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A Strange Stirring Stephanie Coontz In 1963, Betty Friedan unleashed a storm of controversy with her bestselling book, The Feminine Mystique. Hundreds of women wrote to her to say that the book had transformed, even saved, their lives. Nearly half a century later, many women still recall where they were... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2011-01-04 ePub 7,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Deadly Choices Paul A Offit In 2014, California suffered the largest and deadliest outbreak of pertussis, also known as "whooping cough," in more than fifty years. This tragedy was avoidable. An effective vaccine has been available since the 1940s.In recent years other diseases, like measles and... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2010-12-28 ePub 9,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Futures Emily Lambert In The Futures, Emily Lambert, senior writer at Forbes magazine, tells us the rich and dramatic history of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Chicago Board of Trade, which together comprised the original, most bustling futures market in the world. She details the... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2010-12-28 ePub 10,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Haves and the Have-Nots Branko Milanovic Who is the richest person in the world, ever? Does where you were born affect how much money you'll earn over a lifetime? How would we know? Why -- beyond the idle curiosity -- do these questions even matter? In The Haves and the Have-Nots, Branko Milanovic, one of the... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2010-12-28 ePub 9,49 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Abacus and the Cross Nancy Marie Brown The medieval Catholic Church, widely considered a source of intolerance and inquisitorial fervor, was not anti-science during the Dark Ages -- in fact, the pope in the year 1000 was the leading mathematician and astronomer of his day. Called "The Scientist Pope,"... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2010-12-07 ePub 8,49 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Heaven's Bride Leigh Eric Schmidt The nineteenth-century eccentric Ida C. Craddock was by turns a secular freethinker, a religious visionary, a civil-liberties advocate, and a resolute defender of belly-dancing. Arrested and tried repeatedly on obscenity charges, she was deemed a danger to public... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2010-12-07 ePub 15,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Song of Wrath J. E. Lendon Song of Wrath tells the story of Classical Athens' victorious Ten Years' War (431-421 BC) against grim Sparta -- the first decade of the terrible Peloponnesian War that turned the Golden Age of Greece to lead. Historian J.E. Lendon presents a sweeping tale of pitched... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2010-11-02 ePub 11,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
A Wicked Company Philipp Blom The flourishing of radical philosophy in Baron Thierry Holbach's Paris salon from the 1750s to the 1770s stands as a seminal event in Western history. Holbach's house was an international epicenter of revolutionary ideas and intellectual daring, bringing together such... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2010-11-02 ePub 9,49 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Cry Havoc Joseph Maiolo Did the arms race of the 1930s cause the Second World War? In Cry Havoc, historian Joseph Maiolo shows, in rich and fascinating detail, how the deadly game of the arms race was played out in the decade prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. In this exhaustively... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2010-09-28 ePub 9,49 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Climate Fix Roger Pielke Why has the world been unable to address global warming? Science policy expert Roger Pielke, Jr., says it's not the fault of those who reject the Kyoto Protocol, but those who support it, and the magical thinking that the agreement represents. In The Climate Fix, Pielke... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2010-09-28 ePub 9,49 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Uncommon Grounds Mark Pendergrast The definitive history of the world's most popular drug.Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks. Mark Pendergrast reviews the dramatic changes in coffee culture over the past decade, from... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2010-09-28 ePub 11,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Company Town Hardy Green Company town: The very phrase sounds un-American. Yet company towns are the essence of America. Hershey bars, Corning glassware, Kohler bathroom fixtures, Maytag washers, Spam -- each is the signature product of a company town in which one business, for better or worse,... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2010-09-07 ePub 9,49 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Climatopolis Matthew E Kahn "Climatopolis documents the thinking of a first-rate economist on one of the most pressing issues of our time" -- Nature We have released the genie from the bottle: climate change is coming, and there's no stopping it. The question, according to environmental economist... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2010-09-07 ePub 7,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Shape of Inner Space Steve Nadis , Shing-Tung Yau String theory says we live in a ten-dimensional universe, but that only four are accessible to our everyday senses. According to theorists, the missing six are curled up in bizarre structures known as Calabi-Yau manifolds. In The Shape of Inner Space, Shing-Tung Yau,... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2010-09-07 ePub 9,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Tradition and the Black Atlantic Henry Louis Gates Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s Tradition and the Black Atlantic is both a vibrant romp down the rabbit hole of cultural studies and an examination of the discipline's roots and role in contemporary thought. In this conversational tour through the halls of theory, Gates leaps... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2010-08-24 ePub 12,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Selling the Fountain of Youth Arlene Weintraub The beauty industry -- which once revolved around creams and powders, subtle agents to enhance beauty -- has become the anti-aging industry, overrun with steroids, human growth hormone injections, and "bio-identical" hormones -- all promoted as "cures"; for getting old.... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2010-08-24 ePub 13,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Not by Chance Alone Elliot Aronson How does a boy from a financially and intellectually impoverished background grow up to become a Harvard researcher, win international acclaim for his groundbreaking work, and catch fire as a pioneering psychologist? As the only person in the history of the American... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2010-08-24 ePub 9,49 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Churchill's Secret War Madhusree Mukerjee A dogged enemy of Hitler, resolute ally of the Americans, and inspiring leader through World War II, Winston Churchill is venerated as one of the truly great statesmen of the last century. But while he has been widely extolled for his achievements, parts of Churchill's... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2010-08-10 ePub 9,49 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Dismantling America Thomas Sowell These wide-ranging essays -- on many individual political, economic, cultural and legal issues -- have as a recurring, underlying theme the decline of the values and institutions that have sustained and advanced American society for more than two centuries. This decline... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2010-08-10 ePub 14,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Hot Time in the Old Town Edward P Kohn One of the worst natural disasters in American history, the 1896 New York heat wave killed almost 1,500 people in ten oppressively hot days. The heat coincided with a pitched presidential contest between William McKinley and the upstart Democrat William Jennings Bryan,... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2010-07-27 ePub 9,49 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
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