Télécharger le livre :  Voices from the Grave
A candid and brutal account of murder, abduction, and violence during the Troubles in Northern Ireland-from two men on opposite sides of the conflict. After 'the long war' in Ireland came to an end, very few paramilitary leaders on either side spoke openly about their...

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Parution : 2010-06-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Running Commentary
In the years of cultural and political ferment following World War II, a new generation of Jewish- American writers and thinkers arose to make an indelible mark on American culture. Commentary was their magazine; the place where they and other politically sympathetic...

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Parution : 2010-06-01
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Télécharger le livre :  The Big Lie
Hewlett Packard is an American icon, the largest information technology company in the world. The bedrock of Silicon Valley, it employs more than 300,000 people, its market capitalization is in excess of 100 billion and its products are in almost every home in the...

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Parution : 2010-05-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Building Social Business
Nobel Prize winner and bestselling author of Banker to the Poor,shows how entrepreneurial spirit and business smarts can be harnessed to create sustainable businesses that can solve the world's biggest problems--a reminder that capitalism can take kindlier...

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Parution : 2010-05-11
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Télécharger le livre :  The Ultimate Weapon is No Weapon
The twenty-first century has seen millions unemployed. It has seen livelihoods undermined by environmental degradation. Middle-class cities in Europe, Asia, and Africa have become cauldrons of violence and resentment. Tribalism, ethnic nationalism, and religious...

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Parution : 2010-05-11
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Télécharger le livre :  The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want
Noise is usually defined as unwanted sound: loud music from a neighbor, the honk of a taxicab, the roar of a supersonic jet. But as Garret Keizer illustrates in this probing examination, noise is as much about what we want as about what we seek to avoid. It has been a...

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Parution : 2010-05-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Landmark
The Washington Post's must-read guide to the health care overhaul What now? Despite the rancorous, divisive, year-long debate in Washington, many Americans still don't understand what the historic overhaul of the health care system will -- or won't -- mean. In Landmark,...

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Parution : 2010-04-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Oceans
This unique tie-in to the major motion picture Oceans -- coming this April from Disney & National Geographic -- explores the health of our oceans, and what we can do to improve it. More than 75 percent of the globe is covered by the oceans. It is sometimes difficult to...

Editeur : PublicAffairs
Parution : 2010-03-23
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Télécharger le livre :  The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday
Since his boyhood in Qadhafi's Libya, Neil MacFarquhar has developed a counterintuitive sense that the Middle East, despite all the bloodshed in its recent history, is a place of warmth, humanity, and generous eccentricity. In this book, he introduces a cross-section of...

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Parution : 2010-03-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Eclipse of the Sunnis
From Amman to Beirut and Damascus, award-winning NPR reporter Deborah Amos follows Sunnis living in exile--the largest exile population in postwar history. Husbands are separated from wives, children from parents, and many are cast into a violent and uncaring subculture...

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Parution : 2010-03-09
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Télécharger le livre :  A Different Life
Ten percent of the population is affected by a learning disability, but few of us understand what being learning disabled (LD) is really like. When he was fourteen, Bradlee was diagnosed with Velo-Cardio-Facial-Syndrome (VCFS), a wide-spread, little-understood disorder...

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Parution : 2010-03-02
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Télécharger le livre :  The Great Decision
In 1800, the United States teetered on the brink of a second revolution. The presidential election between Adams and Jefferson was a bitterly contested tie, and the government neared collapse. The Supreme Court had no clear purpose or power -- no one had even thought to...

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Télécharger le livre :  Ship of Fools
The death of the Celtic tiger is not an extinction event to trouble naturalists. There was, in fact nothing natural about this tiger, if it ever really existed.The "Irish Economic miracle" was built on good old-fashioned subsidies (from the European Union) and the...

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Parution : 2010-03-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Spark
While factories across the Midwest shutter their doors, Cleveland-based manufacturer Lincoln Electric has thrived for more than a century. In addition to being profitable and technologically innovative, through good times and bad, the company has fulfilled its unique...

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Parution : 2010-02-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Who's Buried in Grant's Tomb?
Some presidents have been larger than life but none of them have been larger than death. Brian Lamb has visited the gravesites of every American president, living and dead, in order to put together this book, with assistance from the staff of C-SPAN. Heavily illustrated...

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Parution : 2010-02-09
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Télécharger le livre :  The Soros Lectures
Five lectures George Soros recently delivered at the Central European University in Budapest - which he founded in 1991 - distill a lifetime of thinking on finance, capitalism and open society In a series of lectures delivered at the Central European University in...

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Parution : 2010-02-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Libby Prison Breakout
While many books have been inspired by the horrors of Andersonville prison, none have chronicled with any depth or detail the amazing tunnel escape from Libby Prison in Richmond. Now Joseph Wheelan examines what became the most important escape of the Civil War from a...

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Parution : 2010-02-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Power in Numbers
The story of UNITAID begins with two world leaders but quickly becomes a lesson in popular philanthropy, involving millions of people each making a small contribution to a program aimed at treating and ultimately eliminating the threat of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and...

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Parution : 2010-01-28
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Télécharger le livre :  The Great American University
Although America's universities have become the envy of the world for their creative energy and their production of transformative knowledge, few understand how and why they have become preeminent. This groundbreaking book traces the origins and the evolution of our...

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Parution : 2010-01-12
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Télécharger le livre :  FDR's Deadly Secret
When Franklin Delano Roosevelt died in 1945, his lifelong physician swore that the president had always been in perfect health. Twenty-five years later, his cardiologist admitted that the president suffered from hypertension, and that contrary to what the public was led...

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