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Télécharger le livre :  Lipstick Jihad
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Lipstick Jihad


Azadeh Moaveni


As far back as she can remember, Azadeh Moaveni has felt at odds with her tangled identity as an Iranian-American. In suburban America, Azadeh lived in two worlds. At home, she was the daughter of the Iranian exile community, serving tea, clinging to tradition, and...

Parution : 2007-03-31
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Télécharger le livre :  Banker To The Poor
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Banker To The Poor


Muhammad Yunus


The “stirring” (Washington Post) story of how Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus invented microcredit, founded the Grameen Bank, and transformed the fortunes of millions of poor people around the world In 1983, Muhammad Yunus established Grameen, a bank...

Parution : 2007-03-31
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Télécharger le livre :  The Plan
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The Plan


Rahm Emanuel , Bruce Reed


The Plan offers a bold vision of what America can be. It shows the way for both parties to move beyond the old political arguments and make progress for the American people. And it offers an innovative agenda for America - with ideas that address the nation's most...

Parution : 2007-03-31
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Télécharger le livre :  The Accidental President of Brazil
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The Accidental President of Brazil


Fernando Henrique Cardoso


Fernando Henrique Cardoso received a phone call in the middle of the night asking him to be the new Finance Minister of Brazil. As he put the phone down and stared into the darkness of his hotel room, he feared he'd been handed a political death sentence. The year was...

Parution : 2007-03-27
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Télécharger le livre :  The Gashouse Gang
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The Gashouse Gang


John Heidenry


With The Gashouse Gang, John Heidenry delivers the definitive account of one the greatest and most colorful baseball teams of all times, the 1934 St. Louis Cardinals, filled with larger-than-life baseball personalities like Branch Rickey, Leo Durocher, Pepper Martin,...

Parution : 2007-03-26
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Télécharger le livre :  An Infinity of Little Hours
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An Infinity of Little Hours


Nancy Klein Maguire


In 1960, five young men arrived at the imposing gates of Parkminster, the largest center of the most rigorous and ascetic monastic order in the Western world: the Carthusians. This is the story of their five-year journey into a society virtually unchanged in its...

Parution : 2007-03-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Infamous Scribblers
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Infamous Scribblers


Eric Burns


Infamous Scribblers is a perceptive and witty exploration of the most volatile period in the history of the American press. News correspondent and renowned media historian Eric Burns tells of Ben Franklin, Alexander Hamilton and Sam Adams -- the leading journalists...

Parution : 2007-02-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Rescue Men
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Rescue Men


Charles C. Kenney


The men in Charles Kenney's family have been drawn to firefighting since his grandfather Charles "Pops" Kenney joined the Boston Fire Department in 1932. In his working class, Irish-Catholic neighborhood, there were other jobs that offered a decent wage, but none had...

Parution : 2007-01-30
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Télécharger le livre :  The Foundation
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The Foundation


Joel L. Fleishman


Foundations are a peculiarly American institution. They have been the dynamo of social change since their invention at the beginning of the last century. Yet they are cloaked in secrecy -- their decision-making and operations are inscrutable to the point of...

Parution : 2007-01-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Among the Righteous
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Among the Righteous


Robert Satloff


Thousands of people have been honored for saving Jews during the Holocaust -- but not a single Arab. Looking for a hopeful response to the plague of Holocaust denial sweeping across the Arab and Muslim worlds, Robert Satloff sets off on a quest to find the Arab hero...

Parution : 2006-10-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Tulia
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Tulia


Nate Blakeslee


This true story of race and injustice in a small west Texas town "resembles . . . a modern day To Kill a Mockingbird -- or would, that is, if the novel were a true story and Atticus had won" (New York Times Book Review) In the summer of 1999, in the tiny west Texas town...

Parution : 2006-09-12
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Télécharger le livre :  I is for Infidel
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I is for Infidel


Kathy Gannon


In early 1986 Kathy Gannon sold pretty much everything she owned (which wasn't much) to pursue her dream of becoming a foreign correspondent. She had the world to choose from: she chose Afghanistan. She went to witness the final humiliation of a superpower in terminal...

Parution : 2006-09-05
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Télécharger le livre :  What Is Life Worth?
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What Is Life Worth?


Kenneth R. Feinberg


The inspiration for the Netflix film 'Worth,' starring Michael Keaton, Stanley Tucci, and Amy Ryan: the true story of the man put in charge of the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, and a testament to the enduring power of family, grief, love, fear, frustration, and...

Parution : 2006-08-29
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Télécharger le livre :  The People's Machine
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The People's Machine


Joe Mathews


California voters passed Proposition 13 in 1978. At the same time, a champion bodybuilder named Arnold Schwarzenegger was becoming a movie star. Over the past quarter century, the twin arts of direct democracy (through ballot initiatives designed to push the public to...

Parution : 2006-08-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Like a Rolling Stone
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Like a Rolling Stone


Greil Marcus


Greil Marcus saw Bob Dylan for the first time in a New Jersey field in 1963. He didn't know the name of the scruffy singer who had a bit part in a Joan Baez concert, but he knew his performance was unique. So began a dedicated and enduring relationship between America's...

Parution : 2006-04-04
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Télécharger le livre :  And the Money Kept Rolling In (and Out) Wall Street, the IMF, and the Bankrupting of Argentina
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And the Money Kept Rolling In (and Out) Wall Street, the IMF, and the Bankrupting of Argentina


Paul Blustein


In the 1990s, few countries were more lionized than Argentina for its efforts to join the club of wealthy nations. Argentina's policies drew enthusiastic applause from the IMF, the World Bank and Wall Street. But the club has a disturbing propensity to turn its back on...

Parution : 2006-04-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Animal Underworld
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Animal Underworld


Alan Green


A vast and previously undisclosed underground economy exists in the United States. The products bought and sold: animals. In Animal Underworld, veteran investigative journalist Alan Green exposes the sleazy, sometimes illegal web of those who trade in rare and exotic...

Parution : 2006-03-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Never Coming to a Theater Near You
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Never Coming to a Theater Near You


Kenneth Turan


It is in the nature of today's movie business that while Hollywood blockbusters invade every megaplex, smaller, quality films often don't get screen time. Fans of finer films have to count on catching up with them on video and DVD, but even the most hard-core devotees...

Parution : 2005-11-01
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Télécharger le livre :  For God and Country
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For God and Country


James Yee


In 2001, Captain James "Yusuf" Yee was commissioned as one of the first Muslim chaplains in the United States Army. After the tragic attacks of September 11, 2001, he became a frequent government spokesman, helping to educate soldiers about Islam and build understanding...

Parution : 2005-10-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Beyond Choice
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Beyond Choice


Alexander Sanger


Thirty years after Roe v. Wade, the argument between "pro-choicers" and "pro-lifers" has reached stalemate. Pro-choice arguments haven't persuaded a comfortable majority that legal abortion is vital to our society, nor addressed our moral qualms. Younger people are less...

Parution : 2005-07-06
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