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The Flooded Earth Peter D Ward Sea level rise will happen no matter what we do. Even if we stopped all carbon dioxide emissions today, the seas would rise one meter by 2050 and three meters by 2100. This -- not drought, species extinction, or excessive heat waves -- will be the most catastrophic... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2010-06-29 ePub 8,49 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Renewal Shmuley Boteach Our culture is showing the cracks of a growing fracture. Soaring divorce rates; a crippled economy that rewards the few and punishes the many; religious-fueled hatred; record rates of depression -- the headlines paint a grim picture. We inhabit a society that... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2010-05-25 ePub 11,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Wolf James L Haley Born a working-class, fatherless Californian in 1876, Jack London spent his youth as a boundlessly energetic adventurer on the bustling West Coast; by adulthood he had matured into the iconic American author of such still universally loved books as The Call of the Wild... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2010-05-25 ePub 9,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Wounded Knee Heather Cox Richardson “The story is tragic, the scholarship exhilarating” (Elliott West, author of The Contested Plains) in this history of the massacre of the Lakota Sioux On December 29, 1890, American troops opened fire with howitzers on hundreds of unarmed Lakota... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2010-05-25 ePub 11,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
At the Edge of the Precipice Robert V. Remini In 1850, America hovered on the brink of disunion. Tensions between slave-holders and abolitionists mounted, as the debate over slavery grew rancorous. An influx of new territory prompted Northern politicians to demand that new states remain free; in response,... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2010-05-11 ePub 7,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Libertarianism, from A to Z Jeffrey A. Miron Libertarian principles seem basic enough -- keep government out of boardrooms, bedrooms, and wallets, and let markets work the way they should. But what reasoning justifies those stances, and how can they be elucidated clearly and applied consistently? In... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2010-05-04 ePub 6,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Freedom Is Not Enough James T. Patterson On June 4, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson delivered what he and many others considered the greatest civil rights speech of his career. Proudly, Johnson hailed the new freedoms granted to African Americans due to the newly passed Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act,... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2010-05-04 ePub 8,49 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Lifecycle Investing Ian Ayres , Barry Nalebuff Diversification provides a well-known way of getting something close to a free lunch: by spreading money across different kinds of investments, investors can earn the same return with lower risk (or a much higher return for the same amount of risk). This strategy,... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2010-05-04 ePub 12,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Learning to Lead Warren G. Bennis , Joan Goldsmith From leadership expert Warren Bennis, a workbook to help anyone reach their full potential as a leader. Warren Bennis and Joan Goldsmith maintain that leaders are not born, they are made-in fact, anyone can develop the skills to transform their lives and their... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2010-04-27 ePub 10,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
America and the Pill Elaine Tyler May In 1960, the FDA approved the oral contraceptive that would come to be known as the pill. Within a few years, millions of women were using it. At a time when the population was surging, many believed that the drug would help eradicate poverty around the globe, ensure... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2010-04-27 ePub 7,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Power of Pull Lang Davison , John Hagel , John Seely Brown In a radical break with the past, information now flows like water, and we must learn how to tap into its stream. Individuals and companies can no longer rely on the stocks of knowledge that they've carefully built up and stored away. Information now flows like water,... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2010-04-13 ePub 9,49 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
A Kingdom Strange James Horn In 1587, John White and 117 men, women, and children landed off the coast of North Carolina on Roanoke Island, hoping to carve a colony from fearsome wilderness. A mere month later, facing quickly diminishing supplies and a fierce native population, White sailed back to... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2010-03-30 ePub 9,49 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The China Strategy Edward Tse No major enterprise or financial institution can avoid doing business with China -- if not directly, then through myriad hidden connections. Global businesses either use Chinese resources or sell to and in China or compete with companies that do. Because there's no... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2010-03-23 ePub 9,49 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Gridlock Economy Michael Heller 25 new runways would eliminate most air travel delays in America. Why can't we build them? 50 patent owners are blocking a major drug maker from creating a cancer cure. Why won't they get out of the way? 90% of our broadcast spectrum sits idle while American cell phone... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2010-02-23 ePub 7,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Housing Boom and Bust Thomas Sowell This is a plain-English explanation of how we got into the current economic disaster that developed out of the economics and politics of the housing boom and bust. The "creative" financing of home mortgages and the even more "creative" marketing of financial securities... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2010-02-23 ePub 9,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Andy Warhol and the Can that Sold the World Gary Indiana In the summer of 1962, Andy Warhol unveiled 32 Soup Cans in his first solo exhibition at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles -- and sent the art world reeling. The responses ran from incredulity to outrage; the poet Taylor Mead described the exhibition as "a brilliant slap... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2010-02-09 ePub 9,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Freedom for Sale John Kampfner Democratic liberalism v. authoritarianism -- the ideological divide that defined the twentieth century. But when the cold war ended, "the end of history"; was proclaimed. Soon the fire of freedom would burn worldwide, the experts said. And where markets were freed,... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2010-01-26 ePub 14,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
As Time Goes By Abigail Trafford People today are living longer and healthier lives than at any other time in history -- with profound implications for the nature of their romantic relationships. In this inspiring new book, best-selling author Abigail Trafford describes how people over fifty are... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2010-01-12 ePub 7,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The End of Influence Stephen S Cohen , J. Bradford Delong At the end of World War II, the United States had all the money -- and all the power. Now, America finds itself cash poor, and to a great extent power follows money. In The End of Influence, renowned economic analysts Stephen S. Cohen and J. Bradford DeLong explore the... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2010-01-05 ePub 9,49 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Dark Days, Bright Nights Peniel E. Joseph The Civil Rights Movement is now remembered as a long-lost era, which came to an end along with the idealism of the 1960s. In Dark Days, Bright Nights, acclaimed scholar Peniel E. Joseph puts this pat assessment to the test, showing the 60s -- particularly the... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2010-01-05 ePub 9,49 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
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