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Télécharger le livre :  The Beauty of the Houri
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The Beauty of the Houri


Nerina Rustomji


A captivating look at the history of the pure females of Islamic paradise known as the houri The fascination with the houri, the pure female of Islamic paradise, began long before September 11, 2001. Beauty of the Houri: Heavenly Virgins, Feminine Ideals demonstrates...

Parution : 2021-07-06
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Télécharger le livre :  The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome
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The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome


Edward J. Watts


As this book intriguingly explores, for those who would make Rome great again and their victims, ideas of Roman decline and renewal have had a long and violent history. The decline of Rome has been a constant source of discussion for more than 2200 years. Everyone from...

Parution : 2021-07-05
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Télécharger le livre :  The Long Game
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The Long Game


Rush Doshi


For more than a century, no US adversary or coalition of adversaries - not Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, or the Soviet Union - has ever reached sixty percent of US GDP. China is the sole exception, and it is fast emerging into a global superpower that could rival, if...

Parution : 2021-06-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Disruption
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Disruption


David Potter


How do things change? The question is critical to the historical study of any era but it is also a profoundly important issue today as western democracies find the fundamental tenets of their implicit social contract facing extreme challenges from forces espousing ideas...

Parution : 2021-06-03
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Télécharger le livre :  The Politics of Truth in Polarized America
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The Politics of Truth in Polarized America


David C. Barker , Elizabeth Suhay


In American politics, the truth is rapidly losing relevance. The public square is teeming with misinformation, conspiracy theories, cynicism, and hubris. Why has this happened? What does it mean? What can we do about it?In this volume, leading scholars offer multiple...

Parution : 2021-05-18
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Télécharger le livre :  China's Civilian Army
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China's Civilian Army


Peter Martin


The untold story of China's rise as a global superpower, chronicled through the diplomatic shock troops that connect Beijing to the world. China's Civilian Army charts China's transformation from an isolated and impoverished communist state to a global superpower from...

Parution : 2021-05-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Building the Population Bomb
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Building the Population Bomb


Emily Klancher Merchant


Across the twentieth century, Earth's human population increased undeniably quickly, rising from 1.6 billion people in 1900 to 6.1 billion in 2000. As population grew, it also began to take the blame for some of the world's most serious problems, from global poverty to...

Parution : 2021-04-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Crackup
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Crackup


Samuel L. Popkin


A consistently surprising analysis of how and why the Republican Party imploded in the last decade, setting the stage for the rise of Trump and extremist candidates more generally. In Crackup, the eminent American politics scholar Samuel L. Popkin tells the story of...

Parution : 2021-04-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Joseph Smith for President
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Joseph Smith for President


Spencer W. Mcbride


By the election year of 1844, Joseph Smith, the controversial founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, had amassed a national following of some 25,000 believers. Nearly half of them lived in the city of Nauvoo, Illinois, where Smith was not only their...

Parution : 2021-04-13
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Télécharger le livre :  The Chiefs Now in This City
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The Chiefs Now in This City


Colin Calloway


During the years of the Early Republic, prominent Native leaders regularly traveled to American cities--Albany, Boston, Charleston, Philadelphia, Montreal, Quebec, New York, and New Orleans--primarily on diplomatic or trade business, but also from curiosity and...

Parution : 2021-04-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Climate, Catastrophe, and Faith
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Climate, Catastrophe, and Faith


Philip Jenkins


One of the world's leading scholars of religious trends shows how climate change has driven dramatic religious upheavals. Long before the current era of man-made climate change, the world has suffered repeated, severe climate-driven shocks. These shocks have resulted...

Parution : 2021-04-12
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Télécharger le livre :  The Ethics of Architecture
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The Ethics of Architecture


Mark Kingwell


A lively and accessible discussion of how architecture functions in a complex world of obligation and responsibility, with a preface offering specific discussion of architecture during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. What are the special ethical obligations assumed by...

Parution : 2021-03-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Phantoms of a Beleaguered Republic
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Phantoms of a Beleaguered Republic


John A. Dearborn , Desmond King , Stephen Skowronek


A powerful dissection of one of the fundamental problems in American governance today: the clash between presidents determined to redirect the nation through ever-tighter control of administration and an executive branch still organized to promote shared interests in...

Parution : 2021-03-01
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Phantoms of a Beleaguered Republic


John A. Dearborn , Desmond King , Stephen Skowronek


A powerful dissection of one of the fundamental problems in American governance today: the clash between presidents determined to redirect the nation through ever-tighter control of administration and an executive branch still organized to promote shared interests in...

Parution : 2021-03-01
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Télécharger le livre :  The Hidden History of Coined Words
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The Hidden History of Coined Words


Ralph Keyes


Successful word-coinages--those that stay in currency for a good long time--tend to conceal their beginnings. We take them at face value and rarely when and where they were first minted. Engaging, illuminating, and authoritative, Ralph Keyes's The Hidden History of...

Parution : 2021-02-19
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Télécharger le livre :  At What Cost
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At What Cost


Nicholas Freudenberg


An incisive and powerful investigation of corporate impact on human and planetary well-being Freedom of choice lies at the heart of American society. Every day, individuals decide what to eat, which doctors to see, who to connect with online, and where to educate their...

Parution : 2021-02-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Philip Roth
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Philip Roth


Ira Nadel


This new biography of famed American novelist Philip Roth offers a full account of his development as a writer. Philip Roth was much more than a Jewish writer from Newark, as this new biography reveals. His life encompassed writing some of the most original novels in...

Parution : 2021-02-12
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Télécharger le livre :  The Frontlines of Peace
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The Frontlines of Peace


Severine Autesserre


At turns surprising, funny, and gut-wrenching, this is the hopeful story of the ordinary yet extraordinary people who have figured out how to build lasting peace in their communities The word "peacebuilding" evokes a story we've all heard over and over: violence breaks...

Parution : 2021-02-01
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Télécharger le livre :  What's Luck Got to Do with It?
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What's Luck Got to Do with It?


Edward D. Kleinbard


The American dream of equal opportunity is in peril. America's economic inequality is shocking, poverty threatens to become a heritable condition, and our healthcare system is crumbling despite ever increasing costs. In this thought-provoking book, Edward D....

Parution : 2021-01-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Missing the Target
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Missing the Target


Mark J. Roe


Why stock-market short-termism is not causing severe damage to the American economy According to many political leaders, pundits, and corporate lawmakers, stock-market-driven short-termism - when corporations prioritize immediate results in the next quarter over their...

Parution : 2020-12-28
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