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Télécharger le livre :  The Future of Power
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The Future of Power


Joseph S Nye


The Future of Power examines what it means to be forceful and effective in a world in which the traditional ideas of state power have been upended by technology, and rogue actors. Joseph S. Nye, Jr., a longtime analyst of power and a hands-on practitioner in government,...

Parution : 2011-02-01
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Télécharger le livre :  The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report, Authorized Edition
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The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report, Authorized Edition


N.C.


The definitive report on what caused America's economic meltdown and who was responsible.The financial and economic crisis has touched the lives of millions of Americans who have lost their jobs and their homes, but many have little understanding of how it happened....

Parution : 2011-01-27
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Télécharger le livre :  A Chance to Make History
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A Chance to Make History


Wendy Kopp


Since 1990, Teach For America has been building a movement to end educational inequity in America. Now its founder, Wendy Kopp, shares the lessons learned from the experiences of more than 25,000 teachers and alumni who have taught and led schools in low-income...

Parution : 2011-01-25
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Télécharger le livre :  The Violence of Peace
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The Violence of Peace


Stephen L. Carter


"The man who many considered the peace candidate in the last election was transformed into a war president," writes bestselling author and leading academic Stephen l. Carter in The Violence of Peace, his new book decoding what President Barack Obama's views on war mean...

Parution : 2011-01-11
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Télécharger le livre :  The Imaginations of Unreasonable Men
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The Imaginations of Unreasonable Men


Bill Shore


A small cadre of scientists -- collaborators and competitors -- are determined to develop a vaccine for malaria -- a feat most tropical disease experts have long considered impossible. Skepticism, doubt, and a host of logistical and financial obstacles dog their quest....

Parution : 2010-11-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Fatal System Error
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Fatal System Error


Joseph Menn


In 2004, a California computer whiz named Barrett Lyon uncovered the identity of a hacker running major assaults on business websites. Without fully grasping the repercussions, he set on an investigation that led him into the heart of the Russian mob. Cybercrime was...

Parution : 2010-10-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Keynes
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Keynes


Robert Skidelsky


In the debris of the financial crash of 2008, the principles of John Maynard Keynes -- that economic storms are a normal part of the market system, that governments need to step in and use fiscal ammunition to prevent these storms from becoming depressions, and that...

Parution : 2010-10-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus
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Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus


Greil Marcus


Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan's life in music is revisited by his foremost interpreter -- weaving individual moods and moments into a brilliant history of their changing times. The book begins in Berkeley in 1968, and ends with a piece on Dylan's show at the University...

Parution : 2010-10-19
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Télécharger le livre :  When Money Dies
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When Money Dies


Adam Fergusson


The classic history of the political and economic devastation wrought by runaway inflation in Weimar Germany—“brilliant” (Guardian)  In 1923, with its currency effectively worthless (the exchange rate in December of that year was one dollar to...

Parution : 2010-10-12
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Télécharger le livre :  A Global Life
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A Global Life


James D. Wolfensohn


As president of the World Bank for a decade, James Wolfensohn tackled world poverty with a passion and energy that made him a uniquely important figure in a fundamental arena of change. Using a lifetime of experience in the banking sector, he carved a distinct path in...

Parution : 2010-10-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan


Daniel Patrick Moynihan


When Daniel Patrick Moynihan died in 2003 the Economist described him as "a philosopher-politician-diplomat who two centuries earlier would not have been out of place among the Founding Fathers." Though Moynihan never wrote an autobiography, he was a gifted author and...

Parution : 2010-10-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Stealing the Mystic Lamb
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Stealing the Mystic Lamb


Noah Charney


Jan van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece is on any art historian's list of the ten most important paintings ever made. Often referred to by the subject of its central panel, The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, it represents the fulcrum between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance....

Parution : 2010-10-05
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Télécharger le livre :  The New Nobility
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The New Nobility


Irina Borogan , Andrei Soldatov


In The New Nobility, two courageous Russian investigative journalists open up the closed and murky world of the Russian Federal Security Service. While Vladimir Putin has been president and prime minister of Russia, the Kremlin has deployed the security services to...

Parution : 2010-09-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Waiting for ""SUPERMAN""
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Waiting for ""SUPERMAN""


Karl Weber


Each book includes a 15 gift card from DonorsChoose.org to give to a classroom in need. The American public school system is in crisis, failing millions of students, producing as many drop-outs as graduates, and threatening our economic future. By 2020, the United...

Parution : 2010-09-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Big Citizenship
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Big Citizenship


Alan Khazei


Throughout his career, Alan Khazei has pioneered ways to empower citizens to make a difference. His work as cofounder of City Year, the model for President Clinton's AmeriCorps, and with his second start-up, Be the Change, have put him at the forefront of a generation...

Parution : 2010-08-31
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Télécharger le livre :  The Frugal Superpower
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The Frugal Superpower


Michael Mandelbaum


In this incisive new book, Michael Mandelbaum argues that the era marked by an expansive American foreign policy is coming to an end. During the seven decades from the U.S. entry into World War II in 1941 to the present, economic constraints rarely limited what the...

Parution : 2010-08-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Cane Toads and Other Rogue Species
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Cane Toads and Other Rogue Species


Karl Weber


What does an unusually large, ugly, invasive species of toad have to do with global warming, international trade, and the survival of biodiversity? Quite a lot, actually. Mark Lewis's amazing and hilarious documentary Cane Toads tells the story of Bufo marinus, which...

Parution : 2010-07-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Faith Misplaced
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Faith Misplaced


Ussama Makdisi


The two-hundred-year-long relationship between the Arab world and United States has been fraught with tension and resentment. What began in the nineteenth century as a favorable exchange of cultural understanding and economic opportunity deteriorated with America's...

Parution : 2010-06-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Murder in the High Himalaya
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Murder in the High Himalaya


Jonathan Green


On September 30, 2006 gunfire echoed through the thin air near Advance Base Camp on Cho Oyu Mountain. Frequented by thousands of climbers each year, Cho Oyu lies nineteen miles east of Mt. Everest on the border between Tibet and Nepal. To the elite mountaineering...

Parution : 2010-06-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Voices from the Grave
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Voices from the Grave


Ed Moloney


A candid and brutal account of murder, abduction, and violence during the Troubles in Northern Ireland-from two men on opposite sides of the conflict. After 'the long war' in Ireland came to an end, very few paramilitary leaders on either side spoke openly about their...

Parution : 2010-06-01
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