Télécharger le livre :  Beyond Choice
Thirty years after Roe v. Wade, the argument between "pro-choicers" and "pro-lifers" has reached stalemate. Pro-choice arguments haven't persuaded a comfortable majority that legal abortion is vital to our society, nor addressed our moral qualms. Younger people are less...

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Parution : 2005-07-06
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Télécharger le livre :  How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World
What characterizes our era? Cults, quacks, gurus, irrational panics, moral confusion and an epidemic of mumbo-jumbo, that's what. In How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World, Francis Wheen brilliantly laments the extraordinary rise of superstition, relativism and emotional...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Meaning Of Sports
In The Meaning of Sports, Michael Mandelbaum, a sports fan who is also one of the nation's preeminent foreign policy thinkers, examines America's century-long love affair with team sports.In keeping with his reputation for writing about big ideas in an illuminating and...

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Parution : 2005-05-11
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Télécharger le livre :  George Soros On Globalization
Never before have we stood to gain or lose as much from understanding the international economy. Scandals plague the world's largest corporations, the American trade deficit has soared to historic heights, and international organizations from the World Bank to the WTO...

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Parution : 2005-03-16
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Télécharger le livre :  The Courage of Strangers
After Jeri Laber earned a Master's degree in Russian studies at Columbia University, she became a part-time writer and editor and a full-time wife and mother. Then one day in 1973 she read an article about torture that altered her life and subsequently the lives of...

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Parution : 2005-02-16
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Télécharger le livre :  The Two Percent Solution
Suppose someone told you that for just two cents on the national dollar we could have a country where everyone had health insurance, full-time workers earned a living wage, poor children had great teachers in fixed-up schools, and politicians no longer had to grovel to...

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Parution : 2005-02-02
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Télécharger le livre :  War Hospital
In April 1992, a handful of young physicians, not one of them a surgeon, was trapped along with 50,000 men, women, and children in the embattled enclave of Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina. There the doctors faced the most intense professional, ethical, and personal...

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Parution : 2004-12-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Passing
Despite the many social changes of the last half-century, many Americans still "pass": black for white, gay for straight, and now in many new ways as well. We tend to think of passing in negative terms--as deceitful, cowardly, a betrayal of one's self. But this...

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Parution : 2004-12-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Jefferson's War
Author Joseph Wheelan has marvelously captured the story of America's war against the Barbary pirates, our first war against terror and the nations that support it. The Barbary pirates, a Muslim enemy from Tripoli, attacked European and American merchant shipping with...

Editeur : PublicAffairs
Parution : 2004-09-21
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Télécharger le livre :  All The Stops
For centuries, pipe organs stood at the summit of musical and technological achievement, admired as the most complex and intricate mechanisms the human race had yet devised. In All The Stops, New York Times journalist Craig Whitney journeys through the history of the...

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Parution : 2004-09-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Monkey Dancing
After losing his brother to cancer and a painful divorce that left him the sole charge d'affaires of two decidedly spirited children, environmental reporter Daniel Glick knew he and his little family desperately needed some karmic rejuvenation. He opted for an epic...

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Parution : 2004-06-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Seven Days Of Possibilities
Johanna Grussner arrived in New York City starry-eyed. She was a young Finnish jazz singer looking for the big time. But it was hard to find steady gigs. Propelled by pluck, determination, and a smidgen of desperation, she obtained a job teaching music at P.S. 86, a...

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Parution : 2004-06-01
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Télécharger le livre :  The Ideas That Conquered The World
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, three ideas dominate the world: peace as the preferred basis for relations between and among different countries, democracy as the optimal way to organize political life, and free markets as the indispensable vehicle for the...

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Parution : 2004-01-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Hit To Kill
"Even as America faces a world of difficult-to-detect, low-tech, unconventional threats, the Bush administration has put its faith in a missile defense system or "shield " to keep us all safe."

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Parution : 2003-11-06
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Télécharger le livre :  The Monroe Doctrine
Leadership is the key to excellence. And leadership can be learned. Thank goodness, because many people who fall into managerial positions haven't the foggiest notion how to lead. They don't feel driven to attain the competencies of a boss -- much less a great boss....

Editeur : PublicAffairs
Parution : 2003-07-21
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Télécharger le livre :  What Dying People Want
Facing death results in more fear and anxiety than any other human experience. Though much has been done to address the physical pain suffered by those with a terminal illness, Western medicine has been slow to understand and alleviate the psychological and spiritual...

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Parution : 2003-07-10
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Télécharger le livre :  The Chastening
Lauded by reviewers and scholars alike, Paul Blustein's The Chastening examines the role of the International Monetary Fund in the series of economic crises that rocked the globe in the last decade. Based on hundreds of interviews with officials at the IMF, the World...

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Parution : 2003-05-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Horse Of A Different Color
Everybody in the thoroughbred horse business wants to win the Kentucky Derby, but the odds on making it to the winner's circle at Churchill Downs are about 35,000-to-1. How did a former Chicago newspaper editor bring together the stallion and mare and breed the winner...

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Parution : 2003-04-03
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Télécharger le livre :  JFK, Nixon, Oliver Stone and Me
"JFK, Nixon, Oliver Stone and Me is the funny, thoughtful memoir of an accomplished former Congressional staffer who left D.C. for Hollywood and a job with Oliver Stone, hoping to help make politically"

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Parution : 2002-09-18
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Télécharger le livre :  A Question Of Intent
Tobacco companies had been protecting their turf for decades. They had congressmen in their pocket. They had corrupt scientists who made excuses about nicotine, cancer and addiction. They had hordes of lawyers to threaten anyone -- inside the industry or out -- who...

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