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Télécharger le livre :  The Doctor Crisis
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The Doctor Crisis


Jack Cochran , Charles C. Kenney


Calming fears, alleviating suffering, enhancing and saving lives -- this is what motivates doctors virtually every single day. When the structure and culture in which physicians work are well aligned, being a doctor is a most rewarding job. But something has gone wrong...

Parution : 2014-05-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Sundays at Eight
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Sundays at Eight


Brian Lamb


For the last 25 years, Sunday nights at 8pm on C-SPAN has been appointment television for many Americans. During that time, host Brian Lamb has invited people to his Capitol Hill studio for hour-long conversations about contemporary society and history. In today's...

Parution : 2014-04-29
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Télécharger le livre :  So Much to Do
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So Much to Do


Richard Ravitch


Every city and every state needs a Richard Ravitch. In sixty years on the job, whether working in business or government, he was the man willing to tackle some of the most complex challenges facing New York. Trained as a lawyer, he worked briefly for the House of...

Parution : 2014-04-29
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Télécharger le livre :  American Crucifixion
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American Crucifixion


Alex Beam


A gripping account of the mob killing of Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism“American Crucifixion paints a brilliant picture of religious experimentation, public intolerance, and the making of a martyr.”—Chicago Tribune On June 27, 1944, in the dusty...

Parution : 2014-04-22
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Télécharger le livre :  War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
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War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning


Chris Hedges


General George S. Patton famously said, "Compared to war all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God, I do love it so!" Though Patton was a notoriously single-minded general, it is nonetheless a sad fact that war gives meaning to many lives, a fact...

Parution : 2014-04-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Citizen Canine
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Citizen Canine


David Grimm


Dogs are getting lawyers. Cats are getting kidney transplants. Could they one day be fellow citizens? Cats and dogs were once wild animals. Today, they are family members and surrogate children. A little over a century ago, pets didn't warrant the meager legal status of...

Parution : 2014-04-08
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Télécharger le livre :  A Bigger Prize
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A Bigger Prize


Margaret Heffernan


Co-winner of the 2015 Salon London Transmission Prize Get into the best schools. Land your next big promotion. Dress for success. Run faster. Play tougher. Work harder. Keep score. And whatever you do -- make sure you win. Competition runs through every aspect of our...

Parution : 2014-04-08
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Télécharger le livre :  America's Fiscal Constitution
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America's Fiscal Constitution


Bill White


What would Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Lincoln, the Roosevelts, Truman, and Eisenhower have done about today's federal debt crisis? America's Fiscal Constitution tells the remarkable story of fiscal heroes who imposed clear limits on the use of federal debt, limits...

Parution : 2014-04-01
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Télécharger le livre :  The Tragedy of the European Union
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The Tragedy of the European Union


Gregor Schmitz , George Soros


The European Union could soon be a thing of the past. Xenophobia is rampant and commonly reflected in elections across the continent. Great Britain may hold a referendum on whether to abandon the union altogether. Spurred by anti-EU sentiments due to the euro crisis,...

Parution : 2014-03-11
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Télécharger le livre :  The Seven Sins of Wall Street
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The Seven Sins of Wall Street


Bob Ivry


We all know that the financial crisis of 2008 came dangerously close to pushing the United States and the world into a depression rivaling that of the 1930s. But what is astonishing -- and should make us not just afraid but very afraid -- are the shenanigans of the...

Parution : 2014-03-11
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Télécharger le livre :  On the Cancer Frontier
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On the Cancer Frontier


Paul Marks , James Sterngold


In 1950, a diagnosis of cancer was all but a death sentence. Mortality rates only got worse, and as late as 1986, an article in the New England Journal of Medicine lamented: "We are losing the war against cancer." Cancer is one of humankind's oldest and most persistent...

Parution : 2014-03-11
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Télécharger le livre :  The Bargain from the Bazaar
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The Bargain from the Bazaar


Haroon K Ullah


Awais Reza is a shopkeeper in Lahore's Anarkali Bazaar -- the largest open market in South Asia -- whose labyrinthine streets teem with shoppers, rickshaws, and cacophonous music. But Anarkali's exuberant hubbub cannot conceal the fact that Pakistan is a country at the...

Parution : 2014-03-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Reinventing American Health Care
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Reinventing American Health Care


Ezekiel J. Emanuel


The definitive story of American health care today -- its causes, consequences, and confusions. In March 2010, the Affordable Care Act was signed into law. It was the most extensive reform of America's health care system since at least the creation of Medicare in 1965,...

Parution : 2014-03-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Unleashing the Second American Century
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Unleashing the Second American Century


Joel Kurtzman


Political gridlock in Washington... the lingering effects of the financial crisis . . . structural problems such as unemployment and the skills gap of our work force . . . the mediocre K-12 educational system. Are our best days behind us? Joel Kurtzman persuasively...

Parution : 2014-02-25
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Télécharger le livre :  The Fate of the Masterpiece
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The Fate of the Masterpiece


Noah Charney


This short e-book, adapted from Noah Charney's book Stealing the Mystic Lamb, tells the dramatic story of the rescue of The Ghent Altarpiece from Nazi pillagers. As the Nazis stormed across Europe during the Second World War, hundreds of thousands of artworks...

Parution : 2014-02-01
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Télécharger le livre :  The Wars of Afghanistan
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The Wars of Afghanistan


Peter Tomsen


As Ambassador and Special Envoy on Afghanistan from 1989 to 1992, Peter Tomsen has had close relationships with Afghan leaders and has dealt with senior Taliban, warlords, and religious leaders involved in the region's conflicts over the last two decades. Now Tomsen...

Parution : 2013-12-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Magnificent Delusions
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Magnificent Delusions


Husain Haqqani


The relationship between America and Pakistan is based on mutual incomprehension and always has been. Pakistan -- to American eyes -- has gone from being a quirky irrelevance, to a stabilizing friend, to an essential military ally, to a seedbed of terror. America -- to...

Parution : 2013-11-05
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Télécharger le livre :  This Land that I Love
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This Land that I Love


John Shaw


February, 1940: After a decade of worldwide depression, World War II had begun in Europe and Asia. With Germany on the march, and Japan at war with China, the global crisis was in a crescendo. America's top songwriter, Irving Berlin, had captured the nation's mood a...

Parution : 2013-11-05
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Télécharger le livre :  The American Health Care Paradox
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The American Health Care Paradox


Elizabeth H. Bradley , Lauren A Taylor


Foreword by Harvey V. Fineberg, President of the Institute of Medicine For decades, experts have puzzled over why the US spends more on health care but suffers poorer outcomes than other industrialized nations. Now Elizabeth H. Bradley and Lauren A. Taylor marshal...

Parution : 2013-11-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Magnificent Delusions
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Magnificent Delusions


Husain Haqqani


The relationship between America and Pakistan is based on mutual incomprehension and always has been. Pakistan—to American eyes—has gone from being a quirky irrelevance, to a stabilizing friend, to an essential military ally, to a seedbed of terror....

Parution : 2013-11-05
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