Télécharger le livre :  Freedom Season
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Freedom Season


Peniel E. Joseph


A “captivating and compelling” (Keisha N. Blain, coeditor of the #1 New York Times–bestseller Four Hundred Souls) narrative history of 1963, the pivotal moment in America’s long civil rights movement—the year of the March on Washington,...

Parution : 2025-05-13
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Télécharger le livre :  The Affirmative Action Myth
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The Affirmative Action Myth


Jason L Riley


From Wall Street Journal columnist and Manhattan Institute senior fellow Jason L. Riley, a "clear, concise, and humane account" (Christina Hoff Sommers) of how racial preferences have done more harm than good for black Americans After the...

Parution : 2025-05-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Migrations And Cultures
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Migrations And Cultures


Thomas Sowell


Most commentators look at the issue of immigration from the viewpoint of immediate politics. In doing so, they focus on only a piece of the issue and lose touch with the larger picture. Now Thomas Sowell offers a sweeping historical and global look at a large number of...

Parution : 2025-04-01
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Télécharger le livre :  The Trouble of Color
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The Trouble of Color


Martha S. Jones


An “intimate and searching” (Natasha Trethewey, New York Times–bestselling author of Memorial Drive) memoir of family, color, and being Black, white, and other in America, from “one of our country’s greatest historians” (Clint...

Parution : 2025-03-04
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Télécharger le livre :  The Collapse of Parenting
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The Collapse of Parenting


Leonard Sax


In this New York Times bestseller, one of America’s premier physicians offers a must-read account of the new challenges facing parents today and a program for how we can better prepare our children to navigate the obstacles they face In The Collapse of...

Parution : 2024-10-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Metaracism
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Metaracism


Tricia Rose


The definitive book on how systemic racism in America really works, revealing the vast and often hidden network of interconnected policies, practices, and beliefs that combine to devastate Black lives In recent years, condemnations of racism in America have echoed from...

Parution : 2024-03-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Barred
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Barred


Daniel S. Medwed


A groundbreaking exposé of how our legal system makes it nearly impossible to overturn wrongful convictions  Thousands of innocent people are behind bars in the United States. But proving their innocence and winning their release is nearly impossible. ...

Parution : 2022-09-20
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Télécharger le livre :  The Story Paradox
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The Story Paradox


Jonathan Gottschall


Storytelling, a tradition that built human civilization, may soon destroy itHumans are storytelling animals. Stories are what make our societies possible. Countless books celebrate their virtues. But Jonathan Gottschall, an expert on the science of...

Parution : 2021-11-23
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Télécharger le livre :  The Next Apocalypse
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The Next Apocalypse


Chris Begley


In this insightful book, an underwater archaeologist and survival coach shows how understanding the collapse of civilizations can help us prepare for a troubled future.Pandemic, climate change, or war: our era is ripe with the odor of doomsday.In movies, books, and...

Parution : 2021-11-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Maverick
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Maverick


Jason L Riley


A “fascinating” and “rare” (National Review) biography of Thomas Sowell, one of America’s most influential conservative thinkers Thomas Sowell is one of the great social theorists of our age. In a career spanning more than a half century,...

Parution : 2021-05-25
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Télécharger le livre :  White Fright
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White Fright


Jane Dailey


A major new history of the fight for racial equality in America, arguing that fear of black sexuality has undergirded white supremacy from the start.In White Fright, historian Jane Dailey brilliantly reframes our understanding of the long struggle for African American...

Parution : 2020-11-17
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Télécharger le livre :  They Didn't See Us Coming
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They Didn't See Us Coming


Lisa Levenstein


From an award-winning scholar, a vibrant portrait of a pivotal moment in the history of the feminist movementFrom the declaration of the "Year of the Woman" to the televising of Anita Hill's testimony, from Bitch magazine to SisterSong's demands for reproductive...

Parution : 2020-07-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Are Men Animals?
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Are Men Animals?


Matthew Gutmann


"Boys will be boys," the saying goes -- but what does that actually mean? A leading anthropologist investigatesWhy do men behave the way they do? Is it their male brains? Surging testosterone? From vulgar locker-room talk to mansplaining to sexual harassment, society is...

Parution : 2019-11-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Barrio America
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Barrio America


A. K. Sandoval-Strausz


The compelling history of how Latino immigrants revitalized the nation's cities after decades of disinvestment and white flight Thirty years ago, most people were ready to give up on American cities. We are commonly told that it was a "creative class" of young...

Parution : 2019-11-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Bleeding Out
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Bleeding Out


Thomas Abt


From a Harvard scholar and former Obama official, a powerful proposal for curtailing violent crime in America Urban violence is one of the most divisive and allegedly intractable issues of our time. But as Harvard scholar Thomas Abt shows in Bleeding Out, we actually...

Parution : 2019-06-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Beeline
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Beeline


Shalini Shankar


An anthropologist uses spelling bees as a lens to examine the unique and diverse traits of Generation Z--and why they are destined for successAt first glance, Generation Z (youth born after 1997) seems to be made up of anxious overachievers, hounded by Tiger Moms and...

Parution : 2019-04-30
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Télécharger le livre :  The Human Swarm
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The Human Swarm


Mark W. Moffett


The epic story and ultimate big history of how human society evolved from intimate chimp communities into the sprawling civilizations of a world-dominating speciesIf a chimpanzee ventures into the territory of a different group, it will almost certainly be killed. But a...

Parution : 2019-04-16
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Télécharger le livre :  City on the Verge
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City on the Verge


Mark Pendergrast


What we can learn from Atlanta's struggle to reinvent itself in the 21st Century Atlanta is on the verge of tremendous rebirth-or inexorable decline. A kind of Petri dish for cities struggling to reinvent themselves, Atlanta has the highest income inequality in the...

Parution : 2017-05-16
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Télécharger le livre :  No Friends but the Mountains
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No Friends but the Mountains


Judith Matloff


A veteran war correspondent journeys to remote mountain communities across the globe-from Albania and Chechnya to Nepal and Colombia-to investigate why so many conflicts occur at great heights Mountainous regions are home to only ten percent of the world's population...

Parution : 2017-03-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Lactivism
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Lactivism


Courtney Jung


Social scientist and mother Courtney Jung explores the ever-expanding world of breastfeeding advocacy, shining a new light on the diverse communities who compose it, the dubious science behind it, and the pernicious public policies to which it has given rise Is breast...

Parution : 2015-11-24
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