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Télécharger le livre :  America Between the Wars
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America Between the Wars


Derek Chollet , James Goldgeier


On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall collapsed, taking the Cold War down with it. The next twelve years passed in a haze of self-congratulation, Republican confusion, and angst, and economic prosperity -- until they ended abruptly with a stunning catastrophe on...

Parution : 2009-06-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Island in a Storm
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Island in a Storm


Abby Sallenger


In the mid-nineteenth century, the Isle Derniere was emerging as an exclusive summer resort on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. About one hundred miles from New Orleans, it attracted the most prominent members of antebellum Louisiana society. Hundreds of affluent...

Parution : 2009-06-02
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Télécharger le livre :  The Alzheimer's Project
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The Alzheimer's Project


Susan Froemke , Susan K Golant , John Hoffman


This companion book to the HBO Documentary Films series explores the cutting-edge research on Alzheimer's disease that is creating new hope for the future. Alzheimer's disease is the second most-feared illness in America, following cancer. It affects as many as 5...

Parution : 2009-05-12
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Télécharger le livre :  The Years of Talking Dangerously
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The Years of Talking Dangerously


Geoffrey Nunberg


"There has never been," Nunberg writes, "an age as wary as ours of the tricks words can play, obscuring distinctions and smoothing over the corrugations of the actual world . . . Yet as advertisers and marketers know, our mistrust of words doesn't inoculate us against...

Parution : 2009-05-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Shooting for Tiger
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Shooting for Tiger


William Echikson


While many parents encourage their children to become the next Einstein or Yo-Yo Ma, some push their kids to become the next Tiger Woods. No longer does an elite, elderly set dominate golf. A new class of driven teenaged players is transforming the game, and a series of...

Parution : 2009-05-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Food, Inc.: A Participant Guide
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Food, Inc.: A Participant Guide


Karl Weber


Food, Inc. is guaranteed to shake up our perceptions of what we eat. This powerful documentary deconstructing the corporate food industry in America was hailed by Entertainment Weekly as "more than a terrific movie -- it's an important movie." Aided by expert...

Parution : 2009-05-05
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Télécharger le livre :  The Vendetta
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The Vendetta


Alston Purvis , Alex Tresniowski


By the end of 1934 Melvin Purvis was, besides President Roosevelt, the most famous man in America. Just thirty-one years old, he presided over the neophyte FBI's remarkable sweep of the great Public Enemies of the American Depression -- John Dillinger; Pretty Boy Floyd;...

Parution : 2009-05-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit
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Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit


Andy Rooney


Andy Rooney is a classic chronicler of America and her foibles. Over more than six decades of intrepid reporting and elegant essays, Rooney has told it to us straight and without a hint of sugar coating, but with more than a grain of truth and humor.Andy Rooney: 60...

Parution : 2009-04-30
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Télécharger le livre :  The Best of I.F. Stone
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The Best of I.F. Stone


I. F. Stone


Izzy Stone was a reporter, a radical, an idealist, a scholar and, it is clear, a writer whose insights have more than stood the test of time. More than fifteen years after his death, this collection of his work from I.F. Stone's Weekly and elsewhere is astonishing in...

Parution : 2009-04-29
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Télécharger le livre :  The Fourth Horseman
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The Fourth Horseman


Robert Koenig


The story of Anton Dilger brings to life a missing chapter in U.S. history and shows, dramatically, that the Great European War was in fact being fought on the home front years before we formally joined it.The doctor who grew anthrax and other bacteria in that rented...

Parution : 2009-04-29
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Télécharger le livre :  What Would Jesus Buy?
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What Would Jesus Buy?


Billy Talen


Reverend Billy's revival tour across America is the subject of the upcoming Morgan Spurlock film What Would Jesus Buy?, his first movie since the national hit Super Size Me! The book is an inspiring -- love-a-lujah! -- compendium of the reverend in full flow, from his...

Parution : 2009-04-29
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Télécharger le livre :  The Other Great Depression
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The Other Great Depression


Richard Lewis


At the age of 44, renowned comedian Richard Lewis found himself on a gurney in the ER, toxic with alcohol, and hallucinating from excess cocaine use. The same neuroses and dysfunctions that had been the basis for his successful stage persona and inspired his best...

Parution : 2009-04-29
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Télécharger le livre :  The Opportunity
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The Opportunity


Richard N Haass


In this dramatic new perspective on international affairs, Richard N. Haass, one of the country's most brilliant analysts and able foreign policy practitioners, argues that it is hard to overstate the significance of there being no major power conflict in the world....

Parution : 2009-04-29
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Télécharger le livre :  The Jedburghs
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The Jedburghs


Will Irwin


The story of the Special Forces in World War II has never fully been told before. Information about them began to be declassified only in the 1980s.Known as the Jedburghs, these Special Forces were selected from members of the British, American, and Free French armies...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Asian Mystique
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The Asian Mystique


Sheridan Prasso


Few Westerners escape the images, expectations and misperceptions that lead us to see Asia as exotic, sensual, decadent, dangerous, and mysterious. Despite - and because of centuries of East-West interaction, the stereotypes of Western literature, stage, and screen...

Parution : 2009-04-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Radicals for Capitalism
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Radicals for Capitalism


Brian Doherty


On Wall Street, in the culture of high tech, in American government: Libertarianism -- the simple but radical idea that the only purpose of government is to protect its citizens and their property against direct violence and threat -- has become an extremely...

Parution : 2009-04-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Running the World
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Running the World


David Rothkopf


Never before in the history of mankind have so few people had so much power over so many. The people at the top of the American national security establishment, the President and his principal advisors, the core team at the helm of the National Security Council, are...

Parution : 2009-04-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Mugabe
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Mugabe


Martin Meredith


Robert Mugabe came to power in Zimbabwe in 1980 after a long civil war in Rhodesia. The white minority government had become an international outcast in refusing to give in to the inevitability of black majority rule. Finally the defiant white prime minister Ian Smith...

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Télécharger le livre :  Sincerely, Andy Rooney
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Sincerely, Andy Rooney


Andy Rooney


Andy Rooney's weekly commentaries on 60 Minutes and his twice-weekly syndicated newspaper columns-addressing everything from deceptive cereal packaging to the existence of God-have made him America's best-known critic of the quotidian. As you might imagine, he gets a...

Parution : 2009-04-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Ms. Moffett's First Year
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Ms. Moffett's First Year


Abby Goodnough


In summer of 2000, legal secretary Donna Moffett answered an ad for the New York City Teaching Fellows program, which sought to recruit "talented professionals" from other fields to teach in some of the city's worst schools. Seven weeks later she was in a first grade...

Parution : 2009-04-28
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