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Télécharger le livre :  A Governor's Story
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A Governor's Story


Jennifer Granholm , Dan Mulhern


Jennifer Granholm was the two-term governor of Michigan, a state synonymous with manufacturing during a financial crisis that threatened to put all America's major car companies into bankruptcy. The immediate and knock-on effects were catastrophic. Granholm's grand...

Parution : 2011-09-20
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Télécharger le livre :  The Oligarchs
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The Oligarchs


David E Hoffman


In this saga of brilliant triumphs and magnificent failures, David E. Hoffman, the former Moscow bureau chief for the Washington Post, sheds light on the hidden lives of Russia's most feared power brokers: the oligarchs. Focusing on six of these ruthless men—...

Parution : 2011-09-13
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Télécharger le livre :  The Anatomy of Israel's Survival
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The Anatomy of Israel's Survival


Hirsh Goodman


The question "Can Israel survive?" has echoed loud for Israelis -- and Jews, their supporters and adversaries worldwide -- since the Holocaust.The recent upheavals in Egypt, Tunisia and beyond have raised it anew. Israeli journalist and security analyst Hirsh Goodman...

Parution : 2011-09-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Three Famines
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Three Famines


Thomas Keneally


Famine may be triggered by nature but its outcome arises from politics and ideology. In Three Famines, award-winning author Thomas Keneally uncovers the troubling truth -- that sustained widespread hunger is historically the outcome of government neglect and individual...

Parution : 2011-08-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Moscow, December 25, 1991
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Moscow, December 25, 1991


Conor O'clery


The implosion of the Soviet Union was the culmination of a gripping game played out between two men who intensely disliked each other and had different concepts for the future. Mikhail Gorbachev, a sophisticated and urbane reformer, sought to modernize and preserve the...

Parution : 2011-08-23
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Télécharger le livre :  The Other Barack
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The Other Barack


Sally H Jacobs


Barack Obama Sr., father of the American president, was part of Africa's "independence generation" and in 1959 it seemed his star would shine brightly. He came to the U.S. from Kenya and was given a university scholarship. While in the Hawaii, he met Ann Dunham in 1961,...

Parution : 2011-07-07
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Télécharger le livre :  The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
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The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie


Andrew Carnegie


Andrew Carnegie, the great steel-baron-turned-philanthropist, was an industrialist unlike any other. His famous dictum, that he who dies rich dies disgraced, has inspired a generation of twenty-first-century philanthropists to follow in his footsteps and put their money...

Parution : 2011-06-14
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Télécharger le livre :  The Supreme Court
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The Supreme Court


Mark Farkas , Brian Lamb , Susan Swain


The Supreme Court grew out of a unique opportunity to interview all nine sitting Supreme Court Justices plus retired Justice O'Connor for a documentary on the Supreme Court. Through Brian Lamb and Susan Swain's interviews with our country's most influential judges, the...

Parution : 2011-06-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Page One
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Page One


David Folkenflik


The news media is in the middle of a revolution. Old certainties have been shoved aside by new entities such as WikiLeaks and Gawker, Politico and the Huffington Post. But where, in all this digital innovation, is the future of great journalism? Is there a difference...

Parution : 2011-06-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Unnatural Selection
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Unnatural Selection


Mara Hvistendahl


Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeA Slate Best Book of 2011A Discover Magazine Best Book of 2011 Lianyungang, a booming port city, has China's most extreme gender ratio for children under four: 163 boys for every 100 girls. These numbers don't seem terribly grim, but in...

Parution : 2011-06-07
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Télécharger le livre :  The Philanthropy of George Soros
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The Philanthropy of George Soros


Chuck Sudetic


With an Introduction by George Soros and an Afterword by Aryeh Neier George Soros is one of the world's leading philanthropists. Over the past thirty years, he has provided more than 8 billion to his worldwide network of foundations: the Open Society Foundations, which...

Parution : 2011-05-10
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Télécharger le livre :  The Five Percent
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The Five Percent


Peter Coleman


One in every twenty difficult conflicts ends up grinding to a halt. That's fully 5 percent of not just the diplomatic and political clashes we read about in the newspaper, but disputations and arguments from our everyday lives as well. Once we get pulled into these...

Parution : 2011-05-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Power Hungry
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Power Hungry


Robert Bryce


The promise of "green jobs" and a "clean energy future" has roused the masses. But as Robert Bryce makes clear in this provocative book, that vision needs a major re-vision. We cannot -- and will not -- quit using carbon-based fuels at any time in the near future for a...

Parution : 2011-04-26
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Télécharger le livre :  The Age of Airpower
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The Age of Airpower


Martin Van Creveld


Airpower, more than any other factor, has shaped war in the twentieth century. In this fascinating narrative history, Martin van Creveld vividly portrays the rise of the plane as a tool of war and the evolution of both technology and strategy. He documents seminal...

Parution : 2011-04-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Cambodia's Curse
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Cambodia's Curse


Joel Brinkley


A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist describes how Cambodia emerged from the harrowing years when a quarter of its population perished under the Khmer Rouge.A generation after genocide, Cambodia seemed on the surface to have overcome its history -- the streets of Phnom...

Parution : 2011-04-12
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Télécharger le livre :  When That Rough God Goes Riding
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When That Rough God Goes Riding


Greil Marcus


"Van Morrison," says Greil Marcus, "remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music." When Astral Weeks was released in 1968, it was largely ignored. When it was rereleased as a live album in 2009 it reached the top of the...

Parution : 2011-04-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Give Smart
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Give Smart


Joel L. Fleishman , Thomas J Tierney


A decade ago, Thomas J. Tierney left Bain & Company to cofound The Bridgespan Group, a nonprofit focused on helping donors and nonprofit leaders to develop and execute strategies to accelerate social change. In Give Smart, Tierney pools his hands-on knowledge with Duke...

Parution : 2011-03-29
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Télécharger le livre :  The Archaeology of Home
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The Archaeology of Home


Katharine Greider


When Katharine Greider was told to leave her house or risk it falling down on top of her and her family, it spurred an investigation that began with contractors' diagnoses and lawsuits, then veered into archaeology and urban history, before settling into the saltwater...

Parution : 2011-03-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Kids First
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Kids First


David Kirp


While parents work longer hours for less and the costs of childcare, healthcare, and college skyrocket, the share of the U.S. budget spent on kids has fallen 22 percent since 1960. In Kids First, policy expert David Kirp issues a visionary call for renewing, revamping,...

Parution : 2011-03-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Reading Women
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Reading Women


Stephanie Staal


When Stephanie Staal first read The Feminine Mystique in college, she found it "a mildly interesting relic from another era." But more than a decade later, as a married stay-at-home mom in the suburbs, Staal rediscovered Betty Friedan's classic work -- and was surprised...

Parution : 2011-02-22
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