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Télécharger le livre :  The Bonfire
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The Bonfire


Marc Wortman


The destruction of Atlanta is an iconic moment in American history -- it was the centerpiece of Gone with the Wind. But though the epic sieges of Leningrad, Stalingrad, and Berlin have all been explored in bestselling books, the one great American example has been...

Parution : 2008-12-16
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Télécharger le livre :  The Best Practice
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The Best Practice


Charles C. Kenney


Americans have always thought their healthcare system was the best in the world. But starting in the late 1990s, shocking reports emerged that showed this was far from the truth. Treatment-related deaths or "complications" were found to be the fifth leading cause of...

Parution : 2008-12-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Hide and Seek
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Hide and Seek


Charles Duelfer


Charles Duelfer is one of the most senior intelligence officers with on-the-ground experience to have worked in Iraq before, during, and after the Gulf War. His 2004 CIA report is widely renowned as the most authoritative account on how the world was led to believe that...

Parution : 2008-12-12
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Télécharger le livre :  The Assist
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The Assist


Neil Swidey


Jack O'Brien, the impossibly demanding basketball coach at Charlestown High School in Boston, has led his team to five state championship titles in six years. Less talked about is O'Brien's other winning record: Nearly every one of the players who stuck with his program...

Parution : 2008-11-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Free Flight
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Free Flight


James Fallows


The troubles of the airline system have become acute in the post-terrorist era. As the average cost of a flight has come down in the last twenty years, the airlines have survived by keeping planes full and funneling traffic through a centralized hub-and-spoke routing...

Parution : 2008-11-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Passing Game
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Passing Game


Murray Greenberg


Benny Friedman, the son of working class immigrants in Cleveland's Jewish ghetto, arrived at the University of Michigan and transformed the game of football forever. At the time, in the 1920s, football was a dull, grinding running game, and the forward pass was a...

Parution : 2008-11-04
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Télécharger le livre :  A Great Idea at the Time
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A Great Idea at the Time


Alex Beam


Today the classics of the western canon, written by the proverbial "dead white men," are cannon fodder in the culture wars. But in the 1950s and 1960s, they were a pop culture phenomenon. The Great Books of Western Civilization, fifty-four volumes chosen by...

Parution : 2008-11-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Richard M. Nixon
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Richard M. Nixon


Conrad Black


From the late 1940s to the mid-1970s, Richard Nixon was a polarizing figure in American politics, admired for his intelligence, savvy, and strategic skill, and reviled for his shady manner and cutthroat tactics. Conrad Black, whose epic biography of FDR was widely...

Parution : 2008-10-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Too Close to the Sun
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Too Close to the Sun


Curtis Roosevelt


Curtis Roosevelt was three when he and his sister, Eleanor, arrived at the White House soon after their grandfather's inauguration. The country's "First Grandchildren," a pint-sized double act, they were known to the media as "Sistie and Buzzie." In this rich memoir,...

Parution : 2008-10-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Abraham Lincoln
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Abraham Lincoln


Brian Lamb , Susan Swain


In this beautifully designed volume, America's top Lincoln historians offer a diverse array of perspectives on the life and legacy of America's sixteenth president. Spanning Lincoln's life -- from his early career as a Springfield lawyer, to his presidential reign...

Parution : 2008-10-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Reputation
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Reputation


Marjorie Williams


In 2005, The Woman at the Washington Zoo was published to major critical acclaim. The late Marjorie Williams possessed "a special voice, one capable not just of canny political observations but of tenderness and bracing intimacy," observed the New York Times Book...

Parution : 2008-10-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Best American Political Writing 2008
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Best American Political Writing 2008


Royce Flippin


The Best American Political Writing 2008 draws from a variety of publications and political viewpoints to present the year's most insightful, entertaining, and thought-provoking pieces on the current political scene. This year's edition will include full coverage of the...

Parution : 2008-10-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Zhou Enlai
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Zhou Enlai


Gao Wenqian


Zhou Enlai, the premier of the People's Republic of China from 1949 until his death in 1976, is the last Communist political leader to be revered by the Chinese people. He is considered "a modern saint" who offered protection to his people during the Cultural...

Parution : 2008-10-16
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Télécharger le livre :  High Society
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High Society


Joseph A. Califano


The individual who reaches age twenty-one without smoking, using illegal drugs, or abusing alcohol is virtually certain never to do so. As Joseph Califano points out in his searing indictment of America's irresponsible attitude towards drug abuse, by failing to act on...

Parution : 2008-10-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Waiting for an Ordinary Day
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Waiting for an Ordinary Day


Farnaz Fassihi


Since 2003, Iraq's bloody legacy has been well-documented by journalists, historians, politicians, and others confounded by how Americans were seduced into the war. Yet almost no one has spoken at length to the constituency that represents Iraq's last best hope for a...

Parution : 2008-09-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Tell Me How This Ends
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Tell Me How This Ends


Linda Robinson


After a series of disastrous missteps in its conduct of the war, the White House in 2006 appointed General David Petraeus as the Commanding General of the coalition forces. Tell Me How This Ends is an inside account of his attempt to turn around a failing war. Linda...

Parution : 2008-09-02
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Télécharger le livre :  The Hurricanes
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The Hurricanes


Jere Longman


In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina pummeled the lower end of Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, a peninsula housing one of the nation's most isolated, vulnerable, and vital counties. A year later several ravaged communities came together to form South Plaquemines High. Kids...

Parution : 2008-08-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Encore
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Encore


Marc Freedman


In one of the most significant social trends of the new century, and the biggest transformation of the American workforce since the women's movement, members of the baby boom generation are inventing a new phase of work.Encore tells the stories of encore career pioneers...

Parution : 2008-08-26
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Télécharger le livre :  The Sword And The Olive
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The Sword And The Olive


Martin Van Creveld


Combining razor-sharp analysis with dramatic narrative, vivid portraits of soldiers and commanders with illuminating discussions of battle tactics and covert actions, The Sword and the Olive traces the history of the IDF from its beginnings in Palestine to today. The...

Parution : 2008-08-06
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Télécharger le livre :  The Underboss
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The Underboss


Dick Lehr , Gerard O'neill


On February 26, 1986, Mafia underboss Gennaro Angiulo was convicted of racketeering and sentenced to forty-five years in prison. In The Underboss, bestselling authors Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill tell the story of the fall of the house of Angiulo. The Federal Bureau of...

Parution : 2008-08-06
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