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Télécharger le livre :  Excellence Without a Soul
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Excellence Without a Soul


Harry Lewis


America's great research universities are the envy of the world -- and none more so than Harvard. Never before has the competition for excellence been fiercer. But while striving to be unsurpassed in the quality of its faculty and students, Universities have forgotten...

Parution : 2007-08-14
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Télécharger le livre :  The Politics of Truth
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The Politics of Truth


Joseph Wilson


Through the last three presidential administrations and two wars with Iraq, no one has personally witnessed, influenced, or fueled news over more history-making events than Joseph Wilson. The last American diplomat to sit face-to-face with Saddam Hussein, he is a...

Parution : 2007-08-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Being a Black Man
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Being a Black Man


Kevin Merida


Over the last 100 years, perhaps no segment of the American population has been more analyzed than black males. The subject of myriad studies and dozens of government boards and commissions, black men have been variously depicted as the progenitors of pop culture and...

Parution : 2007-08-07
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Télécharger le livre :  The Devil Came on Horseback
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The Devil Came on Horseback


Brian Steidle , Gretchen Steidle Wallace


Former United States Marine Brian Steidle served for six months in Darfur as an unarmed military observer for the African Union. There he witnessed first-hand the ongoing genocide, and documented every day of his experience using email, audio journals, notebook after...

Parution : 2007-08-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Not By a Long Shot
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Not By a Long Shot


T.D. Thornton


The great myth of horse racing is that the game is the regal and royal Sport of Kings. It isn't. Not by a long shot. Anyone who doubts this need look no further than Suffolk Downs, a once-proud racecourse graced in its glory years by boisterous throngs and champions...

Parution : 2007-08-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Spalding's World Tour
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Spalding's World Tour


Mark Lamster


In October of 1888, Albert Goodwill Spalding -- baseball star, sporting-goods magnate, promotional genius, serial fabulist -- departed Chicago on a trip that would take him and two baseball teams on a journey clear around the globe. Their mission, closely followed in...

Parution : 2007-08-05
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Télécharger le livre :  A Second Opinion
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A Second Opinion


Arnold Relman


Dr. Arnold Relman, Professor Emeritus at Harvard Medical School and former editor-in-chief of The New England Journal of Medicine brings together sixty years of experience in medicine in a book that holds the keys to a new structure for healthcare based on voluntary...

Parution : 2007-08-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Cape Wind
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Cape Wind


Robert Whitcomb , Wendy Williams


When Jim Gordon set out to build a wind farm off the coast of Cape Cod, he knew some people might object. But there was a lot of merit in creating a privately funded, clean energy source for energy-starved New England, and he felt sure most people would recognize it...

Parution : 2007-08-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Cockeyed
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Cockeyed


Ryan Knighton


On his 18th birthday, Ryan Knighton was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP), a congenital, progressive disease marked by night-blindness, tunnel vision and, eventually, total blindness. In this penetrating, nervy memoir, which ricochets between meditation and black...

Parution : 2007-08-05
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Télécharger le livre :  A Crowd of One
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A Crowd of One


John Clippinger


Great leaps forward in scientific understanding have, throughout history, engendered similar leaps forward in how we understand ourselves. Now, the new hybrid disciplines of evolutionary biology and social physics are making the next leap possible -- and fundamentally...

Parution : 2007-08-05
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Télécharger le livre :  The Sand Cafe
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The Sand Cafe


Neil Macfarquhar


Dhahran Palace Hotel, Saudi Arabia, 1991. The US forces are massing on the border with Iraq, preparing to throw Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait. Men and material are arriving daily, helicopters and armor are training in the desert sand. There are rumors of Scud missiles,...

Parution : 2007-08-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Bill Clinton
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Bill Clinton


Nigel Hamilton


A decade-and-a-half after President William Jefferson Clinton first took the oath of office, biographer Nigel Hamilton tells the riveting story of what was possibly the greatest self-reinvention of a president in office in modern times. The Clinton presidency began...

Parution : 2007-07-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Past Imperfect
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Past Imperfect


Peter Charles Hoffer


Woodrow Wilson, a practicing academic historian before he took to politics, defined the importance of history: "A nation which does not know what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today." He, like many men of his generation, wanted to impose a version of...

Parution : 2007-07-03
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Télécharger le livre :  The Age of Fallibility
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The Age of Fallibility


George Soros


After reflecting on his support of a losing Democrat for president, George Soros steps back to revisit his views on why George Bush's policies around the world fall short in the arenas most important to Soros: democracy, human rights and open society. As a survivor of...

Parution : 2007-06-26
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Télécharger le livre :  The Medici Conspiracy
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The Medici Conspiracy


Cecilia Todeschini , Peter Watson


The story begins, as stories do in all good thrillers, with a botched robbery and a police chase. Eight Apuleian vases of the fourth century B.C. are discovered in the swimming pool of a German-based art smuggler. More valuable than the recovery of the vases, however,...

Parution : 2007-06-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Learning Like a Girl
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Learning Like a Girl


Diana Meehan


Faced with a spirited eleven-year-old daughter, a concern about what therapists have called a 'poisonous' youth culture -- especially for girls -- and a conviction that parents need powerful tools to help their daughters realize their potential, educator-activist Diana...

Parution : 2007-05-22
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Télécharger le livre :  The Millionaires' Unit
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The Millionaires' Unit


Marc Wortman


The Millionaires' Unit is the story of a gilded generation of young men from the zenith of privilege: a Rockefeller, the son of the head of the Union Pacific Railroad, several who counted friends and relatives among presidents and statesmen of the day. They had it all...

Parution : 2007-05-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Will the Boat Sink the Water?
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Will the Boat Sink the Water?


Wu Chuntao , Chen Guidi


The Chinese economic miracle is happening despite, not because of, China's 900 million peasants. They are missing from the portraits of booming Shanghai, or Beijing. Many of China's underclass live under a feudalistic system unchanged since the fifteenth century. They...

Parution : 2007-04-24
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Télécharger le livre :  The Woman at the Washington Zoo
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The Woman at the Washington Zoo


Marjorie Williams


Marjorie Williams knew Washington from top to bottom. Beloved for her sharp analysis, elegant prose and exceptional ability to intuit character, Williams wrote political profiles for the Washington Post and Vanity Fair that came to be considered the final word on the...

Parution : 2007-03-31
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Télécharger le livre :  Out of My Mind
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Out of My Mind


Andy Rooney


Every Sunday evening, millions of viewers tune in to 60 Minutes to hear Andy Rooney riff on everything from coffee percolators to the state of the union. Millions more read his weekly newspaper column. Why? Because Rooney tells it like it is. But Rooney fans have never...

Parution : 2007-03-31
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