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Télécharger le livre :  The Triumph of Doubt
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The Triumph of Doubt


David Michaels


Well-heeled American corporations have long had a financial stake in undermining scientific consensus and manufacturing uncertainty. In The Triumph of Doubt, former Obama and Clinton official David Michaels details how corrupt science becomes public policy -- and where...

Parution : 2020-01-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Stealth
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Stealth


Peter Westwick


On a moonless night in January 1991, a dozen U.S. aircraft appeared in the skies over Baghdad. To the Iraqi air defenses, the planes seemed to come from nowhere. Their angular shape, making them look like flying origami, rendered them virtually undetectable. Each...

Parution : 2019-12-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Killer High
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Killer High


Peter Andreas


There is growing alarm over how drugs empower terrorists, insurgents, militias, and gangs. But by looking back not just years and decades but centuries, Peter Andreas reveals that the drugs-conflict nexus is actually an old story, and that powerful states have been its...

Parution : 2019-12-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop
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Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop


Lee Drutman


American democracy is at an impasse. After years of zero-sum partisan trench warfare, our political institutions are deteriorating. Our norms are collapsing. Democrats and Republicans no longer merely argue; they cut off contact with each other. In short, the two-party...

Parution : 2019-12-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Old Man Country
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Old Man Country


Thomas R. Cole


We aspire to live in a country where old men are celebrated as vital elders but not demeaned if they become ill and dependent.We aspire to maintain health as well as maintain dignity and fulfillment in frailty. Old Man Country helps readers see and imagine these...

Parution : 2019-11-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Power to the People
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Power to the People


Audrey Kurth Cronin


Essential reading on how technology empowers rogue actors and how society can adapt. Never have so many possessed the means to be so lethal. A dramatic shift from 20th century "closed" military innovation to "open" innovation driven by commercial processes is underway....

Parution : 2019-10-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Building a Resilient Tomorrow
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Building a Resilient Tomorrow


Alice C. Hill , Leonardo Martinez-Diaz


Climate change impacts-more heat, drought, extreme rainfall, and stronger storms-have already harmed communities around the globe. Even if the world could cut its carbon emissions to zero tomorrow, further significant global climate change is now inevitable. Although we...

Parution : 2019-10-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front
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Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front


Serhii Plokhy


The full story of the first and only time American and Soviets fought side-by-side in World War II At the conference held in in Moscow in October 1943, American officials proposed to their Soviet allies a new operation in the effort to defeat Nazi Germany.The Normandy...

Parution : 2019-09-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Sweet Taste of Liberty
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Sweet Taste of Liberty


W. Caleb Mcdaniel


Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History The unforgettable saga of one enslaved woman's fight for justice--and reparations Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848. In 1853, a Kentucky deputy sheriff named Zebulon Ward...

Parution : 2019-08-07
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Télécharger le livre :  China's New Red Guards
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China's New Red Guards


Jude Blanchette


Ever since Deng Xiaoping effectively de-radicalized China in the 1980s, there have been many debates about which path China would follow. Would it democratize? Would it embrace capitalism? Would the Communist Party's rule be able to withstand the adoption and spread of...

Parution : 2019-05-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Road Warriors
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Road Warriors


Daniel Byman


Ever since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, fighters from abroad have journeyed in ever-greater numbers to conflict zones in the Muslim world to defend Islam from-in their view-infidels and apostates. The phenomenon recently reached its apogee in Syria, where...

Parution : 2019-05-02
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Télécharger le livre :  The Great Conversation
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The Great Conversation


Belden C. Lane


"We are surrounded by a world that talks, but we don't listen. We are part of a community engaged in a vast conversation, but we deny our role in it." In the face of climate change, species loss, and vast environmental destruction, the ability to stand in the flow of...

Parution : 2019-05-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Your Sister in the Gospel
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Your Sister in the Gospel


Quincy D. Newell


"Dear Brother," Jane Manning James wrote to Joseph F. Smith in 1903, "I take this opportunity of writing to ask you if I can get my endowments and also finish the work I have begun for my dead.... Your sister in the Gospel, Jane E. James." A faithful Latter-day Saint...

Parution : 2019-04-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Fidelity & Constraint
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Fidelity & Constraint


Lawrence Lessig


The fundamental fact about our Constitution is that it is old -- the oldest written constitution in the world.The fundamental challenge for interpreters of the Constitution is how to read that old document over time. In Fidelity & Constraint, legal scholar...

Parution : 2019-04-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Well
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Well


Sandro Galea


"A deeply affecting work from one of the important and innovative voices in American health and medicine." -- Arianna Huffington In Well, physician Sandro Galea examines what Americans miss when they fixate on healthcare: health. Americans spend more money on health...

Parution : 2019-04-01
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Télécharger le livre :  A World Beyond Physics
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A World Beyond Physics


Stuart A. Kauffman


How did life start? Is the evolution of life describable by any physics-like laws? Stuart Kauffman's latest book offers an explanation-beyond what the laws of physics can explain-of the progression from a complex chemical environment to molecular reproduction,...

Parution : 2019-04-01
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Télécharger le livre :  The Lands in Between
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The Lands in Between


Mitchell A. Orenstein


Russia's stealth invasion of Ukraine and its assault on the US elections in 2016 forced a reluctant West to grapple with the effects of hybrid war. While most citizens in the West are new to the problems of election hacking, state-sponsored disinformation campaigns,...

Parution : 2019-04-01
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Télécharger le livre :  A Meaning to Life
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A Meaning to Life


Michael Ruse


Does human life have any meaning?Does the question even make sense today? For centuries, the question of the meaning or purpose of human life was assumed by scholars and theologians to have a religious answer: life has meaning because humans were made in the image of a...

Parution : 2019-03-21
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Télécharger le livre :  The Rise and Fall of Peace on Earth
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The Rise and Fall of Peace on Earth


Michael Mandelbaum


In the twenty-five years after 1989, the world enjoyed the deepest peace in history.In The Rise and Fall of Peace on Earth, the eminent foreign policy scholar Michael Mandelbaum examines that remarkable quarter century, describing how and why the peace was established...

Parution : 2019-02-01
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Télécharger le livre :  The Next Mormons
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The Next Mormons


Jana Riess


American Millennials--the generation born in the 1980s and 1990s--have been leaving organized religion in unprecedented numbers. For a long time, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was an exception: nearly three-quarters of people who grew up Mormon stayed...

Parution : 2019-02-01
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