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The Very First Light John Boslough , John Mather In the early 1990s, a NASA-led team of scientists changed the way we view the universe. With the COBE (Cosmic Background Explorer) project, they showed that the microwave radiation that fills the universe must have come from the Big Bang -- effectively proving the Big... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2008-10-20 ePub 9,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
We Who Dared to Say No to War Murray Polner , Thomas E. Woods We Who Dared to Say No to War uncovers some of the forgotten but compelling body of work from the American antiwar tradition -- speeches, articles, poetry, book excerpts, political cartoons, and more -- from people throughout our history who have opposed war. Beginning... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2008-10-20 ePub 10,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Unfinished Game Keith Devlin In the early seventeenth century, the outcome of something as simple as a dice roll was consigned to the realm of unknowable chance. Mathematicians largely agreed that it was impossible to predict the probability of an occurrence. Then, in 1654, Blaise Pascal wrote to... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2008-10-20 ePub 7,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Reagan I Knew William F. Buckley No two people were more important to American conservatism in the postwar era than William F. Buckley Jr. and Ronald Reagan. Buckley's writings provided the intellectual underpinnings, while Reagan brought the conservative movement into the White House. They met in 1961... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2008-10-14 ePub 5,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Sun and the Moon Matthew Goodman On August 26, 1835, a fledgling newspaper called the Sun brought to New York the first accounts of remarkable lunar discoveries. A series of six articles reported the existence of life on the moon -- including unicorns, beavers that walked on their hind legs, and... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2008-10-14 ePub 9,49 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Crime of Reason Robert B Laughlin We all agree that the free flow of ideas is essential to creativity. And we like to believe that in our modern, technological world, information is more freely available and flows faster than ever before. But according to Nobel Laureate Robert Laughlin, acquiring... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2008-09-23 ePub 6,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Homeward Bound Elaine Tyler May In the 1950s, the term "containment" referred to the foreign policy-driven containment of Communism and atomic proliferation. Yet in Homeward Bound May demonstrates that there was also a domestic version of containment where the "sphere of influence" was the home.... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2008-09-23 ePub 9,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Men of Fire Jack Hurst Deep in the winter of 1862, on the border between Kentucky and Tennessee, two extraordinary military leaders faced each other in an epic clash that would transform them both and change the course of American history forever. Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant had no... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2008-09-23 ePub 8,49 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Trading with the Enemy Tom Miller Granted unprecedented access to travel throughout the country, this lively travelogue presents us with rare insight into one of the world's only Communist countries. "Havana knew me by my shoes," begins Tom Miller's lively and entertaining account of his sojourn for... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2008-09-09 ePub 9,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Dictator's Shadow Heraldo Munoz Augusto Pinochet was the most important Third World dictator of the Cold War, and perhaps the most ruthless. In The Dictator's Shadow, United Nations Ambassador Heraldo Munoz takes advantage of his unmatched set of perspectives -- as a former revolutionary who fought... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2008-09-02 ePub 17,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Treatment Kind and Fair Perri Klass If you've ever gotten wrapped up in the arcana of "E.R." or "House," or been absorbed by a piece in The New Yorker by Gawande, Groopman, or Nuland, or sat on that exam table wondering what's really going on in your doctor's head, then this book is for you. Expertise... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2008-08-26 ePub 7,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Social Transformation of American Medicine Paul Starr Considered the definitive history of the American healthcare system, The Social Transformation of American Medicine examines how the roles of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs have evolved over the last two and a half centuries. How did the... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2008-08-06 ePub 10,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Thread Of The Silkworm Iris Chang The definitive biography of Tsien Hsue-Shen, the pioneer of the American space age who was mysteriously accused of being a communist, deported, and became -- to America's continuing chagrin -- the father of the Chinese missile program. Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2008-08-06 ePub 9,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
U.S. Armed Forces Nuclear, Biological And Chemical Survival Manual Dick Couch In this comprehensive guide, military experts teach you how to survive an attack on American soil, from North Korean missiles to weaponized smallpox North Korean nukes. Emerging epidemic and pandemic disease. Dirty bombs in train stations. Chemical warfare. Americans... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2008-08-06 ePub 9,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Way We Think Gilles Fauconnier , Mark Turner In its first two decades, much of cognitive science focused on such mental functions as memory, learning, symbolic thought, and language acquisition -- the functions in which the human mind most closely resembles a computer. But humans are more than computers, and the... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2008-08-06 ePub 11,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
What Mad Pursuit Francis Crick Candid, provocative, and disarming, this is the widely-praised memoir of the co-discoverer of the double helix of DNA. Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2008-08-06 ePub 7,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Reflective Practitioner Donald A. Schon A leading M.I.T. social scientist and consultant examines five professions -- engineering, architecture, management, psychotherapy, and town planning -- to show how professionals really go about solving problems. The best professionals, Donald Schon maintains, know more... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2008-08-06 ePub 15,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Virtual History: Alternatives And Counterfactuals Niall Ferguson What if there had been no American War of Independence?What if Hitler had invaded Britain?What if Kennedy had lived?What if Russia had won the Cold War? Niall Ferguson, author of the highly acclaimed The Pity of War, leads the charge in this historically rigorous series... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2008-08-06 ePub 12,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Why Orwell Matters Christopher Hitchens “Hitchens presents a George Orwell fit for the twenty-first century.”—The Boston Globe In this widely acclaimed biographical essay, the masterful polemicist Christopher Hitchens assesses the life, the achievements, and the myth of the great political... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2008-08-06 ePub 9,49 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Silk Road Journey With Xuanzang Sally Wriggins The Silk Road Journey with Xuanzang tells the saga of the seventh-century Chinese monk Xuanzang, one of China's great heroes, who completed an epic sixteen-year-long journey to discover the heart of Buddhism at its source in India. Eight centuries before Columbus, this... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2008-08-06 ePub 12,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
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