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In the last decade, school shootings have decimated communities and terrified parents, teachers, and children in even the most "family friendly" American towns and suburbs. These tragedies appear to be the spontaneous acts of troubled, disconnected teens, but this...

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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 :  University, Inc.
Our federal and state tax dollars are going to fund higher education. If corporations kick in a little more, should they be able to dictate the research or own the discoveries? During the past two decades, commercial forces have quietly transformed virtually every...

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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 :  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 :  Hunger
Every day, we wake up hungry.Every day, we break our fast. Hunger explores the range of this primal experience. Sharman Apt Russell, the highly acclaimed author of Anatomy of a Rose and An Obsession with Butterflies, here takes us on a tour of hunger, from eighteen...

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Télécharger le livre :  Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track
"I'm an explorer, OK? I like to find out!" -- One of the towering figures of twentieth-century science, Richard Feynman possessed a curiosity that was the stuff of legend. Even before he won the Nobel Prize in 1965, his unorthodox and spellbinding lectures on physics...

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Télécharger le livre :  Hacking Matter
Programmable matter is probably not the next technological revolution, nor even perhaps the one after that. But it's coming, and when it does, it will change our lives as much as any invention ever has. Imagine being able to program matter itself-to change it, with the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Diary Of A Baby
Every new parent desperately wants to know what goes on in the mind of a baby. Now a noted authority on infant development and psychiatry brings us closer than ever before to penetrating a your child's consciousness. In alternating sections of evocative prose,...

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Télécharger le livre :  A Geography Of Time
In this engaging and spirited book, eminent social psychologist Robert Levine asks us to explore a dimension of our experience that we take for granted—our perception of time. When we travel to a different country, or even a different city in the United States, we...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Nuclear Sphinx of Tehran
Inspired by hate and surrounded by fundamentalist leaders in a country that may soon possess nuclear weapons, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad poses the most serious threat to world peace, even while he shrewdly manipulates public opinion at home. Until now, Americans have known...

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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 :  Dark Genius of Wall Street
Though reviled for more than a century as Wall Street's greatest villain, Jay Gould was in fact its most original creative genius. Gould was the robber baron's robber baron, the most astute financial and business strategist of his time and also the most widely hated. In...

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Télécharger le livre :  Letters to a Young Lawyer
As defender of both the righteous and the questionable, Alan Dershowitz has become perhaps the most famous and outspoken attorney in the land. Whether or not they agree with his legal tactics, most people would agree that he possesses a powerful and profound sense of...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Cube and the Cathedral
Why do Europeans and Americans see the world so differently?Why do Europeans and Americans have such different understandings of democracy and its discontents in the twenty-first century? Contrasting the civilization that produced the starkly modernist "cube" of the...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Beloved Community
A noted theologian explains how the radical idea of Christian love animated the African American civil rights movement and how it can power today's social justice struggles Speaking to his supporters at the end of the Montgomery bus boycott in 1956, Martin Luther King,...

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Télécharger le livre :  How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America
A pithy polemic bolstered by solid research, intellectual heft, and firsthand reporting, this is a book poised to change the debate over reproductive rights in this country wholesale. As activist and writer Cristina Page shows, the gains made by birth-control advocates...

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Télécharger le livre :  Second Chance
America's most distinguished commentator on foreign policy, former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, offers a reasoned but unsparing assessment of the last three presidential administrations' foreign policy. Though spanning less than two decades, these...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Annotated Flatland
Flatland is a unique, delightful satire that has charmed readers for over a century. Published in 1884 by the English clergyman and headmaster Edwin A. Abbott, it is the fanciful tale of A. Square, a two-dimensional being who is whisked away by a mysterious visitor to...

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Télécharger le livre :  Multiple Intelligences
From the author of Frames of Mind, the definitive account of Multiple Intelligences theory and its applications “For those of us who suspect that intelligence is too complex a phenomenon to be measured by the single number of I.Q. derived from an...

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