of Iphigeneia in Tauris as tragedy, for the term in our sense is associated with downfall, death, and disaster. But to the ancient Greeks, the use of heroic legend, the tragic diction and meters, and the tragic actors...

Parution : 1992-01-30
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Télécharger le livre :  The Market Revolution
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The Market Revolution


Charles Sellers


Parution : 1992-01-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Seven Against Thebes
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Seven Against Thebes


Aeschylus , Helen H. Bacon , Anthony Hecht


The formidable talents of Anthony Hecht, one of the most gifted of contemporary American poets, and Helen Bacon, a classical scholar, are here brought to bear on this vibrant translation of Aeschylus' much underrated tragedyThe Seven Against Thebes.The third and only...

Parution : 1991-04-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Seven Against Thebes
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Seven Against Thebes


Aeschylus , Helen H. Bacon , Anthony Hecht


The formidable talents of Anthony Hecht, one of the most gifted of contemporary American poets, and Helen Bacon, a classical scholar, are here brought to bear on this vibrant translation of Aeschylus' much underrated tragedyThe Seven Against Thebes.The third and only...

Parution : 1991-04-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Tube of Plenty
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Tube of Plenty


Erik Barnouw


Based on the classic History of Broadcasting in the United States, Tube of Plenty represents the fruit of several decades' labor. When Erik Barnouw--premier chronicler of American broadcasting and a participant in the industry for fifty years--first undertook the...

Parution : 1990-05-31
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Télécharger le livre :  Tube of Plenty
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Tube of Plenty


Erik Barnouw


Based on the classic History of Broadcasting in the United States, Tube of Plenty represents the fruit of several decades' labor. When Erik Barnouw--premier chronicler of American broadcasting and a participant in the industry for fifty years--first undertook the...

Parution : 1990-05-31
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Télécharger le livre :  Nightmare in Red
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Nightmare in Red


Richard M. Fried


According to newspaper headlines and television pundits, the cold war ended many months ago; the age of Big Two confrontation is over. But forty years ago, Americans were experiencing the beginnings of another era--of the fevered anti-communism that came to be known as...

Parution : 1990-01-25
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Télécharger le livre :  The Dodgers Move West
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The Dodgers Move West


Neil Sullivan


For many New Yorkers, the removal of the Brooklyn Dodgers--perhaps the most popular baseball team of all time--to Los Angeles in 1957 remains one of the most traumatic events since World War II. Neil J. Sullivan's controversial reassessment of a story that has reached...

Parution : 1989-06-08
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Télécharger le livre :  A Study of History
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A Study of History


Arnold J. Toynbee


Acknowledged as one of the greatest achievements of modern scholarship, Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History is a ten-volume analysis of the rise and fall of human civilizations. Contained in two volumes, D.C. Somervell's abridgement of this magnificent enterprise...

Parution : 1987-12-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Memory and Brain
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Memory and Brain


Larry R. Squire


Written by a leading neuropsychologist, this book brings together the widely scattered psychological and neurobiological work on memory to create a definitive overview of current knowledge. Reflecting the many levels of analysis at which this work is taking place, the...

Parution : 1987-03-05
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Télécharger le livre :  No Sense of Place
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No Sense of Place


Joshua Meyrowitz


How have changes in media affected our everyday experience, behavior, and sense of identity? Such questions have generated endless arguments and speculations, but no thinker has addressed the issue with such force and originality as Joshua Meyrowitz in No Sense of...

Parution : 1986-12-11
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Télécharger le livre :  No Sense of Place
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No Sense of Place


Joshua Meyrowitz


How have changes in media affected our everyday experience, behavior, and sense of identity? Such questions have generated endless arguments and speculations, but no thinker has addressed the issue with such force and originality as Joshua Meyrowitz in No Sense of...

Parution : 1986-12-11
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