Télécharger le livre :  Al-jazeera
Al-Jazeera, the independent, all-Arab television news network based in Qatar, emerged as ambassador to the Arab world in the events following September 11, 2001. Arabic for "the peninsula," Al-Jazeera has "scooped" the western media conglomerates many times. With its...

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Télécharger le livre :  Comeback Cities
Comeback Cities shows how innovative, pragmatic tactics for ameliorating the nation's urban ills have produced results beyond anyone's expectations, reawakening America's toughest neighborhoods. In the past, big government and business working separately were unable to...

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Télécharger le livre :  Flatterland
In 1884, Edwin A. Abbott published a brilliant novel about mathematics and philosophy that charmed and fascinated all of England. As both a witty satire of Victorian society and a means by which to explore the fourth dimension, Flatland remains a tour de force. Now,...

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Télécharger le livre :  Mercy, Mercy Me
Twenty years after his murder at the hands of his own father, Marvin Gaye continues to define the hopes and shattered dreams of the Motown generation. A performer whose career spanned the history of rhythm and blues, from doo-wop to the sultriest of soul music, Gaye's...

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Télécharger le livre :  Advice To A Young Scientist
To those interested in a life in science, Sir Peter Medawar, Nobel laureate, deflates the myths of invincibility, superiority, and genius; instead, he demonstrates it is common sense and an inquiring mind that are essential to the scientist's calling. He deflates the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Beyond The Learning Organization
Beyond the Learning Organization will help executives, managers, and human resource professionals put the concepts of the "developmental organization" into practice. Experts in the field of human resource and organizational development, Jerry W. Gilley and Ann Maycunich...

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Télécharger le livre :  Ethnic America
This classic work by the distinguished economist traces the history of nine American ethnic groups -- the Irish, Germans, Jews, Italians, Chinese, African-Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Mexicans.

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Télécharger le livre :  Intercourse
From one of the boldest, "most shocking" (Germaine Greer), and "uncompromising" (Mary Daly) feminist writers of the 20th century, Intercourse is the book that enraged, inspired, and ultimately split apart the feminist movement when it first published...

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Télécharger le livre :  Introducing Bert Williams
It is not hard to argue that every black performer in show business owes something to Bert Williams. Discovered in California in 1890 by a minstrel troupe manager, Williams swiftly became a regular player in the troupe. Traveling on from the rough-and-ready "medicine...

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Télécharger le livre :  A Universe Of Consciousness
What goes on in our head when we have a thought? Why do the physical events that occur inside a fistful of gelatinous tissue give rise to the world of conscious experience? In The Universe of Consciousness , Gerald Edelman and Giulio Tononi present for the first time a...

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Télécharger le livre :  Fish on Friday
What gave Christopher Columbus the confidence in 1492 to set out across the Atlantic Ocean?What persuaded the king and queen of Spain to commission the voyage? It would be convenient to believe that Columbus and his men were uniquely courageous. A more reasonable...

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Télécharger le livre :  Captains Of Consciousness Advertising And The Social Roots Of The Consumer Culture
Captains of Consciousness offers a historical look at the origins of the advertising industry and consumer society at the turn of the twentieth century. For this new edition Stuart Ewen, one of our foremost interpreters of popular culture, has written a new preface that...

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Télécharger le livre :  Gay New York
The “monumental” (The Washington Post), field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th century  Gay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed in the closet, where all gay men were...

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Télécharger le livre :  All Our Kin
"This landmark study debunked the misconception that poor families were unstable and disorganized. Here is the chronicle of a young white woman's sojourn into The Flats, an African-American ghetto comm"

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Télécharger le livre :  The Clock Of The Long Now
Using the designing and building of the Clock of the Long Now as a framework, this is a book about the practical use of long time perspective: how to get it, how to use it, how to keep it in and out of sight. Here are the central questions it inspires: How do we make...

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Télécharger le livre :  Einstein, Picasso
The most important scientist of the twentieth century and the most important artist had their periods of greatest creativity almost simultaneously and in remarkably similar circumstances. This fascinating parallel biography of Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso as young...

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Télécharger le livre :  Attachment
The classic work of psychology that introduced attachment theory to the world   “The most complete examination of the implications of attachment and loss of mother to infant yet written…Brilliant.” —New York Times In Attachment,...

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Télécharger le livre :  Every Day Gets a Little Closer
The many thousands of readers of the best-selling Love's Executioner will welcome this paperback edition of an earlier work by Dr. Irvin Yalom, written with Ginny Elkin, a pseudonymous patient whom he treated -- the first book to share the dual reflections of...

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Télécharger le livre :  Hard Green
This book sets out the case for Hard Green, a conservative environmental agenda. Modern environmentalism, Peter Huber argues, destroys the environment. Captured as it has been by the Soft Green oligarchy of scientists, regulators, and lawyers, modern environmentalism...

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Télécharger le livre :  Clockspeed
In business today, all advantage is temporary.In order to survive-let alone thrive-companies must be able to anticipate and adapt to change, or face rapid, brutal extinction.In Clockspeed , Charles Fine draws on a decade's worth of research at M.I.T.'s Sloan School of...

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