Télécharger le livre :  The Dictator's Handbook
“A lucidly written, shrewdly argued meditation on how democrats and dictators preserve political authority.” —Wall Street Journal   Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith’s canonical book on political science turns conventional wisdom...

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Parution : 2011-09-27
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Télécharger le livre :  A Governor's Story
Jennifer Granholm was the two-term governor of Michigan, a state synonymous with manufacturing during a financial crisis that threatened to put all America's major car companies into bankruptcy. The immediate and knock-on effects were catastrophic. Granholm's grand...

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Parution : 2011-09-20
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Télécharger le livre :  The Oligarchs
In this saga of brilliant triumphs and magnificent failures, David E. Hoffman, the former Moscow bureau chief for the Washington Post, sheds light on the hidden lives of Russia's most feared power brokers: the oligarchs. Focusing on six of these ruthless men—...

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Parution : 2011-09-13
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Télécharger le livre :  The Anatomy of Israel's Survival
The question "Can Israel survive?" has echoed loud for Israelis -- and Jews, their supporters and adversaries worldwide -- since the Holocaust.The recent upheavals in Egypt, Tunisia and beyond have raised it anew. Israeli journalist and security analyst Hirsh Goodman...

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Parution : 2011-09-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Three Famines
Famine may be triggered by nature but its outcome arises from politics and ideology. In Three Famines, award-winning author Thomas Keneally uncovers the troubling truth -- that sustained widespread hunger is historically the outcome of government neglect and individual...

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Parution : 2011-08-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Moscow, December 25, 1991
The implosion of the Soviet Union was the culmination of a gripping game played out between two men who intensely disliked each other and had different concepts for the future. Mikhail Gorbachev, a sophisticated and urbane reformer, sought to modernize and preserve the...

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Parution : 2011-08-23
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Télécharger le livre :  The Other Barack
Barack Obama Sr., father of the American president, was part of Africa's "independence generation" and in 1959 it seemed his star would shine brightly. He came to the U.S. from Kenya and was given a university scholarship. While in the Hawaii, he met Ann Dunham in 1961,...

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Parution : 2011-07-07
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Télécharger le livre :  The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie, the great steel-baron-turned-philanthropist, was an industrialist unlike any other. His famous dictum, that he who dies rich dies disgraced, has inspired a generation of twenty-first-century philanthropists to follow in his footsteps and put their money...

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Parution : 2011-06-14
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Télécharger le livre :  The Supreme Court
The Supreme Court grew out of a unique opportunity to interview all nine sitting Supreme Court Justices plus retired Justice O'Connor for a documentary on the Supreme Court. Through Brian Lamb and Susan Swain's interviews with our country's most influential judges, the...

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Parution : 2011-06-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Page One
The news media is in the middle of a revolution. Old certainties have been shoved aside by new entities such as WikiLeaks and Gawker, Politico and the Huffington Post. But where, in all this digital innovation, is the future of great journalism? Is there a difference...

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Parution : 2011-06-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Unnatural Selection
Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeA Slate Best Book of 2011A Discover Magazine Best Book of 2011 Lianyungang, a booming port city, has China's most extreme gender ratio for children under four: 163 boys for every 100 girls. These numbers don't seem terribly grim, but in...

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Parution : 2011-06-07
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Télécharger le livre :  The Philanthropy of George Soros
With an Introduction by George Soros and an Afterword by Aryeh Neier George Soros is one of the world's leading philanthropists. Over the past thirty years, he has provided more than 8 billion to his worldwide network of foundations: the Open Society Foundations, which...

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Parution : 2011-05-10
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Télécharger le livre :  The Five Percent
One in every twenty difficult conflicts ends up grinding to a halt. That's fully 5 percent of not just the diplomatic and political clashes we read about in the newspaper, but disputations and arguments from our everyday lives as well. Once we get pulled into these...

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Parution : 2011-05-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Power Hungry
The promise of "green jobs" and a "clean energy future" has roused the masses. But as Robert Bryce makes clear in this provocative book, that vision needs a major re-vision. We cannot -- and will not -- quit using carbon-based fuels at any time in the near future for a...

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Parution : 2011-04-26
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Télécharger le livre :  The Age of Airpower
Airpower, more than any other factor, has shaped war in the twentieth century. In this fascinating narrative history, Martin van Creveld vividly portrays the rise of the plane as a tool of war and the evolution of both technology and strategy. He documents seminal...

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Parution : 2011-04-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Cambodia's Curse
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist describes how Cambodia emerged from the harrowing years when a quarter of its population perished under the Khmer Rouge.A generation after genocide, Cambodia seemed on the surface to have overcome its history -- the streets of Phnom...

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Parution : 2011-04-12
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Télécharger le livre :  When That Rough God Goes Riding
"Van Morrison," says Greil Marcus, "remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music." When Astral Weeks was released in 1968, it was largely ignored. When it was rereleased as a live album in 2009 it reached the top of the...

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Parution : 2011-04-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Give Smart
A decade ago, Thomas J. Tierney left Bain & Company to cofound The Bridgespan Group, a nonprofit focused on helping donors and nonprofit leaders to develop and execute strategies to accelerate social change. In Give Smart, Tierney pools his hands-on knowledge with Duke...

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Parution : 2011-03-29
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Télécharger le livre :  The Archaeology of Home
When Katharine Greider was told to leave her house or risk it falling down on top of her and her family, it spurred an investigation that began with contractors' diagnoses and lawsuits, then veered into archaeology and urban history, before settling into the saltwater...

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Parution : 2011-03-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Kids First
While parents work longer hours for less and the costs of childcare, healthcare, and college skyrocket, the share of the U.S. budget spent on kids has fallen 22 percent since 1960. In Kids First, policy expert David Kirp issues a visionary call for renewing, revamping,...

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Parution : 2011-03-01
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