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Télécharger le livre :  The Seven Sins of Wall Street
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The Seven Sins of Wall Street


Bob Ivry


We all know that the financial crisis of 2008 came dangerously close to pushing the United States and the world into a depression rivaling that of the 1930s. But what is astonishing -- and should make us not just afraid but very afraid -- are the shenanigans of the...

Parution : 2014-03-11
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Télécharger le livre :  The Fate of the Masterpiece
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The Fate of the Masterpiece


Noah Charney


This short e-book, adapted from Noah Charney's book Stealing the Mystic Lamb, tells the dramatic story of the rescue of The Ghent Altarpiece from Nazi pillagers. As the Nazis stormed across Europe during the Second World War, hundreds of thousands of artworks...

Parution : 2014-02-01
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Télécharger le livre :  My Philanthropy
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My Philanthropy


George Soros


George Soros is one of the world's leading philanthropists. Over the past 30 years, he has provided more than 7 billion to his network of foundations, known collectively as the Open Society Institute, for projects around the world and in the United States. In this...

Parution : 2012-08-14
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Télécharger le livre :  A Different Life
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A Different Life


Quinn Bradlee , Jeff Himmelman


Ten percent of the population is affected by a learning disability, but few of us understand what being learning disabled (LD) is really like. When he was fourteen, Bradlee was diagnosed with Velo-Cardio-Facial-Syndrome (VCFS), a wide-spread, little-understood disorder...

Parution : 2010-03-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Molly Ivins
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Molly Ivins


Bill Minutaglio , W. Michael Smith


She was a groomed for a gilded life in moneyed Houston, but Molly Ivins left the country club behind to become one of the most provocative, courageous, and influential journalists in American history. Presidents and senators called her for advice; her column ran in 400...

Parution : 2009-11-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Gracefully Insane
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Gracefully Insane


Alex Beam


Its landscaped ground, chosen by Frederick Law Olmsted and dotted with Tudor mansions, could belong to a New England prep school. There are no fences, no guards, no locked gates. But McLean Hospital is a mental institution-one of the most famous, most elite, and once...

Parution : 2009-07-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Dread
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Dread


Philip Alcabes


Deaths from epidemic disease are rare in the developed world, yet in our technically and medically advanced society, an ever-present risk of disease has created an industry out of fear.As Philip Alcabes persuasively argues in Dread, our anxieties about epidemics often...

Parution : 2009-04-14
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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 :  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 :  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 :  The Chastening
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The Chastening


Paul Blustein


Lauded by reviewers and scholars alike, Paul Blustein's The Chastening examines the role of the International Monetary Fund in the series of economic crises that rocked the globe in the last decade. Based on hundreds of interviews with officials at the IMF, the World...

Parution : 2003-05-08
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