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Télécharger le livre :  The Accidental Billionaires
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The Accidental Billionaires


Ben Mezrich


Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg - an awkward maths prodigy and a painfully shy computer genius - were never going to fit in at elite, polished Harvard. Yet that all changed when master-hacker Mark crashed the university's entire computer system by creating a...

Parution : 2009-11-24
Format(s) : ePub
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Télécharger le livre :  Newspaper Journalism
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Newspaper Journalism


Peter Cole , Tony Harcup


Are newspapers faced with an existential threat or are they changing to meet the challenges of a digital world? With the newspaper's role in a state of fundamental redefinition, Newspaper Journalism offers a timely and up to the minute analysis of newspapers today, in...

Parution : 2009-11-13
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Télécharger le livre :  A Heartbeat and a Guitar
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A Heartbeat and a Guitar


Antonino D'ambrosio


A Heartbeat and a Guitar tells of the collaboration of two distinct yet connected musicians--iconoclast Johnny Cash and pioneering folk artist Peter La Farge-- Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian, the album that influenced the likes of Bruce Springsteen and Bob...

Parution : 2009-10-13
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Bold Type Books
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Télécharger le livre :  A ^ABetter Pencil
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A ^ABetter Pencil


Dennis Baron


Computers, now the writer's tool of choice, are still blamed by skeptics for a variety of ills, from speeding writing up to the point of recklessness, to complicating or trivializing the writing process, to destroying the English language itself. A Better Pencil puts...

Parution : 2009-09-24
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Télécharger le livre :  Txtng: The Gr8 Db8
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Txtng: The Gr8 Db8


David Crystal


This book takes a long hard look at the text-messaging phenomenon and its effects on literacy, language, and society. Young people who seem to spend much of their time texting sometimes appear unable or unwilling to write much else. Media outrage has ensued. "It is...

Parution : 2009-07-09
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Belching Out the Devil
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Belching Out the Devil


Mark Thomas


Coca-Cola and its logo are everywhere. In our homes, our workplaces, even our schools. It is a company that sponsors the Olympics, backs US presidents and even re-brands Santa Claus. A truly universal product, it has even been served in space.From Istanbul to Mexico...

Parution : 2009-03-26
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Ebury Digital
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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
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : PublicAffairs
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Télécharger le livre :  Hellions
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Hellions


Maria Raha


Who is the iconic rebel? Is it a character from the legacy of James Dean or Clint Eastwood, or maybe a Beat Generation writer? Is it a woman?Modern pop culture and the media have distorted the notion of rebellion. Classic male rebels appear sexy, nomadic—naturally...

Parution : 2008-10-20
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Seal Press
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Télécharger le livre :  Music in the USA
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Music in the USA


Paul Beaudoin , Judith Tick


Music in the USA: A Documentary Companion charts a path through American music and musical life using as guides the words of composers, performers, writers and the rest of us ordinary folks who sing, dance, and listen. The anthology of primary sources contains about 160...

Parution : 2008-09-26
Format(s) : PDF
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Télécharger le livre :  Txtng: The Gr8 Db8
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Txtng: The Gr8 Db8


David Crystal


This book takes a long hard look at the text-messaging phenomenon and its effects on literacy, language, and society. Young people who seem to spend much of their time texting sometimes appear unable or unwilling to write much else. Media outrage has ensued. "It is...

Parution : 2008-07-10
Format(s) : PDF
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Albert Jack's Ten-minute Mysteries
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Albert Jack's Ten-minute Mysteries


Albert Jack


Albert Jack now turns his attention to the mysteries that have haunted us throughout history.Albert Jack's Ten Minute Mysteries cleverly combines his research with riveting stories and hilarious observations. All life's most perplexing questions answered: UFOs, Crop...

Parution : 2007-10-04
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  The Complete Polysyllabic Spree
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The Complete Polysyllabic Spree


Nick Hornby


The Complete Polysyllabic Spree is Nick Hornby's wickedly funny journey through readingThis is not a book of reviews. This is not a book that sneers at other books. This is a book about reading - about enjoying books wherever and however you find them.Nick Hornby,...

Parution : 2007-06-28
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  Into the Wardrobe
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Into the Wardrobe


David C. Downing


Published in the early 1950s, C. S. Lewis's seven Chronicles of Narnia were proclaimed instant children's classics and have been hailed in The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature as "the most sustained achievement in fantasy for children by a 20th-century author."...

Parution : 2007-06-15
Format(s) : PDF
Éditeur : Jossey-Bass
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Télécharger le livre :  The Complete Idiot's Guide to Classic Movies
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Classic Movies


Lee Pfeiffer


Sit back, grab some popcorn, and let the credits roll. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Classic Movies provides comprehensive information on the best classic films from the silent era up through 1969, cross-referenced several different ways for easy access. Also contains...

Parution : 2006-11-07
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Dk
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Télécharger le livre :  Rite out of Place
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Rite out of Place


Ronald L. Grimes


Much ritual studies scholarship still focuses on central religious rites. For this reason, Grimes argues, dominant theories, like the data they consider, remain stubbornly conservative. This book issues a challenge to these theories and to popular conceptions of ritual....

Parution : 2006-08-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Everything Bad is Good for You
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Everything Bad is Good for You


Steven Johnson


Tune in, turn on and get smarter ... The Simpsons, Desperate Housewives, The Apprentice, The Sopranos, Grand Theft Auto: We're constantly being told that popular culture is just mindless entertainment. But, as Steven Johnson shows, it's actually making us more...

Parution : 2006-04-06
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  Fundamentalism and American Culture
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Fundamentalism and American Culture


George M. Marsden


Many American's today are taking note of the surprisingly strong political force that is the religious right. Controversial decisions by the government are met with hundreds of lobbyists, millions of dollars of advertising spending, and a powerful grassroots response....

Parution : 2006-02-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Gluttony
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Gluttony


Francine Prose


In America, notes acclaimed novelist Francine Prose, we are obsessed with food and diet. And what is this obsession with food except a struggle between sin and virtue, overeating and self-control--a struggle with the fierce temptations of gluttony. In Gluttony,...

Parution : 2003-11-06
Format(s) : ePub
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Télécharger le livre :  The Metrosexual Guide To Style
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The Metrosexual Guide To Style


Michael Flocker


The old-fashioned, repressed, un-moisturized man has been banished to the hinterlands and a new breed is taking center stage. He is a man of style, sophistication, and security, just as strong and confident as his predecessor, but far more diverse in his interests, his...

Parution : 2003-10-16
Format(s) : ePub
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Télécharger le livre :  Death and Money in The Afternoon
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Death and Money in The Afternoon


Adrian Shubert


Bullfighting has long been perceived as an antiquated, barbarous legacy from Spain's medieval past. In fact, many of that country's best poets, philosophers, and intellectuals have accepted the corrida as the embodiment of Spain's rejection of the modern world. In his...

Parution : 1999-06-03
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